October 8, 2025 • 36 mins
Today, Doug Pike is live from the 50+ Expo. Pike also speaks with Rosa Ortega about Medicare.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Remember when it was impossible to misplace the TV remote
because you were the TV remote. Remember when music sounded
like this, Remember when social media was truly social?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hey John, how's it going today?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Well, this show is all about you one. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike, helpful information on your finances,
good health, and what to do for fun. Fifty plus
brought to you by the UT Health Houston Institute on
ag informed Decisions for a healthier, happier life.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
And now fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Here we go.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
I am for the person I think, second time broadcasting remotely,
this time from Stafford Center in Stafford, were else and
here for the fifty plus expo, which is put on
by the guy who's sitting right across from me, John Sasman. John,
thanks for having me out Man, Thank you so much. Duck.
It's a pleasure. I've already made a lot of good,
(01:10):
good contacts, a lot of people I want to talk to,
and I found it pretty pretty telling of how all
of this stuff works. When I see Wayne Errington sitting
over there from air Ride Bike, because I wasn't expecting
him at all until you told me he was coming yesterday. Yes,
he just came out of no word.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Well, I guess you had talked to him or something
was on the radio that I missed out on. Yeah,
And I got calls from people saying they heard it
on the radio, and you want to come to the event.
What's it all about? And so Doug, I definitely appreciate.
iHeart radio.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Not a problem at all, No, it was. It was
my pleasure. This is my wheelhouse. These are my people
out here.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
Man, they're having a great time here.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
They are. Oh my goodness. Yeah. Who's the guy with
the big giant white hat? Though, what's with that? You see?
Lean lean my way? Well, yeah, he's pro lift, don't Yeah? Yeah.
The garage door, goage door? Yeah, yeah, I thought I
had to do something with his business.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
But I thought it was Green Bay packer. You know what,
you know that cushion protocols.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Yeah, no, that's not He's not with greed.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
Unless the garage door fell on his head and it
is a protocol.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Now, yeah, that might have been a good idea. All right,
So when did you start doing these shows? Well, I
actually knew, right.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
It is in the sense of the concepts changed. I've
over about eleven and twelve year period. I've done it
with some other businesses where it's a sixty five plus
and uh, my birthday is this Sunday. If anybody wants
to send me money or a card, I'll be happy
with that, but I'll be sixty seven. And so I
did expose over the year sixty.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Five and older.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
But I thought, you know what, when I was fifty,
the next year I was sixty five, So I thought,
you know what, if I can teach people and give
them knowledge I had the time about finance or medical
or whatever it may be before they get to that
sixty five, they can live a longer, more prosperous life.
So it's my goal. Plus those that are fifty ish
(03:03):
might need to get come here for information for their parents.
So it's a double coverage, is what I'm trying to do.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Exactly what I'm doing with this show. I've got a
lot of listeners even in their mid to late thirties
whose parents are in their fifties and sixties, and if
they're not is tough and to surprised you and me
right may may need some helk.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
And I'm excited to have our subject today. It's already
over with, but the speaker was on women's health and
my belief always I'm a single guy, but if it
wasn't for women, that women are the backbone of men
living longer.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
You a player, John, and my phone number is so.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
I'm five ten anyway. So that being said, if women
are educated, and if you notice probably two thirds, if
not more, are women here at the xbox, that's a
good drawing tool because they're the ones that will keep
things going. So I'm very happy for you know, with
with iHeart Radio of Close magazine, and we have Grandma's
(04:03):
Barbershop Quartet here which will be singing in a in
a little while. We've got the All Glory Honor Guard
doing the ceremonial flag. So it's very patriotic too. It's
not all about business life should not all be about
the mighty dollar. Oh my god, they harmonized. It's it's
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barbershop quartet. It is unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Put a microphone in front of him, let me hear
you talk. Sure, how did you know what.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
That?
Speaker 4 (04:33):
How did you do that?
Speaker 2 (04:35):
To me?
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Most boyfriends? Always makes it a great opportunity to work
with these wonderful people that have this program here. And
I sing bass, Yeah, holyl I like swinging by man. Yeah,
I heard you guys singing. You're very good. Yeah, we're
gonna we're gonna have a great program to finish up.
It's kind of a tradition I think that we have here.
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It's been done several years and it's it's yeah, we did.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
Auditioned, they auditioned, and uh, I fell in love with
him and they're wonderful. And then same thing with the
All Glory Hunter Guard. They said, can we have a
booth because they raise money what they do for veterans.
To me, I never served. My parents did relatives long
and I love them to death. They have a raffle
(05:27):
right now. I bought tickets, didn't They didn't sell enough
that I think they should sell way more. And I
just didn't have time to go to booth to booth
to booth to get people to give money.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Well, thank you both for stopping by. Thank you don
for having the music. Later on, I will thanks for
coming over.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
Thank you dog.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
All right, got it? That's fine. All right. So there's
where I am. That's what I'm doing, and there will
be entertainment. And I've already heard a preview, so I
know they're gonna be good. Moving into what we got
to move into. How much time do I have? Will
three or four?
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Two oh two?
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Wow? Okay, two minutes. It is to the usuals for
this program. Fifty plus quick look at the markets and
that would be all four in the green by I'll
call it significant numbers. Now. The Dow has come off
of where it was a little while ago, but it's
still up one hundred and twenty eight points and north
of forty six thousand, seven hundred s and P s
(06:23):
and p's up a half a point, the Nasdaq up
almost almost a full point, and the Rustle is more
than a point up. Gold that one kind of surprised me.
It's up seventy bucks and is four thousand and seventy
five dollars an ounce and change, and everything seems to
be humming right along. There's a lot we need to
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talk about, a lot we need to unpack. By the way,
the tropics are taking it easy on us now. There's
nothing that threatens us whatsoever out there. And that one
little hurricane knock on wood. I don't know why or
how it's happening, but I'm really glad to see ye
another hurricane form and come around, and it's just gonna
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make that you turn. It's almost like we've got a
giant force field out in the Atlantic Ocean somewhere that
just repels these hurricanes so far. And I hope that
keeps up, I really do. I don't. I think the
roofers probably aren't so happy. In fact, there's a roofer
at the show here today. And then I've got, of course,
I got country boys I work with, and I'm gonna
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act ask them just how this has affected their business
over the year. And I'll remind you when it's time
in just a few minutes to talk to country boys
and see what they can do about coming out and
making sure some little thing that you don't even realize
is a potential problem could become one. All kinds all
kinds of good things going on around here, all kinds
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of notes and stuff I have. We're gonna be talking
to a woman named Rose Ortega in a few minutes,
and kind of keeping with the theme, Rose is gonna
talk about the open enrollment period for Medicare, and we'll
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Speaker 1 (09:04):
Yeah, they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash him, check his words,
and spray on a fresh cod o wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Come back to fifty plus. Thanks for listening. I'm broadcasting live,
as I mentioned before, from out at the Stafford Center
in Stafford for the fifty plus Expo. Two great minds
on the same track. I guess sort of. The man
who puts this show on John Sasmo was just throwing
in the first segment here, and then he came up
with his name a couple of years ago, unbeknownst to
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me or anybody else. He hadn't heard of the show
even at that point. But we're both trying to take
care of people who are like us little long end
the years. We'll talk in this segment about something that
should be important to almost all of us, and maybe
you're into it already, maybe you're not, but that's Medicare
and open enrollment, and hopefully all of us know a
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little bit about it, but when you dig into it,
you're going to realize you need to know a lot more.
And that is why I am bringing on Rose Ortega,
Senior Counselor with the Benefits Counseling program at Harris County's
Area Agency on Aging. Welcome Rose, Bye, how you doing.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Good morning you out here.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Well, yeah, it is I do that all the time
on this show because it starts just right when we
go afternoons. So before we get into open enrollment, them
just kind of start us off with a general explanation
of what Medicare does and just how many parts there
are to it.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Okay, Well, what Medicare open enrollment is is where Medicare beneficiaries,
you know, I have an opportunity to make changes to
their health and prescription drug plans. Also, it's a time
where insurance companies make changes to their health and drug
plans as well. So we encourage fisheries to take this opportunity,
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you know, to make changes and of course to review
their change, to review their health their healthcare.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Okay, I used AI to dig up a little bit
of information, and what I learned there is that you've
just got to really have somebody on your side helping
you unless you have all the time in the world.
So and it's kind of ready to go. The open
enrollment starts what October fifteenth and runs how long.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
It runs all the way through December. The seventh midnight, okay,
and everybody, there'll be one hundred people on there at
twelve fifty nine, fifty nine trying to get stuff done. Huh,
that is correct. You know, we as as time goes on,
we we we learned that many people do get very
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helpful with using the medicare dot gov website or they
call one hundred Medicare, but there's still people out there
who have questions. So we make ourselves available and where
the state Health Insurance Assistance program and we're here for
Harris County residents. So again, a lot of times if
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they call one hundred beddecare, they'll let them know about
us where they can receive one to one or face
to face counseling on their questions on the changes.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
That's so helpful too, Rose Ortega from Harris County Area
Agency on Aging here on fifty plus. So explain that
I think, if I'm not mistaken, Part A just basically
guarantees you a hospital bed then and that's not casting anything.
But Part B has all kinds of different bells and
whistles that can be bought through third parties elsewhere.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Right, that is correct. Part B there is a premium
there is a standard premium, and then there's a premium
for those depending what their income is, their current income
or whatever they're following of either independent or if they're married,
So the premium will be different for everybody.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Here's another question. I'll bet you get a lot. If
somebody's hit sixty five but they're still covered by an
employer's healthcare program, do they have to start up on
Medicare and give up that insurance the other insurance.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
If they're currently employed and have health insurance to that
employer and they know they are able to confirm that
it is credible coverage, then they can delay that enrollment.
Now they can also consider comparing their health care coverage
with their employer, just to see, you know, the cost.
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You know, is it going to benefit for them getting
involved with Medicare or staying with their employer.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Is it accurate roads to say that the first time
anybody tackles learning about Medicare and let's they come sit
down with you or talk to you on the phone
or whatever for a couple of hours, they really think
they got it dialed in. Does the government leave it
alone every year or do they tend to move the
goalposts every time? We turn around.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
They tend to leave it alone. You know, once I
thinks are sad, they do tend to leave it alone.
But if they do make changes, they're real good and
you know, giving us those updates.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
How often would you think Let's say somebody gets in
contact with you guys, and they get dialed in and
set up. How often should they check back with you guys?
Once a year to make sure that nothing's changed that
would impact them.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Yes, once a year, But we do get called every day.
If an older adult didn't get an opportunity to look
at their changes, or they run into a situation about costs,
you know, we'll get another call during the year. I
wanted us to provide them an explanation of benefits or
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find out, you know, why is this medication costing me
this much instead of this.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
There's all kinds of questions people have, I'm sure, and
they don't have to be in person, right, let me
ask you this. You can't really make their decisions for them.
You just advise, Is that right?
Speaker 3 (15:32):
That is correct?
Speaker 2 (15:33):
We just advise.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Yeah, well, I think that's the only way you could
do it the way it needs to be done. And honestly,
what can you do and what can't you do? In
one of these appointments.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Again, we can advise them. We can help them with
plan comparison. If they make a decision, we can help
them enroll in a plan. We can also help them
cut next you know, through conference calls to the plant
if they ask, if they have additional questions.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
That's a very good that's a very good opportunity because
a lot of people, honestly, a lot of people who
don't even have medicare yet but are getting close to
needing it aren't going to have the savvy in some
cases to navigate all this stuff, especially now that it's
almost all being done electronically. I'm presuming that your your
team can help people understand how to navigate all of
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the now that it's all on the computer. It's very
difficult for older people, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Yes, we can help them navigate the Menicure's website, which
is is what we use and it's available to the public.
We would definitely help them with people call us or
the phone. They can set up appointment to see us
in person or virtually.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Well, how much time would you say it would take
on average if somebody's thinking, you know, I need to
give them a call or I need to go down there. Whatever.
How much time should they set aside to learn everything
you believe they should know about Medicare?
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Usually about an hour.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Okay, okay, and that's that's going to get them soup
to nuts basically on getting into the program. And then
I'm presuming also that Medicare will send regular correspondence to
kind of let people know what's going on.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Correct, everybody should have received the Medicare and You Guide
for twenty twenty six that was sent out by October first,
so everybody, everybody should have already received that as well
as the different plans. Should they already send that annual
Notice of changes to the Benicare beneficiaries. So I'm doing
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courage them to open that and look at that and
see it their plan has made any changes for the
following year.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Wonderful. We are just about out of time. I'm going
to put the cherry on the Sunday. Your services don't
cost them anything, do they?
Speaker 3 (18:12):
That is correct? It is hell benefit to for three rose.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
How do they find you? I'm sorry, how do they
find you?
Speaker 3 (18:21):
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nine three four three zero one and we're in the
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Speaker 4 (18:36):
Outstanding bros. Thank you so much. This is really helpful
and I wish everybody in here could be listening to
this too, they would have learned a lot greatly appreciate
what you've done for my audience. Thank you, Rose Ortega,
Thank you. You're welcome, all right, Yeah, get in touch
with them eight three to two three nine three forty
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three zero one. Great service, it's cost you a dime.
Speaking of great services that don't cost you a dime.
UT Health Institute on Aging is a fantastic resource for
anybody in our age category or younger. If you're mindful
of your older parents, they're going to need your help
some at some point, and the UT Institute on Aging
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can be just the help they need. What they are
is a collaborative of more than a thousand providers in
this region, and all of those people who are participating
in this have gone back and gotten additional training to
what it took them to get their diploma. Of what
they've got on the wall in the office or the
clinic or wherever, to make sure that they know how
to apply their specific building this big block of knowledge
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of theirs, specifically to seniors. We benefit from that younger people,
they doctors or doctors, that they all got their credentials
the same way. This particular group of providers, and it
includes trainers, that includes therapists, and includes psychologists. Anybody and
everybody involved in medicine has become part of this Institute
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on Aging so that they can help us. It's a
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one hand in cities across America, and we happen to
be with one of the originals, one of the best
that's available. These people mostly are in the medical center,
but as you know, if you've listened to me long enough,
they also travel out to outlying communities and areas so
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that anybody and everybody who needs help, even if they
can't get to the med center, can see somebody who's
part of the Institute on Agent. Go to the website,
look at all the resources, and then start searching for
somebody to help you fix whatever's broken on you. Utch
dot edu slash aging, utch dot edu slash aging.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
What's life without a net? I suggest you go to bed.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
We've all just wait until the show's over. Sleepy Back
to Dougpike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Thanks for listening today. I am sitting in a room
full of people, a very large room for full of
very many people, at the fifty plus Expo at Stafford Center.
I got invited to come out here and broadcast live,
and I have had the opportunity before, and I'll take
up some more opportunity afterward to really get to know
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some of these businesses in here and try and share
what I learned when I get back into the studio
tomorrow about a lot of them. Hopefully I can do
a little business with some of them too. I've kind
of eyeballed a couple of them I'd really like to
have on board with us, So I see where do
I want to go from here. This is something that's
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it's been kind of a little pet peep of mine,
and I'm going to bring it up and I titled
it gone to the Dogs. Okay, man, I don't know
about you, but I'm getting kind of tired of people
bringing their dogs into every place we go and wrapping
them up in one of those little service dog callers
and blankets and whatever. And I'm fully aware that a
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lot of people in this world benefit greatly from having
a service animal. I get that, I do, But some
of the people I see bringing their animals into just
wherever they feel like going, I'm not convinced they're doing
that on the up and up. And who am I
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to judge? And again, I'm not judging anybody who truly
needs a service animal. But I bet a lot of
money that some of those dogs I see. I see
them even in the top part of the shopping carts
where people put their food. After that dog sat in
there and scratched and rubbed and done whatever it was doing.
That's just nasty. And I don't Again, I don't want
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to knock these people if they're legitimate service dogs. But
then again, if they're not, then there should be some way.
It's kind of like people, the way people take advantage
of handicapped parking spots and some doing some don't. Just
last week I saw a story out of San Francisco.
Everywhere residents go, it's dogs where there probably shouldn't be dogs.
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And out there, maybe a little ahead of us, there's
actually a movement toward requiring these folks to possess and
print or present if asked some sort of proof that
they really need that dog, maybe a call to a
letter from a doctor's office, a letter from somebody who
would be in charge of their health and their well being.
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But then again, if you slip the man, there's so
many ways you could get a fake document like that.
It'd be harder.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
It just bothers me sometimes to see people in their
pets in the grocery store, almost as much as it
bothers me. Also to see them walking around the stores
and eating food that they're not going to pay for
eating food. That's another real issue. I see people routinely
in the grocery store I shop at, routinely knocking off,
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knocking off grapes, knocking off chocolate covered pretzels, or whatever
else they could find in the bulk food aisle. I
actually spoke to the manager where I shop, and she
said they do have a policy against eating without paying
for stuff, and if they see anybody doing it, they'll
they'll stop them and they'll try to figure out how
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much they owe the store and maybe get them to
pay for it. I don't know, but the bottom line,
the bottom line is it happens, and I've seen it
enough times to know that that's that's something else we're
paying for, kind of like the whole shoplifting deal. The
worst in the grocery store, though, is when parents are
giving that call it what it is, stolen food to
their kids right in the car at the kids just
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munching away eating up snacks and whatever. And five minutes
later I walked down the aisle and see the empty
bag of chips or empty wrapper off something those kids
were gnawing on. It's I don't know where our civility went.
I don't know where our honesty went. But for a
lot of people, it's just mia. It really is. I've
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witnessed a lot of just brazen shoplifting up to and
including just whole arms full of clothes and carts full
of groceries being marched right out of stores. It started
during COVID, and a lot of people excused it by
saying that, you know, gosh, if those shoplifters weren't shoplifting,
they couldn't feed their families, which is mostly bolooney, because
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there are resources available to people who have a hard
time getting food, but these people chose to go into
grocery stores. And just walk right past the bolooney and
go pick out higher cuts of meat. They're picking out ribs,
they're picking out back sirloins and all these other steaks
and hauling them out of the store. A lot of
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people in this country have been trained in recent years
to sympathize with the thief rather than the victim of
the theft, whether they're stealing baby diapers, looting a ho
own in jewelry store, whatever, and the comeback is, oh well,
insurance pays for that. Insurance pays for it. But insurance
policies are paid for by store owners, and they pay
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the premiums by raising prices on us to keep the
store open. Theves belong in jail, and maybe not a
long time for first offenders, but the ones who keep
doing it and keep doing it, they might need a
little more time to think about what they're doing. I
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Old guys rule, and of course women and never get
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Speaker 2 (28:04):
Okay, well, I think that sounds like a good plan.
Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
Final segment already. Holy cow, Well, this hour's wing really quickly.
Like I said earlier in the program, I am out
at the Stafford Center in Stafford Murphy Road, just a
little ways north of Highway ninety. If you know where
that is and you're close by, Swing Bob. We're gonna
be here till about two o'clock, I think, is when
the show actually closes. And I've got a lot of
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more We've got a lot more hands to shake and
people to meet out here. It's been fantastic so far.
Let me get back to my bits and pieces here. Rudy,
by the way, sent me an email just a minute
ago talking about how kind of nasty it is in
a lot of big cities and to be careful when
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you're walking around on the sidewalks in those big cities
and it's just really really frustrating that somehow, some way
our country has allowed this to happen. And it wasn't
that long ago where things that are considered perfectly normal
and commonplace and even lawful on city streets in some
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of the bigger blue cities especially, it would have been
unthinkable even ten fifteen years ago. But that's kind of
where we are, and hopefully we're on the right track
to get away from that, to return to good manners,
to return to hygiene, to help the people who need
(29:40):
to find a place to stay find places to stay,
rather than just say yeah, sure, it's okay. And in
some parts of California still and I think in some
other cities now, if somebody just walks up in your
yard and sets up a tent, you can't have them removed.
Think of how what an egregious oversight or overstep that is,
(30:04):
and try and figure out why they're allowed to do that,
and it all goes down. It goes back to politics
where people are. I mean, you either you either want
everybody to have everything for free, which is impossible. Wait,
I'll jump off of this train and I'll go back
up to New York City where Mom Donnie's still leading
(30:26):
in the polls and where he's man. If he takes
over that city, they're going to have a lot of
trouble up there trying to maintain any sort of civility.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
He wants to.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
Provide basically free everything, for free for everybody, and that
as all of us know, who have paid taxes for
a long time and are getting tired of paying more
and more taxes and not getting anything for it, that's
what they're That's what he proposes up there is a
socialist giant city. And even when most of the good
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people move out of New York because they just can't
stand to watch it decline like it's going to, they're
still going to have to find ways to pay for
all this free stuff. Were probably at least five or
six million people now. The numbers of people moving out
of New York I talked about this last week on
the show. Numbers of people moving out are about thirty
(31:22):
or forty times though the numbers of people who are
moving in there actually are people moving to New York City,
but two of the top or one of the top cities,
I can't remember the second one in Texas, I believe,
I do. I know one of them. And we're talking
about single digits of people moving to New York City.
But from Laredo that had people going to New York,
(31:44):
and there were some people I believe it was from
Amarillo who decided they were going to move to New
York and that was I would be willing to almost
bet that a couple of those were were regretful forced
transfers by somebody's parent company that has a big office
in New York and wants them to work out of there.
I can't imagine anybody wanting to move to that city
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knowing what it's about to become. It saddens me, It
really does. It truly really saddens me. If you're wondering
how far and messed up Chicago is, how far left
it is, how about this ICE agents surrounded by several vehicles,
multiple protesters throwing things at them, physically preventing them from
(32:28):
doing their work. Chicago's Chief of Patrol ordered his officers
not to respond to those requests for help from the
ICE agents. ICE agents calling the police, Hey man, you
guys need to come up and get us out of here.
These people are really honest, hard and the chief of
(32:49):
Patrol told his officers not to respond. President Trump told
Governor Pritzker there to call up his national guard and
gain control of Chicago. But he's not doing it so
and I think maybe they did actually deploy some I
haven't had a chance to look today, but between the
governor and the mayor there who By the way, I
(33:11):
saw a story this morning. I didn't get a chance
to read the whole thing, but the headline pretty much
said that Governor Brandon Johnson wants to arrest ICE agents
in his city. I can assure him that's not gonna fly,
and I would advise him to apologize and not bring
that up again. That's not a good idea, not a
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good idea all that. It's all unraveling on the far left,
not people who are old school Democrats who wanted to
just get along, but we had differences of opinion, and
we just kept going back and forth in elections and
changing it back and forth as whenever we had to.
These are the people who are really, truly are angry
(33:57):
and they don't see any other way out of their
hole but violent. Some gang leader got offered ten thousand
dollars on I think it was Snapchat or Instagram or
something like that, to kill a border patrol commander? What
kind of what kind of people want that to happen
and are willing to pay for it and are advertising
(34:20):
they're advertising for it. We'll get where we're going, I'm sure.
And the petty stuff coming out of Washington I think
is fueling some of this fire AOC I think it
was yesterday she bodies shame Stephen Miller for some reason.
Who knows what, But that's pretty bold talk coming from her.
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I don't see where she's got a whole lot of
room to talk. One other story I wanted to get to.
I got to that.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
Oh, the Washington Post.
Speaker 4 (34:49):
Washington Post has been liberal as the day is long
for as long as I can remember, since I got
out out of the newspaper business, and that was a
very long time ago. And they actually finally fifteen years later.
The Washington Post ran a story last week that conceded
basically that Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act, was never affordable.
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It didn't help many, if any people, and in fact,
it had hurt their coverage in a lot of cases.
But for so long, for so long, the media, and
they still do to some degree, they just keep feeding
us a bunch of eyes. And the people who don't
want to go look for their own information or don't
(35:36):
know how to go look for their own information, they're
the ones who are bearing the brunt of this. They
really are, and they're just they're keeping that machine going.
Jimmy Kimmel, I find hoping this Jimmy Kimmel, after he
messed up a few weeks ago. His audience is down
eighty five percent. Eighty five percent, So you know, we've
(36:02):
got a long ways to go and not much time
to get there. Almost done though, how much time to do?
Have will? They're oh, that's better, Okay, okay, this is
kind of interesting. And my people, my senior people, will
relate to this. Police searching for a suspect who stole
a beloved fifty pounds fiberglass dinosaur from outside an LA
(36:25):
gas station over the weekend. Anybody remember whose stations those were?
I do Sinclair, look them up. They got the green dinosaur.
That's it from the Stafford Center. Thanks for listening, Audios
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Hey John, how's it going today?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Well, this show is all about you one. This is
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And now fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Here we go.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
I am for the person I think, second time broadcasting remotely,
this time from Stafford Center in Stafford, were else and
here for the fifty plus expo, which is put on
by the guy who's sitting right across from me, John Sasman. John,
thanks for having me out Man, Thank you so much. Duck.
It's a pleasure. I've already made a lot of good,
(01:10):
good contacts, a lot of people I want to talk to,
and I found it pretty pretty telling of how all
of this stuff works. When I see Wayne Errington sitting
over there from air Ride Bike, because I wasn't expecting
him at all until you told me he was coming yesterday. Yes,
he just came out of no word.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Well, I guess you had talked to him or something
was on the radio that I missed out on. Yeah,
And I got calls from people saying they heard it
on the radio, and you want to come to the event.
What's it all about? And so Doug, I definitely appreciate.
iHeart radio.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Not a problem at all, No, it was. It was
my pleasure. This is my wheelhouse. These are my people
out here.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
Man, they're having a great time here.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
They are. Oh my goodness. Yeah. Who's the guy with
the big giant white hat? Though, what's with that? You see?
Lean lean my way? Well, yeah, he's pro lift, don't Yeah? Yeah.
The garage door, goage door? Yeah, yeah, I thought I
had to do something with his business.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
But I thought it was Green Bay packer. You know what,
you know that cushion protocols.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Yeah, no, that's not He's not with greed.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
Unless the garage door fell on his head and it
is a protocol.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Now, yeah, that might have been a good idea. All right,
So when did you start doing these shows? Well, I
actually knew, right.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
It is in the sense of the concepts changed. I've
over about eleven and twelve year period. I've done it
with some other businesses where it's a sixty five plus
and uh, my birthday is this Sunday. If anybody wants
to send me money or a card, I'll be happy
with that, but I'll be sixty seven. And so I
did expose over the year sixty.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Five and older.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
But I thought, you know what, when I was fifty,
the next year I was sixty five, So I thought,
you know what, if I can teach people and give
them knowledge I had the time about finance or medical
or whatever it may be before they get to that
sixty five, they can live a longer, more prosperous life.
So it's my goal. Plus those that are fifty ish
(03:03):
might need to get come here for information for their parents.
So it's a double coverage, is what I'm trying to do.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Exactly what I'm doing with this show. I've got a
lot of listeners even in their mid to late thirties
whose parents are in their fifties and sixties, and if
they're not is tough and to surprised you and me
right may may need some helk.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
And I'm excited to have our subject today. It's already
over with, but the speaker was on women's health and
my belief always I'm a single guy, but if it
wasn't for women, that women are the backbone of men
living longer.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
You a player, John, and my phone number is so.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
I'm five ten anyway. So that being said, if women
are educated, and if you notice probably two thirds, if
not more, are women here at the xbox, that's a
good drawing tool because they're the ones that will keep
things going. So I'm very happy for you know, with
with iHeart Radio of Close magazine, and we have Grandma's
(04:03):
Barbershop Quartet here which will be singing in a in
a little while. We've got the All Glory Honor Guard
doing the ceremonial flag. So it's very patriotic too. It's
not all about business life should not all be about
the mighty dollar. Oh my god, they harmonized. It's it's
(04:23):
barbershop quartet. It is unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Put a microphone in front of him, let me hear
you talk. Sure, how did you know what.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
That?
Speaker 4 (04:33):
How did you do that?
Speaker 2 (04:35):
To me?
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Most boyfriends? Always makes it a great opportunity to work
with these wonderful people that have this program here. And
I sing bass, Yeah, holyl I like swinging by man. Yeah,
I heard you guys singing. You're very good. Yeah, we're
gonna we're gonna have a great program to finish up.
It's kind of a tradition I think that we have here.
(04:59):
It's been done several years and it's it's yeah, we did.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
Auditioned, they auditioned, and uh, I fell in love with
him and they're wonderful. And then same thing with the
All Glory Hunter Guard. They said, can we have a
booth because they raise money what they do for veterans.
To me, I never served. My parents did relatives long
and I love them to death. They have a raffle
(05:27):
right now. I bought tickets, didn't They didn't sell enough
that I think they should sell way more. And I
just didn't have time to go to booth to booth
to booth to get people to give money.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Well, thank you both for stopping by. Thank you don
for having the music. Later on, I will thanks for
coming over.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
Thank you dog.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
All right, got it? That's fine. All right. So there's
where I am. That's what I'm doing, and there will
be entertainment. And I've already heard a preview, so I
know they're gonna be good. Moving into what we got
to move into. How much time do I have? Will
three or four?
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Two oh two?
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Wow? Okay, two minutes. It is to the usuals for
this program. Fifty plus quick look at the markets and
that would be all four in the green by I'll
call it significant numbers. Now. The Dow has come off
of where it was a little while ago, but it's
still up one hundred and twenty eight points and north
of forty six thousand, seven hundred s and P s
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and p's up a half a point, the Nasdaq up
almost almost a full point, and the Rustle is more
than a point up. Gold that one kind of surprised me.
It's up seventy bucks and is four thousand and seventy
five dollars an ounce and change, and everything seems to
be humming right along. There's a lot we need to
(06:43):
talk about, a lot we need to unpack. By the way,
the tropics are taking it easy on us now. There's
nothing that threatens us whatsoever out there. And that one
little hurricane knock on wood. I don't know why or
how it's happening, but I'm really glad to see ye
another hurricane form and come around, and it's just gonna
(07:04):
make that you turn. It's almost like we've got a
giant force field out in the Atlantic Ocean somewhere that
just repels these hurricanes so far. And I hope that
keeps up, I really do. I don't. I think the
roofers probably aren't so happy. In fact, there's a roofer
at the show here today. And then I've got, of course,
I got country boys I work with, and I'm gonna
(07:26):
act ask them just how this has affected their business
over the year. And I'll remind you when it's time
in just a few minutes to talk to country boys
and see what they can do about coming out and
making sure some little thing that you don't even realize
is a potential problem could become one. All kinds all
kinds of good things going on around here, all kinds
(07:48):
of notes and stuff I have. We're gonna be talking
to a woman named Rose Ortega in a few minutes,
and kind of keeping with the theme, Rose is gonna
talk about the open enrollment period for Medicare, and we'll
just keep going from there all the way out. I'll
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weather's starting to kind of mild up. The days are
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getting a little short of those fish. They know they
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you don't have a trailer anything, you could pull down
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(08:52):
on that property for just that opportunity to bring new
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Speaker 1 (09:04):
Yeah, they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash him, check his words,
and spray on a fresh cod o wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Come back to fifty plus. Thanks for listening. I'm broadcasting live,
as I mentioned before, from out at the Stafford Center
in Stafford for the fifty plus Expo. Two great minds
on the same track. I guess sort of. The man
who puts this show on John Sasmo was just throwing
in the first segment here, and then he came up
with his name a couple of years ago, unbeknownst to
(09:37):
me or anybody else. He hadn't heard of the show
even at that point. But we're both trying to take
care of people who are like us little long end
the years. We'll talk in this segment about something that
should be important to almost all of us, and maybe
you're into it already, maybe you're not, but that's Medicare
and open enrollment, and hopefully all of us know a
(09:59):
little bit about it, but when you dig into it,
you're going to realize you need to know a lot more.
And that is why I am bringing on Rose Ortega,
Senior Counselor with the Benefits Counseling program at Harris County's
Area Agency on Aging. Welcome Rose, Bye, how you doing.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Good morning you out here.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Well, yeah, it is I do that all the time
on this show because it starts just right when we
go afternoons. So before we get into open enrollment, them
just kind of start us off with a general explanation
of what Medicare does and just how many parts there
are to it.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Okay, Well, what Medicare open enrollment is is where Medicare beneficiaries,
you know, I have an opportunity to make changes to
their health and prescription drug plans. Also, it's a time
where insurance companies make changes to their health and drug
plans as well. So we encourage fisheries to take this opportunity,
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you know, to make changes and of course to review
their change, to review their health their healthcare.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Okay, I used AI to dig up a little bit
of information, and what I learned there is that you've
just got to really have somebody on your side helping
you unless you have all the time in the world.
So and it's kind of ready to go. The open
enrollment starts what October fifteenth and runs how long.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
It runs all the way through December. The seventh midnight, okay,
and everybody, there'll be one hundred people on there at
twelve fifty nine, fifty nine trying to get stuff done. Huh,
that is correct. You know, we as as time goes on,
we we we learned that many people do get very
(11:55):
helpful with using the medicare dot gov website or they
call one hundred Medicare, but there's still people out there
who have questions. So we make ourselves available and where
the state Health Insurance Assistance program and we're here for
Harris County residents. So again, a lot of times if
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they call one hundred beddecare, they'll let them know about
us where they can receive one to one or face
to face counseling on their questions on the changes.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
That's so helpful too, Rose Ortega from Harris County Area
Agency on Aging here on fifty plus. So explain that
I think, if I'm not mistaken, Part A just basically
guarantees you a hospital bed then and that's not casting anything.
But Part B has all kinds of different bells and
whistles that can be bought through third parties elsewhere.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Right, that is correct. Part B there is a premium
there is a standard premium, and then there's a premium
for those depending what their income is, their current income
or whatever they're following of either independent or if they're married,
So the premium will be different for everybody.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Here's another question. I'll bet you get a lot. If
somebody's hit sixty five but they're still covered by an
employer's healthcare program, do they have to start up on
Medicare and give up that insurance the other insurance.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
If they're currently employed and have health insurance to that
employer and they know they are able to confirm that
it is credible coverage, then they can delay that enrollment.
Now they can also consider comparing their health care coverage
with their employer, just to see, you know, the cost.
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You know, is it going to benefit for them getting
involved with Medicare or staying with their employer.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Is it accurate roads to say that the first time
anybody tackles learning about Medicare and let's they come sit
down with you or talk to you on the phone
or whatever for a couple of hours, they really think
they got it dialed in. Does the government leave it
alone every year or do they tend to move the
goalposts every time? We turn around.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
They tend to leave it alone. You know, once I
thinks are sad, they do tend to leave it alone.
But if they do make changes, they're real good and
you know, giving us those updates.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
How often would you think Let's say somebody gets in
contact with you guys, and they get dialed in and
set up. How often should they check back with you guys?
Once a year to make sure that nothing's changed that
would impact them.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Yes, once a year, But we do get called every day.
If an older adult didn't get an opportunity to look
at their changes, or they run into a situation about costs,
you know, we'll get another call during the year. I
wanted us to provide them an explanation of benefits or
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find out, you know, why is this medication costing me
this much instead of this.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
There's all kinds of questions people have, I'm sure, and
they don't have to be in person, right, let me
ask you this. You can't really make their decisions for them.
You just advise, Is that right?
Speaker 3 (15:32):
That is correct?
Speaker 2 (15:33):
We just advise.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Yeah, well, I think that's the only way you could
do it the way it needs to be done. And honestly,
what can you do and what can't you do? In
one of these appointments.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Again, we can advise them. We can help them with
plan comparison. If they make a decision, we can help
them enroll in a plan. We can also help them
cut next you know, through conference calls to the plant
if they ask, if they have additional questions.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
That's a very good that's a very good opportunity because
a lot of people, honestly, a lot of people who
don't even have medicare yet but are getting close to
needing it aren't going to have the savvy in some
cases to navigate all this stuff, especially now that it's
almost all being done electronically. I'm presuming that your your
team can help people understand how to navigate all of
(16:33):
the now that it's all on the computer. It's very
difficult for older people, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Yes, we can help them navigate the Menicure's website, which
is is what we use and it's available to the public.
We would definitely help them with people call us or
the phone. They can set up appointment to see us
in person or virtually.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Well, how much time would you say it would take
on average if somebody's thinking, you know, I need to
give them a call or I need to go down there. Whatever.
How much time should they set aside to learn everything
you believe they should know about Medicare?
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Usually about an hour.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Okay, okay, and that's that's going to get them soup
to nuts basically on getting into the program. And then
I'm presuming also that Medicare will send regular correspondence to
kind of let people know what's going on.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Correct, everybody should have received the Medicare and You Guide
for twenty twenty six that was sent out by October first,
so everybody, everybody should have already received that as well
as the different plans. Should they already send that annual
Notice of changes to the Benicare beneficiaries. So I'm doing
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courage them to open that and look at that and
see it their plan has made any changes for the
following year.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Wonderful. We are just about out of time. I'm going
to put the cherry on the Sunday. Your services don't
cost them anything, do they?
Speaker 3 (18:12):
That is correct? It is hell benefit to for three rose.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
How do they find you? I'm sorry, how do they
find you?
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Okay? We're Our phone number is eight three two three
nine three four three zero one and we're in the
City of Houston Health Department at eight thousand North Stadium, Thrive.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Outstanding bros. Thank you so much. This is really helpful
and I wish everybody in here could be listening to
this too, they would have learned a lot greatly appreciate
what you've done for my audience. Thank you, Rose Ortega,
Thank you. You're welcome, all right, Yeah, get in touch
with them eight three to two three nine three forty
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three zero one. Great service, it's cost you a dime.
Speaking of great services that don't cost you a dime.
UT Health Institute on Aging is a fantastic resource for
anybody in our age category or younger. If you're mindful
of your older parents, they're going to need your help
some at some point, and the UT Institute on Aging
(19:19):
can be just the help they need. What they are
is a collaborative of more than a thousand providers in
this region, and all of those people who are participating
in this have gone back and gotten additional training to
what it took them to get their diploma. Of what
they've got on the wall in the office or the
clinic or wherever, to make sure that they know how
to apply their specific building this big block of knowledge
(19:43):
of theirs, specifically to seniors. We benefit from that younger people,
they doctors or doctors, that they all got their credentials
the same way. This particular group of providers, and it
includes trainers, that includes therapists, and includes psychologists. Anybody and
everybody involved in medicine has become part of this Institute
(20:05):
on Aging so that they can help us. It's a
fantastic resource available only in I could count them on
one hand in cities across America, and we happen to
be with one of the originals, one of the best
that's available. These people mostly are in the medical center,
but as you know, if you've listened to me long enough,
they also travel out to outlying communities and areas so
(20:28):
that anybody and everybody who needs help, even if they
can't get to the med center, can see somebody who's
part of the Institute on Agent. Go to the website,
look at all the resources, and then start searching for
somebody to help you fix whatever's broken on you. Utch
dot edu slash aging, utch dot edu slash aging.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
What's life without a net? I suggest you go to bed.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
We've all just wait until the show's over. Sleepy Back
to Dougpike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Thanks for listening today. I am sitting in a room
full of people, a very large room for full of
very many people, at the fifty plus Expo at Stafford Center.
I got invited to come out here and broadcast live,
and I have had the opportunity before, and I'll take
up some more opportunity afterward to really get to know
(21:22):
some of these businesses in here and try and share
what I learned when I get back into the studio
tomorrow about a lot of them. Hopefully I can do
a little business with some of them too. I've kind
of eyeballed a couple of them I'd really like to
have on board with us, So I see where do
I want to go from here. This is something that's
(21:42):
it's been kind of a little pet peep of mine,
and I'm going to bring it up and I titled
it gone to the Dogs. Okay, man, I don't know
about you, but I'm getting kind of tired of people
bringing their dogs into every place we go and wrapping
them up in one of those little service dog callers
and blankets and whatever. And I'm fully aware that a
(22:04):
lot of people in this world benefit greatly from having
a service animal. I get that, I do, But some
of the people I see bringing their animals into just
wherever they feel like going, I'm not convinced they're doing
that on the up and up. And who am I
(22:25):
to judge? And again, I'm not judging anybody who truly
needs a service animal. But I bet a lot of
money that some of those dogs I see. I see
them even in the top part of the shopping carts
where people put their food. After that dog sat in
there and scratched and rubbed and done whatever it was doing.
That's just nasty. And I don't Again, I don't want
(22:49):
to knock these people if they're legitimate service dogs. But
then again, if they're not, then there should be some way.
It's kind of like people, the way people take advantage
of handicapped parking spots and some doing some don't. Just
last week I saw a story out of San Francisco.
Everywhere residents go, it's dogs where there probably shouldn't be dogs.
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And out there, maybe a little ahead of us, there's
actually a movement toward requiring these folks to possess and
print or present if asked some sort of proof that
they really need that dog, maybe a call to a
letter from a doctor's office, a letter from somebody who
would be in charge of their health and their well being.
(23:34):
But then again, if you slip the man, there's so
many ways you could get a fake document like that.
It'd be harder.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
It just bothers me sometimes to see people in their
pets in the grocery store, almost as much as it
bothers me. Also to see them walking around the stores
and eating food that they're not going to pay for
eating food. That's another real issue. I see people routinely
in the grocery store I shop at, routinely knocking off,
(24:03):
knocking off grapes, knocking off chocolate covered pretzels, or whatever
else they could find in the bulk food aisle. I
actually spoke to the manager where I shop, and she
said they do have a policy against eating without paying
for stuff, and if they see anybody doing it, they'll
they'll stop them and they'll try to figure out how
(24:25):
much they owe the store and maybe get them to
pay for it. I don't know, but the bottom line,
the bottom line is it happens, and I've seen it
enough times to know that that's that's something else we're
paying for, kind of like the whole shoplifting deal. The
worst in the grocery store, though, is when parents are
giving that call it what it is, stolen food to
their kids right in the car at the kids just
(24:46):
munching away eating up snacks and whatever. And five minutes
later I walked down the aisle and see the empty
bag of chips or empty wrapper off something those kids
were gnawing on. It's I don't know where our civility went.
I don't know where our honesty went. But for a
lot of people, it's just mia. It really is. I've
(25:09):
witnessed a lot of just brazen shoplifting up to and
including just whole arms full of clothes and carts full
of groceries being marched right out of stores. It started
during COVID, and a lot of people excused it by
saying that, you know, gosh, if those shoplifters weren't shoplifting,
they couldn't feed their families, which is mostly bolooney, because
(25:32):
there are resources available to people who have a hard
time getting food, but these people chose to go into
grocery stores. And just walk right past the bolooney and
go pick out higher cuts of meat. They're picking out ribs,
they're picking out back sirloins and all these other steaks
and hauling them out of the store. A lot of
(25:55):
people in this country have been trained in recent years
to sympathize with the thief rather than the victim of
the theft, whether they're stealing baby diapers, looting a ho
own in jewelry store, whatever, and the comeback is, oh well,
insurance pays for that. Insurance pays for it. But insurance
policies are paid for by store owners, and they pay
(26:16):
the premiums by raising prices on us to keep the
store open. Theves belong in jail, and maybe not a
long time for first offenders, but the ones who keep
doing it and keep doing it, they might need a
little more time to think about what they're doing. I
gotta take a little break here, and I am glad
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Speaker 1 (27:57):
Old guys rule, and of course women and never get
old if you want to avoid sleeping on the couch.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Okay, well, I think that sounds like a good plan.
Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
Final segment already. Holy cow, Well, this hour's wing really quickly.
Like I said earlier in the program, I am out
at the Stafford Center in Stafford Murphy Road, just a
little ways north of Highway ninety. If you know where
that is and you're close by, Swing Bob. We're gonna
be here till about two o'clock, I think, is when
the show actually closes. And I've got a lot of
(28:32):
more We've got a lot more hands to shake and
people to meet out here. It's been fantastic so far.
Let me get back to my bits and pieces here. Rudy,
by the way, sent me an email just a minute
ago talking about how kind of nasty it is in
a lot of big cities and to be careful when
(28:53):
you're walking around on the sidewalks in those big cities
and it's just really really frustrating that somehow, some way
our country has allowed this to happen. And it wasn't
that long ago where things that are considered perfectly normal
and commonplace and even lawful on city streets in some
(29:17):
of the bigger blue cities especially, it would have been
unthinkable even ten fifteen years ago. But that's kind of
where we are, and hopefully we're on the right track
to get away from that, to return to good manners,
to return to hygiene, to help the people who need
(29:40):
to find a place to stay find places to stay,
rather than just say yeah, sure, it's okay. And in
some parts of California still and I think in some
other cities now, if somebody just walks up in your
yard and sets up a tent, you can't have them removed.
Think of how what an egregious oversight or overstep that is,
(30:04):
and try and figure out why they're allowed to do that,
and it all goes down. It goes back to politics
where people are. I mean, you either you either want
everybody to have everything for free, which is impossible. Wait,
I'll jump off of this train and I'll go back
up to New York City where Mom Donnie's still leading
(30:26):
in the polls and where he's man. If he takes
over that city, they're going to have a lot of
trouble up there trying to maintain any sort of civility.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
He wants to.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
Provide basically free everything, for free for everybody, and that
as all of us know, who have paid taxes for
a long time and are getting tired of paying more
and more taxes and not getting anything for it, that's
what they're That's what he proposes up there is a
socialist giant city. And even when most of the good
(31:00):
people move out of New York because they just can't
stand to watch it decline like it's going to, they're
still going to have to find ways to pay for
all this free stuff. Were probably at least five or
six million people now. The numbers of people moving out
of New York I talked about this last week on
the show. Numbers of people moving out are about thirty
(31:22):
or forty times though the numbers of people who are
moving in there actually are people moving to New York City,
but two of the top or one of the top cities,
I can't remember the second one in Texas, I believe,
I do. I know one of them. And we're talking
about single digits of people moving to New York City.
But from Laredo that had people going to New York,
(31:44):
and there were some people I believe it was from
Amarillo who decided they were going to move to New
York and that was I would be willing to almost
bet that a couple of those were were regretful forced
transfers by somebody's parent company that has a big office
in New York and wants them to work out of there.
I can't imagine anybody wanting to move to that city
(32:06):
knowing what it's about to become. It saddens me, It
really does. It truly really saddens me. If you're wondering
how far and messed up Chicago is, how far left
it is, how about this ICE agents surrounded by several vehicles,
multiple protesters throwing things at them, physically preventing them from
(32:28):
doing their work. Chicago's Chief of Patrol ordered his officers
not to respond to those requests for help from the
ICE agents. ICE agents calling the police, Hey man, you
guys need to come up and get us out of here.
These people are really honest, hard and the chief of
(32:49):
Patrol told his officers not to respond. President Trump told
Governor Pritzker there to call up his national guard and
gain control of Chicago. But he's not doing it so
and I think maybe they did actually deploy some I
haven't had a chance to look today, but between the
governor and the mayor there who By the way, I
(33:11):
saw a story this morning. I didn't get a chance
to read the whole thing, but the headline pretty much
said that Governor Brandon Johnson wants to arrest ICE agents
in his city. I can assure him that's not gonna fly,
and I would advise him to apologize and not bring
that up again. That's not a good idea, not a
(33:34):
good idea all that. It's all unraveling on the far left,
not people who are old school Democrats who wanted to
just get along, but we had differences of opinion, and
we just kept going back and forth in elections and
changing it back and forth as whenever we had to.
These are the people who are really, truly are angry
(33:57):
and they don't see any other way out of their
hole but violent. Some gang leader got offered ten thousand
dollars on I think it was Snapchat or Instagram or
something like that, to kill a border patrol commander? What
kind of what kind of people want that to happen
and are willing to pay for it and are advertising
(34:20):
they're advertising for it. We'll get where we're going, I'm sure.
And the petty stuff coming out of Washington I think
is fueling some of this fire AOC I think it
was yesterday she bodies shame Stephen Miller for some reason.
Who knows what, But that's pretty bold talk coming from her.
(34:41):
I don't see where she's got a whole lot of
room to talk. One other story I wanted to get to.
I got to that.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
Oh, the Washington Post.
Speaker 4 (34:49):
Washington Post has been liberal as the day is long
for as long as I can remember, since I got
out out of the newspaper business, and that was a
very long time ago. And they actually finally fifteen years later.
The Washington Post ran a story last week that conceded
basically that Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act, was never affordable.
(35:13):
It didn't help many, if any people, and in fact,
it had hurt their coverage in a lot of cases.
But for so long, for so long, the media, and
they still do to some degree, they just keep feeding
us a bunch of eyes. And the people who don't
want to go look for their own information or don't
(35:36):
know how to go look for their own information, they're
the ones who are bearing the brunt of this. They
really are, and they're just they're keeping that machine going.
Jimmy Kimmel, I find hoping this Jimmy Kimmel, after he
messed up a few weeks ago. His audience is down
eighty five percent. Eighty five percent, So you know, we've
(36:02):
got a long ways to go and not much time
to get there. Almost done though, how much time to do?
Have will? They're oh, that's better, Okay, okay, this is
kind of interesting. And my people, my senior people, will
relate to this. Police searching for a suspect who stole
a beloved fifty pounds fiberglass dinosaur from outside an LA
(36:25):
gas station over the weekend. Anybody remember whose stations those were?
I do Sinclair, look them up. They got the green dinosaur.
That's it from the Stafford Center. Thanks for listening, Audios
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