May 29, 2026 • 38 mins
Today, Doug Pike discusses the quote of the day, laughter, and drunk driving.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Remember what it was impossible to misplace the TV remote
because you were the TV remote. Remember when music sounded
like this, Remember when social media was truly social?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hey John, how's it going today? Well, this show is
all about you. This is fifty plus with Doug.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
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.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
And now fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
All right, welcome yet again to the only show around here,
at least at least the only one of which I'm
aware of, the show that discusses issues and situations and
just stuff of relevance to seniors. And of course they're loving,
caring adult children who listen as well. And I greatly
appreciate that it was my efforts to help my mother
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as her health failed that got me interested in doing
this show. And I hope that some of you youngsters
out there in the audience are learning and feel free.
By the way, if you have something specific, you don't
have to give me names, you don't have to do anything,
Just shoot me an email and just say look, I
need to know something about this for my mother or father,
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or aunt or uncle who's sick and we need some help,
or my parents want to go on an overseas vacation.
Where's a safe place for them to go? Things like that.
I am more than happy to be the person who
finds that information for you and shares it on an
upcoming issue or episode of fifty plus. The weather forecast
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calls for at least two more days without ram, then
four straight days with chances ranging from thirty percent to
about sixty percent, long as it doesn't rain before the
crew finishes the roof on the house next door. Right now,
I'm good, and then tomorrow I'll need it to be
not rainy. Also, because I'm playing golf in a charity
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event with Hal Sutton, who's he's a solid acquaintance, I
can't well, I can say a friend because I've been
to his house.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
I'll have to.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Yeah, I consider him a friend, certainly. I don't know
how he would consider me, probably just some old media hack.
But it was his idea for me to come out
and play with him and a couple of other guys
in this charity event, and I was more than happy
to take a day off to do that, which I'm
gonna have to do, by the way, for my outdoors
show tomorrow. But I'll just talk faster and say more
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on Sunday to make up for what we lose tomorrow.
Thank you for listening to both shows. By the way,
who are those among you who do.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
I hear that fairly often?
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Actually, I'm going to say, well, I started listening to
fifty plus and I heard you talking about the Outdoor Show,
and I wouldn't listen to that, and I like it too,
or the reverse. They start with the Outdoor Show, which
I've been doing for twenty six years over on Sports
Talk seven ninety, and they find their way here, a
lot of them very proudly telling me that the moment
they turned fifty, they started they started listening to this show.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
You don't have to wait until you're fifty.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
By the way, It's okay if you're six and you
want to hear this show, you can, and you probably
won't have to ask your parents to define whatever I'm
talking about, because.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
I keep it it is.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
It is a show for seniors, and we do talk
about some sensitive subjects. In fact, I might start for
anybody who's driving around with the kids in the car
after school or whatever, or I guess maybe for a
lunch break. I'll make sure to be a little more
attentive to when we're going to be covering an adult
topic of some sort, and so I'll let you know
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before we get into the topic and before we get
into the interview, just so that you can either change
the station for a few minutes or do whatever you
want to do, or be prepared to answer questions from
the kids. The markets. The markets looked pretty good overall,
three up, one down. Of the four I watched closely,
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only Russell was down and just slightly in the red
gold ticked up a chunk and was closing in on
about forty six hundred dollars an ounce just what about
thirty minutes ago, I think it was last time I looked,
and oil thankfully was below eighty eight dollars a barrel
for the first time in a long time.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Now.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
That's West Texas Intermediate, the WTI CREWD, the Brent Crewed,
which is the benchmark among oils around the world, I
think was around I want to say, maybe ninety bucks,
maybe ninety one. And that's also it's also been a
hot minute since that happened very right up front here.
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Just a few hours ago, a story broke that said
that there may be some new headway in the issue
we have with Iran. Still there's a lot of rumors
flying around, you know, and I don't want to talk
about any of that, but I do feel from what
I saw that be either maybe today or possibly tomorrow,
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we're going to get kind of a major announcement of
some sort on what's happening over there and what's ultimately
gonna solve it.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
What do I have here?
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Will am I getting closed? Two and a half?
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Oh good?
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Diving straight into a couple of things on the dock
at this morning? I think especially, I think they're kind
of pretty important to our country right now, on the
eve of our nation's two hundred and fiftieth birthday. Well, first,
the Newsmax story today about some of the washed up
artists musical artists scheduled to perform at Freedom to Fifty
concerts in July. Shortly after that lineup was released, several
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of them jumped on social media. Not by coincidence either,
I think I think they maybe said they would do
it and then waited until it was announced to jump
on and alert all their twenty or thirty followers at
this point in their careers that they were not they
were not going to participate, that they were pulling out
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of those appearances essentially because they don't like our president.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Some of them came right out and said so.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Others danced around the reasons they wouldn't be performing, but
none of them seemed to realize that most of us
don't really care whether they perform anymore or not.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
I'd read you the list of.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Bands, and you would remember all of them from pretty
far back, I would say, from at least fifteen to
twenty years to maybe even a few more. Looking at
some of those names on that list, it just never
ceases to amaze me how these musicians and painters and
actors and even athletes professional athletes, How some of them
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tend well, They tend to be the most liberal people
on the planet, and they actually think we care. These people.
Their positions on world and national events are really clouded too,
by the wealth that separates them from everyday realities like
prices and like sacrifice. Being an artist qualifies you only
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as an artist, not a political pundit. So sing, act, paint,
throw a ball, but keep your mouth shut about politics,
because whichever side this is something I don't think they realize,
whichever side they're on, whichever side they publicly support, about
half of this country's gonna disagree and abandon you. They're
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not gonna buy your music, they're not gonna watch your movies,
and they're not gonna they're not gonna come watch you
throw a ball, and eventually that's gonna cost you money.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
So you want to keep those rich.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
You have that immense wealth that most of you have
in that arena, Go ahead and just shut up and
do what you do, all right. UT Health Institute on
Aging fantastic organization that is filled with thousands of medical
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Speaker 2 (09:35):
Aged to Perfection. This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Welcome back to fifty plus. Thank you for listening.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
We'll start this second segment with a little thing from
the Unamerican and Unamerican Desks by way of Breitbart on
Thursdays out Front, which is which airs on CNN. Democratic
Representative Seth Molten from Massachusetts suggests that President Trump's proposed
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agreement with Iran amounts to our unconditional surrender we he
believes will be unconditionally surrendering to Iran. This is just
yet another fabrication that the Left is floating, kind of
like the Russian collusion, kind.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Of like the dossier.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
If they if they can get enough people to repeat
the same thing over and over, a lot of people
from the left begin to believe it, And and that's
I can't I can't say that conservatives don't employ similar
tactics or haven't ever employed similar tactics. But it seems
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to be that when the when the truth comes out
later on, mostly these fabrications are occurring on the left,
and if they can get enough people to remember or
or believe what they're telling telling them, then they've got
a foothold still with the people who won't do their
own research, won't look at both sides of the story.
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The LIFT seems to be just grasping at straws right
now and losing support from its moderate base faster than
people are leaving New York and California. I have to wonder,
if these states dislike our country so badly, why don't
they just secede and become tiny, little broke, independent nations.
And the answer, well, the answer is pretty obvious, because
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they're just pillaging the purse of the United States of
America for all kinds of programs in their states, many
of which we have found out in the last year
so are wholly fraudulent, completely fraudulent enough of that they're
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circulated or calculated, not circulated. Their calculated seat is beginning
to bore me. And it's it's unoriginal, it's false, same
as their arguments against the Save Act.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
There are scores of nations.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
There's a really well done parody about the Save Act
that's going around social media now and if you can find.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
It, it's great.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
And there are all these nations around the world require
photo voter ID in elections because they recognize the importance
of not allowing unlawful votes by anyone. Every person who's
entitled to vote in this country easily if they don't
are is there's this big presumption that so many people
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don't have IDs, but they have to have them to
do almost anything that they do financially or lawfully, that
everybody's got them. I don't understand what the big deal
is about a valid photo ID, and anybody who doesn't
have one right now could certainly get one by November.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
I can't imagine anybody being.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
So remote, so far removed from civilization in this country
that they couldn't get a proper voter ID by November.
And as much as the left talks about voter suppression,
I find it funny. Well it's not funny, really, but
I find it interesting and confusing that they never interview
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anyone who says they just can't figure out how to
get an ID card. They're just scratching their head every morning.
I'd love to vote, but I don't know how to
get an ID. No, that's ludicrous, It's totally ludicrous. All right,
shifting gears, I'm gonna go to some easier, lighter stuff
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because it is Friday, after all, and I'd love to
deliver good news, or at least humorous news, if that's possible,
from the good news desk.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
By the way, the quote of the.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Day, well, what time? How much time do I have
in this segment? Two and a half five? I haven't
been talking very long, have I. I'll work on that.
I'm not gonna speed it up. I'm not gonna slow
it down. I have enough stuff to get through here.
Believe me, I have more than enough material. The quote
of the day this one anyway, is from Abraham Lincoln
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and it's it's not profoundly deep or anything, but it's
just a it's common sense from his era. He said,
have you ever heard about the chopping down a tree?
Quote from him? Will Okay, well, here's what it is.
Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and
I will send spend the first four sharpening the axe.
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That's kind of that falls in line with measure twice,
cut once, doesn't it a little bit sort of you
can tie the two together and when you have.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
To measure that tree twice.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Then sharpen your axe for four hours and be dark
before you get the tree out off the ground or
on the ground. From Britain comes a story about extensive
research into how laughter influences our bodies and minds, especially
in children. The conclusions were amazing and I just kind
of bullet pointed them here. When children laugh, the brain
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heightens its ability to learn and connect in that moment,
and then that connection and that learning linger. Laughter also
helps with speech development. It engages multiple brain regions, including
motor areas in the prefrontal cortex, which I think it's
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young men who have a hard time getting that one
fixed up and patched up and ready to go until
they're about twenty five. Laughing also influences your heart rate
and theirs respiration, the production of antibodies, and it decreases
stress hormones and increases the happiness chemicals such as dopamine, serotonin,
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and endorphins. So well, here's your assignment. Grandmothers and grandfathers.
Go to the internet, click on your favorite AI site,
and if you don't have one, get your sons or
daughters or maybe an older grandchild to show you how
to find AI, and then tell AI to generate for
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you twenty.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Jokes appropriate for kids.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Pick whatever age your grandchildren are, three to five, seven
to ten, whatever, get IT to generate those age appropriate jokes,
and then either call your grandchildren and deliver maybe one
joke a week to start your a regular conversation with them,
which will greatly help you connect with them long down
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the road, and just make yourselves laugh.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
Make yourselves laugh.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
From Northwestern University, something more for us than for kids
were that a current asthma and allergy medication may also
help to battle very aggressive cancers. The study showed how
tumors hijack common white blood cells to dodge where they
command them. Somebody had somebody somebody First, well, first somebody
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wrote it wrong, and secondly I didn't catch it. The
study showed how humors hijack or command these white blood
cells to dodge traditional therapies, and now in studies of
both human and mice tissues, this drug which is already
approved by the FDA for that asthma and allergy treatment,
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so it's we don't have to wait for that step,
which can take years. But not only can that chemical
turn off the cancer cell's ability to grow, but it
also helps the patient's immune system recover its own ability
to fight the cancers. Still a long way to go
on this thing, but it's quite promising, it really is,
and I hope that in my lifetime I can see
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this brought in to wrestle with some of the bad ones.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
It didn't mention any specific aggressive cancers, but I, off
the top of my head pancreatic.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
I don't know which ones are more.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
I think that's the most aggressive one, and I can't
remember the order in which they roll after that.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
But anything to.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Help people relieve the burden of cancer is something I hope.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Gets studied a whole lot.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
How much time to have? Well, very little twenty seconds.
I can do that. Why you would do this, I
don't know. But in Canna, Cana, gosh duh. In Canada,
you can get Kraft mac and cheese cheesecake. Would you
eat Craft mac and cheese cheesecake? Will? It sounds appealing
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at first, but it's still just macaroni and cheese, and
I'm not so sure how good that'd be. All Right,
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Speaker 5 (20:23):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash him, check his words,
and spring on a fresh code o wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Fifty plus.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Thank you for listening, certainly to appreciate it. I'm want
to go into I'm going to save some of this
stuff for the final segment if and decide whether I
really want to even do it, because it's kind of, well,
here's one. Now here's a public service announcement kind of
a thing. And I'm pretty sure that it's already been rectified.
But I also believe that this won't be the last
time something like this comes up. At click to Houston
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this morning, I saw the story about Houston Public Works
admitting that during a twenty twenty four effort to replace
about one hundred and twenty five thousand older water meters
with the new fangled remote reading meters, six hundred meters
that weren't properly they were just the wrong ones got
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installed on people's homes and also, for years generated inaccurate readings,
sometimes in rare instances, for more than a thousand dollars
worth of water in a month. You could fill a
pool and drain it and fill it a few more
times for one thousand dollars worth of water. I would
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bet I'm not an expert in that, but it just
seems like somebody should have known earlier. It actually took
kind of a tipster to share the addresses at which
the bad meters had been put into so service. I
don't know how that person knew, but that person knew
and laid out the information and a whole lot of
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people have a lot of fat refund credits coming, and
I hope that I know the city has processed some
of them. These were people getting water bills and just
modest homes around town getting water bills for five, six, seven,
eight hundred, nine hundred dollars for a month, had no
way to pay that money, and when the public Works
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would contact them after they'd filed complaints and whatnot, they'd
just say, hey, when are you going to pay us?
Those people probably would be due more than just a
refund for the balance of the water that they didn't
use and got paid or got billed for. And from you,
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y'all do this one now, I don't have a problem
with that. From the state that is breaking all the
records for fraud, the most fraudulent state thus far, because
we haven't digged so deep as we have in Minnesota
as in other states.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
And I would.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Bet from the state where a lot of high ranking
people are probably making exit plans as I speak, because
they know other people are beginning to talk to try
to better their circumstances. From Minnesota comes to the story of
two women two more women charged with health care fraud
after allegedly allegedly stealing more than twenty one million dollars
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in tax money. In all, they face eight counts of
health care fraud and two counts of money laundering. Both
of these women, by the way, are US citizens, one
of them naturalized. And I mean, it's just just the
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next domino in the in the never ending line of
dominant fraud dominoes to fall. Nick Shirley opened a big
old can of worms, and man, oh man, I bet there,
I bet there are a lot of people who wished
he'd have just kept his mouth shut and gone away.
Trouble was, they couldn't bribe him, they couldn't make him
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not want to expose what they were doing. I'll wait
for this one, and I'll this one I found. Yeah,
how much time do I have? Well, we got three
or four? Nine?
Speaker 4 (24:28):
Five minutes? Again?
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Are you stretching these segments out? I'm gonna have to
do longer. What I'll do is longer endorsements for my
fine sponsors of this program. By the way, I'm hoping
to get another one logged in here soon. I'm talking
with a plumber and if I can, if he and
I can come to a good agreement where I can
help him.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
I trust the guy. I've talked to him a couple.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Of times on the phone this week, and I'm getting
a good feel for him. I'm gonna find out where
he is or maybe where I could meet him for
lunch or something, and see if he'd be the right
guy to have in this program.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
And if he is, I'll let you know about him
very quickly.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
From out in California, by way of the Daily Caller,
professors there are standing up and saying they are sick
and tired of teaching undereducated, equity advanced students beyond behind
the dropping of the SAT and ACT requirements for admission
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by what now amounts to about seventeen hundred universities in
the United States. This is seventeen hundred institutes of higher
learning where you don't even have to show an SAT
or ACT score to get in. You can just get
maybe go ahead and get AI to write you a
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quick essay, and in you go. The problem, though, according
to a letter signed by seven hundred and twenty named
signatories just for two or three universities in California, is
that these educators are tired of finding out that the
students who were graduated from STEM programs. Not just underserved,
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underprivileged public schools. These are young men and women who
graduated high school with honors in STEM programs, and they
get to college and they are even they're not even
literate in middle school math. So what these professors are
having to do because the schools are letting them in
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is teach half the class middle school math, just to
try to get them up to speed where they can
someday hopefully catch up to the kids who got that teaching,
got that education and are moving into higher parts of
that learning process, moving into engineering, moving into deeper into
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the sciences or whatever. But a lot of these kids
are just showing up with no idea, absolutely no idea
how to do any of that. It's very frightening, honestly,
I think it is. Anyway, Speaking of frightening, will, I
think this will take you by surprise. And it's hard
to surprise you, I know, but I think this will
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Most drunk drivers drive drunk eighty times.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
Before they're arrested. Does that surprise you not at all?
I know you don't do that.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
I know I don't do that. But yeah, that's just
that kind of that ought to make the hair on
the back of your neck stick up and make you
wonder why on earth there aren't more wrecks out there
thanks to drunk drivers eighty times eighty times from the
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mass delusion desk. When Kim Jong ill was alive, his
official biography on North Korea website said that he didn't
he didn't use the bathroom at all, just just wasn't
something he did. I'm guessing that might there might have
been a little propaganda involved in that assertion. Um, I'll
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do this one, then we'll get out of here. New
survey asked people to rank the biggest modern status symbols,
and the top answers include a high end watch, a
luxury handbag in the latest iPhone, oh and and a
walk in closet that is considered a big modern status symbol.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
Do you have walk in closet? Will your parents? Yes?
They do, and you will.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Too when it's time. And I don't.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
Yeah, I don't know that that's really a status symbol.
I guess we've.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Given up on the ability to donate money to good
causes that would that would impress me far more than
somebody's walk in closet or their.
Speaker 4 (28:59):
Phone or their luxury handbag.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
It just I've never never ceased to amaze me that
women would spend as much money on the purse as
they don't have left because they bought that purse.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
We're gonna take this break, come back and wrap her
up for the week.
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What's life without a net? If I suggest you go
to bed, sleep it off, just wait until the show's over. Sleepy.
Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Fourth and final segment of the program starts right now
on what is going to be a pretty good afternoon.
I intend because I have to play golf with somebody
who intimidates me tomorrow. Even though he's a little bit
older and not the game he used to have. How
Sutton still got more game in his little finger than
I have in my whole body. So I've got to go.
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I've got to get a little practice in before tomorrow morning.
I don't want to embarrass myself. I really don't want
to hit at least two or three good shots for
the team.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
So will pop quiz here.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
When you hear the expression it's all downhill from here,
do you interpret that as things getting worse or things
getting easier? You're getting worse, it's all downhill from here.
Eighty seven percent think it means things are getting worse.
Thirteen say it means things are getting easier, because climbing
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uphill is harder than going downhill. You I get in
the mindset for the eighty seven percent, I guess is
that as soon as it starts down, it's never gonna stop.
It's just gonna crash at the bottom, right, Okay, I
was just curious. I would have thought the the percentages
would have been a little closer to equal.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
But eighty seven thirteen, Yeah, I don't know that.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
I'll I'll have to pick and choose the times now
that I say it's all downhill from here, because people
might misunderstand what I'm talking about.
Speaker 4 (32:12):
Smooth sailing. That was the the.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
That's what that described in years past, back in the day,
will back.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
When I was a young man.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
About what is it.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
The Civil War?
Speaker 3 (32:25):
I think it was. The White House is pushing Congress
to approve a two hundred and fifty dollars bill in
honor of the nation's two hundred and fiftieth birthday, which
is a month and a few days away, and the
photograph on that bill, the portrait would be of Donald Trump,
President Donald Trump. That would require changing a one hundred
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and sixty year old law that prohibits any living person
from appearing on US currency. Should that law be changed,
I think a lot will depend whether this gets traction
or not. I think a lot would depend on just
how much gets done, not in the next weeks, but
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in the next couple of years. I think that if
he manages to do what he says he's going to
do and really turns this country around it, We've already
got billions and billions and billions of dollars coming into
manufacturing back to this country for manufacturing. We've got a
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lot of strategic alliances that I think will service well.
We've shed some things that we needed to shed. We've
exposed the fraud. I say we He and his administration
have exposed fraud that is count just cost this country
countenance billions of dollars over the past four or five years.
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I don't know how much money they stole, but they
stole a bunch. They stole a bunch. What really irritated
me was when I saw the story about how many
welfare recipients, How many, yeah, that was welfare recipients, snap
food stamps, all of that.
Speaker 4 (34:08):
How many of them.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Drive not just nice cars, but drive Lamborghinis, they drive Porsches,
they drive Maseratis, and they're collecting federal funds for food
that's probably their tip money. These people are just they
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just get addicted to it.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
It's like a drug.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
Once you realize that you can steal from someone, a
thief is going to continue to steal from that person
or that entity until they die, until they get caught.
And thank goodness, we are catching many of these people
before they just totally bankrupt this entire country.
Speaker 4 (34:51):
That would be not so good.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
If you like going outside in the summertime, especially around
morning and late afternoon, you know, there are mosquitoes flying
around out there, and this story I'm about to tell you,
it's just a sentence I'm gonna read, Just a sentence
I'm gonna read that's gonna change your mind about something.
Speaker 4 (35:13):
Listen to this.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
New research shows that mosquitoes can learn to become attracted
to deet, which is one of the main ingredients in
many popular and effective mosquito repellents. It still works for now,
but experts say that overusing it could make it less effective.
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The mosquitoes are learning to become attracted to det They
are evolving to realize that the people that the source
of that deep, the person, well, they don't know what
people are. They just they're just looking for blood. Okay,
the female mosquito's got to go get some blood. And
they're flying around. And originally they were repelled tremendously by deet,
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and now they've realized that if they just go to
the deep, they will find something to eat. They like
that little rhyme. Will is that good? Got a little
smile out of him anyway, Okay, best I can hope
some days. Nah, yeah, no, I don't like that one
fifteen summer traditions to start with a teenager night drives
(36:26):
where they control the music. That doesn't sound all that
fun to me. Now, if we're night driving to go
someplace to go fish together, I'm all up in that.
If we're night driving so he can take me to
dinner and buy me dinner with money he's earned lifeguarding
or whatever he's doing, that would appeal, but I just
don't want to right around and listen to his music.
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Although he's kind of a country music guy, he really is.
He doesn't listen to anything weird. He just listens to
a lot of country music. Big science stories this week,
two of them Blue or New Glen rocket exploded in
a massive fireball while undergoing a test in Florida last night.
Speaker 4 (37:07):
I didn't say it was good news.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
I just said it was nerd news, science news. How
much time to have, well, I know, okay, a minute
and a half. Okay, good. That means I can go
to a couple of more things I've circled. I've circled
the little shorty thing that I want to use going out,
and I think you'll like it. By the way, a
gullible fifty three year old woman in Pennsylvania fell for
a scam, and I feel terribly sorry for because scammers,
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they're just the scum of the earth.
Speaker 4 (37:33):
They really are.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
It's uber driver asked her to withdraw ninety five hundred
dollars and put it in an envelope for them to
take somewhere. It doesn't say where. And she did it,
and she lost a ninety five hundred and then another
Uber driver hit her up, I guess because they talk
amongst themselves and asked her to give them her credit
(37:56):
card give them, well, it was a detic debit card actually,
and she did that too and lost a bunch of
money unfortunately. Hum, that's okay, that's okay.
Speaker 4 (38:06):
I talked about that. In New Zealand, man.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
Pulled over for swerving all over the road claimed the
alcohol he consumed shouldn't count because it was the blood
of Jesus Christ. And to finish it off, scientists have
identified a new species of marine reptile that lived eighty
million years ago. It's called the Pelosiosaurus rex. Not really,
it's Tylosaurus rex.
Speaker 4 (38:31):
That's it for this week. We'll talk next week. Thank
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And now fifty plus with Doug Pike.
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All right, welcome yet again to the only show around here,
at least at least the only one of which I'm
aware of, the show that discusses issues and situations and
just stuff of relevance to seniors. And of course they're loving,
caring adult children who listen as well. And I greatly
appreciate that it was my efforts to help my mother
(01:09):
as her health failed that got me interested in doing
this show. And I hope that some of you youngsters
out there in the audience are learning and feel free.
By the way, if you have something specific, you don't
have to give me names, you don't have to do anything,
Just shoot me an email and just say look, I
need to know something about this for my mother or father,
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or aunt or uncle who's sick and we need some help,
or my parents want to go on an overseas vacation.
Where's a safe place for them to go? Things like that.
I am more than happy to be the person who
finds that information for you and shares it on an
upcoming issue or episode of fifty plus. The weather forecast
(01:57):
calls for at least two more days without ram, then
four straight days with chances ranging from thirty percent to
about sixty percent, long as it doesn't rain before the
crew finishes the roof on the house next door. Right now,
I'm good, and then tomorrow I'll need it to be
not rainy. Also, because I'm playing golf in a charity
(02:19):
event with Hal Sutton, who's he's a solid acquaintance, I
can't well, I can say a friend because I've been
to his house.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
I'll have to.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Yeah, I consider him a friend, certainly. I don't know
how he would consider me, probably just some old media hack.
But it was his idea for me to come out
and play with him and a couple of other guys
in this charity event, and I was more than happy
to take a day off to do that, which I'm
gonna have to do, by the way, for my outdoors
show tomorrow. But I'll just talk faster and say more
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on Sunday to make up for what we lose tomorrow.
Thank you for listening to both shows. By the way,
who are those among you who do.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
I hear that fairly often?
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Actually, I'm going to say, well, I started listening to
fifty plus and I heard you talking about the Outdoor Show,
and I wouldn't listen to that, and I like it too,
or the reverse. They start with the Outdoor Show, which
I've been doing for twenty six years over on Sports
Talk seven ninety, and they find their way here, a
lot of them very proudly telling me that the moment
they turned fifty, they started they started listening to this show.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
You don't have to wait until you're fifty.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
By the way, It's okay if you're six and you
want to hear this show, you can, and you probably
won't have to ask your parents to define whatever I'm
talking about, because.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
I keep it it is.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
It is a show for seniors, and we do talk
about some sensitive subjects. In fact, I might start for
anybody who's driving around with the kids in the car
after school or whatever, or I guess maybe for a
lunch break. I'll make sure to be a little more
attentive to when we're going to be covering an adult
topic of some sort, and so I'll let you know
(03:59):
before we get into the topic and before we get
into the interview, just so that you can either change
the station for a few minutes or do whatever you
want to do, or be prepared to answer questions from
the kids. The markets. The markets looked pretty good overall,
three up, one down. Of the four I watched closely,
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only Russell was down and just slightly in the red
gold ticked up a chunk and was closing in on
about forty six hundred dollars an ounce just what about
thirty minutes ago, I think it was last time I looked,
and oil thankfully was below eighty eight dollars a barrel
for the first time in a long time.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Now.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
That's West Texas Intermediate, the WTI CREWD, the Brent Crewed,
which is the benchmark among oils around the world, I
think was around I want to say, maybe ninety bucks,
maybe ninety one. And that's also it's also been a
hot minute since that happened very right up front here.
(04:58):
Just a few hours ago, a story broke that said
that there may be some new headway in the issue
we have with Iran. Still there's a lot of rumors
flying around, you know, and I don't want to talk
about any of that, but I do feel from what
I saw that be either maybe today or possibly tomorrow,
(05:19):
we're going to get kind of a major announcement of
some sort on what's happening over there and what's ultimately
gonna solve it.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
What do I have here?
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Will am I getting closed? Two and a half?
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Oh good?
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Diving straight into a couple of things on the dock
at this morning? I think especially, I think they're kind
of pretty important to our country right now, on the
eve of our nation's two hundred and fiftieth birthday. Well, first,
the Newsmax story today about some of the washed up
artists musical artists scheduled to perform at Freedom to Fifty
concerts in July. Shortly after that lineup was released, several
(05:57):
of them jumped on social media. Not by coincidence either,
I think I think they maybe said they would do
it and then waited until it was announced to jump
on and alert all their twenty or thirty followers at
this point in their careers that they were not they
were not going to participate, that they were pulling out
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of those appearances essentially because they don't like our president.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Some of them came right out and said so.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Others danced around the reasons they wouldn't be performing, but
none of them seemed to realize that most of us
don't really care whether they perform anymore or not.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
I'd read you the list of.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Bands, and you would remember all of them from pretty
far back, I would say, from at least fifteen to
twenty years to maybe even a few more. Looking at
some of those names on that list, it just never
ceases to amaze me how these musicians and painters and
actors and even athletes professional athletes, How some of them
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tend well, They tend to be the most liberal people
on the planet, and they actually think we care. These people.
Their positions on world and national events are really clouded too,
by the wealth that separates them from everyday realities like
prices and like sacrifice. Being an artist qualifies you only
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as an artist, not a political pundit. So sing, act, paint,
throw a ball, but keep your mouth shut about politics,
because whichever side this is something I don't think they realize,
whichever side they're on, whichever side they publicly support, about
half of this country's gonna disagree and abandon you. They're
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not gonna buy your music, they're not gonna watch your movies,
and they're not gonna they're not gonna come watch you
throw a ball, and eventually that's gonna cost you money.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
So you want to keep those rich.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
You have that immense wealth that most of you have
in that arena, Go ahead and just shut up and
do what you do, all right. UT Health Institute on
Aging fantastic organization that is filled with thousands of medical
providers from every medical discipline who have taken it upon
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themselves to get additional training beyond whatever got them the
diploma on the wall in their office or clinic. They
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to apply their depth of knowledge, if you will, to seniors,
specifically to us. If you're seeing someone who's part of
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bodies and minds and can help you a little bit
better than most other providers. They've got a fantastic website,
absolutely fantastic. If you go there, you'll start searching through
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Aged to Perfection. This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Welcome back to fifty plus. Thank you for listening.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
We'll start this second segment with a little thing from
the Unamerican and Unamerican Desks by way of Breitbart on
Thursdays out Front, which is which airs on CNN. Democratic
Representative Seth Molten from Massachusetts suggests that President Trump's proposed
(10:03):
agreement with Iran amounts to our unconditional surrender we he
believes will be unconditionally surrendering to Iran. This is just
yet another fabrication that the Left is floating, kind of
like the Russian collusion, kind.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Of like the dossier.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
If they if they can get enough people to repeat
the same thing over and over, a lot of people
from the left begin to believe it, And and that's
I can't I can't say that conservatives don't employ similar
tactics or haven't ever employed similar tactics. But it seems
(10:47):
to be that when the when the truth comes out
later on, mostly these fabrications are occurring on the left,
and if they can get enough people to remember or
or believe what they're telling telling them, then they've got
a foothold still with the people who won't do their
own research, won't look at both sides of the story.
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The LIFT seems to be just grasping at straws right
now and losing support from its moderate base faster than
people are leaving New York and California. I have to wonder,
if these states dislike our country so badly, why don't
they just secede and become tiny, little broke, independent nations.
And the answer, well, the answer is pretty obvious, because
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they're just pillaging the purse of the United States of
America for all kinds of programs in their states, many
of which we have found out in the last year
so are wholly fraudulent, completely fraudulent enough of that they're
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circulated or calculated, not circulated. Their calculated seat is beginning
to bore me. And it's it's unoriginal, it's false, same
as their arguments against the Save Act.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
There are scores of nations.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
There's a really well done parody about the Save Act
that's going around social media now and if you can find.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
It, it's great.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
And there are all these nations around the world require
photo voter ID in elections because they recognize the importance
of not allowing unlawful votes by anyone. Every person who's
entitled to vote in this country easily if they don't
are is there's this big presumption that so many people
(12:33):
don't have IDs, but they have to have them to
do almost anything that they do financially or lawfully, that
everybody's got them. I don't understand what the big deal
is about a valid photo ID, and anybody who doesn't
have one right now could certainly get one by November.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
I can't imagine anybody being.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
So remote, so far removed from civilization in this country
that they couldn't get a proper voter ID by November.
And as much as the left talks about voter suppression,
I find it funny. Well it's not funny, really, but
I find it interesting and confusing that they never interview
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anyone who says they just can't figure out how to
get an ID card. They're just scratching their head every morning.
I'd love to vote, but I don't know how to
get an ID. No, that's ludicrous, It's totally ludicrous. All right,
shifting gears, I'm gonna go to some easier, lighter stuff
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because it is Friday, after all, and I'd love to
deliver good news, or at least humorous news, if that's possible,
from the good news desk.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
By the way, the quote of the.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Day, well, what time? How much time do I have
in this segment? Two and a half five? I haven't
been talking very long, have I. I'll work on that.
I'm not gonna speed it up. I'm not gonna slow
it down. I have enough stuff to get through here.
Believe me, I have more than enough material. The quote
of the day this one anyway, is from Abraham Lincoln
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and it's it's not profoundly deep or anything, but it's
just a it's common sense from his era. He said,
have you ever heard about the chopping down a tree?
Quote from him? Will Okay, well, here's what it is.
Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and
I will send spend the first four sharpening the axe.
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That's kind of that falls in line with measure twice,
cut once, doesn't it a little bit sort of you
can tie the two together and when you have.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
To measure that tree twice.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Then sharpen your axe for four hours and be dark
before you get the tree out off the ground or
on the ground. From Britain comes a story about extensive
research into how laughter influences our bodies and minds, especially
in children. The conclusions were amazing and I just kind
of bullet pointed them here. When children laugh, the brain
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heightens its ability to learn and connect in that moment,
and then that connection and that learning linger. Laughter also
helps with speech development. It engages multiple brain regions, including
motor areas in the prefrontal cortex, which I think it's
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young men who have a hard time getting that one
fixed up and patched up and ready to go until
they're about twenty five. Laughing also influences your heart rate
and theirs respiration, the production of antibodies, and it decreases
stress hormones and increases the happiness chemicals such as dopamine, serotonin,
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and endorphins. So well, here's your assignment. Grandmothers and grandfathers.
Go to the internet, click on your favorite AI site,
and if you don't have one, get your sons or
daughters or maybe an older grandchild to show you how
to find AI, and then tell AI to generate for
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you twenty.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Jokes appropriate for kids.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Pick whatever age your grandchildren are, three to five, seven
to ten, whatever, get IT to generate those age appropriate jokes,
and then either call your grandchildren and deliver maybe one
joke a week to start your a regular conversation with them,
which will greatly help you connect with them long down
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the road, and just make yourselves laugh.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
Make yourselves laugh.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
From Northwestern University, something more for us than for kids
were that a current asthma and allergy medication may also
help to battle very aggressive cancers. The study showed how
tumors hijack common white blood cells to dodge where they
command them. Somebody had somebody somebody First, well, first somebody
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wrote it wrong, and secondly I didn't catch it. The
study showed how humors hijack or command these white blood
cells to dodge traditional therapies, and now in studies of
both human and mice tissues, this drug which is already
approved by the FDA for that asthma and allergy treatment,
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so it's we don't have to wait for that step,
which can take years. But not only can that chemical
turn off the cancer cell's ability to grow, but it
also helps the patient's immune system recover its own ability
to fight the cancers. Still a long way to go
on this thing, but it's quite promising, it really is,
and I hope that in my lifetime I can see
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this brought in to wrestle with some of the bad ones.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
It didn't mention any specific aggressive cancers, but I, off
the top of my head pancreatic.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
I don't know which ones are more.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
I think that's the most aggressive one, and I can't
remember the order in which they roll after that.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
But anything to.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Help people relieve the burden of cancer is something I hope.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Gets studied a whole lot.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
How much time to have? Well, very little twenty seconds.
I can do that. Why you would do this, I
don't know. But in Canna, Cana, gosh duh. In Canada,
you can get Kraft mac and cheese cheesecake. Would you
eat Craft mac and cheese cheesecake? Will? It sounds appealing
(18:54):
at first, but it's still just macaroni and cheese, and
I'm not so sure how good that'd be. All Right,
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Speaker 5 (20:23):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash him, check his words,
and spring on a fresh code o wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Fifty plus.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Thank you for listening, certainly to appreciate it. I'm want
to go into I'm going to save some of this
stuff for the final segment if and decide whether I
really want to even do it, because it's kind of, well,
here's one. Now here's a public service announcement kind of
a thing. And I'm pretty sure that it's already been rectified.
But I also believe that this won't be the last
time something like this comes up. At click to Houston
(21:00):
this morning, I saw the story about Houston Public Works
admitting that during a twenty twenty four effort to replace
about one hundred and twenty five thousand older water meters
with the new fangled remote reading meters, six hundred meters
that weren't properly they were just the wrong ones got
(21:23):
installed on people's homes and also, for years generated inaccurate readings,
sometimes in rare instances, for more than a thousand dollars
worth of water in a month. You could fill a
pool and drain it and fill it a few more
times for one thousand dollars worth of water. I would
(21:45):
bet I'm not an expert in that, but it just
seems like somebody should have known earlier. It actually took
kind of a tipster to share the addresses at which
the bad meters had been put into so service. I
don't know how that person knew, but that person knew
and laid out the information and a whole lot of
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people have a lot of fat refund credits coming, and
I hope that I know the city has processed some
of them. These were people getting water bills and just
modest homes around town getting water bills for five, six, seven,
eight hundred, nine hundred dollars for a month, had no
way to pay that money, and when the public Works
(22:29):
would contact them after they'd filed complaints and whatnot, they'd
just say, hey, when are you going to pay us?
Those people probably would be due more than just a
refund for the balance of the water that they didn't
use and got paid or got billed for. And from you,
(22:50):
y'all do this one now, I don't have a problem
with that. From the state that is breaking all the
records for fraud, the most fraudulent state thus far, because
we haven't digged so deep as we have in Minnesota
as in other states.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
And I would.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Bet from the state where a lot of high ranking
people are probably making exit plans as I speak, because
they know other people are beginning to talk to try
to better their circumstances. From Minnesota comes to the story of
two women two more women charged with health care fraud
after allegedly allegedly stealing more than twenty one million dollars
(23:33):
in tax money. In all, they face eight counts of
health care fraud and two counts of money laundering. Both
of these women, by the way, are US citizens, one
of them naturalized. And I mean, it's just just the
(23:55):
next domino in the in the never ending line of
dominant fraud dominoes to fall. Nick Shirley opened a big
old can of worms, and man, oh man, I bet there,
I bet there are a lot of people who wished
he'd have just kept his mouth shut and gone away.
Trouble was, they couldn't bribe him, they couldn't make him
(24:17):
not want to expose what they were doing. I'll wait
for this one, and I'll this one I found. Yeah,
how much time do I have? Well, we got three
or four? Nine?
Speaker 4 (24:28):
Five minutes? Again?
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Are you stretching these segments out? I'm gonna have to
do longer. What I'll do is longer endorsements for my
fine sponsors of this program. By the way, I'm hoping
to get another one logged in here soon. I'm talking
with a plumber and if I can, if he and
I can come to a good agreement where I can
help him.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
I trust the guy. I've talked to him a couple.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Of times on the phone this week, and I'm getting
a good feel for him. I'm gonna find out where
he is or maybe where I could meet him for
lunch or something, and see if he'd be the right
guy to have in this program.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
And if he is, I'll let you know about him
very quickly.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
From out in California, by way of the Daily Caller,
professors there are standing up and saying they are sick
and tired of teaching undereducated, equity advanced students beyond behind
the dropping of the SAT and ACT requirements for admission
(25:27):
by what now amounts to about seventeen hundred universities in
the United States. This is seventeen hundred institutes of higher
learning where you don't even have to show an SAT
or ACT score to get in. You can just get
maybe go ahead and get AI to write you a
(25:48):
quick essay, and in you go. The problem, though, according
to a letter signed by seven hundred and twenty named
signatories just for two or three universities in California, is
that these educators are tired of finding out that the
students who were graduated from STEM programs. Not just underserved,
(26:14):
underprivileged public schools. These are young men and women who
graduated high school with honors in STEM programs, and they
get to college and they are even they're not even
literate in middle school math. So what these professors are
having to do because the schools are letting them in
(26:36):
is teach half the class middle school math, just to
try to get them up to speed where they can
someday hopefully catch up to the kids who got that teaching,
got that education and are moving into higher parts of
that learning process, moving into engineering, moving into deeper into
(26:58):
the sciences or whatever. But a lot of these kids
are just showing up with no idea, absolutely no idea
how to do any of that. It's very frightening, honestly,
I think it is. Anyway, Speaking of frightening, will, I
think this will take you by surprise. And it's hard
to surprise you, I know, but I think this will
(27:19):
Most drunk drivers drive drunk eighty times.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
Before they're arrested. Does that surprise you not at all?
I know you don't do that.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
I know I don't do that. But yeah, that's just
that kind of that ought to make the hair on
the back of your neck stick up and make you
wonder why on earth there aren't more wrecks out there
thanks to drunk drivers eighty times eighty times from the
(27:53):
mass delusion desk. When Kim Jong ill was alive, his
official biography on North Korea website said that he didn't
he didn't use the bathroom at all, just just wasn't
something he did. I'm guessing that might there might have
been a little propaganda involved in that assertion. Um, I'll
(28:18):
do this one, then we'll get out of here. New
survey asked people to rank the biggest modern status symbols,
and the top answers include a high end watch, a
luxury handbag in the latest iPhone, oh and and a
walk in closet that is considered a big modern status symbol.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
Do you have walk in closet? Will your parents? Yes?
They do, and you will.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Too when it's time. And I don't.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
Yeah, I don't know that that's really a status symbol.
I guess we've.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Given up on the ability to donate money to good
causes that would that would impress me far more than
somebody's walk in closet or their.
Speaker 4 (28:59):
Phone or their luxury handbag.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
It just I've never never ceased to amaze me that
women would spend as much money on the purse as
they don't have left because they bought that purse.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
We're gonna take this break, come back and wrap her
up for the week.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
On the way out, I'm gonna tell you about a
place you can go if you want to beat all
this heat that's coming upon us now. Temperatures over in
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(29:38):
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That's eight five five five to one zero Land.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
What's life without a net? If I suggest you go
to bed, sleep it off, just wait until the show's over. Sleepy.
Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Fourth and final segment of the program starts right now
on what is going to be a pretty good afternoon.
I intend because I have to play golf with somebody
who intimidates me tomorrow. Even though he's a little bit
older and not the game he used to have. How
Sutton still got more game in his little finger than
I have in my whole body. So I've got to go.
(31:05):
I've got to get a little practice in before tomorrow morning.
I don't want to embarrass myself. I really don't want
to hit at least two or three good shots for
the team.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
So will pop quiz here.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
When you hear the expression it's all downhill from here,
do you interpret that as things getting worse or things
getting easier? You're getting worse, it's all downhill from here.
Eighty seven percent think it means things are getting worse.
Thirteen say it means things are getting easier, because climbing
(31:38):
uphill is harder than going downhill. You I get in
the mindset for the eighty seven percent, I guess is
that as soon as it starts down, it's never gonna stop.
It's just gonna crash at the bottom, right, Okay, I
was just curious. I would have thought the the percentages
would have been a little closer to equal.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
But eighty seven thirteen, Yeah, I don't know that.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
I'll I'll have to pick and choose the times now
that I say it's all downhill from here, because people
might misunderstand what I'm talking about.
Speaker 4 (32:12):
Smooth sailing. That was the the.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
That's what that described in years past, back in the day,
will back.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
When I was a young man.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
About what is it.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
The Civil War?
Speaker 3 (32:25):
I think it was. The White House is pushing Congress
to approve a two hundred and fifty dollars bill in
honor of the nation's two hundred and fiftieth birthday, which
is a month and a few days away, and the
photograph on that bill, the portrait would be of Donald Trump,
President Donald Trump. That would require changing a one hundred
(32:47):
and sixty year old law that prohibits any living person
from appearing on US currency. Should that law be changed,
I think a lot will depend whether this gets traction
or not. I think a lot would depend on just
how much gets done, not in the next weeks, but
(33:10):
in the next couple of years. I think that if
he manages to do what he says he's going to
do and really turns this country around it, We've already
got billions and billions and billions of dollars coming into
manufacturing back to this country for manufacturing. We've got a
(33:30):
lot of strategic alliances that I think will service well.
We've shed some things that we needed to shed. We've
exposed the fraud. I say we He and his administration
have exposed fraud that is count just cost this country
countenance billions of dollars over the past four or five years.
(33:52):
I don't know how much money they stole, but they
stole a bunch. They stole a bunch. What really irritated
me was when I saw the story about how many
welfare recipients, How many, yeah, that was welfare recipients, snap
food stamps, all of that.
Speaker 4 (34:08):
How many of them.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Drive not just nice cars, but drive Lamborghinis, they drive Porsches,
they drive Maseratis, and they're collecting federal funds for food
that's probably their tip money. These people are just they
(34:29):
just get addicted to it.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
It's like a drug.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
Once you realize that you can steal from someone, a
thief is going to continue to steal from that person
or that entity until they die, until they get caught.
And thank goodness, we are catching many of these people
before they just totally bankrupt this entire country.
Speaker 4 (34:51):
That would be not so good.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
If you like going outside in the summertime, especially around
morning and late afternoon, you know, there are mosquitoes flying
around out there, and this story I'm about to tell you,
it's just a sentence I'm gonna read, Just a sentence
I'm gonna read that's gonna change your mind about something.
Speaker 4 (35:13):
Listen to this.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
New research shows that mosquitoes can learn to become attracted
to deet, which is one of the main ingredients in
many popular and effective mosquito repellents. It still works for now,
but experts say that overusing it could make it less effective.
(35:38):
The mosquitoes are learning to become attracted to det They
are evolving to realize that the people that the source
of that deep, the person, well, they don't know what
people are. They just they're just looking for blood. Okay,
the female mosquito's got to go get some blood. And
they're flying around. And originally they were repelled tremendously by deet,
(36:03):
and now they've realized that if they just go to
the deep, they will find something to eat. They like
that little rhyme. Will is that good? Got a little
smile out of him anyway, Okay, best I can hope
some days. Nah, yeah, no, I don't like that one
fifteen summer traditions to start with a teenager night drives
(36:26):
where they control the music. That doesn't sound all that
fun to me. Now, if we're night driving to go
someplace to go fish together, I'm all up in that.
If we're night driving so he can take me to
dinner and buy me dinner with money he's earned lifeguarding
or whatever he's doing, that would appeal, but I just
don't want to right around and listen to his music.
(36:48):
Although he's kind of a country music guy, he really is.
He doesn't listen to anything weird. He just listens to
a lot of country music. Big science stories this week,
two of them Blue or New Glen rocket exploded in
a massive fireball while undergoing a test in Florida last night.
Speaker 4 (37:07):
I didn't say it was good news.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
I just said it was nerd news, science news. How
much time to have, well, I know, okay, a minute
and a half. Okay, good. That means I can go
to a couple of more things I've circled. I've circled
the little shorty thing that I want to use going out,
and I think you'll like it. By the way, a
gullible fifty three year old woman in Pennsylvania fell for
a scam, and I feel terribly sorry for because scammers,
(37:32):
they're just the scum of the earth.
Speaker 4 (37:33):
They really are.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
It's uber driver asked her to withdraw ninety five hundred
dollars and put it in an envelope for them to
take somewhere. It doesn't say where. And she did it,
and she lost a ninety five hundred and then another
Uber driver hit her up, I guess because they talk
amongst themselves and asked her to give them her credit
(37:56):
card give them, well, it was a detic debit card actually,
and she did that too and lost a bunch of
money unfortunately. Hum, that's okay, that's okay.
Speaker 4 (38:06):
I talked about that. In New Zealand, man.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
Pulled over for swerving all over the road claimed the
alcohol he consumed shouldn't count because it was the blood
of Jesus Christ. And to finish it off, scientists have
identified a new species of marine reptile that lived eighty
million years ago. It's called the Pelosiosaurus rex. Not really,
it's Tylosaurus rex.
Speaker 4 (38:31):
That's it for this week. We'll talk next week. Thank
you for listening. Audios
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