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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Remember when it was impossible to misplace the TV remote
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Hey John, how's it going today? Well, this show is
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Speaker 2 (00:46):
Oh God, we are thank you, Thank you boys. I
had a little calamity I had to deal with. Thanks Will,
Thanks to cal too for coming in. I am out
of the task to set a golf club on a
beautiful day. It's a little damp out here. We're gonna
play a golf tournament and raise good money, or raise
a lot of money for a good cause. And unfortunately
we're gonna be on cart path only. But that's okay
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because this group I got hits nothing but fairways, so
we'll just have to hit to the cart side of
the fairways. Won't be a problem. The guy who put
my team together, Rob Logan, says we've got a chance
at a podium finish at least, but then again, he
hadn't seen me play lately. I think our best chance
is to finish before dark, which I'm pretty certain we'll do.
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I saw two stories yesterday about the same thing, and
I'll kind of lead with that. It was very interesting
how they were portrayed, one written from the left side
kind of and one from the right. And the right
side story noted that a federal judge had rejected parts
of President Trump's plans to voters in federal elections to
show that will require voters in federal elections to show
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proof of US citizenship, which is something I wholeheartedly believe
is critical to the future of this nation. I don't
know of another country in the world, not a single one,
that would allow foreigners to decide who runs the show
where they live. It makes no sense, and it's been
it's been gently eased into our system and a lot
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of jurisdictions in a lot of counties and even some
states where if you can just show up and make
an X, you get to decide who runs this country.
And that's that's pretty messed up. So anyway, the two
headlines were were very, very different, and that's what bothered
me so much. From the left, the headline was this
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federal judge blocks trump effort that could disenfranchise millions of voters.
From the right, it was a lot less where did
it go?
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Here?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Said the where did it go? It's on the page somewhere.
The bottom line was the other side. The left side
said we're going to require people to show proof of
citizenship to vote, and that's pretty good. Idea doesn't want that,
so we'll see how that turns out. And those millions
of voters they say would be disenfranchised, well, they're not Americans, okay,
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that's the only reference that can possibly be too. Would
be illegal immigrants and other non citizens who even if
you come here legally and you go through the system
until you are a citizen, you know that you're not
supposed to vote in federal elections. It's just that simple.
It's very frustrating. What President Trump proposes doesn't threaten any
American citizen, but saying that doesn't generate clicks or outrage
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from that side of the country. I don't want people
from all over the world voting to decide who's going
to leave the United States. Of America. That makes absolutely
no sense at all. Oh well, can you hear me?
Speaker 3 (03:41):
By the way, I can hear you?
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Oh good? And I guess well, I presume if you can,
everybody else can. Then Yes, the whole problem we were
having averted itself when you punched the show into gear.
I just couldn't hear all that other stuff that was
going on for some reason. We're good speaking of radio stuff.
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It's just something that somebody recommended a long time ago
to brand the show, and it's worked out for I
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don't know, twenty years, so that's fine, been doing it
for twenty five. Push a button you can hear the
shows you like. Just like that. I'll leave that for later. Well,
buy the way. Did you come up with a list
of things since it's since it's that time of the
week to share with people what they should be doing
over the coming weekend. Did you come up with a list?
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I did not, though, oh will, there's got to be
something good going on.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Well, I'll look around. I know that they've got giant
wooden elephants going around town.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Where I'd like.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
I believe it's that Discovery Green but I can check
on that.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Think you can get them to slide by my house?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Maybe not. Okay, you have another task to call the
doctor back, called doctor Jen back and ask her if
she can still do the interview because we fixed the problem.
We're miracle workers. Will you and me? Nobody else had
an idea what was going on? And yet it's fine? Now?
Am I coming through loud and clear?
Speaker 3 (05:48):
By the way, Yes, you're coming through loud and clear.
It's a little noisy on your end.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Uh yeah, that everybody said stay in the pro shop,
it'll be quiet. Everybody's going to be leaving to start
the tournament a little while. Well, the problem is that
little while time when the actual tournament starts is one o'clock.
So they're they're moving through and they're getting a liquored up,
and they're gonna have a good time out there sloshing
across the fairways. I'll be out there as soon as
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I can get to where Rob's gonna be. Wherever that is.
Robin my boys, and he swears we've got a good
chance at winning this thing. There are some pretty pretty
fancily dressed golfers out there. Though one guy made a
pretty good looking swing. Let me see this guy. Uh Nope,
not that guy. That guy's not winning anything. All right.
Back to it. From the Capital P Desk comes a
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story by way of good RX. Well, you got any
idea what the Capital P Desk story might.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Be about about good Rx?
Speaker 2 (06:46):
No, it's by way of good RX. Good RX posted
the story that I aimed.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
You know the description company.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Well, no, they don't write prescriptions. They help you fill
them for less money. That's what they say, and sometimes work,
sometimes it doesn't. I've run into that with something that
I was trying to pick up and they said the
pharmacy where it says, yeah, we we do that, said no,
we don't do that. So that's that's a horse of
a different color. We could talk about that some other time,
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and I think that might might make a good might
make a good topic. Actually, would you write that down
somewhere or text it to me to just to just
talk about prescription discount services, because.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
All right, well, can you do this story in thirty seconds?
Speaker 2 (07:35):
No, I'll do this from the Kilmar Brigo Garcia desk.
I can do that in thirty the guy's ship Tel Salvador.
Then take into a prison. There continues. The whole story
around him continues just to fall apart, despite Democrats wanting
to keep it together. The latest reason is that he
was arrested once while in the car of a confessed
human trafficker. I think he might have been driving even
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and members of Congress continue to plead that he be
returned to the United States, despite being a citizen of
the country where he's imprisoned, and two federal judges saying no,
you can't stay here, all right. I'll get off of that.
I don't want to talk about that. I really don't.
I'm gonna scratch out that and the rest of what
I was gonna say about some of that, And what
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we'll do here is go to the first break of
the program. I am live. I am at a Taska
seat a golf club, And now that we've jumped the
biggest hurdle in front of us for today, I think
everything's going to run very smoothly. You're listening to AM
nine to fifty kPr C. Fifty plus will be back
in just a couple of minutes.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Aged to perfection. This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
I am live out at a task a seat at
golf club, and the course looks absolutely gorgeous. Of course,
it's all moist and gooey yesterday from all that bad
rain we had. Now we'll be on cart pass. Won't
be the first time, won't be the last. I'll be
washing my shoes tonight, I'm sure. Actually, the guys I'm
playing with, I think mostly we can stay in the
fairway so it won't be too terribly bad. I think
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we'll be all right. I'm not going to have any
time to get out there and practice, well, it's going
to be pretty ugly for the first few holes I play.
I think I can't guarantee that. Sometimes I play better
when I don't warm up, but I hit a bunch
of balls yesterday, so I'm a little stiff from that
Capital P desk. I mentioned a little while ago by
way of a story at GoodRx, there was a story
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on how many times you should urinate each day? And
as as seniors, we start to think about that stuff
and how many What influences all that medical conditions, diet,
fluid intake and what you're drinking, physical condition, a lot
of other things, And as it turns out, said the
story be average adult, the average adult, whatever that is,
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and certainly starts younger than I am. The average adult
goes to the bathroom four to seven times a day.
Now if you go less than lucky you if you
go more, then it could be a little of anything.
I don't man. As we age the story continued, it says,
because you and I are different from twenty year olds
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and thirty year olds, everything from top to bottom, along
the way from your throat to the bathroom changes, It
changes significantly. Your kidneys, change, your bladder changes, your pelvic
muscles change, childbirth changes the pelvic floor, and women and
swelling prostates upset the apple cart for men. We know
that because a late health has made made a big
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business for itself out of fixing in large non cancerous prostates.
Caffeine and alcohol make you pee more. Acidic foods, chocolate,
spicy foods, dairy products.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
I did a lot.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
I did a lot of reading on this, you know,
checking for a friend who has to go all the
time and sometimes will go and feel like five minutes
later you got to go again. But a lot of
things you can do. You can change with your diet,
You can change with your what you're eating, what you're drinking,
to at least mitigate some of that. And boy, so
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when I started reading this list of what makes you
go more. The acidic food thing I've given up on
because it all bothers my stomach as well. Chocolate though
that's an issue, the spicy food thing, I don't eat
that anymore. Or the acidic stuff dairy products, how about that?
And the one that every time I go to the
coffee station at our office on pretty much Tuesday through Sunday, mornings.
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I'm gonna have to rethink that artificial sweetener because apparently
that makes you go to the bathroom more as well.
I got changes to make. And if you think you
be too much or too little, really do some research
on your own. Maybe use the patient portal to contact
your doctor or all the better go to utch do
eedus lass Aging. That's the institute on Aging's website, and
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I would be willing to bet that it won't take
you long to find information about just that and then
find your way to some neurologists who could maybe help
you deal with it whatever it happens to be and
has to be. How much time do I have, Well,
let me look at I've got about what three minutes?
Speaker 3 (12:08):
So no, you have like six and a half.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Really? Oh yeah, yeah, we go to twenty eight. I
was thinking twenty four for some reason. Six and a half.
Then I'm going to the putting Americans second desk to
let you know that Republican Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows
cited with Democrats after an amendment was offered up by
members of his own party, by the way, that would
have insured scholarships up to forty thousand dollars for people
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trying to get teacher certifications. And the amendment to that,
because it wasn't included in the original in the original bill,
was that this money, this tax money, state tax dollars,
would be made available only to American citizens. And in
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a nutshell, Burrows agreed with an objection that was offered
up by a Democratic representative from Houston, guy named Marmando
Wall that citizenship had nothing to do with the teaching
credentials and all of that, and he did that. Burroughs
sided with them and said, no, you don't have to
be a citizen. Hey, we don't want you to have
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to be a citizen to vote. Why should you have
to be a citizen to get a scholarship that's paid
for with tax dollars. He also, by the way, nixed
two other conservative amendments to that bill, One that would
have relieved teachers from vaccine mandates, which I think we
all should be relieved from, and another that would have
barred teachers from participating in anti Semitic protests.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Which.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Why would you do that? Why would you allow teachers
to actively participate in things that go against the grain
of this country. Really, it seems a little bit like
a wolf in sheep's clothing. He does to me, and
I don't know if there's anything, Well, we can't do
anything about it until the next election. That's how that
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works in our country, and that's made this country great
for a very very long time. From the let's go
to the golf desk just for a minute to lighten
things up a little bit, at a much higher skill
level than we'll be exhibited here at the task seted
by the way, I can assure you a reminder that
the Chevron Championship is ongoing up in the Woodlands on
the Nicholas Course at the Club at Carlton Woods. This
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tournament is the first of the women's majors on the
LPGA Tour and they're playing on a course it underwent
some pretty significant tweaks this past year, beginning right after
the twenty twenty four Chevron, and players are having to
work a little harder on several holes out there to
post good scores. During the tournament's media event six I
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think it was about six weeks ago or so, I
saw those tweaks firsthand, got to play the course with
them in place, and one of them sadly bit my
scorecard pretty hard. It left a nasty wound. At I'm
trying to cure myself of trying to fix one mistake
with a very risky shot that usually ends up in
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another mistake. But I also have a hard time conceding
to the golf course that I'm just gonna chip out,
and oh, I'll just chip out, because on the PGA Tour,
on the LPGA Tour, any professional tour, the object of
chipping out is to make sure you don't do any
worse than bogie. And in a lot of cases, these
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guys can chip out and then get up and down
and make a par and I'm just not at that level.
But my brain thinks I am my hands and my
arms and my legs and everything about me, all the
physical things, think I can still do all that well.
I never could really do it well. But in the
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long run, that's probably why I'm not on a golf
course in the middle of a big tournament somewhere next week,
by the way, still in the Woodlands, but at the
tournament player's course that club hosts the Inspirity Invitational. I
intend to be there at least once next weekend. I've
got to play in the media. I got to play
in a media event there too, and that was maybe,
I don't know, maybe four weeks ago now, and the
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course is in absolutely fantastic shape, as it always is.
It's also a good chance to watch some of the
folks we grew up we meaning this audience, we grew
up watching and admiring on less than digitally HD clear television.
Go back and look at some of the old video
from that. Speaking of that was old film and video
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and all of that. And I'm I'm just about to
lose my patience with people who to borrow some young
people's vernacular. It just I get. It makes me cringe
to hear people talk about filming this or being filmed that,
or taping something. Oh did you get that on tape? Well, no,
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nobody in years has gotten much of anything on film
or tape. You can digitally record video or record digital audio,
and you could do that on your phone, and in
many cases the phones do as good a job as
very highly expensive cameras, so you don't need to worry
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about that. Nothing says out of touch more loudly to
me anyway or precisely than talking about filming something or
taping something. Let it go, put down your bell and
howel too twenty I don't know how many of you
remember those cameras. They were pretty slick, and you could
even adjust them to be for color or black and
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white film, which you had to go to the store
and buy and load into the camera before you wound
it up and push the button. Then you were filming.
Now you're just recording. By the way, those old cameras still.
Can you hear all the noise in here?
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Will? Of course I can hear all the noise, and
we got thirty seconds.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Stud Okay, well, I'll just I'll use it to to
I don't know, No, I'm not going to quiet them down.
They're all excited because they're going to be playing golf
in less than an hour, or in about an hour.
I guess all right, we got to take a little
break here. On the way out, I'll tell you about
ut Health Institute on Aging, the group for which I've
spoken now nearly ten years and and proud to do
so and plan to continue to do so. They are
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providers all over the Greater Houston area. Most of them
work in the med center most of the time, but
many of them also either travel to or work primarily
out there in outlying areas, in small towns around Houston,
the clinics, the hospitals there, they are specially trained, in
addition to whatever training they got originally, to do a
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fine job of taking care of seniors, applying their knowledge
to seniors. Go to the website, look around. It's a
fantastic resource, and I can assure you that you will
be glad that you did if you happen to be
a senior. Ut h dot ed u slash aging u
t h dot ed u slash aging.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
What's life without a net? I suggest you go to bed,
leave it all, just wait until the show's over. Sleepy.
Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Hear anybody again right now? And I really don't know why.
That's kind of messed up, and everything should be working,
but it appears not to be working, and I truly
wish it were. And it's very it's a little bit
difficult to hear because it's kind of noisy in here,
but I definitely can't hear well unless you've got a
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button to push. Uh. Sadly, I'm gonna have to let
doctor Jen Blackstone know that we're going to have to
move this interview again, and I'm so embarrassed to tell
her that it was all excited when we had it
all dialed in a little while ago, but apparently it's
not going to stay dialed in, and so as long
as the show's getting out, I will continue on my
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own here. I don't have a problem with this at all.
I'm overlooking a gorgeous golf course I get to go
out a little bit later, and I'm very disappointed that
we can't talk to doctor Blackstone. The topic, by the way,
is going to be one that we have never covered,
and it's hard to find on this show. Really. I've
been doing it now for the better part of ten years,
and Will was telling me yesterday that we now have
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more than eight hundred episodes in podcast. In case you're
wondering what this show is about and you're just fairly
new to it, what it's about is anything and everything
that would be important and interesting and entertaining to seniors
and their adult children, I guess in many ways. So
the good news is I've got a new topic and
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she's going to help me with it. When I get
back into the studio sometime next week, hopefully I can
get fifteen minutes from her or ten minutes, and her
book is called let me find the exact name of
it there it is Bonus Family. And with Mother's Day
coming up, the topic and the book deal with how
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to let your family know that there's a new person
kind of being entered into welcomed into the family, and
whether that's from It could be from divorce, it could
be from a variety for a variety of reasons that
somebody's family either well that first it gets a little
bit smaller for either divorce or a death in the family.
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And then over time, when the time is right for
the person who lost that spouse either way, maybe they
meet somebody new. Maybe they have more to add to
their lives. They're not finished writing their own story, and
so they find someone with whom they can share their time.
And then when these holidays come along, especially a Mother's Day,
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all of a sudden, there's this weird dynamic that they
have to deal with. And the book addresses a lot
of things that addresses how to bring up the subject
when maybe it's appropriate to bring it up, how to
deal with maybe resentment or all kinds of emotions that
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the children and grandchildren of the let's just say the
dad and the family. The dad and mom divorced for
some reason late in life, and all of a sudden,
the whole dynamics of all of these holidays get kind
of jumbled up and messed up. Hopefully the two who
have split the sheets can get along at least for
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the holidays, and in most cases that I think is
what happens. But sometimes it gets a little wonky and
a little awkward, and you know, maybe Dad wants to
bring his new lady friend around after Mom passed away
earlier in the year, and some of the kids are
going to think it's too early. Some are going to
think it's not long enough that they that they've had
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a chance to grieve the loss of their mother before
Dad does whatever he does. And so that's where her
book goes. And I'm really happy that I'm going to
be able to talk about it next week when I'm
back in the studio, almost as equally as I am
disappointed that I'm having to to miss that interview. I
was so excited when we had the connection regained a
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little while ago, and so happy that I was. I
called doctor Blackstone back and said, Hey, guess what we'll
just called you and told you we can't do it.
Guess what we can. And now we're back to cant
A couple of these things that I would normally pass
on to Will and let him decide on one of
three topics that I've come up with, we're going to
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have to forego that procedure and I'm going to have
to just do them kind of one by one to
give you guys, some topics of interest, some things you
can bring up if the conversation gets slow at the
at the party this weekend, or wherever you happen to
be the first thing that's struck my that got my
attention when I was reading this morning was that honey bees,
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believe it or not, are not native to North America.
I don't know how long back you'd have to look,
one hundred, two hundred, three hundred years we didn't have
bees here. That I found very interesting. In another one
that really is, well, it's not mind blowing, it's just oh,
on a one to ten, i'd call it a six
and a half. Maybe cats. Cats actually can survive drinking
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ocean water. They're fully capable of drinking salt water. So
those two things you can tuck in your pocket and
drag them out if the conversation gets really really dull
around the barbecue outside in the backyard this weekend. Here's
what this one I titled it doesn't bother Me. And
there's a list that somebody made up of people's the
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things that women find embarrassing but men really don't care about.
And it goes beyond the obvious. By the way, there
are two or three things just right off top of
my head that don't bother me or anybody else, or
any of my friends, my man friends, but probably bother women.
The things that made the list, the two or three
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of the higher ranking things, again aside from those obvious ones,
are a messy house, which eh, my wife is. She
likes everything neat and tidy. Don't put it down, put
it up. That kind of an attitude mine is. I'm
gonna put it here for a little while and then
I'll get back to it later. What is that old?
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I think there was something on Facebook about it originally
showed up probably ten years ago, that said, there's no
reason to tell him. Don't worry about a chore you've
asked your man to do. He will do it. There's
no reason to keep asking him every six months or so.
And I think that's where my garage falls. Actually, and
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so helped me now that Aaron Botello and I have met,
and he is assured me that he's gonna he's gonna
work for me and help me get my garage organized.
Once I get out the clutter, then I'll I'll work
on that. So anyway, a messy house was on there
re wearing the same outfit. I don't I don't know
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anybody who never rewars the same outfit. Lord, what kind
of a closet would you have to have for that
to happen? I'm not really sure. We also have here
tummy pouches, and I earned mine a little while back.
I'd like to get rid of it. I don't think
I can at this stage. Let me rephrase that. It's
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not that I don't think I can. It's that I
don't think I will. And I know what to do,
I know how to do it. I know what I
should stop eating or what I should start eating. I'm
just not there yet. I'm just not there.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
All right.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Let me go back to my my newsy bits. Let
me see where I put them. First of all, got
to get back to the stuff. Here's something one of
my friends told me the other day. He likes the
outer space stuff kind of like I do. And from
the Life in Space desk comes news of a man
who thinks he sees shapes on the Martian landscape that
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almost and I emphasize almost certainly we're built and not
just carved over time by wind or water. I looked
at several of the photographs of what he's looking at,
and as much as I would love to say that,
I am fully totally convinced that that is exactly what
I'm looking at. Something that was built by hands, or
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built by appendages of some sort, by a creature that
has a brain that can do that. Nah, close, as
they say. But no cigar, and certainly not an El
Kubano cigar. A little plug there for my buddy Manny Lopez,
who owns that company down in Texas City, the one
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of only I think twenty five or thirty actual cigar
manufacturing facilities in the entire country, and we've got one
right down there in Texas City. He's a good guy
to know. If you like cigars, like here out here
at the golf tournament, for example, if they had wanted
to have him come out and roll cigars for everybody.
He could have done that. If they would have wanted banded,
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specially banded cigars and a certain type of cigar for
their better sponsors and whatnot, he could do that as well.
He did up a box of iHeart branded or banded
cigars he built. I'd send him the logos and he
he made the bands and wrapped a box of cigars
with those, and we've been doling them out to our
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better clients for the last little while. I'm gonna I
may have to go back to him for another box
before too long. We're gonna have to work something out
on that. I don't have my hand out for freebies,
and he was nice enough to donate that first box
to us. We're gonna have to. We're gonna have to
get on the on the books over there, I think,
because everybody I've given one to loves it.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Oh Mercy, let's we gotta go, Doug, Let's go ahead and.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Take this break, and once we get back, we will
good heavens will already be back for the fourth and
final segment of this of this show today, number eight
hundred and eight, I think, or maybe eight hundred and nine.
I can't believe it. I can't I can't remember which
number it is. I honestly can't believe we've got that
many in the can because I know they didn't start
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being saved even for the first for the first couple
of years. This may be just the work that Will
and I have done. Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if
he's had his hands on every one of those podcasts.
He's been with me a good time, and he's doing
a good job. And if he would only find me
some things for entertainment of seniors. Will, that's a I'm
(29:49):
poking the bear a little bit. I want you to
do this. My audience wants you to do this. Somebody
actually mentioned that the other day, when is Will gonna
start helping us with finding some cool things to do
that we might not know about, Well, that's your chance, Will.
So anyway, that's enough for now. We'll take a little break. Here.
We're out at a Taska Sea of golf club. The
weather looks gorgeous for golf. It's gonna be a little warm.
(30:10):
I'm in long pants. I may regret that, and I
also may have a pair of shorts in the car
that might come in handy. Once I get out of here,
we'll take a little break here. We'll be right back
fifty plus on AM nine to fifty kprc Ya.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
They sure don't make them like they used to. That's
why every few months we wash him, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Welcome back forth and final segment of fifty plus. Thank
you all so much for listening. I'm looking out at
the range now where there were they were lined up
from one end to the other twenty minutes ago, and
now there are two sad sacks, three of them desperately
thinking that they're gonna change the way they play today
by hitting four or five more range balls, which, frankly,
(30:55):
is it going to be the case. They're not warmed
up now, and if they're not tuned up, they're not
gonna get up. Big difference between practicing and warming up too.
By the way, the practicing part of golf is what
you do what they're doing out there, when in reality,
all they need to be doing is warming up and
just getting loose. They're gonna wear themselves out by about
the fifteenth toll. They're not gonna be able to walk
(31:16):
after going across those sloppy old fairways. Will Melbourne actually
told me that during the he has found something fun
and interesting maybe to do for seniors and their children
or grandchildren. So take it away, Will, all right?
Speaker 3 (31:30):
Doug, Well, like I mentioned earlier, there is a great
elephant migration in Houston right now.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Scary.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Yeah, it's that Herman Park.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
So if you were able to go and see the
autobon exhibit that we talked about a week or so ago,
then maybe you saw some of these giant wooden elephants
that are all throughout the park. But it's a great
way to go interact with the park, walk around, get
some exercise. It free to the public.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
And they're giant elephants.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
How big are they?
Speaker 3 (32:04):
Do you know the I mean the pictures the pictures
are they're pretty big. I would say they're pretty big.
Speaker 4 (32:12):
I don't have an exact but but they're pretty big.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Do you recall Will the video? I think I talked
about it on the air, I know, and I don't
know if I really asked you to go check the
video out, but it was pretty cool from down in
San Diego. There was an earthquake last week, I believe
it was last week, and in the there's cameras all
over that place, as you can well imagine, and in
the elephant enclosure, as soon as that earthquake started, all
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of a sudden, the elephants are rounding up the younger
ones and forming a circle around them. All of the
adult elephants with their their back ends toward the center
of the circle and looking out. They there's this perception
of threat that goes through them. And just like just
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like when the people inhabiting our country from east to
west found when they were under attack and circle the wagons.
And that's what those elephants did too. Thank yeah, thanks,
Big Oh. I'll talk to you later. I wanted to
get a guy here on the air, but I'm not
sure the microphone's gonna work. For what I want to
(33:22):
do is if Henton he'll hear me on the way out,
I'm gonna call you next week, big Go, and I'll
get you on the phone. We'll do this right with him.
He is kind of behind this thing. We're raising money
out here for the Lake Houston Foundation that does a
whole lot of good conservation work. Out here, and I
was happy to come out. It was the first time
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I've experienced what I'm experiencing on the broadcast end of it.
But it's gonna be okay. We're good that the day's
gonna be good. We're gonna raise a lot of money.
And I'm looking at one team right now getting in
their carts. That kind of spooks me about them maybe
being in contention later on. I love scrambles. They're fun,
uh and they don't take a lot out of you,
(34:05):
and you got a lot of help for your bad shots,
and uh yeah, I truly enjoy this. If there's ever
a Monday tournament when you need a scramble player, let
me know I may be able to come out and
help you out. Okay, let's go to some of these
other little things that I found to talk about today.
And will you can hear me? You can't? Yeah, you
can participate in this, can't you?
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Absolutely you can. We know what where there Will Melbourne?
His name is Will, right, And where there's a Will,
there's a way to get it done, and we found one.
So here we go. Will. Wait a minute, what's that smell?
And open and shut?
Speaker 3 (34:44):
Wait a minute, Wait a minute.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
A man in the UK bought a car just like
the one that he had had previously, but it was
stolen from him unfortunately. And then he realized when he
got in this new car that it it was his
old car, the one that had been stolen from It
even had his address and his parents' address saved in
(35:09):
the navigation system. That's kind of what gave it away.
What would you do under those circumstances, Will, Who would
you call first?
Speaker 3 (35:16):
I mean, I think I would try and ask for
my money back.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
I think I'd go to the popo.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
You know what else? We did a story the other
day about somebody who lost their car in the UK.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Well this was not from the UK. I didn't say
where it was from, but it doesn't matter. Yeah, that
guy was just drunk, Will, He was drunk and he
had so badly forgotten where he parked his car that
he didn't find it for two weeks and only after
And this is cheers for radio. The only way he
found his car was to go on a local radio
station and plead for help, and sure enough, somebody who
(35:53):
was listening to the show helped him find his car.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
Well, maybe this guy got so drunk that he sold
his car and then bought it back.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
No, it was.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Stolen, will No, he's not a lush He just his
car got stolen. All right, Well, let's move on, because
I know we don't have a whole lot of time.
What's that smell? Are you sure? Or I see spots,
lots of spots.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
I see spots, lots of spots.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
This one will get the attention not probably of many seniors,
but certainly of younger members of the audience, perhaps measles.
This story says, probably back for good after being eliminated
in this country twenty years ago. In the last couple
of years, she I wonder why, thank you, President Biden.
(36:46):
In the last couple of years. Scientists say it's it's
pretty likely to become endemic again all over America, over
slowly but surely, over the next couple of decades. If
we can't get the vaccination rates recovered, if we can,
if we can't convince parents to get their kids vaccinated,
at least against measles, we don't have to. If you
(37:07):
don't like some of the other shots, don't get them.
But I, for one, after living through the time when
half of my classmates got the measles, and I don't
know that I ever had them. I think I may have.
I'm not sure, but I know I'm old enough that
I got the right vaccine and all that stuff. There's
that one little wonky period. Look it up online. If
you're not sure if you were born maybe late fifties
(37:29):
through the middle sixties or somewhere in there, go ahead
and check it out, maybe either with your doctor or
just get online and try to find some reassurance. My
wife actually went looking. She was kind of wondering whether
she was fully done or not. And in papers that
had been saved by her mom, who's still alive, by
the way, and pretty pretty sharp for her age. In
(37:51):
papers that she had saved, my wife found her inoculation records,
all handwritten, all on a like a card, and not
a very long list either. The number of shots kids
have to get nowadays is just incredible, and it takes
more than a page in basically in small font type
(38:14):
and single space. Almost it's just one after the other
when they're little beaty babies. How about this, we'll just
mail it or we already did that one.
Speaker 3 (38:25):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (38:25):
Today, by the way's National Telephone Day, and isn't that
appropriate for the way we're having to do this.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
Yeah, well, we also have thirty five seconds left, Doug.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
It's also National Hug of Plumber Day. So if you
see some guy out in front somebody's front yard, got
a plumber's truck out there, just go up give them
a hug. Tell them I said to do that, okay.
FedEx driver freaked out some homeowners when she announced through
her doorbell their doorbell camera that their dog had died
on the porch. Fortunately the dog was just sleeping. I'm
(38:59):
gonna sleep well allright after this fun in the sun
this afternoon. I hope all of you have a good weekend.
I will see you next Tuesday on fifty plus, or
you can catch me tomorrow and Sunday morning, starting at
seven o'clock and eight o'clock, respectively, for the Doug Pike Show.
We'll talk about a lot of golf and fishing and
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Speaker 2 (00:46):
Oh God, we are thank you, Thank you boys. I
had a little calamity I had to deal with. Thanks Will,
Thanks to cal too for coming in. I am out
of the task to set a golf club on a
beautiful day. It's a little damp out here. We're gonna
play a golf tournament and raise good money, or raise
a lot of money for a good cause. And unfortunately
we're gonna be on cart path only. But that's okay
(01:07):
because this group I got hits nothing but fairways, so
we'll just have to hit to the cart side of
the fairways. Won't be a problem. The guy who put
my team together, Rob Logan, says we've got a chance
at a podium finish at least, but then again, he
hadn't seen me play lately. I think our best chance
is to finish before dark, which I'm pretty certain we'll do.
(01:28):
I saw two stories yesterday about the same thing, and
I'll kind of lead with that. It was very interesting
how they were portrayed, one written from the left side
kind of and one from the right. And the right
side story noted that a federal judge had rejected parts
of President Trump's plans to voters in federal elections to
show that will require voters in federal elections to show
(01:50):
proof of US citizenship, which is something I wholeheartedly believe
is critical to the future of this nation. I don't
know of another country in the world, not a single one,
that would allow foreigners to decide who runs the show
where they live. It makes no sense, and it's been
it's been gently eased into our system and a lot
(02:12):
of jurisdictions in a lot of counties and even some
states where if you can just show up and make
an X, you get to decide who runs this country.
And that's that's pretty messed up. So anyway, the two
headlines were were very, very different, and that's what bothered
me so much. From the left, the headline was this
(02:33):
federal judge blocks trump effort that could disenfranchise millions of voters.
From the right, it was a lot less where did
it go?
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Here?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Said the where did it go? It's on the page somewhere.
The bottom line was the other side. The left side
said we're going to require people to show proof of
citizenship to vote, and that's pretty good. Idea doesn't want that,
so we'll see how that turns out. And those millions
of voters they say would be disenfranchised, well, they're not Americans, okay,
(03:09):
that's the only reference that can possibly be too. Would
be illegal immigrants and other non citizens who even if
you come here legally and you go through the system
until you are a citizen, you know that you're not
supposed to vote in federal elections. It's just that simple.
It's very frustrating. What President Trump proposes doesn't threaten any
American citizen, but saying that doesn't generate clicks or outrage
(03:32):
from that side of the country. I don't want people
from all over the world voting to decide who's going
to leave the United States. Of America. That makes absolutely
no sense at all. Oh well, can you hear me?
Speaker 3 (03:41):
By the way, I can hear you?
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Oh good? And I guess well, I presume if you can,
everybody else can. Then Yes, the whole problem we were
having averted itself when you punched the show into gear.
I just couldn't hear all that other stuff that was
going on for some reason. We're good speaking of radio stuff.
From the iHeartRadio preset desk. A reminder will too. Actually, first,
(04:06):
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It's just something that somebody recommended a long time ago
to brand the show, and it's worked out for I
(04:47):
don't know, twenty years, so that's fine, been doing it
for twenty five. Push a button you can hear the
shows you like. Just like that. I'll leave that for later. Well,
buy the way. Did you come up with a list
of things since it's since it's that time of the
week to share with people what they should be doing
over the coming weekend. Did you come up with a list?
(05:10):
I did not, though, oh will, there's got to be
something good going on.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Well, I'll look around. I know that they've got giant
wooden elephants going around town.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Where I'd like.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
I believe it's that Discovery Green but I can check
on that.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Think you can get them to slide by my house?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Maybe not. Okay, you have another task to call the
doctor back, called doctor Jen back and ask her if
she can still do the interview because we fixed the problem.
We're miracle workers. Will you and me? Nobody else had
an idea what was going on? And yet it's fine? Now?
Am I coming through loud and clear?
Speaker 3 (05:48):
By the way, Yes, you're coming through loud and clear.
It's a little noisy on your end.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Uh yeah, that everybody said stay in the pro shop,
it'll be quiet. Everybody's going to be leaving to start
the tournament a little while. Well, the problem is that
little while time when the actual tournament starts is one o'clock.
So they're they're moving through and they're getting a liquored up,
and they're gonna have a good time out there sloshing
across the fairways. I'll be out there as soon as
(06:14):
I can get to where Rob's gonna be. Wherever that is.
Robin my boys, and he swears we've got a good
chance at winning this thing. There are some pretty pretty
fancily dressed golfers out there. Though one guy made a
pretty good looking swing. Let me see this guy. Uh Nope,
not that guy. That guy's not winning anything. All right.
Back to it. From the Capital P Desk comes a
(06:37):
story by way of good RX. Well, you got any
idea what the Capital P Desk story might.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Be about about good Rx?
Speaker 2 (06:46):
No, it's by way of good RX. Good RX posted
the story that I aimed.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
You know the description company.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Well, no, they don't write prescriptions. They help you fill
them for less money. That's what they say, and sometimes work,
sometimes it doesn't. I've run into that with something that
I was trying to pick up and they said the
pharmacy where it says, yeah, we we do that, said no,
we don't do that. So that's that's a horse of
a different color. We could talk about that some other time,
(07:17):
and I think that might might make a good might
make a good topic. Actually, would you write that down
somewhere or text it to me to just to just
talk about prescription discount services, because.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
All right, well, can you do this story in thirty seconds?
Speaker 2 (07:35):
No, I'll do this from the Kilmar Brigo Garcia desk.
I can do that in thirty the guy's ship Tel Salvador.
Then take into a prison. There continues. The whole story
around him continues just to fall apart, despite Democrats wanting
to keep it together. The latest reason is that he
was arrested once while in the car of a confessed
human trafficker. I think he might have been driving even
(07:56):
and members of Congress continue to plead that he be
returned to the United States, despite being a citizen of
the country where he's imprisoned, and two federal judges saying no,
you can't stay here, all right. I'll get off of that.
I don't want to talk about that. I really don't.
I'm gonna scratch out that and the rest of what
I was gonna say about some of that, And what
(08:18):
we'll do here is go to the first break of
the program. I am live. I am at a Taska
seat a golf club, And now that we've jumped the
biggest hurdle in front of us for today, I think
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nine to fifty kPr C. Fifty plus will be back
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Speaker 1 (08:34):
Aged to perfection. This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
I am live out at a task a seat at
golf club, and the course looks absolutely gorgeous. Of course,
it's all moist and gooey yesterday from all that bad
rain we had. Now we'll be on cart pass. Won't
be the first time, won't be the last. I'll be
washing my shoes tonight, I'm sure. Actually, the guys I'm
playing with, I think mostly we can stay in the
fairway so it won't be too terribly bad. I think
(08:59):
we'll be all right. I'm not going to have any
time to get out there and practice, well, it's going
to be pretty ugly for the first few holes I play.
I think I can't guarantee that. Sometimes I play better
when I don't warm up, but I hit a bunch
of balls yesterday, so I'm a little stiff from that
Capital P desk. I mentioned a little while ago by
way of a story at GoodRx, there was a story
(09:20):
on how many times you should urinate each day? And
as as seniors, we start to think about that stuff
and how many What influences all that medical conditions, diet,
fluid intake and what you're drinking, physical condition, a lot
of other things, And as it turns out, said the
story be average adult, the average adult, whatever that is,
(09:43):
and certainly starts younger than I am. The average adult
goes to the bathroom four to seven times a day.
Now if you go less than lucky you if you
go more, then it could be a little of anything.
I don't man. As we age the story continued, it says,
because you and I are different from twenty year olds
(10:05):
and thirty year olds, everything from top to bottom, along
the way from your throat to the bathroom changes, It
changes significantly. Your kidneys, change, your bladder changes, your pelvic
muscles change, childbirth changes the pelvic floor, and women and
swelling prostates upset the apple cart for men. We know
that because a late health has made made a big
(10:28):
business for itself out of fixing in large non cancerous prostates.
Caffeine and alcohol make you pee more. Acidic foods, chocolate,
spicy foods, dairy products.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
I did a lot.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
I did a lot of reading on this, you know,
checking for a friend who has to go all the
time and sometimes will go and feel like five minutes
later you got to go again. But a lot of
things you can do. You can change with your diet,
You can change with your what you're eating, what you're drinking,
to at least mitigate some of that. And boy, so
(11:00):
when I started reading this list of what makes you
go more. The acidic food thing I've given up on
because it all bothers my stomach as well. Chocolate though
that's an issue, the spicy food thing, I don't eat
that anymore. Or the acidic stuff dairy products, how about that?
And the one that every time I go to the
coffee station at our office on pretty much Tuesday through Sunday, mornings.
(11:25):
I'm gonna have to rethink that artificial sweetener because apparently
that makes you go to the bathroom more as well.
I got changes to make. And if you think you
be too much or too little, really do some research
on your own. Maybe use the patient portal to contact
your doctor or all the better go to utch do
eedus lass Aging. That's the institute on Aging's website, and
(11:49):
I would be willing to bet that it won't take
you long to find information about just that and then
find your way to some neurologists who could maybe help
you deal with it whatever it happens to be and
has to be. How much time do I have, Well,
let me look at I've got about what three minutes?
Speaker 3 (12:08):
So no, you have like six and a half.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Really? Oh yeah, yeah, we go to twenty eight. I
was thinking twenty four for some reason. Six and a half.
Then I'm going to the putting Americans second desk to
let you know that Republican Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows
cited with Democrats after an amendment was offered up by
members of his own party, by the way, that would
have insured scholarships up to forty thousand dollars for people
(12:35):
trying to get teacher certifications. And the amendment to that,
because it wasn't included in the original in the original bill,
was that this money, this tax money, state tax dollars,
would be made available only to American citizens. And in
(12:56):
a nutshell, Burrows agreed with an objection that was offered
up by a Democratic representative from Houston, guy named Marmando
Wall that citizenship had nothing to do with the teaching
credentials and all of that, and he did that. Burroughs
sided with them and said, no, you don't have to
be a citizen. Hey, we don't want you to have
(13:17):
to be a citizen to vote. Why should you have
to be a citizen to get a scholarship that's paid
for with tax dollars. He also, by the way, nixed
two other conservative amendments to that bill, One that would
have relieved teachers from vaccine mandates, which I think we
all should be relieved from, and another that would have
barred teachers from participating in anti Semitic protests.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Which.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Why would you do that? Why would you allow teachers
to actively participate in things that go against the grain
of this country. Really, it seems a little bit like
a wolf in sheep's clothing. He does to me, and
I don't know if there's anything, Well, we can't do
anything about it until the next election. That's how that
(14:02):
works in our country, and that's made this country great
for a very very long time. From the let's go
to the golf desk just for a minute to lighten
things up a little bit, at a much higher skill
level than we'll be exhibited here at the task seted
by the way, I can assure you a reminder that
the Chevron Championship is ongoing up in the Woodlands on
the Nicholas Course at the Club at Carlton Woods. This
(14:24):
tournament is the first of the women's majors on the
LPGA Tour and they're playing on a course it underwent
some pretty significant tweaks this past year, beginning right after
the twenty twenty four Chevron, and players are having to
work a little harder on several holes out there to
post good scores. During the tournament's media event six I
(14:46):
think it was about six weeks ago or so, I
saw those tweaks firsthand, got to play the course with
them in place, and one of them sadly bit my
scorecard pretty hard. It left a nasty wound. At I'm
trying to cure myself of trying to fix one mistake
with a very risky shot that usually ends up in
(15:09):
another mistake. But I also have a hard time conceding
to the golf course that I'm just gonna chip out,
and oh, I'll just chip out, because on the PGA Tour,
on the LPGA Tour, any professional tour, the object of
chipping out is to make sure you don't do any
worse than bogie. And in a lot of cases, these
(15:29):
guys can chip out and then get up and down
and make a par and I'm just not at that level.
But my brain thinks I am my hands and my
arms and my legs and everything about me, all the
physical things, think I can still do all that well.
I never could really do it well. But in the
(15:51):
long run, that's probably why I'm not on a golf
course in the middle of a big tournament somewhere next week,
by the way, still in the Woodlands, but at the
tournament player's course that club hosts the Inspirity Invitational. I
intend to be there at least once next weekend. I've
got to play in the media. I got to play
in a media event there too, and that was maybe,
I don't know, maybe four weeks ago now, and the
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course is in absolutely fantastic shape, as it always is.
It's also a good chance to watch some of the
folks we grew up we meaning this audience, we grew
up watching and admiring on less than digitally HD clear television.
Go back and look at some of the old video
from that. Speaking of that was old film and video
(16:37):
and all of that. And I'm I'm just about to
lose my patience with people who to borrow some young
people's vernacular. It just I get. It makes me cringe
to hear people talk about filming this or being filmed that,
or taping something. Oh did you get that on tape? Well, no,
(17:02):
nobody in years has gotten much of anything on film
or tape. You can digitally record video or record digital audio,
and you could do that on your phone, and in
many cases the phones do as good a job as
very highly expensive cameras, so you don't need to worry
(17:23):
about that. Nothing says out of touch more loudly to
me anyway or precisely than talking about filming something or
taping something. Let it go, put down your bell and
howel too twenty I don't know how many of you
remember those cameras. They were pretty slick, and you could
even adjust them to be for color or black and
(17:47):
white film, which you had to go to the store
and buy and load into the camera before you wound
it up and push the button. Then you were filming.
Now you're just recording. By the way, those old cameras still.
Can you hear all the noise in here?
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Will? Of course I can hear all the noise, and
we got thirty seconds.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Stud Okay, well, I'll just I'll use it to to
I don't know, No, I'm not going to quiet them down.
They're all excited because they're going to be playing golf
in less than an hour, or in about an hour.
I guess all right, we got to take a little
break here. On the way out, I'll tell you about
ut Health Institute on Aging, the group for which I've
spoken now nearly ten years and and proud to do
so and plan to continue to do so. They are
(18:30):
providers all over the Greater Houston area. Most of them
work in the med center most of the time, but
many of them also either travel to or work primarily
out there in outlying areas, in small towns around Houston,
the clinics, the hospitals there, they are specially trained, in
addition to whatever training they got originally, to do a
(18:51):
fine job of taking care of seniors, applying their knowledge
to seniors. Go to the website, look around. It's a
fantastic resource, and I can assure you that you will
be glad that you did if you happen to be
a senior. Ut h dot ed u slash aging u
t h dot ed u slash aging.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
What's life without a net? I suggest you go to bed,
leave it all, just wait until the show's over. Sleepy.
Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Hear anybody again right now? And I really don't know why.
That's kind of messed up, and everything should be working,
but it appears not to be working, and I truly
wish it were. And it's very it's a little bit
difficult to hear because it's kind of noisy in here,
but I definitely can't hear well unless you've got a
(19:43):
button to push. Uh. Sadly, I'm gonna have to let
doctor Jen Blackstone know that we're going to have to
move this interview again, and I'm so embarrassed to tell
her that it was all excited when we had it
all dialed in a little while ago, but apparently it's
not going to stay dialed in, and so as long
as the show's getting out, I will continue on my
(20:03):
own here. I don't have a problem with this at all.
I'm overlooking a gorgeous golf course I get to go
out a little bit later, and I'm very disappointed that
we can't talk to doctor Blackstone. The topic, by the way,
is going to be one that we have never covered,
and it's hard to find on this show. Really. I've
been doing it now for the better part of ten years,
and Will was telling me yesterday that we now have
(20:24):
more than eight hundred episodes in podcast. In case you're
wondering what this show is about and you're just fairly
new to it, what it's about is anything and everything
that would be important and interesting and entertaining to seniors
and their adult children, I guess in many ways. So
the good news is I've got a new topic and
(20:46):
she's going to help me with it. When I get
back into the studio sometime next week, hopefully I can
get fifteen minutes from her or ten minutes, and her
book is called let me find the exact name of
it there it is Bonus Family. And with Mother's Day
coming up, the topic and the book deal with how
(21:07):
to let your family know that there's a new person
kind of being entered into welcomed into the family, and
whether that's from It could be from divorce, it could
be from a variety for a variety of reasons that
somebody's family either well that first it gets a little
bit smaller for either divorce or a death in the family.
(21:29):
And then over time, when the time is right for
the person who lost that spouse either way, maybe they
meet somebody new. Maybe they have more to add to
their lives. They're not finished writing their own story, and
so they find someone with whom they can share their time.
And then when these holidays come along, especially a Mother's Day,
(21:53):
all of a sudden, there's this weird dynamic that they
have to deal with. And the book addresses a lot
of things that addresses how to bring up the subject
when maybe it's appropriate to bring it up, how to
deal with maybe resentment or all kinds of emotions that
(22:15):
the children and grandchildren of the let's just say the
dad and the family. The dad and mom divorced for
some reason late in life, and all of a sudden,
the whole dynamics of all of these holidays get kind
of jumbled up and messed up. Hopefully the two who
have split the sheets can get along at least for
(22:37):
the holidays, and in most cases that I think is
what happens. But sometimes it gets a little wonky and
a little awkward, and you know, maybe Dad wants to
bring his new lady friend around after Mom passed away
earlier in the year, and some of the kids are
going to think it's too early. Some are going to
think it's not long enough that they that they've had
(23:00):
a chance to grieve the loss of their mother before
Dad does whatever he does. And so that's where her
book goes. And I'm really happy that I'm going to
be able to talk about it next week when I'm
back in the studio, almost as equally as I am
disappointed that I'm having to to miss that interview. I
was so excited when we had the connection regained a
(23:21):
little while ago, and so happy that I was. I
called doctor Blackstone back and said, Hey, guess what we'll
just called you and told you we can't do it.
Guess what we can. And now we're back to cant
A couple of these things that I would normally pass
on to Will and let him decide on one of
three topics that I've come up with, we're going to
(23:42):
have to forego that procedure and I'm going to have
to just do them kind of one by one to
give you guys, some topics of interest, some things you
can bring up if the conversation gets slow at the
at the party this weekend, or wherever you happen to
be the first thing that's struck my that got my
attention when I was reading this morning was that honey bees,
(24:04):
believe it or not, are not native to North America.
I don't know how long back you'd have to look,
one hundred, two hundred, three hundred years we didn't have
bees here. That I found very interesting. In another one
that really is, well, it's not mind blowing, it's just oh,
on a one to ten, i'd call it a six
and a half. Maybe cats. Cats actually can survive drinking
(24:29):
ocean water. They're fully capable of drinking salt water. So
those two things you can tuck in your pocket and
drag them out if the conversation gets really really dull
around the barbecue outside in the backyard this weekend. Here's
what this one I titled it doesn't bother Me. And
there's a list that somebody made up of people's the
(24:50):
things that women find embarrassing but men really don't care about.
And it goes beyond the obvious. By the way, there
are two or three things just right off top of
my head that don't bother me or anybody else, or
any of my friends, my man friends, but probably bother women.
The things that made the list, the two or three
(25:12):
of the higher ranking things, again aside from those obvious ones,
are a messy house, which eh, my wife is. She
likes everything neat and tidy. Don't put it down, put
it up. That kind of an attitude mine is. I'm
gonna put it here for a little while and then
I'll get back to it later. What is that old?
(25:34):
I think there was something on Facebook about it originally
showed up probably ten years ago, that said, there's no
reason to tell him. Don't worry about a chore you've
asked your man to do. He will do it. There's
no reason to keep asking him every six months or so.
And I think that's where my garage falls. Actually, and
(25:56):
so helped me now that Aaron Botello and I have met,
and he is assured me that he's gonna he's gonna
work for me and help me get my garage organized.
Once I get out the clutter, then I'll I'll work
on that. So anyway, a messy house was on there
re wearing the same outfit. I don't I don't know
(26:16):
anybody who never rewars the same outfit. Lord, what kind
of a closet would you have to have for that
to happen? I'm not really sure. We also have here
tummy pouches, and I earned mine a little while back.
I'd like to get rid of it. I don't think
I can at this stage. Let me rephrase that. It's
(26:39):
not that I don't think I can. It's that I
don't think I will. And I know what to do,
I know how to do it. I know what I
should stop eating or what I should start eating. I'm
just not there yet. I'm just not there.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
All right.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Let me go back to my my newsy bits. Let
me see where I put them. First of all, got
to get back to the stuff. Here's something one of
my friends told me the other day. He likes the
outer space stuff kind of like I do. And from
the Life in Space desk comes news of a man
who thinks he sees shapes on the Martian landscape that
(27:15):
almost and I emphasize almost certainly we're built and not
just carved over time by wind or water. I looked
at several of the photographs of what he's looking at,
and as much as I would love to say that,
I am fully totally convinced that that is exactly what
I'm looking at. Something that was built by hands, or
(27:39):
built by appendages of some sort, by a creature that
has a brain that can do that. Nah, close, as
they say. But no cigar, and certainly not an El
Kubano cigar. A little plug there for my buddy Manny Lopez,
who owns that company down in Texas City, the one
(28:00):
of only I think twenty five or thirty actual cigar
manufacturing facilities in the entire country, and we've got one
right down there in Texas City. He's a good guy
to know. If you like cigars, like here out here
at the golf tournament, for example, if they had wanted
to have him come out and roll cigars for everybody.
He could have done that. If they would have wanted banded,
(28:23):
specially banded cigars and a certain type of cigar for
their better sponsors and whatnot, he could do that as well.
He did up a box of iHeart branded or banded
cigars he built. I'd send him the logos and he
he made the bands and wrapped a box of cigars
with those, and we've been doling them out to our
(28:44):
better clients for the last little while. I'm gonna I
may have to go back to him for another box
before too long. We're gonna have to work something out
on that. I don't have my hand out for freebies,
and he was nice enough to donate that first box
to us. We're gonna have to. We're gonna have to
get on the on the books over there, I think,
because everybody I've given one to loves it.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Oh Mercy, let's we gotta go, Doug, Let's go ahead and.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Take this break, and once we get back, we will
good heavens will already be back for the fourth and
final segment of this of this show today, number eight
hundred and eight, I think, or maybe eight hundred and nine.
I can't believe it. I can't I can't remember which
number it is. I honestly can't believe we've got that
many in the can because I know they didn't start
(29:27):
being saved even for the first for the first couple
of years. This may be just the work that Will
and I have done. Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if
he's had his hands on every one of those podcasts.
He's been with me a good time, and he's doing
a good job. And if he would only find me
some things for entertainment of seniors. Will, that's a I'm
(29:49):
poking the bear a little bit. I want you to
do this. My audience wants you to do this. Somebody
actually mentioned that the other day, when is Will gonna
start helping us with finding some cool things to do
that we might not know about, Well, that's your chance, Will.
So anyway, that's enough for now. We'll take a little break. Here.
We're out at a Taska Sea of golf club. The
weather looks gorgeous for golf. It's gonna be a little warm.
(30:10):
I'm in long pants. I may regret that, and I
also may have a pair of shorts in the car
that might come in handy. Once I get out of here,
we'll take a little break here. We'll be right back
fifty plus on AM nine to fifty kprc Ya.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
They sure don't make them like they used to. That's
why every few months we wash him, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Welcome back forth and final segment of fifty plus. Thank
you all so much for listening. I'm looking out at
the range now where there were they were lined up
from one end to the other twenty minutes ago, and
now there are two sad sacks, three of them desperately
thinking that they're gonna change the way they play today
by hitting four or five more range balls, which, frankly,
(30:55):
is it going to be the case. They're not warmed
up now, and if they're not tuned up, they're not
gonna get up. Big difference between practicing and warming up too.
By the way, the practicing part of golf is what
you do what they're doing out there, when in reality,
all they need to be doing is warming up and
just getting loose. They're gonna wear themselves out by about
the fifteenth toll. They're not gonna be able to walk
(31:16):
after going across those sloppy old fairways. Will Melbourne actually
told me that during the he has found something fun
and interesting maybe to do for seniors and their children
or grandchildren. So take it away, Will, all right?
Speaker 3 (31:30):
Doug, Well, like I mentioned earlier, there is a great
elephant migration in Houston right now.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Scary.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Yeah, it's that Herman Park.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
So if you were able to go and see the
autobon exhibit that we talked about a week or so ago,
then maybe you saw some of these giant wooden elephants
that are all throughout the park. But it's a great
way to go interact with the park, walk around, get
some exercise. It free to the public.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
And they're giant elephants.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
How big are they?
Speaker 3 (32:04):
Do you know the I mean the pictures the pictures
are they're pretty big. I would say they're pretty big.
Speaker 4 (32:12):
I don't have an exact but but they're pretty big.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Do you recall Will the video? I think I talked
about it on the air, I know, and I don't
know if I really asked you to go check the
video out, but it was pretty cool from down in
San Diego. There was an earthquake last week, I believe
it was last week, and in the there's cameras all
over that place, as you can well imagine, and in
the elephant enclosure, as soon as that earthquake started, all
(32:40):
of a sudden, the elephants are rounding up the younger
ones and forming a circle around them. All of the
adult elephants with their their back ends toward the center
of the circle and looking out. They there's this perception
of threat that goes through them. And just like just
(33:01):
like when the people inhabiting our country from east to
west found when they were under attack and circle the wagons.
And that's what those elephants did too. Thank yeah, thanks,
Big Oh. I'll talk to you later. I wanted to
get a guy here on the air, but I'm not
sure the microphone's gonna work. For what I want to
(33:22):
do is if Henton he'll hear me on the way out,
I'm gonna call you next week, big Go, and I'll
get you on the phone. We'll do this right with him.
He is kind of behind this thing. We're raising money
out here for the Lake Houston Foundation that does a
whole lot of good conservation work. Out here, and I
was happy to come out. It was the first time
(33:43):
I've experienced what I'm experiencing on the broadcast end of it.
But it's gonna be okay. We're good that the day's
gonna be good. We're gonna raise a lot of money.
And I'm looking at one team right now getting in
their carts. That kind of spooks me about them maybe
being in contention later on. I love scrambles. They're fun,
uh and they don't take a lot out of you,
(34:05):
and you got a lot of help for your bad shots,
and uh yeah, I truly enjoy this. If there's ever
a Monday tournament when you need a scramble player, let
me know I may be able to come out and
help you out. Okay, let's go to some of these
other little things that I found to talk about today.
And will you can hear me? You can't? Yeah, you
can participate in this, can't you?
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Absolutely you can. We know what where there Will Melbourne?
His name is Will, right, And where there's a Will,
there's a way to get it done, and we found one.
So here we go. Will. Wait a minute, what's that smell?
And open and shut?
Speaker 3 (34:44):
Wait a minute, Wait a minute.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
A man in the UK bought a car just like
the one that he had had previously, but it was
stolen from him unfortunately. And then he realized when he
got in this new car that it it was his
old car, the one that had been stolen from It
even had his address and his parents' address saved in
(35:09):
the navigation system. That's kind of what gave it away.
What would you do under those circumstances, Will, Who would
you call first?
Speaker 3 (35:16):
I mean, I think I would try and ask for
my money back.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
I think I'd go to the popo.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
You know what else? We did a story the other
day about somebody who lost their car in the UK.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Well this was not from the UK. I didn't say
where it was from, but it doesn't matter. Yeah, that
guy was just drunk, Will, He was drunk and he
had so badly forgotten where he parked his car that
he didn't find it for two weeks and only after
And this is cheers for radio. The only way he
found his car was to go on a local radio
station and plead for help, and sure enough, somebody who
(35:53):
was listening to the show helped him find his car.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
Well, maybe this guy got so drunk that he sold
his car and then bought it back.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
No, it was.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Stolen, will No, he's not a lush He just his
car got stolen. All right, Well, let's move on, because
I know we don't have a whole lot of time.
What's that smell? Are you sure? Or I see spots,
lots of spots.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
I see spots, lots of spots.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
This one will get the attention not probably of many seniors,
but certainly of younger members of the audience, perhaps measles.
This story says, probably back for good after being eliminated
in this country twenty years ago. In the last couple
of years, she I wonder why, thank you, President Biden.
(36:46):
In the last couple of years. Scientists say it's it's
pretty likely to become endemic again all over America, over
slowly but surely, over the next couple of decades. If
we can't get the vaccination rates recovered, if we can,
if we can't convince parents to get their kids vaccinated,
at least against measles, we don't have to. If you
(37:07):
don't like some of the other shots, don't get them.
But I, for one, after living through the time when
half of my classmates got the measles, and I don't
know that I ever had them. I think I may have.
I'm not sure, but I know I'm old enough that
I got the right vaccine and all that stuff. There's
that one little wonky period. Look it up online. If
you're not sure if you were born maybe late fifties
(37:29):
through the middle sixties or somewhere in there, go ahead
and check it out, maybe either with your doctor or
just get online and try to find some reassurance. My
wife actually went looking. She was kind of wondering whether
she was fully done or not. And in papers that
had been saved by her mom, who's still alive, by
the way, and pretty pretty sharp for her age. In
(37:51):
papers that she had saved, my wife found her inoculation records,
all handwritten, all on a like a card, and not
a very long list either. The number of shots kids
have to get nowadays is just incredible, and it takes
more than a page in basically in small font type
(38:14):
and single space. Almost it's just one after the other
when they're little beaty babies. How about this, we'll just
mail it or we already did that one.
Speaker 3 (38:25):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (38:25):
Today, by the way's National Telephone Day, and isn't that
appropriate for the way we're having to do this.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
Yeah, well, we also have thirty five seconds left, Doug.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
It's also National Hug of Plumber Day. So if you
see some guy out in front somebody's front yard, got
a plumber's truck out there, just go up give them
a hug. Tell them I said to do that, okay.
FedEx driver freaked out some homeowners when she announced through
her doorbell their doorbell camera that their dog had died
on the porch. Fortunately the dog was just sleeping. I'm
(38:59):
gonna sleep well allright after this fun in the sun
this afternoon. I hope all of you have a good weekend.
I will see you next Tuesday on fifty plus, or
you can catch me tomorrow and Sunday morning, starting at
seven o'clock and eight o'clock, respectively, for the Doug Pike Show.
We'll talk about a lot of golf and fishing and
all that good stuff. Thanks for listening, Audios.
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