October 17, 2025 • 35 mins
Today, Doug Pike interviews Heath Moore of Moore Security about safes and lockboxes.
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H Here we go, Welcome Gosh Officially. As I got
in my car around six forty am today, five or
six tiny little pinheads size drop of water fell on
my windshield. I saw them. One even hit my arm
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as I closed the door when I was getting in
the car. Not in any rush. It's not like I
had an umbrella overhead and was trying to squeeze through
the gap. In any event, Though technically it rained at
my house, not enough to measure. I'm sure those little
droplets were evaporated before I even got to the end
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of the block. It would have taken probably, I don't know,
seven eight hundred of them to fill a bottle cap,
but it was rain, nonetheless, to which my landscape and
trees replied, Oh, come on, slightly better chance for rain
this afternoon and tomorrow and even into Sunday, but still
probably not enough at your house or mine to change
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anything except for some increasingly cooler temperatures for the next
week or so. That'll be nice. Huh. By the way,
remember when that Channel two news acre his last name
is went, I believe he declared storm season over for
us for twenty twenty five. And yet I look in
there this morning and there are two yellow blobs on
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the map again, ones in the Atlantic headed out to sea.
They could fall apart before sunset, but maybe it won't.
Maybe it will. It doesn't look like it has any
kind of a lifespan. The other one, though, is lower,
much more to the south in its origin and heading
west northwest, but expected to fall south, which would be
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the ideal ultimate end to that thing. Fall south, maybe
go into some uninhabited part of the mountains of Central America.
It's going through the Caribbean over the next several days.
Long range stuff does show that southern turn. So fingers crossed. Huh.
I hope that guy was I hope that guy's right.
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I hope he didn't jinx this. I'm not a big
I'm not superstitious, really, but anytime I hear something like that,
it kind of makes me cringe a little bit, just
in case, just in case I'm wrong. The market's more
red than a little more red than green really about
ten ten thirty when I snapshot at it, and most
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of that movement just algorithmic trading done in half the
blink of an eye, when strategic thresholds are met. Gold,
by the way, after just shooting to the moon yesterday
and hitting it, came back down to Earth this morning.
It gained I want to say, eighty something dollars announced yesterday.
I believe that's correct, But it was down about fifty
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bucks this morning, so still trending upward no matter how
you look at it. And hey, that's good news. If
you own a lot of gold, or even a little
bit of gold, it wouldn't take much. I would venture
to guess that a gold paper clip would be worth
enough money to fill a gas tank if my ballpark
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math is right. I'm not terribly sure. It doesn't matter anyway,
and one one way or the other good for gold
and then oil back down around I want to say
fifty eight dollars a barrel, I think when I looked
last So time for a road trip and probably not
a bad weekend. Like I said, the ring chances are there,
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but they're not locked in the odds of you or
me or anybody else getting wet this weekend by standing
outside fairly slim. Make your plans, take off and head
to where you wherever you want to go and golf, fishing,
deer hunting. Everything's kind of coming around now. So if
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you're an outdoors person, make your plans and go enjoy them.
Let's go to just a little bitty what if I
got a couple of minutes? Will is that a fair assumption?
Three minutes? Let me go back to here though, if
you'll recall, as I mentioned, road trips actually good idea
around here. But I wouldn't drive to California because traffic
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laws out there changed recently. I believe this week actually
enabling the state to issue speeding and light I think
speeding tickets, but I know light running tickets. They got
rid of their red light cameras, but I think they've
revived that concept and then taken it a step further,
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so that the state can issue you a ticket. If
it's your car that runs the red light, doesn't matter
who's driving it. The ticket will be issued to the
registered owner of the car. Oh, you got a teenage
son with a heavy foot when he sees yellow, you
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get the ticket. A couple of thugs steer your car
run some red lights, You get the tickets, and then
you have to prove. I guess to them that it
wasn't you. But by that law, sign seal them delivered
by a gambling Gavin. By that law, it's your baby
to rock. You're gonna have to pay. I don't know
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how well that's gonna stand up, but it certainly is. Yeah.
I don't know why he would have approved something like that,
and it just it just well may secure his role
as a no chance contender to earn the Democrat nomination
in three years if he's gonna do stuff like that,
you know, and he doesn't scare me near as much
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as mom Donnie. Uh, but his strategies and policies in
California are just totally at odds with what would actually
benefit I guess the few people who would still live
in that sad state used to be the third largest
economy in the world. California did. Now it's the fourth.
It dropped, and that's because because people are moving out
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of there as fast as they can, fast as they can.
All right, let's do something just a little bit, oh perfect,
one minute. I can do a couple of things on
this little list. There's only one state capital. This is
for the time this weekend or next weekend, or next Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
whenever the conversation falls off to nothing, while you're watching
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a game, while you're eating dinner, whatever you can say.
By the way, can anybody tell me the only state
capital that doesn't share any letters with its state? And
there is only one, and so you know, because I've
only got a few seconds to go, it's Pierre, South Dakota.
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I probably could have gotten there, but it would have
taken me a lot longer than just to read it.
So tuck that away, pull it out if you need it.
Cedar Cove RV Resort in Baytown is right there on
Tri City Beach Road, kind of at the end of
Tri City Beach Road, down near Thompson's Bait Camp. Great
place to go buy yourself some live shrimp. If you're
staying down there at Cedar Cove for a few days
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and nights and want to get up early and try
your hand at a little fishing there on the bay.
Got all the amenities you could possibly want. Cedar Cove's
got electric water and sewer at every site, Wi Fi bathhouse, showers,
convenience store, all of that stuff, and as I mentioned,
pretty good fishing when the tide in the winter right
and the temperature which is about to be really really
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right for maybe slinging something out there under a cork
and just watching for that cork to go down. Concrete roads,
concrete slabs, and if you don't own a vehicle that
qualifies as something you'd put in an RV park, Al
Kibby will rent you one. He has one available so
that you and your family can just kind of figure
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out what's up with this whole lifestyle of RV living
on the water and waking up to the gentle breeze
through the palm trees and sunrise over the water and
all of that good stuff. A little cookout in the
evening maybe of the fish you caught. Cedar Cove Rvresort
dot com check it out, go down there, get a
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feel for it. You're gonna love it, I promise cedarcovearvresort
dot com. What's life without a net? I suggest to
go to bed, sleep it off.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Just wait until the show's over, sleepy. Back to Dougpike
as fifty plus continues fifty plus.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
I just looked at a I saw a headline and
the headline, and I'll do some digging after the show.
I think, because the headline says killer freed, killer freed
after thirty nine arrests. What sort of justice system do
we have that would allow someone who's been arrested thirty
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nine times and is described here as a killer? What
would put that guy back on the street. I just
don't understand. As a good friend of mine and I
have discussed a couple of times in email and text exchanges,
people who've been arrested thirty nine times probably committed about
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thirty nine thousand crimes. That's their job, that's the only
profession they know. That's pretty pretty scary that somebody like
that would be let out. I don't know who let
him out, but it's scary no matter who did that.
A quick reminder, I had this from a friend of
mine yesterday about something that's going on at Sam Houston
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Park tomorrow downtown eleven am to three pm. And it's
such a good event for kids, I wanted to share it.
I'm not talking about toddlers. I'm talking about kids who
understand what STEM learning is, and that is science, technology, engineering,
and math. And this Energy Day STEM Festival going on
(10:45):
tomorrow will immerse them in all of the above. They're
going to have exhibits, hands on learning demonstrations that showcase
the world of energy. It's just going to be a
good fun time for kids to They probably won't even
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realize at first that they're learning so much out there.
Very interested the Bureau of Labor and Statistics, reading from
this release, I have said STEM job opportunities are expected
to grow ten point eight percent by the year twenty
thirty four, and Houston stepping up to kind of lead
the charge. We're holding our own. We've got some pretty
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bright kids in this city, all over this city, and
events such as this festival are going a long ways
toward helping them find their way into these opportunities. Kids
K through twelve, come on out Energy Day STEM Festival.
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It's going to be great. Saturday October eighteenth. That's tomorrow
and it's at sam Houston Park eleven am to three pm.
Totally free. Everything out there is going to be free,
and the information these kids will get it is just
in invaluable really to their futures. I talked about him.
I'm not gonna talk about him. Oh, from the I guess,
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from the Catwoman to Gavin's Batman. AOC I listened to
some of this and it just kind of almost made
me snicker. AOC lectured attendees at a CNN tel Hall
meeting about how young men, white men pretty much is
what she said without saying it, and you'll hear it
in a second, according to her, are being taught to
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be mean and dominate people who are poorer and darker.
That's what she said to say it without saying it
out aloud, but that's exactly how the phrase translates. So
she talked about how Republicans are doing better digitally also
in their efforts to sway the country in that direction,
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and she says it's because Republicans are more clear about
their messaging than Democrats are. Now, well, I got news
for Catwoman. It's not the clarity of the message it's
the message itself that's resonating with people of all ages
around this country. We've seen what their way does to
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the country. We've seen what it did for the last
four years, and people are just tired of it. And
there was another video I saw, I believe a commercial
that's been running somewhere, not down here. I haven't seen
it anyway of former President Barack Obama who claims in
that video that Republicans are trying to steal Congress and
that Prop fifty is going to stop them in their tracks.
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But that's a California thing. Maybe it's only running in California.
It would make sense, although they might try to spin
it a little bit and run it all over the
country to just kind of draw a line in the sand.
This whole country of ours, starting on the left, needs
to open its eyes and ears and just to the
way these very progressive ideas are being forced on us
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more and more, despite not that long ago, clear majority
of Americans saying no, thanks to all of it. It's
enough's enough. That's enough of that too. I'll leave that there,
I'll go over here. I asked Will during the break
if he could come up with any reason that there
is no camera, because this is the only explanation for
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what I'm about to tell you. No camera pointed at
one of the biggest buildings on the University of Montana campus.
It's at the main Hall, whatever that is. I haven't
even looked it up, the main Hall of the University
of Montana. And what's happening. And it's been happening every fall.
It doesn't say for how many years, but every fall
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seems to infer that it's happened more than at least
four or five times. Hi atop the spire at the
University of Montana's main Hall, somebody somehow is sticking a
pumpk and on top of that thing, they're securing a pumpkin,
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and I guess it just sits there till it rots
and falls off, because I don't know who would dare
climb up there and try to retrieve it. And it's
so dangerous according to the school that they've tried hiring
pros to do it, but the students keep beating them
to the punch. How about just turn on go look
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at the video from one of probably a dozen cameras
around that thing. The morning after the pumpkin shows up,
and voila, there will be your pumpkin sticker. That's all
you gotta do, really, senior superpower. Anytime I see a
story like this, I want to I want to share
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it because it's not like it's not like I'm trying
to inspire all of you to do what this person
has done, because this person says done something absolutely crazy
for her age. But I want to showcase these people.
And it doesn't even give her name, but I just
wanted to showcase it because she, an eighty year old
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grandmother from New Jersey, recently became the oldest person to
ever finish the Ironman World Championship. I'll think about all
the cycling, all the swimming, and all the running, although
I doubt she ran a whole lot. She may have
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walked it, and it may have taken her considerably longer
than all of the other entrants. She may or may
not have finished last, but she did finish, and there
are some people who I am sure entered that event
and did not finish, So I don't care if it
took her a week. Good for her, Good for her. Ah,
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this is something I'm going to try and get someone
in the travel industry to be part of this show.
In fact, I've got a woman I may call this afternoon. Call, Okay,
I go, now, I know who I need to call,
and I'll tear that off of here and I'll talk
about it later with her. There was a travel trends
thing I saw today, one of the hottest trends for
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twenty six and it's got to be for a lot
of people our ages, but even for I would think
middle aged travelers revisiting places that you went on vacation
as a kid. Says here. Seventy three percent of travelers
are drawn to trips that connect with their past, and
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eighty two percent of younger travelers can't wait to return
to childhood favorites. I would. I would love to go
back again with ulterior motive to my grandparents' house in
Southeast Florida, Pompino Beach. I know the address, I know
how to get there. All I need is an airplane
and a rent car and I could drive right by
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their house and go to the industry, turn around in
the cull to sack, and then drive back out. But
that just that site of that house would bring back
amazing memories. And then for the rest of the week,
I would stay in Southeast Florida, I'd fish every day
and then just barely get to the airport in time
to catch my plane home. I do love fishing down there.
I've got a lot of friends who fish down there,
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and that's that's on my short list of places I
might go with some of my remaining vacation time. Where
I have to go now is to the break And
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are well, we almost got out of storm season now
that the guy from Channel two maybe has us back
in it, but I don't think it's gonna happen. But
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still we've got winter coming. We've got all kinds of
issues that might happen with your roof related to even
just a simple thunderstorm sometimes can knock just the right
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they'll let you know. They'll show it to you. It'll
show you exactly what they're looking at and then give
you the opportunity to accept. Go ahead and do that,
because it's going to be a great bid, a great price,
with the right materials and the right expert technicians to
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take care of that for you before anything little on
your roof becomes something big. As I've mentioned so many
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an educator in any way, shape or form, John's going
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This is a real deal discount, a real deal opportunity,
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doing that job for you, and he's willing to give
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Speaker 3 (20:36):
Yawn.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
They sure don't make them like they used to.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
That's why every few months we wash him, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike, fifty plus.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Thanks for listening. I certainly do appreciate it. Fourth and
final segment is going to be up in a little while,
but to get us there. In this segment, we're going
to talk about keeping bad guys from taking our goods
stuff and to walk us through the current lineup of
safts and lock boxes and locking mechanisms and all of that.
I'm gonna bring in Heath more from more security out
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there on guest and welcome aboard Heath. Hey, Doug, I'm
good man, Thank you. So let's let's jump over burying
our valuables in the backyard and start with a little
background on safes. How long have traditional safs been around
if you know now, I.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Mean in guns saves forty years or so longer than that.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Yeah, well yeah, In fact, for the longest time, most
of the people I knew who were keeping guns at
them and just glass fronted cabinets kind of showing them off. Yes, sir,
well that's changed, holy cow. And so so we don't
run out of time here. Let's fast forward now to
what's available and who needs it for the For the
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average person in my audience, there may be storing important documents, jewelry,
maybe a handgun, or a little urgency stash of cash,
something like that. What size safe would you call entry level?
That's a real safe, probably like.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
A twenty three cubic foot Those are going to be
thirty inches wide, twenty two hall and sixty inch or
twenty two deep and sixty inches tall. You can get those,
you know, fire protection wise, anywhere from thirty minutes to
two hours.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Let's yeah, let's talk about heath more from more security here.
Let's talk about fire protection for a second. That what
is the rating system and how do they protect from
fire with safe?
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Typically the way the fire rating is kind of justified,
I guess you would say it, say, do you have
a safe that is rated for thirty minutes at twelve
hundred degrees? Basically after that save has been in a
fire for thirty minutes to twelve hundred degrees, the internal
temperature reach is three hundred and fifty degrees, and that's
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an average temperature inside. Is that going a purpose of that?
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Go ahead?
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Go ahead?
Speaker 2 (23:04):
No, you go ahead.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
I would say that the purpose of the three hundred
and fifty degree marker is paper starts a charret three
fifty wy yees, okay, figure now if you have Now,
if you have a safe dead has a two and
a half hour fire rating at twelve hundred degrees, then
it takes two and a half hours to reach that
three hundred and fifty degree mark.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
What do you think is the right level of protection
the thirty minutes or two and a half hours or
something in the middle.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
It depends on where you are and where you put
the safe in your house.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
That's a good point.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
If it takes us five minutes to get down, you
drive away, you're probably gonna want all the fire protection
you can get if you liver, If you live around
the corner from the fire station. You know, I'll go
at least sixty minutes.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Yeah, that seems reasonable. If they can't get there and
get the temperature down, you don't have to put the
entire fire out. You just got to get the temperature
down to back where it won't burst into flames inside
the safe. Oh my gosh, I see, heath. I see
a lot of little, small, lightweight what they call safes
in the box stores. But I feel like if it's
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something putting a shopping car to crook, wouldn't have any
trouble hauling out of my house, no matter even if
I filled it with lead. Is that a pretty safe assumption.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
Huh, yes, sir.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Your best security on something like that is, you know,
we don't charge when we anchor him down when we
deliver it. But to have that thing anchored into your concrete.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Yeah, that's a good point foundation. What about upstairs? Does
that make it harder for thieves to get them out?
I guess it does. They got to get them down
the stairs.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
They typically don't care if they tear up your stairs.
They you know, I've seen it where they just push
them down the stairs within there at the bottom of
your stairs. But we actually them my way to take
one upstairs right now?
Speaker 2 (24:51):
No way? Yeah, talk about that too, because I at
one point I had a safe upstairs, and when those
guys came out with that fancy dolly, I was impressed.
When did those come along and save your backs?
Speaker 3 (25:07):
I've been doing this over thirty years and I've always
had one. I hard. They were steel machines. Now they're illuminum,
so they're a whole lot lighter.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Thank goodness for that. Yeah, safe's heavy enough, good heavens.
And it's just it's a three wheel on each side
system right where it kind of just walks up the
stairs for you. Does that make sense?
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Yeah, it'll manipulate the steps of your Basically, the machine
will run up two steps and then bring the safe
up one from at the top of the stairs. It'll
break it up the last two steps, my gosha.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Thank goodness for that. Huh what would you? What about
locking mechanisms? We're down to almost just barely two minutes?
What's the most secure? What's the pluses and minuses with
old fashioned tumblers and electronics?
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Your old fashioned mechanical lock is going to be a
group two lock, which means it can be manipulated. There's
not a lot of guys out there that can. Actually,
it's truly watching and feeling the dial and understanding how
it works. You know, I've been doing this a long
time and I don't have the patience or the feel
for it. Uh No, No, I know a few guys
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that can do it.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Whereas if you go with the electronic lock, it's it's great.
Basically what they consider a group one lock, it's manipulation proof. Uh.
You know, you try to put a combination in three
or four times in a row and it's wrong, you'll
go to a lockout. Yeah, time for you know, five
to ten minutes. I mean some of them you can adjust,
depend it on the lock.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Yeah. What about what would you say is the single
most important consideration when somebody's deciding to buy safe, the size,
where they're gonna put it. What's what's the one thing
they got to really think about before they pull the trigger?
Speaker 3 (26:49):
One thing is, yeah, where where they're going to put it?
And take into consideration that you have to open and
close the door to use it. A lot of people
don't honestly think about that. But you know, get truthfully,
get something bigger than you think that you need, because
you're gonna find other stuff to put in it that
you haven't thought of.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
It took me five minutes after my safe got delivered
to realize it wasn't big enough. I was just I
could have cried, you know, And then now I've just
had to I've had to make other arrangements. Unfortunately, I
got Buddy Mine.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
We'll take care of it.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Buddy Mine's got a big safe and it's it's against
the wall in his den. He's a single guy. He's
older than me, and he's just got this big safe
in the den. He said, if they can get it
out of here, they can have it. And that thing's
not going anywhere. Man Keith More, Heath Moore, excuse me,
Heath heath More from More Security out there on Guestner.
The website is more securitysafes dot com. Uh, they'll take
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good care of you. Go out there and see them.
More Security safe dot com. Thank you, Heath.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
All right, Doug appreciate it, Yes, sir man Audios.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
All right, champions tree preservation can't put a can't put
a tree in a safe. I think you could put
a safe in a tree if you had a big
enough tree, though wouldn't be hidden very well. In any event,
Champions Tree Preservation will come out to your house. That
would be Irwin or Robin Costellanos, both of whom are
whether a father and son team of arborus, professionally trained
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arborius who will come out and take a look at
all your trees, let you know how they're doing. And
then once they make that assessment, they'll tell you what
needs pruning, what needs feeding, what needs lopping, what needs
to be chopped down and hauled away. And they have
all the equipment they need to get those jobs done.
They have all the crews they need to get those
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jobs done professionally so that your yard can get back
to doing what it does for you without worrying about
those trees. Some trees just have to go to They
hate that. It's called Champions Tree Preservation for a reason.
They don't like that. But if they have to do that,
they own a tree farm that grows native Texas trees,
so they can find something out there just the right
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size to bring into your yard to get back to
making shade, get back to hanging swing sets off of
At some point, championstree dot Com get them out there
while the weather's nice. Get them out there to make
sure that they're going to make it all the way
through winter and right back through spring. Talk to them
about watering too. One of the things I'll never forget
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is how much I learned about over watering oak trees
when Erwin came to my house. I had no idea
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Speaker 1 (29:36):
Old guys rule, And of course, women never get old
if you want to avoid sleeping on the couch.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Okay, well, I think that sounds like a good plan.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug Hood.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
It from a fan.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Hurd, it from a fan. All right, welcome back, thanks
for listening. S do appreciate that update on the California's
world's largest economy. It's actually California went from fourth to fifth,
not third to fourth. Japan is now fourth in California's
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It's still a ton of money, all of these there's
a lot of money in this country of ours, and
thank goodness for that. I mean, we sometimes, I guess
forget how big the economies of some of our states
are because our countries is so big. But that's an
interesting thing to be from the top five even of
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world economies, when you think of all the nations out there.
A little AI nonsense and weirdness. Thirty two year old
woman in Florida accused of falsely reporting a crime. You know,
this isn't the first time this has happened, but it's
the first time I know of that somebody used AI.
What she did was go to the police and tell
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tell them that she had been sexually assaulted by a man.
But the photo she gave them was an image that
she created using chat GPT. Let your imagination run wild
on that one. That's messed up on about five levels.
This one may be a few more. Even. Police in Salem,
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Massachusetts warning residents about a viral TikTok prank that uses
artificial intelligence to create fake images of people attempting to
break into homes. I that's bad enough. I saw something,
and make sure it's not here. No, I saw something
(31:42):
this morning about people who are actually there were several
kids dressed in Halloween masks who just descended upon some
random house. They didn't know who lived there or anything,
and started running around the house. Banging on the doors
and windows and threatening these people and those kids are
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very lucky. There's a lot of places in this country
where if they'd made one false step that could have
had a very different ending than just a little reprimand
for making fools of themselves and pretending that they were
going to break into a house, and on next level
of stupid, young woman in Russia went viral on social
(32:29):
media over there. Whatever that is good. I was trying
to think of some clever Russian accented website, but it's
just a waste of time anyway. What she did was claimed,
at least that she underwent a procedure to change her
eye color during pregnancy so that her baby would be
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born with the new eye color. Now, I'm no doctor,
but I'm going to just go out on a limb
and bet that that wouldn't have made any difference.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
It all.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Stray cat news or no, I'm not gonna talk about that.
I'll stick with the stray cat news and see if
I have any time. What do I have about two minutes?
Will that's not a bad guess. Volunteers spent days days
trying to rescue a cat stuck on a roof stray
cat got up on a roof, wouldn't come down, So
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all these volunteers for several days, they're putting up humane traps.
They build a ramp so the cat can get down,
and then somebody got too close and spooked that cat.
Thirty feet off the ground. This cat was spooked. It
it jumped and it hit the ground and it ran away.
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It just got tired of those people bugging. It just
tired enough that, you know what, I'm just leaving. It
had no intention of using the ramp, no intention of
using the cage, which I'm sure was full of cat nip.
Cats are pretty amazing animals. They can survive a jump
like that, a thirty foot jump for a stray cat.
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That's pretty good. And then in the other end of
the extreme, a mountain lion. I've seen video of this,
a mountain lion, not to the actual to an actual
second floor balcony, but that's how high they can jump,
just from a just standing there, jump straight up onto
a second floor balcony in apartment. So if you ever
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see a if you're ever on the second floor balcony
and you see a mountain lion, go back inside. It's
about all I can tell you not gonna worry about
that and not gonna worry about that. We're just about
at the end here. Let's go ahead and wrap it up,
and I'll take this time to thank all of you
for listening. I really do appreciate it. If you're interested
in becoming part of the show, as we picked up
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a couple of more. Once I get you on board,
the first thing I'm gonna do is interview you so
my audience can get to you and I can get
to know you even a little better. And then from there,
I'm gonna make sure that they know about you every
week as many times as you want me to tell
them so that you can raise your business up. All
you gotta do is email me, Doug Packet, iHeartMedia dot Com.
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Thank you so much for listening. Truly do appreciate it.
I'm gonna go eat some Mexican food right now. Audios.
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H Here we go, Welcome Gosh Officially. As I got
in my car around six forty am today, five or
six tiny little pinheads size drop of water fell on
my windshield. I saw them. One even hit my arm
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as I closed the door when I was getting in
the car. Not in any rush. It's not like I
had an umbrella overhead and was trying to squeeze through
the gap. In any event, Though technically it rained at
my house, not enough to measure. I'm sure those little
droplets were evaporated before I even got to the end
(01:26):
of the block. It would have taken probably, I don't know,
seven eight hundred of them to fill a bottle cap,
but it was rain, nonetheless, to which my landscape and
trees replied, Oh, come on, slightly better chance for rain
this afternoon and tomorrow and even into Sunday, but still
probably not enough at your house or mine to change
(01:48):
anything except for some increasingly cooler temperatures for the next
week or so. That'll be nice. Huh. By the way,
remember when that Channel two news acre his last name
is went, I believe he declared storm season over for
us for twenty twenty five. And yet I look in
there this morning and there are two yellow blobs on
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the map again, ones in the Atlantic headed out to sea.
They could fall apart before sunset, but maybe it won't.
Maybe it will. It doesn't look like it has any
kind of a lifespan. The other one, though, is lower,
much more to the south in its origin and heading
west northwest, but expected to fall south, which would be
(02:35):
the ideal ultimate end to that thing. Fall south, maybe
go into some uninhabited part of the mountains of Central America.
It's going through the Caribbean over the next several days.
Long range stuff does show that southern turn. So fingers crossed. Huh.
I hope that guy was I hope that guy's right.
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I hope he didn't jinx this. I'm not a big
I'm not superstitious, really, but anytime I hear something like that,
it kind of makes me cringe a little bit, just
in case, just in case I'm wrong. The market's more
red than a little more red than green really about
ten ten thirty when I snapshot at it, and most
(03:17):
of that movement just algorithmic trading done in half the
blink of an eye, when strategic thresholds are met. Gold,
by the way, after just shooting to the moon yesterday
and hitting it, came back down to Earth this morning.
It gained I want to say, eighty something dollars announced yesterday.
I believe that's correct, But it was down about fifty
(03:39):
bucks this morning, so still trending upward no matter how
you look at it. And hey, that's good news. If
you own a lot of gold, or even a little
bit of gold, it wouldn't take much. I would venture
to guess that a gold paper clip would be worth
enough money to fill a gas tank if my ballpark
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math is right. I'm not terribly sure. It doesn't matter anyway,
and one one way or the other good for gold
and then oil back down around I want to say
fifty eight dollars a barrel, I think when I looked
last So time for a road trip and probably not
a bad weekend. Like I said, the ring chances are there,
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but they're not locked in the odds of you or
me or anybody else getting wet this weekend by standing
outside fairly slim. Make your plans, take off and head
to where you wherever you want to go and golf, fishing,
deer hunting. Everything's kind of coming around now. So if
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you're an outdoors person, make your plans and go enjoy them.
Let's go to just a little bitty what if I
got a couple of minutes? Will is that a fair assumption?
Three minutes? Let me go back to here though, if
you'll recall, as I mentioned, road trips actually good idea
around here. But I wouldn't drive to California because traffic
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laws out there changed recently. I believe this week actually
enabling the state to issue speeding and light I think
speeding tickets, but I know light running tickets. They got
rid of their red light cameras, but I think they've
revived that concept and then taken it a step further,
(05:25):
so that the state can issue you a ticket. If
it's your car that runs the red light, doesn't matter
who's driving it. The ticket will be issued to the
registered owner of the car. Oh, you got a teenage
son with a heavy foot when he sees yellow, you
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get the ticket. A couple of thugs steer your car
run some red lights, You get the tickets, and then
you have to prove. I guess to them that it
wasn't you. But by that law, sign seal them delivered
by a gambling Gavin. By that law, it's your baby
to rock. You're gonna have to pay. I don't know
(06:07):
how well that's gonna stand up, but it certainly is. Yeah.
I don't know why he would have approved something like that,
and it just it just well may secure his role
as a no chance contender to earn the Democrat nomination
in three years if he's gonna do stuff like that,
you know, and he doesn't scare me near as much
(06:27):
as mom Donnie. Uh, but his strategies and policies in
California are just totally at odds with what would actually
benefit I guess the few people who would still live
in that sad state used to be the third largest
economy in the world. California did. Now it's the fourth.
It dropped, and that's because because people are moving out
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of there as fast as they can, fast as they can.
All right, let's do something just a little bit, oh perfect,
one minute. I can do a couple of things on
this little list. There's only one state capital. This is
for the time this weekend or next weekend, or next Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
whenever the conversation falls off to nothing, while you're watching
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a game, while you're eating dinner, whatever you can say.
By the way, can anybody tell me the only state
capital that doesn't share any letters with its state? And
there is only one, and so you know, because I've
only got a few seconds to go, it's Pierre, South Dakota.
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I probably could have gotten there, but it would have
taken me a lot longer than just to read it.
So tuck that away, pull it out if you need it.
Cedar Cove RV Resort in Baytown is right there on
Tri City Beach Road, kind of at the end of
Tri City Beach Road, down near Thompson's Bait Camp. Great
place to go buy yourself some live shrimp. If you're
staying down there at Cedar Cove for a few days
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and nights and want to get up early and try
your hand at a little fishing there on the bay.
Got all the amenities you could possibly want. Cedar Cove's
got electric water and sewer at every site, Wi Fi bathhouse, showers,
convenience store, all of that stuff, and as I mentioned,
pretty good fishing when the tide in the winter right
and the temperature which is about to be really really
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right for maybe slinging something out there under a cork
and just watching for that cork to go down. Concrete roads,
concrete slabs, and if you don't own a vehicle that
qualifies as something you'd put in an RV park, Al
Kibby will rent you one. He has one available so
that you and your family can just kind of figure
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out what's up with this whole lifestyle of RV living
on the water and waking up to the gentle breeze
through the palm trees and sunrise over the water and
all of that good stuff. A little cookout in the
evening maybe of the fish you caught. Cedar Cove Rvresort
dot com check it out, go down there, get a
(09:01):
feel for it. You're gonna love it, I promise cedarcovearvresort
dot com. What's life without a net? I suggest to
go to bed, sleep it off.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Just wait until the show's over, sleepy. Back to Dougpike
as fifty plus continues fifty plus.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
I just looked at a I saw a headline and
the headline, and I'll do some digging after the show.
I think, because the headline says killer freed, killer freed
after thirty nine arrests. What sort of justice system do
we have that would allow someone who's been arrested thirty
(09:40):
nine times and is described here as a killer? What
would put that guy back on the street. I just
don't understand. As a good friend of mine and I
have discussed a couple of times in email and text exchanges,
people who've been arrested thirty nine times probably committed about
(10:01):
thirty nine thousand crimes. That's their job, that's the only
profession they know. That's pretty pretty scary that somebody like
that would be let out. I don't know who let
him out, but it's scary no matter who did that.
A quick reminder, I had this from a friend of
mine yesterday about something that's going on at Sam Houston
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Park tomorrow downtown eleven am to three pm. And it's
such a good event for kids, I wanted to share it.
I'm not talking about toddlers. I'm talking about kids who
understand what STEM learning is, and that is science, technology, engineering,
and math. And this Energy Day STEM Festival going on
(10:45):
tomorrow will immerse them in all of the above. They're
going to have exhibits, hands on learning demonstrations that showcase
the world of energy. It's just going to be a
good fun time for kids to They probably won't even
(11:05):
realize at first that they're learning so much out there.
Very interested the Bureau of Labor and Statistics, reading from
this release, I have said STEM job opportunities are expected
to grow ten point eight percent by the year twenty
thirty four, and Houston stepping up to kind of lead
the charge. We're holding our own. We've got some pretty
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bright kids in this city, all over this city, and
events such as this festival are going a long ways
toward helping them find their way into these opportunities. Kids
K through twelve, come on out Energy Day STEM Festival.
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It's going to be great. Saturday October eighteenth. That's tomorrow
and it's at sam Houston Park eleven am to three pm.
Totally free. Everything out there is going to be free,
and the information these kids will get it is just
in invaluable really to their futures. I talked about him.
I'm not gonna talk about him. Oh, from the I guess,
(12:09):
from the Catwoman to Gavin's Batman. AOC I listened to
some of this and it just kind of almost made
me snicker. AOC lectured attendees at a CNN tel Hall
meeting about how young men, white men pretty much is
what she said without saying it, and you'll hear it
in a second, according to her, are being taught to
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be mean and dominate people who are poorer and darker.
That's what she said to say it without saying it
out aloud, but that's exactly how the phrase translates. So
she talked about how Republicans are doing better digitally also
in their efforts to sway the country in that direction,
(12:55):
and she says it's because Republicans are more clear about
their messaging than Democrats are. Now, well, I got news
for Catwoman. It's not the clarity of the message it's
the message itself that's resonating with people of all ages
around this country. We've seen what their way does to
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the country. We've seen what it did for the last
four years, and people are just tired of it. And
there was another video I saw, I believe a commercial
that's been running somewhere, not down here. I haven't seen
it anyway of former President Barack Obama who claims in
that video that Republicans are trying to steal Congress and
that Prop fifty is going to stop them in their tracks.
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But that's a California thing. Maybe it's only running in California.
It would make sense, although they might try to spin
it a little bit and run it all over the
country to just kind of draw a line in the sand.
This whole country of ours, starting on the left, needs
to open its eyes and ears and just to the
way these very progressive ideas are being forced on us
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more and more, despite not that long ago, clear majority
of Americans saying no, thanks to all of it. It's
enough's enough. That's enough of that too. I'll leave that there,
I'll go over here. I asked Will during the break
if he could come up with any reason that there
is no camera, because this is the only explanation for
(14:24):
what I'm about to tell you. No camera pointed at
one of the biggest buildings on the University of Montana campus.
It's at the main Hall, whatever that is. I haven't
even looked it up, the main Hall of the University
of Montana. And what's happening. And it's been happening every fall.
It doesn't say for how many years, but every fall
(14:45):
seems to infer that it's happened more than at least
four or five times. Hi atop the spire at the
University of Montana's main Hall, somebody somehow is sticking a
pumpk and on top of that thing, they're securing a pumpkin,
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and I guess it just sits there till it rots
and falls off, because I don't know who would dare
climb up there and try to retrieve it. And it's
so dangerous according to the school that they've tried hiring
pros to do it, but the students keep beating them
to the punch. How about just turn on go look
(15:28):
at the video from one of probably a dozen cameras
around that thing. The morning after the pumpkin shows up,
and voila, there will be your pumpkin sticker. That's all
you gotta do, really, senior superpower. Anytime I see a
story like this, I want to I want to share
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it because it's not like it's not like I'm trying
to inspire all of you to do what this person
has done, because this person says done something absolutely crazy
for her age. But I want to showcase these people.
And it doesn't even give her name, but I just
wanted to showcase it because she, an eighty year old
(16:10):
grandmother from New Jersey, recently became the oldest person to
ever finish the Ironman World Championship. I'll think about all
the cycling, all the swimming, and all the running, although
I doubt she ran a whole lot. She may have
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walked it, and it may have taken her considerably longer
than all of the other entrants. She may or may
not have finished last, but she did finish, and there
are some people who I am sure entered that event
and did not finish, So I don't care if it
took her a week. Good for her, Good for her. Ah,
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this is something I'm going to try and get someone
in the travel industry to be part of this show.
In fact, I've got a woman I may call this afternoon. Call, Okay,
I go, now, I know who I need to call,
and I'll tear that off of here and I'll talk
about it later with her. There was a travel trends
thing I saw today, one of the hottest trends for
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twenty six and it's got to be for a lot
of people our ages, but even for I would think
middle aged travelers revisiting places that you went on vacation
as a kid. Says here. Seventy three percent of travelers
are drawn to trips that connect with their past, and
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eighty two percent of younger travelers can't wait to return
to childhood favorites. I would. I would love to go
back again with ulterior motive to my grandparents' house in
Southeast Florida, Pompino Beach. I know the address, I know
how to get there. All I need is an airplane
and a rent car and I could drive right by
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their house and go to the industry, turn around in
the cull to sack, and then drive back out. But
that just that site of that house would bring back
amazing memories. And then for the rest of the week,
I would stay in Southeast Florida, I'd fish every day
and then just barely get to the airport in time
to catch my plane home. I do love fishing down there.
I've got a lot of friends who fish down there,
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and that's that's on my short list of places I
might go with some of my remaining vacation time. Where
I have to go now is to the break And
I'm going to tell you about Country boys roofing. We
are well, we almost got out of storm season now
that the guy from Channel two maybe has us back
in it, but I don't think it's gonna happen. But
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still we've got winter coming. We've got all kinds of
issues that might happen with your roof related to even
just a simple thunderstorm sometimes can knock just the right
branch out of a tree and hit your roof and
do some damage that you won't even see if the
brand which finally hits the ground before you before you
see it on your roof. Get John Eipman, get somebody
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from his crew, maybe his son Zach out to your
house to inspect your roof, and if they do find damage,
they'll let you know. They'll show it to you. It'll
show you exactly what they're looking at and then give
you the opportunity to accept. Go ahead and do that,
because it's going to be a great bid, a great price,
with the right materials and the right expert technicians to
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take care of that for you before anything little on
your roof becomes something big. As I've mentioned so many
many times now, if you are a first responder, if
you are past or president, military, or if you are
an educator in any way, shape or form, John's going
to give you fifteen hundred dollars off a full roof replacement.
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If you don't qualify for any of that, he'll give
you one thousand dollars off just for dropping my name.
This is a real deal discount, a real deal opportunity,
because he wants your business, he wants to be there
doing that job for you, and he's willing to give
up that much money just to make sure that he
knows you're going to get the right job at the
right price, done by the right people. Countryboysroofing dot Com
(20:11):
is website. By the way, they work with a finance
company now too, in case you can't just just grab
the check book and write out a check for a
whole roof country Boys roofing country with a K, Boys
with a Z for you younger people, and then for the
boomers like me. Just spell it the same way you
would have spelled it in the third grade and it'll
pop up a couple of couple of lines down from
where you typed it in Countryboysroofing dot com.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Yawn.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
They sure don't make them like they used to.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
That's why every few months we wash him, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike, fifty plus.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Thanks for listening. I certainly do appreciate it. Fourth and
final segment is going to be up in a little while,
but to get us there. In this segment, we're going
to talk about keeping bad guys from taking our goods
stuff and to walk us through the current lineup of
safts and lock boxes and locking mechanisms and all of that.
I'm gonna bring in Heath more from more security out
(21:09):
there on guest and welcome aboard Heath. Hey, Doug, I'm
good man, Thank you. So let's let's jump over burying
our valuables in the backyard and start with a little
background on safes. How long have traditional safs been around
if you know now, I.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Mean in guns saves forty years or so longer than that.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Yeah, well yeah, In fact, for the longest time, most
of the people I knew who were keeping guns at
them and just glass fronted cabinets kind of showing them off. Yes, sir,
well that's changed, holy cow. And so so we don't
run out of time here. Let's fast forward now to
what's available and who needs it for the For the
(21:52):
average person in my audience, there may be storing important documents, jewelry,
maybe a handgun, or a little urgency stash of cash,
something like that. What size safe would you call entry level?
That's a real safe, probably like.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
A twenty three cubic foot Those are going to be
thirty inches wide, twenty two hall and sixty inch or
twenty two deep and sixty inches tall. You can get those,
you know, fire protection wise, anywhere from thirty minutes to
two hours.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Let's yeah, let's talk about heath more from more security here.
Let's talk about fire protection for a second. That what
is the rating system and how do they protect from
fire with safe?
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Typically the way the fire rating is kind of justified,
I guess you would say it, say, do you have
a safe that is rated for thirty minutes at twelve
hundred degrees? Basically after that save has been in a
fire for thirty minutes to twelve hundred degrees, the internal
temperature reach is three hundred and fifty degrees, and that's
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an average temperature inside. Is that going a purpose of that?
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Go ahead?
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Go ahead?
Speaker 2 (23:04):
No, you go ahead.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
I would say that the purpose of the three hundred
and fifty degree marker is paper starts a charret three
fifty wy yees, okay, figure now if you have Now,
if you have a safe dead has a two and
a half hour fire rating at twelve hundred degrees, then
it takes two and a half hours to reach that
three hundred and fifty degree mark.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
What do you think is the right level of protection
the thirty minutes or two and a half hours or
something in the middle.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
It depends on where you are and where you put
the safe in your house.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
That's a good point.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
If it takes us five minutes to get down, you
drive away, you're probably gonna want all the fire protection
you can get if you liver, If you live around
the corner from the fire station. You know, I'll go
at least sixty minutes.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Yeah, that seems reasonable. If they can't get there and
get the temperature down, you don't have to put the
entire fire out. You just got to get the temperature
down to back where it won't burst into flames inside
the safe. Oh my gosh, I see, heath. I see
a lot of little, small, lightweight what they call safes
in the box stores. But I feel like if it's
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something putting a shopping car to crook, wouldn't have any
trouble hauling out of my house, no matter even if
I filled it with lead. Is that a pretty safe assumption.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
Huh, yes, sir.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Your best security on something like that is, you know,
we don't charge when we anchor him down when we
deliver it. But to have that thing anchored into your concrete.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Yeah, that's a good point foundation. What about upstairs? Does
that make it harder for thieves to get them out?
I guess it does. They got to get them down
the stairs.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
They typically don't care if they tear up your stairs.
They you know, I've seen it where they just push
them down the stairs within there at the bottom of
your stairs. But we actually them my way to take
one upstairs right now?
Speaker 2 (24:51):
No way? Yeah, talk about that too, because I at
one point I had a safe upstairs, and when those
guys came out with that fancy dolly, I was impressed.
When did those come along and save your backs?
Speaker 3 (25:07):
I've been doing this over thirty years and I've always
had one. I hard. They were steel machines. Now they're illuminum,
so they're a whole lot lighter.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Thank goodness for that. Yeah, safe's heavy enough, good heavens.
And it's just it's a three wheel on each side
system right where it kind of just walks up the
stairs for you. Does that make sense?
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Yeah, it'll manipulate the steps of your Basically, the machine
will run up two steps and then bring the safe
up one from at the top of the stairs. It'll
break it up the last two steps, my gosha.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Thank goodness for that. Huh what would you? What about
locking mechanisms? We're down to almost just barely two minutes?
What's the most secure? What's the pluses and minuses with
old fashioned tumblers and electronics?
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Your old fashioned mechanical lock is going to be a
group two lock, which means it can be manipulated. There's
not a lot of guys out there that can. Actually,
it's truly watching and feeling the dial and understanding how
it works. You know, I've been doing this a long
time and I don't have the patience or the feel
for it. Uh No, No, I know a few guys
(26:13):
that can do it.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Whereas if you go with the electronic lock, it's it's great.
Basically what they consider a group one lock, it's manipulation proof. Uh.
You know, you try to put a combination in three
or four times in a row and it's wrong, you'll
go to a lockout. Yeah, time for you know, five
to ten minutes. I mean some of them you can adjust,
depend it on the lock.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Yeah. What about what would you say is the single
most important consideration when somebody's deciding to buy safe, the size,
where they're gonna put it. What's what's the one thing
they got to really think about before they pull the trigger?
Speaker 3 (26:49):
One thing is, yeah, where where they're going to put it?
And take into consideration that you have to open and
close the door to use it. A lot of people
don't honestly think about that. But you know, get truthfully,
get something bigger than you think that you need, because
you're gonna find other stuff to put in it that
you haven't thought of.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
It took me five minutes after my safe got delivered
to realize it wasn't big enough. I was just I
could have cried, you know, And then now I've just
had to I've had to make other arrangements. Unfortunately, I
got Buddy Mine.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
We'll take care of it.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Buddy Mine's got a big safe and it's it's against
the wall in his den. He's a single guy. He's
older than me, and he's just got this big safe
in the den. He said, if they can get it
out of here, they can have it. And that thing's
not going anywhere. Man Keith More, Heath Moore, excuse me,
Heath heath More from More Security out there on Guestner.
The website is more securitysafes dot com. Uh, they'll take
(27:44):
good care of you. Go out there and see them.
More Security safe dot com. Thank you, Heath.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
All right, Doug appreciate it, Yes, sir man Audios.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
All right, champions tree preservation can't put a can't put
a tree in a safe. I think you could put
a safe in a tree if you had a big
enough tree, though wouldn't be hidden very well. In any event,
Champions Tree Preservation will come out to your house. That
would be Irwin or Robin Costellanos, both of whom are
whether a father and son team of arborus, professionally trained
(28:15):
arborius who will come out and take a look at
all your trees, let you know how they're doing. And
then once they make that assessment, they'll tell you what
needs pruning, what needs feeding, what needs lopping, what needs
to be chopped down and hauled away. And they have
all the equipment they need to get those jobs done.
They have all the crews they need to get those
(28:37):
jobs done professionally so that your yard can get back
to doing what it does for you without worrying about
those trees. Some trees just have to go to They
hate that. It's called Champions Tree Preservation for a reason.
They don't like that. But if they have to do that,
they own a tree farm that grows native Texas trees,
so they can find something out there just the right
(28:58):
size to bring into your yard to get back to
making shade, get back to hanging swing sets off of
At some point, championstree dot Com get them out there
while the weather's nice. Get them out there to make
sure that they're going to make it all the way
through winter and right back through spring. Talk to them
about watering too. One of the things I'll never forget
(29:20):
is how much I learned about over watering oak trees
when Erwin came to my house. I had no idea
two eight one three two zero eighty two zero one
two eight one three two zero eighty two zero one
championstree dot com.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Old guys rule, And of course, women never get old
if you want to avoid sleeping on the couch.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Okay, well, I think that sounds like a good plan.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug Hood.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
It from a fan.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Hurd, it from a fan. All right, welcome back, thanks
for listening. S do appreciate that update on the California's
world's largest economy. It's actually California went from fourth to fifth,
not third to fourth. Japan is now fourth in California's
(30:16):
It's still a ton of money, all of these there's
a lot of money in this country of ours, and
thank goodness for that. I mean, we sometimes, I guess
forget how big the economies of some of our states
are because our countries is so big. But that's an
interesting thing to be from the top five even of
(30:37):
world economies, when you think of all the nations out there.
A little AI nonsense and weirdness. Thirty two year old
woman in Florida accused of falsely reporting a crime. You know,
this isn't the first time this has happened, but it's
the first time I know of that somebody used AI.
What she did was go to the police and tell
(31:00):
tell them that she had been sexually assaulted by a man.
But the photo she gave them was an image that
she created using chat GPT. Let your imagination run wild
on that one. That's messed up on about five levels.
This one may be a few more. Even. Police in Salem,
(31:21):
Massachusetts warning residents about a viral TikTok prank that uses
artificial intelligence to create fake images of people attempting to
break into homes. I that's bad enough. I saw something,
and make sure it's not here. No, I saw something
(31:42):
this morning about people who are actually there were several
kids dressed in Halloween masks who just descended upon some
random house. They didn't know who lived there or anything,
and started running around the house. Banging on the doors
and windows and threatening these people and those kids are
(32:05):
very lucky. There's a lot of places in this country
where if they'd made one false step that could have
had a very different ending than just a little reprimand
for making fools of themselves and pretending that they were
going to break into a house, and on next level
of stupid, young woman in Russia went viral on social
(32:29):
media over there. Whatever that is good. I was trying
to think of some clever Russian accented website, but it's
just a waste of time anyway. What she did was claimed,
at least that she underwent a procedure to change her
eye color during pregnancy so that her baby would be
(32:49):
born with the new eye color. Now, I'm no doctor,
but I'm going to just go out on a limb
and bet that that wouldn't have made any difference.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
It all.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Stray cat news or no, I'm not gonna talk about that.
I'll stick with the stray cat news and see if
I have any time. What do I have about two minutes?
Will that's not a bad guess. Volunteers spent days days
trying to rescue a cat stuck on a roof stray
cat got up on a roof, wouldn't come down, So
(33:25):
all these volunteers for several days, they're putting up humane traps.
They build a ramp so the cat can get down,
and then somebody got too close and spooked that cat.
Thirty feet off the ground. This cat was spooked. It
it jumped and it hit the ground and it ran away.
(33:49):
It just got tired of those people bugging. It just
tired enough that, you know what, I'm just leaving. It
had no intention of using the ramp, no intention of
using the cage, which I'm sure was full of cat nip.
Cats are pretty amazing animals. They can survive a jump
like that, a thirty foot jump for a stray cat.
(34:11):
That's pretty good. And then in the other end of
the extreme, a mountain lion. I've seen video of this,
a mountain lion, not to the actual to an actual
second floor balcony, but that's how high they can jump,
just from a just standing there, jump straight up onto
a second floor balcony in apartment. So if you ever
(34:32):
see a if you're ever on the second floor balcony
and you see a mountain lion, go back inside. It's
about all I can tell you not gonna worry about
that and not gonna worry about that. We're just about
at the end here. Let's go ahead and wrap it up,
and I'll take this time to thank all of you
for listening. I really do appreciate it. If you're interested
in becoming part of the show, as we picked up
(34:54):
a couple of more. Once I get you on board,
the first thing I'm gonna do is interview you so
my audience can get to you and I can get
to know you even a little better. And then from there,
I'm gonna make sure that they know about you every
week as many times as you want me to tell
them so that you can raise your business up. All
you gotta do is email me, Doug Packet, iHeartMedia dot Com.
(35:14):
Thank you so much for listening. Truly do appreciate it.
I'm gonna go eat some Mexican food right now. Audios.
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