November 5, 2025 • 37 mins
Today, Doug Pike interviews Chris Hodge about the New York City election.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:42):
And now fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
All right, here we go Wednesday ed issue of the
program starts right now post election. Welcome to one and
all and everything. It just Wednesday brings us right, mild weather,
cloudless sky.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
I kind of like this. I wish we could.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
I guess I'd have to move to Arizona to get
this kind of Well, no, even in Arizona, the summers
get brutally hot.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
You'd have to.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Live somewhere kind of in a little bit higher elevation.
Maybe you're around there, maybe somewhere in a little bit
more eastern California to keep the nights from getting too chiley,
although they don't really. My wife's uncle lived out there,
had a nice, a very modest home, but also a
very expensive home. Right a waterfront view if you stand
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on your tippy toes and look way out there in
Redondo Beach. And still that little bit, humble, little bode
of his man never married. He just enjoyed sailing, He
enjoyed He was a county horticulturist, I think, and retired
fairly early. And he just loved be an outdoors and
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he could see it. He could see the ocean from
where he was. He kept a lot of plants in
his yard and whatnot. But I digress. In any event,
whatever this weather brings our way, I'm fully for it.
And if even if that means, well, what we're gonna
get is high's in the It's going to creep up
into the mid to high eighties for a couple of
days here, so prepare for your ac to come back on.
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But then the nights are going to be cooler, and
come this weekend, we're going to see at least a
couple of nights down into the forties again. And then
who knows or cares, I guess five or six more
days of this, and I'll welcome an afternoon shower, even
a thundershower. That'd be okay, so long as it doesn't
knock the power out, which happened I guess it was
(02:45):
about a week ago. Lost power for a fair amount
of time, and in so doing also messed up poor
little Alexa. She was beside herself and couldn't just couldn't
quite get back going for a while. Otherwise it was
okay all the thank goodness. Nowadays you don't have to
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worry about fuse is blowing very often because of power surges.
Most homes are fully prepared and wired so that something
like that won't blow something out. There was a time
when as soon as it started lightning, you'd go unplug
almost everything in the house to make sure it didn't
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fritz out on you and have to be at the
very least fixed by an electrician, and that the worst
replaced on Wall Street, three greens in a very pale pink.
Last I look when the Dow was down twenty five
clicks and on twenty sept thirty something, I don't know,
twenty whatever it is, it's many, many tens, several tens
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of thousands. I can't remember your exact number right now,
but those twenty five clicks amounted to five to one
hundreds of one percentage point. So so what their gold
woke up finally up by better than thirty bucks an
ounce and again within sight at least of forty thousand.
If it can pull off about another ten bucks upward
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that holds through the day, we'll see.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
We will see.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
In Texas here, voters yesterday approved each and every one
of the seventeen amendments to our Constitution that was on
the ballot. We affirmed that parents, Hey on, I need
to put a little note here so I can tell
you something kind of funny.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Told it to Will before the show started, but I'm
going to tell it to you before we get out
to the break.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
So we affirmed yesterday that parents are the primary decision
makers for their children. Which there are a lot of jurisdictions,
a lot of cities and towns and h this and
that and the other isds where the educators think that
those children belong to them and that they should teach
them anything they want to. Texas said, and no, thank you.
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We affirmed three billion dollar dementia.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Pre I have no idea who this is. Some doctor. Sorry, dude,
I can't talk to you right now. I have not.
I've never heard of this guy rolling in during the show.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
We have this, yeah, three billion or three billion excuse me,
to dementia Prevention and Research Institute.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
That will be nice.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
We lowered taxes, we raised exemptions for seniors, and we
helped judges keep bad guys in jail, and we reiterated
that only US citizens can vote in Texas elections. And
about a dozen more things we pass that will help
us maintain our state's historical values. And in case you wonder,
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since our constitution was adopted in eighteen and seventy six,
this batch takes us to a total of five hundred
and for Darna should have quized you on this will
five hundred and forty seven amendments to either keep Texas
great or make it greater. And speaking of the election
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I read this morning, this kind of made me chuckle.
And it just makes you scratch your head and think,
you know, should I have known this? Should I have
suspected this might happen? Or is it just something out
of the blue. Over in Kentucky, the story goes the
turnout for yesterday's election was greater than anticipated by anyone
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in Kentucky, including the people who work in the buildings,
in what in street corners, whatever, where voting would take
place had they actually had an election yesterday. So if
you were one of the Kentuckians who walked into your
traditional polling place and said, Hey, where do I vote
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and what time do the polls open, your answer would
have been right here. In twenty twenty six, they were
just lined up to vote, lined up early, hung around
until somebody finally told them no elections here. So sorry
about that. Speaking of Kentucky. On a very sad note,
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very sad note, that explosion yesterday a plane leaving there,
probably bound for the West coast somewhere to change planes
and put a bunch of really excited people onto a
flight to Honolulu. If you haven't seen the video, it's horrific.
Just don't waste your don't it's not wasting. Don't ruin
your day. Don't ruin your day by having to see
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the horrible end to that flight. That really didn't get
far from the runway at all. And I'll be surprised
unless there were only so far it's nine confirmed dead,
and unless there were nine people on board, that number
is just it has to go up.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
It was just horrific. I don't think anybody could have
survived that.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
On the way out to this break, Cedar Cove RV
Resort over there at the end of Tri City Beach
Road down there near Thompson's Bay Camp on Galason Bay.
If you know Tom you'll you won't be able to
miss Cedar Cove. All electric roads, all electric slabs, electric
water and sewer hookups. At every single site. There's a
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bathhouse with showers, a convenient store. Because anytime somebody goes
away for even twenty four hours, maybe thirty six, I
guess we'll give somebody some credit for making it without
needing something, but usually you'll need something, and if you do,
it's probably in that convenience store. And they also have
free WiFi. So if you wanted to get something delivered
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real quick, I'm sure the Amazon people that bring a
big old truck down there and drop off something for
you pretty good fishing too. I'm sure there's fishing bait
in that convenience store. You might have forgotten that. And
when the wind and the tider right, which they tend
to be this time of year, the water starts to
look prettier, the wind starts to settle out a little bit.
It's nice and comfortable out there, morning, noon and night.
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All you got to do sit out there, maybe catch
your dinner.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Who knows. If you don't own an RV.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
By the way, the owner of Cedar Cove RV Resort
will rent you one.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
He has one.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
He worked out a deal where he has an RV
that he will rent to you and your family so
that you can experience this lifestyle. Willout have to drop
six figures on some big old thing to drive down there.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Just rent it from him.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
You rent the RV, the slab, and then you just
start hanging out and join yourself for as long as
you want to stay. Cedar Cove Rvresort dot com. If
you try that lifestyle, you're gonna like it. So start
looking at motor homes before you before you even go
down there. Cedar Cove Rvresort dot Com.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Aged to perfection. This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
All right, welcome back to fifty plus. Thanks for listening.
Certainly do appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
I am going to talk in this segment with a
lot of help really about what happened in New York
City yesterday, and I'm going to welcome to the show.
Native New Yorker Chris Hodge, host of Sports Investors Daily
herd over on Sports Talk seven ninety Saturday morning at
ten unless we're taking a college football game and then
Chrissy Show airs at nine and I get an hour off.
So how you feeling about your new mayor up there?
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Chris?
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Well, all right, So, first of all, it's always done.
It's always great to hear your voice.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
He's not my mayor. Right, we have the five boroughs, right.
I haven't lived in one of the five boroughs, which
was Queen's, since I was in college. I live in
Long Island, So this idiot doesn't really have anything to
do with me. But it is certainly going to hurt
the city. Anyone who doesn't think that is just not
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very bright. This guy's probably going to burn the city
to the ground. And some of his ideas, I mean,
you just have to shake your head at like it's
like my wife says, it's like a kid running for
like second grade president and being like we're never gonna
have to do homework, Like the ideas are so stupid,
But people fell for it, like they always do in
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New York so where's what it is.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
When did he first come on to the radar up there?
Speaker 5 (11:00):
It was about five months ago. They had the Democratic primary. Now,
the problem with that is they had Andrew Cuomo running,
who is He's not as bad as this guy, but
he's not good.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
So you were really and the Republican.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
Yeah, I don't know if you guys are aware of this.
Down in Texas, the Republican who runs for mayor is
just a guy that's there. He has no chance at winning. Ever,
So it really came down to Mamdannie versus Cuomo, and
he had defeated Cuomo in the primary. But Cuomo was
such a bad governor, he was so unpopular. It was
really just pick your poison. It was really getting locked
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in a room with a cobra or get locked in
a room with an allegaty. Either way you're going down,
which one you want to go with? So that's what
it came down to.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Chris Id's from Sports Investors Daily on Sports Talk seven
ninety with us here on KPRC and fifty plus. What
percentage of people would you say left New York City
in the past couple of years.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
I can't give you an exact number for the percentage.
But there are a lot of business owners. I am
one of them. You know, my partner moved down to
Florida for these very reasons. And you know, he had
two young daughters and he flat out told me, he said,
I don't want to raise my young daughters in New
York State. When he says that, you know, it is
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what it is. You got to tell him to go.
So what's going to happen is a lot of people
who are smart and a lot of people who have money,
they are going to simply move their businesses elsewhere. Well,
common sense, what happens when that happens, you take jobs
with you. And this guy wants to have free buses,
he must have a rent freeze plan.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Like this stuff is impossible.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
But it's you know, we live in a world Doug
right now, and I deal with this in my business. Unfortunately,
it's not the best ideas or not the smartest people.
It's who screams the loudest and who has the most
social media followers.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
That's where we're at right now.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
And this guy screamed the loudest, he had crazy ideas,
and fifty percent of the people felt and that was enough.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
To get him to win.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Man, oh man, it's yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
I'm very saddened for you and everybody up there who
called New York City home for any time. How bad
You talked to me a couple of years ago actually
about how crime was pretty bad in the city already.
How fast is it gonna get worse?
Speaker 5 (13:20):
Oh, it's gonna be terrible. I don't want my kids going.
And one of my kids, you know, is he works
in the FDNY, so he's gonna have to deal with it.
But it's terrible. It got so bad in New York City,
and I just don't understand why. Like, if you're if
you and I are sitting in a room together, and
anyone listening to this show right now, okay, and I
have no problem saying this. We're a bunch of people
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sitting in the room. If anyone came up with the
idea of let people commit crime and don't put them
in jail, or let men into women's bathrooms, I like
to think that people would say, let's not do that.
That might not be a great idea, but whatever the reason.
In a state like New York, a state like Illinois
statecture a state like San Francis excuse me, California.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
This stuff is like, okay, let's do it.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
And I'm not a political person. You know me, fifteen years.
I'm not a political person. But when you.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Start talking about stuff like that.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
I don't understand how there is no one with any sense,
no sanity, that says, you know what, let's put the
criminals in jail and let's not let men in women's bathrooms.
That just sounds like common sense to me. But it
doesn't happen here in New.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
York City survive four years of.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
Him, Absolutely not, no way. It is going to be
a cesspool. People are going to run out of here.
He is going to destroy it. And now what's going
to happen is the people that are left aren't gonna
think it's that bad because they're not that bright, and
they're just gonna.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Vote for it again. Wow.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
But the people with sense, the people who create the jobs,
they're going to run out of here as fast as
they can. And I don't blame them.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Yeah, I can't blame them either.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Man.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
I almost not to take you too close to an alligator,
you think you might end up moving down here.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
Second other thing, I don't understand what you guys do
like you see an alligator on a golf course right now,
A normal person and Doug, I love you. What a
normal person to me walks away from the alligator. He
doesn't walk towards it with This is what the guy
did to me for everyone listening with a camera asking
the alligator to smile, and he sent me that video.
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That's not normal. I see an alligator, I'm going the
other way.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
Well do you remember that? Do you remember that video?
Speaker 5 (15:34):
On a PGA tour, golfers walked up towards the alligator
and one went the other way.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
I'm a guy going the other way.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
You just not you know.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
I was only when I shot that video and looked
at it before I posted, I thought, God, I didn't
get close enough. That's embarrassing. I should get closer to
that animal. And in hindsight, I was like fifteen feet
from it, and this thing was eight and a half
nine feet long. It's a good alligator, but he was
just kind of chilling. And then the second time I
walked to him, he stood up, and that's when I
started paying a little closer attention, opened his mouth a
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little bit, like you're getting in the zone here, man,
You're in. You're in the red zone here. You might
want to back it up, buddy.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
Well, what what if that alligator was hungry he decided
to charge it?
Speaker 4 (16:15):
You, what do you do?
Speaker 2 (16:16):
You hit it with the golf cl To me, he's
gonna go eat a turtle or something.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
You can catch, you know, even even in my at
my age, I think I can.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
I don't have to outrun him.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
I told this guy was actually I had a friend
of mine with me, and he asked me the same question.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
What are you gonna do? He said, I don't have
to run outrun him. I just got to outrun you.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
A'bs totally right.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Let your friend get eating. That's a little joke, right man.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
I only got to do is jump in the golf cart.
All right, Chris, my pleasure. Man, you'll be back on here.
What you be on seven ninety this weekend at ten o'clock?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
I believe.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
And then, uh, you know everyone wants to visit. You know,
he can go to takeing Vegas dot com. We got
some great picks up. But yeah, you know, the show's
been going good.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Doug. I thank you so much for always hooking it up. Man.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
You and I have become great friends. I know whenever
I'm down there, you kill me in golf, but that's fine.
You do it in a nice way, and you you
don't feed me to any alligators, so that's good. But
it's always a pleasure talking to you though.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
My pleasure as well. Chris, Thank you, buddy.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
All right, have agreement.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Yeah, good luck with your city. Audios Height We got
to take a little break.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
He called me and said, hey, you want me to
come on and talk about what this guy is going
to do to New York And yeah, I do. I
wanted it from the horse's mouth. And that guy has
he's lived up there all his life. He's seen different
mayors come and go, he's seen how politics work up there,
and he is absolutely correct.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
From what I've heard from other people too.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
There are enough voters now in New York City that
they would run for a bucket of nails if that's
what was on the Democrat ticket. And that's sadly, I
think this may be the end of what they've got
going on up there, because we've already watched it go
on in Great Britain is quite quite the mess all
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Speaker 2 (19:42):
Thank you all for listening.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Third segment of the program starts right now, and you
know what I'm gonna do. I'm going to start it
with some very cool science news, some mathematics news. Will
are you into mathematics, Oh good, you'll appreciate this. Then
two mathematicians from Europe have proven a three hundred year
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old conundrum, if you will, about shapes, and they've proved
it to be wrong, and in so doing actually won
a bet for a guy who died back about three
hundred years ago after he got into it. I don't
know that if if the argument over this mathematical mathematical.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Anomaly was what caused his death.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
I don't know whether the prince had him killed or whatever,
but he was in a big argument with the reigning
prints at the time when he died over whether this
was possible. The experiment is this will place one gaming die.
We're talking about dice here, place one on top of
the other, and then without touching the sides, position the
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one on top to pass through the one on the bottom.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Is that possible?
Speaker 3 (21:09):
At first glance, you at first blush, You just say, no, way,
one cannot possibly pass through the other. Now you can,
if you would like, manipulate the one on the bottom
to maybe help that alone. Can you think of how
that would be done?
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Thing, you're done, You're cooked.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
It actually can be and these guys proved it. And
essentially what they did was drilled a circular hole through
just right to the very edges, just the micron edges
of the one on the bottom, and just moving gently
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and putting it, putting the top one in just the
right position. The points, if you will, created by the
two angles to the ninety degree angle on each side.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Have room to slip through. Don't ask me how, Don't
ask me why.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
But and that's not a bar bet that you could
make happen right in front of somebody real quickly, unless
you already had the two die in your pocket, one
already completely drilled out and one not, and then you
could win the money and back then what do you
think the guy, what do you think the bet was?
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Well, probably a chicken or something like that. Well, on
a chicken.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
The guy the mathematician puts up a chicken, and the
prints probably put up a horse. And so one of
them was either going to get a nice tasty dinner
or was going to have to ride home on a chicken.
In let's move on from there. I don't want to
talk about that. Oh, by the way, it's National Redhead Day.
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I forget do we I don't.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
I don't think I know what's the closest we can
get to a redhead? Is there anybody here? I don't
think so.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
Well, that's not.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Yeah, it's kind of red. Your beard's more red than
your hair.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Okay, I'll give you that, since you threw that chin
ears way up there so I could see it. Yeah,
you are kind of redheaded, aren't you. I don't see
it in your hair as much. That's I used to
be like just pasty white blonde hair. When I was
in high school, surfer dude had hair on my shoulders.
It was I was real cool. Will just I know
it's hard to tell now that's pretty cool. Just just
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so you know, I just love the outdoors and that
may have that may have hurt me in some parts
of mine growing up, but it enabled me to do
what I do now, so I'm all for it.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
I was.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
If I was at the beach, which I was often,
I was either surfing or fishing. If I was if
if there were no waves, i might be fishing. If
there were good ways, I'd be surfing. And many a trip,
my friends and I would pack both. We'd pack surfboards
and fishing rods. Because there were no cameras on the beach,
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there were no nobody you could trust, who you could
call to get an accurate report of what was going on,
so we just went prepared for anything and everything. It
had an absolute blast, And when we weren't doing that,
we were out dove hunting or just hiking through the
woods looking for shed antlers in the spring and stuff
like that. Moving down that page of this, I found
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interesting for those of you who are in this situation.
A full third of Americans live within one of the
more than three hundred and sixty nine thousand hoas across
the country. If you got a homeowners association, I hope
you have a good one, because some of them are horrible.
Some of them are run by people who are just
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on little power trips, and if you have so much
as a leaf out of place in your.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Yard, you'll get in trouble.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
There was a woman who had a plant on her porch,
and I can't remember exactly what the problem was, but
the HOA. This was in my neighborhood a long time ago.
The HOA came along and told her she couldn't have
an artificial plant on her porch. Even though if you
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drive around long enough you'll see them. I think it
all depends on the mood of the person who's driving
through the neighborhood looking for stuff to pick on. We've
had all kinds of things. And when I went to
build a gate put a gate on my driveway, actually
I had to go through them and get permission to
do all that, and the first reaction I got was,
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we don't allow those. So I drove around the neighborhood
and I took pictures of about nine or ten of them,
and then got tired of taking pictures, and I sent
each of those pictures to the HOA, and I just said, now, what, well,
the gate has to open inward, can't open outward.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
And then I went.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Back around kind of looking, just out of curiosity. And
we were rule followers, so our gate works inward and
not outward. But I saw three or four gates in
the neighborhood before I ever even had the first little
piling set on mine, that all open out. It's kind
of ridiculous, my anaton, kind of right, Oh good, I
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have what oh a minute and a half, Holy cow,
here we go. Let's go back over here. In what
I titled despicable news.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
And I think you might agree when I'm done.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
From a Bright bart story, a federal district judge named
Ricardo Martinez has ruled that the Bureau of Prisons must
provide and pay for, with our money, a sex change
procedure for a forty seven year old convicted pedophile, said
the story, who only started identifying as tr transgender before
(27:00):
he was sentenced to more than twenty one years in
prison for sexually abusing his ten year old son. His
ten year old son, and the icing on the cake
producing child sex images. Not a very good guy that
(27:22):
he did what he did is worse than despicable, and
so is making us, making us taxpayers put the bill
for him to get this treatment that he wants, which includes,
by the way, laser hair removal, facial feminization, surgery, voice therapy,
and hormone stuff whatever that may be, which by the way,
(27:43):
may land him in a female prison, which is probably
where he wants to be. I don't think the guys
in the male prison would appreciate his presence much.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
All the way out here, let me tell you about.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Old Quarter, the Old Quarteracousticcafe dot com, which is a
website where you can find all the cool things that
are about to happen on November thirteenth through the fifteenth,
which is when downtown Galveston is gonna be just opened
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wide with singers and songwriters, not just from Galveston, not
just from Texas, but all over the country.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
These people are coming in.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
They write very poignant songs, they write very intimate songs.
They write very new and different songs. If you've never
heard any of their music, and they are as good
as it gets. We've always been storytellers here in Texas,
we have, and this fall those stories are gonna come
alive at the Old Quarter Songwriter Festival in Galveston. Some
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of our tales are taller than others I've learned over
the years. So grab yourself, friend, go wander around downtown
Galveston those three days and three nights and just soak
in the songs. Make yourself a reservation to stay down
there all three days. A good deal you can get
on an all inclusive pass at the website I was
telling you about a minute ago. And whether you go
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down there just for an afternoon or evening, or truly
do spend a couple of nights down there to soak
it all in, You're gonna be treated to some outstanding
music and just a wonderful vibe. For the first time
down there in Galveston. Old Quarteracousticcafe dot com. This is
the first time they've hosted this event, and I suspect
(29:30):
it's gonna stick around for decades to come. It's just
it's time has come. This should have been done a
long time ago, and I'm glad they're doing it now.
Old Quarteracousticcafe dot Com.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Old guys rule, and of course, women never get old.
If you want to avoid sleeping on the couch, Heller.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
I think that sounds like a good plan.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug. Welcome back to
fifty plus. Thank you for listening. Fourth and final segment
right now. Happy to get there and happy to share
a couple of more things with you. Let's go, Let's
keep it kind of light.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
We're all well, at least most of the people I
know are not real thrilled that Mam Donnie won. And
I the way I see it, there was actually there
was a Fox News opinion piece written today that I
saw by a guy named Lee Hartley Carter, and what
he said is that Mam Donnie won New York City
(30:30):
not because Democrats in New York suddenly just fell head
over heels in love with socialism or communism, but because
he was the candidate who capitalized on He ran on
this foundation of people believing the current system to be unfair.
(30:53):
And if that's the only criteria for grabbing a vote,
it can apply to almost any anybody who's looking to
find out who they should vote for, who's been told,
if they're told by one candidate that hey, you know this,
this current system, it's just unfair. Now, they don't go
(31:15):
into much detail when they tell you that, but they
tell you it's unfair and that they're gonna make it
fair by gosh, for you and you and you and you.
Everybody gets fair like sitting in the audience at an
Oprah show. Everybody gets fairness. But that's not really the
way it happens. It can't happen that way. You could
pretty much sell anything to anyone without really having to
(31:38):
share how you're gonna make it unfair. He like Chris
and I were talking about, he's got free bus rides,
he's got government groceries coming up. But other than saying
out loud higher taxes, too loudly and for too often,
he built that campaign just on an empty promise, empty
because the system actually is unfair to both sides, but
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for different reasons. It's unfair to the far left because
they see poor immigrants as asylum seekers and hard working people,
which some of them are. Many of them are, but
many are not, and the left is willing to ignore
them so they can keep hating our president and thinking
that everything's unfair for these immigrants and unfair for them,
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and they just they wallow in that stuff. And then
here comes the right and just like kind of. Chris
was talking a little bit about it. The right could say, hey,
it's unfair because they've watched their city devolve, they watch
crime rise at a horrible rate, seeing the current city
government all Democrats, mind, you do nothing about that. They
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want new leadership too, if they don't like the guy
who got the nod on their side, and New York
never really has supported Republicans, and so they and they
didn't really they weren't ready for Curtis. He's a different
cut of cloth, he really is.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
So they nixed that. They knix Cuomo, and.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
No matter what votes the two of them were gonna
get singularly. Maybe who knows, Maybe if Sleewood backed out
a month ago or three weeks ago and jumped in
camp with Cuomo, they might have been able to pull
something off. But with the two of them both out there,
there was no way. So in some ways the right
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just lost by default because New York's a dog on blue.
It couldn't even find a decent conservative candidate, and one
by one, all these horrible things are going to happen
in New York City, same as they've happened now in
Great Britain, where people with more than two generations of
ancestors are getting harder and harder to find.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Where are those people? Where are they?
Speaker 3 (33:51):
They're getting replaced, is what's happening by people from elsewhere
whose beliefs are strongly at odds with traditional British lawn values,
much as the beliefs of Mom, Donnie and his closest
followers are quite different than those. I think if you
would actually write it all down and put it on
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a piece of paper, I think a lot of New
Yorkers would say, wait a minute, that's not what we want.
And you know who wins. You know who really wins.
The people who sell real estate. The people who sell
not in New York because that stuff's about to tank,
if it hasn't already. The real estate brokers in Florida,
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in Texas, in Arizona, pretty much anywhere but New York City,
and not Chicago or Baltimore or any other deep blue
major city. Even Democrats aren't dumb enough to jump out
of the frying panting into the fire.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
And that's kind of what.
Speaker 4 (34:49):
You know.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
I hate to think that Chris is right. Chris hodgeho
was on a little while ago. I hate to think
he's right. That mom, Donnie is really going to do
that much damage. But the table was set long ago.
All he's gonna do. All he's gonna do is finish
it off. He's just gonna finish it off. And the
people who were behind him have been waiting for this moment,
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and they didn't even trot him out there until they
figured the time was right. And sadly, I kind of
think they are right.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
It's gonna be tough. It's gonna be tough for New
York City to survive.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
I wonder what's gonna happen to all the the television
and movie production and uh, to Broadway, to the to
Wall Street, all of the shopping the big that was
a big fashion center, And I say was because I'm
pretty sure that most of the people in that industry
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are preparing to take their business elsewhere as well. It
will be different, that's for sure. Good luck, Big Apple.
Good luck to the people who called you home and
so dearly of your crazy but cohesive city. This time,
I'm kind of afraid they voted away everything that once
made that city great. A city run grocery store, really,
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and that's just gonna be That's a shoplifter's dream free transportation.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
Who's gonna pay for that? It's that God.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
I just I hope so that I'm wrong and that
Chris is wrong, and that a lot of people who
think it's gonna be.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
That bad are wrong.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
But the more the more you take a look at
who's behind him and what he's already promised to try
to do, none of which is really possible. But he
he rolled it out there and that's how he got
the votes. Now he's gonna get in there, and before
too long he's gonna be saying, you know, we're gonna
have to rethink this. We just we just don't really
have the revenue to pull it off. And it's because
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so many people ran away from our great city. H Nah,
that's not how it happened. All right, we're gonna take
it out of here. I will be back tomorrow. Thank
you all for listening. Enjoy the sunshine today, will you?
Speaker 2 (37:05):
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Speaker 3 (00:46):
All right, here we go Wednesday ed issue of the
program starts right now post election. Welcome to one and
all and everything. It just Wednesday brings us right, mild weather,
cloudless sky.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
I kind of like this. I wish we could.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
I guess I'd have to move to Arizona to get
this kind of Well, no, even in Arizona, the summers
get brutally hot.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
You'd have to.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Live somewhere kind of in a little bit higher elevation.
Maybe you're around there, maybe somewhere in a little bit
more eastern California to keep the nights from getting too chiley,
although they don't really. My wife's uncle lived out there,
had a nice, a very modest home, but also a
very expensive home. Right a waterfront view if you stand
(01:37):
on your tippy toes and look way out there in
Redondo Beach. And still that little bit, humble, little bode
of his man never married. He just enjoyed sailing, He
enjoyed He was a county horticulturist, I think, and retired
fairly early. And he just loved be an outdoors and
(02:00):
he could see it. He could see the ocean from
where he was. He kept a lot of plants in
his yard and whatnot. But I digress. In any event,
whatever this weather brings our way, I'm fully for it.
And if even if that means, well, what we're gonna
get is high's in the It's going to creep up
into the mid to high eighties for a couple of
days here, so prepare for your ac to come back on.
(02:23):
But then the nights are going to be cooler, and
come this weekend, we're going to see at least a
couple of nights down into the forties again. And then
who knows or cares, I guess five or six more
days of this, and I'll welcome an afternoon shower, even
a thundershower. That'd be okay, so long as it doesn't
knock the power out, which happened I guess it was
(02:45):
about a week ago. Lost power for a fair amount
of time, and in so doing also messed up poor
little Alexa. She was beside herself and couldn't just couldn't
quite get back going for a while. Otherwise it was
okay all the thank goodness. Nowadays you don't have to
(03:07):
worry about fuse is blowing very often because of power surges.
Most homes are fully prepared and wired so that something
like that won't blow something out. There was a time
when as soon as it started lightning, you'd go unplug
almost everything in the house to make sure it didn't
(03:28):
fritz out on you and have to be at the
very least fixed by an electrician, and that the worst
replaced on Wall Street, three greens in a very pale pink.
Last I look when the Dow was down twenty five
clicks and on twenty sept thirty something, I don't know,
twenty whatever it is, it's many, many tens, several tens
(03:50):
of thousands. I can't remember your exact number right now,
but those twenty five clicks amounted to five to one
hundreds of one percentage point. So so what their gold
woke up finally up by better than thirty bucks an
ounce and again within sight at least of forty thousand.
If it can pull off about another ten bucks upward
(04:12):
that holds through the day, we'll see.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
We will see.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
In Texas here, voters yesterday approved each and every one
of the seventeen amendments to our Constitution that was on
the ballot. We affirmed that parents, Hey on, I need
to put a little note here so I can tell
you something kind of funny.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Told it to Will before the show started, but I'm
going to tell it to you before we get out
to the break.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
So we affirmed yesterday that parents are the primary decision
makers for their children. Which there are a lot of jurisdictions,
a lot of cities and towns and h this and
that and the other isds where the educators think that
those children belong to them and that they should teach
them anything they want to. Texas said, and no, thank you.
(04:57):
We affirmed three billion dollar dementia.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Pre I have no idea who this is. Some doctor. Sorry, dude,
I can't talk to you right now. I have not.
I've never heard of this guy rolling in during the show.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
We have this, yeah, three billion or three billion excuse me,
to dementia Prevention and Research Institute.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
That will be nice.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
We lowered taxes, we raised exemptions for seniors, and we
helped judges keep bad guys in jail, and we reiterated
that only US citizens can vote in Texas elections. And
about a dozen more things we pass that will help
us maintain our state's historical values. And in case you wonder,
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since our constitution was adopted in eighteen and seventy six,
this batch takes us to a total of five hundred
and for Darna should have quized you on this will
five hundred and forty seven amendments to either keep Texas
great or make it greater. And speaking of the election
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I read this morning, this kind of made me chuckle.
And it just makes you scratch your head and think,
you know, should I have known this? Should I have
suspected this might happen? Or is it just something out
of the blue. Over in Kentucky, the story goes the
turnout for yesterday's election was greater than anticipated by anyone
(06:22):
in Kentucky, including the people who work in the buildings,
in what in street corners, whatever, where voting would take
place had they actually had an election yesterday. So if
you were one of the Kentuckians who walked into your
traditional polling place and said, Hey, where do I vote
(06:44):
and what time do the polls open, your answer would
have been right here. In twenty twenty six, they were
just lined up to vote, lined up early, hung around
until somebody finally told them no elections here. So sorry
about that. Speaking of Kentucky. On a very sad note,
(07:08):
very sad note, that explosion yesterday a plane leaving there,
probably bound for the West coast somewhere to change planes
and put a bunch of really excited people onto a
flight to Honolulu. If you haven't seen the video, it's horrific.
Just don't waste your don't it's not wasting. Don't ruin
your day. Don't ruin your day by having to see
(07:28):
the horrible end to that flight. That really didn't get
far from the runway at all. And I'll be surprised
unless there were only so far it's nine confirmed dead,
and unless there were nine people on board, that number
is just it has to go up.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
It was just horrific. I don't think anybody could have
survived that.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
On the way out to this break, Cedar Cove RV
Resort over there at the end of Tri City Beach
Road down there near Thompson's Bay Camp on Galason Bay.
If you know Tom you'll you won't be able to
miss Cedar Cove. All electric roads, all electric slabs, electric
water and sewer hookups. At every single site. There's a
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bathhouse with showers, a convenient store. Because anytime somebody goes
away for even twenty four hours, maybe thirty six, I
guess we'll give somebody some credit for making it without
needing something, but usually you'll need something, and if you do,
it's probably in that convenience store. And they also have
free WiFi. So if you wanted to get something delivered
(08:34):
real quick, I'm sure the Amazon people that bring a
big old truck down there and drop off something for
you pretty good fishing too. I'm sure there's fishing bait
in that convenience store. You might have forgotten that. And
when the wind and the tider right, which they tend
to be this time of year, the water starts to
look prettier, the wind starts to settle out a little bit.
It's nice and comfortable out there, morning, noon and night.
(08:55):
All you got to do sit out there, maybe catch
your dinner.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Who knows. If you don't own an RV.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
By the way, the owner of Cedar Cove RV Resort
will rent you one.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
He has one.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
He worked out a deal where he has an RV
that he will rent to you and your family so
that you can experience this lifestyle. Willout have to drop
six figures on some big old thing to drive down there.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Just rent it from him.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
You rent the RV, the slab, and then you just
start hanging out and join yourself for as long as
you want to stay. Cedar Cove Rvresort dot com. If
you try that lifestyle, you're gonna like it. So start
looking at motor homes before you before you even go
down there. Cedar Cove Rvresort dot Com.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Aged to perfection. This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
All right, welcome back to fifty plus. Thanks for listening.
Certainly do appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
I am going to talk in this segment with a
lot of help really about what happened in New York
City yesterday, and I'm going to welcome to the show.
Native New Yorker Chris Hodge, host of Sports Investors Daily
herd over on Sports Talk seven ninety Saturday morning at
ten unless we're taking a college football game and then
Chrissy Show airs at nine and I get an hour off.
So how you feeling about your new mayor up there?
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Chris?
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Well, all right, So, first of all, it's always done.
It's always great to hear your voice.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
He's not my mayor. Right, we have the five boroughs, right.
I haven't lived in one of the five boroughs, which
was Queen's, since I was in college. I live in
Long Island, So this idiot doesn't really have anything to
do with me. But it is certainly going to hurt
the city. Anyone who doesn't think that is just not
(10:33):
very bright. This guy's probably going to burn the city
to the ground. And some of his ideas, I mean,
you just have to shake your head at like it's
like my wife says, it's like a kid running for
like second grade president and being like we're never gonna
have to do homework, Like the ideas are so stupid,
But people fell for it, like they always do in
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New York so where's what it is.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
When did he first come on to the radar up there?
Speaker 5 (11:00):
It was about five months ago. They had the Democratic primary. Now,
the problem with that is they had Andrew Cuomo running,
who is He's not as bad as this guy, but
he's not good.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
So you were really and the Republican.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
Yeah, I don't know if you guys are aware of this.
Down in Texas, the Republican who runs for mayor is
just a guy that's there. He has no chance at winning. Ever,
So it really came down to Mamdannie versus Cuomo, and
he had defeated Cuomo in the primary. But Cuomo was
such a bad governor, he was so unpopular. It was
really just pick your poison. It was really getting locked
(11:34):
in a room with a cobra or get locked in
a room with an allegaty. Either way you're going down,
which one you want to go with? So that's what
it came down to.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Chris Id's from Sports Investors Daily on Sports Talk seven
ninety with us here on KPRC and fifty plus. What
percentage of people would you say left New York City
in the past couple of years.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
I can't give you an exact number for the percentage.
But there are a lot of business owners. I am
one of them. You know, my partner moved down to
Florida for these very reasons. And you know, he had
two young daughters and he flat out told me, he said,
I don't want to raise my young daughters in New
York State. When he says that, you know, it is
(12:13):
what it is. You got to tell him to go.
So what's going to happen is a lot of people
who are smart and a lot of people who have money,
they are going to simply move their businesses elsewhere. Well,
common sense, what happens when that happens, you take jobs
with you. And this guy wants to have free buses,
he must have a rent freeze plan.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Like this stuff is impossible.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
But it's you know, we live in a world Doug
right now, and I deal with this in my business. Unfortunately,
it's not the best ideas or not the smartest people.
It's who screams the loudest and who has the most
social media followers.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
That's where we're at right now.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
And this guy screamed the loudest, he had crazy ideas,
and fifty percent of the people felt and that was enough.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
To get him to win.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Man, oh man, it's yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
I'm very saddened for you and everybody up there who
called New York City home for any time. How bad
You talked to me a couple of years ago actually
about how crime was pretty bad in the city already.
How fast is it gonna get worse?
Speaker 5 (13:20):
Oh, it's gonna be terrible. I don't want my kids going.
And one of my kids, you know, is he works
in the FDNY, so he's gonna have to deal with it.
But it's terrible. It got so bad in New York City,
and I just don't understand why. Like, if you're if
you and I are sitting in a room together, and
anyone listening to this show right now, okay, and I
have no problem saying this. We're a bunch of people
(13:41):
sitting in the room. If anyone came up with the
idea of let people commit crime and don't put them
in jail, or let men into women's bathrooms, I like
to think that people would say, let's not do that.
That might not be a great idea, but whatever the reason.
In a state like New York, a state like Illinois
statecture a state like San Francis excuse me, California.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
This stuff is like, okay, let's do it.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
And I'm not a political person. You know me, fifteen years.
I'm not a political person. But when you.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Start talking about stuff like that.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
I don't understand how there is no one with any sense,
no sanity, that says, you know what, let's put the
criminals in jail and let's not let men in women's bathrooms.
That just sounds like common sense to me. But it
doesn't happen here in New.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
York City survive four years of.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
Him, Absolutely not, no way. It is going to be
a cesspool. People are going to run out of here.
He is going to destroy it. And now what's going
to happen is the people that are left aren't gonna
think it's that bad because they're not that bright, and
they're just gonna.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Vote for it again. Wow.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
But the people with sense, the people who create the jobs,
they're going to run out of here as fast as
they can. And I don't blame them.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Yeah, I can't blame them either.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Man.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
I almost not to take you too close to an alligator,
you think you might end up moving down here.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
Second other thing, I don't understand what you guys do
like you see an alligator on a golf course right now,
A normal person and Doug, I love you. What a
normal person to me walks away from the alligator. He
doesn't walk towards it with This is what the guy
did to me for everyone listening with a camera asking
the alligator to smile, and he sent me that video.
(15:28):
That's not normal. I see an alligator, I'm going the
other way.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
Well do you remember that? Do you remember that video?
Speaker 5 (15:34):
On a PGA tour, golfers walked up towards the alligator
and one went the other way.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
I'm a guy going the other way.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
You just not you know.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
I was only when I shot that video and looked
at it before I posted, I thought, God, I didn't
get close enough. That's embarrassing. I should get closer to
that animal. And in hindsight, I was like fifteen feet
from it, and this thing was eight and a half
nine feet long. It's a good alligator, but he was
just kind of chilling. And then the second time I
walked to him, he stood up, and that's when I
started paying a little closer attention, opened his mouth a
(16:04):
little bit, like you're getting in the zone here, man,
You're in. You're in the red zone here. You might
want to back it up, buddy.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
Well, what what if that alligator was hungry he decided
to charge it?
Speaker 4 (16:15):
You, what do you do?
Speaker 2 (16:16):
You hit it with the golf cl To me, he's
gonna go eat a turtle or something.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
You can catch, you know, even even in my at
my age, I think I can.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
I don't have to outrun him.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
I told this guy was actually I had a friend
of mine with me, and he asked me the same question.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
What are you gonna do? He said, I don't have
to run outrun him. I just got to outrun you.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
A'bs totally right.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Let your friend get eating. That's a little joke, right man.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
I only got to do is jump in the golf cart.
All right, Chris, my pleasure. Man, you'll be back on here.
What you be on seven ninety this weekend at ten o'clock?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
I believe.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
And then, uh, you know everyone wants to visit. You know,
he can go to takeing Vegas dot com. We got
some great picks up. But yeah, you know, the show's
been going good.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Doug. I thank you so much for always hooking it up. Man.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
You and I have become great friends. I know whenever
I'm down there, you kill me in golf, but that's fine.
You do it in a nice way, and you you
don't feed me to any alligators, so that's good. But
it's always a pleasure talking to you though.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
My pleasure as well. Chris, Thank you, buddy.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
All right, have agreement.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Yeah, good luck with your city. Audios Height We got
to take a little break.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
He called me and said, hey, you want me to
come on and talk about what this guy is going
to do to New York And yeah, I do. I
wanted it from the horse's mouth. And that guy has
he's lived up there all his life. He's seen different
mayors come and go, he's seen how politics work up there,
and he is absolutely correct.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
From what I've heard from other people too.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
There are enough voters now in New York City that
they would run for a bucket of nails if that's
what was on the Democrat ticket. And that's sadly, I
think this may be the end of what they've got
going on up there, because we've already watched it go
on in Great Britain is quite quite the mess all
(18:02):
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ten years now that always has and always will be
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Speaker 2 (19:03):
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Speaker 2 (19:31):
They sure don't make them like they used to.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
That's why every few months we wash them, check his words,
and spring on a fresh code. O wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike Plus.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Thank you all for listening.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Third segment of the program starts right now, and you
know what I'm gonna do. I'm going to start it
with some very cool science news, some mathematics news. Will
are you into mathematics, Oh good, you'll appreciate this. Then
two mathematicians from Europe have proven a three hundred year
(20:07):
old conundrum, if you will, about shapes, and they've proved
it to be wrong, and in so doing actually won
a bet for a guy who died back about three
hundred years ago after he got into it. I don't
know that if if the argument over this mathematical mathematical.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Anomaly was what caused his death.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
I don't know whether the prince had him killed or whatever,
but he was in a big argument with the reigning
prints at the time when he died over whether this
was possible. The experiment is this will place one gaming die.
We're talking about dice here, place one on top of
the other, and then without touching the sides, position the
(21:00):
one on top to pass through the one on the bottom.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Is that possible?
Speaker 3 (21:09):
At first glance, you at first blush, You just say, no, way,
one cannot possibly pass through the other. Now you can,
if you would like, manipulate the one on the bottom
to maybe help that alone. Can you think of how
that would be done?
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Thing, you're done, You're cooked.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
It actually can be and these guys proved it. And
essentially what they did was drilled a circular hole through
just right to the very edges, just the micron edges
of the one on the bottom, and just moving gently
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and putting it, putting the top one in just the
right position. The points, if you will, created by the
two angles to the ninety degree angle on each side.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Have room to slip through. Don't ask me how, Don't
ask me why.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
But and that's not a bar bet that you could
make happen right in front of somebody real quickly, unless
you already had the two die in your pocket, one
already completely drilled out and one not, and then you
could win the money and back then what do you
think the guy, what do you think the bet was?
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Well, probably a chicken or something like that. Well, on
a chicken.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
The guy the mathematician puts up a chicken, and the
prints probably put up a horse. And so one of
them was either going to get a nice tasty dinner
or was going to have to ride home on a chicken.
In let's move on from there. I don't want to
talk about that. Oh, by the way, it's National Redhead Day.
(23:00):
I forget do we I don't.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
I don't think I know what's the closest we can
get to a redhead? Is there anybody here? I don't
think so.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
Well, that's not.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Yeah, it's kind of red. Your beard's more red than
your hair.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Okay, I'll give you that, since you threw that chin
ears way up there so I could see it. Yeah,
you are kind of redheaded, aren't you. I don't see
it in your hair as much. That's I used to
be like just pasty white blonde hair. When I was
in high school, surfer dude had hair on my shoulders.
It was I was real cool. Will just I know
it's hard to tell now that's pretty cool. Just just
(23:37):
so you know, I just love the outdoors and that
may have that may have hurt me in some parts
of mine growing up, but it enabled me to do
what I do now, so I'm all for it.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
I was.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
If I was at the beach, which I was often,
I was either surfing or fishing. If I was if
if there were no waves, i might be fishing. If
there were good ways, I'd be surfing. And many a trip,
my friends and I would pack both. We'd pack surfboards
and fishing rods. Because there were no cameras on the beach,
(24:10):
there were no nobody you could trust, who you could
call to get an accurate report of what was going on,
so we just went prepared for anything and everything. It
had an absolute blast, And when we weren't doing that,
we were out dove hunting or just hiking through the
woods looking for shed antlers in the spring and stuff
like that. Moving down that page of this, I found
(24:34):
interesting for those of you who are in this situation.
A full third of Americans live within one of the
more than three hundred and sixty nine thousand hoas across
the country. If you got a homeowners association, I hope
you have a good one, because some of them are horrible.
Some of them are run by people who are just
(24:56):
on little power trips, and if you have so much
as a leaf out of place in your.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Yard, you'll get in trouble.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
There was a woman who had a plant on her porch,
and I can't remember exactly what the problem was, but
the HOA. This was in my neighborhood a long time ago.
The HOA came along and told her she couldn't have
an artificial plant on her porch. Even though if you
(25:25):
drive around long enough you'll see them. I think it
all depends on the mood of the person who's driving
through the neighborhood looking for stuff to pick on. We've
had all kinds of things. And when I went to
build a gate put a gate on my driveway, actually
I had to go through them and get permission to
do all that, and the first reaction I got was,
(25:46):
we don't allow those. So I drove around the neighborhood
and I took pictures of about nine or ten of them,
and then got tired of taking pictures, and I sent
each of those pictures to the HOA, and I just said, now, what, well,
the gate has to open inward, can't open outward.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
And then I went.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Back around kind of looking, just out of curiosity. And
we were rule followers, so our gate works inward and
not outward. But I saw three or four gates in
the neighborhood before I ever even had the first little
piling set on mine, that all open out. It's kind
of ridiculous, my anaton, kind of right, Oh good, I
(26:24):
have what oh a minute and a half, Holy cow,
here we go. Let's go back over here. In what
I titled despicable news.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
And I think you might agree when I'm done.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
From a Bright bart story, a federal district judge named
Ricardo Martinez has ruled that the Bureau of Prisons must
provide and pay for, with our money, a sex change
procedure for a forty seven year old convicted pedophile, said
the story, who only started identifying as tr transgender before
(27:00):
he was sentenced to more than twenty one years in
prison for sexually abusing his ten year old son. His
ten year old son, and the icing on the cake
producing child sex images. Not a very good guy that
(27:22):
he did what he did is worse than despicable, and
so is making us, making us taxpayers put the bill
for him to get this treatment that he wants, which includes,
by the way, laser hair removal, facial feminization, surgery, voice therapy,
and hormone stuff whatever that may be, which by the way,
(27:43):
may land him in a female prison, which is probably
where he wants to be. I don't think the guys
in the male prison would appreciate his presence much.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
All the way out here, let me tell you about.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Old Quarter, the Old Quarteracousticcafe dot com, which is a
website where you can find all the cool things that
are about to happen on November thirteenth through the fifteenth,
which is when downtown Galveston is gonna be just opened
(28:14):
wide with singers and songwriters, not just from Galveston, not
just from Texas, but all over the country.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
These people are coming in.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
They write very poignant songs, they write very intimate songs.
They write very new and different songs. If you've never
heard any of their music, and they are as good
as it gets. We've always been storytellers here in Texas,
we have, and this fall those stories are gonna come
alive at the Old Quarter Songwriter Festival in Galveston. Some
(28:48):
of our tales are taller than others I've learned over
the years. So grab yourself, friend, go wander around downtown
Galveston those three days and three nights and just soak
in the songs. Make yourself a reservation to stay down
there all three days. A good deal you can get
on an all inclusive pass at the website I was
telling you about a minute ago. And whether you go
(29:09):
down there just for an afternoon or evening, or truly
do spend a couple of nights down there to soak
it all in, You're gonna be treated to some outstanding
music and just a wonderful vibe. For the first time
down there in Galveston. Old Quarteracousticcafe dot com. This is
the first time they've hosted this event, and I suspect
(29:30):
it's gonna stick around for decades to come. It's just
it's time has come. This should have been done a
long time ago, and I'm glad they're doing it now.
Old Quarteracousticcafe dot Com.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Old guys rule, and of course, women never get old.
If you want to avoid sleeping on the couch, Heller.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
I think that sounds like a good plan.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug. Welcome back to
fifty plus. Thank you for listening. Fourth and final segment
right now. Happy to get there and happy to share
a couple of more things with you. Let's go, Let's
keep it kind of light.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
We're all well, at least most of the people I
know are not real thrilled that Mam Donnie won. And
I the way I see it, there was actually there
was a Fox News opinion piece written today that I
saw by a guy named Lee Hartley Carter, and what
he said is that Mam Donnie won New York City
(30:30):
not because Democrats in New York suddenly just fell head
over heels in love with socialism or communism, but because
he was the candidate who capitalized on He ran on
this foundation of people believing the current system to be unfair.
(30:53):
And if that's the only criteria for grabbing a vote,
it can apply to almost any anybody who's looking to
find out who they should vote for, who's been told,
if they're told by one candidate that hey, you know this,
this current system, it's just unfair. Now, they don't go
(31:15):
into much detail when they tell you that, but they
tell you it's unfair and that they're gonna make it
fair by gosh, for you and you and you and you.
Everybody gets fair like sitting in the audience at an
Oprah show. Everybody gets fairness. But that's not really the
way it happens. It can't happen that way. You could
pretty much sell anything to anyone without really having to
(31:38):
share how you're gonna make it unfair. He like Chris
and I were talking about, he's got free bus rides,
he's got government groceries coming up. But other than saying
out loud higher taxes, too loudly and for too often,
he built that campaign just on an empty promise, empty
because the system actually is unfair to both sides, but
(32:01):
for different reasons. It's unfair to the far left because
they see poor immigrants as asylum seekers and hard working people,
which some of them are. Many of them are, but
many are not, and the left is willing to ignore
them so they can keep hating our president and thinking
that everything's unfair for these immigrants and unfair for them,
(32:23):
and they just they wallow in that stuff. And then
here comes the right and just like kind of. Chris
was talking a little bit about it. The right could say, hey,
it's unfair because they've watched their city devolve, they watch
crime rise at a horrible rate, seeing the current city
government all Democrats, mind, you do nothing about that. They
(32:45):
want new leadership too, if they don't like the guy
who got the nod on their side, and New York
never really has supported Republicans, and so they and they
didn't really they weren't ready for Curtis. He's a different
cut of cloth, he really is.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
So they nixed that. They knix Cuomo, and.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
No matter what votes the two of them were gonna
get singularly. Maybe who knows, Maybe if Sleewood backed out
a month ago or three weeks ago and jumped in
camp with Cuomo, they might have been able to pull
something off. But with the two of them both out there,
there was no way. So in some ways the right
(33:29):
just lost by default because New York's a dog on blue.
It couldn't even find a decent conservative candidate, and one
by one, all these horrible things are going to happen
in New York City, same as they've happened now in
Great Britain, where people with more than two generations of
ancestors are getting harder and harder to find.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Where are those people? Where are they?
Speaker 3 (33:51):
They're getting replaced, is what's happening by people from elsewhere
whose beliefs are strongly at odds with traditional British lawn values,
much as the beliefs of Mom, Donnie and his closest
followers are quite different than those. I think if you
would actually write it all down and put it on
(34:11):
a piece of paper, I think a lot of New
Yorkers would say, wait a minute, that's not what we want.
And you know who wins. You know who really wins.
The people who sell real estate. The people who sell
not in New York because that stuff's about to tank,
if it hasn't already. The real estate brokers in Florida,
(34:32):
in Texas, in Arizona, pretty much anywhere but New York City,
and not Chicago or Baltimore or any other deep blue
major city. Even Democrats aren't dumb enough to jump out
of the frying panting into the fire.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
And that's kind of what.
Speaker 4 (34:49):
You know.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
I hate to think that Chris is right. Chris hodgeho
was on a little while ago. I hate to think
he's right. That mom, Donnie is really going to do
that much damage. But the table was set long ago.
All he's gonna do. All he's gonna do is finish
it off. He's just gonna finish it off. And the
people who were behind him have been waiting for this moment,
(35:14):
and they didn't even trot him out there until they
figured the time was right. And sadly, I kind of
think they are right.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
It's gonna be tough. It's gonna be tough for New
York City to survive.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
I wonder what's gonna happen to all the the television
and movie production and uh, to Broadway, to the to
Wall Street, all of the shopping the big that was
a big fashion center, And I say was because I'm
pretty sure that most of the people in that industry
(35:47):
are preparing to take their business elsewhere as well. It
will be different, that's for sure. Good luck, Big Apple.
Good luck to the people who called you home and
so dearly of your crazy but cohesive city. This time,
I'm kind of afraid they voted away everything that once
made that city great. A city run grocery store, really,
(36:11):
and that's just gonna be That's a shoplifter's dream free transportation.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
Who's gonna pay for that? It's that God.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
I just I hope so that I'm wrong and that
Chris is wrong, and that a lot of people who
think it's gonna be.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
That bad are wrong.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
But the more the more you take a look at
who's behind him and what he's already promised to try
to do, none of which is really possible. But he
he rolled it out there and that's how he got
the votes. Now he's gonna get in there, and before
too long he's gonna be saying, you know, we're gonna
have to rethink this. We just we just don't really
have the revenue to pull it off. And it's because
(36:51):
so many people ran away from our great city. H Nah,
that's not how it happened. All right, we're gonna take
it out of here. I will be back tomorrow. Thank
you all for listening. Enjoy the sunshine today, will you?
Speaker 2 (37:05):
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