October 31, 2024 • 37 mins
Today, Doug Pike interviews Elvira Christiansen of AARP about the rising cost of entertainment.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 3 (00:50):
Right Thursday edition of the program starts right now. Migday
in Houston. Sports, at least if you're a Texans fan,
we've got to get a Thursday night game, which I
don't know that Texans have had a Thursday night game
in quite a while. Maybe they have, maybe they haven't,
I don't know, but it'll be fun. I'm gonna try
to watch as much of it as I can. I'm
trying to get to bed earlier these days because I
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my body's gonna wake up at the same time anyway,
usually about the third or fourth time I wake up
every night.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
That's a story for a different time. Morning.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
This morning, This morning started out a little bit loud
and wet, kind of quieted through the morning, though this
afternoon ramps up pretty quickly.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I could see from the windows, not the one.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
We have in here, because we don't have one, Will
and I we just all the only things we have
to look at each other, and it gets kind of
boring sometimes I will a little bit. I don't know,
I don't think so. I'm very flattered. So you don't
you don't find me just a boring thing to look at?
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Well, I mean I do have these two monitors right
in front of me.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
That you mean, the ones that blocked my entire face
from your view. Yeah, I guess so, Okay, so that
makes it hard. So the view in the stud for
you is not bad. You know what I'm looking at?
What the back of those two monitors think, visional Lenovo.
There's a number to call for support for my heart media.
I'm not going to give it out over the air anyway.
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That's what I'm looking at. And then a bunch of
electronics symbols on the back of these monitors, and out
of all of them, I would say that I can.
I could probably tell you what one of them means.
And there's about thirty of them. I have no idea
what they mean. It doesn't matter. So more rain this afternoon,
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A little broader area of rain too, going into trick
or treating time. So count on having some leftover candy
tomorrow if you if you've gone out and bought a
bowl full. I don't know how many kids are going
to be up and down our streets. He used to
be pretty crowded, but I do recall a couple of
wet halloweens where we got almost no kids at all,
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and almost no kids it all, all things considered, a
day or two, or even three or four of showers
will do the whole place some good. And by whole place,
I mean Southeast Texas. It's been weeks I had. When
I played golf with hol Sutton and four or five
media guys this past Monday, we were talking about how
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long it's been since we had rain here in Houston,
and one of the guys had driven in from San
Antonio and they've been.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Just as dry as we are. It's just it's rough, man,
it's rough.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
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Speaker 2 (03:45):
Right here, Are you ready? Will I am? Here?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
We go rain for Halloween, skeletons in rubber boots, ghosts
with umbrellas.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Okay, that's I'll give that one. Uh hold on, hold on,
hold on, okay, Okay, I got it. That's a seven
point two.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Oh my gosh, wow, I only had a six point three.
I'm just I'm flushed with exhilaration at this point. Yeah,
thanks to seven to two. That's kind of nice. Well,
I appreciate that, and it did it. It's topical, obviously,
it's topical.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
It's timely.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Quick jog down Wall Street courtesy of Houston Gold Exchange
dot Com. Pretty ugly overall, actually a lot of potholes.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
This morning.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
NASDAK was down almost two and a half points, maybe
a half an hour ago. When I looked the dow,
down almost a point. All four of the big four
just were blood red. Oil up another dollar this morning. Sadly,
almost seventy bucks a barrel just a little while ago, and.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Gold gold went south.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Gold may have peaked, we'll see, shed almost fifty four
dollars as of about an hour ago, and was going
for just a little less than two thousand, seven hundred
and fifty dollars an ounce, which is still one heck
of a price if you have some to sell. Plowing forward, Gosh,
(05:19):
more examples of lies from the left. This time it
was the administration. Actually, after President Biden's recent little incident
during a Harris campaign stop in which he called Trump
supporter's garbage, the White House released a transcript of that
speech in which his words had been changed, a transcript
in which somebody took it upon themselves, probably by committee decision,
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to change the words from what's actually on video. And that,
by the way, according to a letter sent to White
House Counsel by one of the committees in Congress, that
could violate Presidential Records Act.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Of nineteen seventy eight, which basically says, you can't do that.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
You just got to write whatever they say, You got
to write it down exactly as they say it. And
that's not what came out that reminds me of an
incident just not that long ago with Kamala Harris on television,
first on Sunday giving one answer to a question, then
on what was it sixty minutes maybe, I think on Monday,
and they had inserted a totally different answer from what
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was on the original video.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Pretty remarkable.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Less than a week head in front of the election,
they're walking back all kinds of things. Coarne Jean Pierre
tried to protect the president and kind of explain in
committee speech what he had actually meant to say but
didn't say. And the bottom line is they ripped her
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up pretty good.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
They did. The media. Couple of media people got on hers.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
He said what he said, it's on video, you can
go look at it, and nothing that's going to change
what he said. In Georgia, the peach State's top elections
official at the Secretary of State, Brad Raffensberger, said of
Kamala Harris's recent remarks about his states improved voter laws,
and what she said about him was, well, she actually
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used the.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Term where did it go here? She actually used.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
The term Jim Crow two point zero to describe what
horrible things that Georgia had decided to do about voters
and said she she had to be saying things that
she knew were absolutely untrue when the words fell out
of her mouth, but she set them anyway just to
rile up her crowd. And Raffisberger called her out and
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straight up said, that's a lie. What she said is
a lot, and yet it's happened over and over throughout
the entire election cycle. That one quote I referenced so
often about accusing your opposition of doing exactly what you're doing,
comes to mind, as does another I've always found pretty
easy to apply, especially in election cycles. So long as
you're pointing at someone else, nobody's pointing at you. Nobody's
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looking at you. Point at will, so nobody's looking at me.
UT Health Institute on Aging, you ought to be looking
at them. If you're a senior and you've got any
medical issues at all, which most of us that have
our hands raised, I would think, and the overwhelming majority we.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Don't talk about it a lot, but we got something
going on.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Bottom line is anybody who is a member of this
UT Health Institute on Aging has got an additional education
above and beyond everything it took them to earn the
credential they have as someone in the medical profession, and
then they've gone back and figured out how that can
be applied through additional education specifically to seniors. What about
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what about being an eye doctor or a cardiologist or
an orthopedist or whatever, what a being that can be
applied specifically to seniors and how they need care because
our care needs are different than those of younger people.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Plan is simple.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Go to the website, take a look at all the
resources they have. There's so many. There's even a place
where you can drop me a question and a question,
a suggestion, a recommendation for an interview, which, by the way,
we're going to be having at the bottom of the hour,
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Speaker 1 (09:45):
Aging Aged to Perfection. This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
All Right, welcome back, Thanks for listening to fifty plus.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Certainly to appreciate I was reading during the break about
that guy who tried to rip the ball out of
Mookie BET's glove in Game four of the World Series
up there in New York, and how he was not
only ejected from the stadium, but the season ticket holder
also had to forfeit the tickets he had to a
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game five and potentially six and seven. Instead of letting
his family members use his tickets, he was given a refund.
They just gave him his money back because he couldn't
go and filled those seats that he had with a
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pediatric cancer patient and his family, And that kid had
been invited to a special press conference day for a
lot for the team and for a lot of younger
people in his predictible in equally dire straits, And from
just walking from the parking lot to the conference room,
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he became so weak that he had to be taken
out and taken back to the hospital where he underwent
surgery a while back. Long story short is, he got
to go to the World Series and it was the
first time any member his family of his family had
even been to any kind of a playoff game in
Yankee Stadium. So I think that's a pretty good deal.
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I think they made. I think the Yankees made the
right move. A lot of people online were burning them
for it and calling it a cheap pr stunt and
things like that. I think those tickets were more rightfully
handed to that little kid who missed what he probably
thought would be his only chance ever to get that
close to the Yankees, and they gave him a chance
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to not only be around the Yankees, but also to
watch them win the Well, they watched them lo the
World Series.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
But nonetheless he was there. Nonetheless he was there.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
I did get a I did get a text message
this morning from a friend who lives up in New York,
and he described the loss as well, I Candy. I
don't want to I don't want to use the term
he used, but it was he was very disappointed.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
I'll just walk away from it. There.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Back to election stuff, because we're just mere day short
days away from the election to name our new president.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
The left man.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
They blamed Donald Trump for just about everything but the
fall of the Roman Empire. And because he is the
single greatest threat to a long term goal they have
a turn of this country inside out and upside down.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
They they find ways to blame him for anything they
can think of. They've nearly bankrupted us. By the way,
speaking of President President Biden said all along. I saw
this this morning. I actually went and looked it up
to be sure I was right. President Biden said all
along that President Trump accrued more national debt than any
former president. Well, there's a website called PolitiFact that's a
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fact checking site, and according to PolitiFact, Biden's contribution to
that pile, by the time he leaves office will surpass
the national debt that was accrued under President Trump. It's
an interesting There's another note, a side note that kind
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of said that President Trump's executive actions, if you want
to just go strictly on what the presidents did during
their term, Trump's executive actions added actually less than twenty
billion dollars to the ten year debt of our country.
Under President Biden, his executive actions have added one point
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two trillion dollars to our ten year debt so far.
He's not out of office yet. On them on this
page very quickly, and then we'll turn the page. Guess
who recently said the economy, the American economy was actually
better under President Trump than under Biden and Harris. That
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would be one mister former President Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton
actually said that, which is pretty cool. By the way,
in World Series news after their team won Game five
up there in New York, LA. Dodgers fans in Los
Angeles ge you imagine this. They celebrated by vandalizing the
city and tearing up public and private property, breaking things.
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They set a bus on fire, a city bus, because
nothing says we won like torching a bus. Celebrations have
they've somehow morphed into excuses to loot and plunder. We're
the champs and I need a new TV and it
would have been the same in New York. I'm afraid
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if the Yankees had won. I talked to Chris and
Stand Northfleet this morning about what happened out in LA,
and Gordy was first to respond. He said, they just
don't know how to win. They don't know how to win.
When we won our World Series both times here, we
didn't tear up the city. We celebrated. It was rejoicing
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and a whole lot of drinking going on, and probably
a few fistfights amongst people who found fans of the
other side somewhere in the crowds. But we didn't set
the whole house on fire. And when we were talking
about that, Stand couldn't help himself stand Northfleet. Somehow it
is over in West Virginia. In West Virginia, you know
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what the big tradition is now for when West Virginia
wins a big title, take a guess, will what do
they do?
Speaker 2 (15:51):
And they do it in their front yards? I don't
know when's the last time West Virginia a.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Few years, but it's happened more than once, so it's
a tradition.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
And when when they went again, they'll do it again.
They burn some coal. You're so close.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
And the word you use of what they burn is
even the same first letter as the as, the as
what they said on fire.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
I don't know how.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
And Stan I was kind of laughing with him because
I actually said, I said, now where was this?
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Stan? Was this North Carolina?
Speaker 3 (16:25):
And he goes, whoa, whoa, whoa, And Gordy goes, no,
West Virginia, Man, West Virginia, and.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
I kind of chuckle.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
I said I said same thing, and Stan really jumped
on me. Then they burned couches. Will they burn couches
in their front yards after a big win? And I've
already figured out who started that tradition? Can you figure
it out?
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Will?
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Who? A couple of guys who own furniture stores, wouldn't
you think, probably, let's all run out and burn our couch.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Oh no, as they sober up, as as their breath
won't ignore when they get too close to the couch,
Oh no, we need a new couch. And they go rushing,
And I bet you there's a wave of furniture commercials
after the next big, big.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Win in West Virginia.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
In World News, I saw a story this morning about
how Vladimir Putin may have to pull the plug on
his war against Ukraine. His country's economy is a wreck,
and sanctions against his oil and gas sells they lift
the deep hole in his war wallet.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
And he's kind of.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Struggling in a way that we all can understand. Here's
the deal, Russia's central bank think about this. Russia's central
Bank has raised the interest rates to twenty one percent.
And if he pulls back before January, Biden Harris gonna
take full credit for stopping that war, full credit. They'll
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pat themselves on the back till their arms ache.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
No more of that. We gotta take a little break
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Speaker 1 (19:34):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash them, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh code O wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, welcome back.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Taking up fifty plus starts right now on this Thursday afternoon,
and we can't see outside, so we're not sure whether
it's raining or not, but it could be and it
probably will be a little bit later this sevenon. Thanks
as always for sharing your midday hour with us. We're
gonna talk in this segment about something my next guest
calls funflation, which has to do with the rising costs
of entertainment generally around this country. And with that I
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will welcome in Elvera Christiansen, director of Retail and Loyalty
at AARP's Services sector.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
Welcome aboard, Hello everyone, Thank you, and I'm so thrilled.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
To be here.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
I'm kind of glad to have you because none of
us have the spending power we used to have three
four years ago. Can you think of one place in
American entertainment anywhere at all that's become lower in price
over the past four or five years.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
Ah, it's going to be hard, but I'm going to
tell you there are a lot of ways to save
on entertainment.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
That's what I'm That's what I'm looking for and for perspective,
how much influence do you think COVID had on the
cost of having fun in this country?
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Well, we can't deny there's definitely a lot of impact
across the board related COVID and we still probably observe
this residue across.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
All different sectors.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
I mean, I am with airp Services and our members
are still craving a lot of savings, savings on averag
day their activities, like whether it's dining or entertainment. As
we talked about earlier, we're going to gas, so yeah,
we're going to see it.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
What overall do you think raised the most movie tickets, concerts,
lift tickets, ski resorts, fine dining, sports, what?
Speaker 4 (21:40):
Honestly, I think it really depends, right, I mean, we're
cattered to real large audience. We have thirty seven Airpee
members and outside this is pretty substantial. Also fifty class
population in the United States. There are so many ways
to save and.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
Have a great time.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
And it's interesting you're earlier about conflation, and it's definitely
it's interesting trends that we've been seeing this year and again,
I mean like full for instance, it's time to relax, reconnect,
recharge and.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
Frankly get ready for holiday season too.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
And people put a lot of effort around fun and
as again dining entertainment, and we can't ignore it. It's
definitely comes with the rising costs every step of the ways.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
On fifteen, I'm sorry, Elvia Christiansener here on fifty plus
with me. So let's get to the part where we
start saving people money. Where's the first place we can
turn to start saving on something we're going to do
right right in our own hometown.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
First savings?
Speaker 4 (22:43):
Sure, I mean again, as Arapean members have access to
so many different discounts on things like travel, dining, entertainments.
It's really all about making life a bit easier and
more affordable. And it's the best way to figure out
whether it's kind of like what really you gravitate and
at the moment is just to go to airpeed out
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or backslash save and see what kind of like really
benefits you have access to, whether again you remember or
considering one, but when it comes really just two different
memorable experiences that you want to create with your loved ones,
or maybe she'll share a meal together, date nights or
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simply having friends over for dinner on the porch. I
don't know about like you problem in taxes created warm
as it's here in the c Metro area, you can
enjoy with a nice bottle of wine with naked wines.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
It's always a great choice, right.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Sure, So so with with aarp dot org slash save.
That's one of probably a whole There are a lot
of sites out there. That's that's the one we want
you to go to, right so you go there and
I would imagine and correct me if I'm wrong, but
I would imagine most of these discounts don't get taken
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advantage of because people just don't invest the time to
go even looking for them.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
I would probably say that could be an opportunity for
definite development. But we have very strong marketings here on
our and just to make sure that our aerpe members
are aware of those benefits, there's a lot of efforts
and we reach our audiences again of airpea members or
people who will be good audience to benefit from this membership,
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whether it's direct mail or emails social We try to
find our members to make sure that they get the
best out of the membership they're ready committed to.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
And all the time you've spent with ARP and been
looking for these types of deals and savings and whatnot,
is there anything that really stands out in your mind
as something you looked at someday that came across your
desk and thought, wow, now that's a real deal.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Honestly, I can't really pinpoint one deal out of any
other one.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
Just in general, the organization.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
Has such rigorous methods of how we're trying to find
those companies that will interact with our members. There's a
lot of research that's done at the backyend to make
sure like the benefits that we're bringing forward to our
members is the benefit are the benefits that.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
Really what they need? So honestly, like you can.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
Really engage with one of the benefits, whether it's Walmart
Plus subscription for the free delivery, or you want to
save on gas with acts on for instance, again AIRP
members have access to it. You can really cover the
costs of your annual membership with AIRP. It's really crazy
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how much you can really save.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Yeah, there are opportunities like this out there for all
of us to save money.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
And you bring up a good point.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
A lot of these ways to save money want you
to pay them a little bit upfront. But the little
bit you're going to pay upfront is so that your staff,
as for example at AARP dot org slash save, your
staff can go out and find all these deals for
all of us and we get it for a little
teeny bit of money when it would have probably taken
us one thousand hours to find that stuff.
Speaker 5 (26:22):
Well, that's the really hope and the goal for our
extended team.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
And again when it comes to like again save ways,
I am here with the EUIRP and really want just
to kind of like bring awareness of what this membership
really stands for what access to the disconsions you have.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
But honestly, it doesn't have to even be that.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
You really feel like as a consumer, start shopping in
your own wallet and.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
You'll be surprised. You will have a lot of in there.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
You can check for credit card rewards, you can take
advantage of different other existent memberships. Right.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
So again, this is just a lot of really.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
Creative ways sometimes we don't really think about, but there
are like real ways to save money when you're having
fun and there are a lot of things to celebrate
during this fall season.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Well, Verry Christensen with us here before we've got to
go real quickly. Are there any like red flags out
there where you might some some especially seniors, might get
caught up in something that's not really going to save
the money and might be a scam. What what would
turn you off of something immediately if you saw it.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
I think it's just again, as a consumer right now,
you can just have to be vigilant and thoughtful about
any of your interaction. There are a lot of contents
again or eerp dot org that across all different aspects
of life you can explore. You don't have to be
an AIRP member to learn how to navigate through this
kind of like e commerce and noise that surrounds us.
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So if you really smart, thoughtful and really have a
great time and.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Go to aarp dot org slash safe start putting some
money in your pocket. Elvera Christiansen, thank you so very much.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
I really appreciate your time.
Speaker 5 (28:05):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Oh yeah, my pleasure. Right, take care, Yeah, all right,
we got to take a little break here. On the
way out, I'll tell you about Bronze Roofing. I'm thinking
about Colin Skeeter Braun. I want to come.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Look, I've got a brand new roof up there. I
just wanted just to see if they'll go walk up
there and well, now there's no reason I don't need to.
I had that roof put on just a few months ago.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
I'll be all right.
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Just wait until this show's over, sleepy. Back to Doug
Pike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
All right, welcome back fifty plus twelve fifty one.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
On this Thursday afternoon.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
I'm gonna go to this real quick because I wanted
to get Will's reaction to it.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
It's kind of interesting.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
New York City, and this was an Also I'll tell
you this first, jaywalking is now legal in New York City,
to which I asked the question, how will we know
it's a good thing? To got around to this too?
Since they're there's really no other problems in the whole city. Also,
I found a story that said in New York City
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is considering digging a tunnel underneath what Will. You had
some really bizarre answers, all of which were wrong. You
said it was related to the hallway. It's seasonal, yes
it is, but it's not a pumpkin patch. It's not
a candy store, it's not an eminem world, it's not
what else, did you say? A scarecrow? No, it's none
(31:30):
of those. But it is seasonal.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Oh and I said the empire statement.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Oh yeah, but I don't know how that relates to
Halloween at all.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Oh my gosh, we.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Underneath a cemetery. Okay, think about that. You would be
driving beneath the resting place of people, which I think
is I think that's wrong. I have a problem with that,
do you?
Speaker 1 (31:58):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
I just think it's generally wrong. I don't even know
if I can put a specific on it.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Really, it would be so disrespectful of the dead to
just have me car crashes, all kinds of stuff going
on in the tunnel, be kind of a mess. So no,
I don't like that at all. I found a boy.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
This will be the first of many too. I found
a voting problem story. A Chinese citizen who attends the
University of Michigan has been charged in that state with
illegally voting. Now, first of all, how relaxed are there
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voter ID requirements if there is one?
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Even that this.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
Guy got all the way through and put in a ballot,
And so what do we do. We just throw his
vote out right and get on down the road. Well
not in Michigan, because privacy laws in Michigan don't allow
any sort of identifying pen number or any other means
of finding this nineteen year old kid's ballot. So guess what,
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It's gonna be counted. It's gonna be counted, even though
we know the guy did it illegally, even.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Though it should not have happened.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
Ever, even though both sides, one with a wink in
a nod, say only US citizens should vote, and they
we're just going to count it. What's illegal in this
case is that this guy presented himself as a US
citizen because he was asked. I'm sure they asked it
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of me when I went and cast my early vote.
And this is illegal by both state and federal law
in Michigan.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
It's a crime.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
He was charged with perjury by making a false statement
to get his voter registration. That's a felony in Michigan.
So here's the deal. Guess is that this one will
never make the evening news, and shortly after the election
probably it'll disappear, just vanish into thin air and there
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will be the charges against this kids are gonna be dropped.
That's that's my gut. That's what my gut tells me.
Under the current system we're having to deal with and
all this election stuff the left we're seeing now from
some pretty good sources have a battalion of lawyers on
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the ready, gearing up to call foul if they don't
win and start challenging the election.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Huh. When was the last time that happened? Huh?
Speaker 3 (34:45):
All right, well, let's go to you eat it all,
come on, really, or not eat it all? Average mid
size pumpkin will has about five hundred seeds inside. It's
got all that pumpkin meat, it's got the skin, it's
got the the rind I guess you'd maybe call it,
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and it's got a stem, right, yeah. How many pieces
of that? How many parts of that pumpkin are you
not supposed to eat?
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Can you not eat? Well? You can eat the seeds, yep,
you can eat the whatever they make pumpkin pie from
the meat. Yep.
Speaker 6 (35:25):
I'm gonna say that leaves the shell, and so I'm
gonna go with two. Every piece of that pumpkin is edible.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
What every piece now I'm not interested in pumpkin stem soup.
That doesn't sound good to me, but apparently it is
edible if you want to just gnaw on the stem
all day, kind of like a piece of beef jerky.
That's vegan jerky, that's what that is. Just slice up
a pumpkin stem and put it in the little kid's bags,
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not as vegan jerky. Now, don't don't do that. Really,
I'm just joking. I know you know that, but I
need to say that.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Don't do that. Period.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
The dentists are all dental Surgeoncy says, they're urgent children
not to eat suckers with sticky Halloween candy to avoid
tooth to ka. Come on, really, the dentists are doing that,
and they're asking that. They're asking the public to consider
giving trigger treaters stickers. Who the heck wants a sticker
(36:31):
for Halloween? Not me and Plato. Oh there's something great.
The parents will love that when they start finding it
in between the cushions and in the microwave whatever. I
don't have time for cattle ranching news. That may have
to wait till next week, but I will give you that.
Give you that then, hmmm, apparently at trended hotels where
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they're removing bathroom doors and just using curtains, frosted or
fogged glass, and maybe saloon doors.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
Hmm.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
That's gonna stop everything but one really important thing from
getting out of that bathroom.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
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Right Thursday edition of the program starts right now. Migday
in Houston. Sports, at least if you're a Texans fan,
we've got to get a Thursday night game, which I
don't know that Texans have had a Thursday night game
in quite a while. Maybe they have, maybe they haven't,
I don't know, but it'll be fun. I'm gonna try
to watch as much of it as I can. I'm
trying to get to bed earlier these days because I
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my body's gonna wake up at the same time anyway,
usually about the third or fourth time I wake up
every night.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
That's a story for a different time. Morning.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
This morning, This morning started out a little bit loud
and wet, kind of quieted through the morning, though this
afternoon ramps up pretty quickly.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I could see from the windows, not the one.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
We have in here, because we don't have one, Will
and I we just all the only things we have
to look at each other, and it gets kind of
boring sometimes I will a little bit. I don't know,
I don't think so. I'm very flattered. So you don't
you don't find me just a boring thing to look at?
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Well, I mean I do have these two monitors right
in front of me.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
That you mean, the ones that blocked my entire face
from your view. Yeah, I guess so, Okay, so that
makes it hard. So the view in the stud for
you is not bad. You know what I'm looking at?
What the back of those two monitors think, visional Lenovo.
There's a number to call for support for my heart media.
I'm not going to give it out over the air anyway.
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That's what I'm looking at. And then a bunch of
electronics symbols on the back of these monitors, and out
of all of them, I would say that I can.
I could probably tell you what one of them means.
And there's about thirty of them. I have no idea
what they mean. It doesn't matter. So more rain this afternoon,
(02:35):
A little broader area of rain too, going into trick
or treating time. So count on having some leftover candy
tomorrow if you if you've gone out and bought a
bowl full. I don't know how many kids are going
to be up and down our streets. He used to
be pretty crowded, but I do recall a couple of
wet halloweens where we got almost no kids at all,
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and almost no kids it all, all things considered, a
day or two, or even three or four of showers
will do the whole place some good. And by whole place,
I mean Southeast Texas. It's been weeks I had. When
I played golf with hol Sutton and four or five
media guys this past Monday, we were talking about how
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long it's been since we had rain here in Houston,
and one of the guys had driven in from San
Antonio and they've been.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Just as dry as we are. It's just it's rough, man,
it's rough.
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a whole lot more about it than I can tell you.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Right here, Are you ready? Will I am? Here?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
We go rain for Halloween, skeletons in rubber boots, ghosts
with umbrellas.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Okay, that's I'll give that one. Uh hold on, hold on,
hold on, okay, Okay, I got it. That's a seven
point two.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Oh my gosh, wow, I only had a six point three.
I'm just I'm flushed with exhilaration at this point. Yeah,
thanks to seven to two. That's kind of nice. Well,
I appreciate that, and it did it. It's topical, obviously,
it's topical.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
It's timely.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Quick jog down Wall Street courtesy of Houston Gold Exchange
dot Com. Pretty ugly overall, actually a lot of potholes.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
This morning.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
NASDAK was down almost two and a half points, maybe
a half an hour ago. When I looked the dow,
down almost a point. All four of the big four
just were blood red. Oil up another dollar this morning. Sadly,
almost seventy bucks a barrel just a little while ago, and.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Gold gold went south.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Gold may have peaked, we'll see, shed almost fifty four
dollars as of about an hour ago, and was going
for just a little less than two thousand, seven hundred
and fifty dollars an ounce, which is still one heck
of a price if you have some to sell. Plowing forward, Gosh,
(05:19):
more examples of lies from the left. This time it
was the administration. Actually, after President Biden's recent little incident
during a Harris campaign stop in which he called Trump
supporter's garbage, the White House released a transcript of that
speech in which his words had been changed, a transcript
in which somebody took it upon themselves, probably by committee decision,
(05:43):
to change the words from what's actually on video. And that,
by the way, according to a letter sent to White
House Counsel by one of the committees in Congress, that
could violate Presidential Records Act.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Of nineteen seventy eight, which basically says, you can't do that.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
You just got to write whatever they say, You got
to write it down exactly as they say it. And
that's not what came out that reminds me of an
incident just not that long ago with Kamala Harris on television,
first on Sunday giving one answer to a question, then
on what was it sixty minutes maybe, I think on Monday,
and they had inserted a totally different answer from what
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was on the original video.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Pretty remarkable.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Less than a week head in front of the election,
they're walking back all kinds of things. Coarne Jean Pierre
tried to protect the president and kind of explain in
committee speech what he had actually meant to say but
didn't say. And the bottom line is they ripped her
(06:50):
up pretty good.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
They did. The media. Couple of media people got on hers.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
He said what he said, it's on video, you can
go look at it, and nothing that's going to change
what he said. In Georgia, the peach State's top elections
official at the Secretary of State, Brad Raffensberger, said of
Kamala Harris's recent remarks about his states improved voter laws,
and what she said about him was, well, she actually
(07:18):
used the.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Term where did it go here? She actually used.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
The term Jim Crow two point zero to describe what
horrible things that Georgia had decided to do about voters
and said she she had to be saying things that
she knew were absolutely untrue when the words fell out
of her mouth, but she set them anyway just to
rile up her crowd. And Raffisberger called her out and
(07:46):
straight up said, that's a lie. What she said is
a lot, and yet it's happened over and over throughout
the entire election cycle. That one quote I referenced so
often about accusing your opposition of doing exactly what you're doing,
comes to mind, as does another I've always found pretty
easy to apply, especially in election cycles. So long as
you're pointing at someone else, nobody's pointing at you. Nobody's
(08:11):
looking at you. Point at will, so nobody's looking at me.
UT Health Institute on Aging, you ought to be looking
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Don't talk about it a lot, but we got something
going on.
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Bottom line is anybody who is a member of this
UT Health Institute on Aging has got an additional education
above and beyond everything it took them to earn the
credential they have as someone in the medical profession, and
then they've gone back and figured out how that can
be applied through additional education specifically to seniors. What about
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what about being an eye doctor or a cardiologist or
an orthopedist or whatever, what a being that can be
applied specifically to seniors and how they need care because
our care needs are different than those of younger people.
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Plan is simple.
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Go to the website, take a look at all the
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where you can drop me a question and a question,
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Aging Aged to Perfection. This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
All Right, welcome back, Thanks for listening to fifty plus.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Certainly to appreciate I was reading during the break about
that guy who tried to rip the ball out of
Mookie BET's glove in Game four of the World Series
up there in New York, and how he was not
only ejected from the stadium, but the season ticket holder
also had to forfeit the tickets he had to a
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game five and potentially six and seven. Instead of letting
his family members use his tickets, he was given a refund.
They just gave him his money back because he couldn't
go and filled those seats that he had with a
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pediatric cancer patient and his family, And that kid had
been invited to a special press conference day for a
lot for the team and for a lot of younger
people in his predictible in equally dire straits, And from
just walking from the parking lot to the conference room,
(11:08):
he became so weak that he had to be taken
out and taken back to the hospital where he underwent
surgery a while back. Long story short is, he got
to go to the World Series and it was the
first time any member his family of his family had
even been to any kind of a playoff game in
Yankee Stadium. So I think that's a pretty good deal.
(11:31):
I think they made. I think the Yankees made the
right move. A lot of people online were burning them
for it and calling it a cheap pr stunt and
things like that. I think those tickets were more rightfully
handed to that little kid who missed what he probably
thought would be his only chance ever to get that
close to the Yankees, and they gave him a chance
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to not only be around the Yankees, but also to
watch them win the Well, they watched them lo the
World Series.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
But nonetheless he was there. Nonetheless he was there.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
I did get a I did get a text message
this morning from a friend who lives up in New York,
and he described the loss as well, I Candy. I
don't want to I don't want to use the term
he used, but it was he was very disappointed.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
I'll just walk away from it. There.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Back to election stuff, because we're just mere day short
days away from the election to name our new president.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
The left man.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
They blamed Donald Trump for just about everything but the
fall of the Roman Empire. And because he is the
single greatest threat to a long term goal they have
a turn of this country inside out and upside down.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
They they find ways to blame him for anything they
can think of. They've nearly bankrupted us. By the way,
speaking of President President Biden said all along. I saw
this this morning. I actually went and looked it up
to be sure I was right. President Biden said all
along that President Trump accrued more national debt than any
former president. Well, there's a website called PolitiFact that's a
(13:09):
fact checking site, and according to PolitiFact, Biden's contribution to
that pile, by the time he leaves office will surpass
the national debt that was accrued under President Trump. It's
an interesting There's another note, a side note that kind
(13:29):
of said that President Trump's executive actions, if you want
to just go strictly on what the presidents did during
their term, Trump's executive actions added actually less than twenty
billion dollars to the ten year debt of our country.
Under President Biden, his executive actions have added one point
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two trillion dollars to our ten year debt so far.
He's not out of office yet. On them on this
page very quickly, and then we'll turn the page. Guess
who recently said the economy, the American economy was actually
better under President Trump than under Biden and Harris. That
(14:12):
would be one mister former President Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton
actually said that, which is pretty cool. By the way,
in World Series news after their team won Game five
up there in New York, LA. Dodgers fans in Los
Angeles ge you imagine this. They celebrated by vandalizing the
city and tearing up public and private property, breaking things.
(14:35):
They set a bus on fire, a city bus, because
nothing says we won like torching a bus. Celebrations have
they've somehow morphed into excuses to loot and plunder. We're
the champs and I need a new TV and it
would have been the same in New York. I'm afraid
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if the Yankees had won. I talked to Chris and
Stand Northfleet this morning about what happened out in LA,
and Gordy was first to respond. He said, they just
don't know how to win. They don't know how to win.
When we won our World Series both times here, we
didn't tear up the city. We celebrated. It was rejoicing
(15:19):
and a whole lot of drinking going on, and probably
a few fistfights amongst people who found fans of the
other side somewhere in the crowds. But we didn't set
the whole house on fire. And when we were talking
about that, Stand couldn't help himself stand Northfleet. Somehow it
is over in West Virginia. In West Virginia, you know
(15:43):
what the big tradition is now for when West Virginia
wins a big title, take a guess, will what do
they do?
Speaker 2 (15:51):
And they do it in their front yards? I don't
know when's the last time West Virginia a.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Few years, but it's happened more than once, so it's
a tradition.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
And when when they went again, they'll do it again.
They burn some coal. You're so close.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
And the word you use of what they burn is
even the same first letter as the as, the as
what they said on fire.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
I don't know how.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
And Stan I was kind of laughing with him because
I actually said, I said, now where was this?
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Stan? Was this North Carolina?
Speaker 3 (16:25):
And he goes, whoa, whoa, whoa, And Gordy goes, no,
West Virginia, Man, West Virginia, and.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
I kind of chuckle.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
I said I said same thing, and Stan really jumped
on me. Then they burned couches. Will they burn couches
in their front yards after a big win? And I've
already figured out who started that tradition? Can you figure
it out?
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Will?
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Who? A couple of guys who own furniture stores, wouldn't
you think, probably, let's all run out and burn our couch.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Oh no, as they sober up, as as their breath
won't ignore when they get too close to the couch,
Oh no, we need a new couch. And they go rushing,
And I bet you there's a wave of furniture commercials
after the next big, big.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Win in West Virginia.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
In World News, I saw a story this morning about
how Vladimir Putin may have to pull the plug on
his war against Ukraine. His country's economy is a wreck,
and sanctions against his oil and gas sells they lift
the deep hole in his war wallet.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
And he's kind of.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Struggling in a way that we all can understand. Here's
the deal, Russia's central bank think about this. Russia's central
Bank has raised the interest rates to twenty one percent.
And if he pulls back before January, Biden Harris gonna
take full credit for stopping that war, full credit. They'll
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pat themselves on the back till their arms ache.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
No more of that. We gotta take a little break
there on the way out. I'll tell you about late health.
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The clinics around town there are several I believe free
right now where you can go to have vascular issues addressed,
and that starts with things as simple as ugly veins.
Maybe there are actually some instances of chronic head pain
that can be believed alleviated and relieved by vascular surgery
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that goes in there. And what they do they send
these some of them very fine, almost as fine, are
more so than a human hair, But they're tiny little
tubes that can be inserted into your veins, into your
blood system, and they go to the place where you
don't want blood to go anymore, like fibroids in women,
an enlarged non cancerous prostate for the guys, ugly veins,
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all of that stuff. They can they can send these
little tubes in there and shut off the blood supply
to that specific spot. It's not going to change you,
it's not gonna make your heart, it's not gonna make
you look different, but it just stops the symptoms of
whatever they're causing, whatever's called lousingham. They also do regenerative
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Whatever it is, just give them a call.
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Speaker 1 (19:34):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash them, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh code O wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, welcome back.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Taking up fifty plus starts right now on this Thursday afternoon,
and we can't see outside, so we're not sure whether
it's raining or not, but it could be and it
probably will be a little bit later this sevenon. Thanks
as always for sharing your midday hour with us. We're
gonna talk in this segment about something my next guest
calls funflation, which has to do with the rising costs
of entertainment generally around this country. And with that I
(20:19):
will welcome in Elvera Christiansen, director of Retail and Loyalty
at AARP's Services sector.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
Welcome aboard, Hello everyone, Thank you, and I'm so thrilled.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
To be here.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
I'm kind of glad to have you because none of
us have the spending power we used to have three
four years ago. Can you think of one place in
American entertainment anywhere at all that's become lower in price
over the past four or five years.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
Ah, it's going to be hard, but I'm going to
tell you there are a lot of ways to save
on entertainment.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
That's what I'm That's what I'm looking for and for perspective,
how much influence do you think COVID had on the
cost of having fun in this country?
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Well, we can't deny there's definitely a lot of impact
across the board related COVID and we still probably observe
this residue across.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
All different sectors.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
I mean, I am with airp Services and our members
are still craving a lot of savings, savings on averag
day their activities, like whether it's dining or entertainment. As
we talked about earlier, we're going to gas, so yeah,
we're going to see it.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
What overall do you think raised the most movie tickets, concerts,
lift tickets, ski resorts, fine dining, sports, what?
Speaker 4 (21:40):
Honestly, I think it really depends, right, I mean, we're
cattered to real large audience. We have thirty seven Airpee
members and outside this is pretty substantial. Also fifty class
population in the United States. There are so many ways
to save and.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
Have a great time.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
And it's interesting you're earlier about conflation, and it's definitely
it's interesting trends that we've been seeing this year and again,
I mean like full for instance, it's time to relax, reconnect,
recharge and.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
Frankly get ready for holiday season too.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
And people put a lot of effort around fun and
as again dining entertainment, and we can't ignore it. It's
definitely comes with the rising costs every step of the ways.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
On fifteen, I'm sorry, Elvia Christiansener here on fifty plus
with me. So let's get to the part where we
start saving people money. Where's the first place we can
turn to start saving on something we're going to do
right right in our own hometown.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
First savings?
Speaker 4 (22:43):
Sure, I mean again, as Arapean members have access to
so many different discounts on things like travel, dining, entertainments.
It's really all about making life a bit easier and
more affordable. And it's the best way to figure out
whether it's kind of like what really you gravitate and
at the moment is just to go to airpeed out
(23:04):
or backslash save and see what kind of like really
benefits you have access to, whether again you remember or
considering one, but when it comes really just two different
memorable experiences that you want to create with your loved ones,
or maybe she'll share a meal together, date nights or
(23:25):
simply having friends over for dinner on the porch. I
don't know about like you problem in taxes created warm
as it's here in the c Metro area, you can
enjoy with a nice bottle of wine with naked wines.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
It's always a great choice, right.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Sure, So so with with aarp dot org slash save.
That's one of probably a whole There are a lot
of sites out there. That's that's the one we want
you to go to, right so you go there and
I would imagine and correct me if I'm wrong, but
I would imagine most of these discounts don't get taken
(23:58):
advantage of because people just don't invest the time to
go even looking for them.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
I would probably say that could be an opportunity for
definite development. But we have very strong marketings here on
our and just to make sure that our aerpe members
are aware of those benefits, there's a lot of efforts
and we reach our audiences again of airpea members or
people who will be good audience to benefit from this membership,
(24:30):
whether it's direct mail or emails social We try to
find our members to make sure that they get the
best out of the membership they're ready committed to.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
And all the time you've spent with ARP and been
looking for these types of deals and savings and whatnot,
is there anything that really stands out in your mind
as something you looked at someday that came across your
desk and thought, wow, now that's a real deal.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Honestly, I can't really pinpoint one deal out of any
other one.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
Just in general, the organization.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
Has such rigorous methods of how we're trying to find
those companies that will interact with our members. There's a
lot of research that's done at the backyend to make
sure like the benefits that we're bringing forward to our
members is the benefit are the benefits that.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
Really what they need? So honestly, like you can.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
Really engage with one of the benefits, whether it's Walmart
Plus subscription for the free delivery, or you want to
save on gas with acts on for instance, again AIRP
members have access to it. You can really cover the
costs of your annual membership with AIRP. It's really crazy
(25:49):
how much you can really save.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Yeah, there are opportunities like this out there for all
of us to save money.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
And you bring up a good point.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
A lot of these ways to save money want you
to pay them a little bit upfront. But the little
bit you're going to pay upfront is so that your staff,
as for example at AARP dot org slash save, your
staff can go out and find all these deals for
all of us and we get it for a little
teeny bit of money when it would have probably taken
us one thousand hours to find that stuff.
Speaker 5 (26:22):
Well, that's the really hope and the goal for our
extended team.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
And again when it comes to like again save ways,
I am here with the EUIRP and really want just
to kind of like bring awareness of what this membership
really stands for what access to the disconsions you have.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
But honestly, it doesn't have to even be that.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
You really feel like as a consumer, start shopping in
your own wallet and.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
You'll be surprised. You will have a lot of in there.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
You can check for credit card rewards, you can take
advantage of different other existent memberships. Right.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
So again, this is just a lot of really.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
Creative ways sometimes we don't really think about, but there
are like real ways to save money when you're having
fun and there are a lot of things to celebrate
during this fall season.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Well, Verry Christensen with us here before we've got to
go real quickly. Are there any like red flags out
there where you might some some especially seniors, might get
caught up in something that's not really going to save
the money and might be a scam. What what would
turn you off of something immediately if you saw it.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
I think it's just again, as a consumer right now,
you can just have to be vigilant and thoughtful about
any of your interaction. There are a lot of contents
again or eerp dot org that across all different aspects
of life you can explore. You don't have to be
an AIRP member to learn how to navigate through this
kind of like e commerce and noise that surrounds us.
(27:50):
So if you really smart, thoughtful and really have a
great time and.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Go to aarp dot org slash safe start putting some
money in your pocket. Elvera Christiansen, thank you so very much.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
I really appreciate your time.
Speaker 5 (28:05):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Oh yeah, my pleasure. Right, take care, Yeah, all right,
we got to take a little break here. On the
way out, I'll tell you about Bronze Roofing. I'm thinking
about Colin Skeeter Braun. I want to come.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Look, I've got a brand new roof up there. I
just wanted just to see if they'll go walk up
there and well, now there's no reason I don't need to.
I had that roof put on just a few months ago.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
I'll be all right.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Bron's Roofing will come to your house within twenty four
hours usually, and they will walk it from one end
to the other, very patiently, very methodically, very expertly to
see if there's anything wrong. And if there's nothing wrong,
they will tell you that you have a perfectly fine roof.
Don't worry about it. We'll see in a couple of
(28:47):
years if there is a problem. They'll let you know
what the problem is. They'll show you pictures of what
they found, they'll explain what it would take to fix it,
how long it would take, and more most importantly, really
how much it's gonna cost. If they have the materials
in their trucks. They'll tell you so. And at that point,
the best thing you can do is just say, go ahead,
(29:08):
get started. There's nowhere that you're gonna find better work
for the same price, and there's nowhere that you're gonna
find a better price for the quality of work they do.
Skeeter braun started this company and runs it today under
one simple premise, quality work at a fair price. Known
this guy for many years. He worked on my mom's roof,
(29:30):
He's worked on my mother in law's roof, He's worked
on neighbors roofs. Everybody I've sent to him has had
good things to say about him. Braunzoofing dot com is
the website b R A U N S or Put
this number in your phone in case you find the leak,
in case a tree falls on your house, whatever happens
to your roof, and you need somebody quick, have this
(29:53):
number in your phone.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
So you don't have to scratch your head.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Now, Who did Doug say to call two eight one
four or eight zero ninety nine hundred?
Speaker 2 (30:01):
That's bronze roofing? Two eight one four eight zero ninety
nine hundred. What's life without a net? I suggest to
go to bed, sleep it off.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Just wait until this show's over, sleepy. Back to Doug
Pike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
All right, welcome back fifty plus twelve fifty one.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
On this Thursday afternoon.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
I'm gonna go to this real quick because I wanted
to get Will's reaction to it.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
It's kind of interesting.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
New York City, and this was an Also I'll tell
you this first, jaywalking is now legal in New York City,
to which I asked the question, how will we know
it's a good thing? To got around to this too?
Since they're there's really no other problems in the whole city. Also,
I found a story that said in New York City
(31:09):
is considering digging a tunnel underneath what Will. You had
some really bizarre answers, all of which were wrong. You
said it was related to the hallway. It's seasonal, yes
it is, but it's not a pumpkin patch. It's not
a candy store, it's not an eminem world, it's not
what else, did you say? A scarecrow? No, it's none
(31:30):
of those. But it is seasonal.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Oh and I said the empire statement.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Oh yeah, but I don't know how that relates to
Halloween at all.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Oh my gosh, we.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Underneath a cemetery. Okay, think about that. You would be
driving beneath the resting place of people, which I think
is I think that's wrong. I have a problem with that,
do you?
Speaker 1 (31:58):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
I just think it's generally wrong. I don't even know
if I can put a specific on it.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Really, it would be so disrespectful of the dead to
just have me car crashes, all kinds of stuff going
on in the tunnel, be kind of a mess. So no,
I don't like that at all. I found a boy.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
This will be the first of many too. I found
a voting problem story. A Chinese citizen who attends the
University of Michigan has been charged in that state with
illegally voting. Now, first of all, how relaxed are there
(32:41):
voter ID requirements if there is one?
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Even that this.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
Guy got all the way through and put in a ballot,
And so what do we do. We just throw his
vote out right and get on down the road. Well
not in Michigan, because privacy laws in Michigan don't allow
any sort of identifying pen number or any other means
of finding this nineteen year old kid's ballot. So guess what,
(33:10):
It's gonna be counted. It's gonna be counted, even though
we know the guy did it illegally, even.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Though it should not have happened.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
Ever, even though both sides, one with a wink in
a nod, say only US citizens should vote, and they
we're just going to count it. What's illegal in this
case is that this guy presented himself as a US
citizen because he was asked. I'm sure they asked it
(33:41):
of me when I went and cast my early vote.
And this is illegal by both state and federal law
in Michigan.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
It's a crime.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
He was charged with perjury by making a false statement
to get his voter registration. That's a felony in Michigan.
So here's the deal. Guess is that this one will
never make the evening news, and shortly after the election
probably it'll disappear, just vanish into thin air and there
(34:12):
will be the charges against this kids are gonna be dropped.
That's that's my gut. That's what my gut tells me.
Under the current system we're having to deal with and
all this election stuff the left we're seeing now from
some pretty good sources have a battalion of lawyers on
(34:35):
the ready, gearing up to call foul if they don't
win and start challenging the election.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Huh. When was the last time that happened? Huh?
Speaker 3 (34:45):
All right, well, let's go to you eat it all,
come on, really, or not eat it all? Average mid
size pumpkin will has about five hundred seeds inside. It's
got all that pumpkin meat, it's got the skin, it's
got the the rind I guess you'd maybe call it,
(35:06):
and it's got a stem, right, yeah. How many pieces
of that? How many parts of that pumpkin are you
not supposed to eat?
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Can you not eat? Well? You can eat the seeds, yep,
you can eat the whatever they make pumpkin pie from
the meat. Yep.
Speaker 6 (35:25):
I'm gonna say that leaves the shell, and so I'm
gonna go with two. Every piece of that pumpkin is edible.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
What every piece now I'm not interested in pumpkin stem soup.
That doesn't sound good to me, but apparently it is
edible if you want to just gnaw on the stem
all day, kind of like a piece of beef jerky.
That's vegan jerky, that's what that is. Just slice up
a pumpkin stem and put it in the little kid's bags,
(35:59):
not as vegan jerky. Now, don't don't do that. Really,
I'm just joking. I know you know that, but I
need to say that.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Don't do that. Period.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
The dentists are all dental Surgeoncy says, they're urgent children
not to eat suckers with sticky Halloween candy to avoid
tooth to ka. Come on, really, the dentists are doing that,
and they're asking that. They're asking the public to consider
giving trigger treaters stickers. Who the heck wants a sticker
(36:31):
for Halloween? Not me and Plato. Oh there's something great.
The parents will love that when they start finding it
in between the cushions and in the microwave whatever. I
don't have time for cattle ranching news. That may have
to wait till next week, but I will give you that.
Give you that then, hmmm, apparently at trended hotels where
(36:54):
they're removing bathroom doors and just using curtains, frosted or
fogged glass, and maybe saloon doors.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
Hmm.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
That's gonna stop everything but one really important thing from
getting out of that bathroom.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
We'll be back next Tuesday. Thanks for listening, Audios
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