March 5, 2026 • 36 mins
Today, Doug Pike interviews Ben Bayles about his company Next Day Access.
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All right, here we go, let's tee it up on
this Thursday morning where it's becoming increasingly obvious, increasingly obvious
that we have some wet weather ahead which we could use.
By the way, we're pretty dry around here. And by
the way, thanks to all of you who I got
to visit with over at the Stafford Center yesterday before
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I broadcast from there live that that was really fun.
I got to I got to make some new friends,
I got to meet some old friends, and it just
it all worked out very well. John Sasma, the guy
who puts that thing on is doing another one in October.
And whether you are someone who is interested in meeting
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mostly seniors who might need your business, or you are
a senior who might need to know some of these people.
I highly recommend going in there. It's a very comfortable.
It's it's not super crowded, which I kind of like.
I know John would like to have the place just
jam packed, but that's that makes it harder for the
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people who are walking around there to find vendors who
have time to give them the time they need. Those
of us who are chronologically advanced need a little bit
more time maybe than just a minute to understand something
that trying somebody's trying to explain to them. So in
any event, it was great yesterday, and I'm planned to
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be right back out there in October when we have
another one. The weather that's coming in. By the way, well,
I hope John's taking the day off. He earned it. Boy,
they were all over him. The biggest I was kind
of laughing yesterday. The biggest issue that I heard that
he faced anyway with that one was the fact that
the coffee arrived late, and some of the people in there,
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I think we're getting a little bit antsy not having
their caffeine fix in the morning. Otherwise, it was fun.
So back to the weather which is quite possibly going
to impact my Monday plans, increasing chances for rain, possibly
some very heavy stuff, and that goes right through the
weekend even Monday. It looking so great, which is going
to throw a big fat wet blanket my way, both
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literally and figuratively if it if it comes to pass,
My guys and I aren't ready to give up our
tea time just yet, but it's looking pretty sus at
the at the present. It would it be sus will
under the the younger generations, and I mean even younger,
it would it be suss or would it be there's
another word, hold on sus or sketchy, which would be
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which would be more appropriate for that sketchy? Yeah, I
guess so. Yeah, it's not really suspicious, so that that
doesn't count in market news, as you heard, Uh, things
are tumbling pretty hard, but that's that all has to
do with what's going on, I think, with US involved
with Iran and and trying to really let them know
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that we in the world don't want them ever getting
nuclear weapons, and I hope they I hope they get
the point soon. There's no sense tearing that place up
anymore than it already is. Uh, but we at this
point enjoy one control of the sky over there. We've
we've then from I read something this morning about how
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early on, early on, just five days ago or six
days ago, now, I guess whatever. Early on, we sent
in very stealthy, very fast bombers to do their work
because there were still Iranian planes in the air that
could tear us up. And then as time went by,
we could slow it down a little bit and send
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planes that could could kind of fend for themselves, but
also needed some support, and that limited our capability. And
now though with all of their air defense mechanisms destroyed
and us controlling the sky, it's a very interesting strategy
that was used, and I wouldn't have thought of it.
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But now that we're free and clear, we can send
in the We could send in paper airplanes with firecrackers
on them, and they don't have any way to shoot
them down. They just don't have any way to shoot
anything down. And that means that we're going to finish
whatever targets we need to strike to take away their
capacity to fight anymore and let them know that we
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meant business and hopefully it'll work out. We still, I think,
do have concern and should have concern over whether they're
acting on behalf of Iran or just because they don't
like what we're doing to Iran people in here, like
that guy who shot up at Street and sixth Street
in Austin. What a mess that was, wearing a T
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shirt that said property of Allah. And Okay, we get it,
but I just I hope we can intervene before anybody
else has a chance to do anything like that. In
market news, like I was saying that everything's kind of down.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
A good bit.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Gold actually was a little above fifty one hundred dollars
an ounce, but that's still a fair chunk off of
the peak that it made. I think it was down
about twenty bucks to day. Maybe something like that. Oil
oil is the one, and that's going to keep moving
up until all this stops. Over there almost seventy eight
dollars a barrel last time I looked, which is about
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thirteen or fourteen dollars a barrel higher than it was
just one month ago. That's a meteoric rise and attributable
to the fact that the Strait of Hormuz, which is
over there off Irn they run, is a major shipping lane.
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I think it's something like one third, maybe, of all
of the oil shipped around the world has to pass
through that straight. So and when they still got ways
to defend it or to be offensive and try to
sink ships and whatnot in there, we got to tread
lightly over there and make sure it gets done right
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when we do what we do. Sooner we finish our
business in the Middle East, the better, really. But I'd
rather pay a little extra for gas now and for
a while if necessary, then deal with consequences later of
unfinished business. We've got to shut down their aspiration to
run the world as soon as we can, all right.
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I'm hesitant to march into the big meaty stuff just
now because I got a couple of big meaty ones
to do. Let me see if I can find something
that's a little bit less cumbersome and dare I say,
potentially even boring to some of you, uh from the
good news desk though, Yeah, this is a perfect way
to end this segment. A Florida police dog was employed
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to track down somebody. Wasn't a car seat thief. It
wasn't a car thief, it wasn't a murderer. It was
a missing thirteen year old boy who has autism. This
kid just wandered off. Sometimes they do, the story said,
and the dogs that are used in tracking people by
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law enforce are amazing. Old friend of mine, Pairland police
officer Chris Basy has a bloodhound named Flash that I
bet has had a chance to do something similar in
his career. And that boy, thanks to the dog in Florida,
was found actually not terribly long after, but he was
a long ways away and just walking down the railroad tracks,
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Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues. All right,
welcome back to fifty plus. Thanks for listening. Certainly do
appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
I was listening through the break there and one thing,
it just drives me crazy after living here most of
my life. I was born here, my dad got transferred
away for four years when I was young. Then I
went and played some baseball over in Alabama for a
while and been back ever since. And this is home.
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I know this place very well. I traveled a ton
when I was younger, writing for the paper and going
fishing and hunting and skiing and snowboarding and playing golf
all over our country, and I don't know half a
dozen or more other countries I can't remember exactly. The
long and the short of it is, this is where
I live, and I know what can happen in the summertime,
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and I don't need people starting their storm season. And
I'll wrap that in quotes on the what is this
the fifth?
Speaker 5 (11:04):
Will?
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Yeah, the fifth of March already storm season? No, No,
it's not. I'll concede because historically I know it to
be fact that there have been named storms strike the
American mainland in all twelve months of the year. But
the odds of getting one in March probably not so good.
So how about you lead off with storm seasons right
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around the corner. That's a little more appropriate. It lends
some ambiguity there that makes it okay. But don't don't
lead off. They might as well have some some emergency
siren blaring telling us that storm season is here, and
it's been here for a month. We just didn't even
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know it. So pump the brakes a little bit, and
I'll listen more closely to your to your whatever you're saying.
Marching into the news and I'm telling this one up
this morning with something that really disturbed me when I
read it. And the story itself actually had a two
line disclaimer saying, look, this is about something pretty hairy.
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If you've got if you're queasy, stop reading right now.
Well I'm not queasy. I'm going to read that. I
don't care what the story is now. Even just reading
that says okay. I got to read this and I did.
It disturbed the hell out of me. In a story
from News Nation, the lead paragraph shares that a seventeen
year old girl and a toddler have been rescued after
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a weeks long investigation down in somewhere in central Florida
of a whole bunch of people involved in the sex
trafficking of miners, including that girl in that toddler. Ultimately,
after lengthy undercover work, there were eighty nine arrests made,
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and those arrests this is straight out of John STOs
Stostile's pages. The arrests were made of those eighty nine
twelve hundred plus felony charges levied against the people they
pulled in. These are evil people, I'd say, the worst
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of the worst, But I don't know which is worse
them or the people who pay them to gather up
these kids to do what they want to do with them,
because it's just absolutely disgusting. These twelve hundred felony charges
were levited against people who profit from equally vile people
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who want to have sex with children. And I'm willing
to bet if anybody wants to bet against me, let
me know. I'm willing to bet that a bunch of
those people they arrested, not all of them, not all
of them, but a bunch of them shouldn't even be
in our country right now. I've seen not countless. I
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could count them if I had, if I had tallied,
I could certainly count them, and probably on both hands
and maybe a foot how many times I've already read
about illegal immigrants doing evil things with children, And if
you count just bringing them in here and letting them
get lost and just using them to get into the country,
then it would be countless because that happened. I don't
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know what a couple one hundred thousand times under Biden's administration,
these people show up and they got kids on their arm.
Not their kids, but just somebody's kids who are being used,
which is trafficking in its own right. That just disturbs
disturbs me to no end when when children get swept
into something like this, no way shouldn't happen. From the
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view the train wreck of far left leaning women who
are queens of hippocracy comes this jewel in a recent episode,
Elizabeth Hasselbeck you may remember her, she was on that
show from two thousand and three to twenty fourteen. Well,
she came back and she called out the current panel
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and their fondness and affection and deep, deep interest in
reopening our borders. They think we should reopen our borders
and not have any checkpoint, not have anything, you don't
have to do anything to come into our country. But
swinging it back, let me cause it kind of a
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comedic term callback writing jokes. If you ever do that,
that's what that's called. I'm going to bring it back
for you. The audience members when asked by Hasselbeck, how
many of you had to go through a security checkpoint
just to get in and watch these people talk? And
the hands just flew up in the air. So they've
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got security a checkpoint, a security checkpoint just to hear
the show. But we don't need one at our border
to know who's coming in here and what they're bringing.
As the Breitbart story said, the left is thrilled about
our own country having an open border, but they do
so surrounded by personnel who personal security people. They live
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in gated communities. Of course they feel safe. Of course
they do because they've never been subjected to anything scary.
They've never had to look over their shoulder while they
walk through a grocery store parking lot to make sure
nobody's following them to their car. Why wouldn't they want
something that will further the left's agenda to get more
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and more creeps in here and be sure they get
to vote to It just goes on and on, doesn't it.
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Speaker 4 (18:28):
O wax. This is fifty plus with Doug Pike. Welcome
back to fifty plus. Thanks for listening. Certainly do appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
On this increasingly cloudy Thursday afternoon. In this segment, I'm
gonna introduce somebody who's number most of us probably should
have on the refrigerator or in our phones, depending on
how old you are, just in case. His name is
Ben Bales, and he owns a company called Next Day Access.
Welcome aboard, Ben, Hey, thanks, Doug, appreciated, glad to have
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you on.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Man.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Companies don't form out of thing, so they formed for reasons.
What was your reason for starting Next Day Access?
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (19:06):
So Next Day Access that had actually been around for
about fifteen years and it's fawned out of one of
our sister companies, American Access, who creates a d a
wheelchair ramps, okay, and they determined that there was a
need for more than just ramps.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Within this space.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
And so, yeah, happy to share a little bit more
about Next day Access and kind of what spawned, you know,
kind of some of the things that we do where
we're really focused on kind of those life changing you know,
solutions for individuals, whether it be you know, they just
want to age in place or have different disabilities, kind
of helped them kind of figure out what is that
custom you know, accessibility to solution to regain those independence
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and have that safety again as well.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Yeah, back to back to the next day access kind
of part of this. We all like to think that
our mobility and accessibility are going to be We'll be
fine forever. I'm not worried about that. That's that's for
somebody else. But man, if something happens, something serious and
needs changing overnight, you need somebody to call, don't you.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
That's correct. Yeah, often though we take a lot of
those those things for granted, are independence for granted until
we wake up one day and you know, we have
a pain or wearing, an accident, or you know, we're
diagnosed with something, and we realize that it's not as
easy as it used to be. So so we try to,
you know, treat that with urgency because we realize that
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every situation is different. But when those things are are
taken away, we like to be able to provide those
abilities as quick as possible.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Yeah, And for for example, Ben Bell's here from Next
Day Access. For example, if somebody winds up and I
told you I have a friend who situation changed from
perfectly normal everyday activities to development of a condition, a
disease that put him a week in a wheelchair within
maybe I don't know, a few weeks something like that.
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And it's not just that you go into a wheelchair.
Now you've got to redo half your house, don't, don't you?
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Yeah, so it is.
Speaker 5 (21:03):
So there's a lot of things that could be barriers
for entry in those types of cases. So we often
will take a look at the holistic home approach. We'll
see from room to room, where you're spending your time,
where you're doing your daily activities, and what those barriers
might be that are preventing you from doing some of
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those things again. So yes, unfortunately that is the case.
It could be you know, when you're looking at a
lot of different scenarios, it could be a lot of
different things within someone's home or even business.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Yeah, it's interesting that you pointed that out that you
already do what I was going to ask you if
you do, which is once you I presume you go
to the customer's house and say, Okay, this person's got
to be in a wheelchair, let me look around the
house first and tell you everything you're gonna need, because
I would imagine that half the clients you get call
you over there to do maybe one or two things,
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when really they're gonna need four, five or six, aren't they.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
Yeah, so we really focused on what the client is
interested in, and a lot of times it'll be family
members of people that are being discharged from the hospital,
you know who will we'll give us a call and
go we don't even know where to start, or.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Hey, we know that we need an.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
Item that could potentially help us get in and out
of a home. So that's when we can really show
up and it's really all at what the customer needs
and wants.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
I'm a problem solver by heart.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
My background is engineering and stuff, and so I like
to come to the situation and help people find solutions.
And those solutions can be a wide variety of options
that might be available out there that often people just
don't know about.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
It's really really hard without notice and without experience, especially
for any anybody on my side of this conversation, to
go from fully mobile and independent to virtually helpless, which
can happen in the blink of an Huh, I'm glad
you're out there, I really am.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Can you? Can you ken? Thank you?
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Can you give me any sort of timeline for the
types of projects you do? Most often? How long does
it take for a phone call to you too? Okay,
you're good now?
Speaker 5 (23:04):
Yeah, so good question. It depends on kind of what
it is and the complexity of it. We try to
keep a lot of the day to day items in stock,
so anytime you might need a wheelchair ramp, we do
modular aluminum rants and we keep those in stock.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Here.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
We do threshold rants that we.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Keep in stock.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
We also do a lot of straight stare lifts that
we keep in stock, so anything that's not super custom
a lot of times we'll keep in stock the other things.
We've got good relationships with our suppliers, so you know,
we can do porch lifts, and we can do pole lifts,
and we can do you know, things like that on
a pretty quick turnaround basis. But a lot of times
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those do require some sort of evaluation for us to
know exactly what you might need.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Talk about the importance ben of if somebody needs something
you're talking about here grab bars, a wheelchair, ramp, a
lift or whatever. Talk about not just turning over to
a handyman and and why you shouldn't do that.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
Well, So a lot of times, you know, there might
be a medical device application and also might be where
there's you know, some technical aspects of it. So our
team is trained by each of the manufacturers that we represent,
so that not only can we tell you the benefits
of it, but we can also come and install it
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for you and make sure it's installed correctly and to
any applicable codes. But also, I think a lot of
things that people don't realize is we provide the service
as well. So that is one thing that I would.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Just caution you with.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
Make sure that whoever you go with they can actually
help with the maintenance and maintaining a lot of that
equipment as well. So you know, there are some simple things,
you know, if you just need a neighbor that can
help you, you know, do a small wooden ramp and
that's the you know, all that maybe you need or
can afford. I totally understand that if you are trying
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to get up to a how down in Gallaston that
we just did for an event for Governor Abbott.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
That was an eight foot tall ramp.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
That we needed to do, and you really need to
have the right equipment to be able to do that.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
I bet talk about I've gotta I gotta believe that
you have been called to at least somebody's house where
you got to go in and fix a hot mess
some other contractor left behind.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
Right.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Uh, that is true.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
I will tell you I'm not a big fan of
fixing hot messes stuff like that, but uh yeah, actually, uh,
we do some things with workers comp as well, where
workers stomp is pretty quick because somebody's getting released from
a hospital or they need to get in, you know,
to be able.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
To do stuff.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
And I do see really probably more bathroom modification stuff
where we come in where there was good intention but
maybe it was done on a very quick or a
low budgets basis, and sometimes that just causes a lot
of problems down the road.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
That's there's a lot of weight bearing stuff that has
to come into play with grab bars and things like that.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Right, that is correct.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
People don't realize that the anchoring of those are super important,
not just for your sake, but if you ever have
anybody else using that, maybe that is a little bit
bigger than you, relatives, anything like that. We want to
make sure that you can have the confidence that those
who are going to work if and when needed.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
I am so glad that I've got a chance to
talk to you and let let my audience know that
there's somebody like there, like you out there in case
they do need you right now. Yeah, thank you, Ben,
This has been good.
Speaker 5 (26:38):
Yeah, yeah, you're welcome. We realize that these are not
sexy things that people.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Want of them, but.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
Yeah, but when needed, they can they can really come
and help people that are in a bond, and that's
what we're really all about. We're really all about helping folks.
On the side, I like to do a lot of
medical mission stuff, so so my passion is to help
people and so that's why I love what I get
up and get to do every day.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
You're a good man. Ben Bell's Next Day Access dot
Com is a website, Next Day Access dot com. Thanks
for your time, man, all right, thanks a lot, Doug,
have a great day. I'll see you God, but adios
you too. What a good guy that is? Huh And
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Old Guy's rule, and of course, women never get old.
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O hell, I think that sounds like okay.
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Please. Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Dougy plus. Thanks
for listening. Forth and final segment starts. Now, Holy cow,
we've blown through this.
Speaker 5 (29:22):
You know.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
I was asking Will during the break I heard distinctly
heard a guitar playing somewhere. I thought it might have
been one of our voice talents in here who plays guitar,
and he might have been just sitting in there working
on a new song or something like that. Wasn't him,
wasn't the new guy who also plays guitar. See, I'm
(29:46):
hearing it now. You don't hear it, do you? You do
hear it, don't you. It's got to be coming from
upstairs then, huh. So it's either above us on the
eighth floor. I don't think it would make it through
from the sixth floor, where they have kind of a
conference room or something. Oh well, it matters not. I
have outer space news. By the way, remember you never
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heard that little theme song, did you? You knew it? Okay?
In any event, it's not that comes a word that
astronauts have mined meteor rights to extract precious metals from them.
So I'm guessing fast forward what eighty maybe one hundred years,
(30:29):
when the unified global stock market is trading lithium and
beryllium whatever futures among companies that are harvesting meteorites from
space using drone technology that locates and traps these space rocks.
(30:51):
They bring them back for extraction of their rare elements,
and then what's left over gets kicked back into outer space.
Then they transfer the good stuff from a docking station
to a transport craft of some sort to get them
back to Earth. There will be a lot of work.
Somebody's gonna make a lot of money off that will
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mining meteorites. They're gonna be Every country on the planet's
gonna lay claim to meteorites too. You wait and see.
If it hadn't already been done, it may have already
been done. You can't be first, but you can be
next to own your own meteorites. Someday that'll be the pitch.
Probably from the about time desk comes word. It's been
(31:37):
all over social media and all over the internet. United
Airlines has finally decided to address passengers who break one
of their rules by listening to audio on board their
flights but not doing so with headphones or earbuds. The rule,
and I believe it's United's rule, says that you have
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to listen, not just so that everybody can hear it,
but only you can hear it. And until just recently,
Perry apparently that rule never really was enforced on passengers.
So henceforth, however, said the airline, passengers who refuse to
pipe their tunes only into their own ears will be
(32:22):
subject to removal from the flight. And potentially, this is
the part that I think is going to be cool.
I saw a video of somebody getting booted for just that.
It went along with the story, and this woman was
just losing her mind about not wanting to get off
the airplane, not she nor her husband. And anyway, you
(32:44):
or me, or anybody else who breaks that rule, according
to it, and it's somewhere written in the information you
get when you buy a ticket, will be held liable
for loss, damage, or expense of any kind to the
airline in association with you having the audacity to just
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blare out your.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Weezer videos or whatever.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
I'd why did it? I've never I don't even if
you showed me a picture will of ten bands from
is Weezer current or a little older? A little older? Uh?
If you showed me a picture of ten bands, including
one of which would be Weezer from that era, say
from the like the twenty to twenty fifteen or so.
(33:34):
I couldn't pick out Weezer on a bet. I have
no idea. Is Weezer one guy? Or's Weezer the whole band?
The whole band? Yeah, that's how much I know about that,
and I'm comfortable. I'm very comfortable with that. I really am,
I really am. From semi marginally interesting entertainment News actually
(33:59):
a store from NBC News. Britney Spears was arrested Wednesday
night at night around nine thirty pm, it says here
in southern California. Equally interesting in this story is that,
while records do show the arrest, they don't say why
she was arrested. My gut and it's this would be
(34:22):
the odds on favorite for for why might be DUI
nine thirty had a couple of drinks at dinner and
you get pulled over and apparently it turns out you
had a little bit more. That's about That's about all.
I'm not going to judge her. I don't want anybody
judging me. I'm not going to judge her any longer,
any farther than that. Quick take on the Tallerrico Crockett
(34:43):
duel for a potential sentence seat. Neither one of them,
first of all, is what Texas wants or needs. Crocket's
a loose cannon. She's mean spirited, she's got a foul mouth,
and is way too far left to have any say
in Texas politics beyond where she is now, which is
borderline irrelevant.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
She's kind of like if AOC.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
I think you will if AOC and Sheila Jackson Lee
had a baby, and yeah, Tall Rico's more like Moron
Zomdani up in New York. He's a socialist through and
through said the southern border should be the front porch
of America front porch. Come on, come on up, get
in the yard. Well, play in the yard, have some fun.
(35:27):
You're hungry, We'll give you all of our food. You
want to go somewhere else in the country, Oh sure,
we'll fly you there. That's not a problem. That's what
he wants. You remember that, that's what he wants. Tall Rico,
he is a wolf in sheep's clothing. He is gonna
say a lot of things during the campaign. And I
hope that whoever whoever has the other sides reins out
(35:53):
the conservative side range the Republican side. I hope they
start playing more and more of the times he's slipped
and said what he really thinks about this country of
ours and what we ought to do with it. He's
as left as they come, as left as they come.
He wants to open that border to anyone and everyone.
Where are we at will thirty seconds ish? Ten twenty? Okay,
(36:17):
Holy Cow, I'll give you two fun facts to know
and tell, neither of which you'll remember in an hour
and a half. Babies are born on their due date
only four percent of the time, and the largest sand
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And now fifty plus with Doug Pike.
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All right, here we go, let's tee it up on
this Thursday morning where it's becoming increasingly obvious, increasingly obvious
that we have some wet weather ahead which we could use.
By the way, we're pretty dry around here. And by
the way, thanks to all of you who I got
to visit with over at the Stafford Center yesterday before
(01:08):
I broadcast from there live that that was really fun.
I got to I got to make some new friends,
I got to meet some old friends, and it just
it all worked out very well. John Sasma, the guy
who puts that thing on is doing another one in October.
And whether you are someone who is interested in meeting
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mostly seniors who might need your business, or you are
a senior who might need to know some of these people.
I highly recommend going in there. It's a very comfortable.
It's it's not super crowded, which I kind of like.
I know John would like to have the place just
jam packed, but that's that makes it harder for the
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people who are walking around there to find vendors who
have time to give them the time they need. Those
of us who are chronologically advanced need a little bit
more time maybe than just a minute to understand something
that trying somebody's trying to explain to them. So in
any event, it was great yesterday, and I'm planned to
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be right back out there in October when we have
another one. The weather that's coming in. By the way, well,
I hope John's taking the day off. He earned it. Boy,
they were all over him. The biggest I was kind
of laughing yesterday. The biggest issue that I heard that
he faced anyway with that one was the fact that
the coffee arrived late, and some of the people in there,
(02:35):
I think we're getting a little bit antsy not having
their caffeine fix in the morning. Otherwise, it was fun.
So back to the weather which is quite possibly going
to impact my Monday plans, increasing chances for rain, possibly
some very heavy stuff, and that goes right through the
weekend even Monday. It looking so great, which is going
to throw a big fat wet blanket my way, both
(02:57):
literally and figuratively if it if it comes to pass,
My guys and I aren't ready to give up our
tea time just yet, but it's looking pretty sus at
the at the present. It would it be sus will
under the the younger generations, and I mean even younger,
it would it be suss or would it be there's
another word, hold on sus or sketchy, which would be
(03:21):
which would be more appropriate for that sketchy? Yeah, I
guess so. Yeah, it's not really suspicious, so that that
doesn't count in market news, as you heard, Uh, things
are tumbling pretty hard, but that's that all has to
do with what's going on, I think, with US involved
with Iran and and trying to really let them know
(03:42):
that we in the world don't want them ever getting
nuclear weapons, and I hope they I hope they get
the point soon. There's no sense tearing that place up
anymore than it already is. Uh, but we at this
point enjoy one control of the sky over there. We've
we've then from I read something this morning about how
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early on, early on, just five days ago or six
days ago, now, I guess whatever. Early on, we sent
in very stealthy, very fast bombers to do their work
because there were still Iranian planes in the air that
could tear us up. And then as time went by,
we could slow it down a little bit and send
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planes that could could kind of fend for themselves, but
also needed some support, and that limited our capability. And
now though with all of their air defense mechanisms destroyed
and us controlling the sky, it's a very interesting strategy
that was used, and I wouldn't have thought of it.
(04:46):
But now that we're free and clear, we can send
in the We could send in paper airplanes with firecrackers
on them, and they don't have any way to shoot
them down. They just don't have any way to shoot
anything down. And that means that we're going to finish
whatever targets we need to strike to take away their
capacity to fight anymore and let them know that we
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meant business and hopefully it'll work out. We still, I think,
do have concern and should have concern over whether they're
acting on behalf of Iran or just because they don't
like what we're doing to Iran people in here, like
that guy who shot up at Street and sixth Street
in Austin. What a mess that was, wearing a T
(05:30):
shirt that said property of Allah. And Okay, we get it,
but I just I hope we can intervene before anybody
else has a chance to do anything like that. In
market news, like I was saying that everything's kind of down.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
A good bit.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Gold actually was a little above fifty one hundred dollars
an ounce, but that's still a fair chunk off of
the peak that it made. I think it was down
about twenty bucks to day. Maybe something like that. Oil
oil is the one, and that's going to keep moving
up until all this stops. Over there almost seventy eight
dollars a barrel last time I looked, which is about
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thirteen or fourteen dollars a barrel higher than it was
just one month ago. That's a meteoric rise and attributable
to the fact that the Strait of Hormuz, which is
over there off Irn they run, is a major shipping lane.
(06:30):
I think it's something like one third, maybe, of all
of the oil shipped around the world has to pass
through that straight. So and when they still got ways
to defend it or to be offensive and try to
sink ships and whatnot in there, we got to tread
lightly over there and make sure it gets done right
(06:52):
when we do what we do. Sooner we finish our
business in the Middle East, the better, really. But I'd
rather pay a little extra for gas now and for
a while if necessary, then deal with consequences later of
unfinished business. We've got to shut down their aspiration to
run the world as soon as we can, all right.
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I'm hesitant to march into the big meaty stuff just
now because I got a couple of big meaty ones
to do. Let me see if I can find something
that's a little bit less cumbersome and dare I say,
potentially even boring to some of you, uh from the
good news desk though, Yeah, this is a perfect way
to end this segment. A Florida police dog was employed
(07:38):
to track down somebody. Wasn't a car seat thief. It
wasn't a car thief, it wasn't a murderer. It was
a missing thirteen year old boy who has autism. This
kid just wandered off. Sometimes they do, the story said,
and the dogs that are used in tracking people by
(07:59):
law enforce are amazing. Old friend of mine, Pairland police
officer Chris Basy has a bloodhound named Flash that I
bet has had a chance to do something similar in
his career. And that boy, thanks to the dog in Florida,
was found actually not terribly long after, but he was
a long ways away and just walking down the railroad tracks,
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didn't know where he was and getting a little scared.
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Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues. All right,
welcome back to fifty plus. Thanks for listening. Certainly do
appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
I was listening through the break there and one thing,
it just drives me crazy after living here most of
my life. I was born here, my dad got transferred
away for four years when I was young. Then I
went and played some baseball over in Alabama for a
while and been back ever since. And this is home.
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I know this place very well. I traveled a ton
when I was younger, writing for the paper and going
fishing and hunting and skiing and snowboarding and playing golf
all over our country, and I don't know half a
dozen or more other countries I can't remember exactly. The
long and the short of it is, this is where
I live, and I know what can happen in the summertime,
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and I don't need people starting their storm season. And
I'll wrap that in quotes on the what is this
the fifth?
Speaker 5 (11:04):
Will?
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Yeah, the fifth of March already storm season? No, No,
it's not. I'll concede because historically I know it to
be fact that there have been named storms strike the
American mainland in all twelve months of the year. But
the odds of getting one in March probably not so good.
So how about you lead off with storm seasons right
(11:28):
around the corner. That's a little more appropriate. It lends
some ambiguity there that makes it okay. But don't don't
lead off. They might as well have some some emergency
siren blaring telling us that storm season is here, and
it's been here for a month. We just didn't even
(11:49):
know it. So pump the brakes a little bit, and
I'll listen more closely to your to your whatever you're saying.
Marching into the news and I'm telling this one up
this morning with something that really disturbed me when I
read it. And the story itself actually had a two
line disclaimer saying, look, this is about something pretty hairy.
(12:14):
If you've got if you're queasy, stop reading right now.
Well I'm not queasy. I'm going to read that. I
don't care what the story is now. Even just reading
that says okay. I got to read this and I did.
It disturbed the hell out of me. In a story
from News Nation, the lead paragraph shares that a seventeen
year old girl and a toddler have been rescued after
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a weeks long investigation down in somewhere in central Florida
of a whole bunch of people involved in the sex
trafficking of miners, including that girl in that toddler. Ultimately,
after lengthy undercover work, there were eighty nine arrests made,
(12:58):
and those arrests this is straight out of John STOs
Stostile's pages. The arrests were made of those eighty nine
twelve hundred plus felony charges levied against the people they
pulled in. These are evil people, I'd say, the worst
(13:22):
of the worst, But I don't know which is worse
them or the people who pay them to gather up
these kids to do what they want to do with them,
because it's just absolutely disgusting. These twelve hundred felony charges
were levited against people who profit from equally vile people
(13:46):
who want to have sex with children. And I'm willing
to bet if anybody wants to bet against me, let
me know. I'm willing to bet that a bunch of
those people they arrested, not all of them, not all
of them, but a bunch of them shouldn't even be
in our country right now. I've seen not countless. I
(14:06):
could count them if I had, if I had tallied,
I could certainly count them, and probably on both hands
and maybe a foot how many times I've already read
about illegal immigrants doing evil things with children, And if
you count just bringing them in here and letting them
get lost and just using them to get into the country,
then it would be countless because that happened. I don't
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know what a couple one hundred thousand times under Biden's administration,
these people show up and they got kids on their arm.
Not their kids, but just somebody's kids who are being used,
which is trafficking in its own right. That just disturbs
disturbs me to no end when when children get swept
into something like this, no way shouldn't happen. From the
(14:54):
view the train wreck of far left leaning women who
are queens of hippocracy comes this jewel in a recent episode,
Elizabeth Hasselbeck you may remember her, she was on that
show from two thousand and three to twenty fourteen. Well,
she came back and she called out the current panel
(15:15):
and their fondness and affection and deep, deep interest in
reopening our borders. They think we should reopen our borders
and not have any checkpoint, not have anything, you don't
have to do anything to come into our country. But
swinging it back, let me cause it kind of a
(15:36):
comedic term callback writing jokes. If you ever do that,
that's what that's called. I'm going to bring it back
for you. The audience members when asked by Hasselbeck, how
many of you had to go through a security checkpoint
just to get in and watch these people talk? And
the hands just flew up in the air. So they've
(15:58):
got security a checkpoint, a security checkpoint just to hear
the show. But we don't need one at our border
to know who's coming in here and what they're bringing.
As the Breitbart story said, the left is thrilled about
our own country having an open border, but they do
so surrounded by personnel who personal security people. They live
(16:21):
in gated communities. Of course they feel safe. Of course
they do because they've never been subjected to anything scary.
They've never had to look over their shoulder while they
walk through a grocery store parking lot to make sure
nobody's following them to their car. Why wouldn't they want
something that will further the left's agenda to get more
(16:43):
and more creeps in here and be sure they get
to vote to It just goes on and on, doesn't it.
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Speaker 4 (18:28):
O wax. This is fifty plus with Doug Pike. Welcome
back to fifty plus. Thanks for listening. Certainly do appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
On this increasingly cloudy Thursday afternoon. In this segment, I'm
gonna introduce somebody who's number most of us probably should
have on the refrigerator or in our phones, depending on
how old you are, just in case. His name is
Ben Bales, and he owns a company called Next Day Access.
Welcome aboard, Ben, Hey, thanks, Doug, appreciated, glad to have
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you on.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Man.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Companies don't form out of thing, so they formed for reasons.
What was your reason for starting Next Day Access?
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (19:06):
So Next Day Access that had actually been around for
about fifteen years and it's fawned out of one of
our sister companies, American Access, who creates a d a
wheelchair ramps, okay, and they determined that there was a
need for more than just ramps.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Within this space.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
And so, yeah, happy to share a little bit more
about Next day Access and kind of what spawned, you know,
kind of some of the things that we do where
we're really focused on kind of those life changing you know,
solutions for individuals, whether it be you know, they just
want to age in place or have different disabilities, kind
of helped them kind of figure out what is that
custom you know, accessibility to solution to regain those independence
(19:42):
and have that safety again as well.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Yeah, back to back to the next day access kind
of part of this. We all like to think that
our mobility and accessibility are going to be We'll be
fine forever. I'm not worried about that. That's that's for
somebody else. But man, if something happens, something serious and
needs changing overnight, you need somebody to call, don't you.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
That's correct. Yeah, often though we take a lot of
those those things for granted, are independence for granted until
we wake up one day and you know, we have
a pain or wearing, an accident, or you know, we're
diagnosed with something, and we realize that it's not as
easy as it used to be. So so we try to,
you know, treat that with urgency because we realize that
(20:23):
every situation is different. But when those things are are
taken away, we like to be able to provide those
abilities as quick as possible.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Yeah, And for for example, Ben Bell's here from Next
Day Access. For example, if somebody winds up and I
told you I have a friend who situation changed from
perfectly normal everyday activities to development of a condition, a
disease that put him a week in a wheelchair within
maybe I don't know, a few weeks something like that.
(20:55):
And it's not just that you go into a wheelchair.
Now you've got to redo half your house, don't, don't you?
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Yeah, so it is.
Speaker 5 (21:03):
So there's a lot of things that could be barriers
for entry in those types of cases. So we often
will take a look at the holistic home approach. We'll
see from room to room, where you're spending your time,
where you're doing your daily activities, and what those barriers
might be that are preventing you from doing some of
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those things again. So yes, unfortunately that is the case.
It could be you know, when you're looking at a
lot of different scenarios, it could be a lot of
different things within someone's home or even business.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Yeah, it's interesting that you pointed that out that you
already do what I was going to ask you if
you do, which is once you I presume you go
to the customer's house and say, Okay, this person's got
to be in a wheelchair, let me look around the
house first and tell you everything you're gonna need, because
I would imagine that half the clients you get call
you over there to do maybe one or two things,
(21:56):
when really they're gonna need four, five or six, aren't they.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
Yeah, so we really focused on what the client is
interested in, and a lot of times it'll be family
members of people that are being discharged from the hospital,
you know who will we'll give us a call and
go we don't even know where to start, or.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Hey, we know that we need an.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
Item that could potentially help us get in and out
of a home. So that's when we can really show
up and it's really all at what the customer needs
and wants.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
I'm a problem solver by heart.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
My background is engineering and stuff, and so I like
to come to the situation and help people find solutions.
And those solutions can be a wide variety of options
that might be available out there that often people just
don't know about.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
It's really really hard without notice and without experience, especially
for any anybody on my side of this conversation, to
go from fully mobile and independent to virtually helpless, which
can happen in the blink of an Huh, I'm glad
you're out there, I really am.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Can you? Can you ken? Thank you?
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Can you give me any sort of timeline for the
types of projects you do? Most often? How long does
it take for a phone call to you too? Okay,
you're good now?
Speaker 5 (23:04):
Yeah, so good question. It depends on kind of what
it is and the complexity of it. We try to
keep a lot of the day to day items in stock,
so anytime you might need a wheelchair ramp, we do
modular aluminum rants and we keep those in stock.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Here.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
We do threshold rants that we.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Keep in stock.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
We also do a lot of straight stare lifts that
we keep in stock, so anything that's not super custom
a lot of times we'll keep in stock the other things.
We've got good relationships with our suppliers, so you know,
we can do porch lifts, and we can do pole lifts,
and we can do you know, things like that on
a pretty quick turnaround basis. But a lot of times
(23:42):
those do require some sort of evaluation for us to
know exactly what you might need.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Talk about the importance ben of if somebody needs something
you're talking about here grab bars, a wheelchair, ramp, a
lift or whatever. Talk about not just turning over to
a handyman and and why you shouldn't do that.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
Well, So a lot of times, you know, there might
be a medical device application and also might be where
there's you know, some technical aspects of it. So our
team is trained by each of the manufacturers that we represent,
so that not only can we tell you the benefits
of it, but we can also come and install it
(24:25):
for you and make sure it's installed correctly and to
any applicable codes. But also, I think a lot of
things that people don't realize is we provide the service
as well. So that is one thing that I would.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Just caution you with.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
Make sure that whoever you go with they can actually
help with the maintenance and maintaining a lot of that
equipment as well. So you know, there are some simple things,
you know, if you just need a neighbor that can
help you, you know, do a small wooden ramp and
that's the you know, all that maybe you need or
can afford. I totally understand that if you are trying
(24:58):
to get up to a how down in Gallaston that
we just did for an event for Governor Abbott.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
That was an eight foot tall ramp.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
That we needed to do, and you really need to
have the right equipment to be able to do that.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
I bet talk about I've gotta I gotta believe that
you have been called to at least somebody's house where
you got to go in and fix a hot mess
some other contractor left behind.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
Right.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Uh, that is true.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
I will tell you I'm not a big fan of
fixing hot messes stuff like that, but uh yeah, actually, uh,
we do some things with workers comp as well, where
workers stomp is pretty quick because somebody's getting released from
a hospital or they need to get in, you know,
to be able.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
To do stuff.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
And I do see really probably more bathroom modification stuff
where we come in where there was good intention but
maybe it was done on a very quick or a
low budgets basis, and sometimes that just causes a lot
of problems down the road.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
That's there's a lot of weight bearing stuff that has
to come into play with grab bars and things like that.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Right, that is correct.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
People don't realize that the anchoring of those are super important,
not just for your sake, but if you ever have
anybody else using that, maybe that is a little bit
bigger than you, relatives, anything like that. We want to
make sure that you can have the confidence that those
who are going to work if and when needed.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
I am so glad that I've got a chance to
talk to you and let let my audience know that
there's somebody like there, like you out there in case
they do need you right now. Yeah, thank you, Ben,
This has been good.
Speaker 5 (26:38):
Yeah, yeah, you're welcome. We realize that these are not
sexy things that people.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Want of them, but.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
Yeah, but when needed, they can they can really come
and help people that are in a bond, and that's
what we're really all about. We're really all about helping folks.
On the side, I like to do a lot of
medical mission stuff, so so my passion is to help
people and so that's why I love what I get
up and get to do every day.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
You're a good man. Ben Bell's Next Day Access dot
Com is a website, Next Day Access dot com. Thanks
for your time, man, all right, thanks a lot, Doug,
have a great day. I'll see you God, but adios
you too. What a good guy that is? Huh And
he's sincere. I've talked to him enough times to know
that he's not reading from some sheet. He reads to
(27:27):
everybody who calls his place. He's a good guy. I'm
telling you. Put that number on the refrigerator or somewhere.
Put it in your phone, put that website in there,
and or go get the phone number and put it
in your phone, because someday, if you need it, you'll
be darn glad you have it. All right, let me
tell you about Whitetail Ranch again. This is your chance
(27:48):
to own a beautiful piece of a beautiful part of Texas,
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Cold Spring. Freedom Space, Long term Value. This is a
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a half to more than four acres, concrete roads, no
(28:08):
mud taxes. That's pretty important. Amazing amenities and this beautiful
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you're gonna love. And if you do know about it,
you know you already love it. It's just beautiful up
in there. Grand opening specials are here. Now. You can
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(28:29):
buy and pay no closing costs. That's gonna save you
a boatload of money right then and there. You can
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hold on to it for as long as you want
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You can do with it what you want. Experience this lifestyle.
It's gonna last. It's gonna be beautiful for as long
(28:52):
as the hill Country's still around, and I suspect that'll
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is the website, Whitetail Ranch tx dot com.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
Old Guy's rule, and of course, women never get old.
If you want to avoid sleeping on the couch.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
O hell, I think that sounds like okay.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
Please. Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Dougy plus. Thanks
for listening. Forth and final segment starts. Now, Holy cow,
we've blown through this.
Speaker 5 (29:22):
You know.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
I was asking Will during the break I heard distinctly
heard a guitar playing somewhere. I thought it might have
been one of our voice talents in here who plays guitar,
and he might have been just sitting in there working
on a new song or something like that. Wasn't him,
wasn't the new guy who also plays guitar. See, I'm
(29:46):
hearing it now. You don't hear it, do you? You do
hear it, don't you. It's got to be coming from
upstairs then, huh. So it's either above us on the
eighth floor. I don't think it would make it through
from the sixth floor, where they have kind of a
conference room or something. Oh well, it matters not. I
have outer space news. By the way, remember you never
(30:07):
heard that little theme song, did you? You knew it? Okay?
In any event, it's not that comes a word that
astronauts have mined meteor rights to extract precious metals from them.
So I'm guessing fast forward what eighty maybe one hundred years,
(30:29):
when the unified global stock market is trading lithium and
beryllium whatever futures among companies that are harvesting meteorites from
space using drone technology that locates and traps these space rocks.
(30:51):
They bring them back for extraction of their rare elements,
and then what's left over gets kicked back into outer space.
Then they transfer the good stuff from a docking station
to a transport craft of some sort to get them
back to Earth. There will be a lot of work.
Somebody's gonna make a lot of money off that will
(31:12):
mining meteorites. They're gonna be Every country on the planet's
gonna lay claim to meteorites too. You wait and see.
If it hadn't already been done, it may have already
been done. You can't be first, but you can be
next to own your own meteorites. Someday that'll be the pitch.
Probably from the about time desk comes word. It's been
(31:37):
all over social media and all over the internet. United
Airlines has finally decided to address passengers who break one
of their rules by listening to audio on board their
flights but not doing so with headphones or earbuds. The rule,
and I believe it's United's rule, says that you have
(31:59):
to listen, not just so that everybody can hear it,
but only you can hear it. And until just recently,
Perry apparently that rule never really was enforced on passengers.
So henceforth, however, said the airline, passengers who refuse to
pipe their tunes only into their own ears will be
(32:22):
subject to removal from the flight. And potentially, this is
the part that I think is going to be cool.
I saw a video of somebody getting booted for just that.
It went along with the story, and this woman was
just losing her mind about not wanting to get off
the airplane, not she nor her husband. And anyway, you
(32:44):
or me, or anybody else who breaks that rule, according
to it, and it's somewhere written in the information you
get when you buy a ticket, will be held liable
for loss, damage, or expense of any kind to the
airline in association with you having the audacity to just
(33:06):
blare out your.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Weezer videos or whatever.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
I'd why did it? I've never I don't even if
you showed me a picture will of ten bands from
is Weezer current or a little older? A little older? Uh?
If you showed me a picture of ten bands, including
one of which would be Weezer from that era, say
from the like the twenty to twenty fifteen or so.
(33:34):
I couldn't pick out Weezer on a bet. I have
no idea. Is Weezer one guy? Or's Weezer the whole band?
The whole band? Yeah, that's how much I know about that,
and I'm comfortable. I'm very comfortable with that. I really am,
I really am. From semi marginally interesting entertainment News actually
(33:59):
a store from NBC News. Britney Spears was arrested Wednesday
night at night around nine thirty pm, it says here
in southern California. Equally interesting in this story is that,
while records do show the arrest, they don't say why
she was arrested. My gut and it's this would be
(34:22):
the odds on favorite for for why might be DUI
nine thirty had a couple of drinks at dinner and
you get pulled over and apparently it turns out you
had a little bit more. That's about That's about all.
I'm not going to judge her. I don't want anybody
judging me. I'm not going to judge her any longer,
any farther than that. Quick take on the Tallerrico Crockett
(34:43):
duel for a potential sentence seat. Neither one of them,
first of all, is what Texas wants or needs. Crocket's
a loose cannon. She's mean spirited, she's got a foul mouth,
and is way too far left to have any say
in Texas politics beyond where she is now, which is
borderline irrelevant.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
She's kind of like if AOC.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
I think you will if AOC and Sheila Jackson Lee
had a baby, and yeah, Tall Rico's more like Moron
Zomdani up in New York. He's a socialist through and
through said the southern border should be the front porch
of America front porch. Come on, come on up, get
in the yard. Well, play in the yard, have some fun.
(35:27):
You're hungry, We'll give you all of our food. You
want to go somewhere else in the country, Oh sure,
we'll fly you there. That's not a problem. That's what
he wants. You remember that, that's what he wants. Tall Rico,
he is a wolf in sheep's clothing. He is gonna
say a lot of things during the campaign. And I
hope that whoever whoever has the other sides reins out
(35:53):
the conservative side range the Republican side. I hope they
start playing more and more of the times he's slipped
and said what he really thinks about this country of
ours and what we ought to do with it. He's
as left as they come, as left as they come.
He wants to open that border to anyone and everyone.
Where are we at will thirty seconds ish? Ten twenty? Okay,
(36:17):
Holy Cow, I'll give you two fun facts to know
and tell, neither of which you'll remember in an hour
and a half. Babies are born on their due date
only four percent of the time, and the largest sand
castle in the world was more than sixty nine feet high.
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