Moon Water

Today, Doug Pike discusses moon water, Astros, and gold coins.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Remember when it was impossible to misplace the TV remote
because you were the TV remote. Remember when music sounded
like this? Remember when social media was truly social?

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

Speaker 1 (00:20):
Well, this show is all about you one. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike, Helpful information on your finances,
good health, and what to do for fun. Fifty plus
brought to you by the UT Health Houston Institute on
Aging Informed Decisions for a healthier, happier life. And now

(00:43):
fifty plus with Doug Pike.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
All right, here we go. Let's start this episode, shall we?
Kind of a groundhouled day thing again the Bill Murray
movie where nothing changes for days and weeks at a time,
And he realizes that that's going on, But the other
people around him don't realize that they're in this time warp,

(01:06):
but we are, and it's for us. It's just this
gorgeous weather we're having. And I'll gladly accept the three
or four or maybe five or six days we've got
headed our way that are going to look pretty much
like this one. Now. The only caveat to that, the
only thing that I'm concerned by in the entire forecast

(01:28):
is this I've been asked to participate, not because I'm
such a good golfer, but because, well, I really don't
know why, because it's a golf tournament put on by
my buddy Kobe Stevens, the guy who does the golf
apparel and fishing apparel and all that, about whom I
speak regularly, by the way, over on my Outdoor show
on Sports Talk seven ninety on Saturday and Sunday mornings

(01:51):
to give I don't need to give him a plug
because his brand is already quite well known. It's just
Kobe Stevens dot com. Go look it up. Looking shirts
I'll be wearing one Monday morning. I guarantee you I'm
going to his tournament, the one time that he really
gets to be in charge of raising a bunch of
money for a good cause. These are causes that he likes,

(02:13):
and not the ones that he spends. I would bet
conservatively thirty weeks a year he's at a golf tournament
somewhere supporting a great cause. But I digress. So the
forecast for Monday, the day of the tournament, is for
a low. This is gonna be rough a low in

(02:35):
the low forties, which is that's below my usual comfort
zone for playing golf, and a high I want to
say of sixty something like that. That's gonna be the
meat and potatoes day of this next cool front we've
got coming down before that ten to twelve degrees higher

(02:57):
on both ends of the spectrum. After that, on Tuesday,
ten twelve degrees higher. But for Monday, I'm going to
be dressed up like the Michelin man, and I will
be very comfortable, There's no question about it. Actually, I
have high tech clothing now thanks to some very nice
sponsors over on KBM that will keep me warm and

(03:22):
help me find my way through that round without being
restricted or constricted at all when I make my perfect
golf swings. I'm sure I told you yesterday, because I've
told almost everybody I know. But I had a good
round on Monday. Did I talk about that yesterday? Will?
I didn't? No way, Okay, here's the deal. I'm just
gonna cut to the bottom line score that I shot,

(03:45):
and I'll just tell you that it probably should have
been better because the front was way better than the back.
But I broke eighty finally again. And it's been a
while since I shot seventy nine. That's all it was,
but I was happy with that because the front was again,
it was way better. The front was more like where
I want to be, and the back was more like

(04:06):
where I used to be. I've recently been, and I'm
not looking back. On Monday, I'm gonna hit some good
shots to scramble. We get to improve our lies. As
they say, I just in that cold weather. This will
be my first, be my coldest round since last winter,
and I just hope I don't pull a muscle. I'm

(04:27):
a year older now than all of that, and so
it's gonna be a nip and tuck by A quick
weather history note I saw in the margin of the
page I was looking at to get those temperatures from
nineteen fifty one, a record setting snowstorm that stretched all
the way from the Great Lakes down into the Texas Panhandle.
Of course it didn't get down here. It rarely does.

(04:50):
But there's been nothing like it since. They said, snowfall
from anywhere from ten to twenty inches of snow over
the entire bread basket of our country. I can't imagine
driving around in the fifties seeing all that. I can't
imagine how many cars skid it off the roadways, because

(05:11):
those bias ply tires back then weren't anything to even
compare to the cool radial tires we have now and
better tread patterns and better just better overall. Meanwhile, Houstonians
still freak out when we get more than what a
little dusting of snow. And you can always tell when

(05:33):
it snowed, even though it's starting to melt off by morning.
Usually when you're on your way to work, you're driving
out of the neighborhood and you get to see five
or six foot tall snowmen in front yards. That's sometimes
that's about the best we can do. And by gosh,
if a Houstonian's got snow in the yard and they've
got little kids, they're making a snowman. It might be

(05:55):
a big one, it might be a little one, but
there will be a snowman.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
Very quick look at Wall Street. How yeah, I got
a couple of minutes. Okay, quick look at Wall Street.
All four indicators. We're in the red this morning, mostly
over concerns that tech and AI companies might be somewhat
and I'll wrap quotes around that somewhat overvalued right now
and heading toward a correction. A very quick example Palanteer

(06:20):
trading at more than two hundred times forward earnings. That
seems a little bit out there and precipitously. So I'm no,
I'm no guru and financing, especially in the stock market.
I have people who help me with my investments, and
thank goodness for that. I don't know what I'd be
invested in right now, but it's probably it probably wouldn't

(06:41):
be doing as well as I'm doing. I'm I'm not
I'm not raking it in, but nor am I losing
any money anyway. The bottom line is that well that
uh oh, there was another one too, by the way,
which one was it? That's doing that? That's doing that?
Where did it?

Speaker 1 (06:59):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (07:00):
Pinterest? There it is right there, pinterest also solid growth.
The story I read said, but the guidance for the
next quarter fell short of expectation, and as any of
you who follow it at all know, everybody freaks out
when something falls short of expectation. The stock falls down,
and I pulled Pintriest down twenty percent, so that's a

(07:22):
pretty big chunk in any event, We're gonna take this
little break here and when we get back we'll get
into the news and boy, there's a lot of news.
I'm gonna go to New York again. I've got some
things I want to discuss about. Mister mom Donnie and
the new mayor, Mom Donnie, do we elected? Hey? They
they asked for him and they got him. And I'm

(07:44):
just kind of concerned for where it's gonna take them,
especially after we talked to Chris Hodge yesterday. He lives
up there. He knows what New York City was, he
knows what it is now, and he knows what it's
about to become. So anyway, on the way out, I
will tell you about Cedar RV Resort over in Baytown,
right down toward the end of Tri City Beach Road

(08:04):
near Thompson's Bait Camp if you've ever been over that way,
and just right on the bay. They've got all concrete
slabs and roads so you don't have to worry about
driving through the mud. They've got a convenience store because
everybody who goes camping or rving or whatnot forgets something
that they'll have to have before they get home. They've
got electric, water and sewer hookups at every site. You've

(08:26):
got free Wi Fi, got a bathhouse with showers also
free of course hot water, hot water for a nice
warm bath this time of year, feel pretty good after
you've been out there playing in the in the grass
and listening to the rustle of the palm fronds and
the trees, and watching that sunset over the bay. Also

(08:47):
some pretty dog on good fishing, and I think afternoons
and mornings are going to be pretty good. There will
there will be redfish caught along that shoreline at Cedar
Cove this time of year. You can use dead Bay,
you can use live Bay, you can use lures, whatever
you want. Well, do you stand there long enough, you're
gonna catch something for dinner. If you don't own an RV.
By the way, Al Kibbi and his wife Nancy will

(09:10):
rent you one. The He's got an arrangement with someone
who has an RV that there allows kind of like
uh B and B on the bay. That's what will
came up with. And I really like that. You get
an opportunity to rent before you buy into that lifestyle,
and buying in can cost you a lot of money.
Renting for a weekend or a week or whatever. This

(09:32):
time of year, take some vacation, take the whole family,
over there and just have some fun. Cedar cove Rvresort
dot com is website Cedar cove Rvresort dot com. What's
life without a nap? If I suggest you go to bed,
sleep it off.

Speaker 1 (09:46):
Just wait until the show's over, sleepy. Back to Doug Pike,
as fifty plus continues.

Speaker 2 (09:53):
Welcome back, Thanks for listening. Certainly do appreciate it. If
that didn't get your toe tap, and I don't know
what will. That's a pretty. That's a pretty. It's not aggressive.
It's not like some of the heavy metal stuff of
old that was just in your face, screaming and all
with that, just that gets you going, That gets your
blood flowing and get your heart beating faster. Moving into

(10:15):
the news, I can't ignore how Mom Donnie's win as
the new mayor of New York kicked off. First of all,
he woke up yesterday realizing that for the first time
in his whole life, he has a job. And I
don't know if that's sunk in yet. And even before
he started, he'd already started asking for money again from

(10:36):
his supporters. It was really interesting to see how this unfolded.
Despite me, he ran on a promise of free stuff
for everybody. Everything's going to be free. Well, in his
victory speech from a headline USA Today story or headline
USA Story, mom, Donnie said, and I quote, oh and
one more thing. Remember how I told you a few

(10:59):
months ago stop sending us money. You can start again.
This transition requires staff, research, and an infrastructure that can
meet this moment end quote. And by the way, he
had a cash bar. Mister everything's going to be free.
He had a cash bar at his victory party. And

(11:23):
that just the way that he's been polished up and presented,
or he was polished up and presented to New Yorkers,
and it came to is no surprise, really, anybody who
thought that anybody other than the Democratic nominee was going
to be voted into office there was fooling themselves. New

(11:44):
York is deep blue. It always has been, it likely
always will be all there. Although there and now that
now that this has happened, even what, however many conservatives
there remained in New York and they weren't there. Weren't
that many. They're going to bounce too. So it's just

(12:05):
they're going to eternally be electing liberals who are going
to continue to tell people that they'll pay for everything,
don't worry, And he's not going to be able to
make his promises come true. There's no way, and let's
not forget. He told everybody a while back that an

(12:26):
aunt of his had been afraid to take the subway
after nine to eleven, and then somebody fact checked that
statement of his and Oopsie Daisy, his only blood relative
ant at that time, lived in Africa, so she couldn't
have been too scared to ride the New York subway.

(12:47):
And when he got called out on that, he said
that he was he had made a mistake. He was
actually referring to some distant cousin of his who's now dead.
So I'm pretty sure he was lying both times, and
not just one of those times. And this is his
whole deal. I've read a story that told me and hey,

(13:11):
practice your own religion here. That's fine. We have American law,
but you are free to practice the religion of your choice.
And among Muslims, I read and if somebody can, and
if I'm wrong, I would love to be told that,
and I will retract this. But what I heard is
that there's a concept within that religion that says it's

(13:33):
okay for them to lie if doing so will advance
the religion. And so I can't help but wonder why
he would say things like that when he knows doggone, well,
it's not true unless he's doing so to advance his goals.
He said he's also going to prove that. And here's
another direct quote from him. No problem is too large

(13:55):
for government to solve, and no concern is too small
for it to about. Think about how greatly that will
insert government into New Yorker's lives. And I saw another
story this morning about him and how Florida's anticipating a
real estate boom that's gonna go into the bazillions of

(14:16):
dollars as the people who can afford to leave New
York City do so. Now, that's on Facebook post this
morning of a guy wearing about fifty gold chains, he
had gold belts on, he had a gold lambee shirt on,
gold and diamonds just everywhere on this guy. And according
to the post, he was a U haul truck franchisee

(14:37):
in New York. That's that's kind of funny. I don't
care who you are in polding behind the election. I
found this very telly. It was revealed that people with
high wealth are the ones who pushed Mamdani over the top.
No surprise, because what he changes, and he's gonna make

(14:57):
some big changes in that city, what he changes won't
impact them, And they have no idea how greatly his
policies are going to The rich people don't really understand
how his policies are going to negatively impact poor people,
middle class people and those with less formal education, who,
by the way, tended to vote for Cuomo. The rich

(15:21):
people tried to help poor people by voting for a
guy who's going to just destroy that middle and lower
middle and lower class. I hope Americans and other dark
blue cities learn from this mistake. And it is a mistake,
and it's not going to take long for him. And
he's got an all women transition team and they're going

(15:42):
to start showing their colors as soon as they can
have a couple of meetings and figure out exactly where
they want to start dismantling New York City. Very frustrating.
All right, that's enough of that, that really is. I
think there's a little something else I had in my
notes later on, maybe maybe not. Oh, by the way,
from Fox news. You had another liquored up illegal immigrant

(16:04):
killed a couple more people by crashing his car at
very high speed into their car. And I guess that's
just another day that we should just just be mindful
that those people are here to better themselves. It's very frustrating.
I'm not looking at that right now. I'm not taking
on that one. Let's go to something a little bit lighter,

(16:26):
because I do like that light stuff, don't I from yesterday?
Where's today's page? Where did it go? It's way down
here on the bottom. I'll go back to yesterday for
this one. And I thought it was very interesting. I
asked Will if he'd ever heard of this. He said no,
and he was in the same boat I'm in. And
I really hope none of you would fall for something
like this. It's a straight up scam. Yesterday I read

(16:51):
that there will be there. I'll take it back twenty
four hours. There was a full moon last night, okay,
and according to this, you and so many other people
around the world, because TikTok told them to, I guess,
can celebrate by jumping on the moon water trend. This

(17:11):
is something that told people that on the full moon,
what you do is you seal some water in a
clear container and then you put it outside under the
full moon, and it changes the energy. It charges with
energy that bucket of water you put out there on
the back porch provided by the light of the full moon.

(17:34):
That no, no, don't fall for that. Don't fall for that.
Here's something you can fall for it. And if you
love music, you're gonna absolutely love this. Old Quarter Acoustic
Cafe is putting on an event on the thirteenth through
the fifteenth of this month that will absolutely pack Galveston

(17:58):
with some of the best songwriters and their special guests
from all over the country, mostly songwriters from Texas, but
there are a lot of people, a lot of pretty
good names coming in here from all over the place
to sit down in these very intimate venues. There's no sholling,
no shouting and yelling and hooting and hollering, because the

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people who are putting this on want to make sure
that these songwriters lyrics are heard alongside their music very small,
very intimate settings for the most part, and they will be.
They're storytellers, okay, texts. Most Texans are storytellers, and some
tales taller than others. But this is the the gosh

(18:42):
spam risk. I gotta turn that thing off. I'm not
gonna worry about it anymore. What I want you to
do is to go downtown from the thirteenth through the fifteenth,
maybe spend a couple of nights down there, and really
immerse yourself in this thing. It's the Old Quarter Songwriter
Festival November thirteenth through the fifth. You can get details
anything you want to learn about where they're going to be,

(19:04):
who's gonna be, where the whole lineup is available at
the website I'm about to tell you, and that will
really give you an idea of how much talent is
going to be right there on Galveston Island, right there
in downtown Galveston Old Quarteracousticcafe dot Com. Go there, check
it out. It's going to be a blast. I may
run down there myself. I fancied myself a songwriter a

(19:27):
long time ago. Old Quarter Acousticcafe dot Com.

Speaker 1 (19:32):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash them, check us
fluids and spring on a fresh code O wax. This
is fifty plus with Doug Pike. Welcome back to fifty plus.
Thank you for listening. Segment three starts right now. And
in case you're wondering.

Speaker 2 (19:52):
Why we haven't had any guests this week, it's because
it's all hands on deck over at ut Health right now.
They've got a big I think it's a walk or
run for Alzheimer's this weekend, And if they'd have sent
me something on it, i'd have told you more about
it two weeks ago or three weeks ago. So I'm
gonna get on them a little bit about about keeping
something that big a secret from me. I think we could.

(20:14):
We could have sent a few people out that can
run five k, ten k whatever, and unfortunately I can't
right now. I don't think I'm not in shape to
do that. They'd let me ride a bike. I might
if I could go up to Wayne Errington's and get
one of those e bikes, I'll ride twenty k I'll
ride twenty miles. One of those things, if I recall,
will have something like ninety miles on the battery power

(20:39):
of that thing. Now, I don't know when I would
need to ride a bicycle forty five miles and then
turn around and come home. That would almost get me
to my mother in law's house up in the Woodlands
and back. Not quite. It's about a sixty mile one
way trip from my house to hers. And what's interesting
about that, For all of you who who've lived here

(21:00):
most of your lives and traveled a bunch. When you travel,
people always say where are you from? And if you're not,
if you're from Houston, inside let's call it inside ninety
nine basically is Houston, and then inside Beltway eight is
a different kind of Houston. And then inside the Loop
they'll tell you if they're from inside the Loop. Outside

(21:24):
of that in Kingwood and sugar Land and Paarland and
Katie and Friendswood and all of those. It's just so
complicated to try to tell people about where that is
in relation to Houston, and that it may be depending
on where you are surrounded by Houston but not part
of Houston. We just say Houston. It's just so much simpler.

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And then if you're hanging out way up north and
you're telling that to a baseball fan, the first words
out of their mouth they're gonna be trash can. Yeah,
you cheated, You're cheaters, trash cans. And the only reason
I don't know why I'm getting off on it. Actually,
I went over to I went over to the Buckingham yesterday.
If you recall, I interviewed Philip Taylor about what's going

(22:08):
on in the world of assisted living and independent living
and memory care living and all of that. A great
interview with him. Look it up if you don't know
and you want to get educated on the basics of
where you probably want to go and how you can
get there. But I went over and saw him yesterday,

(22:28):
and he played baseball for a and m I went
over and played in Mobile, Alabama for a couple of years.
I got homesick and came home and got into business.
But the long and the short of it is, where
was I going with this? Will? I just what the
trash cans? That's right, thank you. I thought you were

(22:50):
fly fishing. I was getting hand signals and I thought
it was fly fishing. But it was banging on trash cans.
The reason that Major League Baseball didn't take it any
further than they did is because if they had, and
if people had been forced to tell the truth, then

(23:11):
it would have come out that almost well, I'll say
straight up, every team in baseball is looking for advantages,
and one of those advantages is being able to read
signs and read pitches and know what the hitter is
about to have coming at him. There was a I
watched just a couple of weeks ago on a game
I think it was. It was one of the playoff games.

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Man on first and second, and the pitcher thinks, uh, oh,
I think that guy is watching how I arranged the
ball in my glove and transmitting that somehow through some
body language signal to the hitter to let them know
whether it's going to be a fastball or a curve
or a slider or a sweeper or a loopy loop

(23:56):
or whatever they want to call it. So many different
pitches now, and many of them very similar. Bottom line
is he deliberately through to second base, knowing that there
was no play back there. The guy wasn't trying to
steal or anybody anyway. But if you do that again
and you don't pick the guy off, that runner is

(24:19):
awarded the next base. And so he did it again,
which created a balk situation and moved that guy deliberately
from second to third so that he would regain his
advantage over the hitter in that the hitter didn't know
what was coming. It was brilliance. That's playing chess when

(24:41):
a lot of people are playing checkers. That was a
good move and it's not the first time it's happened.
They figured that out a long time ago. As soon
as the rule came up said, you know, somebody I'm
sure in baseball said, you know, we could probably do that.
We could probably do that and keep these guys from
figuring out what's coming. And if it's a one or
two run game, given that guy ninety If it's a

(25:01):
two run game, if you're up to given that guy
ninety feet means nothing. If he scores, you're still up one.
That's a lot of baseball talk for a show for seniors,
and it will Collee, Philip and I had a great
time yesterday. I really I enjoyed the tour of the place.
I'm going to go back over there and try to
talk a little business with him too. And as two

(25:22):
baseball players, we couldn't help it. And as we were
walking out the door, so helped me. Like three times
each of us said to the other, Okay, here's one
more story I gotta tell you, but then I gotta go.
And he did that, Then I did that. Then he
did that, then I did that. It was just it
was so refreshing. As a baseball player and someone who

(25:44):
understands the game pretty well, I would say, to talk
to somebody who has an equal knowledge of the game
and understanding of the game. And we just had a blast.
Where am I I want to go back to? I'm
going to go to something I found here. There's a this.

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I don't know how they did this or why, but
it's a big old mess, and it just tells you
how not quite ready we are to just go full
on into AI and electronic data gathering and all that
big healthcare system in Maine is having to send out
apologies to five hundred and thirty one patients in hospitals

(26:31):
and healthcare clinics. These these letters they sent was to
let those people know that they are dead. That would
be something I don't think anybody really needs to tell
someone who's truly dead that they're dead. I think they
probably already figured that out on the way out the door.

(26:55):
I can't imagine why that happened, but and they said
they sincerely were ret the goof Well, yeah, and honestly,
I wouldn't be mad if somebody sent me that I
think that I think the greater concern is that a
loved one who doesn't really know the status of that

(27:15):
person at the time, receives that letter. Maybe it's an ant,
maybe it's a relative or of somebody's who is on
the list to get the text message or on the
list to get the email in case of emergency, and
you find out through some bogus letter that they've passed
when they haven't passed, failed to die, they've passed and

(27:38):
they live. That's what I want to do for a
lot more years a whole I got a whole lot
more loops to make around the sun. As the cliche goes, God,
that's such a weak one too. I should have come
up with something better before up in my mouth got
to take a break on the way out. Ut Health
Institute on Aging is a fantastic collaborative of providers from

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all over this region. They come from everywhere, but they
come to be part of this because it is almost
unique in the entire country. They're only a handful of
anythings like the Institute on Aging and Hours, if I
may say so, is the best in all the country.
From what I've been told and what I've read, and
the reason it's so is because there are more than

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a thousand providers involved here, and every one of them
has got an additional education to what got them their
diploma in how they can manage the health of seniors,
specifically with the knowledge base that they bring to the table.
They take off a weekend, a week, a month, ten
weekends in a row, whatever it is to find out

(28:42):
just how they can take everything they know and then
tweak it so that it applies specifically to seniors. They're
really good at what they do, and we're really lucky
to have them. Straight up, we are really lucky to
have these people. They are mostly in the med center,
as you might imagine, but they also spend time every week,
most of them in some outlying clinic in all the

(29:04):
little outlying towns I mentioned earlier when I was talking
about travel. If you need to see one of them,
you can probably see one close to home. You don't
have to go to the mediciner. If you don't want
to start at the website, look at all the references
and options you have there for services they provide for
anything and everything imaginable as relates to seenior health, and

(29:26):
then work your way to a provider who can take
care of you better than the average provider. Doctor's a doctor.
But if you've got that additional education, you got a
leg up on the rest of the competition. Ut dot
edu slash aging uth dot edu slash aging.

Speaker 1 (29:48):
Old guys rule, and of course women never get old.
If you want to avoid sleeping on the couch.

Speaker 2 (29:55):
Oh, you think that sounds like a good plan?

Speaker 1 (29:58):
Fifty plus continue Here's more with Doug. Welcome back, Thanks
for listening. Final segment starts right now. Probably got about
four or five minutes somewhere in there. I told Will
during the break this was kind of funny. A poll
taken amongst Americans said that six percent, only six percent

(30:20):
of Americans believe that their IQ is below average, which
leads me to.

Speaker 2 (30:26):
Believe the number may be even even lower than I thought.
As far as this goes, How can six percent really
believe that? I don't think they understand what median or
average IQ is, And I'm not sure what the average
IQ among Americans actually really for sure is, but I'd

(30:51):
be willing to bet that it's lower now than it
was twenty thirty years ago. Because we can look at
statistically at students' performance against that of students in other countries,
and know that we're not doing very well at educating
our kids. They're in the classrooms, they're being taught now

(31:13):
that we're post pandemic, which was a horrible, horrible thing
that those kids had to endure. I know my son
suffered for it, no doubt about it. He was rock solid,
and then through that he slumped a little bit. Fortunately
he's still he's making it through and honors and all

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these awards and whatnot. He's doing very well. But it
was tough on him. It was as it was on
every child in America. I think who couldn't go to school,
couldn't get into that routine, had to do all their
stuff from home, and that's hard. They had a nice
routine going, no matter what level of schooling they were getting,

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and then all of a sudden, the rug got pulled
out from under him. But yet to see that six percent,
only six percent of Americans think that their IQ is
below average, just tells me that get in me. Uh,
there may be a lot more people under average than
we think because they think they're above average. There's a
new report out that says that the average person has

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two places at home that they consider their spot. Actually,
at our house, I have one spot. My wife has
one spot where you'll mostly find No, she has two.
I take that back, she does have two. I have one, really,
and my son has one. That those are our domains,

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and we've had them. It says here the average is
about four years. We've been in the same house for
a lot longer than that, far longer than most people
stay in any house they ever buy or rent or whatever.
And so we've just become kind of become creatures of
habit and in it's not urgent need, but in pretty

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soon need of just a nice face lift. We're gonna
do some painting, We're gonna do some furniture buying and
just freshen the place up a little bit. Got that
taken care of. I got that. Ummm, no, I'm not
going to do that. Oh some good news. Two shots
at this. I got two minutes. I think I can
do them both. And it's always out there. I don't

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want to come off like a chicken a little and
tell you bad stuff all the way through. So you
remember the story of the bubble Boy back in the eighties,
Well you're aware of that. Yeah, So the bubble Boy
was as a kid, was born with a condition that
left him with no immune system virtually, and well, the
good news is we've come a very long way since then.
During the period from twenty twelve to twenty seventeen, sixty

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two babies were born with that condition, and after intense
genetic therapy. In checkups during twenty twenty one, four years
post therapy, all but two of those kids had a
ninety five percent reconstruction of their immune systems. I think

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that's pretty special, I really do. I don't understand it,
but I'll stand here and applaud it absolutely. Thank God
for people who understand how to develop and produce gene therapy.
I don't know that. Yeah, I wouldn't begin to know
how to cure the common cult Well, very few people do.

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There's things we can do to cover them up. In Poland,
twentieth century masterpiece been donated to that country's cultural authorities
after going missing for seventy years, which I thought was
pretty cool. It was originally lost after World War Two.
One of those things supposed to have been housed in
a girls' school, but it wasn't. And then this painting,
beautiful painting Summer by Bertha Wegman. Turns up at an

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auction in Denmark last year and finally got back to
where it was painted. That's gonna wrap it up for us,
fresh pain or none, we will be back to sorrow
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