November 7, 2024 • 36 mins
Today, Doug Pike discusses his haiku woes, doghouses, and making food.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Remember whether it was impossible to misplace the TV remote
because you were the TV remote. Remember when music sounded
like this? Remember when social media was truly social?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hey John, how's it going today?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Well? This show is all about you, only the good die.
This is fifty plus with Doug Pike. Helpful information on
your finances, good health, and what to do for fun.
Fifty plus brought to you by the UT Health Houston
Institute on Aging, Informed Decisions for a healthier, happier life
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And now fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, Thursday editions.
The program starts right now. Thank you all for listening.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Two days after the election, and so far we've had
a handful of social media meltdowns. Whoope Goldberg vowing to
never say President Trump's name. I'm sure he's okay with that,
as am I. I really don't care what she says
or whose name she mentions. Honestly, that probably the most
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overrated person I can think of in television. Just a
former comedian, a a good actress. I'll give her credit
where credit is due. I found her very talented as
an actress, but as someone who's gonna talk about politics
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in our nation's future. Not listening, I'm sorry, just not listening.
A lot of Democrats already. Man, they're throwing blame all
over the place, everywhere, but at themselves. They're they're blaming
Harris and Walls, actually high level Democrats, blaming the two
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people they put on the ballot without anyone actually voting
for either one of them to be where they were.
And they're blaming Walls and Harris for their the old
fashioned country butt whipping they took on Tuesday. And I
found something very interesting too, from back in the twenty
twenty election. I saw a tallly of votes from the
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last four elections from twelve sixteen, twenty and twenty four,
and in twelve sixteen and twenty four, the Republican and
Democratic vote tallies as actual votes cast for their perspective candidate,
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we're just about even straight across the board three presidential
elections out of four. In the fourth when President Biden
was elected, the Republicans about the same, but the Democrat
side somehow, some way almost double almost double the votes.
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And then of course it comes down this time to
back to about the same number for both sides. But
nothing happened back then. Nah, sure it didn't. All right,
Let me move away from that. It's so boring.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
And by the way, if you're keeping score at home,
the count of celebrities who vowed before this election to
leave if Harris didn't win, the official total, actually it's
the same as it was yesterday. That would be zero.
They have not left. Hang on, let me update my
data here. Yep, still zero, no change. That's gonna be
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the same for they haven't. Not a one of them's
even packed so much as underwear and socks? Is there?
Not leaving? They know they've got it good here Where
on the rest of the planet. Where could Whoopy Goldberg
go right now and make the money she's making nowhere?
I'm pretty sure I don't mean to dwell on her.
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You know what happened around the world since Tuesday night?
Hermas suddenly says it's time to end the war with Israel,
and Russia wants to reset that's the word it used,
reset its relationship with the United States. You know why,
because we've got a strong leader who's about to take
the reins again. And when he does, he'll lead as
he did before from a position of strength and not weakness,
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which is what we've dealt with for four years. I
firmly believe that Kamala Harris couldn't possibly have broke her
to piece deal in the Middle East. I'm not sure
she could stop a lunch room food fight without talking
first about growing up in a middle class family and
liking the lawn and whatnot. And to be clear, I
don't dislike the woman personally, I really don't. And it
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wasn't because she's a woman that I didn't vote for her,
because I just believe that her politics would have essentially
bankrupted this country financially, morally, ethically, across a lot of
things that I didn't like. The right woman comes along,
I'll happily vote for that person. I've talked about that
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all week long. I am somewhat concerned by what Democrats
might do the next sixty days or so until there
is the smooth and peaceful transition of power. But I'll
give them the benefit of the doubt and just pray
they don't try to turn the country inside out while
they're still holding the reins. Would be that would be
frustrating at the very least. Saw something this morning about
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how worried DEM's are over the cabinet President Trump's gonna
put together. Maybe they ought to look again at the
clown show Biden brought on board when he took office.
Those people have not exactly been terribly good at what
they do. May Orcus and the border. I can't remember
the guy's name who stole luggage from the airpport from
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people twice. I believe it was, I'm not sure. I
can't recall. I don't pay that close attention to the
things that they do.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Locally.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Let's just get off that train for a while. Locally,
they we have pretty nice day today forecast wise, then
rain tomorrow and Saturday, but not a lot of rain,
which is a nice segue I guess into today's highs
and low's and haiku. My effort fell short yesterday, in
case you missed it. In Will Melbourne's eyes, a very
disappointing three point zero score on yesterday's haikup. I'm hoping
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for a better score today, but you know it's it's
entirely up to Will. I'm not trying to influence him. Well,
let's see if you do better. Let's see smarty pants
this thanks to Texas IAQ specialists into air quality specialists
because cleaner air is healthier air. And if you just
all pound two fifty and say healthy air, you're gonna
learn more about your duckwork. So here goes forecasts seldom right,
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don't trust them beyond two days. Spend more time outdoors.
That's that's kind of a tip of the cap to
yesterday's interview. I think it was yesterday, Yeah, no, or
maybe tuesdays and yeah, yeah, So.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Anyway, okay, Doug, you started this week saying that it
was going to rain all week and now it's been
nice and clear, and you're telling me not you.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Not leave your house on Monday? Will did you not
come in here and Monday?
Speaker 4 (07:38):
All week?
Speaker 3 (07:40):
I said there was a chance of rain on it.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
You're twisting I'm not twisting your way out of the
left hand side of the jar away and you're you're
getting a little sloppy with your left blinkers on careful,
you're getting a little turning.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Better. Yeah, so what do we get? It's time to go,
and you're just alling because you don't you're scared to
say eight that's all.
Speaker 6 (08:09):
I don't know if I'm scared to say eight, But
I think it you're you're maybe at of maybe a
three and a half before cool.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
You're gonna have to at some point you've got to
write a better high coup. You just have one ready,
and any day you want to pull it out next
week and put it on the table and say this
is a better high coup than yours, Doug, I'll I'll
be the judge of that, all right. Until then we
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Speaker 1 (10:25):
Aged to Perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike. Welcome
back fifty plus.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Thanks for listening on this Thursday afternoon. Got my a
flu shot yesterday? Well, have you had your flu shot yet?
Speaker 1 (10:49):
No?
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Are you gonna get one?
Speaker 2 (10:52):
No?
Speaker 3 (10:52):
It's okay. I'm not gonna judge you, not at all.
I don't think I'm gonna do another COVID shot. I don't.
I'm really not interested. I don't think it's I don't
think it can kill me. I mean, knock knock on wood.
But still I'm just tired of getting shots. And that's
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just where I am on that one. At least I
was a boy. I jumped up and took care of
business early on because I fell into that kind of
older Americans category and I didn't want it getting me.
And I actually I know some people who who were
taken out by COVID. But I still I feel like
we've weathered most of that storm. At least my wife
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was worried that we may have been exposed to the flu.
And I got my shot at actually at my son's
pediatricians office. They do them over there too, and that
seemed like a better place than a lot of options.
I have to go get these things, and so I
got it done and we were just kind of talking
in there about it, and I think I'm on the
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right show at this point. I I go back to
my high coup for just a second to where and
I think what I'm gonna do. Forecasts seldom right, don't
trust them beyond today, spend more time outdoors. I think
I'm gonna print that out and big text will in
a large font and tape it to the refrigerator at
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the house, just to let my wife knowing to kind
of remind her constantly. I'm sure she'll be thrilled, uh,
with the importance of me getting outside and her as well.
We've started walking again and we're not one hundred percent
into it just yet, but I'm either gonna walk or
go hit one hundred golf balls and that's probably about
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the same calorie burn, to be honest, and anyway, it
just yeah, it's time. And by the way, here's a
tip for this time of year. Just because it's raining
at your house, and this is very true in spring too,
not the place the season. Just because it's raining at
your house, doesn't I mean it's raining at the golf
course or at that little lake you'd got like to go,
maybe fish for bass, or down at the coast. I
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can't tell you how many times I left Houston one
hundred percent confident on the way driving to the beach
to go fish the surf that by the time or
the jetty at Freeport by the time I got to
the beach by the time I got there, I would
be out of the rain and into Sunnyasky. I've lived
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here long enough to see how that works. And if
you're letting a little rain at your house or a
little rain in the forecast keep you from doing outdoor stuff,
you're messing up. We have the technology now to see
current conditions wherever you are and where you want to go.
Use that technology and you'll get to do a lot
more fun stuff outside rather than just stay home and
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watch television. Speaking of whether Hurricane Raphael marching across the
Gulf of Mexico, now, tore Cuban de piece is on
the way there and sometime this week d and it's
going to keep going right across the gulf as if
it were coming here. However, almost every model now shows
it hanging a left when it gets a maybe three
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hundred miles I think maybe two hundred and fifty three
hundred miles off off the Texas coast, and that's a
great time for it to make a turn. My buddy
Cliff Webb down and Corpus might get some nice surf
out of this thing, but otherwise, in fact, it'd probably
be a pretty good swell wouldn't be a bad idea
to take a couple of days off and put the
surfboard in my vehicle because it does fit. And I'm
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thinking about that. I am, I may just think about that.
Will you be ready? Okay? So anytime it's gonna hang
south and kind of fizzle out, really supposed to downgrade
to a tropical storm somewhere along that path, and I
don't think there's any any indication that's going to regain
any strength down there. But it just doesn't appear that
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it will, at least for now. It poses no threat
whatsoever to us. Just be regular regular weather. Off to
market we go, thanks to Houston Gold Exchange dot Com.
A generally upward trend again this morning, but it was
clear that there were some there was a little profit
taking going on after yesterday's big spike. There were a
lot of stocks that went up considerably overnight, and people
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who are savvy and maybe had bought them just before
the election when the election went the way it did
and stocks just went straight up. The Dow was up
a ton yesterday, for example. All of them were up significantly,
and some people are completely satisfied to take that profit
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while they can and they did, and now the market's
kind of quieting down a little bit. Gold jumped back
up north of twenty seven hundred dollars an ounce, and
oil that was about a I want to say, a
twenty five to thirty dollars jump too. Oil, thank goodness,
down about eighty cents and hopefully about to fall a
whole lot lower come January February and on and on
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for four years. Very interesting. Oh, by the way, to
loosen all this up a little bit, I saw something
pretty funny on Facebook this morning. Somebody I think the
guy's name was Ali. It may have been a woman.
It's Ali, so it's Ali or Ali whatever Colbert. I'm
guessing Ali Colbert, and I'm guessing that's a woman who
wrote this anyway, how weird it is he or she wrote,
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And I'm gonna paraphrase because it's not going to change
the message at all. Something about how we have all
these dog breeds, hundreds of dog breeds, and people talk
about their their golden doodles and their peakapoos and their
Labra bullet che wasp spaniel hounds or whatever. But it's
if you ask somebody what kind of cat, they say, uh,
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I got an orange one. I got an orange one.
Thought I found that kind of funny. From the much time?
Do I have two minutes? I'll use it for this.
You have one minute? Well, now I had to Oh,
you know what, I'll say this and I'll come back
with it. This is this is nine to eleven related news,
and I don't want to rush into it because I
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may have something more to say than just what I
have in my notes here today. By the way, Will,
in case you didn't realize, it is National Men Make
Dinner Day, so you might be thinking about what you're
going to whip up tonight when you get home. Have
you thought it over at all? Did you know it's
your time?
Speaker 4 (17:28):
No?
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Two of them? Are you making a call to the
restaurant to go pick something up? I'm not stupid, That's
what I'm making, all right. Yeah, And there's a big difference,
by the way, in case anybody misunderstood what I said,
the big difference between National Men Make Dinner Day and
National Make Men Dinner Day, which I don't think exists.
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I bet it doesn't, probably not not in this day
and age. All right, And that's all joking. Please don't
anybody send me a letter. Don't be mad man, I'm
just joking. Don't let age sneak up on you, fellas.
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and if you don't know what they are, look them up.
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And if you're older than fifty five, there's a twenty
five percent chance then that you have them, and if
you're older than that, even a higher chance. As we
continue to age, nasty symptoms, you don't want them. Lay
health can alleviate them. It's as simple as that. They
do prostate artery embolization PAE, and what that does is
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go in and identify the exact artery that's feeding that
prostate oxygenated blood, and then they just jam it up
with something. They plug the line. I don't know what
they use. I don't care what they use. Whatever it is,
it works, though, and they have been doing this for many,
many years and helping many many men drop those symptoms.
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Speaker 2 (19:50):
They sure don't make them like they used to.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
That's why every few months we wash them, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh cod o wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike. Welcome back to fIF people us.
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Thanks for listening on the break.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
I was just talking to Will about how if I
had known how technology was going to advance back when
I was a much younger man, I might have I
might have looked into either astronomy because I'm fascinated by
the universe and all the things and how far we're
able to see and what we're able to see and
photograph and learn. And I'm also fascinated by archaeology. There's
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a show something about the Ancient Treasures of Egypt, something
like that, and I when I see that on the
when I'm scrolling through all the optional channels I have,
it's like, holy caw, I gotta watch some of that.
I may not watch the whole thing. I'll skip around
between maybe two and three shows during the course of
a half hour an hour, but I'll I'll hang around
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there pretty pretty well. I like that stuff all right.
Back to what I wanted to tell you about. From
the What the Hell is He Thinking? Desk, comes word
this morning from Fox News that a military judge, despite
a direct order a while back from Secretary of Defense
Lloyd J. Austen. But I think it was in June
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or July. It may have been July. Well, this guy judge,
an Air Force colonel named Matthew McCall, according to the story,
has ruled that plea deals that have been offered by
high level terrorists responsible for the nine to eleven attack
on our country, including that I can't college shape Mohamed
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or something. I believe that's a man's name, all of
those things. He's putting them back on it. He's going
to let them enter these plea deals in indirect defiance. Really,
I get of the order that was in place since
back there when Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin got involved.
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I don't understand how the guy can do this. Those
deals would take the death penalty off the table in
exchange for guilty. Please. These three terrorists have been bargaining
pretty heavily and looks like they're going to get their
way out of You know, Americans don't get to do that.
I don't know why these guys should after what they did,
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what we all know they did, but they've held off
on pleading guilty, and I think, well, clearly they're trying
to save their own skins. Victims' families not pleased by
the capitulation. None of their family members got the opportunity
to negotiate for their lives. They were slaughtered. They were
straight up slaughtered, and the people responsible ought to be
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held accountable to the highest limit.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
Of the law.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
I'm not in favor of what's being done there out
in California. I read up on this, but I saw
a little bit about it on the news last night,
and I read about it more this morning to make
sure I could let you know what's going on accurately.
A big chunk of that state basically is on fire,
wildfires from top to bottom, mostly bottom half of the state.
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The Ventura County Mountain fire alone has destroyed fourteen thousand
acres and counting, and it's currently entirely uncontrolled. Homes are
being reduced to ashes. Current weather conditions are giving firefighters
very little hope really of bringing any of these fires
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under control. And once that's done, and eventually it will
be done, the fires will be put out eventually, I'm
going to talk about things that California might want to
consider doing to help prevent future episodes like this. Until then,
until it's it's calm, I'm just gonna pray for the
people who've been impacted by this horrible turn of events.
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Most of them are Most of these fires are quite
small and get brought under control fairly quickly, but with
that state so dry and the wind so strong, it
doesn't take much of a spark to set the world
on fire. Wild Fires and hurricanes entirely different in nature,
but their effects on the people in their way are
just equally devastating current figures. These are current figures for
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fires ten or more acres in size in California. Will
have you been listening, Yes, we're talking about wildfires. Okay,
So for I'm gonna judge you on your answer, just
like you judge me on my high coup current figures
fires of ten or more acres in size in California
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burning as we speak. How many current figures?
Speaker 4 (25:01):
I would say, what, maybe a couple hundred?
Speaker 3 (25:09):
You only missed it by seven thousand. Will seven thousand
to a couple of one hundred could beat seven thousand? No,
that's more than a couple. O.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
It's a couple, you know.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Let's not quibble here, because this is serious stuff. Seventeen
hundred and eight structures involved, including total destruction of fourteen
hundred and thirty seven homes, more than half a million
emergency responses, and so far more than a million acres burned.
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If wildfires were ranked like hurricanes, this would be this
would be Cat five stuff, at least, fortunately, kind of unfortunately,
at least on one count, one man has lost one person.
That doesn't say man or woman, It just said civilian.
One civilian lost his or her life. God rest that
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person's soul, whoever it is. It's so so sad. By
the way, a reminder that the Saint Jude Tournament, the
golf tournament that we've hosted for ten years now and
this will be the eleventh, goes off December ninth, barely
a month away. December ninth up there at Golf Club
of Houston will fill both courses. We always have and
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I suspect we will again, and we're we're aiming higher
than ever again this year. We met our big goal
last year. We're going to try and surpass that this year.
If you're interested, there are still some fantastic sponsorships left
that will really get your name out in front of
a whole lot of people who can help you grow
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whatever business you have. There are teams still available if
you're interested in that stuff. You can go to the
Saint Jude Houston website and look it up, or you
could just email me and I can send you pretty
much anything you need to know. These sponsorships started five
thousand dollars and go up to twenty five. I believe
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it is might be something if you want to throw
fifty at it to help fix up these poor kids
with pediatric cancers and horrible conditions and not ever have
their families pay for anything related to all that treatment.
It costs Saint Jude about a quarter million dollars per
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child that they cure, that they treat and get out
of there, send them back home. That's a lot of
money they have to raise every year, and they do it. Somehow,
they do it, and that somehow is because of people
like you and like me who get involved, who stand
up and recognize that cause for what it is. And
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I'm more than happy to be associated with that tournament.
I'm kind of taking the reins and they were passed
me by a man I've watched and admired and how
he held on to it for these first ten years,
and I'm hoping to stay with it as long as
they'll let me do that.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Just eat.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Just email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com if
you have any questions at all about that tournament. Number one,
it's a lot of fun. Number two, it raises a
bunch of money for great causes. And number three, it's
also really, frankly a good business networking opportunity. You'll meet
and talk to as many people as you want to.
From every walk of life, every industry, every business here
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in town, they're all going to be there. They're all
going to be there having a good time and hitting
balls in the water. Like every other golf tournament I
go to, ah Mercy. Oh it's time, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Will?
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Holy Cow walk it right up to the edge. Just
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Speaker 2 (30:21):
What's life without a net? I suggest to go to bed,
sleep it off, just wait until the show's over. Sleepy.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
How does it get to the end of our week
so quickly? Will? Do you have any idea or does
it seem like it's just dragging, like you're just trying
to walk through mud. I think it goes pretty fast,
I really do. I think certain parts go fast, which
ones will don't.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
Worry about put you on the spot. Don't worry about it.
Certain parts go fast. All right, let's go to a
fun part.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Okay, let's go to the lighter the lighter side of
fifty plus.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
I'll give you three headlines and you pick one. If
you're not early, you're late.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (31:22):
There's a sucker born. Every minute or less is more
if you're not earlier late.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
Do you believe that?
Speaker 2 (31:34):
No?
Speaker 3 (31:36):
Researchers found that if you miss a deadline and you
submit a piece of work late, people will think that
it's lower in quality than if you were to submit
the exact same work on time or early. That's it.
They're they're judging you chronologically on work that is is
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just right there in front of them.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
They say they have no other way of judging it well,
because they're always early people. I feel like the people
that are judging it are early people. So if they
don't see it coming in early. Then they have to
just assume that you're rushing it.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
You're rushing it. You didn't do a good job. You
just threw it together at the last minute. Boy, I'm
glad they didn't judge Joe Doggett and me because sometimes,
and in fairness to us, we worked very hard and
put a whole lot of time into the columns we
wrote for the newspaper for so many years. He thirty four,
(32:42):
I think, and me twenty three or twenty three, I
think it was. But there were days, especially for the
Thursday page, which is kind of a big deal. Occasionally
when we were down there at the same time, at lunchtime,
we would go into a little Chinese restaurant in the
the tunnel down there, and I can't even remember what
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I got, but it was really good. But the long
and the short of it was we would discuss what
we were going to write for that week when sometimes
we'd get in there on a Monday or Tuesday and
do that because we could write ahead and then if
our if our deadlines were met and the stories were in,
the photographs had been turned in, the stories, everything, and
then I'd take off to the beach and go surfing
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or go fishing or whatever. But on occasion that whole
big Thursday page that had to I mean, we had
a lot of space to pill about a page and
a half. And every now and then we'd be down
there in that restaurant Wednesday at one o'clock saying, Okay,
what are you going to write about? I don't know
(33:46):
what are you going to write about? Well, I was
kind of hoping to bounce something off of you. I
was gonna I was gonna do something that would compliment
what you're working on, something a little bit different. And
so we'd cover a lot of on and on and
on we'd go and ultimately we would go back, sit down,
and we would have a plan before we left lunch,
and we'd go back, sit down and hammer out what
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I think was some pretty good work that we did.
Back then. We certainly got the opportunity to go places
and do things that gave us plenty about which to write.
So that made it easy. I'll give the people at
the paper credit for that. They didn't get in our
way and they didn't make it hard for us to
go get the material we needed. So anyway, well, there's
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that one uh, soccer born every minute, less is more?
Or they walk and vote among us this is this
is more. Researchers say having fewer friends could actually be
better for your health because, for one thing, and I'm
gonna tell you straight up, that's the only thing, you're
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less likely to catch germs if you don't hang out
with a lot of people. That's just so weak, isn't it, really?
Soccer born every minute, I'm gonna give you this one
will on the way out here, We've got what forty
five seconds or so? That was all for the less
is more? That was it? Less and more?
Speaker 2 (35:03):
Isn't It was.
Speaker 7 (35:04):
Just if you don't hang out with people, you're less
likely to get sick. That's what it said. That's all
they had, because that's all there is. I would like
I'd rather have more more friends than just get the
flu shot, you know, all right? Go so the sucker born?
Speaker 3 (35:19):
Ever, Louis v Aton added again, how much is their doghouse?
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Will leave a tod dog?
Speaker 3 (35:25):
We'll have twenty seconds or less?
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Now, no, we have more?
Speaker 4 (35:32):
Well the screen is froze.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
Yeah, no kidding, So what do we have?
Speaker 4 (35:36):
We have a minute?
Speaker 1 (35:36):
Ten?
Speaker 3 (35:37):
Oh? Do we really? How did that happen. It was
fifty seven something and it would be back fifty six.
It is now fifty seven, all right, So how much? Well,
I'm gonna start at the bottom and work my way.
Speaker 4 (35:50):
It's a it's a five thousand dollars dog house.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
No, you know what you're close to? How much the
poop bag holder costs four hundred and seventy dollars for
that twenty two hundred dollars for the dog bowl and
for the dog house. Will, Oh my god, some sucker's
gonna buy this. How can they do this to people
with a straight face to he you know what, We're
in the wrong. We need to start a line of
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two expensive stuff.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
Will and Doug.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
Doug and Will, I don't care, and we'll pitch it
here and then dare people to spend that much money
on it? That doghouse? Will sixty grand? Sixty grant. You
can buy a tiny house for sixty grand for people
to live in. You can buy a something to drive around,
a camper to drive around in. You know how you
(36:38):
know if your dog's a snob, they refer to their
crate as a gated community. See it Tuesday. Thanks for listening.
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Speaker 3 (00:53):
Two days after the election, and so far we've had
a handful of social media meltdowns. Whoope Goldberg vowing to
never say President Trump's name. I'm sure he's okay with that,
as am I. I really don't care what she says
or whose name she mentions. Honestly, that probably the most
(01:17):
overrated person I can think of in television. Just a
former comedian, a a good actress. I'll give her credit
where credit is due. I found her very talented as
an actress, but as someone who's gonna talk about politics
(01:38):
in our nation's future. Not listening, I'm sorry, just not listening.
A lot of Democrats already. Man, they're throwing blame all
over the place, everywhere, but at themselves. They're they're blaming
Harris and Walls, actually high level Democrats, blaming the two
(01:58):
people they put on the ballot without anyone actually voting
for either one of them to be where they were.
And they're blaming Walls and Harris for their the old
fashioned country butt whipping they took on Tuesday. And I
found something very interesting too, from back in the twenty
twenty election. I saw a tallly of votes from the
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last four elections from twelve sixteen, twenty and twenty four,
and in twelve sixteen and twenty four, the Republican and
Democratic vote tallies as actual votes cast for their perspective candidate,
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we're just about even straight across the board three presidential
elections out of four. In the fourth when President Biden
was elected, the Republicans about the same, but the Democrat
side somehow, some way almost double almost double the votes.
(03:08):
And then of course it comes down this time to
back to about the same number for both sides. But
nothing happened back then. Nah, sure it didn't. All right,
Let me move away from that. It's so boring.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
And by the way, if you're keeping score at home,
the count of celebrities who vowed before this election to
leave if Harris didn't win, the official total, actually it's
the same as it was yesterday. That would be zero.
They have not left. Hang on, let me update my
data here. Yep, still zero, no change. That's gonna be
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the same for they haven't. Not a one of them's
even packed so much as underwear and socks? Is there?
Not leaving? They know they've got it good here Where
on the rest of the planet. Where could Whoopy Goldberg
go right now and make the money she's making nowhere?
I'm pretty sure I don't mean to dwell on her.
(04:10):
You know what happened around the world since Tuesday night?
Hermas suddenly says it's time to end the war with Israel,
and Russia wants to reset that's the word it used,
reset its relationship with the United States. You know why,
because we've got a strong leader who's about to take
the reins again. And when he does, he'll lead as
he did before from a position of strength and not weakness,
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which is what we've dealt with for four years. I
firmly believe that Kamala Harris couldn't possibly have broke her
to piece deal in the Middle East. I'm not sure
she could stop a lunch room food fight without talking
first about growing up in a middle class family and
liking the lawn and whatnot. And to be clear, I
don't dislike the woman personally, I really don't. And it
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wasn't because she's a woman that I didn't vote for her,
because I just believe that her politics would have essentially
bankrupted this country financially, morally, ethically, across a lot of
things that I didn't like. The right woman comes along,
I'll happily vote for that person. I've talked about that
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all week long. I am somewhat concerned by what Democrats
might do the next sixty days or so until there
is the smooth and peaceful transition of power. But I'll
give them the benefit of the doubt and just pray
they don't try to turn the country inside out while
they're still holding the reins. Would be that would be
frustrating at the very least. Saw something this morning about
(05:40):
how worried DEM's are over the cabinet President Trump's gonna
put together. Maybe they ought to look again at the
clown show Biden brought on board when he took office.
Those people have not exactly been terribly good at what
they do. May Orcus and the border. I can't remember
the guy's name who stole luggage from the airpport from
(06:04):
people twice. I believe it was, I'm not sure. I
can't recall. I don't pay that close attention to the
things that they do.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Locally.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Let's just get off that train for a while. Locally,
they we have pretty nice day today forecast wise, then
rain tomorrow and Saturday, but not a lot of rain,
which is a nice segue I guess into today's highs
and low's and haiku. My effort fell short yesterday, in
case you missed it. In Will Melbourne's eyes, a very
disappointing three point zero score on yesterday's haikup. I'm hoping
(06:37):
for a better score today, but you know it's it's
entirely up to Will. I'm not trying to influence him. Well,
let's see if you do better. Let's see smarty pants
this thanks to Texas IAQ specialists into air quality specialists
because cleaner air is healthier air. And if you just
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(07:02):
don't trust them beyond two days. Spend more time outdoors.
That's that's kind of a tip of the cap to
yesterday's interview. I think it was yesterday, Yeah, no, or
maybe tuesdays and yeah, yeah, So.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Anyway, okay, Doug, you started this week saying that it
was going to rain all week and now it's been
nice and clear, and you're telling me not you.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Not leave your house on Monday? Will did you not
come in here and Monday?
Speaker 4 (07:38):
All week?
Speaker 3 (07:40):
I said there was a chance of rain on it.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
You're twisting I'm not twisting your way out of the
left hand side of the jar away and you're you're
getting a little sloppy with your left blinkers on careful,
you're getting a little turning.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Better. Yeah, so what do we get? It's time to go,
and you're just alling because you don't you're scared to
say eight that's all.
Speaker 6 (08:09):
I don't know if I'm scared to say eight, But
I think it you're you're maybe at of maybe a
three and a half before cool.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
You're gonna have to at some point you've got to
write a better high coup. You just have one ready,
and any day you want to pull it out next
week and put it on the table and say this
is a better high coup than yours, Doug, I'll I'll
be the judge of that, all right. Until then we
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Aged to Perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike. Welcome
back fifty plus.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Thanks for listening on this Thursday afternoon. Got my a
flu shot yesterday? Well, have you had your flu shot yet?
Speaker 1 (10:49):
No?
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Are you gonna get one?
Speaker 2 (10:52):
No?
Speaker 3 (10:52):
It's okay. I'm not gonna judge you, not at all.
I don't think I'm gonna do another COVID shot. I don't.
I'm really not interested. I don't think it's I don't
think it can kill me. I mean, knock knock on wood.
But still I'm just tired of getting shots. And that's
(11:15):
just where I am on that one. At least I
was a boy. I jumped up and took care of
business early on because I fell into that kind of
older Americans category and I didn't want it getting me.
And I actually I know some people who who were
taken out by COVID. But I still I feel like
we've weathered most of that storm. At least my wife
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was worried that we may have been exposed to the flu.
And I got my shot at actually at my son's
pediatricians office. They do them over there too, and that
seemed like a better place than a lot of options.
I have to go get these things, and so I
got it done and we were just kind of talking
in there about it, and I think I'm on the
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right show at this point. I I go back to
my high coup for just a second to where and
I think what I'm gonna do. Forecasts seldom right, don't
trust them beyond today, spend more time outdoors. I think
I'm gonna print that out and big text will in
a large font and tape it to the refrigerator at
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the house, just to let my wife knowing to kind
of remind her constantly. I'm sure she'll be thrilled, uh,
with the importance of me getting outside and her as well.
We've started walking again and we're not one hundred percent
into it just yet, but I'm either gonna walk or
go hit one hundred golf balls and that's probably about
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the same calorie burn, to be honest, and anyway, it
just yeah, it's time. And by the way, here's a
tip for this time of year. Just because it's raining
at your house, and this is very true in spring too,
not the place the season. Just because it's raining at
your house, doesn't I mean it's raining at the golf
course or at that little lake you'd got like to go,
maybe fish for bass, or down at the coast. I
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can't tell you how many times I left Houston one
hundred percent confident on the way driving to the beach
to go fish the surf that by the time or
the jetty at Freeport by the time I got to
the beach by the time I got there, I would
be out of the rain and into Sunnyasky. I've lived
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here long enough to see how that works. And if
you're letting a little rain at your house or a
little rain in the forecast keep you from doing outdoor stuff,
you're messing up. We have the technology now to see
current conditions wherever you are and where you want to go.
Use that technology and you'll get to do a lot
more fun stuff outside rather than just stay home and
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watch television. Speaking of whether Hurricane Raphael marching across the
Gulf of Mexico, now, tore Cuban de piece is on
the way there and sometime this week d and it's
going to keep going right across the gulf as if
it were coming here. However, almost every model now shows
it hanging a left when it gets a maybe three
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hundred miles I think maybe two hundred and fifty three
hundred miles off off the Texas coast, and that's a
great time for it to make a turn. My buddy
Cliff Webb down and Corpus might get some nice surf
out of this thing, but otherwise, in fact, it'd probably
be a pretty good swell wouldn't be a bad idea
to take a couple of days off and put the
surfboard in my vehicle because it does fit. And I'm
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thinking about that. I am, I may just think about that.
Will you be ready? Okay? So anytime it's gonna hang
south and kind of fizzle out, really supposed to downgrade
to a tropical storm somewhere along that path, and I
don't think there's any any indication that's going to regain
any strength down there. But it just doesn't appear that
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it will, at least for now. It poses no threat
whatsoever to us. Just be regular regular weather. Off to
market we go, thanks to Houston Gold Exchange dot Com.
A generally upward trend again this morning, but it was
clear that there were some there was a little profit
taking going on after yesterday's big spike. There were a
lot of stocks that went up considerably overnight, and people
(15:21):
who are savvy and maybe had bought them just before
the election when the election went the way it did
and stocks just went straight up. The Dow was up
a ton yesterday, for example. All of them were up significantly,
and some people are completely satisfied to take that profit
(15:42):
while they can and they did, and now the market's
kind of quieting down a little bit. Gold jumped back
up north of twenty seven hundred dollars an ounce, and
oil that was about a I want to say, a
twenty five to thirty dollars jump too. Oil, thank goodness,
down about eighty cents and hopefully about to fall a
whole lot lower come January February and on and on
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for four years. Very interesting. Oh, by the way, to
loosen all this up a little bit, I saw something
pretty funny on Facebook this morning. Somebody I think the
guy's name was Ali. It may have been a woman.
It's Ali, so it's Ali or Ali whatever Colbert. I'm
guessing Ali Colbert, and I'm guessing that's a woman who
wrote this anyway, how weird it is he or she wrote,
(16:27):
And I'm gonna paraphrase because it's not going to change
the message at all. Something about how we have all
these dog breeds, hundreds of dog breeds, and people talk
about their their golden doodles and their peakapoos and their
Labra bullet che wasp spaniel hounds or whatever. But it's
if you ask somebody what kind of cat, they say, uh,
(16:48):
I got an orange one. I got an orange one.
Thought I found that kind of funny. From the much time?
Do I have two minutes? I'll use it for this.
You have one minute? Well, now I had to Oh,
you know what, I'll say this and I'll come back
with it. This is this is nine to eleven related news,
and I don't want to rush into it because I
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may have something more to say than just what I
have in my notes here today. By the way, Will,
in case you didn't realize, it is National Men Make
Dinner Day, so you might be thinking about what you're
going to whip up tonight when you get home. Have
you thought it over at all? Did you know it's
your time?
Speaker 4 (17:28):
No?
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Two of them? Are you making a call to the
restaurant to go pick something up? I'm not stupid, That's
what I'm making, all right. Yeah, And there's a big difference,
by the way, in case anybody misunderstood what I said,
the big difference between National Men Make Dinner Day and
National Make Men Dinner Day, which I don't think exists.
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I bet it doesn't, probably not not in this day
and age. All right, And that's all joking. Please don't
anybody send me a letter. Don't be mad man, I'm
just joking. Don't let age sneak up on you, fellas.
If you have developed symptoms of an enlarged noncancerous prostate,
and if you don't know what they are, look them up.
(18:14):
And if you're older than fifty five, there's a twenty
five percent chance then that you have them, and if
you're older than that, even a higher chance. As we
continue to age, nasty symptoms, you don't want them. Lay
health can alleviate them. It's as simple as that. They
do prostate artery embolization PAE, and what that does is
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go in and identify the exact artery that's feeding that
prostate oxygenated blood, and then they just jam it up
with something. They plug the line. I don't know what
they use. I don't care what they use. Whatever it is,
it works, though, and they have been doing this for many,
many years and helping many many men drop those symptoms.
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The lady is and in a couple of hours you're
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Speaker 2 (19:50):
They sure don't make them like they used to.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
That's why every few months we wash them, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh cod o wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike. Welcome back to fIF people us.
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Thanks for listening on the break.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
I was just talking to Will about how if I
had known how technology was going to advance back when
I was a much younger man, I might have I
might have looked into either astronomy because I'm fascinated by
the universe and all the things and how far we're
able to see and what we're able to see and
photograph and learn. And I'm also fascinated by archaeology. There's
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a show something about the Ancient Treasures of Egypt, something
like that, and I when I see that on the
when I'm scrolling through all the optional channels I have,
it's like, holy caw, I gotta watch some of that.
I may not watch the whole thing. I'll skip around
between maybe two and three shows during the course of
a half hour an hour, but I'll I'll hang around
(21:08):
there pretty pretty well. I like that stuff all right.
Back to what I wanted to tell you about. From
the What the Hell is He Thinking? Desk, comes word
this morning from Fox News that a military judge, despite
a direct order a while back from Secretary of Defense
Lloyd J. Austen. But I think it was in June
(21:28):
or July. It may have been July. Well, this guy judge,
an Air Force colonel named Matthew McCall, according to the story,
has ruled that plea deals that have been offered by
high level terrorists responsible for the nine to eleven attack
on our country, including that I can't college shape Mohamed
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or something. I believe that's a man's name, all of
those things. He's putting them back on it. He's going
to let them enter these plea deals in indirect defiance. Really,
I get of the order that was in place since
back there when Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin got involved.
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I don't understand how the guy can do this. Those
deals would take the death penalty off the table in
exchange for guilty. Please. These three terrorists have been bargaining
pretty heavily and looks like they're going to get their
way out of You know, Americans don't get to do that.
I don't know why these guys should after what they did,
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what we all know they did, but they've held off
on pleading guilty, and I think, well, clearly they're trying
to save their own skins. Victims' families not pleased by
the capitulation. None of their family members got the opportunity
to negotiate for their lives. They were slaughtered. They were
straight up slaughtered, and the people responsible ought to be
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held accountable to the highest limit.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
Of the law.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
I'm not in favor of what's being done there out
in California. I read up on this, but I saw
a little bit about it on the news last night,
and I read about it more this morning to make
sure I could let you know what's going on accurately.
A big chunk of that state basically is on fire,
wildfires from top to bottom, mostly bottom half of the state.
(23:21):
The Ventura County Mountain fire alone has destroyed fourteen thousand
acres and counting, and it's currently entirely uncontrolled. Homes are
being reduced to ashes. Current weather conditions are giving firefighters
very little hope really of bringing any of these fires
(23:42):
under control. And once that's done, and eventually it will
be done, the fires will be put out eventually, I'm
going to talk about things that California might want to
consider doing to help prevent future episodes like this. Until then,
until it's it's calm, I'm just gonna pray for the
people who've been impacted by this horrible turn of events.
(24:06):
Most of them are Most of these fires are quite
small and get brought under control fairly quickly, but with
that state so dry and the wind so strong, it
doesn't take much of a spark to set the world
on fire. Wild Fires and hurricanes entirely different in nature,
but their effects on the people in their way are
just equally devastating current figures. These are current figures for
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fires ten or more acres in size in California. Will
have you been listening, Yes, we're talking about wildfires. Okay,
So for I'm gonna judge you on your answer, just
like you judge me on my high coup current figures
fires of ten or more acres in size in California
(24:51):
burning as we speak. How many current figures?
Speaker 4 (25:01):
I would say, what, maybe a couple hundred?
Speaker 3 (25:09):
You only missed it by seven thousand. Will seven thousand
to a couple of one hundred could beat seven thousand? No,
that's more than a couple. O.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
It's a couple, you know.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Let's not quibble here, because this is serious stuff. Seventeen
hundred and eight structures involved, including total destruction of fourteen
hundred and thirty seven homes, more than half a million
emergency responses, and so far more than a million acres burned.
(25:42):
If wildfires were ranked like hurricanes, this would be this
would be Cat five stuff, at least, fortunately, kind of unfortunately,
at least on one count, one man has lost one person.
That doesn't say man or woman, It just said civilian.
One civilian lost his or her life. God rest that
(26:04):
person's soul, whoever it is. It's so so sad. By
the way, a reminder that the Saint Jude Tournament, the
golf tournament that we've hosted for ten years now and
this will be the eleventh, goes off December ninth, barely
a month away. December ninth up there at Golf Club
of Houston will fill both courses. We always have and
(26:25):
I suspect we will again, and we're we're aiming higher
than ever again this year. We met our big goal
last year. We're going to try and surpass that this year.
If you're interested, there are still some fantastic sponsorships left
that will really get your name out in front of
a whole lot of people who can help you grow
(26:47):
whatever business you have. There are teams still available if
you're interested in that stuff. You can go to the
Saint Jude Houston website and look it up, or you
could just email me and I can send you pretty
much anything you need to know. These sponsorships started five
thousand dollars and go up to twenty five. I believe
(27:09):
it is might be something if you want to throw
fifty at it to help fix up these poor kids
with pediatric cancers and horrible conditions and not ever have
their families pay for anything related to all that treatment.
It costs Saint Jude about a quarter million dollars per
(27:29):
child that they cure, that they treat and get out
of there, send them back home. That's a lot of
money they have to raise every year, and they do it. Somehow,
they do it, and that somehow is because of people
like you and like me who get involved, who stand
up and recognize that cause for what it is. And
(27:50):
I'm more than happy to be associated with that tournament.
I'm kind of taking the reins and they were passed
me by a man I've watched and admired and how
he held on to it for these first ten years,
and I'm hoping to stay with it as long as
they'll let me do that.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Just eat.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Just email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com if
you have any questions at all about that tournament. Number one,
it's a lot of fun. Number two, it raises a
bunch of money for great causes. And number three, it's
also really, frankly a good business networking opportunity. You'll meet
and talk to as many people as you want to.
From every walk of life, every industry, every business here
(28:27):
in town, they're all going to be there. They're all
going to be there having a good time and hitting
balls in the water. Like every other golf tournament I
go to, ah Mercy. Oh it's time, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Will?
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Holy Cow walk it right up to the edge. Just
email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. Very easy
to do. Bronze Roofing. Easy to get your roof checked out,
that's for sure. One phone call, twenty four hours usually
and somebody will be on your roof, walking around checking
it out. Somebody from Bronze Roofing, so you know they're
a legit yet person to have on your roof going
(29:01):
to come down and tell you you might need to
spend some money. If you're lucky, they come down and
say see you later. Everything's fine. If you have issues,
they'll show you pictures. They will tell you exactly how
they would go about fixing that issue. They'll tell you
whether they have the equipment on the truck to actually
take care of it. Then and there. They'll tell you
(29:22):
how long it'll take and how much it'll cost. And
my strong recommendation as always is. Just say get started,
get that roof of yours taken care of right away.
You're not gonna find better work. You're not gonna find
a better price to get that quality of work. Then
you will from Bronze Roofing. They've been around a long
long time and they're gonna be there a lot longer too.
(29:45):
Good roof will ask you a whole long time if
you maintain it. And that's where these free inspections come in.
Make sure a little problem doesn't get a chance to
become a big problem. Bronzeeroofing dot com free estimates usually
within twenty four hours. Write this number down and put
it in your phone, please, or if you're savvy and younger,
just put it in your phone right now. Two eight
(30:06):
one four eight zero ninety nine hundred. You won't have
to call me. You won't have to email me to
ask me again. Hey, who is that roofer you're talking about?
It's Bronze Roofing. Two eight one four eight zero ninety
nine hundred.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
What's life without a net? I suggest to go to bed,
sleep it off, just wait until the show's over. Sleepy.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
How does it get to the end of our week
so quickly? Will? Do you have any idea or does
it seem like it's just dragging, like you're just trying
to walk through mud. I think it goes pretty fast,
I really do. I think certain parts go fast, which
ones will don't.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
Worry about put you on the spot. Don't worry about it.
Certain parts go fast. All right, let's go to a
fun part.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Okay, let's go to the lighter the lighter side of
fifty plus.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
I'll give you three headlines and you pick one. If
you're not early, you're late.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (31:22):
There's a sucker born. Every minute or less is more
if you're not earlier late.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
Do you believe that?
Speaker 2 (31:34):
No?
Speaker 3 (31:36):
Researchers found that if you miss a deadline and you
submit a piece of work late, people will think that
it's lower in quality than if you were to submit
the exact same work on time or early. That's it.
They're they're judging you chronologically on work that is is
(31:58):
just right there in front of them.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
They say they have no other way of judging it well,
because they're always early people. I feel like the people
that are judging it are early people. So if they
don't see it coming in early. Then they have to
just assume that you're rushing it.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
You're rushing it. You didn't do a good job. You
just threw it together at the last minute. Boy, I'm
glad they didn't judge Joe Doggett and me because sometimes,
and in fairness to us, we worked very hard and
put a whole lot of time into the columns we
wrote for the newspaper for so many years. He thirty four,
(32:42):
I think, and me twenty three or twenty three, I
think it was. But there were days, especially for the
Thursday page, which is kind of a big deal. Occasionally
when we were down there at the same time, at lunchtime,
we would go into a little Chinese restaurant in the
the tunnel down there, and I can't even remember what
(33:03):
I got, but it was really good. But the long
and the short of it was we would discuss what
we were going to write for that week when sometimes
we'd get in there on a Monday or Tuesday and
do that because we could write ahead and then if
our if our deadlines were met and the stories were in,
the photographs had been turned in, the stories, everything, and
then I'd take off to the beach and go surfing
(33:24):
or go fishing or whatever. But on occasion that whole
big Thursday page that had to I mean, we had
a lot of space to pill about a page and
a half. And every now and then we'd be down
there in that restaurant Wednesday at one o'clock saying, Okay,
what are you going to write about? I don't know
(33:46):
what are you going to write about? Well, I was
kind of hoping to bounce something off of you. I
was gonna I was gonna do something that would compliment
what you're working on, something a little bit different. And
so we'd cover a lot of on and on and
on we'd go and ultimately we would go back, sit down,
and we would have a plan before we left lunch,
and we'd go back, sit down and hammer out what
(34:06):
I think was some pretty good work that we did.
Back then. We certainly got the opportunity to go places
and do things that gave us plenty about which to write.
So that made it easy. I'll give the people at
the paper credit for that. They didn't get in our
way and they didn't make it hard for us to
go get the material we needed. So anyway, well, there's
(34:27):
that one uh, soccer born every minute, less is more?
Or they walk and vote among us this is this
is more. Researchers say having fewer friends could actually be
better for your health because, for one thing, and I'm
gonna tell you straight up, that's the only thing, you're
(34:48):
less likely to catch germs if you don't hang out
with a lot of people. That's just so weak, isn't it, really?
Soccer born every minute, I'm gonna give you this one
will on the way out here, We've got what forty
five seconds or so? That was all for the less
is more? That was it? Less and more?
Speaker 2 (35:03):
Isn't It was.
Speaker 7 (35:04):
Just if you don't hang out with people, you're less
likely to get sick. That's what it said. That's all
they had, because that's all there is. I would like
I'd rather have more more friends than just get the
flu shot, you know, all right? Go so the sucker born?
Speaker 3 (35:19):
Ever, Louis v Aton added again, how much is their doghouse?
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Will leave a tod dog?
Speaker 3 (35:25):
We'll have twenty seconds or less?
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Now, no, we have more?
Speaker 4 (35:32):
Well the screen is froze.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
Yeah, no kidding, So what do we have?
Speaker 4 (35:36):
We have a minute?
Speaker 1 (35:36):
Ten?
Speaker 3 (35:37):
Oh? Do we really? How did that happen. It was
fifty seven something and it would be back fifty six.
It is now fifty seven, all right, So how much? Well,
I'm gonna start at the bottom and work my way.
Speaker 4 (35:50):
It's a it's a five thousand dollars dog house.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
No, you know what you're close to? How much the
poop bag holder costs four hundred and seventy dollars for
that twenty two hundred dollars for the dog bowl and
for the dog house. Will, Oh my god, some sucker's
gonna buy this. How can they do this to people
with a straight face to he you know what, We're
in the wrong. We need to start a line of
(36:16):
two expensive stuff.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
Will and Doug.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
Doug and Will, I don't care, and we'll pitch it
here and then dare people to spend that much money
on it? That doghouse? Will sixty grand? Sixty grant. You
can buy a tiny house for sixty grand for people
to live in. You can buy a something to drive around,
a camper to drive around in. You know how you
(36:38):
know if your dog's a snob, they refer to their
crate as a gated community. See it Tuesday. Thanks for listening.
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