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all about you. This is fiftyplus with Doug Pike. Helpful information on
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where's the inedititional of the program startsright now? Thank you very much.
Listening to fifty plus. We eightand a half years something like that into
it. Will I forget you didn'tstart it, But you've been here quite
some time. How long have youbeen over there? I've been here since
I guess we started doing the showlive January of twenty twenty two. Oh
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wow, gosh, it's been atleast two years and four months, five
months it is almost June. Gosh, how time flies? I know,
not bad. Welcome, I guessit is to the next calm before the
storm. It can't seem to shakethese afternoon thunderstorms, and it's becoming more
and more apparent with each one thatour electrical grid is either flawed, antiquate,
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it vulnerable. I don't know allof the above. Maybe and that's
just to thunderstorms. Somewhere on thisplanet, somebody is sitting at a keyboard,
staring at a monitor, quietly smilingand waiting for a phone call.
I just I can't help but believethat all of this, we're kind of
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being watched and observed for our reactionsto different things, which then kind of
like what happened at Quantico the Marinebase this past week, a couple of
guys, a couple of na'er dowells if you would, drove up to
the gate at that marine base andtried to talk their way in, and
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fortunately for all of us, theywere repelled non violently. These people were
arrested and are being shipped out ofthe United States. But don't think for
a minute that that entire encounter wasn'twasn't monitored for our response to a truck
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pulling up to the gate of aUS military base. It's kind of kind
of spooky, really, when youstop and think about it. This electrical
grid of ours and the people whoare watching it, there's another story.
Actually, let me see if Ican find it. I may go.
Well, let's get to the marketsinto oil and gold and all that stuff
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very quickly. And weather your tensecond weather forecast, by the way,
brought to you by Texas Indoor AirQuality Specialists, because cleaner air is healthier
air. Pretty good chance of showersthrough Saturday, mostly afternoon stuff, and
not as as devastating as what weexperienced almost two weeks ago now, but
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still nonetheless worth keeping an eye on. I ran into sky Mike from over
on KTRH in the hall just afew minutes ago, and he asked me
if I got caught in any badweather yesterday. And I did, but
it wasn't bad bad. It wasn'tanything that you couldn't have driven home comfortably
in. But where Mike was,and I don't remember if he told me
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even where he was, he actuallyducked his vehicle under an underpath or under
an overpass and added out for awhile because he was pretty sure that there
was a tornado somewhere close to him. The wind increased that strongly where I
was it popped up pretty good,but it wasn't. It wasn't that bad.
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So fingers crossed will make it throughtonight and then all the way through
Tuesday. Really there's an afternoon orthrough Saturday there's a better than average chance
of continued thunderstorms, so just beready for that. And there's a slight
chance through Tuesday. And that's enoughof that. That's way more than ten
seconds off the market we go trippingand falling for all four of the endices
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by as much as a full pointthis morning. Better hang on tight because
this could get pretty bumpy. Ithink oil moving up, by the way,
but well it's it's creeping up oneighty dollars a barrel. It was
closed this morning. I haven't goneback and looked again. And gold thanks
to Houston Gold Exchange, down elevendollars this morning at twenty three forty five
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an ounce. That one can't decidequite where to go. And I'm not
you know, as long as it'swhere it is north of twenty three hundred
dollars an ounce, that's it's prettygood time. If you have some that
you were thinking about maybe selling offbecause you need some money to buy groceries.
Now might not be a bad timeto do that. On to the
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news, Houston continues to dig outand dry out after that horrific storm.
It's finally in the rearview mirror.It doesn't help really that there are more
thunders storms in this forecast I justtalked about. But there's at least some
comfort in seeing the forecasters not tryto scare us to death about what's on
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the horizon. They're measuring their words, I think a little bit more carefully.
And this past one, the onethat tore everything up in the heights
and around here, This past onemerited that sort of of talk beforehand.
It it was as bad as theysaid it would be. But we've been
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told so many times that this nextone is gonna be the one that I
think a lot of us were alittle bit numb to that and maybe didn't
really expect what we got. Fourthousand plus windows blown out downtown. It's
a lot. That's a lot.Somebody in this office asked me this morning,
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actually, if there's a reason tofear this hurricane season, because every
time you turn on the TV,somebody's reminding us that the predictions for this
year's storms are the worst ever.Couldn't get any where. It never been
as bad as the as the forecast. We're gonna have to dose out for
twenty twenty four. And so theshort answer is about worrying about this and
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fearing it is yes and no.Yes, hurricanes can do tons of damage.
And I've certainly been in this cityfor enough of them to understand that
I've been through everything from a Categoryone to whatever Ike and Harvey were.
And boy, I've been through themall. I've lived here most of my
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life, starting in the nineteen sixtyactually in the nineteen fifties as a baby,
and I've seen plenty of them comethrough here, plenty of them.
So yes, they are something toreckon with. But no, you don't
have to panic until there's maybe oneor two days out. Something's out there
and drawing a beat on the UpperTexas coast. That's when it's time to
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do something. I do recommend makingsure you've got at least two weeks or
so of medications that you take regularly. That's important. But hoarding twenty cases
of water right now is just greedy. And so you know, the National
Hurricane Center map of the Atlantic andGulf of Mexico and Caribbean dead quiet today
and nothing expected for the next twodays to pop up, which is that's
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my favorite way to find that site. I've seen it with as many as
four and five different things on thereand in different levels of development, and
that always spooks me. Every timesomething rolls off of Africa, I start
thinking, oh, boy, herewe go. Will says, here we
go out to the break and that'swhere we'll go. UT Health Institute on
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Aging for the better part of boy. I bet it's been ten or eleven
years now. UT Health Institute onAging has allowed you and me and everybody
else who's in our age category accessto a special collaborative of doctors and therapists
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and nurses and physicians, assistants andeverybody else who's in the medical field.
Those people who are also members ofthis Institute on Aging are specially trained in
senior medicine. They know us quitewell. They know how to fix what's
broken. They can spot things thatare about to break. That's the good
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news. You can go in andbe seen by a cardiologist, a pullmanologist,
a proctologist, whatever, any ofthe GISTs, and they will know
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fix something before it does break.That's a very comfortable feeling. And we
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have access to all those providers allover town. Anytime we need it.
Just go to the website, takea look at all the resources they offer,
take a look at the help theyoffer. Everything is there for seniors.
Uth dot edu, slash aging,Utch dot edu slash aging. What's
life without a net? I suggestto go to bed, sleep it off.
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Just wait until the show's over.Sleepy Back to Dougpike as fifty plus
continues any day now, Will,Oh, welcome back, Will and audience,
Thank you very much for listening today. On Man. We might get
some rain this afternoon, we mightnot. We'll see how that works out.
Oh, where do I want togo? I've talked about that.
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I've talked about that. That's fine, Let's go to New York, shall
we. I have got to getto this. I have got to get
to this. Democratic Senator Chuck Schumerfinally set it out aloud, and every
one of us should be really payingattention and a little bit scared of what
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he said, because what he saidis the words of his entire party.
At this point, there they havefinally just swung wide the doors and exposed
exactly what their plans are. Becausewhat he said is that the ultimate goal
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of the Democrat Party is citizenship anda vote. And I'll quote the rest
of this for all eleven million orhowever many undocumented there are end quote.
At least they finally set it outloud, hopefully early enough that Americans can
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understand the devastation they are trying toheap upon us with the move like that.
Heck, they've already given them farmore, far more leeway with anything
and everything than any American gets rightnow. They get free food, they
get free housing, they get freetransportation all over the country, they get
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free medical care, they get freefree free this, that and the other.
And in many places where these unlawfulimmigrants are being taken care of at
that level, free phones. They'remaking demands that they want more. I
think it was in New York wherethey're demanding that they be brought not just
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any old food, but they wanttheir own countries' foods as so they can
prepare their own meals. They don'twant us to cook for them. They
want to cook their own stuff,and they want it delivered fresh daily,
and they're here illegally, and thattruly bothers me, and it ought to
bother every one of us. Unfortunately, there are people like Chuck Schumer who
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think that's okay, who think that'sgreat. That's why the border has stayed
open so long, because they knewfrom day one of this president's term that
re election would be an uphill battlethat they probably wouldn't win if the election
were left up to Americans. Andso now they're going to scramble between now
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and November to find a way toget that done. And if they don't
get it done this time, andif the White House turns over, then
that that may very well end thiscrazy train we've been on for four years
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and get this country turned back ina better direction. I certainly hope.
So for eleven million or however manyundocumented they don't even know, they don't
even know how many people they've letinto this country, eleven million or whatever,
however many undocumented there are, Idon't care either. But here's the
deal. If you've got eleven millionvotes, you could get a block of
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cheese elected to president, to bepresident, Well, if you're gonna have
to vote for a block of cheeseto be president of the United States.
What kind of cheese would it be? Maybe a gouda or a griare This
is the most obvious one, theonly one that really stands a chance.
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Parmesan American American cheese, really craftseeing bless American cheese, real craft singles?
Is that a dating site? No, that's an American cheese. Oh
okay, I'm playing the role ofWill Melbourne. Okay for just a minute,
I'm just saying I think a goudawould do really well. Okay,
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what about that goat cheese that wetalked? No, that's nasty. Remember
the really expensive one? Oh yeah, that's right. It was what a
bunch a bunch of money? Wellaren't they all though? Now? Really,
what's an inexpensive cheese? Now?Oh that's right, the stuff made
with oil, that processed cheese,fake cheese. M all right. So
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anyway, we have been just sodistracted really over Gaza and DEI and transgender
athletes and pronouns that we're just notdevoting sufficient to Will or is that a
peace side? So two? Okay, making sure we're just not devoting near
enough time to the border to everget it closed under this administration, It's
not gonna happen. They talk alot a lot about doing something, but
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what they do is a They throwa bill out there that has one line
that says we'll put up two feetof fence, and then the rest of
this trillion dollar bill they'll throw atus as the border closing bill has another
ten trillion dollars a pork in itthat has nothing to do to do with
the border or anything else that'll helpthis country. And what all they do
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is just say just leave it.And then they blame conservatives, They blame
Republicans for not coming on board withtheir border closure bill. It's a joke,
it's a lie. It's all itis. Southern border has been opened
wider and wider every day that PresidentBiden's been in office because they know they
need the votes and they've got thepeople now, and they're giving them as
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much as they can give them,as fast as they can give it.
It's kind of like what this administration'sdoing with young people in the student loan
program, the boy you pick it, all of these things that young people
are being given given handed. They'redoing student loan forgiveness for Harvard students,
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Harvard students. That's unnecessary, itreally is. There's no reason for that.
All right, Will says, Igot to stop. I'll come back
with a lot more stuff I've gotonce again, I've probably got two hours
of stuff to stuff into a onehour hole. We'll do what we can.
A late health probably something you donot really want to think about,
guys, But I'm gonna remind youagain of why you got up three or
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four times last night to go tothe bathroom, Why you're just feeling uncomfortable
sometimes or maybe feeling like you're finishedgoing, and then you walk away and
you got to go again ten minuteslater or five minutes later, or by
the time you get back to yourdesk or back to your easy chair,
like Eleia didn't quite empty out likeit used to. Well, that's an
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enlarged pros state, and so longas it's noncancerous, A late health can
help you with that. What theywill do is they will identify which vein
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the symptoms. They can help womenwith fibroids in the same way. They
can help anybody with ugly veins ina similar manner. Even headache pain can
be alleviated sometimes with vascular closing ofthese arteries. It's called embolization. And
they're very good at what they doover there at late Health, several clinics
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around town. You go there,in a couple of hours in the office,
you're out and recovering comfortably at home. No hospital stay where you got
to walk up in town, downthe aisles or down the halls, and
your gown that's kind of flapping openthe back, and you hear people snickering
back there. That would just makeme want to lean over a little farther.
I think all of these processes I'vetalked about, everything I've talked about
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here is covered by Medicaid and Medicare, most of it is, at least
as far as I know. Andthey also do regenerative medicine. And this
is relatively new technology. Medicare andMedicaid haven't quite caught up with this yet,
but it is proving extremely valuable forthe alleviation of chronic pain. And
anybody who suffers chronic pain has mysympathy first and foremost and deserves a shot
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at this. And the late healthcan help you with that. Seven one
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and spring on a fresh code Owax. This is fifty plus with Doug
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Pike here. Welcome back by Bloss. Thanks for listening. Will you got
any plans later in the week,Not that I could think of, no
post Memorial Day parties or anything.Oh no, not really, not until
in a couple of weeks, becausethen it's my birthday. Heck you say,
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dropping hit, be sure to remindme because I'm forgetful, you know,
And I think we'll have to Isit a weekday? It is,
it's a Wednesday. Well, I'llget the whole audience to sing Happy birthday
for you, the whole audience.Yeah really, yeah, okay, can
we play the song? It's asong copyrighted I know how you are.
No, I don't think it is. I think that's one of those songs
that anybody public domain public domains.I don't know, will I'll look,
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may go copyright it just before yourbirthday. I think we got to pay
a pretty penny to copyright that song. Probably, So moving on a couple
of things. First, a biologicalmail this week was named co winner at
the cor On Film Festival in theBest Actress category. And in fairness,
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okay, in fairness, acting isn'tsomething that offers any sort of advantage based
on gender. You either can oryou can't act. So along those lines,
maybe it's time we just drop thosegender rules for people who act,
people who sing, anyone who performson stage, and just pile everybody into
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a single, non gender specific category. And the winner of the most Entertaining
Person for twenty twenty four is whoknows? Who knows? That would do?
Think of the money they'd save ontrophies. There would just be one
category or one winner for per category, instead of having two. And second,
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our president continues his push ahead ofthe election. Imagine that pushing hard
install still more rules that are eithergoing to blur or potentially erase. Most
are all of the Title nine protectionsthat propelled women and women's sports through the
past what fifty or so years,not the first time, and voters who
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respect women as women are pushing backand slowly but steadily. Interestingly enough,
there have been some judicial decisions thatdo protect women and girls moving forward.
Otherwise, hurt feelings of someone,Yeah, you hurt the feelings of somebody
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who elects to be called and it'stheir right. I don't have a problem
with somebody wanting to be called something, But what I don't want is for
there to be criminal prosecution of someonewho who misgenders someone unintentionally. And even
there's an option that if you don'twant to go along, everybody's got the
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right to declare themselves as whatever orwhoever they want. But making it illegal
for a person, an equally freeperson, to not go along with that
other person's demands set's really dangerous precedentand jeopardizes our first Amendment, which some
Democrats would be happy to turn upsidedown and toss into the trash. From
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the Sentinel, this caught my attention. From the Sentinel this morning came ward
that yesterday. Actually I saw this. North Korean workers posing as American remote
workers found their way in recent yearsinto employment at a television network, at
an aerospace manufacturing company, and ata tech company in Silicon Valley. According
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to the reports, there's an Arizonawoman kind of in charge of all this
bunch and somehow became involved early andhelped steal the identities of sixty Americans.
Those sixty identity then we're used tosecure all this remote work for more than
three hundred companies and those workers,by the way, using fake tax information,
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we're able to earn nearly seven milliondollars basically stealing our secrets. That's
all they're doing. Shouldn't be Itshouldn't come as a surprise to anyone.
Uh will. Let's get to somethingamusing if if you can call it that,
and I'm gonna let you pick.Do you remember count shocula? Does
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brushing your teeth count? Or howdo you not know that? Ooh?
Does brushing your teeth count? Athird of Americans think that doing the dishes
or a load of laundry counts asexercise. What thirty six percent say that
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taking out the trash counts? TwoI beg to differ based on I don't
know what is it? Eight nineyears of interviews with doctors who routinely tell
us that exercise is important, andalso routinely tell us that a real exercise
is at least at least fifteen minutesof activity. And I think that several
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of the doctors I know, JohnHiggins comes to mind, sports cardiologist,
would say at least thirty minutes.You've got to get your heart rate up.
You've got to be using your muscles. Do you think that? Do
you think that taking out the trashcounts will as an exercise depends on how
heavy the trash is and how faraway. That's what I was thinking.
Yeah, my trash cans on wheels, So all I have to do to
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get it into the can is justtake it out the back door. It
can't. I gotta pick up thetrash can from the kitchen, walk through
the apartment downstairs with the whole trashcan. You don't have bags, well
I do have bags. Well,then take it out of the can.
Well that's what I'm saying. Itake it out of the Oh you didn't
say that. Now, you saidyou had to pick up the can okay,
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well take the literal person and thenI walk it out the apartment I
got downstairs outside, throw it intothe track. Okay, well you get
points because you have flight of stairscoming back up to get back in the
house. Right, Yeah, I'llgive you that. How far is it?
Quarter mile? Quarter mile? Ifit were, i'd give you credit
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for exercise. But no, justone flight of steps. Man, I've
got a two story house. Well, I do steps probably thirty times a
day. Well, you know,so that counts if you add them all
over. Yeah. I had thatrecovery period though, in a big brown
chair between steps. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I have to have to
feed the guinea pig. Does thatcount? Yeah? Got to cut up
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that bell pepper, Gotta cut upthat cucumber, Gotta cut up it is.
It's dexterity. I'm maintaining my dexterityand my grip. I don't want
to be overcome and just riddled witharthritis. At some point, of course
it sounds actually my hands got tornup so bad playing football in high school
and baseball in high school and college. And I mean, look at that
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one, that thing, and youknow it's interesting. Will it showed him
a finger that I dislocated a coupleof times, and it actually you can
it leaned backward more than it should. But before I and I messed it
up really badly again about a monthago, and now it doesn't. It
doesn't go up as high as itused to. So something in there.
I don't think it'll pop. Ithink you got to chop it off.
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Oh there was a magician. Therewas a magician. Will on where that
America's got talent? Last night?Some guy from I'm not sure where he's
from, but I watched the actand the camera watched the act and the
audience, and he was doing itright in front of the judges. And
he literally he would go like thatand just and that finger which would go
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with him wherever. He looked likehe was taking his fingers off. You
really need to look the guy up, I will. I mean, there's
one where he puts a ring onhis finger and then he just takes that
whole finger and moves it over one. Yeah, we need to look at
that during the break. That's spooky. It is it is. We got
to take a break on the wayout. Texas Home Buyers thirty five years,
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This is fifty plus with Doug Pike. Hi, welcome back fifty plus on
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KPRC. Thanks for sharing your lunchhour with me today. I don't know
if it's raining or not outside.We got booted back into the little cracker
box studio and so I can't seeoutside. Well, you don't have any
cameras up or anything over there,do you? Nope? Okay, never
mind. Then I can look atup. Yeah, take a peek outside
and see if it's Sonny or not, I'm gonna I'm gonna say cloudy.
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It says partly Sonny outside, thatmeans partly cloudy. So I guess we
could both be right if you wantedto take the opposing view. Hunter biden
back of the news as an upcomingtrial was put on hold, on extended
hold, so he didn't have toworry about that. But what he does
have to kind of think about nowis what's going to be in the tell
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all book that's about to be releasedby the mother of the child his family
once didn't even acknowledge as his.She's She's got a book and it's all
about their relationship. And I sawone little snippet from it that just makes
makes me want to buy that book. It really does. And the release
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date for the book, I maytry and get an advanced copy. Oh,
I might do that. That willbe compelling reading. I'm sure they're
going to release that book on Augusttwentieth, which coincidentally or not, is
the second day of the Democratic NationalConvention up in Chicago. So hang on
tight, friends, I'm setting theover under on the time it takes Hunter's
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team to declare that that whole bookis a lie at forty five minutes.
Forty five minutes from its release,They've already got the release written. They've
already got the press release written totag her as a former stripper who's just
trying to make money and get morethan she gets child support for her daughter
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and Hunter's daughter, and from theson of the President of the United States,
for the grandchild of the President ofthe United States. This woman gets
five grand a month. Five grand. They blow their nose with that much
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money, right, moving on that, it's wow, just wow. That
guy continues to confuse me with howwell, no, not really not not
no, never mind, he doesn'tconfuse anybody. If you're looking for a
reason not to visit Denver, howabout this one. All the way from
the Daily Mail comes a story thatDenver police now or soon will be employing
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drones as first responders to nine toone one calls. Now that the city's
cut its police budget by millions ofdollars, they're gonna use drones to race
to the scene and assess the situationfor authenticity and for severity, and then
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they'll decide if somebody really needs apolice officer's help, or if they know,
they'll work it out and then thatwhole time, whatever it is that
that event is gonna be over,it's gonna be over. And if it's
violent at all in nature, somebody'sgonna take a bad whipping or worst.
And to make Denver look good onthe drone thing, Boston Mayor Michelle wou
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I love this. In addition tosuggesting the abolishment of the city's gang registry,
she argued also that little things,you know, little things like theft,
like receiving stolen property, breaking andentering, destruction of property, and
several more things like that, noneof those crimes should be prosecuted in Boston,
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according to her, and she's themayor, and she has around the
clock security, you can bet onthat. She also recommended, of course,
allowing non citizens to vote, andshe'll probably do very well with them
on that. Still, whatever youwant, plank in her platform, it's
insanity. What prosecuting theft? Yeah, that's great. And just like that,
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you're going to start here in theretail store shuddering for miles and miles
away across that entire city. Tenseconds will Cafe getting backlash for charging a
dollar to heat up raspberry muffins.Uh yeah, time to find a new
bakery. We'll be back tomorrow.Audios