May 16, 2025 • 40 mins
Today, Doug Pike discusses Everest, trees, and nude gardening.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Remember when it was impossible to misplace the TV remote
because you were the TV remote. Remember when music sounded
like this? Remember when social media was truly social?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hey, John, how's it going today?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Well, this show is all about you. This is fifty
plus with Doug Pike. Helpful information on your finances, good health,
and what to do for fun. Fifty plus brought to
you by the UT Health Houston Institute on ag informed
Decisions for a healthier, happier life.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
And now fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, let's
start this off on PGA Championship Weekend, second round underway,
and actually it's going pretty well for Johnny Vegas. He's
nine under par and leading by three over Pavone and
Thorpe Ornson Max Home is at five Gerards at five,
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and we'll go on from there. I'll discuss that tournament
in length tomorrow and Sunday on my outdoor show over
on KB and ME. That's seven to ten Saturday and
eight to ten Sunday. This is fifty plus though on KPRC.
And here we are the day after Yesterday, day before tomorrow.
I guess a world where the forecast has it changed
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in a couple of days and is it going to
for several more. It's warm, really warm, and that's going
to continue for quite a while. I got a little
hope for some rain on Tuesday, But outside of that,
it's a good time to find a cool spot and
do a crossword puzzle or sudoku or binge, watch mash
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or gun smoke whatever or friends. I guess for some
of this audience saw something funny on Facebook. Not thirty
minutes ago. There were two teenagers and there was the
two teenage boys, probably sixteen seventeen, maybe eighteen years old,
and this young woman who was interviewing the two of them,
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asked this question, and I'll ask it of you, will,
what year would someone have to be born in for
you to consider them old?
Speaker 3 (02:19):
What year would somebody have to be born and to
be considered old? Yeah, and it has to be a
specific year.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Specific year born in what that person is old? And
you've you're a little you're a little more sophisticated than
these two teenagers, believe me.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Yeah, I'll say, I'll say nineteen fifty years old.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yeah, Okay, that's fine. That's that's a very wise choice
on your part too. That's seventy five years, you know, okay,
well you know what the teenager said, by nineteen ninety,
nineteen ninety, and then this and the scene, you know,
the screen changes to a woman standing there with her
her hair in a towel. She's just out of the shower,
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she's got her little robe on, she's got a cup
of tea and she's kind of dunking it. And when
she as soon as he says nineteen ninety, it flashes
to her and her eyes just get huge, and you
could tell she a little older than that. And then
in just little tiny letters at the bottom of the screen,
it says nineteen sixty six for her, and even I
would go, hey, hey, kid, what's happening. So anyway, there's
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that the markets are doing their usual modest movement in
all directions. Gold Early this morning, gold was down I
want to say forty eight bucks an ounce something like that.
And I think gold peaked and may may settle back
even a little bit more than it has already, based
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on what's going on worldwide and some of the deals
that are being cut and some of the movements that
our president is making. So fingers crossed and everything continues
on a good path from the Good News for Everybody
Desk today and by the way, this day I am
going to I sat at my desk this morning, about
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to do all my prep as I usually would do,
and notice the pile of paper on the right side
of that desk that essentially is home to everything that
I don't use in the show on a particular day
and then stack over there on the side. So once
we get through a couple of very current things, I
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think what I'm going to do is use this day
and perhaps random days once the stack gets deep enough,
I might put a little measuring some way of measuring
just how many pieces of paper are over there, and
once it hits a certain point, then that next day
is going to be I hesitate to call them leftovers.
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They're just things I didn't get to. But I took
the time to prep. I took the time to make
good notes on what I wanted to talk about with those,
and so I'm going to take advantage of that and
hopefully be sharing things that you will like to hear.
Back to current events from the Good News for Everybody Desk, US,
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whole wholesale prices excuse me, saw their biggest drop in
five years. The report came out I believe this morning. Actually,
economists have told us for quite some time now that
it's just chicken little stuff. The sky's falling. It's gonna
be horrible, It's gonna be terrible. Prices are gonna skyrocket.
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I'm not sure what numbers they were watching, but what
we got in this report was about as close to
the best news as it could get. Service prices, by
the way, dropped zero point seven percent in April, which
doesn't sound like much, but it's the biggest drop since
inception of that index in December of two thousand and nine,
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so sixteen years. And that's the most considerable, considerable drop
that we've ever had in that index, which is good
stuff from the Homeland Security Desk comes word via MSN
of All Places of an urgent request sent to the
Supreme Court made by DHS to lift the temporary injunction
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that's blocking deportation of a bunch of dangerous people in
this country, the trendy Iarragua people, specifically nearly two dozen
of whom barricaded themselves into their housing unit, threatened to
take hostages, threatened to flood the place by clogging the toilets,
The former administration allowed these people to move freely around
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our country. Let's not forget that for four years, even
paid for their food, paid for their housing, their transportation.
If they wanted to move, they'd put them on a
jet plane or a bus and move them. Let them
do it anything they wanted. We paid for their medical care,
all of that for four years. These are bad people,
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and liberal judges insist somehow on keeping them here for
reasons I'll never understand. I really won't. They threaten the
safety of us all they really do, they really do.
Ice Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said this in that story,
and I'll quote her. The media repeated these TDA gang
members false SOB stories, But the truth is these are
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members of a foreign terrorist organization that rape maime and
murder for sport. End quote. I can't understand why anyone
would stand in the way of their removal. But that's
that's what's happening. That's what's happening, very frightening, it really is,
and I'm just I'm thankful that Texas I know we're
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not insulated from it. I know that members of all
of those danious gangs that came waltzing in here practically
with their hands held and a handed a sack of money,
and a free phone, and all kinds of things, free housing,
free food. The hotels in New York at one point
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were offering illegal immigrants shelter in pretty nice hotels in
the city, really nice hotels actually, and even giving them
an option of what type of bed they wanted. They
were being served three meals, three hot meals a day,
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and getting pretty much everything they wanted. They had shopping
vouchers where they could go. The ones who weren't stealing
anyway could go shopping, had debit cards, all kinds of
things that none of us get, by the way, not
without working for them. We paid for them for everybody else.
But we don't get that stuff. Okay, let's get to
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the miscellany. Oh, actually, I'm gonna I'm gonna stay on
the homepage if you will. Will we gotta go? Oh
we do? Yeah, I didn't realize that because there I'm
getting to watch the golf turner. And that's okay, thank
you for letting me know. I'll tell you what. We'll
go straight to this one because I'm apparently a little
bit late already. And when we get back we'll, we'll
take on this enormous pile of good stuff that you
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just haven't heard yet, at least not from me. More
fifty plus on AM nine to fifty KPRC. Right after this,
what's life without a nap? I suggest to go to bed,
sleep it off, just wait until the show's over. Sleepy.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues, Hi, welcome
back to fifty plus.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Thanks for listening on PGA Championship weekend. I know that
a lot of you don't care about golf, but I
kind of do. So I have to keep my eye
on the prize over here to my right ninety degrees
to my right, pretty big screen too, not quite life size,
but bigtheless. All right, we'll we'll, we'll lead in softly
(10:03):
with actually a couple of the things that I put
together today for this show, and I'll give you the
options of darn, you don't have a pen over there?
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Do you.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Now? The one time I counted on the pen that
usually is in here being here still and today it's
gone different strokes? What's in a word? Or going up?
Going up Mount Everest Will has gotten taller the last
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twenty years. It has increased it's probably wearing lifts under
its foothills. You like that. Oh man, oh ye, I
made that up a little while ago. I knew it
would make you grow. That's why I had to do it.
But it's true. Yeah, Mount Everest is two feet higher
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than it was years ago. So all of you who
say you've already climbed Mount Everest, now there's going to
be a question after you proclaim that, Uh, do you
mean the current Mount Everest, which is higher by two feet?
Or yeah, just the old way, the old mountain. Anybody
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could get to the top of that. Come now, it's
it's two feet taller. That's going to take at least
one more step and by the time you get up there,
maybe two you know, two feet higher at that altitude.
And you you've been on that mountain for God knows
how long and endured god knows what, and seen God
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knows what. That it's really spooky to think that. I mean,
there's so many people have died on that mountain, and
a lot of people have gotten lost, and then during
the warm season they turned back up snow melts and whatever.
It's really kind of I have no desire to climb
a mountain I really don't do you.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
You No, I've I've climbed up some volcano before.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Well that's you got your one up on me. Where
in Nicaragua? Really? Now look at you.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
There's a volcano called Mount setto Negro and and it's
a there's two ways of going up. You can either
go up the front, which is basically riddled with gravel,
so it's very it's steep and it's difficult to get
up wedding, okay, or you can go up the backway
where there's kind of a path.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
All I did was just like wingsuit, just dive off.
That's all I did. But I've done both both. Well, really,
what were you doing down there for long enough to
climb a mountain a volcano? Twice?
Speaker 3 (12:44):
I went there with my Spanish class in Okay, in
high school for two years.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
What kind of high school were you at? I went
to Saint Thomas Okay. Now, oh oh, now I get it.
So you just took a couple of years to go
down to Nicaragua. Of course, you spent two years in
Nicaragua or you went in two consecutive years. Two consecutive years, yeah, okay,
it's spent about two weeks dinner no week each week
so you can do all the other things you were
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gonna do in Nicaragua and climb a volcano. You in
one of those little backyard volcanoes. Now the bacon soda. Okay,
I'm just making sure you get me on a technicality.
I want to make sure you weren't doing that. Well,
let's get one more of these and then we'll get
to the the fun weird stuff. Time to hand over
the keys. Pocket poodle and I did say poodle. Uh,
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And the beat goes on and the beat goes on.
Study found that our brain doesn't just process music way
it will excuse me. It resonates with it. That's why
you almost can't help but start tapping your foot or
your hand on the steering wheel or something when you're
listening to songs on the radio. Oh do you find
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that interesting? I do, at least a little. Yeah, I
thought so.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
I'm constantly banging on the steering wheel when I'm driving.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Well, that's because you're mad at the people in front
of a tune.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
You know.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
I tend to sing a lot. I've told you before
that I greatly appreciate harmonies, and so if any song
comes on one of the presets I have for music
chant or music stations. Then I'm going at it. I'm
going at it right with them, and I'll try to
hit in one in one hook of the song. I'll
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try to hit one note in one path and then
I don't know what the terms are for all of that,
But then the next one I'll try to go a
little bit higher. And I used to go I used
to have access to much higher notes than I do now.
My voice is I guess from twenty five years of radio,
and what my wife says is an inability to not talk. Yeah,
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she would tell you that I can talk the bark
off a tree wheel. To use that expression more than once,
and it according to her, it's it's accurate. I may
try that sometime. We have a tree over by our
mailbox in the neighborhood that everybody in the neighborhood except
the people who are selling that house or I think,
I don't. It may have sold by now, I don't know,
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but it's it's damaged, it's diseased, and it's a big
oak tree that's gonna fall sooner or later. And when
it does, it looks like it's gonna fall A little
bit ahead of the mailboxes. And if you ever just
sat over there in a lawn chair kind of like
going to a public boat ramp for entertainment, you could
watch and everybody who pulls up to that mailbox stops
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short of where we all think it's going to fall
in the street because we don't want our cars to
get whacked. Course, it's a big it's like a thirty
five forty foot tree. It's probably that part of the
neighborhood was built right after mine, so it's probably thirty
years old. And they didn't have any problems during last
year's storms, didn't come down, didn't come down, But now
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it actually looks like it looks like somebody hit it
at high speed. You know how those trees along the
side of the road will look on a major thoroughfare road.
We'll look if a car hits it and then it
heals a little bit. But there's this big gouge in
the bark. That's what it's got. And on top of that,
inside the gouge where the real the muscle of the
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tree should be, it's kind of got nasty looking infestation, infection,
whatever it is, with something it just makes it looks
like you could just blow it over, and some parts
of it are some parts have green leaves, some parts
no green leaves. So yeah, it's got issues. But enough
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tree talk, I guess. From how much time do I happen?
We have three minutes. I don't know if I can
do that in three minutes. I'm gonna set that aside
for a second. I will go with this from the
put some clothes on desk? Comes where and before warned
this past I think it was this past No. Two
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saturdays ago was National Naked Gardening Day? Will yes?
Speaker 3 (17:09):
No?
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Do you now? Of course? Did you celebrate it? Yes?
Front yard or backyard booth? You're so full of blowing
you know you couldn't do that on a bet. And
the story I saw actually shares the top five cities
in America for naked gardening and not coincidentally, I'm sure,
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because it's just a hip and cool city that also
got named one of the top five cities in America
for barbecue this week Austin, Texas. So I would suspect
that on the third of May, when when that was
National Naked Gardening Day, there were probably some naked barbecues
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going on as well. Come over, help me plant some flowers.
We're gonna have barb be q after don't stand too
close to the grill now that bacon comes off of there.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Got the biggest, uh biggest spatulas, you know, you flip them,
go with that will long.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Yeah, it was Miami, Seattle, Austin, Atlanta, and Ashville, which
it struck me as odd. That was from lawn starter
dot com. It's actually legal, by the way, public nudity
is legal in those five cities. Why it's it's pretty
popular there. Well, yeah, that would be one thing that's
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just that's not for me. You know that the whole,
the whole notion when you were little of trying to
sneak into a nudist colony, doesn't take into account that
most of the people there you don't really want to
see that way. Does that mean one minute or does
that mean we're done one? Oh good? Okay, Well let's
get away from there. God, that would just scare the
be jeepers out of your neighbors, wouldn't it.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
I don't know, I mean, it seems like it was
pretty popular.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Maybe there's just that's just ringing a bell that can't
be unwrong, you know, move to Austin. Will. Go ahead
and just leave your clothes behind. Just give all your
clothes to Goodwill. Then drive straight to Austin and then
walk in McDonald's and see if you can get a hamburger.
I'll try. I'll bet you can't. I'll bet you they'll
call the cops on you. I bet they would, all right,
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I know my rights. Well, let's tell you what. Let's
get out of here because I need to run back
over to my desk and get a pen so I
can check these off as I go through them. There
are so many more. We have enough will We have
enough material here to do probably an entire week if
I didn't do anything else. But the problem is that
all these cool new things come up every day, and
I try to get to them, I really do, but
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I can't. A Late Health I've talked to you about
them for a long time now, and I'm gonna continue
as long as they'll let me. This is the group
that it's a vascular clinic, okay, run by doctor Andrew
Dough and I've had him on the show several times
and talked about all the things they do at a
Late Health in addition to their most frequent procedure, which
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is prostate artery embolization. For the older gentleman in my audience,
if you're about fifty five plus, really is when the
symptoms of an enlarging prostate non cancerous when start to manifest,
and as they do, you get more and more uncomfortable,
more and more unwilling to live with all that, and
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so you end up doing something the old school ways
of relieving that are in modern terms and especially as
measured against prostate embolization, almost barbaric. Don't even ask about
that if you go to your doctor that if they
tell you, it'll probably scare you, and they'll tell you
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it'll be okay, but they're going to be in there
rooting around and grinding and cutting and chopping. Whereas what
a late health does is just cut off the blood
supply to that thing and it shrinks up that essentially,
it lets the air out of the balloon, and you're
all of the things associated with that go away as
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that thing shrivels up. Fibroids for women, head pains, ugly veins,
and many other things. Doctor doan I, the last time
I talked to him on the show, went into all
of the different procedures that are done right there in
their clinic. They're now going to haul you to the hospital.
You're gonna get to go home. Somebody have to drive you,
as I've said every time, somebody will drive you home,
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and then you get to just recuperate there for depending
on the procedure, a couple of days, maybe a few days,
maybe a little longer, but then you're right back up
to kicking and running and having a good time. A
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Speaker 1 (21:55):
Aged to perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike. Oh
really that was quick. Didn't even get a chance to
talk to.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Joe Will What thing?
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Dude?
Speaker 2 (22:06):
I thought you were ready?
Speaker 3 (22:07):
No, I never said that. I didn't say it. I
just I made a guess.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
I don't presume facts not in evidence. Will, Okay, look
at all this stuff I have over here? Where do
I go? Where do I go? Hold on? I gotta
scratch out what we used over here. Took care of
that one and took care of that one. Okay, let's
go back and forth from some of the old to
the new, and the new to the old, and vice
versa and hither and yon uh from the Shoppers Club
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desk and Fox News came word that Sam's Club is
gonna eliminate checkout lines. We've talked about that a little
bit before, uh, and they're gonna place it, replace it
with AI technology. It's gonna allow customers to scan their
purchases as they're put into the carts, effectively, they say,
stopping any real need with interaction or for interaction with
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a checker or anybody else looking at your receipt on
the way out the door. So here's my question, and
probably that of at least half this audience already. What
keeps somebody from scanning in the store? Oh? I know,
I bet, I know. But that's gonna require some major,
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heavy hitting security equipment. No, that won't work. Even I
was thinking that maybe that everything you scan in the
store gets matched up as you push your basket on
out the door, and if there's other stuff in there,
then they're gonna flag you. But the only way they
could do that is if they could somehow read the
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QRC or that is that what's on on the it's
not a QR code, what's a barcode. It would have
to read the bar code, and if you just put
something under it, then it can't read the barcode. I
don't know how that's gonna be all that effected against shoplifting.
Do you can you see how that's gonna work really well?
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Mmm?
Speaker 2 (24:01):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
I mean maybe i'd have to see it in practice, though.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Yeah, I want to. I want to see it at work.
And I'm not a member at Sam's Club, so I
probably I'll just have to rely on you. You go
in there Sam's Club. Yeah, No, I don't either. I
just I just go to I go where I get
a fair price all my groceries and stuff, and I
don't my wife and I don't really buy anything in bulk. Uh.
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I can't imagine needing five gallons of mayonnaise. I can't
imagine needing six hundred rolls of toilet paper. A palette.
Now give me a palette of charmon. Yeah, I don't
need that. I don't know how i'd get it home.
I don't own a trailer. I got it from Applebee's
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will or is it live or is it memorycs or
there's I need one more here real quickly.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Clipping more than their wings, clipping more than their wings.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
A Florida suburb has a peacock problem, so a local
veterinarian has launched a program to start performing peacock fast sectomies.
Write your own punchline, peacock vasectomy. Yes, will Yes, And
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I don't think they've gotten the cascent consent of the peacocks.
I would imagine they're just gonna do it. And those
peacocks are not gonna be as rowdy. Have you ever
been around them? Do you realize how loud they are? No?
Speaker 3 (25:40):
I mean I've seen them in some parts of Houston.
You know they're just wandering.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Yeah. Yeah, they're beautiful birds. They're beautiful, big birds. They
fanned that tail out and look really cool. However, when
they when they want something, whatever it may be, they
get really really loud and are a nuisance wherever they are.
In some neighborhoods they're relatively there's something in Katie actually,
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and then there's some roughly a little bit north of
West tim Or off Gestner where a restaurant used to
have them. And I think they just kind of decided
to go rogue. Once the restaurant closed, nobody went and
rounded them up, so I believe they continued to maintain
their population. I'm not one hundred percent sure where else
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do I want to go?
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Here?
Speaker 2 (26:27):
I have way too many things here, I really do.
We did that already. I was speaking of shoplifting. I
had yet another incident and yet another grocery store that
bears mentioned, and I've again come across somebody just casually
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partaking of those big premium green grapes, the ones that
are really really good, as opposed to the little ones
that are about the size of a dime. These are
more about the size of a nickel or a quarter,
and they tend to be firmer and juicier, and I
like them. Ei they are about six bucks a pound
or more, but I still like them, And I'll get someone.
I go in there, and this guy's just walking through
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the store eating grapes like nobody cares, Like nobody cares,
and so as instructed. About two weeks ago, when a
similar incident occurred and I talked to a manager about it,
I just went and told somebody about it, and they
asked where he was and what he was wearing, and
I let him know. So if you got booted out
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of a grocery store recently for eating the grapes and
not paying for them, that maybe well might have been me,
might not. Who knows. Somebody could have somebody could have
told on it. That's just so's it's such a casual
disregard for the law and just common decency. If that person,
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I'm sure that person has a job based on age
of that person. And I'm sure that if somebody came
in and I don't care what you do for work,
if somebody steals your work or steals your product, which
is exactly what's happening there, that's wrong. And far too
many people, I think in our country right now don't
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remember either we're never taught or don't remember the difference
between just basic right and wrong, just basic stuff. Speaking
of right and wrong, Well, a radio related issue here
that I think is pretty cool. And they got caught
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this radio station in Australia. Do you remember I didn't
say anything about this. I don't believe they're facing heat
after fans figured out after six months that this radio
station had been broadcasting nothing but AI programming the talk
(29:02):
every bit of it was just generated by AI. Good
or bad will. That's the end of the world. Stuff there, man,
well of our world maybe crazy crazy, they weren't. People
are angry because they at least they could have been
upfront about it. Hey, we're going to test AI in
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broadcasts and see how you like that. I could have
told him it doesn't work, because I do know from
the research that's been done not just by iHeart, but
by almost every radio company in the country, every broadcasting
company in the country, the relationship between on air hosts
and their audiences is legitimate. And I hope you guys
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feel the same way about me as I do about you.
I consider you're my friends. I really do. I don't
know many of you, and I would be happy to
learn more about many of you. Anybody who wants to
share something, just let me know. If there's something you
want me to talk about on this program, let me know.
I'm not hard to find. I'm really not. Use my
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email Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. Use it if you
have a topic you want me to talk about.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Use it.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
If you have an interest in becoming part of the show,
whatever you want to do. That email is always open
and always receiving. And I've got like four not four thousand,
now probably about I think thirty five hundred, maybe thirty six,
I don't know. I got that many emails to prove
that it's always open, believe me. On the way out,
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ut Health Institute on Aging the same, well, not the same.
It's always growing. There are always new people coming aboard
the Institute on Aging because it is such a fantastic
opportunity for them to bring health and well being to
people they may not have been seeing very often before
in their practices, whatever field of medicine they're in. Everybody
(30:58):
who's involved with the Institute on Aging goes back and
gets additional training as to how their knowledge can be
applied to seniors. It's a very simple formula. And once
they get that training, once they get that additional information
that gives them that credential, they become available to all
(31:19):
of us by through the website, through phone calls, through references,
and there are just so many ways to see these people.
Many of them are in the med Center, as you
might imagine, that's the hub of medicine for all of
the South practically, but a lot of them also work
in outlying clinics and hospitals and offices so you can
be seen without having to go to the med center.
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If you really don't want to go to the med center.
UT Health Institute on Aging, go to the website, check
out all the resources that are available there, and then
work your way into getting an appointment with somebody who
can help you with something that you really would like
to see resolved, but you're not quite getting the remedy
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you'd like in the time you'd like. Utch dot edu
slash aging. That's where this very simple journey to a better, happier,
longer life starts. Utch dot edu slash aging. Yeah, they
sure don't make them like they used to.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
That's why every few months we wash him, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
This is fifty plus with Doug Pike. Just let that
one go an awfully long way, didn't you? Were you
waiting till I was ready? Yeah? Exactly, that's a switch roo.
Thank you. I appreciate that. Uh from the where do
I want to go now? Oh, the archaeology desk. I
always love these things. I'm fascinated by history. I get
(32:46):
that from my father. He was a history major in
college who went immediately into the oil business after he
got out, because he saw the handwriting on the wall
there not in hieroglyphics either. A discovery been made right
here in the US of A on the campus of
William and Mary University, originally chartered. In pop quiz, will
(33:06):
when was William and Mary University chartered? I'm gonna go
with eighteen Oh, keep going.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
Higher, lower, well much lower, Oh, okay, seventeen sixty sixteen
ninety three. I know it's the oldest public university.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
The sixteen hundred and ninety three years. That's in what
they found on campus. It's actually the second oldest university
in our country according to the story. And now your
pop quiz task is to find out which is the
oldest while I'm telling this story. So what they found there,
(33:50):
pretty much making it even older, is a kiln that
was used to fire the bricks for construction of the school.
And it was originally actually found in the nineteen thirties
and then covered back up after they did a little
digging and looking and oh that's interesting, but they didn't
really know what they were doing. Then they covered it
(34:11):
back up with dirt. Why I don't know, I think
that would have been a cool thing to leave exposed
and maybe even restore a little bit contemporary contemporary. It
says here archaeologists rediscovered that kiln recently and are studying
it more closely as should happen to what certainly is
the oldest structure on that campus, because without the bricks
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they couldn't have built the buildings. Did you find it? Will?
Speaker 3 (34:35):
The oldest university is Harvard, uh chartered when sixteen thirty six.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Holy cow, that's astonishing, it really is. That's pretty amazing
and astonishing and wow, it's got wow factor, I think
from the Spy Versus Spy desk? Well, do you do
you recognize the those three the spy versus from Mad magazine?
(35:04):
Thank you, gosh, you do know that?
Speaker 3 (35:06):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Are you a Mad Magazine guy? Yes? Dad still loves
Mad Magazine? Oh wow? And so we used to have
it all over the house. Yeah. I used to buy
that magazine when I was younger. It was kind of
fun to look at it really was, and very interesting,
and Spy versus SPI was something I went to first.
You know, most of my audience likely understands that reference,
(35:29):
and the younger of you among you outside of will
whose dad loved it? I may not, but that's okay anyway.
For years now, students at Stanford University have been approached
very carefully and very methodically by alleged members of the
(35:50):
Chinese Communist Party who have been impersonating students there, and
they're doing that in hopes of game, meaning sensitive information.
There's a lot of research that goes on at Stanford
that's some of which is better left secret. And the
(36:11):
requests sometimes even included offers to visit China. These people
were courting the Stanford students pretty heavily. Primarily, it says
here the interest among the impersonators has been in AI
and medical advances being made here. Worth noting also, at
present there are about a thousand Chinese nationals enrolled at Stanford.
(36:34):
And to be enrolled, I guess you got to be
going to classes and making grades and stuff like that.
But apparently some of them are not entirely there for education.
Not quite. It's some kind of sad too, So let
me cross that one out. We'll cross this one out.
How we doing on time? Will we have a little
less than four minutes? That wasn't a bad guess, was it?
(37:01):
I'm not gonna talk about Doze anymore, not for a while. Anyway.
I'll let that sit, I'll put that one, I'll push
that one aside. Did I tell you about the eighteen
wheeler wheel that was loaded with dimes and flipped over
a couple of weeks ago. No, it happened and on
(37:21):
the highway, so earlier in the week here bah blah
blah blah uh outside Chicago. Okay, Oh no, I take
that back. The eighteen wheeler. I'm not sure where it was,
but Cruise went back out there to pick up every
one of those dimes, and they think they did, but
you know that some of them rolled off into the bushes.
Of course, they didn't get all of those millions of dimes.
(37:42):
I'm sure they got a lot. And then, in this
same note, just a couple of days later, an armored
car spilled about three hundred thousand dollars in cash. And
did did anybody wait for crews to come pick that
money up?
Speaker 3 (37:59):
Will?
Speaker 2 (37:59):
Or do you think people just jumped out of their
cars and grabbed what they could and drove off.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
I mean, I think maybe everybody did that, even with
the dimes.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
It was option, but yeah, they got most of the money.
People stopped their cars just right in the middle of
the freeway and started picking up money and driving off
with it as soon as they got what they could
carry and didn't think they'd get caught with That's it's sad,
it really is. It's sad. You could be like the
guy we talked about yesterday who found one hundred dollars
(38:32):
bill on the top of the counter in some store
somewhere and turned it over, and then while he was there,
he thought, what the heck, I'll just buy a lottery ticket.
Remember him? Yeah? Remember what he won? Yeah, a million
million bucks for doing the right thing. Whereas these thieves
in the middle of the street might have picked up
(38:54):
one hundred, maybe even one thousand dollars. But it's still
if they had just handed that money to the guy
who turned the truck over and walked into a convenience
store bought a lot of a ticket, they'd probably wanted me,
and I wouldn't say probably, they could have wanted. Yeah,
(39:14):
it's there's a potential right there. You might be right there,
will It's possible.
Speaker 3 (39:19):
Anything's possible, all right, We got a minute, ten.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
Great, because I got like forty five more minutes if
I just started reading it never stopped. Uh, let's go back,
different strokes. What's in a word? And time to hand
over the keys? Time to hand over the key? Yeah,
you can kind of imagine what this is. Probably eighty
three year old man crashed his car into a bank
(39:46):
this month, so it's kind of like, so what so far? Right, Well,
exactly six weeks to the hour, probably dropping off his
Social Security check when he crashed his car into the
same bank in the same spot. They hadn't even had
time yet to replair replace the window, and it was
(40:09):
he just missing the parking spot or well clearly missing
the break. I would think the park. I think he
nailed the parking spot and beyond. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's
it's time, dude, U pocket poodle. Okay, I gotta give
you this one. How much time? Five huh Yorkshire terrier
(40:29):
near Toronto could be in the running for the world's
shortest dog. It is three inches tall. We'll be back
next week. Thanks a lot, Audios.
Remember when it was impossible to misplace the TV remote
because you were the TV remote. Remember when music sounded
like this? Remember when social media was truly social?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hey, John, how's it going today?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Well, this show is all about you. This is fifty
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and what to do for fun. Fifty plus brought to
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Decisions for a healthier, happier life.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
And now fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, let's
start this off on PGA Championship Weekend, second round underway,
and actually it's going pretty well for Johnny Vegas. He's
nine under par and leading by three over Pavone and
Thorpe Ornson Max Home is at five Gerards at five,
(01:04):
and we'll go on from there. I'll discuss that tournament
in length tomorrow and Sunday on my outdoor show over
on KB and ME. That's seven to ten Saturday and
eight to ten Sunday. This is fifty plus though on KPRC.
And here we are the day after Yesterday, day before tomorrow.
I guess a world where the forecast has it changed
(01:25):
in a couple of days and is it going to
for several more. It's warm, really warm, and that's going
to continue for quite a while. I got a little
hope for some rain on Tuesday, But outside of that,
it's a good time to find a cool spot and
do a crossword puzzle or sudoku or binge, watch mash
(01:48):
or gun smoke whatever or friends. I guess for some
of this audience saw something funny on Facebook. Not thirty
minutes ago. There were two teenagers and there was the
two teenage boys, probably sixteen seventeen, maybe eighteen years old,
and this young woman who was interviewing the two of them,
(02:10):
asked this question, and I'll ask it of you, will,
what year would someone have to be born in for
you to consider them old?
Speaker 3 (02:19):
What year would somebody have to be born and to
be considered old? Yeah, and it has to be a
specific year.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Specific year born in what that person is old? And
you've you're a little you're a little more sophisticated than
these two teenagers, believe me.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Yeah, I'll say, I'll say nineteen fifty years old.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yeah, Okay, that's fine. That's that's a very wise choice
on your part too. That's seventy five years, you know, okay,
well you know what the teenager said, by nineteen ninety,
nineteen ninety, and then this and the scene, you know,
the screen changes to a woman standing there with her
her hair in a towel. She's just out of the shower,
(03:04):
she's got her little robe on, she's got a cup
of tea and she's kind of dunking it. And when
she as soon as he says nineteen ninety, it flashes
to her and her eyes just get huge, and you
could tell she a little older than that. And then
in just little tiny letters at the bottom of the screen,
it says nineteen sixty six for her, and even I
would go, hey, hey, kid, what's happening. So anyway, there's
(03:29):
that the markets are doing their usual modest movement in
all directions. Gold Early this morning, gold was down I
want to say forty eight bucks an ounce something like that.
And I think gold peaked and may may settle back
even a little bit more than it has already, based
(03:50):
on what's going on worldwide and some of the deals
that are being cut and some of the movements that
our president is making. So fingers crossed and everything continues
on a good path from the Good News for Everybody
Desk today and by the way, this day I am
going to I sat at my desk this morning, about
(04:12):
to do all my prep as I usually would do,
and notice the pile of paper on the right side
of that desk that essentially is home to everything that
I don't use in the show on a particular day
and then stack over there on the side. So once
we get through a couple of very current things, I
(04:33):
think what I'm going to do is use this day
and perhaps random days once the stack gets deep enough,
I might put a little measuring some way of measuring
just how many pieces of paper are over there, and
once it hits a certain point, then that next day
is going to be I hesitate to call them leftovers.
(04:56):
They're just things I didn't get to. But I took
the time to prep. I took the time to make
good notes on what I wanted to talk about with those,
and so I'm going to take advantage of that and
hopefully be sharing things that you will like to hear.
Back to current events from the Good News for Everybody Desk, US,
(05:16):
whole wholesale prices excuse me, saw their biggest drop in
five years. The report came out I believe this morning. Actually,
economists have told us for quite some time now that
it's just chicken little stuff. The sky's falling. It's gonna
be horrible, It's gonna be terrible. Prices are gonna skyrocket.
(05:37):
I'm not sure what numbers they were watching, but what
we got in this report was about as close to
the best news as it could get. Service prices, by
the way, dropped zero point seven percent in April, which
doesn't sound like much, but it's the biggest drop since
inception of that index in December of two thousand and nine,
(06:03):
so sixteen years. And that's the most considerable, considerable drop
that we've ever had in that index, which is good
stuff from the Homeland Security Desk comes word via MSN
of All Places of an urgent request sent to the
Supreme Court made by DHS to lift the temporary injunction
(06:24):
that's blocking deportation of a bunch of dangerous people in
this country, the trendy Iarragua people, specifically nearly two dozen
of whom barricaded themselves into their housing unit, threatened to
take hostages, threatened to flood the place by clogging the toilets,
The former administration allowed these people to move freely around
(06:47):
our country. Let's not forget that for four years, even
paid for their food, paid for their housing, their transportation.
If they wanted to move, they'd put them on a
jet plane or a bus and move them. Let them
do it anything they wanted. We paid for their medical care,
all of that for four years. These are bad people,
(07:07):
and liberal judges insist somehow on keeping them here for
reasons I'll never understand. I really won't. They threaten the
safety of us all they really do, they really do.
Ice Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said this in that story,
and I'll quote her. The media repeated these TDA gang
members false SOB stories, But the truth is these are
(07:30):
members of a foreign terrorist organization that rape maime and
murder for sport. End quote. I can't understand why anyone
would stand in the way of their removal. But that's
that's what's happening. That's what's happening, very frightening, it really is,
and I'm just I'm thankful that Texas I know we're
(07:54):
not insulated from it. I know that members of all
of those danious gangs that came waltzing in here practically
with their hands held and a handed a sack of money,
and a free phone, and all kinds of things, free housing,
free food. The hotels in New York at one point
(08:17):
were offering illegal immigrants shelter in pretty nice hotels in
the city, really nice hotels actually, and even giving them
an option of what type of bed they wanted. They
were being served three meals, three hot meals a day,
(08:37):
and getting pretty much everything they wanted. They had shopping
vouchers where they could go. The ones who weren't stealing
anyway could go shopping, had debit cards, all kinds of
things that none of us get, by the way, not
without working for them. We paid for them for everybody else.
But we don't get that stuff. Okay, let's get to
(09:00):
the miscellany. Oh, actually, I'm gonna I'm gonna stay on
the homepage if you will. Will we gotta go? Oh
we do? Yeah, I didn't realize that because there I'm
getting to watch the golf turner. And that's okay, thank
you for letting me know. I'll tell you what. We'll
go straight to this one because I'm apparently a little
bit late already. And when we get back we'll, we'll
take on this enormous pile of good stuff that you
(09:25):
just haven't heard yet, at least not from me. More
fifty plus on AM nine to fifty KPRC. Right after this,
what's life without a nap? I suggest to go to bed,
sleep it off, just wait until the show's over. Sleepy.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues, Hi, welcome
back to fifty plus.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Thanks for listening on PGA Championship weekend. I know that
a lot of you don't care about golf, but I
kind of do. So I have to keep my eye
on the prize over here to my right ninety degrees
to my right, pretty big screen too, not quite life size,
but bigtheless. All right, we'll we'll, we'll lead in softly
(10:03):
with actually a couple of the things that I put
together today for this show, and I'll give you the
options of darn, you don't have a pen over there?
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Do you.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Now? The one time I counted on the pen that
usually is in here being here still and today it's
gone different strokes? What's in a word? Or going up?
Going up Mount Everest Will has gotten taller the last
(10:37):
twenty years. It has increased it's probably wearing lifts under
its foothills. You like that. Oh man, oh ye, I
made that up a little while ago. I knew it
would make you grow. That's why I had to do it.
But it's true. Yeah, Mount Everest is two feet higher
(10:59):
than it was years ago. So all of you who
say you've already climbed Mount Everest, now there's going to
be a question after you proclaim that, Uh, do you
mean the current Mount Everest, which is higher by two feet?
Or yeah, just the old way, the old mountain. Anybody
(11:19):
could get to the top of that. Come now, it's
it's two feet taller. That's going to take at least
one more step and by the time you get up there,
maybe two you know, two feet higher at that altitude.
And you you've been on that mountain for God knows
how long and endured god knows what, and seen God
(11:39):
knows what. That it's really spooky to think that. I mean,
there's so many people have died on that mountain, and
a lot of people have gotten lost, and then during
the warm season they turned back up snow melts and whatever.
It's really kind of I have no desire to climb
a mountain I really don't do you.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
You No, I've I've climbed up some volcano before.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Well that's you got your one up on me. Where
in Nicaragua? Really? Now look at you.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
There's a volcano called Mount setto Negro and and it's
a there's two ways of going up. You can either
go up the front, which is basically riddled with gravel,
so it's very it's steep and it's difficult to get
up wedding, okay, or you can go up the backway
where there's kind of a path.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
All I did was just like wingsuit, just dive off.
That's all I did. But I've done both both. Well, really,
what were you doing down there for long enough to
climb a mountain a volcano? Twice?
Speaker 3 (12:44):
I went there with my Spanish class in Okay, in
high school for two years.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
What kind of high school were you at? I went
to Saint Thomas Okay. Now, oh oh, now I get it.
So you just took a couple of years to go
down to Nicaragua. Of course, you spent two years in
Nicaragua or you went in two consecutive years. Two consecutive years, yeah, okay,
it's spent about two weeks dinner no week each week
so you can do all the other things you were
(13:13):
gonna do in Nicaragua and climb a volcano. You in
one of those little backyard volcanoes. Now the bacon soda. Okay,
I'm just making sure you get me on a technicality.
I want to make sure you weren't doing that. Well,
let's get one more of these and then we'll get
to the the fun weird stuff. Time to hand over
the keys. Pocket poodle and I did say poodle. Uh,
(13:36):
And the beat goes on and the beat goes on.
Study found that our brain doesn't just process music way
it will excuse me. It resonates with it. That's why
you almost can't help but start tapping your foot or
your hand on the steering wheel or something when you're
listening to songs on the radio. Oh do you find
(13:56):
that interesting? I do, at least a little. Yeah, I
thought so.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
I'm constantly banging on the steering wheel when I'm driving.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Well, that's because you're mad at the people in front
of a tune.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
You know.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
I tend to sing a lot. I've told you before
that I greatly appreciate harmonies, and so if any song
comes on one of the presets I have for music
chant or music stations. Then I'm going at it. I'm
going at it right with them, and I'll try to
hit in one in one hook of the song. I'll
(14:32):
try to hit one note in one path and then
I don't know what the terms are for all of that,
But then the next one I'll try to go a
little bit higher. And I used to go I used
to have access to much higher notes than I do now.
My voice is I guess from twenty five years of radio,
and what my wife says is an inability to not talk. Yeah,
(14:57):
she would tell you that I can talk the bark
off a tree wheel. To use that expression more than once,
and it according to her, it's it's accurate. I may
try that sometime. We have a tree over by our
mailbox in the neighborhood that everybody in the neighborhood except
the people who are selling that house or I think,
I don't. It may have sold by now, I don't know,
(15:17):
but it's it's damaged, it's diseased, and it's a big
oak tree that's gonna fall sooner or later. And when
it does, it looks like it's gonna fall A little
bit ahead of the mailboxes. And if you ever just
sat over there in a lawn chair kind of like
going to a public boat ramp for entertainment, you could
watch and everybody who pulls up to that mailbox stops
(15:38):
short of where we all think it's going to fall
in the street because we don't want our cars to
get whacked. Course, it's a big it's like a thirty
five forty foot tree. It's probably that part of the
neighborhood was built right after mine, so it's probably thirty
years old. And they didn't have any problems during last
year's storms, didn't come down, didn't come down, But now
(15:58):
it actually looks like it looks like somebody hit it
at high speed. You know how those trees along the
side of the road will look on a major thoroughfare road.
We'll look if a car hits it and then it
heals a little bit. But there's this big gouge in
the bark. That's what it's got. And on top of that,
inside the gouge where the real the muscle of the
(16:22):
tree should be, it's kind of got nasty looking infestation, infection,
whatever it is, with something it just makes it looks
like you could just blow it over, and some parts
of it are some parts have green leaves, some parts
no green leaves. So yeah, it's got issues. But enough
(16:42):
tree talk, I guess. From how much time do I happen?
We have three minutes. I don't know if I can
do that in three minutes. I'm gonna set that aside
for a second. I will go with this from the
put some clothes on desk? Comes where and before warned
this past I think it was this past No. Two
(17:03):
saturdays ago was National Naked Gardening Day? Will yes?
Speaker 3 (17:09):
No?
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Do you now? Of course? Did you celebrate it? Yes?
Front yard or backyard booth? You're so full of blowing
you know you couldn't do that on a bet. And
the story I saw actually shares the top five cities
in America for naked gardening and not coincidentally, I'm sure,
(17:32):
because it's just a hip and cool city that also
got named one of the top five cities in America
for barbecue this week Austin, Texas. So I would suspect
that on the third of May, when when that was
National Naked Gardening Day, there were probably some naked barbecues
(17:55):
going on as well. Come over, help me plant some flowers.
We're gonna have barb be q after don't stand too
close to the grill now that bacon comes off of there.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Got the biggest, uh biggest spatulas, you know, you flip them,
go with that will long.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Yeah, it was Miami, Seattle, Austin, Atlanta, and Ashville, which
it struck me as odd. That was from lawn starter
dot com. It's actually legal, by the way, public nudity
is legal in those five cities. Why it's it's pretty
popular there. Well, yeah, that would be one thing that's
(18:40):
just that's not for me. You know that the whole,
the whole notion when you were little of trying to
sneak into a nudist colony, doesn't take into account that
most of the people there you don't really want to
see that way. Does that mean one minute or does
that mean we're done one? Oh good? Okay, Well let's
get away from there. God, that would just scare the
be jeepers out of your neighbors, wouldn't it.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
I don't know, I mean, it seems like it was
pretty popular.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Maybe there's just that's just ringing a bell that can't
be unwrong, you know, move to Austin. Will. Go ahead
and just leave your clothes behind. Just give all your
clothes to Goodwill. Then drive straight to Austin and then
walk in McDonald's and see if you can get a hamburger.
I'll try. I'll bet you can't. I'll bet you they'll
call the cops on you. I bet they would, all right,
(19:28):
I know my rights. Well, let's tell you what. Let's
get out of here because I need to run back
over to my desk and get a pen so I
can check these off as I go through them. There
are so many more. We have enough will We have
enough material here to do probably an entire week if
I didn't do anything else. But the problem is that
all these cool new things come up every day, and
I try to get to them, I really do, but
(19:48):
I can't. A Late Health I've talked to you about
them for a long time now, and I'm gonna continue
as long as they'll let me. This is the group
that it's a vascular clinic, okay, run by doctor Andrew
Dough and I've had him on the show several times
and talked about all the things they do at a
Late Health in addition to their most frequent procedure, which
(20:08):
is prostate artery embolization. For the older gentleman in my audience,
if you're about fifty five plus, really is when the
symptoms of an enlarging prostate non cancerous when start to manifest,
and as they do, you get more and more uncomfortable,
more and more unwilling to live with all that, and
(20:29):
so you end up doing something the old school ways
of relieving that are in modern terms and especially as
measured against prostate embolization, almost barbaric. Don't even ask about
that if you go to your doctor that if they
tell you, it'll probably scare you, and they'll tell you
(20:49):
it'll be okay, but they're going to be in there
rooting around and grinding and cutting and chopping. Whereas what
a late health does is just cut off the blood
supply to that thing and it shrinks up that essentially,
it lets the air out of the balloon, and you're
all of the things associated with that go away as
(21:10):
that thing shrivels up. Fibroids for women, head pains, ugly veins,
and many other things. Doctor doan I, the last time
I talked to him on the show, went into all
of the different procedures that are done right there in
their clinic. They're now going to haul you to the hospital.
You're gonna get to go home. Somebody have to drive you,
as I've said every time, somebody will drive you home,
(21:30):
and then you get to just recuperate there for depending
on the procedure, a couple of days, maybe a few days,
maybe a little longer, but then you're right back up
to kicking and running and having a good time. A
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Speaker 1 (21:55):
Aged to perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike. Oh
really that was quick. Didn't even get a chance to
talk to.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Joe Will What thing?
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Dude?
Speaker 2 (22:06):
I thought you were ready?
Speaker 3 (22:07):
No, I never said that. I didn't say it. I
just I made a guess.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
I don't presume facts not in evidence. Will, Okay, look
at all this stuff I have over here? Where do
I go? Where do I go? Hold on? I gotta
scratch out what we used over here. Took care of
that one and took care of that one. Okay, let's
go back and forth from some of the old to
the new, and the new to the old, and vice
versa and hither and yon uh from the Shoppers Club
(22:35):
desk and Fox News came word that Sam's Club is
gonna eliminate checkout lines. We've talked about that a little
bit before, uh, and they're gonna place it, replace it
with AI technology. It's gonna allow customers to scan their
purchases as they're put into the carts, effectively, they say,
stopping any real need with interaction or for interaction with
(22:58):
a checker or anybody else looking at your receipt on
the way out the door. So here's my question, and
probably that of at least half this audience already. What
keeps somebody from scanning in the store? Oh? I know,
I bet, I know. But that's gonna require some major,
(23:18):
heavy hitting security equipment. No, that won't work. Even I
was thinking that maybe that everything you scan in the
store gets matched up as you push your basket on
out the door, and if there's other stuff in there,
then they're gonna flag you. But the only way they
could do that is if they could somehow read the
(23:38):
QRC or that is that what's on on the it's
not a QR code, what's a barcode. It would have
to read the bar code, and if you just put
something under it, then it can't read the barcode. I
don't know how that's gonna be all that effected against shoplifting.
Do you can you see how that's gonna work really well?
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Mmm?
Speaker 2 (24:01):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
I mean maybe i'd have to see it in practice, though.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Yeah, I want to. I want to see it at work.
And I'm not a member at Sam's Club, so I
probably I'll just have to rely on you. You go
in there Sam's Club. Yeah, No, I don't either. I
just I just go to I go where I get
a fair price all my groceries and stuff, and I
don't my wife and I don't really buy anything in bulk. Uh.
(24:27):
I can't imagine needing five gallons of mayonnaise. I can't
imagine needing six hundred rolls of toilet paper. A palette.
Now give me a palette of charmon. Yeah, I don't
need that. I don't know how i'd get it home.
I don't own a trailer. I got it from Applebee's
(24:48):
will or is it live or is it memorycs or
there's I need one more here real quickly.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Clipping more than their wings, clipping more than their wings.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
A Florida suburb has a peacock problem, so a local
veterinarian has launched a program to start performing peacock fast sectomies.
Write your own punchline, peacock vasectomy. Yes, will Yes, And
(25:26):
I don't think they've gotten the cascent consent of the peacocks.
I would imagine they're just gonna do it. And those
peacocks are not gonna be as rowdy. Have you ever
been around them? Do you realize how loud they are? No?
Speaker 3 (25:40):
I mean I've seen them in some parts of Houston.
You know they're just wandering.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Yeah. Yeah, they're beautiful birds. They're beautiful, big birds. They
fanned that tail out and look really cool. However, when
they when they want something, whatever it may be, they
get really really loud and are a nuisance wherever they are.
In some neighborhoods they're relatively there's something in Katie actually,
(26:05):
and then there's some roughly a little bit north of
West tim Or off Gestner where a restaurant used to
have them. And I think they just kind of decided
to go rogue. Once the restaurant closed, nobody went and
rounded them up, so I believe they continued to maintain
their population. I'm not one hundred percent sure where else
(26:26):
do I want to go?
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Here?
Speaker 2 (26:27):
I have way too many things here, I really do.
We did that already. I was speaking of shoplifting. I
had yet another incident and yet another grocery store that
bears mentioned, and I've again come across somebody just casually
(26:49):
partaking of those big premium green grapes, the ones that
are really really good, as opposed to the little ones
that are about the size of a dime. These are
more about the size of a nickel or a quarter,
and they tend to be firmer and juicier, and I
like them. Ei they are about six bucks a pound
or more, but I still like them, And I'll get someone.
I go in there, and this guy's just walking through
(27:10):
the store eating grapes like nobody cares, Like nobody cares,
and so as instructed. About two weeks ago, when a
similar incident occurred and I talked to a manager about it,
I just went and told somebody about it, and they
asked where he was and what he was wearing, and
I let him know. So if you got booted out
(27:33):
of a grocery store recently for eating the grapes and
not paying for them, that maybe well might have been me,
might not. Who knows. Somebody could have somebody could have
told on it. That's just so's it's such a casual
disregard for the law and just common decency. If that person,
(27:57):
I'm sure that person has a job based on age
of that person. And I'm sure that if somebody came
in and I don't care what you do for work,
if somebody steals your work or steals your product, which
is exactly what's happening there, that's wrong. And far too
many people, I think in our country right now don't
(28:21):
remember either we're never taught or don't remember the difference
between just basic right and wrong, just basic stuff. Speaking
of right and wrong, Well, a radio related issue here
that I think is pretty cool. And they got caught
(28:42):
this radio station in Australia. Do you remember I didn't
say anything about this. I don't believe they're facing heat
after fans figured out after six months that this radio
station had been broadcasting nothing but AI programming the talk
(29:02):
every bit of it was just generated by AI. Good
or bad will. That's the end of the world. Stuff there, man,
well of our world maybe crazy crazy, they weren't. People
are angry because they at least they could have been
upfront about it. Hey, we're going to test AI in
(29:23):
broadcasts and see how you like that. I could have
told him it doesn't work, because I do know from
the research that's been done not just by iHeart, but
by almost every radio company in the country, every broadcasting
company in the country, the relationship between on air hosts
and their audiences is legitimate. And I hope you guys
(29:46):
feel the same way about me as I do about you.
I consider you're my friends. I really do. I don't
know many of you, and I would be happy to
learn more about many of you. Anybody who wants to
share something, just let me know. If there's something you
want me to talk about on this program, let me know.
I'm not hard to find. I'm really not. Use my
(30:07):
email Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. Use it if you
have a topic you want me to talk about.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Use it.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
If you have an interest in becoming part of the show,
whatever you want to do. That email is always open
and always receiving. And I've got like four not four thousand,
now probably about I think thirty five hundred, maybe thirty six,
I don't know. I got that many emails to prove
that it's always open, believe me. On the way out,
(30:34):
ut Health Institute on Aging the same, well, not the same.
It's always growing. There are always new people coming aboard
the Institute on Aging because it is such a fantastic
opportunity for them to bring health and well being to
people they may not have been seeing very often before
in their practices, whatever field of medicine they're in. Everybody
(30:58):
who's involved with the Institute on Aging goes back and
gets additional training as to how their knowledge can be
applied to seniors. It's a very simple formula. And once
they get that training, once they get that additional information
that gives them that credential, they become available to all
(31:19):
of us by through the website, through phone calls, through references,
and there are just so many ways to see these people.
Many of them are in the med Center, as you
might imagine, that's the hub of medicine for all of
the South practically, but a lot of them also work
in outlying clinics and hospitals and offices so you can
be seen without having to go to the med center.
(31:41):
If you really don't want to go to the med center.
UT Health Institute on Aging, go to the website, check
out all the resources that are available there, and then
work your way into getting an appointment with somebody who
can help you with something that you really would like
to see resolved, but you're not quite getting the remedy
(32:04):
you'd like in the time you'd like. Utch dot edu
slash aging. That's where this very simple journey to a better, happier,
longer life starts. Utch dot edu slash aging. Yeah, they
sure don't make them like they used to.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
That's why every few months we wash him, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
This is fifty plus with Doug Pike. Just let that
one go an awfully long way, didn't you? Were you
waiting till I was ready? Yeah? Exactly, that's a switch roo.
Thank you. I appreciate that. Uh from the where do
I want to go now? Oh, the archaeology desk. I
always love these things. I'm fascinated by history. I get
(32:46):
that from my father. He was a history major in
college who went immediately into the oil business after he
got out, because he saw the handwriting on the wall
there not in hieroglyphics either. A discovery been made right
here in the US of A on the campus of
William and Mary University, originally chartered. In pop quiz, will
(33:06):
when was William and Mary University chartered? I'm gonna go
with eighteen Oh, keep going.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
Higher, lower, well much lower, Oh, okay, seventeen sixty sixteen
ninety three. I know it's the oldest public university.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
The sixteen hundred and ninety three years. That's in what
they found on campus. It's actually the second oldest university
in our country according to the story. And now your
pop quiz task is to find out which is the
oldest while I'm telling this story. So what they found there,
(33:50):
pretty much making it even older, is a kiln that
was used to fire the bricks for construction of the school.
And it was originally actually found in the nineteen thirties
and then covered back up after they did a little
digging and looking and oh that's interesting, but they didn't
really know what they were doing. Then they covered it
(34:11):
back up with dirt. Why I don't know, I think
that would have been a cool thing to leave exposed
and maybe even restore a little bit contemporary contemporary. It
says here archaeologists rediscovered that kiln recently and are studying
it more closely as should happen to what certainly is
the oldest structure on that campus, because without the bricks
(34:33):
they couldn't have built the buildings. Did you find it? Will?
Speaker 3 (34:35):
The oldest university is Harvard, uh chartered when sixteen thirty six.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Holy cow, that's astonishing, it really is. That's pretty amazing
and astonishing and wow, it's got wow factor, I think
from the Spy Versus Spy desk? Well, do you do
you recognize the those three the spy versus from Mad magazine?
(35:04):
Thank you, gosh, you do know that?
Speaker 3 (35:06):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Are you a Mad Magazine guy? Yes? Dad still loves
Mad Magazine? Oh wow? And so we used to have
it all over the house. Yeah. I used to buy
that magazine when I was younger. It was kind of
fun to look at it really was, and very interesting,
and Spy versus SPI was something I went to first.
You know, most of my audience likely understands that reference,
(35:29):
and the younger of you among you outside of will
whose dad loved it? I may not, but that's okay anyway.
For years now, students at Stanford University have been approached
very carefully and very methodically by alleged members of the
(35:50):
Chinese Communist Party who have been impersonating students there, and
they're doing that in hopes of game, meaning sensitive information.
There's a lot of research that goes on at Stanford
that's some of which is better left secret. And the
(36:11):
requests sometimes even included offers to visit China. These people
were courting the Stanford students pretty heavily. Primarily, it says
here the interest among the impersonators has been in AI
and medical advances being made here. Worth noting also, at
present there are about a thousand Chinese nationals enrolled at Stanford.
(36:34):
And to be enrolled, I guess you got to be
going to classes and making grades and stuff like that.
But apparently some of them are not entirely there for education.
Not quite. It's some kind of sad too, So let
me cross that one out. We'll cross this one out.
How we doing on time? Will we have a little
less than four minutes? That wasn't a bad guess, was it?
(37:01):
I'm not gonna talk about Doze anymore, not for a while. Anyway.
I'll let that sit, I'll put that one, I'll push
that one aside. Did I tell you about the eighteen
wheeler wheel that was loaded with dimes and flipped over
a couple of weeks ago. No, it happened and on
(37:21):
the highway, so earlier in the week here bah blah
blah blah uh outside Chicago. Okay, Oh no, I take
that back. The eighteen wheeler. I'm not sure where it was,
but Cruise went back out there to pick up every
one of those dimes, and they think they did, but
you know that some of them rolled off into the bushes.
Of course, they didn't get all of those millions of dimes.
(37:42):
I'm sure they got a lot. And then, in this
same note, just a couple of days later, an armored
car spilled about three hundred thousand dollars in cash. And
did did anybody wait for crews to come pick that
money up?
Speaker 3 (37:59):
Will?
Speaker 2 (37:59):
Or do you think people just jumped out of their
cars and grabbed what they could and drove off.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
I mean, I think maybe everybody did that, even with
the dimes.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
It was option, but yeah, they got most of the money.
People stopped their cars just right in the middle of
the freeway and started picking up money and driving off
with it as soon as they got what they could
carry and didn't think they'd get caught with That's it's sad,
it really is. It's sad. You could be like the
guy we talked about yesterday who found one hundred dollars
(38:32):
bill on the top of the counter in some store
somewhere and turned it over, and then while he was there,
he thought, what the heck, I'll just buy a lottery ticket.
Remember him? Yeah? Remember what he won? Yeah, a million
million bucks for doing the right thing. Whereas these thieves
in the middle of the street might have picked up
(38:54):
one hundred, maybe even one thousand dollars. But it's still
if they had just handed that money to the guy
who turned the truck over and walked into a convenience
store bought a lot of a ticket, they'd probably wanted me,
and I wouldn't say probably, they could have wanted. Yeah,
(39:14):
it's there's a potential right there. You might be right there,
will It's possible.
Speaker 3 (39:19):
Anything's possible, all right, We got a minute, ten.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
Great, because I got like forty five more minutes if
I just started reading it never stopped. Uh, let's go back,
different strokes. What's in a word? And time to hand
over the keys? Time to hand over the key? Yeah,
you can kind of imagine what this is. Probably eighty
three year old man crashed his car into a bank
(39:46):
this month, so it's kind of like, so what so far? Right, Well,
exactly six weeks to the hour, probably dropping off his
Social Security check when he crashed his car into the
same bank in the same spot. They hadn't even had
time yet to replair replace the window, and it was
(40:09):
he just missing the parking spot or well clearly missing
the break. I would think the park. I think he
nailed the parking spot and beyond. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's
it's time, dude, U pocket poodle. Okay, I gotta give
you this one. How much time? Five huh Yorkshire terrier
(40:29):
near Toronto could be in the running for the world's
shortest dog. It is three inches tall. We'll be back
next week. Thanks a lot, Audios.
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