Lightning Round

Today, Doug Pike discusses the Kentucky Derby, wedding expenses, and catching snakes.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hey John, how's it going today?

Speaker 1 (00:20):
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Speaker 2 (00:42):
And now fifty plus with Doug Pike.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
All right, here we go, the latest, the greatest, the
most amazing, I don't know, pretty good episode. I would
think of fifty plus coming up right now? Now for
the next what forty or fifty five minutes? Fifty four minutes?

Speaker 2 (00:59):
We move forward?

Speaker 3 (01:01):
I wonder if, boy, it would take an act of
Congress for us to get those first four minutes back,
wouldn't it?

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Will?

Speaker 3 (01:07):
What are you talking about? The program of the show?
We only we started what five?

Speaker 2 (01:13):
Yeah? We do? I want the other five minutes?

Speaker 1 (01:17):
Well?

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Ye, will you gotta talk to Brian about that one.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
I'd probably also have to come in here before twelve
oh four. Well, that's that's crunch time. That's that's man,
that's right on the edge of making it or not.
I saw it when I saw your head pop around
the corner. I thought I miscalculated somewhere, but we made it.
All this well, welcome to the atmospheric roller coaster that
is Southeast Texas in springtime. I'm very confident now that

(01:45):
we're done with the cool spells and and we.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
Had our share.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
We didn't we didn't really have to endure any major
winter weather, and hopefully we won't have to endure any
major summer weather other than some heat. You can't avoid
that around here. Once it hits about maybe what late
June will it's gonna really heat up.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
Well, storm season is approaching, well, I know that that's
June through whenever. You know.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
The irony to this whole storm season thing is that
there have been named storms that came smashing into the
continentally United States. And how many months of the twelve
that are in the year will twelve? Yep, named storms
have hit this country in all twelve months of the year.

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Is it a frequent occurrence in December, January, and February. No,
but it's happened, and the fact that that has happened
just says that conditions were favorable, which says that it
was really really warm for a long time. But it
hasn't been that warm in a long time. So all

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these fluctuations in temperature, they've been going on for a
long time. I don't want to dive into that. I
really really don't. We're not quite far enough into what's
coming to be overly worried about whether when we can't
get outside because it's just so dog on warm, and
unless you worry about getting caught in a lightning storm,

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I think there's really not a whole lot to worry
about right now. Or and this seems to happen to
me with increasing frequency, the surprise attack of a thunderstorm. Now,
when I was spending time in the summers at my
grandparents south in Southeast Florida, you could almost set your

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watch or buy the occurrence of an afternoon thunderstorm. It's
gonna be about three o'clock, maybe three h five or
three ten, depending on whether you moved a little east
or a little west in that zone. But you were
going to get that shower that afternoon. Every single day.
It seemed like they only lasted about ten or fifteen minutes,

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but they were real, and they were there. And here
it seems to coincide with how comfortable I feel on
a cloudy, but otherwise innocuous looking day to go to
the grocery store.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
I go to the store, I get out of my car.

Speaker 3 (04:17):
I walk in casually because it's it's overcast, which is
nice because that keeps some of the heat and the
direct sun off the back of your neck. So I
go through the store, I get all my groceries, I
go through the checkout process. I get back to the
door and I look outside and it is pouring rain,
big drops and way too many to count. Now here's

(04:41):
my dilemma. There's an umbrella in the back seat of
the car. But the back seat and that umbrella are
about seventy five yards away, and I'm not going to
sprint out and back because well, for a couple of reasons.
Number one, I'm not really much into sprinting these days.
Number two, if I if I tried to sprint too

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hard and too fast, I just might slip and fall,
and that's no, that's no bargain at my age. And also,
I don't want to leave my groceries just sitting there,
exposed and available to anybody who wants to grab the
bags and race to their own car with ill gotten goods.

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There's also the frozen food to consider, too, which is
rapidly becoming otherwise. While I wait for the rain to stop,
usually what I do is just I just take off running,
pushing that basket. Will do you? Did you grow up
calling it a basket or a shopping cart?

Speaker 2 (05:43):
A shopping cart? But you would also say the handheld
is the basket? Yeah, but that's that's like an easter basket.
And those weren't available when I grew up. Okay, he asked,
when I grew up? Three terms? I know? Three terms?
Will basket, shopping cart? And what?

Speaker 3 (06:04):
And the other one is a real kind of a
rural Texas term and in a much old, in an
older term even than I think.

Speaker 2 (06:12):
Basket, shopping cart, ass, basket? And and it's another B word?
Oh okay? Oh a barrow a wheel? No, that's a
W word. Will a wheel bear?

Speaker 3 (06:27):
No?

Speaker 2 (06:28):
A buggy a buggy? Yeah.

Speaker 3 (06:30):
I actually was up in East Texas a couple of
weeks ago, and I had to go into an HGB
up there to get some stuff. And I heard a
woman tell her daughter, go get us a buggy and
and and hitch up a couple of wagons I get,
or a couple of horses to the wagon.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
The buggy. Yeah, maybe they were going to use that
to get home. I don't know. I do.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
When I was little, I remember being called a basket
when my mom was asking me to run down the
aisle and grab a loaf of bread or a can
of soup or whatever. She just goes, run down there,
Doug and get us two cans of tomato soup and
put them in the basket. And that's exactly what I
would do, because that's exactly what any young son or
daughter should do if his or her mother says, go

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get something in sports. I know, I'll say the sports news,
and then we've got all kinds of stuff going on,
I really do.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
I highlighted a couple of.

Speaker 3 (07:20):
Things that didn't make the cut during the week, but
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Speaker 2 (09:07):
This is fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, welcome
back to fifty plus. Thanks for listening. Certainly do appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (09:12):
On this afternoon, I'm trying to really plant in my
head will that I don't want to ever say good
morning again mistakenly, and I don't know why it bothers
me so much that I do. It draws me crazy
because there's a transition when I'm running through the hall
to make it in here on time. There is that
transition from morning to afternoon.

Speaker 2 (09:35):
Do you care? I don't personally care.

Speaker 3 (09:40):
Well that you're probably speaking for the whole audience. A
minor slip like that is really not relevant. So in
sports news, by the way, do you know what tomorrow is?
What goes on tomorrow? What goes on tomorrow? Well, hopefully
hopefully the Rockets will be traveling back here tomorrow night
or tomorrow morning I guess early, uh, hopefully traveling back

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here to prepare for a game.

Speaker 2 (10:05):
Seven. Oh, because the Rockets game is tonight.

Speaker 3 (10:08):
Correct, Well done, cracker Jack sports reporter, Well done, Yes,
they do play tonight. So of the Astros so hopefully
two wins tonight or at least one, and I prefer.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
One important win over the beginning of the baseballs.

Speaker 3 (10:26):
Yeah, we're what twenty five thirty games a twenty something
games in out of sixty two. Yeah, so if we
if we can only have one Houston win tonight, I'm
cool with it going to the Rockets. That's the reason
I'm flying their colors today. By the way, Oh, I

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see that, I do, I do see acial gear.

Speaker 2 (10:50):
My friend, you're you're a true supporter.

Speaker 3 (10:56):
It was from a golf tournament that was the Rockets hosted,
and the shirt was one of the things they offered
up to us in exchange for getting to go play
golf with a bunch of cool people.

Speaker 2 (11:10):
Any of the Rockets players, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (11:13):
I certainly didn't have one on my team. I think
they were actually playing when we did the tournament they
weren't able to attend, or maybe not, I don't recall it.

Speaker 2 (11:20):
It's been a while. I have an.

Speaker 3 (11:22):
Astro shirt that I continue to wear because I've kept
it really in good shape, and it on the sleeve.

Speaker 2 (11:30):
Reminds me every time I put it on that I
received it in the year. What will what do you
think it was. I'm gonna go with it. In the
year two thousand and five, God, you're so close. Two
thousand and six, wow, two zero six, the year after
they got swept in the World Series. I guess, yeah,

(11:53):
thanks for bringing that up. Yeah, way to go. Well
that's great. Also the year before my son was born,
there you go. Also in sports news.

Speaker 3 (12:02):
Tomorrow, the Kentucky Derby will set to start at three
pm post time. I guess at what two twenty five
thirty to forty. I don't really know how long post
time lasts or when it starts, do.

Speaker 2 (12:17):
You No, I'm not.

Speaker 3 (12:19):
It's not that I'm not a horse racing fan. I
just don't go that often anymore. But I still appreciate
the Kentucky Derby. It's preceded on television by about I
don't know what six hours of pre race coverage. You
got women in fancy hats and men in seersucker suits,
and they're all sipping mit julips. I like watching the race,

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but I can live without the fanfare that precedes it
on network TV.

Speaker 2 (12:44):
Do you watch it at all? I watched it for
the first time last year. I went to a Kentucky
Derby party.

Speaker 3 (12:51):
Oh okay, so somebody had to offer your free booze
to go to watch the race. Yes, of course it's
it's not It's don't know if it's an iconic race.
It may be the iconic horse race, the like kind
of like the Masters is to golf. But still, because
I don't have a horse in the race, it's like whatever,

(13:16):
you know, I'm not gonna go bet on any of them.
I think, you know what the name of the horse
that's favored is. I believe journalism. Journalism.

Speaker 2 (13:25):
Yeah, so apparently it's not dead in the United States.
That's cool. Yep. Don't get me.

Speaker 3 (13:31):
Started on how how news reporting has devolved into pure opinion.
And in many cases I would be willing to bet
the things that the the television reporters are reading off
the prompter. They may not even really believe themselves, but

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to keep their jobs they got, they have to just
have to keep reading it. I feel very very blessed
and that I can say and express I can express
my opinions in full honesty, and I don't have to
sugarcoat anything, and that's that's a tremendous value. And I
would hate to be one of those people whose image

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winds up on a on a board, a collage of
others who during their six PM major network news broadcast
all said exactly the same thing, as though it were
their own words. Don't ever forget that those people they're
just reading, they're reading from scripts, and they read what's

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on the screen. And it's okay if you're if you're
reporting on a an automobile accident or you're giving a
crime report or something like that. But what happens, I
think is the line gets blurred when they they let
it sound a little more like it's it's what they think,
and and well, I maybe worse to set it out

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there as as neutral when an entire side is being
left out of the report. And then, honestly, that kind
of goes both ways. The conservative news sources report conservatively
and the liberal news sources report liberally. But I just
wish there were some way we could get back to
the day when you could watch the entire six o'clock

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news or the entire ten o'clock newscast, and when any
story was read, especially about politics, you couldn't tell which
side the network or the reporter was on, because they
gave fair and equal time to both sides. It's pretty
much the ninety ten or ninety five five these days,

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and it shouldn't be. There's just no reason for that.

Speaker 2 (15:53):
All right. Well, look, there's lots of things I got
to talk.

Speaker 3 (15:56):
Oh, by the way, if you're into snakes, or if
you hate snakes, or if you just want to learn
a little bit more about snakes, I'm going to interview
a woman tomorrow at eight thirty on my outdoor show
over on KBMME who is a local woman who if
you've got a snake in your yard and you're worried
about it, she's out kind of in the Sugarland and

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Missouri City and Richmond area, and if you can contact
her through the website we're going to turn it's an app,
I think it is actually where you can get a
hold of her. She's on Facebook too, that's where we've
been messaging and anyway you can get in touch with
her and she'll come relocate that snake for you. She
is among I don't know how many people exactly are

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involved in that thing, but they will just with a
quick phone call or email or personal message on Facebook, whatever,
they'll come out there and try to get that snake.
Out of your way, which I had to do more
than once, in fact, more than probably eight or ten times.
During the infancy of my neighborhood. I was one of
the first houses on the block that actually got finished,

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And as more and more got finished, I would come
home more and more frequently and see two grown men
standing in the yard, one with a rake and one
with a shovel, and staring at the bushes. And I'd
just roll up and say, what kind of snake is it?
And nine times out of ten they would say, I
don't know, which is why they were standing there with
hose and shovels. I guess they thought they were either

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anacondas or cobras or whatever. But the overwhelming majority of
the snakes they were about to kill were just common,
non venomous snakes.

Speaker 2 (17:32):
Weren't gonna hurt a fly.

Speaker 3 (17:34):
They were going to keep the rodent population down, but
that didn't matter to those people anyway. I rescued quite
a few, including actually a couple of cotton mouths that
were destined for the Well, who was it, Marie Antoinette.
Wasn't she the one who got her head chopped off?

Speaker 2 (17:53):
Or no, Marie Antoinette, Yeah, I can't remember now, yeah,
I thought so, ye know, well that was their fate.
If I had stepped in, the fate of those snakes
would have been the same as hers. And that there's
no reason they're They're very valuable and essential creatures, and
just because they have no legs and look slithery doesn't

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mean you should you should do them any harm. I
came real close, I think I talked about it on
this show, just stepping on It was turned out just
a little rat snake. It wasn't a big deal, about
three feet long. But I almost stepped on one.

Speaker 3 (18:27):
And the young man I was fishing with at the time,
and his grandfather did exactly what his dad, who did
a great job with him, should have done. He saw
me walking toward that snake, and I was looking more
ahead than down because I've walked that same path a
hundred times, and he just said snake, and I froze,
and I looked down and there just right at my

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feet was this little rat snake and he was he
was kind of booking it, trying to get away from us.
I tried to catch him, but by the time I
could get my hands down, he was he'd slim it
under a rock, and I grabbed about the last seven
or eight inches of that snake, and just he had
already gotten a firm hold up under the rock he
was going under, and so I just.

Speaker 2 (19:09):
Let him go. I didn't want to drag him out
of there and embarrass him in front of his little
snake friends. All Right, we gotta take another little break
here on the way out.

Speaker 3 (19:15):
I'm gonna tell you about a late health which has
been around for many, many years. I just recently did
an interview with doctor Andrew Doe that will run next
week that will do a lot better job than I
ever have of explaining exactly what they do in these
vascular clinics, and what they do, to my understanding and
in simplest terms, is deal with situations that can be

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alleviated by the plugging of an artery or in some
cases by the reopening of clogged arteries and whatnot throughout
the body. They have very heavy gauge stuff, and they
also have some very fine tools and mechanisms they work with.
They are even smaller than human hair, but can be

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used to go in and say, get rid of ugly veins.
They can be used to get rid of it in
large noncancerous prostate. That's what they do most often over there,
fibroids and women, and what they do with those is
shut off the blood supply to them and those things
that are causing you so much grief and problem because
they can't survive without that oxygenated blood. They shrivel up

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and away with them and away with the symptoms they cause.
They can also alleviate some head pains, even with vascular
procedure where you take the pressure off of that part
of the brain by disrupting the flow to it. It's
far more complicated than that. Doctor Doe does a great
job of explaining it all, and it'll be sometime next

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week you can hear it from him. What I'm telling
you is, if you've got stuff like that might be
helped with one of those procedures, or you have chronic
pain that might be helped with generative medicine, then you
should give them a call and try to go get
a consultation and see what they can do for you.
Most of what they do, by the way, covered by
Medicare and Medicaid, and you're usually in and out of

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their clinics in about two maybe three hours. Now you're
gonna need somebody to drive you home because you're gonna
be a little loopy. But other than that, you get
back to the house, prop your feet up in your
favorite chair, and then just get weighted on hand over fist.

Speaker 2 (21:25):
I'm sure that's how it works. Seven to one, three
five eight eight thirty eight eighty eight seven one three
five eight eight thirty eight eighty eight.

Speaker 1 (21:34):
Yeah, they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash them, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike. It will you just cut
them off right there? Yeah, just cut their legs out
from under. That's one song I wanted it to be
over with. Ready to get this segment started?

Speaker 2 (21:55):
Yeah, apparently so and we and we will fifty plus continue.
You just want to give them a haste of it
so that way they can go and listen to it
on their own.

Speaker 3 (22:04):
I may, yeah, I may do that after after the show,
all go over there and play that.

Speaker 2 (22:08):
I might sing it out loud too. There's nobody to
hear me over there right on a Friday afternoon, that's
for sure.

Speaker 3 (22:13):
A couple of people in this in today. Oh, by
the way, Will, do you know what today is?

Speaker 2 (22:17):
National? What day? Is it? World tuna Day? No? Even better,
even better than that, even better than World tuna Yeah,
and so if you World tuna tuna fish salad Day,
if you, if you know what's good for you, won't
ask me to stand up either. Today is World no

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pants Day. And I don't know if you noticed when
I walked in, I did leave for a second to
go to the restaurant during one of the breaks.

Speaker 3 (22:49):
Yeah, I just I just threw them to the floor.
Will just standing here. It's no good though, No, n
I won't do that to you.

Speaker 2 (22:58):
That that's the kind of thing you could ever unsea
and I don't want to do that to you. Will
want to be core tragic?

Speaker 3 (23:05):
All right, Will Derby Dames? What's your point? Or actually
that's about all of m really got to make a
headline for. So let me just throw one in here
for this, which is take a break?

Speaker 2 (23:16):
What's your point? The exclamation point Will didn't become a
standard key on the keyboard until when until nineteen Well,
that's right, I'm gonna go with eighty seven. It was

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actually earlier than that. But the the.

Speaker 3 (23:41):
Hint that's given is when they say keyboard, because you
would think that that would mean type or computing type stuff.
And I wonder if it was a keyboard or if
it was just the typewriter key that first had an
exclamation point in nineteen and seventy.

Speaker 2 (24:01):
There were no computers in nineteen seventy. Were there? There's
no way in nineteen seventy no, I think so. I
don't know, man, I was. I was in high school.
That's why I don't know if there were at home
computers like a desktop, which were the first ones to
be able to be implemented at the home. But I
think that there were computers. I'm not really sure that

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they were massive, they were giants.

Speaker 3 (24:26):
Yeah, outside of NASA, I don't know really who would
have had them. I guess major corporations and whatnot would
have been typing on keyboards then, but that would be
very early on in computing. And I guess because technology
was growing so fast and all this innovation was going on,

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they needed a key to hit.

Speaker 2 (24:47):
To go to put behind all caps wow. Because all
caps wow with just a.

Speaker 3 (24:53):
Period is kind of anticlimactic. You have to put that
exclamation point to make it emphatic that it's something just
beyond the ordinary, right, No or not?

Speaker 2 (25:06):
Maybe not?

Speaker 3 (25:07):
We already well, we talked about the Kentucky Derby, but
we didn't mention this about it. For all the money
in the world, Will and the Camper? How many Phillies
have won the Kentucky Derby?

Speaker 2 (25:21):
How many Phillies? So we're not talking about Bryce Harper here? No,
not that kind.

Speaker 3 (25:28):
No, I'd presume none of them could win a Kentucky Derby?

Speaker 2 (25:33):
How many? How many horses have won the Phillies? Will?
That's just a female horse? Did you not know what
that was? No? I didn't. Oh yeah, I thought that
a mayor was a female horse.

Speaker 3 (25:44):
Well, same as a girl and a woman are both women.
The Philly is a female horse, as is a mayor. Okay,
but these are younger horses. The Kentucky Derby isn't run
by fifteen year old pack mules.

Speaker 2 (25:59):
Okay, but that might be an interesting race. I'll say,
how long has the Kentucky Derby been going on? Don't
get cluttered in the facts. I want to get cluttered
in the facts. I want to give the best estimation
I can.

Speaker 3 (26:15):
It's I don't I can't recall exactly when it started,
but it's been around a hot minute.

Speaker 2 (26:21):
Okay, I'll say seventy two. You know you only missed it,
will by sixty nine three? Just three, yeah, yeah, just three.

Speaker 3 (26:34):
An interesting fact just if you want to drop it
in if you have, if you get invited to another
Kentucky derby party tomorrow, They the jockeys have to carry
a minimum amount of weight and they all what, they
all weigh less than that, so they got to put
a couple of bricks in their saddle or whatever to
hit that weight. They don't use bricks, but you know

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what I'm talking about. They have to supplement the weight
of the jockey to hit a certain mark. And the
the male horses don't have to or have to carry
more weight than the female horses. The phillies carry I
think it's one twenty one, one hundred and twenty one pounds,
and the guys have to lug around the track with
one hundred and twenty four pounds on their backs, and

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that apparently they think levels the playing field. I don't
know how they came up with that exact number, uh,
but I'm sure.

Speaker 2 (27:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (27:29):
Anyway, that's something you can just take to the party.
With you tomorrow when they offer you a mint julip,
say did you know?

Speaker 2 (27:34):
And then just go on with that. I think a
mint julip is a little too sweet for me.

Speaker 3 (27:39):
You know, I would have to agree, and I would
be willing to bet that. Well, I don't know a
lot of people would drink one, just in a celebratory way,
kind of like when you go to the Masters, you
need to eat a pimento cheese sandwich for some reason.
Do you like pimento cheese?

Speaker 2 (27:56):
It's okay, but I don't. I don't think I would
eat one if I went to them.

Speaker 3 (28:00):
The only the only time I eat pimento cheese anymore.
I don't think my wife and I have bought a jar.
I guess it comes in a jar. I don't even remember,
but bought pimento cheese could come in tube like toothpaste.

Speaker 2 (28:12):
That would be delicious, wouldn't it just squirt some out
on a cracker? Uh?

Speaker 3 (28:16):
The only time I've eaten is out at the golf
club where it is it is offered up in a
little side part of the turnhouse that after you play nine,
before you go to ten, there's the big snack bar
there where you can walk around and order something quickly
to be delivered to you so you can go on
with your around. Or there's kind of a grab and

(28:37):
go thing that has it has crackers, it has peanut butter,
little individual peanut butters, individual pimento cheese, and then there's
carrots and celery. And that's kind of how I grew
up eating pimento cheese, was just with a hunk of
celery and dip it in there and take a big

(28:57):
bite and then go back and do it again.

Speaker 2 (29:01):
I don't think that's how I've ever consumed. You should
try it.

Speaker 3 (29:04):
It's really good. All you taste is the cheese celery
has very little or no taste really. All right, will
how oh gosh, we gotta go again, don't we?

Speaker 2 (29:14):
We gotta go? Dang that come on with quickly?

Speaker 3 (29:17):
All right, We're gonna take a little break here. We'll
come back and wrap up fifty plus this episode.

Speaker 2 (29:21):
What will be about eight ten, eight hundred and ten now,
so we're over that. I think we're arrest will be
eight hundred and thirteen.

Speaker 3 (29:28):
Oh my gosh, how time flies. Right, we'll take a
little break here, we'll come back and wrap it up.
Thanks for listening.

Speaker 2 (29:33):
Be right back. What's life without a nap? If I
suggest to go to bed, sleep it off.

Speaker 1 (29:38):
Just wait until the show's over. Sleepy back that Doug
Pike as fifty plus continues.

Speaker 2 (29:45):
Fourth and final segment of the program starts right now.

Speaker 3 (29:47):
And I think what we're gonna do here because I
have a lot that I wanted to get to from
there were I found all these these miscellaneous pieces of
paper and miscellaneous pieces of information on my desk, and
so I think what we'll do is kind of stay
on the lighter side in this this whole segment, and

(30:08):
I will instead of you getting to pick one of three,
I'm just gonna roll them out one at a time.

Speaker 2 (30:15):
And I have to cross this one up because we
already talked about it.

Speaker 3 (30:18):
But I'll roll them out one at a time, and
then what I want is your initial reaction and in
fifteen to twenty seconds, and if you've, if you've made
a lot of sense in those fifteen to twenty seconds,
I may give you I go, and that'll mean you
get ten more.

Speaker 2 (30:32):
Okay, wrap it up, Okay.

Speaker 3 (30:35):
First study recently found that led lights on swimsuits could
prevent shark attack.

Speaker 2 (30:42):
Shark attacks, I think you're just lighting up a fresh
meal for them sharks, helping them read the menu. Yes,
that's a good way to look at that.

Speaker 3 (30:54):
You may be right, all right, well here we go.
Purse is made of t rex leather. Could be a
hot new accessories soon. Experts say it won't be the
real thing though, more like an educated guess at what
their skin look like.

Speaker 2 (31:07):
Yeah, that sounds like a marketing ploy right there.

Speaker 3 (31:11):
So like just yeah, that's that's all that is. Why
don't we just how about pterodactyls? How about mastodon? You
could just say anything is anything? Yeah, get any sort
of scale that you put on to a bag. You
could just say, is just wheel out a basket of

(31:32):
strawberry mastodon fir, you know, and just you know, it
doesn't really look like masted on fir because we have
no idea, but this is what we think it looks.

Speaker 2 (31:44):
Shark tooth necklaces. It's sabertoothed tiger necklaces. Yeah, really tiny
sabertoothed tiger necklace out of candy corn. It's same thing.
All right, Well, here we go. One of the biggest
viral terms to come out in twenty twenty four. Oh no,
I'm not reading no one. I don't like that one,
and I'm glad I scratched it out before I read it.

Speaker 3 (32:05):
According to a report, well, the average single person should
expect to spend four hundred and sixty one dollars to
attend a wedding. For a couple, it's about five hundred
and fifty dollars. Who are these people and why are
they spending that much? Don't you own a suit anyway?
And a single member of the bridle or groom party

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is looking at about twenty one hundred and forty dollars.
Your reaction will Melbourne? I.

Speaker 2 (32:33):
Well, I did go to a wedding somewhat recently and
I did need to buy a new suit, But you
won't for the next one. Well that's true for that
wedding though.

Speaker 3 (32:47):
Well yeah, for that wedding it costs you that, but
it wasn't a disposable suit.

Speaker 2 (32:52):
Well yeah, I get that, but still that if it's
the average cost, well you have an I've been to
a one wedding. That is average.

Speaker 1 (33:03):
Call.

Speaker 3 (33:03):
You're coming into the zone at your age right now.
You're coming into the wedding zone, dude, and there's nothing
you can get do to get out of the way either.

Speaker 2 (33:12):
So, but then I think you have to factor in
whether or not it's a out of state. Yes, it's
a destination wedding, that into account exactly. So, I mean,
it doesn't surprise me that you got to spend four hundred.
Would it be great if every single wedding just happened
to be where I lived down the street, so not,

(33:33):
I don't even care. If it's down the street, just
within a ten mile vicinity, that would be great, and
then I can go home, I get a free meal.
Then it is odd times up, you man, this is
like two minutes over twenty six they're getting me riled up. Apparently.

Speaker 3 (33:55):
In a new survey, fifteen percent of parents, which isn't
a whole lot, admit that one of their child's grandparents
dislikes their grandchild's name. Top of the list of names
hated by grandparents Aurora, Elijah, Jack.

Speaker 2 (34:13):
And Lindsey. Your reaction, Will Melbourne, Well, I think my
grandparents love my name because I'm named after my grandparents. Okay,
well yeah, so once again you're the exception, not the rule.
Thank you. Fifteen percent of parents, I know, we don't
like that one, not that one eighty.

Speaker 3 (34:34):
Seven percent of people, only eighty seven percent. What's wrong
with the next thirteen?

Speaker 2 (34:43):
Oh? I see here? Six say he could?

Speaker 3 (34:45):
He should? They want Donald Trump to be what will?
Six percent of people say he should be the what?
The next what? And it's kind of a recent event
that makes this newsworthy.

Speaker 2 (34:59):
I can get this. I don't know the next to
what pope? The next pope? Why they even did this?
Pole and I have no idea. Oh my gosh.

Speaker 3 (35:16):
Nominees for the next pope are now on many online
gambling sites.

Speaker 2 (35:22):
You can bet on who's going to be the next pope.
You can bet on anything nowadays. The betting industry is
kind of out of control. You think so, yeah, I
think that it is. What are the odds? Oh? Moving on?

Speaker 3 (35:38):
Seventy nine percent of women on a forty five and
older dating site say they're totally willing to make the
first move. Okay, hope springs eternal for the older guys
out there on those sites. I'm telling you, you know, I
had a friend years ago, and I mean like ten
years ago at least and maybe more, who sadly had

(36:00):
to go through a divorce with his wife. But when
he got kind of ready to be back out there
in the market for a new lady friend. He said
he was stunned to see how aggressive the women were
because that's not how he grew up, and it certainly
isn't how I grew up.

Speaker 2 (36:17):
So I don't know. I don't know whether that's still
true or not. Do you you're a much younger guy.

Speaker 3 (36:22):
Do you and your girlfriend talk about what's going on
with younger people who are single?

Speaker 1 (36:27):
Not?

Speaker 2 (36:28):
Really? I mean sometimes so do you agree that? Do you?
And do you think she would agree that women generally
are more aggressive? Now? I don't know. Let's move on
from that before either of us gets in trouble. I
already saw that. I already saw that.

Speaker 3 (36:48):
Man in Kentucky won one hundred and sixty seven million
dollar lottery jackpot will He accepted the check on Monday,
and then on Tuesday he was arrested it on a
felony charge because he kicked a police officer in the face.
The policeman is okay that guy on many levels, is

(37:10):
not your reaction.

Speaker 2 (37:12):
Why did he kick him in the face? Who cares? Well?
I want to know what he did was the situation.
It was a situation. He went up and kicked a
policeman in the face.

Speaker 3 (37:26):
I'm sure there was an altercation, as they would call
what led.

Speaker 2 (37:30):
To the altar call. I'll talk to you about more
or for more click on this. I don't click on that.
I need to know. No, you don't. I gotta know. No, No,
it's not going to happen this time. Okay, let me
move on from there. M that one.

Speaker 3 (37:48):
Okay, all of those are done. That's good. Let's go
over here. Ummm, got that. That's taken care of. Female
road rager. Oh no, I'm not going to read this
at the lunch hour. I'll tell you about it. I'll
tell you about it after the show.

Speaker 2 (38:02):
Good news, Good news. Will veterans say that video games
have a positive impact on their lives? Why would that be?
Do you think will? Maybe it's cathartic, Yeah, distraction maybe,
And it kind of I know that even just if
I pull up Facebook and start scrolling through there and
looking at different posts and videos and all that, if

(38:24):
there's something kind of weird and wonky going on in
my life that day, that kind of relieves me of
that for a little while. So I could see that,
and I don't know that I would use that as
a permanent fix. I wouldn't want these young men and
women to be caught up in that twenty four to seven.
But if it gives them a break, I think that's fine.

(38:45):
I think that's fine.

Speaker 1 (38:47):
Umm.

Speaker 2 (38:48):
No, oh, this was kind of funny.

Speaker 3 (38:50):
I mentioned this to you in the break will A
woman said she was horrified to find out that she'd
booked a massage at a brothel. Oh my goodness, wouldn't
that have been an awkward moment when she showed up
on I.

Speaker 2 (39:03):
Mean maybe, though, maybe. I mean, it's pretty convenient.

Speaker 3 (39:09):
If you are paying attention to this, I am we
got five seconds second. Well, that means we gotta go.
Thank you all so very much for listening. I hope
to see you next week. Marios