August 12, 2024 • 36 mins
Today, Doug Pike discusses meteors, school, and being warm.
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On Okay, I'll take care of that later. Uh.
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Welcome to another what warm sunny day in a long
Houston summer, and it's just feels like it's getting longer
and longer. Feels like it's a long ways to the
end of summer, and it is really my favorite. Forecast
says that there is a slight chance of rain for
the next three afternoons twenty percent today. I think it's
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said early and then thirty percent tomorrow and Wednesday. But
don't shut off your sprinklers, just shit, not until you
actually see water falling from the sky and making it
to the ground. A lot of the moisture in the air,
I think if it does become a rain drop, it
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just gives up and evaporates before it even hits the ground.
And about for the last couple of weeks, about twenty
or thirty minutes. After twenty minutes, maybe ten depending on
where we are in the U are after my sprinkler
system runs, you can't even tell it ran. The only
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way you can tell is to reach down into the
grass and look around for little tiny droplets that haven't
been zapped by the sun. All right, So will I
went off the grid a little bit and instead of
my traditional highs and lows in Haikup today, I will
defer to an old poem that I think is pretty pretty.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Spot on for just now.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
And yeah, it's still presented by the way, by Texas
Indoor Air Quality Specialists because cleaner air is healthier air. Yeah,
I just I don't even remember when I first heard
that this poem. It's so long ago. You ready you
want it? Yes, spring has sprung falls fell, summer's here
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and it's hot as hell. Oh, who's it, Bond? I
have no ideaonymous I suppose I'll take one. No, I
can't take credit for it. That would not even be
close to being right. I don't know who wrote it,
but they are spot on, I would think. And you
get to grade it. Oh, it's just it's it's a
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it's like a side show act. It's not the main event.
But yeah, it's a third ring of a three ring circus,
like it's a three It's pretty basic. Yeah, it's basic,
and it's it's old and and dusty. Dusty is a
good way to describe that one. Oh yeah, yeah, it's
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just cobwebs. God, yeah, I think it does. I think
you may be right on the plus side.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Though.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
All of this heat and high pressure is what's keeping
tropical weather from finding its way here again, I think
I think one hurricane one per customer, and customers being
cities along the gold Off in Atlantic coastlines, one per
customer is enough for any coastal region to endure a season.
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But there are no rules in this game, as anybody
who lives here knows, and double whammies have occurred around
the Gulf Coast Florida. Panhall, I think was the last one,
if memory serves correctly, was the last to get whacked
twice by hurricanes in the same summer, and I was
actually over there. I don't remember what year it was.
It would have to have been close to twenty years
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ago now to be honest, because I'm pretty sure it
was before my son was born and I made a trip.
It might have been either right around that time or
possibly before he turned four. But it's been a long
time one way or the other. And I was over
there on a golf trip actually about I want to say,
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six months or so after the second hurricane whacked that
part of that Florida coastline, and it was it was
still it just looked like like somebody through there and
and stretched the chain about two miles wide between two
giant bulldozers and then just drag the chain across half of.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Half of that part of Florida. Horrible.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
They got torn up, really really badly. But the system
that's showing up out there in the Atlantic Ocean right now,
because of high pressure and because of steering currents and
because of heat, still is expected to miss these United
States by and by an increasingly significant margin, which I'm
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glad to see.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
We don't. We just don't need any more of these.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
They happened, They come and go, and eventually most of
us get back to kind of normal. But the bottom
line is just prepare. Just like we talked with I
think what was his Aris Papadopoulos? Was that corect Is
that correct?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Will?
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Was that his name? That is his name? Yeah, we
talked to Aris about preparation for storms and not just
grab some extra meds and put batteries in your flashlight.
He's talking about things you can do to prepare your
home to better sustain the wind and the flying debris
and all of that stuff. And he made sense a
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lot of that stuff. I'm kind of taking a harder
look at just to see if I want to do
it for my own home, especially stuff to keep the
windows from breaking.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
That would be nice.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
I've got pretty nice, pretty expensive windows in my home,
but they are not They're not hurricane proof in those
little shades that you can pull down. I really do
like there.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Anyway, we'll go to that some other time.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Into the markets we will go now courtesy of Houston
Gooldexchange Dot com Gold actually up a nice chunk and
was back up tickling twenty five hundred dollars. Announced it
was at twenty four ninety eight and a few pennies.
I think actually at ten thirty this morning. Oil on
the other hand, doing the same deal, going up up
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a bucket a quarter. Around that same time at seventy
eight eighteen a barrel. Three of the four indicators I
watched for stocks were in the red, but not by
a lot. Same for the pale green move on that
fourth when it wasn't enough either to cheer about or
cry about. None of it. It's just the stock market
doing what it does. It's just kind of stagnating. Uh,
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let's take a quick trip down one, two, three wills.
This makes me sad. No when to shut up or
good news?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Good news? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:32):
A policeman in Florida. I hate when they use the
word cop. I think a police officer is better and
more respectful. Found a missing five year old clinging to
a log in a pond, and a baby born in
a movie theater in the in the lobby in UK
gets free movie tickets for life. That kid's gonna be
around to see what Rocky twenty six and Fast and
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Furious forty one, Vin Diesel'll be just on a walker
probably when that kid at that point, my technology will
have advanced so much. By that point he might be
in the back of the car laid out.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Who knows.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
It's gonna be a while, a brand new kid movie.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
I don't do you go to movies much, will.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Not as often as I'd like to. I think I'm
kind of aging out of the whole movie thing. I
haven't been to a movie probably in ten years. I
took my dad to go see the original Alien, okay
and Father's Day because I've never seen that. Yeah, it's
different and pretty weird and scary. It was great to
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see on the big How are the effects as opposed
to what we have now? Oh honestly, i'd yeah, And
I mean it had director's commentary beforehand, so you got
to see some of the stuff. So you know, the
scene where they're walking up the spaceship, you know, you
see the big spaceship that was actually Ridley Scott's children
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dressed up as astronauts, and so it gave it.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Scope and very cool. Will inside scoop pretty cool? All right?
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Speaker 2 (10:21):
This is fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, welcome back.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
The second segment of the program starts right now with
looking something up.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
I'll look it up later. It's not that important.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
I'm doing my level best, and I hope all of
you appreciate it. To avoid some of the politics stuff
that's going on, just keep reading, keep reading, keep reading,
keep reading, except for this hour, of course, when we
do some different things, some lighter things. The speaking of
the Persea's meteor shower continues tonight. If you missed it
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last night, you can get yourself a good look tonight.
If you can drive far enough to get away from
the big city illumination. Anyway, you're gonna get a crack
at seeing as many as one hundred meteors an hour
as the Earth travels through space debris left a long
time ago by a passing comet. It's kind of like
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driving down some of the streets in Houston. There's just
trash everywhere, and you see it blowing up behind you
in the wake of your car. This is one of
the most spectacular meteor events we're gonna see. Actually, it
comes along every August, So start driving as the sun
starts to go down this evening I'm gonna probably I
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may try to get out around oh a little past
Richmond Rosenberg, even between there and El Campo somewhere, and
then maybe jutt north, get up north onto that prairie.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
It was.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
I know it was pitch black when I was out
there hunting last year. I did some goose hunting out
there on A Duck's Unlimited project, and those night times
were dark, dark out there. And if I can get
out there, I might drag my son with me too,
let him see it. That'd be worth taking a look at. Anyway,
looking back toward the eastern sky. Once that sun goes
down real good, and you should be able to get
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a double eye full of meteors locally. But most of
not all, of the area's school districts are back back
at it beginning this week, and that means every one
of us who drives here or there, pretty much anywhere, really,
we're gonna have to shift our brains back into whatever
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gear we used to keep an eye out for kids
darting across the street, especially as in my case, where
there's actually a Shipley donut shop right across the street,
a four lane esplanated busy street right across the street
from the high school and the middle school and an
elementary school. But those little kids don't run across the street.
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The middle schoolers and the high schoolers do though, especially
the high schoolers.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
And they tend to go in packs.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
And there's always somebody who's first and will dart out
almost right just as a car passes, and then a
couple of them will follow, and then there's always that one.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Who waits and waits and waits.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
And it's like stretching out a rubber band. The farther
his or her friends get in front of them, and
the closer they get to that door on Chipley's, the
more those kids want to run into the street, even
if cars are coming. So please just keep your eyes open, please.
Another good reason to slow down is that speeding in
a Houston school zone. I did the research on this.
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It's on how many miles per hour you're doing over
the speed limit, which makes sense obviously, but the least
you're gonna pay is about two hundred and twenty four dollars,
and those fines can run up to three hundred and
twenty nine dollars, and if things keep going the way
they're going.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Right now, that that.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Just might keep you from being able to fill up
your gas tanker or buy a nice brisket at the
grocery store. That's food money right there. That's that's a
couple of days food, three hundred dollars. I don't know
whether you're being impacted by food prices or not, but
I assure am, I sure am. It takes something like
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eleven thousand dollars more this year for the average average
family to afford what they could afford last year. Eleven
thousand change, almost one thousand dollars a month more. That
you have to find a way to make somehow, just
to live the way you lived year ago. You can't
get any better on that. You're just treading water. You're
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not rising above, you're not getting out of the water,
you're not sinking. You're just trying to tread water. And
that's gonna cost you a grand a month. Nuts The
Olympics have wrapped up now, and the good old USA
finished first overall. We tied with China for the most
gold medals at forty. We had the most silvers by
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a considerable margin with forty four. China was second. They
had twenty seven of those. I think they were second
and the most bronze medals also came to the US
of A. China had twenty four of those. Overall, overall,
Americans brought home one hundred and twenty six medals. Closest
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to US was China with ninety one. Great Britain had
sixty five ft sixty four in Australia sixty three, So
you can add up France and Australia and still not
have as many medals as we had as a single team.
They wrapped the games up in Paris with a ceremony,
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a closing ceremony that left.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
A whole lot of people.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Probably I'd be willing to bet more than half of
the millions who actually watched it left them confused and underwhelmed.
And the confusion was such that it was it was
pretty much over before viewers, many of whom never did
but before any of them realized that the stage set
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up was supposed to have something to do with the
world map.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
I'm still not.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
I've looked at it a few times and I kind
of see what they're talking about, and I kind of don't.
And then there were all these costumed people and acrobats
and gymnasts and whatnot, on the stage, and it didn't
really do a whole lot for me. Tom Cruise's zipline
stunt fell flat far as I'm concerned. I get it,
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but it wasn't exactly a showstopper anyway. Next top La
in twenty twenty four. By the way, Will, I know
you're gonna be crushed by this, but breakdancing will not
be there in twenty twenty four. No, it's out come
on after one trip, and honestly I'm back. No, it's dancing,
Will It's not. I get it that it's athletic. I
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understand that, and you're gonna be winded when you finish
a great performance of break breakdancing. But it's judging one
break routine against another break routine and coming up with
a way to do it fairly is virtually impossible.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
I would think, how do you.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Judge one person's interpretation of breakdancing against another's? And and
by that I mean I include that ribbon twirling thing
that used to be in the other Is that still
even there? Is that the artistic gymnastics? Is that? What?
That is? No idea? There was one where they twirled
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ribbons on a stick, and then there was another one
where they just had a plastic like a volleyball or something,
or a cantalope, and they just rolled that around and
bounced it around, and that was I think an Olympic sport.
At some point, I hope that's gone. I just that
didn't do a thing for me. Ut Hel's Institute on
Aging could do a whole lot for me if my
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health ever goes really south. This is a collaborative of hundreds,
maybe a thousand providers, I'm not sure around here, but
each of them, in addition to all the training it
took them to get the little diploma that were big
diploma that's on the wall in their office somewhere. It's there.
Trust me, it's there, and if you see it, you
can know that. In addition to getting all of that training,
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anybody who is a member of the Institute on Aging
also circled back and got additional education on how their
expertise can be applied to seniors. We are different from
young people will and I don't look anything like we
don't our bodies don't work well.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
They're very similar.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
But at my age and his age, he just got
a lot of easy fun living ahead of him before
he ever feels the lugnuts loosening up and the breaks
starting to go like I have. UT's Institute on Aging
is there for you all over town. Most of the
providers are primarily in the med center, but there are
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many of them who also practice out in outlying areas
at hospitals and clinics where you live. Get on the website.
See what they can do for you. Check out all
the resources to which they can lead you as well
to make you feel better, feel happier, and live longer.
Utch dot edu slash aging, uth dot edu slash aging.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Yeah, they sure don't make them like they used to.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
That's why every few months we wash him, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh code of wax.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
This is fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, welcome back.
Fifty plus it is.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
And the more distant I become from that benchmark, the
more I miss it.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Boy, there was there.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Were so many things that I could do without penalty
when I was fifty, and even fifty five, even in
my late fifties that now requires some effort. And by
the way, I'm calling out Brian Lilima from over on
Sports Talk seven ninety. I saw him in the Hall
today and I was grabbing some coffee. He was warming
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up some breakfast and I said something about playing nine
He asked me how my golf game was going. I said,
I played nine holes yesterday and actually I only played
about seven. I kind of bounce around out there. I
don't like to I don't like to wait behind big
groups when I'm by myself, And if I'm gonna go
past them, I won't. I won't just run a half
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a shot ahead and jump in. I'll go a full
tea box ahead, so I don't ever have to see
them and slow them down in any way, shape or form,
no matter what I'm doing. Bottom line is he said, Yeah,
it's just it's just too hot. Now Brian's in is
correct me if I'm wrong. But Brian I believe to
be in his early thirties, maybe mid thirties, and he's
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complaining about the heat.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Will are you?
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Where are you on the heat? Does it stop you
from doing anything outdoors?
Speaker 2 (21:37):
If you want to go?
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
It kind of depends on what the activity is.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Well, if I'm gonna be sitting outside, I don't really
mind chilling in the shade somewhere. Yeah, Golf's not exactly
like running a marathon.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Really. I mean, it's just golf manors. If you got
your callers and everything. Here's a deal.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
In the fall or the spring or the winter, when
it's cooler any to significant degree, if I go to
play golf, I'll stay over there. I'll get there early,
and I'll warm up for a fair amount of time.
I really will. I'll go work on my short game
for a little bit, then i'll go make full swings.
Then i'll go putt, and I'm very comfortable. I can
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stay loose because I wear the right clothes to do that.
But then in the summertime, I don't really change much
except how long I stay out there and practice and
warm up before I play. Mostly in the summertime, all
I'm doing is trying to reach some level of flexibility
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where I can make a full swing without snapping a
hip or something. I just want to be able to
play and have a relative I'm trying to narrow the
gap between just got out of the car and fully
ready to go. I'm not trying to get all the
way there, because if I do that, I'm gonna wear
myself out. It is hot, I get it, but I
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don't ever want to say the two phrases. I hope
you never hear from me. It's too hot for golf
and it's too hot to fish. If you ever hear
me say one of those two things, just order the flowers.
Is this coming? I'm not giving up, man, I can't.
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I just can't. Is it warm, yes? Will it keep
me off the golf course? No?
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Will it keep me off the water? No? I just
I refuse to give up like that? Will I?
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Maybe, if I'm playing golf, will I accept the the
invitation that let's go play another nine after we just
finished eighteen holes?
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Maybe not? Maybe not? I know my limitations.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Or hey, man, let's get on the water at sunrise
and fish till dark. If there's a hundred degree temperature
anywhere in the forecast for that day, I'm probably not
staying out there thirteen fourteen hours. No, I'm not doing that.
But if I have enough drinks, if I have enough sunscreen,
if I have the right clothing on, let's grind, let's go,
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let's keep casting. I might take a couple of little
five minute breaks just to sit back and pretend I'm
looking at my phone, when really I'm just trying to
catch my breath. But yeah, I'm staying out there. Every
cast I make, will every cast I make, I am
confident that I'm going to catch a fish. I'm surprised
when I don't. And the only remedy to that.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Is just to keep throwing, keep throwing.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Seven to one to three. Oh no, I don't want
to do that. I'm gonna go to this. How about
robot news? You want some robot news? Will sure? This
is so cool. Robot news is a real thing too,
and not just like Rosy the robot on the jets
And did you ever watch that?
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Have you ever seen it?
Speaker 3 (25:02):
The Jetsons? Yeah, but you were way too young.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
That was little. It was gone. The Jetsons were gone. Man.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Anyway, AI is enabling manufacturers to create very human like
robots now that they can drive cars. And I'm not
talking about on board stuff. I'm talking about a robot
sitting in the driver's.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Seat doing that.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
They can do all they climb stairs, perform just all
sorts of tasks that in the most advanced machines they're
actually learning to do entirely on their own and to
learn from their mistakes when they make them and correct them.
Manufacturing interest is really high in these things, as you
might imagine. But one of the catches right now is
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that to teach a machine to operate efficiently alongside a
human or a normal person that they could train to
do the job is said at present to cost three
to six times the cost of the robot itself. And
I'm suspecting that really high tech robots aren't cheap, so
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we humans are going to have our jobs for quite
a while to come. I think there's also a very
tremendous value I think in AI driven robots for disaster relief,
you've got to send somebody into a potentially dangerous environment
a chemical spill, for example, a chemical spill of fire,
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or really smoky environment. A robot doesn't care. Robot just
goes in there and gets.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
The job done. This is really cool. I like that,
I really do. I think that.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
I'm certainly not for replacing people and their jobs with
robots unless it becomes just an impossibility to do otherwise,
But I do like the possibilities. This whole country, the
whole world, really was built by dreamers. It's shaped by dreamers,
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people who see the things that the rest of us
just don't see. Louisiana a good example high school senior
over there, Lily min who was inspired by Monsters Ink.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
You see that movie?
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Will you know? When I was a baby, but.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Still you saw it?
Speaker 3 (27:17):
They and this Lily was inspired by the movie, and
she has found a way to harness the sound waves
of a really loud sports crowd, for example, and turn
it into electricity. Now, her early experiments have not They're
not gonna light the town when somebody hits a home run,
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but nonetheless the seed is planted.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
And same for a guy already.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Will, Holy cow, why don't you give me a little
more notice than just throwing a hand in the air
and waving like you're swatting a fly. Give me just
a little ten or a five or something, anything that's
smirk off your face. Man, don't let age sneak up
on you.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Boys.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
I'm gonna give you that advice too, Will, as you
get a little older, you'll be thinking about this as
you get in your forties and fifties.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Keep yourself healthy.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
About a quarter of men older than fifty five have
symptoms of or definitely have an enlarged prostate. Non cancers
doesn't have to be cancerous to give you problems. In fact,
the CANCERUS ones sometimes don't come along with the problems
of the enlarged one. Either way, you need to make
sure that you can take that problem away if it
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ever occurs to you, the non CANCERUS kind, and someplace
like a late health, well, no place better than a
late health really to.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Get prostate artery embolization done. What they do.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
They're a vascular clinic, okay, And what they do is
go in within a couple of hours in the office too,
no hospital stay, none of that scary stuff.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
You go in there, you lie down on the table.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
They identify the artery that is supplying that big old, nasty,
ugly prostate with oxygenated blood, and they close the faucet.
They turn it off, They flip the switch. No more oxygen,
no more enlarged prostate, and along with it go the symptoms.
Same with fibroids for women, same with some head pain
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in some instances, ugly veins. And most of what they
do over there is covered by Medicare and Medicaid as well,
so you don't have to worry about shelling out a
bunch of your own money. They also do regenerative medicine,
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Hold, I think that sounds like a good plan. Fifty
plus continues. Here's more with Doug. All right, welcome back.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Fourth and final segment starts right now. It's just looking
at a story about a social media influencer who was
trying to make a name for himself by climbing a
very dangerous ladder it's called a stairway to heaven. And
he fell off, and he plunged to his death. And
(30:54):
everybody who knew him, everybody who loved him, everybody who
cared about him, probably told him not to do what
he was about to do. But he got to get
that got to get those likes, man, You got to
get those followers. Well, have you ever considered becoming a
social media influencer at having some big, giant account I
(31:15):
I wanted. I'm gonna, in fact, I am going to
start a couple of podcasts this year or that within
the next year, and they're already planned out, everything's in place.
But I don't want to. I don't want to do
anything that could get me killed. I don't want to
encourage anybody else to do anything stupid. Mostly, what I'm
(31:36):
gonna be doing would be probably boring to the average
person because it's gonna be about things that I and
some good friends of mine enjoy doing.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
And if you're into those sports, you're gonna lut. If
you're not, probably not so much.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
But either way, I think I think I'll well, we
are gonna have a pretty good, good following for these things,
and they get up and run it. And I'm not
even gonna I'm not even gonn launch anything until I've
got at least about a dozen episodes ready to go,
and we'll release them as as the people who are.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Gonna help us with this see fit.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
Well, it'll be fun, it will be all right. Well,
what am I gonna.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Do here next?
Speaker 3 (32:17):
Let's let's get some easy going stuff here, then I
might save some of the rest of this for tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Uh, this makes me sad. I'm going back to that.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Shock therapy or sweet and sour shock therapy. Researchers have
developed a new bandage that can heal wounds thirty percent
faster using a water powered electric field.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
I have no idea how this works.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
The best part, though, is that they say it also
could develop into a very inexpensive solution for chronic sores
and wounds that just don't seem to want to heal.
H They're gonna speed it up, give you a little jolt.
I don't know that it's gonna shock you. I don't
think it. Looking at one of the prototypes, it's kind
of a it's gonna may It may help you heal faster,
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but it's not gonna be like licking a nine volt
battery or something like that.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
You ever done that?
Speaker 3 (33:13):
No, you haven't, No will that That could be your
your one thing that you do just to experience it.
That could be your living on the edge experience. Just
touch your tongue. I walked around with my shoes untied
for years. You up and downstairs, Hope that's the day
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that I would trip and fall.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
That's that's the best you got. Oh you think you
could do better? Oh?
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Man, I jumped off roofs, I climbed building. I'm talking
about I want you to walk around with your shoes
untied everywhere? Well yeah, but see that's that's just foolishness
about I'm talking about skill things.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Man. Oh yeah, jumping off a roof is so skillful.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
You have to know how to land unless you just
jam both of your legs up into your Torso you
don't want to do that, huh?
Speaker 2 (34:09):
Will?
Speaker 3 (34:10):
I'm gonna give you another chance to pick a good one,
Sweet Dreams? What's in a name?
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Or scared or not scared?
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Scared or not scared?
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Or in a new report?
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Just washing fruit before eating it doesn't remove the pesticides will,
And the only way to remove them is to peel them.
Are you gonna change the way you eat a plum.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Or an apple? Now? I'm not either.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
I'll rinse them off, but I figure if if they
haven't killed me by now, they're probably not gonna kill me.
Pick sweet dreams? Will you'll love this? What are my
other options? None?
Speaker 2 (34:51):
The Arizona Cardinals.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
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gummy bears, and sprinkles. Brought to you by the National
Diabetes Foundation. It sounds like it was created by a dentist.
Yell the ad a fifteen dollars will Also, they are
going to feature a seven pound burger and a meat
ball HOGI on a stick. I don't think they want
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their fence leave the stadiums. Not half of them probably
won't make it out. Seven pound hamburger.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
How many people? What it says?
Speaker 3 (35:45):
They've got to be charging forty or fifty bucks. They're
gonna bring it to you, cut up into seven or
eight pieces.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
It's gotta be how much time do I have right now?
Speaker 3 (35:52):
You have thirty seconds?
Speaker 2 (35:54):
Okay, I'm gonna I'm just gonna stall for a second.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
Oh twelve years ago, the Who, George Michael One Direction,
Spy Girls, Muse Jesse Maddnes, Jesse j Mann. This petchup
Boys Blah blah blah. Vaper and Queen by the way,
performed at the London Olympics. How many how much time?
Now you have fifteen seconds? Seven year old kid, seven
year old boy named table doesn't like his name. I'm
guessing maybe he was named for where he was conceived.
(36:18):
First person he told you know who. It was his
little sister backseat. That's all for today. I'll see you tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
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All Right, the Monday edition of the program starts right now,
and I'm already gonna have to make myself a note.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
On Okay, I'll take care of that later. Uh.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Welcome to another what warm sunny day in a long
Houston summer, and it's just feels like it's getting longer
and longer. Feels like it's a long ways to the
end of summer, and it is really my favorite. Forecast
says that there is a slight chance of rain for
the next three afternoons twenty percent today. I think it's
(01:25):
said early and then thirty percent tomorrow and Wednesday. But
don't shut off your sprinklers, just shit, not until you
actually see water falling from the sky and making it
to the ground. A lot of the moisture in the air,
I think if it does become a rain drop, it
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just gives up and evaporates before it even hits the ground.
And about for the last couple of weeks, about twenty
or thirty minutes. After twenty minutes, maybe ten depending on
where we are in the U are after my sprinkler
system runs, you can't even tell it ran. The only
(02:06):
way you can tell is to reach down into the
grass and look around for little tiny droplets that haven't
been zapped by the sun. All right, So will I
went off the grid a little bit and instead of
my traditional highs and lows in Haikup today, I will
defer to an old poem that I think is pretty pretty.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Spot on for just now.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
And yeah, it's still presented by the way, by Texas
Indoor Air Quality Specialists because cleaner air is healthier air. Yeah,
I just I don't even remember when I first heard
that this poem. It's so long ago. You ready you
want it? Yes, spring has sprung falls fell, summer's here
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and it's hot as hell. Oh, who's it, Bond? I
have no ideaonymous I suppose I'll take one. No, I
can't take credit for it. That would not even be
close to being right. I don't know who wrote it,
but they are spot on, I would think. And you
get to grade it. Oh, it's just it's it's a
(03:17):
it's like a side show act. It's not the main event.
But yeah, it's a third ring of a three ring circus,
like it's a three It's pretty basic. Yeah, it's basic,
and it's it's old and and dusty. Dusty is a
good way to describe that one. Oh yeah, yeah, it's
(03:38):
just cobwebs. God, yeah, I think it does. I think
you may be right on the plus side.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Though.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
All of this heat and high pressure is what's keeping
tropical weather from finding its way here again, I think
I think one hurricane one per customer, and customers being
cities along the gold Off in Atlantic coastlines, one per
customer is enough for any coastal region to endure a season.
(04:08):
But there are no rules in this game, as anybody
who lives here knows, and double whammies have occurred around
the Gulf Coast Florida. Panhall, I think was the last one,
if memory serves correctly, was the last to get whacked
twice by hurricanes in the same summer, and I was
actually over there. I don't remember what year it was.
It would have to have been close to twenty years
(04:28):
ago now to be honest, because I'm pretty sure it
was before my son was born and I made a trip.
It might have been either right around that time or
possibly before he turned four. But it's been a long
time one way or the other. And I was over
there on a golf trip actually about I want to say,
(04:49):
six months or so after the second hurricane whacked that
part of that Florida coastline, and it was it was
still it just looked like like somebody through there and
and stretched the chain about two miles wide between two
giant bulldozers and then just drag the chain across half of.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Half of that part of Florida. Horrible.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
They got torn up, really really badly. But the system
that's showing up out there in the Atlantic Ocean right now,
because of high pressure and because of steering currents and
because of heat, still is expected to miss these United
States by and by an increasingly significant margin, which I'm
(05:35):
glad to see.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
We don't. We just don't need any more of these.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
They happened, They come and go, and eventually most of
us get back to kind of normal. But the bottom
line is just prepare. Just like we talked with I
think what was his Aris Papadopoulos? Was that corect Is
that correct?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Will?
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Was that his name? That is his name? Yeah, we
talked to Aris about preparation for storms and not just
grab some extra meds and put batteries in your flashlight.
He's talking about things you can do to prepare your
home to better sustain the wind and the flying debris
and all of that stuff. And he made sense a
(06:15):
lot of that stuff. I'm kind of taking a harder
look at just to see if I want to do
it for my own home, especially stuff to keep the
windows from breaking.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
That would be nice.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
I've got pretty nice, pretty expensive windows in my home,
but they are not They're not hurricane proof in those
little shades that you can pull down. I really do
like there.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Anyway, we'll go to that some other time.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Into the markets we will go now courtesy of Houston
Gooldexchange Dot com Gold actually up a nice chunk and
was back up tickling twenty five hundred dollars. Announced it
was at twenty four ninety eight and a few pennies.
I think actually at ten thirty this morning. Oil on
the other hand, doing the same deal, going up up
(07:02):
a bucket a quarter. Around that same time at seventy
eight eighteen a barrel. Three of the four indicators I
watched for stocks were in the red, but not by
a lot. Same for the pale green move on that
fourth when it wasn't enough either to cheer about or
cry about. None of it. It's just the stock market
doing what it does. It's just kind of stagnating. Uh,
(07:22):
let's take a quick trip down one, two, three wills.
This makes me sad. No when to shut up or
good news?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Good news? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:32):
A policeman in Florida. I hate when they use the
word cop. I think a police officer is better and
more respectful. Found a missing five year old clinging to
a log in a pond, and a baby born in
a movie theater in the in the lobby in UK
gets free movie tickets for life. That kid's gonna be
around to see what Rocky twenty six and Fast and
(07:56):
Furious forty one, Vin Diesel'll be just on a walker
probably when that kid at that point, my technology will
have advanced so much. By that point he might be
in the back of the car laid out.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Who knows.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
It's gonna be a while, a brand new kid movie.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
I don't do you go to movies much, will.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Not as often as I'd like to. I think I'm
kind of aging out of the whole movie thing. I
haven't been to a movie probably in ten years. I
took my dad to go see the original Alien, okay
and Father's Day because I've never seen that. Yeah, it's
different and pretty weird and scary. It was great to
(08:38):
see on the big How are the effects as opposed
to what we have now? Oh honestly, i'd yeah, And
I mean it had director's commentary beforehand, so you got
to see some of the stuff. So you know, the
scene where they're walking up the spaceship, you know, you
see the big spaceship that was actually Ridley Scott's children
(08:59):
dressed up as astronauts, and so it gave it.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Scope and very cool. Will inside scoop pretty cool? All right?
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Speaker 2 (10:21):
This is fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, welcome back.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
The second segment of the program starts right now with
looking something up.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
I'll look it up later. It's not that important.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
I'm doing my level best, and I hope all of
you appreciate it. To avoid some of the politics stuff
that's going on, just keep reading, keep reading, keep reading,
keep reading, except for this hour, of course, when we
do some different things, some lighter things. The speaking of
the Persea's meteor shower continues tonight. If you missed it
(11:12):
last night, you can get yourself a good look tonight.
If you can drive far enough to get away from
the big city illumination. Anyway, you're gonna get a crack
at seeing as many as one hundred meteors an hour
as the Earth travels through space debris left a long
time ago by a passing comet. It's kind of like
(11:35):
driving down some of the streets in Houston. There's just
trash everywhere, and you see it blowing up behind you
in the wake of your car. This is one of
the most spectacular meteor events we're gonna see. Actually, it
comes along every August, So start driving as the sun
starts to go down this evening I'm gonna probably I
(11:57):
may try to get out around oh a little past
Richmond Rosenberg, even between there and El Campo somewhere, and
then maybe jutt north, get up north onto that prairie.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
It was.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
I know it was pitch black when I was out
there hunting last year. I did some goose hunting out
there on A Duck's Unlimited project, and those night times
were dark, dark out there. And if I can get
out there, I might drag my son with me too,
let him see it. That'd be worth taking a look at. Anyway,
looking back toward the eastern sky. Once that sun goes
down real good, and you should be able to get
(12:34):
a double eye full of meteors locally. But most of
not all, of the area's school districts are back back
at it beginning this week, and that means every one
of us who drives here or there, pretty much anywhere, really,
we're gonna have to shift our brains back into whatever
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gear we used to keep an eye out for kids
darting across the street, especially as in my case, where
there's actually a Shipley donut shop right across the street,
a four lane esplanated busy street right across the street
from the high school and the middle school and an
elementary school. But those little kids don't run across the street.
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The middle schoolers and the high schoolers do though, especially
the high schoolers.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
And they tend to go in packs.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
And there's always somebody who's first and will dart out
almost right just as a car passes, and then a
couple of them will follow, and then there's always that one.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Who waits and waits and waits.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
And it's like stretching out a rubber band. The farther
his or her friends get in front of them, and
the closer they get to that door on Chipley's, the
more those kids want to run into the street, even
if cars are coming. So please just keep your eyes open, please.
Another good reason to slow down is that speeding in
a Houston school zone. I did the research on this.
(14:00):
It's on how many miles per hour you're doing over
the speed limit, which makes sense obviously, but the least
you're gonna pay is about two hundred and twenty four dollars,
and those fines can run up to three hundred and
twenty nine dollars, and if things keep going the way
they're going.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Right now, that that.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Just might keep you from being able to fill up
your gas tanker or buy a nice brisket at the
grocery store. That's food money right there. That's that's a
couple of days food, three hundred dollars. I don't know
whether you're being impacted by food prices or not, but
I assure am, I sure am. It takes something like
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eleven thousand dollars more this year for the average average
family to afford what they could afford last year. Eleven
thousand change, almost one thousand dollars a month more. That
you have to find a way to make somehow, just
to live the way you lived year ago. You can't
get any better on that. You're just treading water. You're
(15:05):
not rising above, you're not getting out of the water,
you're not sinking. You're just trying to tread water. And
that's gonna cost you a grand a month. Nuts The
Olympics have wrapped up now, and the good old USA
finished first overall. We tied with China for the most
gold medals at forty. We had the most silvers by
(15:26):
a considerable margin with forty four. China was second. They
had twenty seven of those. I think they were second
and the most bronze medals also came to the US
of A. China had twenty four of those. Overall, overall,
Americans brought home one hundred and twenty six medals. Closest
(15:48):
to US was China with ninety one. Great Britain had
sixty five ft sixty four in Australia sixty three, So
you can add up France and Australia and still not
have as many medals as we had as a single team.
They wrapped the games up in Paris with a ceremony,
(16:10):
a closing ceremony that left.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
A whole lot of people.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Probably I'd be willing to bet more than half of
the millions who actually watched it left them confused and underwhelmed.
And the confusion was such that it was it was
pretty much over before viewers, many of whom never did
but before any of them realized that the stage set
(16:33):
up was supposed to have something to do with the
world map.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
I'm still not.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
I've looked at it a few times and I kind
of see what they're talking about, and I kind of don't.
And then there were all these costumed people and acrobats
and gymnasts and whatnot, on the stage, and it didn't
really do a whole lot for me. Tom Cruise's zipline
stunt fell flat far as I'm concerned. I get it,
(16:58):
but it wasn't exactly a showstopper anyway. Next top La
in twenty twenty four. By the way, Will, I know
you're gonna be crushed by this, but breakdancing will not
be there in twenty twenty four. No, it's out come
on after one trip, and honestly I'm back. No, it's dancing,
Will It's not. I get it that it's athletic. I
(17:21):
understand that, and you're gonna be winded when you finish
a great performance of break breakdancing. But it's judging one
break routine against another break routine and coming up with
a way to do it fairly is virtually impossible.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
I would think, how do you.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Judge one person's interpretation of breakdancing against another's? And and
by that I mean I include that ribbon twirling thing
that used to be in the other Is that still
even there? Is that the artistic gymnastics? Is that? What?
That is? No idea? There was one where they twirled
(18:03):
ribbons on a stick, and then there was another one
where they just had a plastic like a volleyball or something,
or a cantalope, and they just rolled that around and
bounced it around, and that was I think an Olympic sport.
At some point, I hope that's gone. I just that
didn't do a thing for me. Ut Hel's Institute on
Aging could do a whole lot for me if my
(18:23):
health ever goes really south. This is a collaborative of hundreds,
maybe a thousand providers, I'm not sure around here, but
each of them, in addition to all the training it
took them to get the little diploma that were big
diploma that's on the wall in their office somewhere. It's there.
Trust me, it's there, and if you see it, you
can know that. In addition to getting all of that training,
(18:46):
anybody who is a member of the Institute on Aging
also circled back and got additional education on how their
expertise can be applied to seniors. We are different from
young people will and I don't look anything like we
don't our bodies don't work well.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
They're very similar.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
But at my age and his age, he just got
a lot of easy fun living ahead of him before
he ever feels the lugnuts loosening up and the breaks
starting to go like I have. UT's Institute on Aging
is there for you all over town. Most of the
providers are primarily in the med center, but there are
(19:27):
many of them who also practice out in outlying areas
at hospitals and clinics where you live. Get on the website.
See what they can do for you. Check out all
the resources to which they can lead you as well
to make you feel better, feel happier, and live longer.
Utch dot edu slash aging, uth dot edu slash aging.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Yeah, they sure don't make them like they used to.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
That's why every few months we wash him, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh code of wax.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
This is fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, welcome back.
Fifty plus it is.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
And the more distant I become from that benchmark, the
more I miss it.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Boy, there was there.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Were so many things that I could do without penalty
when I was fifty, and even fifty five, even in
my late fifties that now requires some effort. And by
the way, I'm calling out Brian Lilima from over on
Sports Talk seven ninety. I saw him in the Hall
today and I was grabbing some coffee. He was warming
(20:48):
up some breakfast and I said something about playing nine
He asked me how my golf game was going. I said,
I played nine holes yesterday and actually I only played
about seven. I kind of bounce around out there. I
don't like to I don't like to wait behind big
groups when I'm by myself, And if I'm gonna go
past them, I won't. I won't just run a half
(21:09):
a shot ahead and jump in. I'll go a full
tea box ahead, so I don't ever have to see
them and slow them down in any way, shape or form,
no matter what I'm doing. Bottom line is he said, Yeah,
it's just it's just too hot. Now Brian's in is
correct me if I'm wrong. But Brian I believe to
be in his early thirties, maybe mid thirties, and he's
(21:31):
complaining about the heat.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Will are you?
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Where are you on the heat? Does it stop you
from doing anything outdoors?
Speaker 2 (21:37):
If you want to go?
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
It kind of depends on what the activity is.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Well, if I'm gonna be sitting outside, I don't really
mind chilling in the shade somewhere. Yeah, Golf's not exactly
like running a marathon.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Really. I mean, it's just golf manors. If you got
your callers and everything. Here's a deal.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
In the fall or the spring or the winter, when
it's cooler any to significant degree, if I go to
play golf, I'll stay over there. I'll get there early,
and I'll warm up for a fair amount of time.
I really will. I'll go work on my short game
for a little bit, then i'll go make full swings.
Then i'll go putt, and I'm very comfortable. I can
(22:21):
stay loose because I wear the right clothes to do that.
But then in the summertime, I don't really change much
except how long I stay out there and practice and
warm up before I play. Mostly in the summertime, all
I'm doing is trying to reach some level of flexibility
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where I can make a full swing without snapping a
hip or something. I just want to be able to
play and have a relative I'm trying to narrow the
gap between just got out of the car and fully
ready to go. I'm not trying to get all the
way there, because if I do that, I'm gonna wear
myself out. It is hot, I get it, but I
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don't ever want to say the two phrases. I hope
you never hear from me. It's too hot for golf
and it's too hot to fish. If you ever hear
me say one of those two things, just order the flowers.
Is this coming? I'm not giving up, man, I can't.
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I just can't. Is it warm, yes? Will it keep
me off the golf course? No?
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Will it keep me off the water? No? I just
I refuse to give up like that? Will I?
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Maybe, if I'm playing golf, will I accept the the
invitation that let's go play another nine after we just
finished eighteen holes?
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Maybe not? Maybe not? I know my limitations.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Or hey, man, let's get on the water at sunrise
and fish till dark. If there's a hundred degree temperature
anywhere in the forecast for that day, I'm probably not
staying out there thirteen fourteen hours. No, I'm not doing that.
But if I have enough drinks, if I have enough sunscreen,
if I have the right clothing on, let's grind, let's go,
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let's keep casting. I might take a couple of little
five minute breaks just to sit back and pretend I'm
looking at my phone, when really I'm just trying to
catch my breath. But yeah, I'm staying out there. Every
cast I make, will every cast I make, I am
confident that I'm going to catch a fish. I'm surprised
when I don't. And the only remedy to that.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Is just to keep throwing, keep throwing.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Seven to one to three. Oh no, I don't want
to do that. I'm gonna go to this. How about
robot news? You want some robot news? Will sure? This
is so cool. Robot news is a real thing too,
and not just like Rosy the robot on the jets
And did you ever watch that?
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Have you ever seen it?
Speaker 3 (25:02):
The Jetsons? Yeah, but you were way too young.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
That was little. It was gone. The Jetsons were gone. Man.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Anyway, AI is enabling manufacturers to create very human like
robots now that they can drive cars. And I'm not
talking about on board stuff. I'm talking about a robot
sitting in the driver's.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Seat doing that.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
They can do all they climb stairs, perform just all
sorts of tasks that in the most advanced machines they're
actually learning to do entirely on their own and to
learn from their mistakes when they make them and correct them.
Manufacturing interest is really high in these things, as you
might imagine. But one of the catches right now is
(25:46):
that to teach a machine to operate efficiently alongside a
human or a normal person that they could train to
do the job is said at present to cost three
to six times the cost of the robot itself. And
I'm suspecting that really high tech robots aren't cheap, so
(26:08):
we humans are going to have our jobs for quite
a while to come. I think there's also a very
tremendous value I think in AI driven robots for disaster relief,
you've got to send somebody into a potentially dangerous environment
a chemical spill, for example, a chemical spill of fire,
(26:28):
or really smoky environment. A robot doesn't care. Robot just
goes in there and gets.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
The job done. This is really cool. I like that,
I really do. I think that.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
I'm certainly not for replacing people and their jobs with
robots unless it becomes just an impossibility to do otherwise,
But I do like the possibilities. This whole country, the
whole world, really was built by dreamers. It's shaped by dreamers,
(27:01):
people who see the things that the rest of us
just don't see. Louisiana a good example high school senior
over there, Lily min who was inspired by Monsters Ink.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
You see that movie?
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Will you know? When I was a baby, but.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Still you saw it?
Speaker 3 (27:17):
They and this Lily was inspired by the movie, and
she has found a way to harness the sound waves
of a really loud sports crowd, for example, and turn
it into electricity. Now, her early experiments have not They're
not gonna light the town when somebody hits a home run,
(27:41):
but nonetheless the seed is planted.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
And same for a guy already.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Will, Holy cow, why don't you give me a little
more notice than just throwing a hand in the air
and waving like you're swatting a fly. Give me just
a little ten or a five or something, anything that's
smirk off your face. Man, don't let age sneak up
on you.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Boys.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
I'm gonna give you that advice too, Will, as you
get a little older, you'll be thinking about this as
you get in your forties and fifties.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Keep yourself healthy.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
About a quarter of men older than fifty five have
symptoms of or definitely have an enlarged prostate. Non cancers
doesn't have to be cancerous to give you problems. In fact,
the CANCERUS ones sometimes don't come along with the problems
of the enlarged one. Either way, you need to make
sure that you can take that problem away if it
(28:34):
ever occurs to you, the non CANCERUS kind, and someplace
like a late health, well, no place better than a
late health really to.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Get prostate artery embolization done. What they do.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
They're a vascular clinic, okay, And what they do is
go in within a couple of hours in the office too,
no hospital stay, none of that scary stuff.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
You go in there, you lie down on the table.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
They identify the artery that is supplying that big old, nasty,
ugly prostate with oxygenated blood, and they close the faucet.
They turn it off, They flip the switch. No more oxygen,
no more enlarged prostate, and along with it go the symptoms.
Same with fibroids for women, same with some head pain
(29:17):
in some instances, ugly veins. And most of what they
do over there is covered by Medicare and Medicaid as well,
so you don't have to worry about shelling out a
bunch of your own money. They also do regenerative medicine,
which is as we've talked about before, here is proving
incredibly effective at shutting down chronic pain. And nobody needs
(29:38):
to be in chronic pain. Nobody deserves that. Seven one three,
five eight eight thirty eight eighty eight A latehealth dot
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this number, Write it down somewhere, call it talk to them.
Seven to one three five eight, eight thirty eight eighty eight.
Old Guy's rule yours women never get old. If you
(30:03):
want to avoid sleeping on the couch.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Hold, I think that sounds like a good plan. Fifty
plus continues. Here's more with Doug. All right, welcome back.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Fourth and final segment starts right now. It's just looking
at a story about a social media influencer who was
trying to make a name for himself by climbing a
very dangerous ladder it's called a stairway to heaven. And
he fell off, and he plunged to his death. And
(30:54):
everybody who knew him, everybody who loved him, everybody who
cared about him, probably told him not to do what
he was about to do. But he got to get
that got to get those likes, man, You got to
get those followers. Well, have you ever considered becoming a
social media influencer at having some big, giant account I
(31:15):
I wanted. I'm gonna, in fact, I am going to
start a couple of podcasts this year or that within
the next year, and they're already planned out, everything's in place.
But I don't want to. I don't want to do
anything that could get me killed. I don't want to
encourage anybody else to do anything stupid. Mostly, what I'm
(31:36):
gonna be doing would be probably boring to the average
person because it's gonna be about things that I and
some good friends of mine enjoy doing.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
And if you're into those sports, you're gonna lut. If
you're not, probably not so much.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
But either way, I think I think I'll well, we
are gonna have a pretty good, good following for these things,
and they get up and run it. And I'm not
even gonna I'm not even gonn launch anything until I've
got at least about a dozen episodes ready to go,
and we'll release them as as the people who are.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Gonna help us with this see fit.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
Well, it'll be fun, it will be all right. Well,
what am I gonna.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Do here next?
Speaker 3 (32:17):
Let's let's get some easy going stuff here, then I
might save some of the rest of this for tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Uh, this makes me sad. I'm going back to that.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Shock therapy or sweet and sour shock therapy. Researchers have
developed a new bandage that can heal wounds thirty percent
faster using a water powered electric field.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
I have no idea how this works.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
The best part, though, is that they say it also
could develop into a very inexpensive solution for chronic sores
and wounds that just don't seem to want to heal.
H They're gonna speed it up, give you a little jolt.
I don't know that it's gonna shock you. I don't
think it. Looking at one of the prototypes, it's kind
of a it's gonna may It may help you heal faster,
(33:09):
but it's not gonna be like licking a nine volt
battery or something like that.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
You ever done that?
Speaker 3 (33:13):
No, you haven't, No will that That could be your
your one thing that you do just to experience it.
That could be your living on the edge experience. Just
touch your tongue. I walked around with my shoes untied
for years. You up and downstairs, Hope that's the day
(33:36):
that I would trip and fall.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
That's that's the best you got. Oh you think you
could do better? Oh?
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Man, I jumped off roofs, I climbed building. I'm talking
about I want you to walk around with your shoes
untied everywhere? Well yeah, but see that's that's just foolishness
about I'm talking about skill things.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Man. Oh yeah, jumping off a roof is so skillful.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
You have to know how to land unless you just
jam both of your legs up into your Torso you
don't want to do that, huh?
Speaker 2 (34:09):
Will?
Speaker 3 (34:10):
I'm gonna give you another chance to pick a good one,
Sweet Dreams? What's in a name?
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Or scared or not scared?
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Scared or not scared?
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Or in a new report?
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Just washing fruit before eating it doesn't remove the pesticides will,
And the only way to remove them is to peel them.
Are you gonna change the way you eat a plum.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Or an apple? Now? I'm not either.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
I'll rinse them off, but I figure if if they
haven't killed me by now, they're probably not gonna kill me.
Pick sweet dreams? Will you'll love this? What are my
other options? None?
Speaker 2 (34:51):
The Arizona Cardinals.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
Thanks for choosing it. The Arizona Cardinals have unveiled a
cotton candy burrito for the twenty twenty four season Craft
Culinary Concepts. Cotton Candy Burrito has cotton candy flavored ice cream,
fruity pebbles, fruit loops, marshmallows, Skittles, many m and ms,
(35:13):
gummy bears, and sprinkles. Brought to you by the National
Diabetes Foundation. It sounds like it was created by a dentist.
Yell the ad a fifteen dollars will Also, they are
going to feature a seven pound burger and a meat
ball HOGI on a stick. I don't think they want
(35:36):
their fence leave the stadiums. Not half of them probably
won't make it out. Seven pound hamburger.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
How many people? What it says?
Speaker 3 (35:45):
They've got to be charging forty or fifty bucks. They're
gonna bring it to you, cut up into seven or
eight pieces.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
It's gotta be how much time do I have right now?
Speaker 3 (35:52):
You have thirty seconds?
Speaker 2 (35:54):
Okay, I'm gonna I'm just gonna stall for a second.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
Oh twelve years ago, the Who, George Michael One Direction,
Spy Girls, Muse Jesse Maddnes, Jesse j Mann. This petchup
Boys Blah blah blah. Vaper and Queen by the way,
performed at the London Olympics. How many how much time?
Now you have fifteen seconds? Seven year old kid, seven
year old boy named table doesn't like his name. I'm
guessing maybe he was named for where he was conceived.
(36:18):
First person he told you know who. It was his
little sister backseat. That's all for today. I'll see you tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Audios.
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