October 22, 2024 • 36 mins
Today, Doug Pike discusses different types of nuts, sports, and choosing not to vote.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Hey John, how's it going today?
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Well?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
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Speaker 4 (00:50):
All right, two day issue of the program starts right now.
I'm not gonna waste any time. We'll get right into it.
I have lots going on too. I have no guest today.
It's just gonna be willing me. But there is so
much happening that warrants attention. I believe so anyway that
I want to try to get to at least most
of it. I doubt we'll get to all of it.
(01:10):
And I actually had a couple of things kind of
left over from yesterday, like tune of sandwiches, and maybe
we'll get to some of that as well. Yeah, there's
one that I'd really like to talk about in any event,
Welcome to Tuesday, which looks one hell of a lot
like the past eight or ten or fourteen or whatever days.
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I've actually just lost count of how many days we've
gone with lots of sunshine, cooler temperatures, bright sky, but
no rain. And the next marginal kind of sort of
maybe chance for rain. It's a twenty percent shot. Guess
when will in ten days? What's today the twenty whatever,
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twenty second? Oh, at nine days, I think it's it's
Halloween night. Oh, that's the first shot we've got, and
it's only twenty percent. It's only a twenty percent shot.
So I'd take the lower temperatures daytime and nighttime. I
like that, But honestly, i'd I would be willing to
dive on the sword and suffer five, six, seven more
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days in the mid nineties if if they came only
once or twice a week, and each of them brought
an about a half inch or so, an honest half
inch of rain, I think would help. If it happened
five or six times over the next four or five weeks,
that'd be okay, well, anyway, thanks to Texas i AQ specialists,
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because cleaner air is healthier air. Do I'll pound two fifties,
say healthy air and you can learn more. I'll try
to catch your attention well with this highs and lows
in haiku?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Are you r right?
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Are you ready?
Speaker 2 (02:58):
All right? Patiently waiting waiting for water?
Speaker 4 (03:06):
But none unless you count tears?
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Are you crying, Doug, Maybe a little bit. I'm sorry,
it's okay. Let it out, buddy.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Maybe I will sometimes, I don't know, been a while,
all right, you know, more recent than you might think.
That one.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
That one, I'll say, I wanna.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
I'm gonna give it a just a solid solid seven.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
What did I write down?
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Will? Seven?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Point one? You're getting close dialing in. That's two days
in a row where you've been point one off.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
I know, I'm just dialing in pretty well. I think,
I think I kind of have you figured out a
little bit, And I'm not gonna tell you what I've
figured out. Well, the truth is it's actually nothing as
a wild guess, that's all. I just wanted to confuse
you a little bit, but you're hard to confuse, I think.
So onward we plod in dusty boots, not muddy boots,
off to market thanks to Houston Goldexchange dot Com, where
(04:09):
the price gold, by the way, just keeps on climbing. Well,
remember how happy I was a few weeks ago when
I went over there and dropped off this little thimbleful
of gold that was just it was at the house,
and got a lot of money for it. Oh yeah, Well,
gold since then has gone up another one hundred and
fifty dollars an ounce. It is now, well, it was
(04:33):
a couple of hours ago two thousand, seven hundred and
fifty six bucks an ounce. That's significant. My only regret
is that I didn't buy when it was about three
hundred dollars back when I bought most of those pieces
I did have. I didn't buy a brick of it.
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That would have been nice. It would have been really,
really nice. In any event, oil up a couple of
bucks as well, And I honestly it's seventy something dollars,
seventy two dollars I think it was. And I kind
of wonder when Kalm was gonna wave a magic wand
and try to bring that down before the election, or
if she even can. Honestly, with the tension right now
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in the Middle East. All four indicators down again this morning,
potentially leading to the second straight day of decline across
the board anyway in a long time. While we're talking
about money and finance and stuff. By the way, I
talked to a guy this morning about Texas Home Bars.
It's one of the companies I spoke for them for
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a good while and enjoyed doing so, and they just
took a different direction. And that's fine with me because
they're doing very well and I'm glad to hear that.
That business. It's interesting to me. What's fascinating. What they
do is buy homes in any condition. And you see
the signs taped up on light polls and stuff like
that of smaller companies maybe just getting started, but Texas
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Home Bars has been around a long time. And what
they do essentially is say somebody comes up. They all
of a sudden they've inherited a house from a relative
who's passed, or in worst cases, they man they've got
a house that's about to be foreclosed on and they
really got to get out from under it, or there's
a divorce. It's all kinds of reasons that people come
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to them. And it's just a fascinating thing. They come out,
they take a look at your house, and they don't
do white glove inspections. They just come out and take
a very educated look, a brief but educated look, and
then go back to the office and punch numbers and
come up with an amount to make you an offer
and if you like it, you can get a check
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in about a week. Just no mustno fuss. Fascinates me, really,
And I mentioned Houston Home Buars because I know them.
There are other companies out there, but I do know
Houston Home Buars. They're good at what they do. So
if that's where you are now, if you need to
turn a house into a liquid asset, check them out,
check them out.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Here we go. It started already.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
We're what in the first week of early voting in
Texas and in Tarrant County. The Tarrant County Republican chairman,
a guy named both French. I got this from a listener.
I trust. This guy posted on x that he's had
reports already of voting machines changing Trump votes to Harris votes. Well,
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these are on paper ballots. They're on paper ballots, and
it's honestly, well what he did did up there was
just encourage and urge every voter.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
And that's on both sides.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Anytime I talk about voting, I'm not telling you who
to vote for. I'm just telling you what I what
I've learned, and then you use the information as you
will to make sure that whoever you cast your ballot
for is going to get your vote. So anyway, if
you if you're voting on an electronic ballot, I can't
you know if you have a paper ballot and what
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the story explained was that already okay? And anyway, in
some cases you can just say, look, this isn't what
I wanted. I want to start over, and they should
give you another ballot and you double check your stuff
on electronically.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
I don't know how you do that. All Right, we
gotta take a little break. You're on the way out.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
I'm gonna tell you a little bit about the city
of Alpine, which is way out in West Texas.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
It's a good chunk.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Of miles from here. Okay, But what they're trying to
lure you with right now, and it's a nice lure,
is it? Kind of celebration of an early Christmas? December fifth,
through the seventh Out there in Alpine, sne it's a
straight out dry You just drive on I ten tell
you just can't drive anymore, and you'll probably be close
to Alpine. On that Thursday, you can enjoy a stroll
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through all the shops on Murphy Street and Holland Avenue,
which are very cool. Then on Friday they're gonna have
a magical Christmas concert, and then you can cap that
long weekend on I guess Saturday maybe with a beautiful
of historic Adobe homes decorated for the season, of course
on Alpine's Adobe Trail. As a bonus, this is something
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I like about being way out in West Texas. If
you just get a little ways out of town, because
Alpine's not that big and it doesn't have that many lights,
you get a little ways out of town and you'll
see more stars when you look up into the night
sky than you will ever see from anywhere within fifty
miles of Houston. Free stargazing every night in Alpine. Start
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your Christmas season in the Big Bend of Texas, one
of the most beautiful geographical areas ecological areas in the
entire state.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Go to Historicalpine dot org. Historicalpine dot Org and just.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Click on the big box in the middle of the
page and you'll see what I'm talking about. Alpine Christmas
and Alpine. You'll love it out there, you really will.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Aged to perfection. This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Well I didn't take long at all, did it. Welcome
back fifty plus. Thanks for listening. Certainly, do appreciate it.
Quick sip of water. I've already had three cups of
coffee today. You'd probably never know, probably never know. So anyway,
what this guy did in Terre County is just urge
all the voters up there. And honestly, I don't know
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how you do it with electronic ballots. You push that button.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
That's how it's been down here where I vote.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
Usually you go in there and it's all electronic and
you just push submit or cast my vote or whatever
that final thing is. And you got your fingers crossed, now,
don't I don't know, Golly just I so hope that
that's wrong, and I so hope that that's not really happening.
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But honestly, I don't know how I could be how
I could be surprised if it were. Just make sure
and something else I saw, and I think I talked
about it this past week.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Someone wrote somewhere that.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
If anyone writes on your ballot, maybe just even puts
a check mark or a little circle or you know,
tells you that don't forget this, and they write on
your ballot, that some of that that possibly could be
thrown out as an invalid ballot. So make sure you
get a blank one, make sure that all things go
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the way you intend them to go, and then cast
your vote and cross your fingers without further ado. Let's
take a little look at what Kamala Harris is doing lately.
After telling the young man at her rally recently up
up believing Wisconsin or Minnesota, I think Minnesota, this guy
simply just he praised Jesus aloud, and she told him
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he was at the wrong rally. And then a couple
of days later, she visited two black churches in Georgia,
and she was there because she's losing votes in that
demographic reason. She went there and probably passed two dozen
more churches between the two of them' I don't know.
I don't know about her. I really don't. Well, I
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do know about her as much as I can find
out JD vanced, by the way. On the other hand,
when somebody shouted Jesus is King at one of his
rallies recently, he stopped and shared his Christian faith with
the audience and let them know that he'd only recently,
actually in twenty nineteen, been baptized. Sharon One's faith publicly
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in this country doesn't encroach on anyone else's faith or
religion or right to believe or not to believe. Everybody
in this country right now at least has that option
they can they can believe or not believe in practice
whatever faith they like. We're still individuals. And for Harris
to tell Christians that they're at the wrong rally something
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that wasn't in the script, by the way, it just
fell out of her mouth in response to that statement,
and that I think says a lot about her. In
world news in what I'm gonna from the what possibly
could go wrong with this desk?
Speaker 2 (13:11):
In response to North.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Korea sending troops to fight alongside Russians in Ukraine, South
Korea is sending troops to fight alongside Ukrainian soldiers. That
just reeks of a powder keg to me, and I
really hope. Well, I wish we had stronger leadership in
the country right now, because I don't think much of
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any of this would have happened under a stronger president
and vice president. One more world bit, and I wish
I'd found this before the IDF did. The IDF, when
going through a part of Beirut, uncovered a bunker, an
underground bunker believed to have belonged to Hezbollah. And in
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that bunker half a bill in cash and gold, half
a billion dollars in cash and gold. That's I don't know.
We may have politicians around here have that out in
their garage and just those little file boxes. It's possible.
Probably not, Oh, Mercy, I've got that taken care of.
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I've got that taken care of. No, I don't want
to do that yet.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
From the mainstream media desk, I've got about three minutes here.
From the mainstream media desk comes word that CBS still
isn't interested at all in sharing transcripts or anything else
in regard to the alteration of DP Harris's response to
questions during an interview that first aired on Sunday's Face
(14:49):
the Nation a couple of weeks ago, and then a
day later on sixty minutes in primetime and CBS. According
to an op ed piece I saw at Real Clear
Politics needs to share more about why that happened. I
would agree. I would have to agree when you look
at the difference. When she responds the first time on
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Face the Nation, it's just a long, drawn out, yet
another one of her word salad type of instances where
what she said really didn't make any sense, and then
on sixty minutes in response to the same question, a
very concise, very very polished and scripted I'm pretty sure answer.
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I'm pretty sure. And that's not how That's not how
these things are supposed to go. They're supposed to be unscripted.
They're supposed to allow the candidate to speak from the
heart and not from the teleprompter. Speaking of media and
its ability to sway an entire nation, diehard left winger
George Soros in case you haven't heard it yet, and
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I've heard Jimmy and Share talking about this on ktr A.
He bought Odissey, He pulled that, he pulled that company
out of a hole and put up enough money to
where he pretty much owns now a couple of hundred
radio stations at least. I'm not sure exactly how many.
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There's a saying and I heard it just the other day.
I can't remember who was using it, but something like
if you can't sell the message, change the messenger, and
moving forward, you could pretty much count on Odyssey's talk
shows and news reports and all that and start leaning
farther and farther left as current folks within Odyssey are
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replaced with soro sicophants. Free speech definitely under heavy fire
right now. I truly hope it survives. I truly do,
because this country will be in a pretty big pickle
if free speech gets torn down at all, and.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
I mean at all.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
Somebody who disagrees with me has just as much right
to speak their mind as I have to speak money.
And I don't have a problem with that ever. Will
if you ever want to say something where you don't
you don't agree with me, I'm not going to stop
you from saying it. I might disagree with you, but hey,
you you you could have the floor every now and
then if you need it. Okay, you understand, fair, fair, fair, yes, okay,
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just wanted to make sure you gotta go. Oh no,
not again. Yes, we will though, and I'll remind you
that will If you and I had found that half
a billion dollars in golden cash, you and I both
could probably be in a good position to contact kirk
Holmes and get them to build us a nice, big
house somewhere. We could we could practically buy a county
with a half a billion dollars, I would think, or
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a lot of acres to put a beautiful house on it.
Where they work primarily kirk Holmbs, a third generation builder that's,
by the way, twenty twenty four Southern Living Builder of
the Year. Only one company gets that. They build from
the northwest side of Houston all the way throughout the
hill country. Anywhere and everywhere out in that general region
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is where they're going now. And I bet that for
the right for the right deal, the right home to
really add to their portfolio, they might even go a
little farther. For you, I don't know. One thing I
do know is that they offer a twenty year structural warranty,
which is twice the industry standard, and they use two
by six exterior walls for better insulation against the harshness,
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the random occasional harshness of the elements around here see
that dream home of yours become reality.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
It's pretty simple.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
You start with an email to kirkcolmbs dot com and
set up an appointment to meet with their design team,
the architectural team, all of those people who will help
you get this done. Kirkholmbs dot com is website that's
k you are k because at Kirkcolmbs it's all about you.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Once life without a net. If I suggest you go
to bed, sleep it off, just wait until the show's over.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Sleepy that Doug Pike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Welcome back, spifty, Well, thanks for listening. Certainly do appreciate it.
I have a story in front of me here. I
think that if there are I know there would be
very few, if any, But if there are any, teenagers,
especially teenage boys, I think, and you'll understand the reasoning
behind that statement. I'm not trying to exclude teenage girls
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from this story, but mostly it would be boys. I
would think that would be involved in what we're about
to do. It's yard work related. Okay, here's the deal.
There is a wildlife conservation group, and oh I wish
they'd have been around when I was a kid. Wildlife
conservation group encouraging all of us to just and they
wrap us in quotes because it's pretty catchy. Leave the
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leaves right where they fall. Their position is that leaves
are beneficial to a wide variety of wildlife, including birds
and small mammals, amphibians, reptiles, moss, butterflies. I don't know
that there's anything they left out except maybe elephants in Wales.
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But you get the drift, and it's true when you
stop and think about it. In the forest, when autumn comes,
the leaves fall and nobody runs out there to rake them.
But they're not worrying about maintaining a beautiful lawn. Those
those forest dwelling creatures, they don't care. They need the
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leaves out there, They like the leaves out there. We
don't have that many of those animals in our yards,
and we are trying to protect beautiful Saint Augustine lawns
or Bermuda lawns or whatever it is you have. So anyway,
the long short of my question is again that where
in the heck were these people when my dad was
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handing me the rake and sending me outside in the
middle of autumn, when I would rather be throwing a
football out in the street with the kids from down
the block. The story does note that heavy leaf cover
is damaging to your grass, which is quite true and
makes walkways slippery. Also true, if you have a lot
of leaves on your sidewalk, you gotta be careful about that.
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Its recommendation is for you to rake those leaves to
another part of the yard where there's no trees or walks,
use them for malt, stack them in a corner until
they turn into compost. They just don't waste all those leaves.
And I understand my neighborhood has just my neighborhood has
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usually an average of probably an average now of about
two point five oak trees per yard. Some people have
taken out all four that were planted originally. Some people
have only taking out one or two. But we've all
got oak trees and the leaves fall out of them,
and some people have other leaves that or other trees
that shed their leaves. And at the right time of year,
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you might see on on green waste day when they
come pick up the leaves and twigs, you might see three, four, five,
six bags out in front of most houses. Or we
could just put them in a corner and turn them
in a compost. I vote for putting them out to
the curb. I want to I want to keep that
grass growing because next summer, I don't want to have
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to start from zero, because my my grass has been
in the dark for six months. It's And if you
are a teenager and you're hearing this and you're you're
thinking of how you can take full advantage, just explain
to your parents that you need to leave those leaves
right where they fall, and that is your contribution to
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saving our planet, which is a better idea than most
in that in that I of that ILK. So anyway,
I don't want to talk about that just yet. I'll
leave that alone. I've got four more good, solid minutes.
A quick trip back to the VP debate, specifically when
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jd Vance called out the moderator for fact checking him
when the rules of engagement clearly prohibited that he got
his mic cut off when he responded to a fact
check it. And I didn't like that, honestly. Essentially, they
were calling him a liar, but he wasn't lying. He
really wasn't. And that frustrates me that they use that
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power very selectively. If somebody is saying something that goes
in line with their narrative. Whatever network it is, they
let them roll. But if somebody dares to challenge them
and their network in front of millions of people, they
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just silence. And that's that goes back to that Soros thing.
I'm afraid. I know somebody who works for a Sorow
station and it doesn't matter who are water where, But
I also know from talking to him that there's there's
restriction on him on what he can and can't talk
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about during his show. And it's frustrating, it really is.
It's kind of frustrating. Let's move on to let's move
on to something.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
A little bit lighter. Will shall we?
Speaker 4 (24:30):
I think we should? I think we should in just
a couple of minutes. Oh, by the way, today, will
do you know what national day it is? Yes? I'm waiting.
Then it's nut Day? It is?
Speaker 2 (24:45):
You nailed it, National nut Day.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
And a poll asked people what kind of nuts they
enjoyed the most, And did you see the answers to that?
Speaker 3 (24:56):
No?
Speaker 2 (24:56):
What was number one?
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Walnut? Nope?
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Now, oh they have no taste. They need something else
with cashhoe.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Walnuts need a wingman to be of any value. Anywhere.
Cashews No, no, no, no, they were second, I think
to pastachia. Yes, pistachios. Twenty four percent of people said
they like them the most. That and then I don't
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peanut way down the list, I would imagine. I would
imagine peanuts just almost didn't even make the cut for
some reason. Pecans would have to go ahead of peanuts. Correct, Yeah,
almonds or peanuts. I'm not really much of a nut eater,
to be honest. Well, that kind of spoils the whole
bit against just saying, you know, they all taste frankly
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the same to me.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
The same. Really, a cash you taste like a peanut
to you.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
It all tastes the same to me.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
Okay, there's more here, right your own punchlines. Fifty one
percent of American sports fans will are more likely to
know their teams their favorite teams record than what important
part of personal information.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Their social Security number.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
No they know that, Oh really yeah, But fifty of
them are more likely to know that team's record than
they are to know how much they have saved for retirement.
That seems a little bit lopsided in the wrong direction.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
I think we should cancel all sports.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
No, I think you're wrong on that. See here we
are have different opinions on something and.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
We just need to get rid of it all.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
Well, anything's possible.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
I think if you can't know how much is in
your account, you don't deserve to watch sports.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Yeah. I think it's a pretty good thing to know
how much money you got and whether or not you're
gonna be able to retire today tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
So you know what, they're gonna spend the eighty dollars
on those you know jerseys that they're gonna be wearing
for their Yeah, well.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Someday, not go.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
You're making us late for the break again. We'll take
a break late. Health. I'll tell you all about them,
Well not all about them, because that would take a
long long time. But what I can tell you is
that the number one procedure they do pay attention guys
prostate artery embolization, which alleviates the symptoms those nasty, horrible,
ridiculous symptoms get you up in the middle of the night,
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got you go into the bathroom, you think you're finished,
and you go back and you lie down, and you
got to go right back in there because you didn't
empty completely in a large prostate probably they can fix that.
They go in, they ident it. They're a vascular team,
a vascular surgery team, and what the doctors and other
nurses and whoever's in the room with you do is
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identify exactly which artery is feeding that prostate, and they
shut it off. They starve it of the blood, the
oxygenated blood it needs to keep growing. And once they've
done that, it kind of shrivels up and goes away,
And so do the symptoms. Same for fibroids and women,
same for ugly veins. Same And I didn't even know
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this was possible, but it is. There are certain types
of headaches that can be relieved and at least moderated
since significantly by shutting off little tiny arteries in your head.
That's great news for people with headaches. At least go look,
at least go talk to them about it and see
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a website. Most of what they do is completed in
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Speaker 2 (29:08):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
That's why every few months we wash him, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh codo wax.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
All right, the fourth and final segment of the program
starts right now. Thank you for listening to fifty plus.
Thanks for sharing your lunch hour. And I apologize for
what I said yesterday toward the end of the show.
I don't even remember what it was, but it was
really it was really bad for the lunch hour. Will
Do you remember what it was? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (29:51):
It was about the live roach and the summer.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
Will. No, I didn't ask you to repeat it. I
just asked if you remembered, and then maybe I was
gonna ask you later. Wow, now we all know. Yeah,
now more people know m mercy Will All right, So
I low hanging fruit for me and a place that
(30:16):
I probably should I should look more often for news
out of the view that television show where I don't
know if they could lean any farther left without falling over,
But the bottom line was they had ten walls on
there recently, and co host Alissa Farrah Griffin actually just
(30:37):
I thought, Okay, this is going to be good when
I started reading the story. She asked him straight up
about misstatements he's made in regard to his military service
and whether or not he was actually in ten and
Men's Square in China when hundreds of protesters were killed
in nineteen eighty nine, which.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
He said he was more than once.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
He said a lot of things about things he's either
done or not really done, and most of the time
it's things he hadn't done, and then he's tried to
walk his way back on it and been not called
out by the left leaning media, and they've essentially given
him a pass, and here we go again. Instead of
just asking the question and allowing him to answer, Griffin
(31:26):
felt compelled before he could possibly even speak also to
say this, and I quote, I want to be unequivocal.
Nobody lies as much as Donald Trumpe. Excuse me, Donald Trump,
nothing you've misled on is anything on the same level
end quote. And I guarantee you right then, if you
(31:49):
could have looked inside Walls's mind, that whatever pucker he
was feeling as she started to nudge him into a
corner on some of the things he said was lit
did completely.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
He could have defaulted to.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
His Anne Harris's pat answer about being raised in a
middle class family, tell me, tell me, Tim wallsh were
you in ten and Men Square in China when hundreds
of protesters were killed in nineteen eighty nine. Well, I
was raised in a middle class family, and it wouldn't
(32:25):
have mattered. They would have just falled over him. The
whole panel would have helped take the hook out of
his mouth.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
It was clever.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
Well, it wasn't clever really what she said. She probably
thought it was. She had that plan from jump, it
was in her script. But honestly, it really bothered me
that they let him off the hook before he even
said a word. Probably worked on that show's audience too,
(32:53):
that show they all just gush and goo over the
same old stuff. And I'm honestly, I don't know how
that show stays alive except that half the country kind
of leans that way. And you have to remember that
no matter what happens in November, half the country's going
to be pretty happy about it. The other half is
going to be scratching their heads and wondering why it happened.
(33:15):
The difference, though, I think, is that if somehow the
left wins, I don't know if I don't know anybody
leaning to the right who is going to move out
of the country or even say they would leave this country.
We love this country that much. I'm in that boat.
I want to see this country become a little lean,
(33:36):
a little more conservative than it is now. And certainly
to clean up the border, certainly clean up a lot
of issues, a lot of issues in this country, and.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Hopefully we can.
Speaker 4 (33:46):
But if that's not the way the vote of the
people goes, and if then, okay, we'll just have to
work harder next time and hope we can get things
done before it's too late. But people on the left,
I guarantee you, if Trump wins, they're gonna be talking
about leaving the country. They're gonna be talking about moving away.
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They hate this country, and four years later they'll all
still be here because there's nowhere else they can go
on the planet. That's going to be better than where
they are right now. She showed her true colors when
she did that, and was if they weren't already on
full display, as are those of everyone else on that show.
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Only two minutes left?
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Will really this?
Speaker 4 (34:32):
I don't control the time, Doug.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
No, I didn't say you did.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
I'm just looking up at the clock and noticing that
we've got that twenty seven percent of people, twenty seven
percent of people. We're talking about people who choose not
to vote, okay, and how other people perceive them. Will
twenty seven percent of people think more highly or less
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highly of them for.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Choosing not to vote.
Speaker 4 (35:05):
I don't know less highly. If you're not voting, don't
even open your mouth. Don't talk about politics at all.
If you're not gonna vote, then don't talk it. If
you are gonna vote, tell me what you think. I'll
tell you what I think, and we'll see if we
can't find some common ground. But even if we can't
find common ground, I'm not gonna dislike you for your
(35:28):
political opinion. I might think you're wrong, and I might
tell you I think you're wrong and why, But it
still doesn't mean we can't go fishing together. Or play
golf together, or do whatever you want to do. It
doesn't matter to me. It doesn't matter at all. Four
percent of Americans, by the way, do think more highly
of people who choose not to vote, and that's probably
the four percent who also are not going to vote.
(35:51):
It's amazing to me that with soul this country is
that such a volatile just standing on the precipice right now,
leaf in which way it's gonna end up going, that
anybody would not cast a ballot for somebody, even if
you're just a little teeny bit in favor of one
candidate or the other. You got you gotta vote, all right.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
I'll end on that early voting is on.
Speaker 4 (36:21):
Feel free to take advantage and get your vote casts
and get it done. That's it for today. We'll see
it tomorrow. Audios.
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Speaker 4 (00:50):
All right, two day issue of the program starts right now.
I'm not gonna waste any time. We'll get right into it.
I have lots going on too. I have no guest today.
It's just gonna be willing me. But there is so
much happening that warrants attention. I believe so anyway that
I want to try to get to at least most
of it. I doubt we'll get to all of it.
(01:10):
And I actually had a couple of things kind of
left over from yesterday, like tune of sandwiches, and maybe
we'll get to some of that as well. Yeah, there's
one that I'd really like to talk about in any event,
Welcome to Tuesday, which looks one hell of a lot
like the past eight or ten or fourteen or whatever days.
(01:33):
I've actually just lost count of how many days we've
gone with lots of sunshine, cooler temperatures, bright sky, but
no rain. And the next marginal kind of sort of
maybe chance for rain. It's a twenty percent shot. Guess
when will in ten days? What's today the twenty whatever,
(01:59):
twenty second? Oh, at nine days, I think it's it's
Halloween night. Oh, that's the first shot we've got, and
it's only twenty percent. It's only a twenty percent shot.
So I'd take the lower temperatures daytime and nighttime. I
like that, But honestly, i'd I would be willing to
dive on the sword and suffer five, six, seven more
(02:23):
days in the mid nineties if if they came only
once or twice a week, and each of them brought
an about a half inch or so, an honest half
inch of rain, I think would help. If it happened
five or six times over the next four or five weeks,
that'd be okay, well, anyway, thanks to Texas i AQ specialists,
(02:44):
because cleaner air is healthier air. Do I'll pound two fifties,
say healthy air and you can learn more. I'll try
to catch your attention well with this highs and lows
in haiku?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Are you r right?
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Are you ready?
Speaker 2 (02:58):
All right? Patiently waiting waiting for water?
Speaker 4 (03:06):
But none unless you count tears?
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Are you crying, Doug, Maybe a little bit. I'm sorry,
it's okay. Let it out, buddy.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Maybe I will sometimes, I don't know, been a while,
all right, you know, more recent than you might think.
That one.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
That one, I'll say, I wanna.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
I'm gonna give it a just a solid solid seven.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
What did I write down?
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Will? Seven?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Point one? You're getting close dialing in. That's two days
in a row where you've been point one off.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
I know, I'm just dialing in pretty well. I think,
I think I kind of have you figured out a
little bit, And I'm not gonna tell you what I've
figured out. Well, the truth is it's actually nothing as
a wild guess, that's all. I just wanted to confuse
you a little bit, but you're hard to confuse, I think.
So onward we plod in dusty boots, not muddy boots,
off to market thanks to Houston Goldexchange dot Com, where
(04:09):
the price gold, by the way, just keeps on climbing. Well,
remember how happy I was a few weeks ago when
I went over there and dropped off this little thimbleful
of gold that was just it was at the house,
and got a lot of money for it. Oh yeah, Well,
gold since then has gone up another one hundred and
fifty dollars an ounce. It is now, well, it was
(04:33):
a couple of hours ago two thousand, seven hundred and
fifty six bucks an ounce. That's significant. My only regret
is that I didn't buy when it was about three
hundred dollars back when I bought most of those pieces
I did have. I didn't buy a brick of it.
(04:53):
That would have been nice. It would have been really,
really nice. In any event, oil up a couple of
bucks as well, And I honestly it's seventy something dollars,
seventy two dollars I think it was. And I kind
of wonder when Kalm was gonna wave a magic wand
and try to bring that down before the election, or
if she even can. Honestly, with the tension right now
(05:14):
in the Middle East. All four indicators down again this morning,
potentially leading to the second straight day of decline across
the board anyway in a long time. While we're talking
about money and finance and stuff. By the way, I
talked to a guy this morning about Texas Home Bars.
It's one of the companies I spoke for them for
(05:34):
a good while and enjoyed doing so, and they just
took a different direction. And that's fine with me because
they're doing very well and I'm glad to hear that.
That business. It's interesting to me. What's fascinating. What they
do is buy homes in any condition. And you see
the signs taped up on light polls and stuff like
that of smaller companies maybe just getting started, but Texas
(05:57):
Home Bars has been around a long time. And what
they do essentially is say somebody comes up. They all
of a sudden they've inherited a house from a relative
who's passed, or in worst cases, they man they've got
a house that's about to be foreclosed on and they
really got to get out from under it, or there's
a divorce. It's all kinds of reasons that people come
(06:20):
to them. And it's just a fascinating thing. They come out,
they take a look at your house, and they don't
do white glove inspections. They just come out and take
a very educated look, a brief but educated look, and
then go back to the office and punch numbers and
come up with an amount to make you an offer
and if you like it, you can get a check
(06:42):
in about a week. Just no mustno fuss. Fascinates me, really,
And I mentioned Houston Home Buars because I know them.
There are other companies out there, but I do know
Houston Home Buars. They're good at what they do. So
if that's where you are now, if you need to
turn a house into a liquid asset, check them out,
check them out.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Here we go. It started already.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
We're what in the first week of early voting in
Texas and in Tarrant County. The Tarrant County Republican chairman,
a guy named both French. I got this from a listener.
I trust. This guy posted on x that he's had
reports already of voting machines changing Trump votes to Harris votes. Well,
(07:24):
these are on paper ballots. They're on paper ballots, and
it's honestly, well what he did did up there was
just encourage and urge every voter.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
And that's on both sides.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Anytime I talk about voting, I'm not telling you who
to vote for. I'm just telling you what I what
I've learned, and then you use the information as you
will to make sure that whoever you cast your ballot
for is going to get your vote. So anyway, if
you if you're voting on an electronic ballot, I can't
you know if you have a paper ballot and what
(07:58):
the story explained was that already okay? And anyway, in
some cases you can just say, look, this isn't what
I wanted. I want to start over, and they should
give you another ballot and you double check your stuff
on electronically.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
I don't know how you do that. All Right, we
gotta take a little break. You're on the way out.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
I'm gonna tell you a little bit about the city
of Alpine, which is way out in West Texas.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
It's a good chunk.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Of miles from here. Okay, But what they're trying to
lure you with right now, and it's a nice lure,
is it? Kind of celebration of an early Christmas? December fifth,
through the seventh Out there in Alpine, sne it's a
straight out dry You just drive on I ten tell
you just can't drive anymore, and you'll probably be close
to Alpine. On that Thursday, you can enjoy a stroll
(08:46):
through all the shops on Murphy Street and Holland Avenue,
which are very cool. Then on Friday they're gonna have
a magical Christmas concert, and then you can cap that
long weekend on I guess Saturday maybe with a beautiful
of historic Adobe homes decorated for the season, of course
on Alpine's Adobe Trail. As a bonus, this is something
(09:10):
I like about being way out in West Texas. If
you just get a little ways out of town, because
Alpine's not that big and it doesn't have that many lights,
you get a little ways out of town and you'll
see more stars when you look up into the night
sky than you will ever see from anywhere within fifty
miles of Houston. Free stargazing every night in Alpine. Start
(09:31):
your Christmas season in the Big Bend of Texas, one
of the most beautiful geographical areas ecological areas in the
entire state.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Go to Historicalpine dot org. Historicalpine dot Org and just.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Click on the big box in the middle of the
page and you'll see what I'm talking about. Alpine Christmas
and Alpine. You'll love it out there, you really will.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Aged to perfection. This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Well I didn't take long at all, did it. Welcome
back fifty plus. Thanks for listening. Certainly, do appreciate it.
Quick sip of water. I've already had three cups of
coffee today. You'd probably never know, probably never know. So anyway,
what this guy did in Terre County is just urge
all the voters up there. And honestly, I don't know
(10:25):
how you do it with electronic ballots. You push that button.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
That's how it's been down here where I vote.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
Usually you go in there and it's all electronic and
you just push submit or cast my vote or whatever
that final thing is. And you got your fingers crossed, now,
don't I don't know, Golly just I so hope that
that's wrong, and I so hope that that's not really happening.
(10:53):
But honestly, I don't know how I could be how
I could be surprised if it were. Just make sure
and something else I saw, and I think I talked
about it this past week.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Someone wrote somewhere that.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
If anyone writes on your ballot, maybe just even puts
a check mark or a little circle or you know,
tells you that don't forget this, and they write on
your ballot, that some of that that possibly could be
thrown out as an invalid ballot. So make sure you
get a blank one, make sure that all things go
(11:27):
the way you intend them to go, and then cast
your vote and cross your fingers without further ado. Let's
take a little look at what Kamala Harris is doing lately.
After telling the young man at her rally recently up
up believing Wisconsin or Minnesota, I think Minnesota, this guy
simply just he praised Jesus aloud, and she told him
(11:49):
he was at the wrong rally. And then a couple
of days later, she visited two black churches in Georgia,
and she was there because she's losing votes in that
demographic reason. She went there and probably passed two dozen
more churches between the two of them' I don't know.
I don't know about her. I really don't. Well, I
(12:09):
do know about her as much as I can find
out JD vanced, by the way. On the other hand,
when somebody shouted Jesus is King at one of his
rallies recently, he stopped and shared his Christian faith with
the audience and let them know that he'd only recently,
actually in twenty nineteen, been baptized. Sharon One's faith publicly
(12:30):
in this country doesn't encroach on anyone else's faith or
religion or right to believe or not to believe. Everybody
in this country right now at least has that option
they can they can believe or not believe in practice
whatever faith they like. We're still individuals. And for Harris
to tell Christians that they're at the wrong rally something
(12:54):
that wasn't in the script, by the way, it just
fell out of her mouth in response to that statement,
and that I think says a lot about her. In
world news in what I'm gonna from the what possibly
could go wrong with this desk?
Speaker 2 (13:11):
In response to North.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Korea sending troops to fight alongside Russians in Ukraine, South
Korea is sending troops to fight alongside Ukrainian soldiers. That
just reeks of a powder keg to me, and I
really hope. Well, I wish we had stronger leadership in
the country right now, because I don't think much of
(13:34):
any of this would have happened under a stronger president
and vice president. One more world bit, and I wish
I'd found this before the IDF did. The IDF, when
going through a part of Beirut, uncovered a bunker, an
underground bunker believed to have belonged to Hezbollah. And in
(13:57):
that bunker half a bill in cash and gold, half
a billion dollars in cash and gold. That's I don't know.
We may have politicians around here have that out in
their garage and just those little file boxes. It's possible.
Probably not, Oh, Mercy, I've got that taken care of.
(14:22):
I've got that taken care of. No, I don't want
to do that yet.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
From the mainstream media desk, I've got about three minutes here.
From the mainstream media desk comes word that CBS still
isn't interested at all in sharing transcripts or anything else
in regard to the alteration of DP Harris's response to
questions during an interview that first aired on Sunday's Face
(14:49):
the Nation a couple of weeks ago, and then a
day later on sixty minutes in primetime and CBS. According
to an op ed piece I saw at Real Clear
Politics needs to share more about why that happened. I
would agree. I would have to agree when you look
at the difference. When she responds the first time on
(15:12):
Face the Nation, it's just a long, drawn out, yet
another one of her word salad type of instances where
what she said really didn't make any sense, and then
on sixty minutes in response to the same question, a
very concise, very very polished and scripted I'm pretty sure answer.
(15:34):
I'm pretty sure. And that's not how That's not how
these things are supposed to go. They're supposed to be unscripted.
They're supposed to allow the candidate to speak from the
heart and not from the teleprompter. Speaking of media and
its ability to sway an entire nation, diehard left winger
George Soros in case you haven't heard it yet, and
(15:56):
I've heard Jimmy and Share talking about this on ktr A.
He bought Odissey, He pulled that, he pulled that company
out of a hole and put up enough money to
where he pretty much owns now a couple of hundred
radio stations at least. I'm not sure exactly how many.
(16:18):
There's a saying and I heard it just the other day.
I can't remember who was using it, but something like
if you can't sell the message, change the messenger, and
moving forward, you could pretty much count on Odyssey's talk
shows and news reports and all that and start leaning
farther and farther left as current folks within Odyssey are
(16:39):
replaced with soro sicophants. Free speech definitely under heavy fire
right now. I truly hope it survives. I truly do,
because this country will be in a pretty big pickle
if free speech gets torn down at all, and.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
I mean at all.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
Somebody who disagrees with me has just as much right
to speak their mind as I have to speak money.
And I don't have a problem with that ever. Will
if you ever want to say something where you don't
you don't agree with me, I'm not going to stop
you from saying it. I might disagree with you, but hey,
you you you could have the floor every now and
then if you need it. Okay, you understand, fair, fair, fair, yes, okay,
(17:22):
just wanted to make sure you gotta go. Oh no,
not again. Yes, we will though, and I'll remind you
that will If you and I had found that half
a billion dollars in golden cash, you and I both
could probably be in a good position to contact kirk
Holmes and get them to build us a nice, big
house somewhere. We could we could practically buy a county
with a half a billion dollars, I would think, or
(17:43):
a lot of acres to put a beautiful house on it.
Where they work primarily kirk Holmbs, a third generation builder that's,
by the way, twenty twenty four Southern Living Builder of
the Year. Only one company gets that. They build from
the northwest side of Houston all the way throughout the
hill country. Anywhere and everywhere out in that general region
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is where they're going now. And I bet that for
the right for the right deal, the right home to
really add to their portfolio, they might even go a
little farther. For you, I don't know. One thing I
do know is that they offer a twenty year structural warranty,
which is twice the industry standard, and they use two
by six exterior walls for better insulation against the harshness,
(18:27):
the random occasional harshness of the elements around here see
that dream home of yours become reality.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
It's pretty simple.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
You start with an email to kirkcolmbs dot com and
set up an appointment to meet with their design team,
the architectural team, all of those people who will help
you get this done. Kirkholmbs dot com is website that's
k you are k because at Kirkcolmbs it's all about you.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Once life without a net. If I suggest you go
to bed, sleep it off, just wait until the show's over.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Sleepy that Doug Pike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Welcome back, spifty, Well, thanks for listening. Certainly do appreciate it.
I have a story in front of me here. I
think that if there are I know there would be
very few, if any, But if there are any, teenagers,
especially teenage boys, I think, and you'll understand the reasoning
behind that statement. I'm not trying to exclude teenage girls
(19:35):
from this story, but mostly it would be boys. I
would think that would be involved in what we're about
to do. It's yard work related. Okay, here's the deal.
There is a wildlife conservation group, and oh I wish
they'd have been around when I was a kid. Wildlife
conservation group encouraging all of us to just and they
wrap us in quotes because it's pretty catchy. Leave the
(19:57):
leaves right where they fall. Their position is that leaves
are beneficial to a wide variety of wildlife, including birds
and small mammals, amphibians, reptiles, moss, butterflies. I don't know
that there's anything they left out except maybe elephants in Wales.
(20:20):
But you get the drift, and it's true when you
stop and think about it. In the forest, when autumn comes,
the leaves fall and nobody runs out there to rake them.
But they're not worrying about maintaining a beautiful lawn. Those
those forest dwelling creatures, they don't care. They need the
(20:43):
leaves out there, They like the leaves out there. We
don't have that many of those animals in our yards,
and we are trying to protect beautiful Saint Augustine lawns
or Bermuda lawns or whatever it is you have. So anyway,
the long short of my question is again that where
in the heck were these people when my dad was
(21:05):
handing me the rake and sending me outside in the
middle of autumn, when I would rather be throwing a
football out in the street with the kids from down
the block. The story does note that heavy leaf cover
is damaging to your grass, which is quite true and
makes walkways slippery. Also true, if you have a lot
of leaves on your sidewalk, you gotta be careful about that.
(21:28):
Its recommendation is for you to rake those leaves to
another part of the yard where there's no trees or walks,
use them for malt, stack them in a corner until
they turn into compost. They just don't waste all those leaves.
And I understand my neighborhood has just my neighborhood has
(21:50):
usually an average of probably an average now of about
two point five oak trees per yard. Some people have
taken out all four that were planted originally. Some people
have only taking out one or two. But we've all
got oak trees and the leaves fall out of them,
and some people have other leaves that or other trees
that shed their leaves. And at the right time of year,
(22:12):
you might see on on green waste day when they
come pick up the leaves and twigs, you might see three, four, five,
six bags out in front of most houses. Or we
could just put them in a corner and turn them
in a compost. I vote for putting them out to
the curb. I want to I want to keep that
grass growing because next summer, I don't want to have
(22:33):
to start from zero, because my my grass has been
in the dark for six months. It's And if you
are a teenager and you're hearing this and you're you're
thinking of how you can take full advantage, just explain
to your parents that you need to leave those leaves
right where they fall, and that is your contribution to
(22:53):
saving our planet, which is a better idea than most
in that in that I of that ILK. So anyway,
I don't want to talk about that just yet. I'll
leave that alone. I've got four more good, solid minutes.
A quick trip back to the VP debate, specifically when
(23:17):
jd Vance called out the moderator for fact checking him
when the rules of engagement clearly prohibited that he got
his mic cut off when he responded to a fact
check it. And I didn't like that, honestly. Essentially, they
were calling him a liar, but he wasn't lying. He
really wasn't. And that frustrates me that they use that
(23:38):
power very selectively. If somebody is saying something that goes
in line with their narrative. Whatever network it is, they
let them roll. But if somebody dares to challenge them
and their network in front of millions of people, they
(23:59):
just silence. And that's that goes back to that Soros thing.
I'm afraid. I know somebody who works for a Sorow
station and it doesn't matter who are water where, But
I also know from talking to him that there's there's
restriction on him on what he can and can't talk
(24:20):
about during his show. And it's frustrating, it really is.
It's kind of frustrating. Let's move on to let's move
on to something.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
A little bit lighter. Will shall we?
Speaker 4 (24:30):
I think we should? I think we should in just
a couple of minutes. Oh, by the way, today, will
do you know what national day it is? Yes? I'm waiting.
Then it's nut Day? It is?
Speaker 2 (24:45):
You nailed it, National nut Day.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
And a poll asked people what kind of nuts they
enjoyed the most, And did you see the answers to that?
Speaker 3 (24:56):
No?
Speaker 2 (24:56):
What was number one?
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Walnut? Nope?
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Now, oh they have no taste. They need something else
with cashhoe.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Walnuts need a wingman to be of any value. Anywhere.
Cashews No, no, no, no, they were second, I think
to pastachia. Yes, pistachios. Twenty four percent of people said
they like them the most. That and then I don't
(25:26):
peanut way down the list, I would imagine. I would
imagine peanuts just almost didn't even make the cut for
some reason. Pecans would have to go ahead of peanuts. Correct, Yeah,
almonds or peanuts. I'm not really much of a nut eater,
to be honest. Well, that kind of spoils the whole
bit against just saying, you know, they all taste frankly
(25:50):
the same to me.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
The same. Really, a cash you taste like a peanut
to you.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
It all tastes the same to me.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
Okay, there's more here, right your own punchlines. Fifty one
percent of American sports fans will are more likely to
know their teams their favorite teams record than what important
part of personal information.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Their social Security number.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
No they know that, Oh really yeah, But fifty of
them are more likely to know that team's record than
they are to know how much they have saved for retirement.
That seems a little bit lopsided in the wrong direction.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
I think we should cancel all sports.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
No, I think you're wrong on that. See here we
are have different opinions on something and.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
We just need to get rid of it all.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
Well, anything's possible.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
I think if you can't know how much is in
your account, you don't deserve to watch sports.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Yeah. I think it's a pretty good thing to know
how much money you got and whether or not you're
gonna be able to retire today tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
So you know what, they're gonna spend the eighty dollars
on those you know jerseys that they're gonna be wearing
for their Yeah, well.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Someday, not go.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
You're making us late for the break again. We'll take
a break late. Health. I'll tell you all about them,
Well not all about them, because that would take a
long long time. But what I can tell you is
that the number one procedure they do pay attention guys
prostate artery embolization, which alleviates the symptoms those nasty, horrible,
ridiculous symptoms get you up in the middle of the night,
(27:32):
got you go into the bathroom, you think you're finished,
and you go back and you lie down, and you
got to go right back in there because you didn't
empty completely in a large prostate probably they can fix that.
They go in, they ident it. They're a vascular team,
a vascular surgery team, and what the doctors and other
nurses and whoever's in the room with you do is
(27:52):
identify exactly which artery is feeding that prostate, and they
shut it off. They starve it of the blood, the
oxygenated blood it needs to keep growing. And once they've
done that, it kind of shrivels up and goes away,
And so do the symptoms. Same for fibroids and women,
same for ugly veins. Same And I didn't even know
(28:14):
this was possible, but it is. There are certain types
of headaches that can be relieved and at least moderated
since significantly by shutting off little tiny arteries in your head.
That's great news for people with headaches. At least go look,
at least go talk to them about it and see
if that can help you. A latehealth dot com is
(28:37):
a website. Most of what they do is completed in
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not in some hospital bed where people are walking up
and down the hall with stuff you might catch and
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(28:59):
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Speaker 2 (29:08):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
That's why every few months we wash him, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh codo wax.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
All right, the fourth and final segment of the program
starts right now. Thank you for listening to fifty plus.
Thanks for sharing your lunch hour. And I apologize for
what I said yesterday toward the end of the show.
I don't even remember what it was, but it was
really it was really bad for the lunch hour. Will
Do you remember what it was? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (29:51):
It was about the live roach and the summer.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
Will. No, I didn't ask you to repeat it. I
just asked if you remembered, and then maybe I was
gonna ask you later. Wow, now we all know. Yeah,
now more people know m mercy Will All right, So
I low hanging fruit for me and a place that
(30:16):
I probably should I should look more often for news
out of the view that television show where I don't
know if they could lean any farther left without falling over,
But the bottom line was they had ten walls on
there recently, and co host Alissa Farrah Griffin actually just
(30:37):
I thought, Okay, this is going to be good when
I started reading the story. She asked him straight up
about misstatements he's made in regard to his military service
and whether or not he was actually in ten and
Men's Square in China when hundreds of protesters were killed
in nineteen eighty nine, which.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
He said he was more than once.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
He said a lot of things about things he's either
done or not really done, and most of the time
it's things he hadn't done, and then he's tried to
walk his way back on it and been not called
out by the left leaning media, and they've essentially given
him a pass, and here we go again. Instead of
just asking the question and allowing him to answer, Griffin
(31:26):
felt compelled before he could possibly even speak also to
say this, and I quote, I want to be unequivocal.
Nobody lies as much as Donald Trumpe. Excuse me, Donald Trump,
nothing you've misled on is anything on the same level
end quote. And I guarantee you right then, if you
(31:49):
could have looked inside Walls's mind, that whatever pucker he
was feeling as she started to nudge him into a
corner on some of the things he said was lit
did completely.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
He could have defaulted to.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
His Anne Harris's pat answer about being raised in a
middle class family, tell me, tell me, Tim wallsh were
you in ten and Men Square in China when hundreds
of protesters were killed in nineteen eighty nine. Well, I
was raised in a middle class family, and it wouldn't
(32:25):
have mattered. They would have just falled over him. The
whole panel would have helped take the hook out of
his mouth.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
It was clever.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
Well, it wasn't clever really what she said. She probably
thought it was. She had that plan from jump, it
was in her script. But honestly, it really bothered me
that they let him off the hook before he even
said a word. Probably worked on that show's audience too,
(32:53):
that show they all just gush and goo over the
same old stuff. And I'm honestly, I don't know how
that show stays alive except that half the country kind
of leans that way. And you have to remember that
no matter what happens in November, half the country's going
to be pretty happy about it. The other half is
going to be scratching their heads and wondering why it happened.
(33:15):
The difference, though, I think, is that if somehow the
left wins, I don't know if I don't know anybody
leaning to the right who is going to move out
of the country or even say they would leave this country.
We love this country that much. I'm in that boat.
I want to see this country become a little lean,
(33:36):
a little more conservative than it is now. And certainly
to clean up the border, certainly clean up a lot
of issues, a lot of issues in this country, and.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Hopefully we can.
Speaker 4 (33:46):
But if that's not the way the vote of the
people goes, and if then, okay, we'll just have to
work harder next time and hope we can get things
done before it's too late. But people on the left,
I guarantee you, if Trump wins, they're gonna be talking
about leaving the country. They're gonna be talking about moving away.
(34:07):
They hate this country, and four years later they'll all
still be here because there's nowhere else they can go
on the planet. That's going to be better than where
they are right now. She showed her true colors when
she did that, and was if they weren't already on
full display, as are those of everyone else on that show.
(34:28):
Only two minutes left?
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Will really this?
Speaker 4 (34:32):
I don't control the time, Doug.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
No, I didn't say you did.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
I'm just looking up at the clock and noticing that
we've got that twenty seven percent of people, twenty seven
percent of people. We're talking about people who choose not
to vote, okay, and how other people perceive them. Will
twenty seven percent of people think more highly or less
(35:01):
highly of them for.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Choosing not to vote.
Speaker 4 (35:05):
I don't know less highly. If you're not voting, don't
even open your mouth. Don't talk about politics at all.
If you're not gonna vote, then don't talk it. If
you are gonna vote, tell me what you think. I'll
tell you what I think, and we'll see if we
can't find some common ground. But even if we can't
find common ground, I'm not gonna dislike you for your
(35:28):
political opinion. I might think you're wrong, and I might
tell you I think you're wrong and why, But it
still doesn't mean we can't go fishing together. Or play
golf together, or do whatever you want to do. It
doesn't matter to me. It doesn't matter at all. Four
percent of Americans, by the way, do think more highly
of people who choose not to vote, and that's probably
the four percent who also are not going to vote.
(35:51):
It's amazing to me that with soul this country is
that such a volatile just standing on the precipice right now,
leaf in which way it's gonna end up going, that
anybody would not cast a ballot for somebody, even if
you're just a little teeny bit in favor of one
candidate or the other. You got you gotta vote, all right.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
I'll end on that early voting is on.
Speaker 4 (36:21):
Feel free to take advantage and get your vote casts
and get it done. That's it for today. We'll see
it tomorrow. Audios.
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