February 5, 2026 • 36 mins
Today, Doug Pike discusses outer space, violent crime, and cool temperatures.
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And now fifty plus with Doug Pike.
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All right, let's see what we can do here today.
Welcome you out again to fifty plus as we plod
forward toward our thousandth episode, available by podcast at the
iHeartRadio app. As they all are, All of our shows here,
by the way, I Heart Houston and anywhere on I
Heart really are out there in the podcast world for
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all to hear. If they are so inclined, we'd across
that thousand line a long time ago. To if I'd
been podcasting from day one, I'll be quite proud of
having a thousand, and however many more we get to do,
make them available at any time to anyone anywhere I
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have had. There was another state will that popped up
on my outdoor show the other day. I can't remember
exactly which one it was, but I was glad to
hear somebody from there on the show. We've covered a
lot of ground with this show, by the way, and
it seems like every week we touch on one or
two topics that haven't been covered in the past. It's
getting harder and harder to find something original that this
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audience wants to hear about because we have I feel
like with the sources I've got, we've addressed most of
it all, but certainly not all of it. And once again,
if you have a topic in mind, just email me
Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. If it makes sense for
you as a senior, it will probably make sense for
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the show, and I'll track down an expert in whatever
field that is, wherever it is, and we'll set up
an interview and get her done. And on all of
the ones in the past that I've done where someone
has has asked for it, I make certain to post
something at my Facebook page too, which it's just my
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personal page and I don't put a lot of stuff up.
I don't clutter it, but I'll make sure that I
put something up there that if you're following me and listening,
and you'll know that it's coming. So here we are
on yet another blissfully comfortable day. Really, just enough nip
in the air this morning to let you know it's
still winter, but plenty of sunshine to warm the back
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of your neck if you weren't wearing a scarf when
you went out this morning. I got out of the car,
I got out of the house and got into the
car very quickly, so I didn't really notice that it
was forty one forty two degrees. But when I stopped
and got out to pick up the newspaper I had,
there was a little bit of wind in my face,
and it just caught me just right to where it
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was like, this is winter. Don't forget. We're here. We're
not going anywhere. More of the same, though, the good stuff.
Today's weather going to be up in the sixties, and
then after today, I think there are two or three
days where we're going to get up into the seventies
and lows around forty five fifty somewhere in there. I
don't know, very pleasant, very comfortable. It's there's no real
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change really until Monday. When we're supposed to get some
clouds and then maybe a little chance to rain on Tuesday. Otherwise,
make all the outdoor plans you want right through the weekend.
Although I suspect a pretty high percentage of this audience
probably we'll be watching the Super Bowl now. I'll confess
to losing interest in recent years and for a number
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of reasons. Although it will be refreshed to see a
Super Bowl without Kansas City in it. That was a
long run and it was very frustrating as someone who
knows enough about football to know when flags are being
thrown with a wink and a nod to protect somebody
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who was, for the longest time considered the golden boy
of professional football. It was sad sometimes to see the
calls that were made against other players who might have
bumped into him or just brushed up against his shoulder,
and out comes the laundry fifteen yard roughing the passer
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when Mahomes couldn't have told you who hit him, They
didn't feel anything. Oh well, it is what it is,
you know. Maybe that'll give Travis and Taylor some time
to sort things out. I don't keep up with him,
like lots of younger people might, but I see enough
headline to know that just like most of us, when
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we started getting closer and closer to our future spouse,
we did a little soul searching sometimes break up, then
make up, then get back together and sort things out.
So and they're just like anybody else. They got some
stuff to do before they walk down the aisle. I
would bet that also that lots of what we read
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about the troubles they have is garbage. It's hogwash. It's
just written to grab attention. I think. Is it still
called clickbait wheel or is there a new Yeah? I
thought so. If you're tapping on those sponsored little squares
that come up at the bottom of a main news story,
you're trying to read from a reliable source, and those
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are all clickbait. And the more clicks you make and
the more money people make. Somewhere down the line, do
you fit just a pop quiz with a head shake
or a head nod?
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Will?
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Do you believe that AI and all these in home
devices are spying on us twenty four to seven?
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yeah?
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I do too, I really do. It's very easy to
figure it out too. I was laughing with my wife.
She was talking about something that we were considering purchasing.
I can't remember what it was. We've got a lot
of things. Our house is thirty two years old, it
needs some it needs a makeover, and we were talking
about something and I said, well, and she said, we
need to look around and see what we can get.
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And so I started just using phrases that included the
operative word of what we're trying to buy, and darned
if within less than twenty four hours, pop, pop, here's one,
there's another ad for one of those. Oh, there's another
ad for one of those. Up there's a different manufacturer's
ad for one of those. And they're all just just
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waiting to get our business. And honestly, I'm not so
sure I want to do business that way, because I
know that somebody spied on me to find out that
I was in the mood to buy that. Although it
is I must confess it is effective, and my sponsors
also get response from that sort of stuff. Most of
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it comes directly out of my mouth, and if you
hear me saying it, I can assure you that I'm
not pulling your leg I'm not blowing smoke. I'm just
telling you like it is. With the people who I
talk for. They are good people. I've met them, I
know them, and I'm glad to have them on board.
No clickbait here, though. Instead, I dig a little bit
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deeper into current stories and try to give you all
you need to pique your interest, make you want to
do your own research. It's a little bit of a
risky strategy too, as talk shows go, because you might
come out with a different opinion than mine. Oh my gosh.
A lot of guys wouldn't like that at all, But
for me, that's fine. Would I would rather that we
disagree and then at some point maybe talk about it
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by email or on the phone or whatever. I'd rather
do that than try to tell you that my opinions
are the only ones that matter, and that would make
me something I'm not. There are already more than enough
people in this country who have no interest in hearing
both sides of any story. You see them on TV
every night carrying a sign and a bullhorn. But I digress.
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What's life without a nap? If I suggest you go
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Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues, Welcome back
to fifty plus.
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Thanks for listening, certainly to appreciate it. Where to go?
Where to go?
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Waiting?
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I guess we will wait into the news pond and
some very tragic local news this morning that a thirteen
year old girl was stabbed and killed by a ten
year old boy during a fight at a Northwest Houston
apartment complex. That fight, from what I read, was something
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of a carryover from an incident that had happened at
school earlier in the day. Middle school somewhere many people
involved when the police showed up. I think that the
number was somewhere from fifteen to twenty people out there
involved somehow, some way, And an incident like that, honestly
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probably would draw people out of their apartments, out of
their homes to just see what's going on and to
try to help maybe or try to make sure the
authorities get to the right place at the right time.
Two of the stories I saw said, the boy said
he did what he did in self defense. The ten
year old boy said he did what he did in
self defense. Regardless of how these two kids got to
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where they got there, The whole story said, and it's
gonna ruin both their lives. The age, by the way,
in Texas to be charged as a criminal, not necessarily
as an adult, but as a criminal to face criminal
charges is ten. And we'll see how that one works out.
I'll keep an eye on it and see if there's
any more progress or any more explanation given as to
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what happened, why it happened, and how the system is
going to proceed with this ten year old boy who
now he has to live with that for the rest
of his life, and at some point it's gonna haunt him.
I'm afraid hope he gets whatever help he needs to
get through that. And I don't know what you can
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do really for the parents of the child who was killed.
There's not much we can do for that. Speaking of
sad stories, the ongoing saga of NBC's Savannah Guthrie and
her missing mother, eighty four year old Nancy Guthrie, who
was kidnapped from her home sometime either either Saturday night
or Sunday morning. As best we know, I saw, I listened,
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I didn't see, but I heard Nancy Grace talking about
this case yesterday, and she is very good at determining
what happened. When and where and how in these sorts
of cases, she immerses herself in any case she chooses
to jump into, and because she's friends with Savannah Guthrie,
she jumped into this one. And one of the things
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that we've heard was in the ransom note is that
the kidnappers described the clothing that Nancy was wearing when
she was abducted, and I thought, okay, well, at least
Savannah will know that that's the real clothes. But the
point that Nancy Guthrie, or that Nancy Grace pointed out,
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was that if she came home Saturday evening from a
dinner or a banquet, some sort of an event, okay,
and she would have been in her go out to
dinner clothes and from that point forward when she got home,
because they know her habits and know what she usually
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does after that in the evening. Nancy Grace pointed out
that if the clothing they described was something you'd wear
to dinner, then the kidnapping must have taken place right
after she got home because her habit, and that's how
they kind of base all this stuff, that's what they
base it on. Her habit was to go ahead and
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get in her night clothes. Once she got home, get
out of whatever she wore to wherever she went, and
just get in something more comfortable, maybe sit down, read
a book, watch a movie, whatever she did at eighty
four years old. And the real scary part of this,
she's said to have no cognitive issues, but at eighty
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four she does have some problems with mobility, and she
also takes several what they call necessary medications. Eighty four,
you're bound to be taken something. God bless that woman
in her family. I hope they I really hope they
do find her. Okay, I pray they do. And man,
we're all going to be watching I am anyway, things
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like this really disturbed me that people they're still even well,
there will always be evil in the world, but that's
a special kind of evil to take somebody's eighty four
year old mother. Following up from a story I talked
about yesterday, the one about teachers in Texas being put
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on notice that if they allowed students, if they allowed
students to participate in anti ice protests, that just might
get them sanctioned by the Texas Education Agency, which could
be might not be teaching much longer if that goes down.
On a nationwide scale now from Breitbart, teachers of kids
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from kindergarten all the way up into high school kindergarten
are forcing their students to join in these pro tests.
Some of them take walks out of the school. Some
of those kids are carrying signs. Some of those kids
are getting more involved than they should, and one yesterday
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from a middle school wound up getting himself arrested for
being out there. Why would teachers do something like this,
I'll tell you why. Because the children of illegal immigrants
are given free educations in our country, which means hiring
more teachers and paying them more money. In Colorado. In Colorado,
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tens of thousands of migrant children overwhelmed that state schools.
A couple of years ago. The city of Denver laid
out three hundred and fifty six million dollars on illegals
in twenty twenty four loan, and a big, big chunk
of that money went to city schools because they have
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to be educated, and especially in in states where they're
a little bit more welcoming to people no matter what
their credentials, no matter what their legal status to be
in the country. And it's a shame. Videos are surfacing
now which teachers. One teacher at least had our elementary
grade students marching around the classroom carrying anti ice signs.
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In another incident, a bunch of middle schoolers walked out
of their school in the middle of the day. They
had a couple of staff members go with them, but
the school posted a notice to parents that if their
child leaves school the next time, they should stay with
the group and follow directions from staff. In other words,
we're going to keep doing this, and if your kid
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leaves the school, just keep them in the group so
they don't get in trouble. How about you stay in
the school and teach the kids what they should be
learning so that we can keep up with the world
as the world keeps educating itself around us. Stay with
the group next time. Now there should be no next time.
This is a grown up issue, and it ought to
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be handled as a grown up issue by adults. You
don't drag kids into this, Like I said yesterday, that's
what Nazi Germany did. And these kids were so indoctrinated
by the people who were leading them that they were
turning in their own parents, turning their own parents over
to the Gestapo or whatever enforcement agency was going to
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haul them off and leave them somewhere where they could
never come home. How much time to will? Thirty seconds?
Not quite? Yeah, let's just go because I got I
got some nerd news coming up in a little bit.
I got telescope news, I got all kinds of astrophysics news.
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and I will continue talking about them. It's an amazing
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as there tend to be with these types of developments.
It's get in early and by the time they sell
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Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
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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.
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Thank you for listening. Let me stand up for a second. Well,
my toes was falling asleep or something. I don't know
what's going on. Ley, just jump in with some nerd news.
Let's do that, shall we? The web Telescope. Most of you,
I bet all of you have heard of the web
telescope at least. And I'm fascinated every time I see
photographs from web in one of those little clickbait things.
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I jump on it because I love looking at that stuff,
and it just makes you really think about what's out there,
how far it extends on and on and on, all
just it raises millions upon millions of questions in my
head about what's really going on with the universe and
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the hubb not the hubble, but the web telescope now
has come up with an image of a very bright
galaxy that came into existence. Now, I'm just gonna tell
you what I saw, and then you let you You
can digest it as you will, because it's a lot.
This galaxy came into existence a relatively short time in
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astrophysical learning after the Big Bang. That relatively short time,
according to people who understand all this by what they're
seeing in the telescope's image of that galaxy, is roughly
two hundred and eighty million years after the Big Bang.
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And in their language, that's like yesterday it happened. The
Big Bang happened, and then that happened yesterday, and then
here we are today. But didn't there have to be
something to bang, something large, something small, whatever, the thing
that eventually showed into just an uncountable number of smaller
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things that turned out to be the universe, with all
its galaxies and solar systems and planets and continents and
countries and states and regions and counties and cities and
communities and well, us and you get the point. I'm
sure all of that that's out there, all that that
really wasn't visible at all for I don't know how
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many hundreds or thousands of years, well certainly thousands of
years of human existence. They were just the stars in
the sky and when nobody had any idea what they were.
I'm sure the moon got all the attention it got
because it was always the biggest thing in the night sky.
And of course the sun got its glory from being
the brightest thing in the daytime sky. Can't see anything
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else when that sun's out there, amazing. A guy from MIT,
by the way, summed it up. He's from a guy
named Rohan Naid from MIT's Caveli Institute for Astrophysics and
Space Research. So I mean he's right out of that
what was that show? Will with those guys who worked
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up the really really bright guys and the one cute girl.
Come on, come on, sitcom. It's right on the tip
of my tongue. I'll hear from somebody on it. In
any event, this guy covely summed it up all of
what this web telescope image tells them in words that
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make it even harder to figure out and here's a
direct quote from him. With web we were able to
see farther than humans ever have before. Here's the kicker,
and it looks nothing like what we predicted, which is
both challenging and exciting. Well, yeah, you've been telling us
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all along that when you finally got to look at
that stuff, it was going to look like an apple,
And now you finally got to look at it, and
it looks like a banana. I don't understand it. I'm
fascinated by it. I truly am that. I find it
both challenging and exciting, that's for sure. The challenge would
be me learning more about it than I know now,
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which wouldn't take much really, relative to what somebody like
him knows. Boy, when you say you finally got the
image you've been looking for for years and it's nothing
like you thought it was going to be, you have
to throw out everything you had and think of all
the students that have been in that what is it
called the cavaliers at it CAVELTI Institute for Astrophysics and
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Space Research. All these students in there learning from all
these people who thought they had it figured out. And
I wonder if they'll send letters into the mail to
the people who graduated from the last five or six years,
just say hey, by the way, it was wrong. We
were wrong. We were totally wrong. We had no idea
what was out there. Fascination. It really boggles them for
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me sometimes from the growing pile that is on the
hypocrisy desk. This one by way of Fox News comes
word that Bernie Sanders they've been looking into his records
of spending on travel and whatnot. Mister oligarchy himself throughout
his political career. This guy dropped in twenty twenty five alone,
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he dropped more than five hundred and fifty thousand dollars
on private jet travel, five hundred and fifty thousand dollars
on private jet travel last year, telling us that we
needed to drive electric cars and do everything electric. Use
campaign funds to pay for all those flights to One
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of the aircraft he chartered is a Bombardier Challenger. I
wasn't familiar with that aircraft, but I am a little
bit now, and I found out that the company that
leased it to him on several occasions, that's the company
that he chartered with most often. That Challenger commands fifteen
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thousand dollars per hour fifteen thousand dollars an hour, and Bernie,
oh yeah, we've got a Everybody gets their share, but
you don't get my share of private jet travel. That's
a ton of money. That's a ton of money, and
he had no problem spending it. I'll give you one more.
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I had two minutes. Well, i'll give you one more.
This from the art world and a combination of the
art world of the billionaire world, which I guess in
today's terms kind of go hand in hand. Really, if
you're going to be a really big time art collector,
you better be a billionaire because that stuff's pretty expensive.
This guy named Tom Kaplan from Electrum Group LLC. I'm
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not familiar at all, but that's where he made all
his money, apparently at least most of it, and one
of the world's largest collectors of rem brand At work.
Rembrandt's work. I don't know how many things, don't know
how many pieces rem Brat produced, but apparently this guy's
got the lion's share of them. No pun intended, because
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here's what's going on. Kaplan just sold a rare Rembrandt
drawing of a lion, and I swear that that little
slip of the tongue A second ago at the Lion's
share was totally off the cuff. That piece sold for
eighteen million dollars. But since Kaplin's already a bajillion zillionaire,
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he says he's just gonna use it to All that
money is going to be donated to protect and save
guess what, lions. I think he has a fascination with
him as well. In the painting, it's it's actually a sketch,
it's not a painting, but it's absolutely stunning. Just the
expertise I talked yesterday about was it maybe Tuesday about
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some drawings that were found on cave walls from any
many thousands of years ago, sixty eight seventy thousand years.
Some people can draw, some people can't. Rembrandt, Yes, he
can draw. We gotta take a little break here on
the way out. Ut Health Institute on Aging is there
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If we have something bothering us, go to the website.
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providers uth dot edu slash aging, uth dot edu slash aging,
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This is fifty plus with Doug Pike Bitty plus.
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Final segment of the show starts right now. I got
a few minutes to sweep up a few things and
dig in a little bit deeper once again. By the way,
if you or anybody you know owns a company, who
are a company that for grammatical correctness that would benefit
from reaching my audience, either here at the show or
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maybe over all my outdoor show. Either one. I can
take care of you all by myself. You don't have
to call anybody else, you don't have to deal with
anybody else. It'll just be me. And I've been doing
this for twenty five years. I'll take good care of you.
Also from Fox News this morning, there were several good
stories there, the story that despite Democrats is persistently claiming
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that the only solution to the border crisis created by
Joe Biden was a full overhaul and reform. President Trump's
strategy of just enforcing existing immigration laws has led to
the lowest number of encounters at the Mexican border since
the presidency of Richard Nixon in nineteen seventy. To contrast that,
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in twenty twenty two and twenty twenty three under Joe Biden,
crossings totaled more than two million each year, two million
just in those two years alone. And that's just the
ones we know of. And the Left keeps right on
fighting against President Trump's immigration policy, which, by the way,
is right in line with exactly what Barack Obama was
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saying in twenty twenty one that as a nation, secure
borders were critical to our future and that people who
came here illegally should be escorted out. When he said it, though,
and when Hillary said it, the left cheered, And when
President Trump says it, they call him a tyrant. The
whole pathway for dreamers to become citizens thing that pitch
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from the left amidst the fact that such a pathway
already exists, that it has for a couple of centuries.
It's called lawful immigration and includes after completion of lengthy
education about our country. And I know this because I've
talked to several people who came in here lawfully and
have become US citizens. We've got one who works with
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us right here. I had him on the show a
couple of years ago when he finally got his citizenship,
and that's Chiley from over on the Rod Ryan Show.
He was very proud of that and still is to
this day. But he had to learn an awful lot,
probably more than most high school students know these days.
All you got to do is complete that education, and
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it's still in effect. You take an oath of allegiance
to the United States and you denounce allegiance to any
other nation during that naturalization ceremony. Democrats don't care about
that part either, though. They just want everybody let in
to be eligible to vote, which in national elections is
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reserved for US citizens. That's why they don't like photo
ID requirements to vote either. If you have need by
the way for a laminating machine. Get it quick. They'll
be selling like hotcake, like hotcakes right up to the midterms.
Better on that. In where will I Go? Pick a number?
Will one, one, two or three two? It is in
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study shows that heating electronics instantaneously to three thousand degrees
celsius that five four hundred and thirty two degrees fahrenheit.
If you're playing at home, usable grades of precious metals
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can be extracted without creating hazardous waste. That's that's kind
of It's not brand new stuff, but it's pretty new stuff,
and it's looking like a better way in the future
to get these these precious materials. Scientists say this method
could be as many as thirteen times cheaper than actually
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mining those same metals from the ground. How much time
do I have? Well, I want to kind of, I
want to make this work. I really do four Okay,
the system. I wanted to make sure I didn't have
to cut out this part. The system uses something called
flash jewel heating, which AI says and I quote, is
a technique using a high power, short duration electrical pulse
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to rapidly heat materials to extreme temperatures and then in
quotes are in parentheses, it says thousands of degrees in
milliseconds for efficient solvent free synthesis, transformation, and extraction. That's
that's a fancy way to just say. They're they're obliterating
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this electronic product, whatever it might have been, a phone,
a laptop, you name it. They're obliterating this thing with flash,
jewel heating and all of the things that bound those
elements into that, into that mix of plastic and other
metals and steel screws and whatever. It just vaporizes, probably
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and the good stuff is left, and it's gonna be
way cheaper than digging holes in the ground and making
a mess of the earth to get them. I like that,
I really do. Um let's go here, Oh yeah, let's
go here. It seems like every time I turn around lately,
somebody in a blue state's being arrested in charge with
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defrauding American taxpayers, stealing money intended for daycares, seenior care centers,
you name it. They're they're stealing all right. Latest, four
guys in Massachusetts who worked out of a small restaurant
using stolen IDs from all over the country to more
than to steal from US more than four hundred grand
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in snap benefits, seven hundred thousand unemployment benefits on the
IDs of more than one hundred people. I don't know
when this is gonna stop. I don't know how it's
gonna stop. Well, it'll stop, it'll stop when we catch
them all. But the problem is that with when something
is so lucrative, the temptation is so strong. These guys
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did a million dollars, did a million dollars without well
was what were the actual numbers? A little bit more
than that? I think TikTok TikTok. Yeah, one point one
million dollars in just a few couple of years using
one hundred and seventeen eyed fake IDs, actually not fake,
they're they're real. But they were stolen. And these guys
got caught because when somebody, somebody raised a red flag
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and started looking into these all these different things, because
they were only using two addresses to receive all the
money from those one hundred and seventeen IDs. Not so smart,
and I'm glad it got them caught up. In New
York City, where Marymum Donnie promised free groceries along with
free subway and bus rides, although fairs have already risen
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since he took all of us. Comes word that a
company called Polymarket is going to open a store, one
store in a city of millions next Thursday through Sunday.
I suppose it's some sort of a toe in the
boiling water of socialism. And on those days, in that
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one store, they're going to give out free groceries somehow
to fifty Well, I don't know how many people are
going to get to do it, but these people will
be allowed to fill their sack with fifty dollars worth
of groceries. Every one of them get fifty bucks. So
basically they get a dozen eggs loaf for break. We
had some rice, maybe a gallon of milk, and two
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packs of cigarettes in your fifties, Gone mom. Donnie says
his plan includes a free grocery store per Burrow, which
in Houston terms would be one grocery store for all
of Tomball, one for all of Katie, one for all
of Sugarland, one for Kingwood, one for Pearland. You get
the drift. How you think that would work out? Oh,
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I had some polar Bear news. I'll save it for tomorrow.
That's gonna wrap it up for today. Get outside, get
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exactly which one it was, but I was glad to
hear somebody from there on the show. We've covered a
lot of ground with this show, by the way, and
it seems like every week we touch on one or
two topics that haven't been covered in the past. It's
getting harder and harder to find something original that this
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audience wants to hear about because we have I feel
like with the sources I've got, we've addressed most of
it all, but certainly not all of it. And once again,
if you have a topic in mind, just email me
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the show, and I'll track down an expert in whatever
field that is, wherever it is, and we'll set up
an interview and get her done. And on all of
the ones in the past that I've done where someone
has has asked for it, I make certain to post
something at my Facebook page too, which it's just my
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personal page and I don't put a lot of stuff up.
I don't clutter it, but I'll make sure that I
put something up there that if you're following me and listening,
and you'll know that it's coming. So here we are
on yet another blissfully comfortable day. Really, just enough nip
in the air this morning to let you know it's
still winter, but plenty of sunshine to warm the back
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of your neck if you weren't wearing a scarf when
you went out this morning. I got out of the car,
I got out of the house and got into the
car very quickly, so I didn't really notice that it
was forty one forty two degrees. But when I stopped
and got out to pick up the newspaper I had,
there was a little bit of wind in my face,
and it just caught me just right to where it
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was like, this is winter. Don't forget. We're here. We're
not going anywhere. More of the same, though, the good stuff.
Today's weather going to be up in the sixties, and
then after today, I think there are two or three
days where we're going to get up into the seventies
and lows around forty five fifty somewhere in there. I
don't know, very pleasant, very comfortable. It's there's no real
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change really until Monday. When we're supposed to get some
clouds and then maybe a little chance to rain on Tuesday. Otherwise,
make all the outdoor plans you want right through the weekend.
Although I suspect a pretty high percentage of this audience
probably we'll be watching the Super Bowl now. I'll confess
to losing interest in recent years and for a number
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of reasons. Although it will be refreshed to see a
Super Bowl without Kansas City in it. That was a
long run and it was very frustrating as someone who
knows enough about football to know when flags are being
thrown with a wink and a nod to protect somebody
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who was, for the longest time considered the golden boy
of professional football. It was sad sometimes to see the
calls that were made against other players who might have
bumped into him or just brushed up against his shoulder,
and out comes the laundry fifteen yard roughing the passer
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when Mahomes couldn't have told you who hit him, They
didn't feel anything. Oh well, it is what it is,
you know. Maybe that'll give Travis and Taylor some time
to sort things out. I don't keep up with him,
like lots of younger people might, but I see enough
headline to know that just like most of us, when
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we started getting closer and closer to our future spouse,
we did a little soul searching sometimes break up, then
make up, then get back together and sort things out.
So and they're just like anybody else. They got some
stuff to do before they walk down the aisle. I
would bet that also that lots of what we read
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about the troubles they have is garbage. It's hogwash. It's
just written to grab attention. I think. Is it still
called clickbait wheel or is there a new Yeah? I
thought so. If you're tapping on those sponsored little squares
that come up at the bottom of a main news story,
you're trying to read from a reliable source, and those
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are all clickbait. And the more clicks you make and
the more money people make. Somewhere down the line, do
you fit just a pop quiz with a head shake
or a head nod?
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Will?
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Do you believe that AI and all these in home
devices are spying on us twenty four to seven?
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Yeah?
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I do too, I really do. It's very easy to
figure it out too. I was laughing with my wife.
She was talking about something that we were considering purchasing.
I can't remember what it was. We've got a lot
of things. Our house is thirty two years old, it
needs some it needs a makeover, and we were talking
about something and I said, well, and she said, we
need to look around and see what we can get.
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And so I started just using phrases that included the
operative word of what we're trying to buy, and darned
if within less than twenty four hours, pop, pop, here's one,
there's another ad for one of those. Oh, there's another
ad for one of those. Up there's a different manufacturer's
ad for one of those. And they're all just just
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waiting to get our business. And honestly, I'm not so
sure I want to do business that way, because I
know that somebody spied on me to find out that
I was in the mood to buy that. Although it
is I must confess it is effective, and my sponsors
also get response from that sort of stuff. Most of
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it comes directly out of my mouth, and if you
hear me saying it, I can assure you that I'm
not pulling your leg I'm not blowing smoke. I'm just
telling you like it is. With the people who I
talk for. They are good people. I've met them, I
know them, and I'm glad to have them on board.
No clickbait here, though. Instead, I dig a little bit
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deeper into current stories and try to give you all
you need to pique your interest, make you want to
do your own research. It's a little bit of a
risky strategy too, as talk shows go, because you might
come out with a different opinion than mine. Oh my gosh.
A lot of guys wouldn't like that at all, But
for me, that's fine. Would I would rather that we
disagree and then at some point maybe talk about it
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by email or on the phone or whatever. I'd rather
do that than try to tell you that my opinions
are the only ones that matter, and that would make
me something I'm not. There are already more than enough
people in this country who have no interest in hearing
both sides of any story. You see them on TV
every night carrying a sign and a bullhorn. But I digress.
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Thanks for listening, certainly to appreciate it. Where to go?
Where to go?
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I guess we will wait into the news pond and
some very tragic local news this morning that a thirteen
year old girl was stabbed and killed by a ten
year old boy during a fight at a Northwest Houston
apartment complex. That fight, from what I read, was something
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of a carryover from an incident that had happened at
school earlier in the day. Middle school somewhere many people
involved when the police showed up. I think that the
number was somewhere from fifteen to twenty people out there
involved somehow, some way, And an incident like that, honestly
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probably would draw people out of their apartments, out of
their homes to just see what's going on and to
try to help maybe or try to make sure the
authorities get to the right place at the right time.
Two of the stories I saw said, the boy said
he did what he did in self defense. The ten
year old boy said he did what he did in
self defense. Regardless of how these two kids got to
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where they got there, The whole story said, and it's
gonna ruin both their lives. The age, by the way,
in Texas to be charged as a criminal, not necessarily
as an adult, but as a criminal to face criminal
charges is ten. And we'll see how that one works out.
I'll keep an eye on it and see if there's
any more progress or any more explanation given as to
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what happened, why it happened, and how the system is
going to proceed with this ten year old boy who
now he has to live with that for the rest
of his life, and at some point it's gonna haunt him.
I'm afraid hope he gets whatever help he needs to
get through that. And I don't know what you can
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do really for the parents of the child who was killed.
There's not much we can do for that. Speaking of
sad stories, the ongoing saga of NBC's Savannah Guthrie and
her missing mother, eighty four year old Nancy Guthrie, who
was kidnapped from her home sometime either either Saturday night
or Sunday morning. As best we know, I saw, I listened,
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I didn't see, but I heard Nancy Grace talking about
this case yesterday, and she is very good at determining
what happened. When and where and how in these sorts
of cases, she immerses herself in any case she chooses
to jump into, and because she's friends with Savannah Guthrie,
she jumped into this one. And one of the things
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that we've heard was in the ransom note is that
the kidnappers described the clothing that Nancy was wearing when
she was abducted, and I thought, okay, well, at least
Savannah will know that that's the real clothes. But the
point that Nancy Guthrie, or that Nancy Grace pointed out,
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was that if she came home Saturday evening from a
dinner or a banquet, some sort of an event, okay,
and she would have been in her go out to
dinner clothes and from that point forward when she got home,
because they know her habits and know what she usually
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does after that in the evening. Nancy Grace pointed out
that if the clothing they described was something you'd wear
to dinner, then the kidnapping must have taken place right
after she got home because her habit, and that's how
they kind of base all this stuff, that's what they
base it on. Her habit was to go ahead and
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get in her night clothes. Once she got home, get
out of whatever she wore to wherever she went, and
just get in something more comfortable, maybe sit down, read
a book, watch a movie, whatever she did at eighty
four years old. And the real scary part of this,
she's said to have no cognitive issues, but at eighty
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four she does have some problems with mobility, and she
also takes several what they call necessary medications. Eighty four,
you're bound to be taken something. God bless that woman
in her family. I hope they I really hope they
do find her. Okay, I pray they do. And man,
we're all going to be watching I am anyway, things
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like this really disturbed me that people they're still even well,
there will always be evil in the world, but that's
a special kind of evil to take somebody's eighty four
year old mother. Following up from a story I talked
about yesterday, the one about teachers in Texas being put
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on notice that if they allowed students, if they allowed
students to participate in anti ice protests, that just might
get them sanctioned by the Texas Education Agency, which could
be might not be teaching much longer if that goes down.
On a nationwide scale now from Breitbart, teachers of kids
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from kindergarten all the way up into high school kindergarten
are forcing their students to join in these pro tests.
Some of them take walks out of the school. Some
of those kids are carrying signs. Some of those kids
are getting more involved than they should, and one yesterday
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from a middle school wound up getting himself arrested for
being out there. Why would teachers do something like this,
I'll tell you why. Because the children of illegal immigrants
are given free educations in our country, which means hiring
more teachers and paying them more money. In Colorado. In Colorado,
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tens of thousands of migrant children overwhelmed that state schools.
A couple of years ago. The city of Denver laid
out three hundred and fifty six million dollars on illegals
in twenty twenty four loan, and a big, big chunk
of that money went to city schools because they have
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to be educated, and especially in in states where they're
a little bit more welcoming to people no matter what
their credentials, no matter what their legal status to be
in the country. And it's a shame. Videos are surfacing
now which teachers. One teacher at least had our elementary
grade students marching around the classroom carrying anti ice signs.
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In another incident, a bunch of middle schoolers walked out
of their school in the middle of the day. They
had a couple of staff members go with them, but
the school posted a notice to parents that if their
child leaves school the next time, they should stay with
the group and follow directions from staff. In other words,
we're going to keep doing this, and if your kid
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leaves the school, just keep them in the group so
they don't get in trouble. How about you stay in
the school and teach the kids what they should be
learning so that we can keep up with the world
as the world keeps educating itself around us. Stay with
the group next time. Now there should be no next time.
This is a grown up issue, and it ought to
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be handled as a grown up issue by adults. You
don't drag kids into this, Like I said yesterday, that's
what Nazi Germany did. And these kids were so indoctrinated
by the people who were leading them that they were
turning in their own parents, turning their own parents over
to the Gestapo or whatever enforcement agency was going to
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haul them off and leave them somewhere where they could
never come home. How much time to will? Thirty seconds?
Not quite? Yeah, let's just go because I got I
got some nerd news coming up in a little bit.
I got telescope news, I got all kinds of astrophysics news.
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go to learn about this place that I talked about yesterday,
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and I will continue talking about them. It's an amazing
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community home sites from one and a half to four
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beautiful amenities, and a very thoughtfully planned kind of a
Texas hunting ranch theme. You can buy now and build later,
you can hold onto your land as an investment, whatever
you want to do. That's fine. They're early discounts available too,
as there tend to be with these types of developments.
It's get in early and by the time they sell
it out, you'd probably be sitting on a pretty nice investment.
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That's why every few months we wash him, check his fluids,
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Thank you for listening. Let me stand up for a second. Well,
my toes was falling asleep or something. I don't know
what's going on. Ley, just jump in with some nerd news.
Let's do that, shall we? The web Telescope. Most of you,
I bet all of you have heard of the web
telescope at least. And I'm fascinated every time I see
photographs from web in one of those little clickbait things.
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I jump on it because I love looking at that stuff,
and it just makes you really think about what's out there,
how far it extends on and on and on, all
just it raises millions upon millions of questions in my
head about what's really going on with the universe and
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the hubb not the hubble, but the web telescope now
has come up with an image of a very bright
galaxy that came into existence. Now, I'm just gonna tell
you what I saw, and then you let you You
can digest it as you will, because it's a lot.
This galaxy came into existence a relatively short time in
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astrophysical learning after the Big Bang. That relatively short time,
according to people who understand all this by what they're
seeing in the telescope's image of that galaxy, is roughly
two hundred and eighty million years after the Big Bang.
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And in their language, that's like yesterday it happened. The
Big Bang happened, and then that happened yesterday, and then
here we are today. But didn't there have to be
something to bang, something large, something small, whatever, the thing
that eventually showed into just an uncountable number of smaller
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things that turned out to be the universe, with all
its galaxies and solar systems and planets and continents and
countries and states and regions and counties and cities and
communities and well, us and you get the point. I'm
sure all of that that's out there, all that that
really wasn't visible at all for I don't know how
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many hundreds or thousands of years, well certainly thousands of
years of human existence. They were just the stars in
the sky and when nobody had any idea what they were.
I'm sure the moon got all the attention it got
because it was always the biggest thing in the night sky.
And of course the sun got its glory from being
the brightest thing in the daytime sky. Can't see anything
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else when that sun's out there, amazing. A guy from MIT,
by the way, summed it up. He's from a guy
named Rohan Naid from MIT's Caveli Institute for Astrophysics and
Space Research. So I mean he's right out of that
what was that show? Will with those guys who worked
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up the really really bright guys and the one cute girl.
Come on, come on, sitcom. It's right on the tip
of my tongue. I'll hear from somebody on it. In
any event, this guy covely summed it up all of
what this web telescope image tells them in words that
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make it even harder to figure out and here's a
direct quote from him. With web we were able to
see farther than humans ever have before. Here's the kicker,
and it looks nothing like what we predicted, which is
both challenging and exciting. Well, yeah, you've been telling us
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all along that when you finally got to look at
that stuff, it was going to look like an apple,
And now you finally got to look at it, and
it looks like a banana. I don't understand it. I'm
fascinated by it. I truly am that. I find it
both challenging and exciting, that's for sure. The challenge would
be me learning more about it than I know now,
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which wouldn't take much really, relative to what somebody like
him knows. Boy, when you say you finally got the
image you've been looking for for years and it's nothing
like you thought it was going to be, you have
to throw out everything you had and think of all
the students that have been in that what is it
called the cavaliers at it CAVELTI Institute for Astrophysics and
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Space Research. All these students in there learning from all
these people who thought they had it figured out. And
I wonder if they'll send letters into the mail to
the people who graduated from the last five or six years,
just say hey, by the way, it was wrong. We
were wrong. We were totally wrong. We had no idea
what was out there. Fascination. It really boggles them for
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me sometimes from the growing pile that is on the
hypocrisy desk. This one by way of Fox News comes
word that Bernie Sanders they've been looking into his records
of spending on travel and whatnot. Mister oligarchy himself throughout
his political career. This guy dropped in twenty twenty five alone,
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he dropped more than five hundred and fifty thousand dollars
on private jet travel, five hundred and fifty thousand dollars
on private jet travel last year, telling us that we
needed to drive electric cars and do everything electric. Use
campaign funds to pay for all those flights to One
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of the aircraft he chartered is a Bombardier Challenger. I
wasn't familiar with that aircraft, but I am a little
bit now, and I found out that the company that
leased it to him on several occasions, that's the company
that he chartered with most often. That Challenger commands fifteen
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thousand dollars per hour fifteen thousand dollars an hour, and Bernie,
oh yeah, we've got a Everybody gets their share, but
you don't get my share of private jet travel. That's
a ton of money. That's a ton of money, and
he had no problem spending it. I'll give you one more.
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I had two minutes. Well, i'll give you one more.
This from the art world and a combination of the
art world of the billionaire world, which I guess in
today's terms kind of go hand in hand. Really, if
you're going to be a really big time art collector,
you better be a billionaire because that stuff's pretty expensive.
This guy named Tom Kaplan from Electrum Group LLC. I'm
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not familiar at all, but that's where he made all
his money, apparently at least most of it, and one
of the world's largest collectors of rem brand At work.
Rembrandt's work. I don't know how many things, don't know
how many pieces rem Brat produced, but apparently this guy's
got the lion's share of them. No pun intended, because
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here's what's going on. Kaplan just sold a rare Rembrandt
drawing of a lion, and I swear that that little
slip of the tongue A second ago at the Lion's
share was totally off the cuff. That piece sold for
eighteen million dollars. But since Kaplin's already a bajillion zillionaire,
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he says he's just gonna use it to All that
money is going to be donated to protect and save
guess what, lions. I think he has a fascination with
him as well. In the painting, it's it's actually a sketch,
it's not a painting, but it's absolutely stunning. Just the
expertise I talked yesterday about was it maybe Tuesday about
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some drawings that were found on cave walls from any
many thousands of years ago, sixty eight seventy thousand years.
Some people can draw, some people can't. Rembrandt, Yes, he
can draw. We gotta take a little break here on
the way out. Ut Health Institute on Aging is there
when you need them. It's a collaborative of thousands really
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of providers around here now and even more if you
take in the full scope of the Institute on Aging
and its sister agencies around the country. What these people
do is whatever part of medicine they're in, they go
back and get additional education so that it can be
applied specifically to seniors. How can I, as a pullmanologist,
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a cardiologist, a GI doctor, whatever, how can I best
help seniors? That's what they do. They get that extra
skill level to make it better for us to go
see them, make it easier for us to get well.
If we have something bothering us, go to the website.
Look around. There's all kinds of information there you'll find
fascinating and use it also to find one of those
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providers uth dot edu slash aging, uth dot edu slash aging,
Aged to Perfection.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
This is fifty plus with Doug Pike Bitty plus.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Final segment of the show starts right now. I got
a few minutes to sweep up a few things and
dig in a little bit deeper once again. By the way,
if you or anybody you know owns a company, who
are a company that for grammatical correctness that would benefit
from reaching my audience, either here at the show or
(28:33):
maybe over all my outdoor show. Either one. I can
take care of you all by myself. You don't have
to call anybody else, you don't have to deal with
anybody else. It'll just be me. And I've been doing
this for twenty five years. I'll take good care of you.
Also from Fox News this morning, there were several good
stories there, the story that despite Democrats is persistently claiming
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that the only solution to the border crisis created by
Joe Biden was a full overhaul and reform. President Trump's
strategy of just enforcing existing immigration laws has led to
the lowest number of encounters at the Mexican border since
the presidency of Richard Nixon in nineteen seventy. To contrast that,
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in twenty twenty two and twenty twenty three under Joe Biden,
crossings totaled more than two million each year, two million
just in those two years alone. And that's just the
ones we know of. And the Left keeps right on
fighting against President Trump's immigration policy, which, by the way,
is right in line with exactly what Barack Obama was
(29:44):
saying in twenty twenty one that as a nation, secure
borders were critical to our future and that people who
came here illegally should be escorted out. When he said it, though,
and when Hillary said it, the left cheered, And when
President Trump says it, they call him a tyrant. The
whole pathway for dreamers to become citizens thing that pitch
(30:09):
from the left amidst the fact that such a pathway
already exists, that it has for a couple of centuries.
It's called lawful immigration and includes after completion of lengthy
education about our country. And I know this because I've
talked to several people who came in here lawfully and
have become US citizens. We've got one who works with
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us right here. I had him on the show a
couple of years ago when he finally got his citizenship,
and that's Chiley from over on the Rod Ryan Show.
He was very proud of that and still is to
this day. But he had to learn an awful lot,
probably more than most high school students know these days.
All you got to do is complete that education, and
(30:52):
it's still in effect. You take an oath of allegiance
to the United States and you denounce allegiance to any
other nation during that naturalization ceremony. Democrats don't care about
that part either, though. They just want everybody let in
to be eligible to vote, which in national elections is
(31:13):
reserved for US citizens. That's why they don't like photo
ID requirements to vote either. If you have need by
the way for a laminating machine. Get it quick. They'll
be selling like hotcake, like hotcakes right up to the midterms.
Better on that. In where will I Go? Pick a number?
Will one, one, two or three two? It is in
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Rare Earth Mineral news from the Good News Network. Recent
study shows that heating electronics instantaneously to three thousand degrees
celsius that five four hundred and thirty two degrees fahrenheit.
If you're playing at home, usable grades of precious metals
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can be extracted without creating hazardous waste. That's that's kind
of It's not brand new stuff, but it's pretty new stuff,
and it's looking like a better way in the future
to get these these precious materials. Scientists say this method
could be as many as thirteen times cheaper than actually
(32:19):
mining those same metals from the ground. How much time
do I have? Well, I want to kind of, I
want to make this work. I really do four Okay,
the system. I wanted to make sure I didn't have
to cut out this part. The system uses something called
flash jewel heating, which AI says and I quote, is
a technique using a high power, short duration electrical pulse
(32:42):
to rapidly heat materials to extreme temperatures and then in
quotes are in parentheses, it says thousands of degrees in
milliseconds for efficient solvent free synthesis, transformation, and extraction. That's
that's a fancy way to just say. They're they're obliterating
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this electronic product, whatever it might have been, a phone,
a laptop, you name it. They're obliterating this thing with flash,
jewel heating and all of the things that bound those
elements into that, into that mix of plastic and other
metals and steel screws and whatever. It just vaporizes, probably
(33:27):
and the good stuff is left, and it's gonna be
way cheaper than digging holes in the ground and making
a mess of the earth to get them. I like that,
I really do. Um let's go here, Oh yeah, let's
go here. It seems like every time I turn around lately,
somebody in a blue state's being arrested in charge with
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defrauding American taxpayers, stealing money intended for daycares, seenior care centers,
you name it. They're they're stealing all right. Latest, four
guys in Massachusetts who worked out of a small restaurant
using stolen IDs from all over the country to more
than to steal from US more than four hundred grand
(34:11):
in snap benefits, seven hundred thousand unemployment benefits on the
IDs of more than one hundred people. I don't know
when this is gonna stop. I don't know how it's
gonna stop. Well, it'll stop, it'll stop when we catch
them all. But the problem is that with when something
is so lucrative, the temptation is so strong. These guys
(34:35):
did a million dollars, did a million dollars without well
was what were the actual numbers? A little bit more
than that? I think TikTok TikTok. Yeah, one point one
million dollars in just a few couple of years using
one hundred and seventeen eyed fake IDs, actually not fake,
they're they're real. But they were stolen. And these guys
got caught because when somebody, somebody raised a red flag
(35:01):
and started looking into these all these different things, because
they were only using two addresses to receive all the
money from those one hundred and seventeen IDs. Not so smart,
and I'm glad it got them caught up. In New
York City, where Marymum Donnie promised free groceries along with
free subway and bus rides, although fairs have already risen
(35:21):
since he took all of us. Comes word that a
company called Polymarket is going to open a store, one
store in a city of millions next Thursday through Sunday.
I suppose it's some sort of a toe in the
boiling water of socialism. And on those days, in that
(35:42):
one store, they're going to give out free groceries somehow
to fifty Well, I don't know how many people are
going to get to do it, but these people will
be allowed to fill their sack with fifty dollars worth
of groceries. Every one of them get fifty bucks. So
basically they get a dozen eggs loaf for break. We
had some rice, maybe a gallon of milk, and two
(36:04):
packs of cigarettes in your fifties, Gone mom. Donnie says
his plan includes a free grocery store per Burrow, which
in Houston terms would be one grocery store for all
of Tomball, one for all of Katie, one for all
of Sugarland, one for Kingwood, one for Pearland. You get
the drift. How you think that would work out? Oh,
(36:26):
I had some polar Bear news. I'll save it for tomorrow.
That's gonna wrap it up for today. Get outside, get
some sunshine. It's a gorgeous day. For that, we'll talk tomorrow. Audios.
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