June 17, 2025 • 35 mins
Today, Doug Pike discusses nano needles, porch pirates, and weather.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 3 (00:45):
Show starts now. Thank you all for joining us. I
do appreciate it. Sorry for not putting anything on Facebook
about what this show is going to be about, because
we're going to touch a lot of different bases today,
good ones, ugly ones, all of them really at least
once or twice. And I didn't want to just put
hodgepodge under a show description for today. So if there's
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something really super important I like, especially if I've got
a really good medical interview coming up, I'll try to
put those on every chance I get. Otherwise, if it's
just a it's not a quiet Tuesday, it's just a
we're just gonna kick off the week.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
That's all.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
First day today is in a string of days in
which we're gonna have to deal with afternoon showers and
thunderstorms again. Not sure where, not sure when, not sure
how severe or otherwise they'll be, but they're gonna boil
up again once the heat sucks enough moisture out of
the ground to make clouds and then further make them
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too heavy to hold the moisture they've got.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
That's just the way it goes.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
It reminds me very much this pattern we're in right
now of southeast Florida. When I was going down there
as a kid visiting my grandparents, every afternoon, almost at
about two thirty or three clock, here would come a
fifteen minute shower and that was it, and it would
just move down the coast and then out over the
Atlantic Ocean and it would be over. Sometimes it would
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put enough water in the street for me to go,
for me to go, what do you call that? Skimboarding?
My grandfather made me a skimboard down there, and it
was a good one. And there was a There was
no sidewalk on those streets. It was just yard and
then asphalt street. And where the yard and the asphalt
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street met is where the water would pull and give
me just enough support to throw that thing out in
front of me and just run like crazy and jump
on it and slide over the grass. Sometimes I accidentally
slid over onto the asphalt part. And it wasn't nearly
so slick and smooth and comfortable a ride. Mostly it
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just gripped the bottom of that wooden skimboard and threw
threw me forward, and I'd have to go back to
the house and get a little mercure chrome. Have you
ever heard of that will.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Macua chrome? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Now that is an old school and biold school. I
mean my grandfather had it in his house, but my
parents did not have it in our house.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
It was an old, old old school. Uh.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Concoction of liquid, if you will. It was a liquid
that there was a little glass kind of a dauber
in the bottle and you picked it up and it
would hold about a drop on the end and you
just rub that onto your exposed wound and it would
kill all the germs. It basically was the forerunner to neosporn, okay,
before neosporn was even a twinkle in its founder's eye.
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And it stung, which is probably why it's I bet
it's in the drug store if you go looking for it.
There was macure chrome, and there was another one called
marthiolate and the R. I think both probably stood for mercury,
and maybe that's why they're not around anymore. I'm not
really sure, but it would come to make sense. Really,
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it really was when you think back to it as
a wonder I didn't grow a tail or something I had.
I was just slathered in that stuff almost on a
on a daily basis. Almost I'd go out and go
skimboarding and come back with less skin, uh than skim
It was. It was fun, though I was not I
was no quitter, and even with blood racing down both
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shens and knees, I'd throw that thing one more time.
I'd throw it a little deeper into the grass. I
might not go as far when I got it up
in there, just barely out of the really perfect water.
But then again, when I fell, I didn't. I didn't
lose any part of my body. At that point, some point,
Southeast Texas is gonna shift into full summer mode. We're
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gonna have those hundred degree days, not a cloud in
the sky, cracks in the ground, dead or dying lawns.
All of that's gonna come. And so that's the next alternative.
Be careful if you're wishing the rain would stop, just
remember what that's what the next gear is in the
way we're gonna get through. What a what a mess
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this is gonna be. It's gonna be another hot summer.
I'm not really that worried about it. It happens. It
just does, and we're gonna We're gonna be there. That's
the alternative. That or that one other thing that occasionally
happens in summer, the one I will not mention by
name for fear of conjuring up something none of us wants.
I'm not superstitious, but then again, I'm not taking any
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chances either. Uh quickly at Wall Street. I guess if
we've got time, what time is it?
Speaker 5 (05:44):
Will it is ten twelve? Okay, I see it on
my fifty. Oh wow, so it's almost twelve eleven. Then
I'll breeze through this. Basically a lot of red on
the on the stock market board, the Wall Street board,
thanks to a very volatile Middle East. Just now oil
up a buck or so I think it was this morning.
This too shall pass, though, as the adage goes, and
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by the way, will, I'm pretty sure you already know this,
But if you say an old adage, it's just redundant.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
An adage is an old saying. Are you aware of that?
We're aware of that, Okay. I kind of figured you
might be, but some people aren't. And little things like that.
As a as a magazine editor, and as someone who
makes a living with words printed in spoken, little things
like that bug me a little bit. I don't say anything.
I don't correct people when they say it incorrectly. It's
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it's not my business to do that. I just keep listening.
That's all I do.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Where was I on my little page here?
Speaker 3 (06:44):
As we get closer, yeah, this the whole the Middle
East thing, and then I'm gonna go to break. I
think the greatest fear the world has right now is
that somebody on one side or the other over there
might might in a moment of frustration, or in a
moment of maybe somebody trying to be a hero, whatever,
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somebody pushes the wrong button and just turns the whole
world into a hot mess. Because if one or two
wrong buttons get pushed before, cooler heads prevail, and they
will eventually they will, but if something goes wrong before that,
it's just going to be a super hot mess. I
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like the direction of our company, our country is going.
And when we get back, I'll continue to talk about
some of the good and the bad and the ugly.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
And I got a good.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Bit of good news too, by the way, that delivered today,
So don't worry about that, and I may even lead
with that when we get back. It just it gets
so gloomy sometimes when there's so much, so much messed
up in the world. If you want to get something fixed,
that can be fixed with a vascular procedure. And by
the way, I need to call doctor Andrew Doe and
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talk to him about something that's going to come up
a little later in the show. I'll remember to get
to this one too, because it has to do with
his world and a great new development in his world.
And I'll tell you later right now what he does
over there. Primarily, the number one procedure they perform at
a late health is that prostate artery embolization, which solves
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the issues of an enlarged non cancerous prostate. Prostate cancer
is a whole different thing. The enlargement of that thing
happens with age, unfortunately, to a significant portion, a significant
percentage of men over fifty to fifty five. You start
realizing symptoms that you don't even know what they're for
or from, and then it gets a little worse and
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a little worse.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Well, a late health can.
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Take care of that with prostate artery embolization, which essentially
shuts off the blood supply to that thing and causes
it to shrivel and essentially go away, and with it
go those symptoms. Same for ugly veins, same for fibroids
and women, same for some head pains. As we've talked
about so many many times here, there's no reason why
you shouldn't go to that website and get a good
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You'll be quite surprised at some of the things that
are there and available to all of us, most of
which are covered by Medicare and Medicaid, some aren't, some are.
You'll have to talk to them about that. They also
do regenerative medicine too, which is so so helpful with
chronic pain. What are you waiting for, really, just make
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Speaker 2 (09:42):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
That's why every few months we wash them, check his
fluids and spring on a fresh code O wax. This
is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Come back. Thanks for listening to fifty plus. I do
appreciate it. By the way, the show also that in
addition to Monday through Friday at noon here on KPRC,
there's a replay that Will puts together that airs on
Saturday morning at ten o'clock over on k t r H.
So if you if you miss one, you might get
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a chance to hear it again over there. And I
would greatly appreciate a listen.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
That one's doing pretty well.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
As a matter of fact, if you want to become
part of the family, all you got to do is
email me and just let me know what business you're in,
what a fine, upstanding, honest, well run business you have,
what you do, what you sell, what you offer, And
then we'll start talking from there. I don't actually don't
have a ton of room left in this show? Will
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would you agree with that?
Speaker 4 (10:44):
No, not a ton? Not a ton?
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Maybe maybe a couple more, two more probably would would
tip it out, I think, wouldn't it, mister Bell? All right, Well,
we'll move on from there, uh from the I'll get
to the good stuff here in a second. But I
want to I want to catch before we get too
deep in and maybe I don't have a chance. From
the American dream Desk came a disturbing twist on the
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impression some people around the world have about our country
this morning, and one that's being deliberately spread by quite
a few will more than one, certainly, and probably half
a dozen if I started looking and counting news outlets
around the world that don't like us, don't like what
we're doing right now, and too bad, we're not in
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their country and they're not in ours, and too bad
if they don't like what we're doing. And by the way,
most of the countries around the world don't let just
anybody and everybody walk into their country without being vetted,
without being checked out, to make sure that they're okay
to be part of that country.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
That happened to us for the last.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Four years at an alarming rate, and it's causing problems
that we're making go away slowly but surely anyway. An
ap story out of London talked about how the American
dream is losing its luster and how immigrants might not
be able to achieve what so many other newcomers have
achieved in our nation's history. This nation was built on immigrants,
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There's no question about it. There's no question about it. However,
those people came in, many of them, right through New
York City and went under the Statue of Liberty and
walked just came off at Ellis Island and said, Okay,
I want to be part of this. What do I
have to do to become that. They didn't sneak in,
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They didn't come in under cover of darkness, they didn't
sneak through the desert, they didn't sneak across the Rio
Grand They did it correctly. But these stories are trying
to portray the earlier American dream and how it could
be achieved with current day problems we have with ten, twelve,
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fourteen million people in this country who don't belong here.
They didn't do it the right way, and we're trying
to remedy that. It's gonna take a while. It's gonna
take a while, and for us to be dismissed and
criticized for not just letting anybody and everybody show up
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and do whatever they want is a really foolish argument.
And to see it happening in what I once considered
to be a very legitimate and very powerful news source,
the AP Associated Press, it's disturbing and just disappointing as
much as anything else. That same story makes absolutely no mention,
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by the way, that the people we're removing from our
country now weren't supposed to be here in the first place.
It also makes no mention that America's pathway to citizenship
remains open. It's still open to anybody who elects to
come here the right way. Story told by the AP's
misleading authors and the editors. You've got to remember, anything
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that's written like that has to go through editors not
to be ashamed to use in that space to tell
what was it at best, maybe twenty percent of what's
going on here. People from the world are anywhere in
the world. Well, now I can't say any anywhere because
there are some nations that are they're just sworn enemies
of ours, and we can't let those people in. Uh,
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but they're welcome from friendly nations to us to ours.
They're welcome here as long as they do it the
right way. That's all you have to do. There's absolutely
nothing that stands in the way of becoming an American
for anybody who's willing to get here and do it
legally and abide.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
By our laws. And that says it should be.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
That's what we've always been, except for the last four years.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
From the.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
From the this is interesting, will from the porch pirate desk.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
You didn't even know we had one of those? Did you.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
A pirate desk? We don't have it.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
We have one desk in here that holds all of
h you're just busting the buts and we have our
little boardy. We got no pirates in here.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Well, I have the porch pirate desk over by my
desk outside the studio and did steal it. No, I'm
not a porch pirate. I am all for dissuading porch pirates.
And here's how this guy's doing. He's a twenty two
year old guy's a welder by the way, probably making
really good money as a welder, even at twenty two
years old.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
That's that's one of.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Those trades that will always be in demand, and this
guy's one of them. And in his spare time he
developed and created for himself a large metal box that
sits on his front porch and has a keypad locking
device on it where that enables the delivery people from
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and from Amazon and UPS and whoever else has come, DHL,
whatever's coming by his house. If they want to drop
something off, they can get it into the box, but
only he can get it out. And depending on where
you live, I guess you could either anchor it through
the bottom of the box to your front porch if
it was wood or some other material that would accept
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a big nut and bolt or screw or whatever, or
I guess you could put five or six. This thing's
pretty tall. It's a good three three and a half
feet tall and probably maybe twenty six twenty eight inches square.
It's a pretty imposing thing on the porch, but you
wouldn't want to try to carry it off. He built
it out a really thick, heavy gage steel and welded
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it on both sides so it would inside and outside
so it would be waterproof, and got little stickers on
the internet that say, you know, FedEx and ups and
Amazon and whatever to let them know that's what that's for.
And then he's got that nice little electronic keypad out
there to open it. I guarantee you it would take
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some weightlifting champion, a heavyweight weightlifting champion probably to just
grab that thing and try to run off with it
off his porch. So anyway, I think that's a great idea.
I bet it'll be available soon something. The ones that
are currently out there are, according to the story, a
lot of them are so light that the porch pirates
just pick it up and pick up the whole thing
and run away with whatever's in it his It's not
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gonna happen. It'll be available soon, probably an Amazon.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
You know what I think?
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Well, I think Amazon Prime memberships ought to come with
a box like that. That ought to be the first
thing once you sign up for Amazon Prime, that ought
to be delivered to your door the next day, don't
you think. Do you agree or disagree?
Speaker 4 (17:45):
I think that's fine.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
That's such an evasive answer. It just lets me know
that you weren't paying attention.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Oh I was paying attention for you.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Yeah, okay, how much time do you have because I
want to shift over one minute? Okay, really quickly. Is
there a vaccine for that? Or get off my lawn?
Speaker 4 (18:06):
Get it off.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
My seventy two year old guy in Florida was arrested
for stalking and filing false claims against one of his neighbors,
actually a couple of them calling nine one one. Pop quiz, Well,
how many times this year alone has he called nine
one one on his neighbors.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
He's called nine one one.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
I'll say this time twenty five times. Read this number
out loud, six hundred and forty seven, six hundred and
forty seven times he's called nine one one on his neighbors,
and they finally just arrested him. No, dude, no, you're
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you got it all wrong. Your neighbors aren't that bad.
They're pretty good people.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Leave them alone all the way out here.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
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Speaker 2 (20:18):
Aged to Perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike fifty.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Plus thanks for listening. I do appreciate it, you know,
I do. Will does too, don't you will?
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Sure thing?
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Sure thing.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Let's go to some softer stuff, and I'll get some
more good news. And I've got one two, Yeah, I
got three or four of those still to play with.
I'll go back to my previous initial offering. Is there
a vaccine for that? I will add I forgot, And
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let's get busy.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
Let's get busy. In a new poll, will you're gen
z right?
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Yeah, thought so.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
In a new pole, forty seven percent, almost half of
your generation say they are having more intimacy while working remotely.
Thirty eight percent said that if they return to the office.
This is where your generation loses me. Will when they
return to the office, they'd like to have private spaces
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for hookups and solo play end quote during the work day.
That's not gonna happen. Can you just tell all your
friends that that's not gonna happen. I can't stop them,
Yeah you can't. I can't stop You can't stop them,
But you canna let them know that they're gonna be
acceptable behavior.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
They're loose, they're on the prid. I just was shocked.
What what do they think work is for money? Yeah,
thats what I think.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Well, yeah, but that other parts not for money. Not
not in not any place I've ever worked. If you
just it's they're just asking for a closet, you sure,
col I don't know, Well that one's kind of that
one kind of bothered me a little bit. I gotta
tell you. Uh, and this you'll appreciate this, will. I
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do believe that is there a vaccine for that one?
It's possible, scientists say to literally be allergic to other
people A yeah, I get it, you get it.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Will? Oh yeah, I gotta tickle when I saw that.
Yeah there.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Oh no, I'll just leave that one hanging there, all,
just leave it hanging there. Okay, Uh, let's go to
some better news, so much better news. Uh. I'm gonna
try to load the back half of this program with
a good bit of that, by the way, and.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
I'll tee it up.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Well yeah, I'll hats off to Jay Spawn speaking of
tea and it up on his win at brutally challenging
Oakmont over the weekend.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
I got a call.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Most of my listeners to in this audience who play
golf will know Billy Ray Brown's name, and I got
a call from him Wednesday evening about nine nine thirty.
He had just come from a media meeting at Oakmont
where the USGA let it be known what the conditions
would be for the course the next day and how
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fast they were going to have the greens and official
rough heights and all of that stuff. And he said,
this is going to be a bloodbath. I'll be surprised
if the winning score is under par. And I thought, Yeah,
these are the best golfers in the world. They're going
to do better than that, aren't they. Well, there was
a time on Sunday when nobody was under par and
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jj Spawn, to his credit, just kept grinding and grinding
and grinding, and then the cherry on the Sunday for
him on the eighteenth green, he got a little help
from a red I think it was from Hoblind. I'm
pretty sure he got a little help on a reed
of this putt he had to maybe it was like
forty five fifty feet, I don't know. It's a big
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long putt and he drained it. He drained it to win,
and good for him. Anyway. That's enough of that. Uh,
check that box. Check that box. Got that done. Oh,
this is the one I want to start with, an
at home foot scanner.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
And you think, what's that going to do for you? Right?
Speaker 3 (24:32):
This foot scanner actually can detect the warning signs.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Of heart failure heart failure.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
It works by looking for signs of fluid build up,
which are one of the three key indicators of oncoming
heart failure. Doctors know that, and they've known it for
a long time, but they haven't been able to study
it as as closely as this machine enables them to do.
Guy named doctor Philip Keeling was the lead author of
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the findings of a study that monitored twenty six patients
who were using this device on a regular basis. It
takes about eighteen hundred pictures of the patient's feet and
then alerts if there are potential problems detected. And in
this study, alerts by the machine caught potential heart failure
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between eight and nineteen days prior to an actual failure.
And that happened. I think it happened six times. Yeah,
six hospitalizations during the trial that were detected an average
of thirteen days out and that thirteen days, the study said,
also are ample time in most cases to take measures
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that are going to thwart this potentially deadly heart episode,
so that one didn't say how much this thing costs,
doesn't say when it might be available country. I believe
the story was out of the UK and whenever, and however,
I hope they get a bunch of those over here
as fast as they can. And I also hope that
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Medicare and Medicaid will cover something like that if you
have heart issues. We need that, we really do. Okay,
I tell you what we'll I'll go. I'll go a
few seconds early for you so that we can just
relax a little bit and not have to rush. The
last segment. I want to tell you about Champion Tree Preservation. Okay,
it's hurricane season. There's not one anywhere yet, not in
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the Atlantic anyway, or the Gulf of Mexico, but eventually
there will be one. And if you wait until then
to think about getting your trees trimmed or chit checked out,
just to make sure they're gonna be safe, it's probably
gonna be too late. We're gonna do a little pruning
on the trees in our front yard here in the
next week or two and make sure that they can
withstand a pretty good blow, and you ought to think
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about doing that as well. I'm gonna have Champions Tree
Preservation come out to the house and just take a
look around and see what, if anything needs to be done.
They should be in pretty good shape. I think they are,
but the way our weather cycles have been lately, there
can be damage within the root system that doesn't really
show in the canopy. And that's what Champion Tree Preservations
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arborists can detect for you and make sure that your
trees are gonna be okay, or maybe they need a
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through a storm without tree damage. And they own all
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Speaker 1 (28:00):
Once life without a net, I suggest to go to bed,
sleep it off.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Just wait until the show's over. Sleepy. Back to Doug Pike,
as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Fifty plus, thanks for listening, truly do appreciate it. Well,
let's go back to the semi serious stuff at least,
and maybe a little bit more than that. From the
voluntary deportation desk. Comes word by the New York Post,
but no way by the Times. They wouldn't report this
news of President Trump's program through which illegal immigrants can
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leave voluntarily and at some point in the future if
they want, they can return here through the proper channels
and experienced American dream like they wanted to do when
somebody convinced them two three four years ago took a
bunch of their money that they could just wander in
here undercover of darkness and never get caught. That's what
the Biden administration was saying when it just left the
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borders completely open, refused to secure them, and let an
estimated who knows how many millions of people came in
that way. It's just it's impossible to know. It really
is impossible to know. Anyway, whatever that number is, it
continues to be a tremendous burden on our entire country. Schools, housing,
medical care, the legal system all bogged down by people
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who aren't even supposed to be here. And thanks to
the new program. You may have seen the commercials on
TV for it. Actually it just lays it out there.
If you go back voluntarily, now there's a chance you
could get back in here if you're a pretty good person.
And I think that's a very fair offer. And about
a million people have done that so far. And I
(29:41):
saw something this morning that said President Trump's offering up
to one thousand dollars now to illegals who voluntarily go
home for a while until we get our country put
back together. And from the ones who are allowed back
by this program, leave now before we deport you just
leave voluntarily, and then you can come back, and here's
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one thousand dollars for playing. When they get back, America
is going to be safer for them and their families.
There's no question about it. Speaking of from the National
Threat Desk, by web of Fox News. The guy who's
alleged to have firebombed a group of pro Israel protesters
back on the first day of June up in Colorado
was one of about four hundred thousand people suspected right
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now of overstaying their visas in this country. Former FBI
guys said in the story that many of these people
are ultimately here to perpetrate acts of terror in our
country and are a national security issue.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
Those are his words.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
I would agree these people, they just can't be allowed
to stay and keep.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
Breaking the rules.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
They're rule breakers by example, and then when left in here,
just like this guy is alleged to have done, try
to set a bunch of people on fire. We can't
have that in this country. And they're able to hide.
This is the biggest problem. They're able to hide from
the authorities in a lot of cases because they just
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blend into the millions of other unlawful immigrants who are
also a high priority for removal. So it's very difficult.
It's very difficult when you're starting with millions of people
who have to be rounded up, and I just hope
we get it done and get back to it. By
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the way, there was a kind of a sidebar I
saw earlier with as many people as are being forced
to leave this country because they shouldn't be here, that
wages for some of the jobs they were doing are
going up to find legitimate workers who can come in
and do those jobs. Which that can't be bad. That's
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got to be a good thing.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
Moving on to the fun stuff.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Let me go back over here, by the way, from
the same desk at Good News Network as that story
about doctor Keeling and the foot photographs that give away
pending heart failures. Word of a new These new needles. Okay,
they are a thousand times this is what I was
(32:17):
going to tell doctor Doe about over at a late
health A thousand times thinner than a human hair. Think
about that. Will just pluck a hair out of your
head and look at it and imagine something one thousandth.
Speaker 4 (32:31):
Of that diameter.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
That'd be pretty small, right, Sure, So here's what they're
doing with those, And actually what it is is a
patch that that doctors will put on your skin that
contains literally millions, tens of millions of these little nano
needles that ultimately provide a very painless and far less
(32:55):
invasive means of testing for a variety of cancers. They've
got these little teeny tiny nano needles. I can't even well,
you certainly couldn't. I don't know that you could see them.
Even a thousand times thinner than a human hair. You
could probably drop a hundred on of them on this
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console over here, and in a contrasting color to the
snow white that this console is, and I might not
even be able to see.
Speaker 4 (33:25):
Them, would you agree? No, you think you could see them.
Got eagle eyes. That's why I got these glasses. I
got reading glasses on.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
Everything else is very very very very sharp, but also
not one thousandth the diameter of a human hair. So
I don't know how much time do I have?
Speaker 4 (33:47):
Well, you have two minutes.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
Oh, this is perfect. From the Parks and Wallefe Department.
I did want to get to this today and I'll
save some of this other stuff for tomorrow. Parks of
Walleife Department has made major renovations at these states. It's
a freshwater fishery center. I'll talk about this on Saturday
and Sunday for sure over on KBME. That's up in Athens, Texas,
and they've completed all of that work and there's a
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grand reopening set for July first. If you've never been there,
it's worth the drive with the family and maybe even
a one or two nights stay in a hotel so
you can really get inside there and see it all.
Plan on being there for a while and it's just
an amazing display of how our Parks and Wildlife Department
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supports all of the freshwater fisheries in this state. And
while we're in the water, I'll remind you at Sea
Center Texas, that's the saltwater equivalent of freshwater Fishery Center.
It's right down the street basically in Lake Jackson. Excellent
day trip for anybody who appreciates our coastal and offshore fisheries.
Be sure to schedule a slot on one of their
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tours as well. Back behind the scenes tours that'll get
you into the grow out tanks and get you into
the spawning areas where they put boy and girl redfish
in there and just let them make a few million babies.
And then those are the fish that end up being
transferred into the bays. By the way, I think it
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was last year that the one billionth redfish fingerling was
released into Texas bays and that's a big, huge part,
in addition to some regulations that changed about forty years ago,
a big, huge part of why we have so many
redfish in our bay now, and we're about to have
a ton of speckled trout too.
Speaker 4 (35:34):
They're doing very well.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
It's hard to raise them in captivity because they're cannibalistic.
They eat each other out, they just gobble each other up.
But the redfish is a tremendous success story, tremendous and
it's right down the street.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
All right.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
That's going to wrap it up for today. Thank you
all for listening. I'll be back here tomorrow and so
will Will.
Speaker 4 (35:53):
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a really good medical interview coming up, I'll try to
put those on every chance I get. Otherwise, if it's
just a it's not a quiet Tuesday, it's just a
we're just gonna kick off the week.
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That's all.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
First day today is in a string of days in
which we're gonna have to deal with afternoon showers and
thunderstorms again. Not sure where, not sure when, not sure
how severe or otherwise they'll be, but they're gonna boil
up again once the heat sucks enough moisture out of
the ground to make clouds and then further make them
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too heavy to hold the moisture they've got.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
That's just the way it goes.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
It reminds me very much this pattern we're in right
now of southeast Florida. When I was going down there
as a kid visiting my grandparents, every afternoon, almost at
about two thirty or three clock, here would come a
fifteen minute shower and that was it, and it would
just move down the coast and then out over the
Atlantic Ocean and it would be over. Sometimes it would
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put enough water in the street for me to go,
for me to go, what do you call that? Skimboarding?
My grandfather made me a skimboard down there, and it
was a good one. And there was a There was
no sidewalk on those streets. It was just yard and
then asphalt street. And where the yard and the asphalt
(02:31):
street met is where the water would pull and give
me just enough support to throw that thing out in
front of me and just run like crazy and jump
on it and slide over the grass. Sometimes I accidentally
slid over onto the asphalt part. And it wasn't nearly
so slick and smooth and comfortable a ride. Mostly it
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just gripped the bottom of that wooden skimboard and threw
threw me forward, and I'd have to go back to
the house and get a little mercure chrome. Have you
ever heard of that will.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Macua chrome? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Now that is an old school and biold school. I
mean my grandfather had it in his house, but my
parents did not have it in our house.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
It was an old, old old school. Uh.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Concoction of liquid, if you will. It was a liquid
that there was a little glass kind of a dauber
in the bottle and you picked it up and it
would hold about a drop on the end and you
just rub that onto your exposed wound and it would
kill all the germs. It basically was the forerunner to neosporn, okay,
before neosporn was even a twinkle in its founder's eye.
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And it stung, which is probably why it's I bet
it's in the drug store if you go looking for it.
There was macure chrome, and there was another one called
marthiolate and the R. I think both probably stood for mercury,
and maybe that's why they're not around anymore. I'm not
really sure, but it would come to make sense. Really,
(04:09):
it really was when you think back to it as
a wonder I didn't grow a tail or something I had.
I was just slathered in that stuff almost on a
on a daily basis. Almost I'd go out and go
skimboarding and come back with less skin, uh than skim
It was. It was fun, though I was not I
was no quitter, and even with blood racing down both
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shens and knees, I'd throw that thing one more time.
I'd throw it a little deeper into the grass. I
might not go as far when I got it up
in there, just barely out of the really perfect water.
But then again, when I fell, I didn't. I didn't
lose any part of my body. At that point, some point,
Southeast Texas is gonna shift into full summer mode. We're
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gonna have those hundred degree days, not a cloud in
the sky, cracks in the ground, dead or dying lawns.
All of that's gonna come. And so that's the next alternative.
Be careful if you're wishing the rain would stop, just
remember what that's what the next gear is in the
way we're gonna get through. What a what a mess
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this is gonna be. It's gonna be another hot summer.
I'm not really that worried about it. It happens. It
just does, and we're gonna We're gonna be there. That's
the alternative. That or that one other thing that occasionally
happens in summer, the one I will not mention by
name for fear of conjuring up something none of us wants.
I'm not superstitious, but then again, I'm not taking any
(05:38):
chances either. Uh quickly at Wall Street. I guess if
we've got time, what time is it?
Speaker 5 (05:44):
Will it is ten twelve? Okay, I see it on
my fifty. Oh wow, so it's almost twelve eleven. Then
I'll breeze through this. Basically a lot of red on
the on the stock market board, the Wall Street board,
thanks to a very volatile Middle East. Just now oil
up a buck or so I think it was this morning.
This too shall pass, though, as the adage goes, and
(06:07):
by the way, will, I'm pretty sure you already know this,
But if you say an old adage, it's just redundant.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
An adage is an old saying. Are you aware of that?
We're aware of that, Okay. I kind of figured you
might be, but some people aren't. And little things like that.
As a as a magazine editor, and as someone who
makes a living with words printed in spoken, little things
like that bug me a little bit. I don't say anything.
I don't correct people when they say it incorrectly. It's
(06:36):
it's not my business to do that. I just keep listening.
That's all I do.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Where was I on my little page here?
Speaker 3 (06:44):
As we get closer, yeah, this the whole the Middle
East thing, and then I'm gonna go to break. I
think the greatest fear the world has right now is
that somebody on one side or the other over there
might might in a moment of frustration, or in a
moment of maybe somebody trying to be a hero, whatever,
(07:07):
somebody pushes the wrong button and just turns the whole
world into a hot mess. Because if one or two
wrong buttons get pushed before, cooler heads prevail, and they
will eventually they will, but if something goes wrong before that,
it's just going to be a super hot mess. I
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like the direction of our company, our country is going.
And when we get back, I'll continue to talk about
some of the good and the bad and the ugly.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
And I got a good.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Bit of good news too, by the way, that delivered today,
So don't worry about that, and I may even lead
with that when we get back. It just it gets
so gloomy sometimes when there's so much, so much messed
up in the world. If you want to get something fixed,
that can be fixed with a vascular procedure. And by
the way, I need to call doctor Andrew Doe and
(07:57):
talk to him about something that's going to come up
a little later in the show. I'll remember to get
to this one too, because it has to do with
his world and a great new development in his world.
And I'll tell you later right now what he does
over there. Primarily, the number one procedure they perform at
a late health is that prostate artery embolization, which solves
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the issues of an enlarged non cancerous prostate. Prostate cancer
is a whole different thing. The enlargement of that thing
happens with age, unfortunately, to a significant portion, a significant
percentage of men over fifty to fifty five. You start
realizing symptoms that you don't even know what they're for
or from, and then it gets a little worse and
(08:40):
a little worse.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Well, a late health can.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Take care of that with prostate artery embolization, which essentially
shuts off the blood supply to that thing and causes
it to shrivel and essentially go away, and with it
go those symptoms. Same for ugly veins, same for fibroids
and women, same for some head pains. As we've talked
about so many many times here, there's no reason why
you shouldn't go to that website and get a good
(09:04):
look at everything they do work on at late health.
You'll be quite surprised at some of the things that
are there and available to all of us, most of
which are covered by Medicare and Medicaid, some aren't, some are.
You'll have to talk to them about that. They also
do regenerative medicine too, which is so so helpful with
chronic pain. What are you waiting for, really, just make
(09:25):
the phone call, go to the website a latehealth dot
com and if you want to speak to someone and
talk to them specifically about maybe something you're wondering whether
they do, just call them seven to one three five
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Speaker 2 (09:42):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
That's why every few months we wash them, check his
fluids and spring on a fresh code O wax. This
is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Come back. Thanks for listening to fifty plus. I do
appreciate it. By the way, the show also that in
addition to Monday through Friday at noon here on KPRC,
there's a replay that Will puts together that airs on
Saturday morning at ten o'clock over on k t r H.
So if you if you miss one, you might get
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a chance to hear it again over there. And I
would greatly appreciate a listen.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
That one's doing pretty well.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
As a matter of fact, if you want to become
part of the family, all you got to do is
email me and just let me know what business you're in,
what a fine, upstanding, honest, well run business you have,
what you do, what you sell, what you offer, And
then we'll start talking from there. I don't actually don't
have a ton of room left in this show? Will
(10:42):
would you agree with that?
Speaker 4 (10:44):
No, not a ton? Not a ton?
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Maybe maybe a couple more, two more probably would would
tip it out, I think, wouldn't it, mister Bell? All right, Well,
we'll move on from there, uh from the I'll get
to the good stuff here in a second. But I
want to I want to catch before we get too
deep in and maybe I don't have a chance. From
the American dream Desk came a disturbing twist on the
(11:09):
impression some people around the world have about our country
this morning, and one that's being deliberately spread by quite
a few will more than one, certainly, and probably half
a dozen if I started looking and counting news outlets
around the world that don't like us, don't like what
we're doing right now, and too bad, we're not in
(11:31):
their country and they're not in ours, and too bad
if they don't like what we're doing. And by the way,
most of the countries around the world don't let just
anybody and everybody walk into their country without being vetted,
without being checked out, to make sure that they're okay
to be part of that country.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
That happened to us for the last.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Four years at an alarming rate, and it's causing problems
that we're making go away slowly but surely anyway. An
ap story out of London talked about how the American
dream is losing its luster and how immigrants might not
be able to achieve what so many other newcomers have
achieved in our nation's history. This nation was built on immigrants,
(12:13):
There's no question about it. There's no question about it. However,
those people came in, many of them, right through New
York City and went under the Statue of Liberty and
walked just came off at Ellis Island and said, Okay,
I want to be part of this. What do I
have to do to become that. They didn't sneak in,
(12:34):
They didn't come in under cover of darkness, they didn't
sneak through the desert, they didn't sneak across the Rio
Grand They did it correctly. But these stories are trying
to portray the earlier American dream and how it could
be achieved with current day problems we have with ten, twelve,
(12:56):
fourteen million people in this country who don't belong here.
They didn't do it the right way, and we're trying
to remedy that. It's gonna take a while. It's gonna
take a while, and for us to be dismissed and
criticized for not just letting anybody and everybody show up
(13:18):
and do whatever they want is a really foolish argument.
And to see it happening in what I once considered
to be a very legitimate and very powerful news source,
the AP Associated Press, it's disturbing and just disappointing as
much as anything else. That same story makes absolutely no mention,
(13:42):
by the way, that the people we're removing from our
country now weren't supposed to be here in the first place.
It also makes no mention that America's pathway to citizenship
remains open. It's still open to anybody who elects to
come here the right way. Story told by the AP's
misleading authors and the editors. You've got to remember, anything
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that's written like that has to go through editors not
to be ashamed to use in that space to tell
what was it at best, maybe twenty percent of what's
going on here. People from the world are anywhere in
the world. Well, now I can't say any anywhere because
there are some nations that are they're just sworn enemies
of ours, and we can't let those people in. Uh,
(14:25):
but they're welcome from friendly nations to us to ours.
They're welcome here as long as they do it the
right way. That's all you have to do. There's absolutely
nothing that stands in the way of becoming an American
for anybody who's willing to get here and do it
legally and abide.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
By our laws. And that says it should be.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
That's what we've always been, except for the last four years.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
From the.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
From the this is interesting, will from the porch pirate desk.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
You didn't even know we had one of those? Did you.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
A pirate desk? We don't have it.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
We have one desk in here that holds all of
h you're just busting the buts and we have our
little boardy. We got no pirates in here.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Well, I have the porch pirate desk over by my
desk outside the studio and did steal it. No, I'm
not a porch pirate. I am all for dissuading porch pirates.
And here's how this guy's doing. He's a twenty two
year old guy's a welder by the way, probably making
really good money as a welder, even at twenty two
years old.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
That's that's one of.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Those trades that will always be in demand, and this
guy's one of them. And in his spare time he
developed and created for himself a large metal box that
sits on his front porch and has a keypad locking
device on it where that enables the delivery people from
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and from Amazon and UPS and whoever else has come, DHL,
whatever's coming by his house. If they want to drop
something off, they can get it into the box, but
only he can get it out. And depending on where
you live, I guess you could either anchor it through
the bottom of the box to your front porch if
it was wood or some other material that would accept
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a big nut and bolt or screw or whatever, or
I guess you could put five or six. This thing's
pretty tall. It's a good three three and a half
feet tall and probably maybe twenty six twenty eight inches square.
It's a pretty imposing thing on the porch, but you
wouldn't want to try to carry it off. He built
it out a really thick, heavy gage steel and welded
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it on both sides so it would inside and outside
so it would be waterproof, and got little stickers on
the internet that say, you know, FedEx and ups and
Amazon and whatever to let them know that's what that's for.
And then he's got that nice little electronic keypad out
there to open it. I guarantee you it would take
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some weightlifting champion, a heavyweight weightlifting champion probably to just
grab that thing and try to run off with it
off his porch. So anyway, I think that's a great idea.
I bet it'll be available soon something. The ones that
are currently out there are, according to the story, a
lot of them are so light that the porch pirates
just pick it up and pick up the whole thing
and run away with whatever's in it his It's not
(17:29):
gonna happen. It'll be available soon, probably an Amazon.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
You know what I think?
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Well, I think Amazon Prime memberships ought to come with
a box like that. That ought to be the first
thing once you sign up for Amazon Prime, that ought
to be delivered to your door the next day, don't
you think. Do you agree or disagree?
Speaker 4 (17:45):
I think that's fine.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
That's such an evasive answer. It just lets me know
that you weren't paying attention.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Oh I was paying attention for you.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Yeah, okay, how much time do you have because I
want to shift over one minute? Okay, really quickly. Is
there a vaccine for that? Or get off my lawn?
Speaker 4 (18:06):
Get it off.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
My seventy two year old guy in Florida was arrested
for stalking and filing false claims against one of his neighbors,
actually a couple of them calling nine one one. Pop quiz, Well,
how many times this year alone has he called nine
one one on his neighbors.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
He's called nine one one.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
I'll say this time twenty five times. Read this number
out loud, six hundred and forty seven, six hundred and
forty seven times he's called nine one one on his neighbors,
and they finally just arrested him. No, dude, no, you're
(18:45):
you got it all wrong. Your neighbors aren't that bad.
They're pretty good people.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Leave them alone all the way out here.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
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Aged to Perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike fifty.
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Plus thanks for listening. I do appreciate it, you know,
I do. Will does too, don't you will?
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Sure thing?
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Sure thing.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Let's go to some softer stuff, and I'll get some
more good news. And I've got one two, Yeah, I
got three or four of those still to play with.
I'll go back to my previous initial offering. Is there
a vaccine for that? I will add I forgot, And
(20:50):
let's get busy.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
Let's get busy. In a new poll, will you're gen
z right?
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Yeah, thought so.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
In a new pole, forty seven percent, almost half of
your generation say they are having more intimacy while working remotely.
Thirty eight percent said that if they return to the office.
This is where your generation loses me. Will when they
return to the office, they'd like to have private spaces
(21:21):
for hookups and solo play end quote during the work day.
That's not gonna happen. Can you just tell all your
friends that that's not gonna happen. I can't stop them,
Yeah you can't. I can't stop You can't stop them,
But you canna let them know that they're gonna be
acceptable behavior.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
They're loose, they're on the prid. I just was shocked.
What what do they think work is for money? Yeah,
thats what I think.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Well, yeah, but that other parts not for money. Not
not in not any place I've ever worked. If you
just it's they're just asking for a closet, you sure,
col I don't know, Well that one's kind of that
one kind of bothered me a little bit. I gotta
tell you. Uh, and this you'll appreciate this, will. I
(22:18):
do believe that is there a vaccine for that one?
It's possible, scientists say to literally be allergic to other
people A yeah, I get it, you get it.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Will? Oh yeah, I gotta tickle when I saw that.
Yeah there.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Oh no, I'll just leave that one hanging there, all,
just leave it hanging there. Okay, Uh, let's go to
some better news, so much better news. Uh. I'm gonna
try to load the back half of this program with
a good bit of that, by the way, and.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
I'll tee it up.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Well yeah, I'll hats off to Jay Spawn speaking of
tea and it up on his win at brutally challenging
Oakmont over the weekend.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
I got a call.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Most of my listeners to in this audience who play
golf will know Billy Ray Brown's name, and I got
a call from him Wednesday evening about nine nine thirty.
He had just come from a media meeting at Oakmont
where the USGA let it be known what the conditions
would be for the course the next day and how
(23:27):
fast they were going to have the greens and official
rough heights and all of that stuff. And he said,
this is going to be a bloodbath. I'll be surprised
if the winning score is under par. And I thought, Yeah,
these are the best golfers in the world. They're going
to do better than that, aren't they. Well, there was
a time on Sunday when nobody was under par and
(23:48):
jj Spawn, to his credit, just kept grinding and grinding
and grinding, and then the cherry on the Sunday for
him on the eighteenth green, he got a little help
from a red I think it was from Hoblind. I'm
pretty sure he got a little help on a reed
of this putt he had to maybe it was like
forty five fifty feet, I don't know. It's a big
(24:09):
long putt and he drained it. He drained it to win,
and good for him. Anyway. That's enough of that. Uh,
check that box. Check that box. Got that done. Oh,
this is the one I want to start with, an
at home foot scanner.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
And you think, what's that going to do for you? Right?
Speaker 3 (24:32):
This foot scanner actually can detect the warning signs.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Of heart failure heart failure.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
It works by looking for signs of fluid build up,
which are one of the three key indicators of oncoming
heart failure. Doctors know that, and they've known it for
a long time, but they haven't been able to study
it as as closely as this machine enables them to do.
Guy named doctor Philip Keeling was the lead author of
(25:01):
the findings of a study that monitored twenty six patients
who were using this device on a regular basis. It
takes about eighteen hundred pictures of the patient's feet and
then alerts if there are potential problems detected. And in
this study, alerts by the machine caught potential heart failure
(25:26):
between eight and nineteen days prior to an actual failure.
And that happened. I think it happened six times. Yeah,
six hospitalizations during the trial that were detected an average
of thirteen days out and that thirteen days, the study said,
also are ample time in most cases to take measures
(25:49):
that are going to thwart this potentially deadly heart episode,
so that one didn't say how much this thing costs,
doesn't say when it might be available country. I believe
the story was out of the UK and whenever, and however,
I hope they get a bunch of those over here
as fast as they can. And I also hope that
(26:09):
Medicare and Medicaid will cover something like that if you
have heart issues. We need that, we really do. Okay,
I tell you what we'll I'll go. I'll go a
few seconds early for you so that we can just
relax a little bit and not have to rush. The
last segment. I want to tell you about Champion Tree Preservation. Okay,
it's hurricane season. There's not one anywhere yet, not in
(26:31):
the Atlantic anyway, or the Gulf of Mexico, but eventually
there will be one. And if you wait until then
to think about getting your trees trimmed or chit checked out,
just to make sure they're gonna be safe, it's probably
gonna be too late. We're gonna do a little pruning
on the trees in our front yard here in the
next week or two and make sure that they can
withstand a pretty good blow, and you ought to think
(26:52):
about doing that as well. I'm gonna have Champions Tree
Preservation come out to the house and just take a
look around and see what, if anything needs to be done.
They should be in pretty good shape. I think they are,
but the way our weather cycles have been lately, there
can be damage within the root system that doesn't really
show in the canopy. And that's what Champion Tree Preservations
(27:12):
arborists can detect for you and make sure that your
trees are gonna be okay, or maybe they need a
little pruning, maybe they need some food, maybe they need
to be taken out. They'll let you know exactly what
needs to be done to make sure you can get
through a storm without tree damage. And they own all
their own equipment, so you don't have to wait around
for them to be able to rent a stump grinder
(27:34):
or rent a bucket. If you've got a big tall
tree they got to get up to the top of
or whatever. Call them, get a consultation. Not gonna cost
you a dime. Two eight one three two zero eighty
two oh one two eight one three two zero eighty
two oh one. By the way, they also have a
tree farm in case you want to. If you have
to take one out and you want to replace it
right away, they'll get that done. Championstree dot com. Championstree
(27:58):
dot com.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Once life without a net, I suggest to go to bed,
sleep it off.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Just wait until the show's over. Sleepy. Back to Doug Pike,
as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Fifty plus, thanks for listening, truly do appreciate it. Well,
let's go back to the semi serious stuff at least,
and maybe a little bit more than that. From the
voluntary deportation desk. Comes word by the New York Post,
but no way by the Times. They wouldn't report this
news of President Trump's program through which illegal immigrants can
(28:33):
leave voluntarily and at some point in the future if
they want, they can return here through the proper channels
and experienced American dream like they wanted to do when
somebody convinced them two three four years ago took a
bunch of their money that they could just wander in
here undercover of darkness and never get caught. That's what
the Biden administration was saying when it just left the
(28:54):
borders completely open, refused to secure them, and let an
estimated who knows how many millions of people came in
that way. It's just it's impossible to know. It really
is impossible to know. Anyway, whatever that number is, it
continues to be a tremendous burden on our entire country. Schools, housing,
medical care, the legal system all bogged down by people
(29:17):
who aren't even supposed to be here. And thanks to
the new program. You may have seen the commercials on
TV for it. Actually it just lays it out there.
If you go back voluntarily, now there's a chance you
could get back in here if you're a pretty good person.
And I think that's a very fair offer. And about
a million people have done that so far. And I
(29:41):
saw something this morning that said President Trump's offering up
to one thousand dollars now to illegals who voluntarily go
home for a while until we get our country put
back together. And from the ones who are allowed back
by this program, leave now before we deport you just
leave voluntarily, and then you can come back, and here's
(30:02):
one thousand dollars for playing. When they get back, America
is going to be safer for them and their families.
There's no question about it. Speaking of from the National
Threat Desk, by web of Fox News. The guy who's
alleged to have firebombed a group of pro Israel protesters
back on the first day of June up in Colorado
was one of about four hundred thousand people suspected right
(30:27):
now of overstaying their visas in this country. Former FBI
guys said in the story that many of these people
are ultimately here to perpetrate acts of terror in our
country and are a national security issue.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
Those are his words.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
I would agree these people, they just can't be allowed
to stay and keep.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
Breaking the rules.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
They're rule breakers by example, and then when left in here,
just like this guy is alleged to have done, try
to set a bunch of people on fire. We can't
have that in this country. And they're able to hide.
This is the biggest problem. They're able to hide from
the authorities in a lot of cases because they just
(31:10):
blend into the millions of other unlawful immigrants who are
also a high priority for removal. So it's very difficult.
It's very difficult when you're starting with millions of people
who have to be rounded up, and I just hope
we get it done and get back to it. By
(31:31):
the way, there was a kind of a sidebar I
saw earlier with as many people as are being forced
to leave this country because they shouldn't be here, that
wages for some of the jobs they were doing are
going up to find legitimate workers who can come in
and do those jobs. Which that can't be bad. That's
(31:53):
got to be a good thing.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
Moving on to the fun stuff.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Let me go back over here, by the way, from
the same desk at Good News Network as that story
about doctor Keeling and the foot photographs that give away
pending heart failures. Word of a new These new needles. Okay,
they are a thousand times this is what I was
(32:17):
going to tell doctor Doe about over at a late
health A thousand times thinner than a human hair. Think
about that. Will just pluck a hair out of your
head and look at it and imagine something one thousandth.
Speaker 4 (32:31):
Of that diameter.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
That'd be pretty small, right, Sure, So here's what they're
doing with those, And actually what it is is a
patch that that doctors will put on your skin that
contains literally millions, tens of millions of these little nano
needles that ultimately provide a very painless and far less
(32:55):
invasive means of testing for a variety of cancers. They've
got these little teeny tiny nano needles. I can't even well,
you certainly couldn't. I don't know that you could see them.
Even a thousand times thinner than a human hair. You
could probably drop a hundred on of them on this
(33:17):
console over here, and in a contrasting color to the
snow white that this console is, and I might not
even be able to see.
Speaker 4 (33:25):
Them, would you agree? No, you think you could see them.
Got eagle eyes. That's why I got these glasses. I
got reading glasses on.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
Everything else is very very very very sharp, but also
not one thousandth the diameter of a human hair. So
I don't know how much time do I have?
Speaker 4 (33:47):
Well, you have two minutes.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
Oh, this is perfect. From the Parks and Wallefe Department.
I did want to get to this today and I'll
save some of this other stuff for tomorrow. Parks of
Walleife Department has made major renovations at these states. It's
a freshwater fishery center. I'll talk about this on Saturday
and Sunday for sure over on KBME. That's up in Athens, Texas,
and they've completed all of that work and there's a
(34:10):
grand reopening set for July first. If you've never been there,
it's worth the drive with the family and maybe even
a one or two nights stay in a hotel so
you can really get inside there and see it all.
Plan on being there for a while and it's just
an amazing display of how our Parks and Wildlife Department
(34:33):
supports all of the freshwater fisheries in this state. And
while we're in the water, I'll remind you at Sea
Center Texas, that's the saltwater equivalent of freshwater Fishery Center.
It's right down the street basically in Lake Jackson. Excellent
day trip for anybody who appreciates our coastal and offshore fisheries.
Be sure to schedule a slot on one of their
(34:55):
tours as well. Back behind the scenes tours that'll get
you into the grow out tanks and get you into
the spawning areas where they put boy and girl redfish
in there and just let them make a few million babies.
And then those are the fish that end up being
transferred into the bays. By the way, I think it
(35:15):
was last year that the one billionth redfish fingerling was
released into Texas bays and that's a big, huge part,
in addition to some regulations that changed about forty years ago,
a big, huge part of why we have so many
redfish in our bay now, and we're about to have
a ton of speckled trout too.
Speaker 4 (35:34):
They're doing very well.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
It's hard to raise them in captivity because they're cannibalistic.
They eat each other out, they just gobble each other up.
But the redfish is a tremendous success story, tremendous and
it's right down the street.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
All right.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
That's going to wrap it up for today. Thank you
all for listening. I'll be back here tomorrow and so
will Will.
Speaker 4 (35:53):
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