October 30, 2024 • 36 mins
Today, Doug Pike discusses paid sick leave for pets, St. Jude's golf tournament, and candy corn.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Remember when it was impossible to misplace the TV remote
because you were the TV remote? Remember when music sounded
like this? Do you remember when social media was truly social? Hey?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
John, how's it going today?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Well? This show is all about you. This is fifty
plus with Doug Pike, Helpful information on your finances, good health,
and what to do for fun. Fifty plus brought to
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plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
On the way we go on Wednesday, middle of the day, lunchtime,
quiet time, whatever it is. I don't know. Maybe maybe
for some of you, a secret romantic rendezvous time. We've
never considered that, will have we?
Speaker 3 (01:07):
I would say, if somebody out there is having a
secret romantic rendezvous time, I doubt they're listening to fifty
plus right now.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Well maybe afterward? Oh yeah, pillow talk, Hey, what's on
fifty plus today?
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Let's find out?
Speaker 2 (01:25):
You know, in a city, a metropolitan area of six
point whatever million people, the odds favor something going on,
you know, it's a big city, a lot of people
who find each other attracted. Maybe middle of the days
the only time making you.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Know, I'm not saying it's impossible that they turn on
fifty plus afterwards, but.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
You think it's probably unlikely.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I think it's unlikely.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
It would surprise me. Not a priority at the time,
I don't think so, probably not, okay, never mind? So
for us though, the rest of us mere mortal, and
I don't know whatever. There's the Texans of Rockets Astros
and all the pondering over who's going to be in
our starting lineup for the Astros next year and the
World Series. Of course, if you don't hate Los Angeles
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and New York collectively enough to not even watch the games,
I'm actually watching and I'm actually rooting for the Dodgers,
and all I'm waiting for now is for them to
put the Yankees in their little handsy fans out of
their misery. Did you see that last night? What happened?
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Will?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I did not watch the game. Now, So here's the deal.
Last night, in case you missed it, as Will did.
Mookie Bets, the right fielder for the Dodgers, leaps high.
He's trying to catch a foul ball right at the wall,
right up against the seats, and a Yankees fan, a
Yankees fan, literally grabbed Mooky's glove and yanked on his
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wrist in the process. The guy pried open the glove
and raked the ball out so that it landed on
the field, just because he was probably drunk. I've never
seen anything so unsportsmanlike in my life, honestly that could
have in this The part that I haven't seen anybody
really pay attention to is as awkward and weird as
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the angles were. For all of that, it would not
have been impossible for it to wind up with maybe
Mookie Best breaking a bone in his wrist or his
forearm or his hand. Unfortunately, the only thing that happened,
well fortunately, not unfortunately, the only thing that really happened
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is the guy who the jerk who grabbed the glove,
and another guy I guess who was maybe sort of
his assistant. He at least he got swept up in
the guilt of what went on after foul well, actually,
fan interference was called and both of them were immediately
ejected from the premises, which is what happens to people
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when they interfere, especially in a World Series game, especially
under those circumstances, that could have into that guy's half
of next season if he'd gotten something wrong, tragically wrong.
The idiots just idious. And by the way, that the
idiot guy is a Yankee season ticket holder, which in
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my mind means he should know better. He's not just
some some sack of Nichols that spent two or three
thousand dollars on a ticket and wanted to go see
us a World Series game. He had no better than net.
I know some Yankees fans, and the ones I know
are as devoted as any team's fans can be, but
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they're not going to try and tear a guy's arm
off to get a baseball out of the glove. So anyway,
the good news for Dodgers fans, including myself, now that
the Astros are out of it. The Dodgers up in
the series three to one, so barring some historic comeback,
three straight wins for the Yankees, it's only a matter
of time before the Dodger are in the ring. And
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in case you wonder, three to one deficits have been
overcome in the World Series a grand total of six
times by five teams now that since the World Series
started in nineteen oh three, So it's one hundred and
twenty one years, twice by the Pirates, once each by
the Cubs and the Tigers and the Royals, and in
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nineteen fifty eight the Yankees. So I don't think they've
counted themselves out yet, certainly, but statistically, if you were
going to put a bed on it, you'd have to
put it on the on the Dodgers. Moving on, and
with fingers crossed, there's rain in the forecast, starting a
little bit later today and staying at or above a
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fifty percent shot right through Friday. Maybe still some scattered
stuff even over the weekend. That's the good news. Rainfall
amounts not that great, maybe up to a half inch
later today and then maybe another quarter inch or so tomorrow.
We're not talking about downpours. We're talking about scattered showers
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and light rain, some of that light green to dark
green stuff with an occasional something a little a little
brighter on the spectrum, but not enough to really help. Sorry,
tricker treaters, But we got yard cracks to fill, right,
and so we I guess we'll segue. We've got a
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couple of minutes. Here we'll segue into highs and low's
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Speaker 3 (06:51):
Will?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Yes, I'm gonna put down a score for this one.
Hold on, Okay, here we go, rain rain stick around,
Make some puddles on the ground.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
But just for three days, rain rain stick around. Yeah,
sounds familiar. It was a play on something that is familiar.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
It's a twist, Will It's it's a twist.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Rainin stick around, Make some puddles on the ground, but
just for three days because we want to get back
to the fun stuff outside this time of year. Hmmm,
I'll give that one. That one's a what it's a
five point five?
Speaker 2 (07:41):
You're becoming you're becoming almost unbearably harsh with your assessments
of my creativity. Do you realize what it takes to
do this every day? Will?
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Yeah? Two or three minutes of your time or more.
Oh yeah, sometimes how long? What's the longest you've spent
on a high?
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Four minutes? Okay, not a lot, but nonetheless, well it's
still time. It's still my time, my precious time. I
had a higher number. I had great expectation for that,
not great, but more than a what did you say,
like a one or something?
Speaker 3 (08:16):
I said a five point five.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Same thing to me. Ut House Institute on Aging is
a collaborative effort among probably more than a thousand providers.
I do need to call and find out the exact number,
but it grows every time they turn around. Somebody else
wants to become involved in helping seniors live longer, healthier,
happier lives, which is what everybody in that group does,
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because not only are they fully qualified and fully trained
to have the diploma on the wall in the office,
they've gone back and got an additional education as to
how they can apply that knowledge, specifically to ushting that
handy extra education on how there's skills are best applied
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to seniors. The website has a tremendous number of resources
that are available no charge or anything. You just go
there and you find out more about being a senior
more about being a healthier, happier, longer living senior. Through
all of the avenues they present there, I would encourage
you to go take a look, grab yourself a cup
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of coffee or maybe some iced tea in the afternoon,
and just sit back in a comfy chair and just
scroll through that website. You'll see what I mean. Ut
h dot edu, slash aging, uth dot edu slash aging.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
What's life without a net?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
I suggest you go to bed, sleep it off.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Just wait until the show's over. Sleepy Back to Dougpike
as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
All right, welcome back. Took an extra couple of seconds
to go ahead and solve the wordle puzzle, which it
took me more steps than it probably should have. But
I don't know. It all depends on the first words
you get. Will beat me today by one? And it was.
It was not an easy word, but it wasn't a
hard word. And we just do that because we're both
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competitive enough that we'd like to see who can figure
it out and who can't. Leaping from the weather to
the markets worth noting, and I haven't looked a little while.
Will do me a favor and go to Yahoo Finance
and tell me what gold selling for right now, because
it was it was tickling a an all time high earlier,
and I just want to see where it is today.
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This is brought to us by Houston Gooldexchange dot com
of course first and foremost gold earlier. Well, I'll just
see what is it, will, I'm so looking for it.
Just go to y'ahuo Finance and it'll be right on
the right hand side. Geez, scroll down a half an inch.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Who's got goals in this kind of stuff? These two thousand,
seven hundred and ninety seven.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Point six So okay, yeah, so that hasn't changed in
at least an hour. And nonetheless, that's right, that's just
that's just tickling the chin of twenty eight hundred bucks
an ounce for the which would be a first. I
think that twenty eight or twenty seven ninety seven might
be an all time high. I'm not sure it's been
hanging around there for a while though. If you'd bought
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think about this, will, if you'd bought ten pounds of
gold back in the nineteen seventies when it was selling
for about three hundred an ounce, you'd have invested forty
eight thousand dollars, and today that same one hundred and
sixty ounces of goal would be worth almost ten times more,
about four hundred and forty eight thousand dollars. And guess
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what you could have waited to buy that same ten
pounds of gold for the same price about three hundred
bucks an ounce when it tanked back in two thousand
and one. Now, ten times your money over twenty three
years is way better than ten times your money over
fifty years. It's a pretty solid ROI, as they say,
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turn forty eight forty eight thousand dollars into four hundred
and forty eight thousand just like that ten years. I
don't know where else you could do that legally anyway.
All four of the major indicators read but only by fractions,
so it doesn't matter. And oil was back up about
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a bucket of quarter or something like that last time
I looked. Sixty eight twenty five and one more new
number before we dig out of this hole. Mortgage rates,
oopsie daisy, up slightly point five to two to six
point seventy three. That doesn't sound like a lot too
tensible point, but if you're going to throw it into
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a mortgage payment over twenty years, or thirty years on
a three four, five hundred thousand dollars house. Yeah, it's
gonna add up. So sadly, mortgage rates going the wrong way,
gold going the right way, and the market stuff can't
figure out what to do out into the world. We tried.
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Nobody's perfect right, but our sitting president, who along with
his vice president, claims to represent the party of unification
in this country. That man, President Biden, looked right into
America's eyes and called the people who support President Trump garbage.
That's the word he used, and he never walked it back.
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And I'm I'm right back at that quote. This division
that's being being heaped upon us by the left while
they blame President Trump for being divisive, divisive, whichever way
you want to say it. It goes back to that
quote about fooling a really big bunch of people. So
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I was said by some communist or Marxist or socialists,
I can't remember which, but all you got to do
is just accuse your opposition of doing exactly what you
actually are doing. Left's ripping the fabric of this nation
to shreds, and millions of gullible people just can't see
what's coming The reason the left has to focus so
tightly on President Trump and his supporters, by the way,
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is because they have asked you. They've got nothing else.
Nothing of substance can be said favorably about her or
any policies policy she might bring up if she were elected.
We know she's among the most liberal people in Washington.
She's proven that for the past many years, and we
know she'll do whatever she's told if she finds her
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way to the White House, which scares me a little bit.
And one more quick one on VP Harris at a
recent rally. This this just kind of tells you how
out of touch she is with what she's trying to
accomplish and how to go about it. At a recent
rally she had she somehow had the the whole crowd
whipped up into a frenzied chant, Come a law, Come
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a law, And they were screaming it, and they were happy,
and they were standing up and raising their arms, and
she popped the balloon right in the middle of all
that cheering for her by saying, Okay, now I want
each of you to shout your own name, and the
place just fell quiet as a tomb. Just crickets. What silence,
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dead silence. And then she then she cackled, and then
she went about saying nothing but that she wanted to
run the country and she was going to do a
great job, which I hope is wrong on both counts. Ah,
that's enough of that. By the way, daylight saving time
comes to a conclusion. This Saturday night slash Sunday morning,
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you'll wake up and it'll be an hour later than
it was when you went to bed. Oh, we're gonna
get to We're gonna get to get back into that
dark at five thirty six o'clock at night period, which
I hate because I do love to work on my
golf game in the afternoon. I love to try to
get in maybe nine holes, maybe do a little fishing,
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all of which I can do all summer long under
daylight saving time. Butt, no moss, butt no moss. All right,
let's some Where are we now? Will we? Good? We
got a minute or so. Let me slip over real
quickly to something just a little more genteel if I may,
I want to get you to pick one of these three.
Will you know how you know how the drill works?
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Not so sweet dreams kind of corny? Or well, this
will be yet another candidate for dumbest idea ever kind
of corny. It's National Candy Corn Day? Will did you know?
Speaker 3 (16:57):
I did not?
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Well? Surprise, surprise. What's your take on candy corn?
Speaker 3 (17:03):
It's not my favorite?
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Thumbs up?
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Thumbs down? I would say thumbs down. Would you have
you eaten it? Yes?
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Would you eat it if I brought a bag of
it in here? Probably not? Fifty seven percent of candy
corn lovers eat the whole piece in one bite. When
you did eat it the last time? How long ago
has it been since you had a piece of candy corn?
I don't know, probably a decade a decade, so you
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really have a distaste for it. Has it been offered
since then? Or is it just frankly, it's not around my.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
House, to be honest with you, it's not offered.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Nor is it around mine. And I think the last
time I might have eaten any of it at all
would have been if my son had brought some home
when he was trick or treating. And that's been a
hot minute. He's seventeen.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Now.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
There's actually there are two where I had it in
I think yesterday's notes. There are two cities up in
New Jersey that have banned children, and I think it's
fifteen and older from trick or treating, probably because a
handful of hoodlums and hooligans have been going out there
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and knocking over pumpkins and destroying yard art and whatnot
for Halloween, which I don't like. But once again, the
many have to pay for the sins of the few,
and I guess at fifteen, give your kid a couple
of bucks, some to go by their own candy. Alpine,
Texas would love to invite you out to celebrate an
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early Christmas December fifth through the seventh. They've got all
kinds of cool events going on Thursday. You can come
in on Thursday and take it easy, get checked into
wherever you're gonna stay, then make a make a walk
down Murphy Street and Holland Avenue. Buy yourself some well,
buy yourself some gifts if you like, but also maybe
buy some gifts for people who might not have something
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that's available out there in that shopping district of Alpine.
It's not a big city. You can't miss it. Don't worry,
You're not gonna not gonna have to search for it
for a long time. Then Friday they have a fantastic
Christmas concert planned, and then you can cap off that
long weekend with a tour of beautiful historic Adobe homes
that are decorated for the season on Alpine's Adobe Trail.
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Unique geographically, regionally unique architecture. And if you haven't seen
these types of homes, they really are. They really are
different and amazing Ashley and of course the big draw
to Alpine out there in the Big Bend of Texas.
Drive a few minutes outside the city limits just so
you can get rid of those few light bulbs there
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and you'll be treated to the most amazing stargazing just
every night. Every night there's not a cloud in the
sky and seldom clouds out that way. Free stargazing, free stargazing,
every night. Start your Christmas season in the Big Bend Alpine, Texas.
Go to Historicalpine dot org and just click on the
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big box in the middle of the page. Historicalpine dot Org.
Aged to Perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike. Hi,
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Welcome back to fifty plus. Half past the mid the
noon hour. Well, I was gonna there was something I
was gonna ask y'all, let it go. I'll talk about
about for a big deal blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah. So enough of all this that was abrupt
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You just push a button instead of turning a knob
or what, Yeah, just slam dunk.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
I was just done with it, clearly.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Let's see what else is on the front page. That,
by the way, that's an old school term, will have you.
You've heard that before, obviously, what's on the front page,
what's above the fold on the front page is even
more specific. Do you know what that means? What above
the fold on the front page? Above the fold.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
On the front page, I'm gonna guess that's when you
get a newspaper.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
It's folded, folded flat. It's in the little bag that
is idle. It used to well. Headline, Yeah, the headline
for the lead story of the whole paper, the most
important thing that happened twelve fourteen hours ago, which is
somewhat ironic really, because now if something happened twelve minutes ago,
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there are already twenty or thirty stories about it online.
But anyway, that's when you could see through the clear
plastic bag around your newspaper when you picked it up
in the front yard. And when I was growing up,
they didn't have the little plastic bags. That was kind
of fancy stuff initiated much later in the process of newspapers,
old school stuff back. I actually had a little paper
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route for a while in my neighborhood, and you would
roll the paper and then roll it up in a string,
kind of a light twine, if you will. It was
a white string, white cotton, I think, or whatever. You'd
roll it up a little bit, and then you'd roll
two or three times around the paper and then just
kind of pull it down the stand the thing on
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end and pull it down a little bit, and that
would just create some turns in there, and then you
had to clip it with a pair of scissors and
move on to the next paper. Yeah, I can remember
sitting there in the driveway and rolling up I don't know,
seventy eighty one hundred papers and then get out there
in the middle of it seemed like the middle of
the night, chunk those papers out the window. I don't remember.
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I think there might be might have been a buddy
of mine who had a car before I did. I
think we may have shared that paper route. I don't
remember how many papers it was it makes no difference.
But back then a newspaper was really I mean, it
was a pretty hefty thing. It was going to be
thrown in your yard or up onto your front porch
or the sidewalk or whatever. You could hear it hit
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the sidewalk some morning that if you had a wooden
front porch, for sure, if the kid could throw it
all the way from the sidewalk to the porch, you'd
hear it hit. Nowadays, stiff breeze blow the thing into
the neighbor's yard. Wonder why they got a free paper
that morning. Before any any more news. By the way,
I want to remind everybody that this year's golf tournament
that we host annually, this will be the eleventh benefiting
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Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital out in Memphis. We are
set for December ninth, once again on both courses at
Golf Club of Houston. Teams are five thousand dollars each
and you get a really nice gift for participating in
this tournament. It's not like there's nothing of value in
that bag. Believe me, it's going to be some pretty
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cool stuff for you and you'll be helping raise money
essentially to save kids' Lives. Still a handful of sponsorships
available as well, some of which come with a team
in addition to the sponsorship. I've done opening remarks for
this tournament since it was started, and I'll stay there.
I'll keep doing it as long as they'll let me.
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If you'd like to play on either of those amazing courses,
I think probably we could work it out to so
that you could play on the course of your choice,
depending on how many how soon you get in. Really,
the sooner you get in, the better chance you got
to get in that. But anyway, you're gonna help save
a really sick child's life. Okay, we truly can sign up.
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We can save kids' lives this way. No building department.
It's Saint Jude. That was something I learned on a
trip over there several years ago. I got to go
over there for about three days actually, and we got
full tours of every part of that facility, everything from
patient rooms to the entire building that's devoted to cancer research,
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pediatric cancer research, all of that stuff just remarkable. And
more remarkable about Saint Jude is there's no billing department
in the entire hospital. The people who are there, don't
pay anything for their travel, the treatment, food, housing. All
the parents of these kids have to do is just
watch over their children thanks to us. Okay. Sat Jude
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Houston Golf Classic. That's where you need to go. Just
get online and search Saint Jude Houston Golf Classic and
get signed up. Read up on the hospital too. You'll
see why I care so much about it. Saint Jude
Houston Golf Classic. Look it up, sign up and tee
it up with us on December night. I appreciate it.
If you do. In New York City, I guess in
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an effort to out California, California. Are you ready for this?
Will you got dogs? Right?
Speaker 3 (25:54):
I do have dogs.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Here's the deal in New York City. If this bill
or whatever they're calling it at the city level becomes
ordnance and law, they're going to offer up paid sick
leave for employees who need to stay home to take
care of a sick pet, any animal that provides companionship
and that you are taking care of in accordance with
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city ordinance. There I get dogs on a leaves, got
to pick up the poop, all that stuff. If it's sick,
you get to stay home, hang out with the dog,
hang out with the cat, any animal that provides companionship.
If it's sick, you get to stay there.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Opponents aren't sure how they'll cover the work those employees
would have done if they'd been on the job. You
mark my words. Will if that law passes. A day
after that happens, pet stores are going to have a
run on fish and birds and small animals that aren't
going to take a whole lot to care for. But boy,
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if you look at one and it just looks at
you sideways, you're gonna ring ring Hello, This is the boss. Yeah, Boss,
I got a problem. My fish is sick. Uh huh, yeah, yeah,
my fish. Now I'm thinking about taking to the vet,
But you know, I probably just care for it home
for I don't know, four or five days, see how
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it comes out, and if it still needs to go
to the vet, I'll take it then. You know, I
don't want to rush into things. Hopefully I can cure
it myself, because after all, it is my emotional support fish.
There'll be people taking advantage of that. Just hand over fist,
wouldn't you think, Well, I don't know, they say. The
guy who wrote the bill said it's for the mental
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health of citizens of New York. But they got a
lot of other things around there that aren't being addressed
along those lines. At President I understand the importance of pets.
I do probably better than most of you might realize
just now as a matter of fact, but as a
law I see how easily that could be abused and
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that it'll come back to bite them, just like being
a sanctuary city has, Just like being a sanctuary city has.
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been we did find something around the chimney, or we
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Speaker 1 (29:44):
Old guys rule, and of course women never get old.
If you want to avoid sleeping on the couch, came.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
I think that sounds like a good plan.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Hi. Welcome back to the final segment of the program.
Starts right now. Holy cow, this one went kind of quickly.
Will Would you agree or disagree? Yeah, it went pretty quickly, dude.
Some of it says, I have a missed call here
from a number I don't I'll figure it out later.
It doesn't matter, It doesn't matter at all. Back quickly
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to the election. I thought about something this morning. I'm
kind of wary of the media's insistence on digging and
digging to find these singular examples of bad behavior. And
some of this goes both ways. Honestly, they look around,
they find one person who did something stupid, one person
who said something stupid, who's not even not even running
for office, not even involved in the political process beyond
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the fact that that person's gonna vote. And I bring
that up because there was a woman, a woman down
in I don't remember where she was, probably Florida, i'm
not sure, may have been up north, may have been
out West. I don't know, but she was early voting,
and she walked into the polling place knowing full well,
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I'm sure this woman was not She wasn't eighteen voting
in her first election. Okay, trust me on that. Let's
just leave it at that. So she walks in there
wearing a a Trump T shirt and the polling officials,
rightfully so said sorry, you can't take you can't wear
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that in here. And she started displaying her foul mouth
and making a scene and actually took her shirt off
and wound up voting, And there's pictures of it all
over the internet. She wound up voting in her brazier
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will just to make a point. She didn't have a
T shirt on, So that's okay, And honestly, I would
have to agree with pretty much everybody else who weighed
in on this. It's one thing to kind of test
the waters and maybe walk in with it on, but
have a sweater you could put over it or something
like that, just to say gotcha a little bit whatever.
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It's another to start shouting expletives at people who are volunteering,
in most cases to work in these places and in
a place where every now and then a parent will
bring a child along to kind of show them how
the voting process works. She doesn't represent half of America
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and any more than anybody on the other side represents
their half of America. Okay, And that's she was wrong
to make that scene to say what None of that,
None of that represents anybody really except that one person.
That's what that does. And it's it's it's just no.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
And it just.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Shows how exasperated and how what a what was that? Will?
Speaker 3 (33:06):
Don't worry about it.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
You weren't throwing away something illegal, were you?
Speaker 1 (33:11):
No?
Speaker 3 (33:12):
I was throwing away a drink?
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Oh okay, Well, in any event, there there she was.
And it's just there's no reason for this from the
I had a couple of minutes here good news or
never mind? Will, I'll just go with the good news first.
A New Jersey teacher on her way to actually not
great news for the kid she was working with here.
You'll you'll get it in a second. She's on her
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way to her car after school. She comes across five
boys out in the parking lot about to gang up
and beat the snot out of a school mate. So
she tried to talk them out of fighting and they
didn't want any part of that. So the five of
them started punching and kicking and and just knocked this
other kid to the ground unconscious at the time. The
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teacher took matters into her own hand and laid her
own body over that of the kid who was just
being pummeled, and quite probably saved his life because those
kids were just whipped up into a frenzy of violence
for some reason. That teacher is fifty six years old,
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and her instinct, as always, according to her daughter, was
to protect somebody that needed protection, no matter what the
threat to herself. We need a whole lot more teachers
like those, and a whole lot fewer like some of
the ones who were who were in classrooms now, all right, Well,
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dumbest idea ever, or from the men and Women's sports desk.
Dumbest idea ever. Twenty percent of Americans think that kids
of all ages should be allowed to vote. That is
one of the dumbest ideas ever. So that's a five
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year old going to vote. Huh, what are they gonna want? Well,
if you'll give them free electronics, they'll vote for you.
That's how one half of this world works. Just give
out a bunch of free stuff, and people will support
you forever. They will. There's thirteen percent of people support
giving parents an additional vote for each child they have,
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each minor child they have. How about votes for people
who can prove their citizens with a valid idea. What's
so hard about that to understand? We've already got We've
already had issues in that regard already. We haven't even
gotten to the election yet, and there's already bona fide
evidence that that's happening. It draws me crazy. I have
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to show an idea to buy a phishing license. A
fishing license requires more identification than a vote for president
of the United States. I'll get to some of this
other stuff tomorrow. I guess is it too early to
put up Christmas decorations? Will? Yes?
Speaker 1 (35:59):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Would a street war erupt in your neighborhood if people
had their Christmas stuff up now? No, anytime before Halloween?
I mean, why not hardware stores do it. They've already
got Christmas stuff out. I know they throw the Thanksgiving
or the Halloween stuff out after the fourth of July
and they don't even hardly put anything for Halloween or
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for Thanksgiving anymore. That's almost a lost cause, I'm afraid
by the way, after you binge on Halloween candy, guess
what you need to go eat a bunch of because
this type of food can help rebalance your micro biome
will know no. Enjoy your reesis, enjoy your snickers, enjoy
your candy corn, all that stuff, and then eat down
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a heap and helping of sour kraut See tomorrow.
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
John, how's it going today?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
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Speaker 2 (00:51):
On the way we go on Wednesday, middle of the day, lunchtime,
quiet time, whatever it is. I don't know. Maybe maybe
for some of you, a secret romantic rendezvous time. We've
never considered that, will have we?
Speaker 3 (01:07):
I would say, if somebody out there is having a
secret romantic rendezvous time, I doubt they're listening to fifty
plus right now.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Well maybe afterward? Oh yeah, pillow talk, Hey, what's on
fifty plus today?
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Let's find out?
Speaker 2 (01:25):
You know, in a city, a metropolitan area of six
point whatever million people, the odds favor something going on,
you know, it's a big city, a lot of people
who find each other attracted. Maybe middle of the days
the only time making you.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Know, I'm not saying it's impossible that they turn on
fifty plus afterwards, but.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
You think it's probably unlikely.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I think it's unlikely.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
It would surprise me. Not a priority at the time,
I don't think so, probably not, okay, never mind? So
for us though, the rest of us mere mortal, and
I don't know whatever. There's the Texans of Rockets Astros
and all the pondering over who's going to be in
our starting lineup for the Astros next year and the
World Series. Of course, if you don't hate Los Angeles
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and New York collectively enough to not even watch the games,
I'm actually watching and I'm actually rooting for the Dodgers,
and all I'm waiting for now is for them to
put the Yankees in their little handsy fans out of
their misery. Did you see that last night? What happened?
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Will?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I did not watch the game. Now, So here's the deal.
Last night, in case you missed it, as Will did.
Mookie Bets, the right fielder for the Dodgers, leaps high.
He's trying to catch a foul ball right at the wall,
right up against the seats, and a Yankees fan, a
Yankees fan, literally grabbed Mooky's glove and yanked on his
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wrist in the process. The guy pried open the glove
and raked the ball out so that it landed on
the field, just because he was probably drunk. I've never
seen anything so unsportsmanlike in my life, honestly that could
have in this The part that I haven't seen anybody
really pay attention to is as awkward and weird as
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the angles were. For all of that, it would not
have been impossible for it to wind up with maybe
Mookie Best breaking a bone in his wrist or his
forearm or his hand. Unfortunately, the only thing that happened,
well fortunately, not unfortunately, the only thing that really happened
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is the guy who the jerk who grabbed the glove,
and another guy I guess who was maybe sort of
his assistant. He at least he got swept up in
the guilt of what went on after foul well, actually,
fan interference was called and both of them were immediately
ejected from the premises, which is what happens to people
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when they interfere, especially in a World Series game, especially
under those circumstances, that could have into that guy's half
of next season if he'd gotten something wrong, tragically wrong.
The idiots just idious. And by the way, that the
idiot guy is a Yankee season ticket holder, which in
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my mind means he should know better. He's not just
some some sack of Nichols that spent two or three
thousand dollars on a ticket and wanted to go see
us a World Series game. He had no better than net.
I know some Yankees fans, and the ones I know
are as devoted as any team's fans can be, but
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they're not going to try and tear a guy's arm
off to get a baseball out of the glove. So anyway,
the good news for Dodgers fans, including myself, now that
the Astros are out of it. The Dodgers up in
the series three to one, so barring some historic comeback,
three straight wins for the Yankees, it's only a matter
of time before the Dodger are in the ring. And
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in case you wonder, three to one deficits have been
overcome in the World Series a grand total of six
times by five teams now that since the World Series
started in nineteen oh three, So it's one hundred and
twenty one years, twice by the Pirates, once each by
the Cubs and the Tigers and the Royals, and in
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nineteen fifty eight the Yankees. So I don't think they've
counted themselves out yet, certainly, but statistically, if you were
going to put a bed on it, you'd have to
put it on the on the Dodgers. Moving on, and
with fingers crossed, there's rain in the forecast, starting a
little bit later today and staying at or above a
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fifty percent shot right through Friday. Maybe still some scattered
stuff even over the weekend. That's the good news. Rainfall
amounts not that great, maybe up to a half inch
later today and then maybe another quarter inch or so tomorrow.
We're not talking about downpours. We're talking about scattered showers
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and light rain, some of that light green to dark
green stuff with an occasional something a little a little
brighter on the spectrum, but not enough to really help. Sorry,
tricker treaters, But we got yard cracks to fill, right,
and so we I guess we'll segue. We've got a
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couple of minutes. Here we'll segue into highs and low's
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Speaker 3 (06:51):
Will?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Yes, I'm gonna put down a score for this one.
Hold on, Okay, here we go, rain rain stick around,
Make some puddles on the ground.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
But just for three days, rain rain stick around. Yeah,
sounds familiar. It was a play on something that is familiar.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
It's a twist, Will It's it's a twist.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Rainin stick around, Make some puddles on the ground, but
just for three days because we want to get back
to the fun stuff outside this time of year. Hmmm,
I'll give that one. That one's a what it's a
five point five?
Speaker 2 (07:41):
You're becoming you're becoming almost unbearably harsh with your assessments
of my creativity. Do you realize what it takes to
do this every day? Will?
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Yeah? Two or three minutes of your time or more.
Oh yeah, sometimes how long? What's the longest you've spent
on a high?
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Four minutes? Okay, not a lot, but nonetheless, well it's
still time. It's still my time, my precious time. I
had a higher number. I had great expectation for that,
not great, but more than a what did you say,
like a one or something?
Speaker 3 (08:16):
I said a five point five.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Same thing to me. Ut House Institute on Aging is
a collaborative effort among probably more than a thousand providers.
I do need to call and find out the exact number,
but it grows every time they turn around. Somebody else
wants to become involved in helping seniors live longer, healthier,
happier lives, which is what everybody in that group does,
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because not only are they fully qualified and fully trained
to have the diploma on the wall in the office,
they've gone back and got an additional education as to
how they can apply that knowledge, specifically to ushting that
handy extra education on how there's skills are best applied
(09:01):
to seniors. The website has a tremendous number of resources
that are available no charge or anything. You just go
there and you find out more about being a senior
more about being a healthier, happier, longer living senior. Through
all of the avenues they present there, I would encourage
you to go take a look, grab yourself a cup
(09:22):
of coffee or maybe some iced tea in the afternoon,
and just sit back in a comfy chair and just
scroll through that website. You'll see what I mean. Ut
h dot edu, slash aging, uth dot edu slash aging.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
What's life without a net?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
I suggest you go to bed, sleep it off.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Just wait until the show's over. Sleepy Back to Dougpike
as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
All right, welcome back. Took an extra couple of seconds
to go ahead and solve the wordle puzzle, which it
took me more steps than it probably should have. But
I don't know. It all depends on the first words
you get. Will beat me today by one? And it was.
It was not an easy word, but it wasn't a
hard word. And we just do that because we're both
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competitive enough that we'd like to see who can figure
it out and who can't. Leaping from the weather to
the markets worth noting, and I haven't looked a little while.
Will do me a favor and go to Yahoo Finance
and tell me what gold selling for right now, because
it was it was tickling a an all time high earlier,
and I just want to see where it is today.
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This is brought to us by Houston Gooldexchange dot com
of course first and foremost gold earlier. Well, I'll just
see what is it, will, I'm so looking for it.
Just go to y'ahuo Finance and it'll be right on
the right hand side. Geez, scroll down a half an inch.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Who's got goals in this kind of stuff? These two thousand,
seven hundred and ninety seven.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Point six So okay, yeah, so that hasn't changed in
at least an hour. And nonetheless, that's right, that's just
that's just tickling the chin of twenty eight hundred bucks
an ounce for the which would be a first. I
think that twenty eight or twenty seven ninety seven might
be an all time high. I'm not sure it's been
hanging around there for a while though. If you'd bought
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think about this, will, if you'd bought ten pounds of
gold back in the nineteen seventies when it was selling
for about three hundred an ounce, you'd have invested forty
eight thousand dollars, and today that same one hundred and
sixty ounces of goal would be worth almost ten times more,
about four hundred and forty eight thousand dollars. And guess
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what you could have waited to buy that same ten
pounds of gold for the same price about three hundred
bucks an ounce when it tanked back in two thousand
and one. Now, ten times your money over twenty three
years is way better than ten times your money over
fifty years. It's a pretty solid ROI, as they say,
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turn forty eight forty eight thousand dollars into four hundred
and forty eight thousand just like that ten years. I
don't know where else you could do that legally anyway.
All four of the major indicators read but only by fractions,
so it doesn't matter. And oil was back up about
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a bucket of quarter or something like that last time
I looked. Sixty eight twenty five and one more new
number before we dig out of this hole. Mortgage rates,
oopsie daisy, up slightly point five to two to six
point seventy three. That doesn't sound like a lot too
tensible point, but if you're going to throw it into
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a mortgage payment over twenty years, or thirty years on
a three four, five hundred thousand dollars house. Yeah, it's
gonna add up. So sadly, mortgage rates going the wrong way,
gold going the right way, and the market stuff can't
figure out what to do out into the world. We tried.
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Nobody's perfect right, but our sitting president, who along with
his vice president, claims to represent the party of unification
in this country. That man, President Biden, looked right into
America's eyes and called the people who support President Trump garbage.
That's the word he used, and he never walked it back.
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And I'm I'm right back at that quote. This division
that's being being heaped upon us by the left while
they blame President Trump for being divisive, divisive, whichever way
you want to say it. It goes back to that
quote about fooling a really big bunch of people. So
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I was said by some communist or Marxist or socialists,
I can't remember which, but all you got to do
is just accuse your opposition of doing exactly what you
actually are doing. Left's ripping the fabric of this nation
to shreds, and millions of gullible people just can't see
what's coming The reason the left has to focus so
tightly on President Trump and his supporters, by the way,
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is because they have asked you. They've got nothing else.
Nothing of substance can be said favorably about her or
any policies policy she might bring up if she were elected.
We know she's among the most liberal people in Washington.
She's proven that for the past many years, and we
know she'll do whatever she's told if she finds her
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way to the White House, which scares me a little bit.
And one more quick one on VP Harris at a
recent rally. This this just kind of tells you how
out of touch she is with what she's trying to
accomplish and how to go about it. At a recent
rally she had she somehow had the the whole crowd
whipped up into a frenzied chant, Come a law, Come
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a law, And they were screaming it, and they were happy,
and they were standing up and raising their arms, and
she popped the balloon right in the middle of all
that cheering for her by saying, Okay, now I want
each of you to shout your own name, and the
place just fell quiet as a tomb. Just crickets. What silence,
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dead silence. And then she then she cackled, and then
she went about saying nothing but that she wanted to
run the country and she was going to do a
great job, which I hope is wrong on both counts. Ah,
that's enough of that. By the way, daylight saving time
comes to a conclusion. This Saturday night slash Sunday morning,
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you'll wake up and it'll be an hour later than
it was when you went to bed. Oh, we're gonna
get to We're gonna get to get back into that
dark at five thirty six o'clock at night period, which
I hate because I do love to work on my
golf game in the afternoon. I love to try to
get in maybe nine holes, maybe do a little fishing,
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all of which I can do all summer long under
daylight saving time. Butt, no moss, butt no moss. All right,
let's some Where are we now? Will we? Good? We
got a minute or so. Let me slip over real
quickly to something just a little more genteel if I may,
I want to get you to pick one of these three.
Will you know how you know how the drill works?
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Not so sweet dreams kind of corny? Or well, this
will be yet another candidate for dumbest idea ever kind
of corny. It's National Candy Corn Day? Will did you know?
Speaker 3 (16:57):
I did not?
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Well? Surprise, surprise. What's your take on candy corn?
Speaker 3 (17:03):
It's not my favorite?
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Thumbs up?
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Thumbs down? I would say thumbs down. Would you have
you eaten it? Yes?
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Would you eat it if I brought a bag of
it in here? Probably not? Fifty seven percent of candy
corn lovers eat the whole piece in one bite. When
you did eat it the last time? How long ago
has it been since you had a piece of candy corn?
I don't know, probably a decade a decade, so you
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really have a distaste for it. Has it been offered
since then? Or is it just frankly, it's not around my.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
House, to be honest with you, it's not offered.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Nor is it around mine. And I think the last
time I might have eaten any of it at all
would have been if my son had brought some home
when he was trick or treating. And that's been a
hot minute. He's seventeen.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Now.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
There's actually there are two where I had it in
I think yesterday's notes. There are two cities up in
New Jersey that have banned children, and I think it's
fifteen and older from trick or treating, probably because a
handful of hoodlums and hooligans have been going out there
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and knocking over pumpkins and destroying yard art and whatnot
for Halloween, which I don't like. But once again, the
many have to pay for the sins of the few,
and I guess at fifteen, give your kid a couple
of bucks, some to go by their own candy. Alpine,
Texas would love to invite you out to celebrate an
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early Christmas December fifth through the seventh. They've got all
kinds of cool events going on Thursday. You can come
in on Thursday and take it easy, get checked into
wherever you're gonna stay, then make a make a walk
down Murphy Street and Holland Avenue. Buy yourself some well,
buy yourself some gifts if you like, but also maybe
buy some gifts for people who might not have something
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that's available out there in that shopping district of Alpine.
It's not a big city. You can't miss it. Don't worry,
You're not gonna not gonna have to search for it
for a long time. Then Friday they have a fantastic
Christmas concert planned, and then you can cap off that
long weekend with a tour of beautiful historic Adobe homes
that are decorated for the season on Alpine's Adobe Trail.
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Unique geographically, regionally unique architecture. And if you haven't seen
these types of homes, they really are. They really are
different and amazing Ashley and of course the big draw
to Alpine out there in the Big Bend of Texas.
Drive a few minutes outside the city limits just so
you can get rid of those few light bulbs there
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and you'll be treated to the most amazing stargazing just
every night. Every night there's not a cloud in the
sky and seldom clouds out that way. Free stargazing, free stargazing,
every night. Start your Christmas season in the Big Bend Alpine, Texas.
Go to Historicalpine dot org and just click on the
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big box in the middle of the page. Historicalpine dot Org.
Aged to Perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike. Hi,
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Welcome back to fifty plus. Half past the mid the
noon hour. Well, I was gonna there was something I
was gonna ask y'all, let it go. I'll talk about
about for a big deal blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah. So enough of all this that was abrupt
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You just push a button instead of turning a knob
or what, Yeah, just slam dunk.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
I was just done with it, clearly.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Let's see what else is on the front page. That,
by the way, that's an old school term, will have you.
You've heard that before, obviously, what's on the front page,
what's above the fold on the front page is even
more specific. Do you know what that means? What above
the fold on the front page? Above the fold.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
On the front page, I'm gonna guess that's when you
get a newspaper.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
It's folded, folded flat. It's in the little bag that
is idle. It used to well. Headline, Yeah, the headline
for the lead story of the whole paper, the most
important thing that happened twelve fourteen hours ago, which is
somewhat ironic really, because now if something happened twelve minutes ago,
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there are already twenty or thirty stories about it online.
But anyway, that's when you could see through the clear
plastic bag around your newspaper when you picked it up
in the front yard. And when I was growing up,
they didn't have the little plastic bags. That was kind
of fancy stuff initiated much later in the process of newspapers,
old school stuff back. I actually had a little paper
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route for a while in my neighborhood, and you would
roll the paper and then roll it up in a string,
kind of a light twine, if you will. It was
a white string, white cotton, I think, or whatever. You'd
roll it up a little bit, and then you'd roll
two or three times around the paper and then just
kind of pull it down the stand the thing on
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end and pull it down a little bit, and that
would just create some turns in there, and then you
had to clip it with a pair of scissors and
move on to the next paper. Yeah, I can remember
sitting there in the driveway and rolling up I don't know,
seventy eighty one hundred papers and then get out there
in the middle of it seemed like the middle of
the night, chunk those papers out the window. I don't remember.
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I think there might be might have been a buddy
of mine who had a car before I did. I
think we may have shared that paper route. I don't
remember how many papers it was it makes no difference.
But back then a newspaper was really I mean, it
was a pretty hefty thing. It was going to be
thrown in your yard or up onto your front porch
or the sidewalk or whatever. You could hear it hit
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the sidewalk some morning that if you had a wooden
front porch, for sure, if the kid could throw it
all the way from the sidewalk to the porch, you'd
hear it hit. Nowadays, stiff breeze blow the thing into
the neighbor's yard. Wonder why they got a free paper
that morning. Before any any more news. By the way,
I want to remind everybody that this year's golf tournament
that we host annually, this will be the eleventh benefiting
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Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital out in Memphis. We are
set for December ninth, once again on both courses at
Golf Club of Houston. Teams are five thousand dollars each
and you get a really nice gift for participating in
this tournament. It's not like there's nothing of value in
that bag. Believe me, it's going to be some pretty
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cool stuff for you and you'll be helping raise money
essentially to save kids' Lives. Still a handful of sponsorships
available as well, some of which come with a team
in addition to the sponsorship. I've done opening remarks for
this tournament since it was started, and I'll stay there.
I'll keep doing it as long as they'll let me.
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If you'd like to play on either of those amazing courses,
I think probably we could work it out to so
that you could play on the course of your choice,
depending on how many how soon you get in. Really,
the sooner you get in, the better chance you got
to get in that. But anyway, you're gonna help save
a really sick child's life. Okay, we truly can sign up.
(24:40):
We can save kids' lives this way. No building department.
It's Saint Jude. That was something I learned on a
trip over there several years ago. I got to go
over there for about three days actually, and we got
full tours of every part of that facility, everything from
patient rooms to the entire building that's devoted to cancer research,
(25:01):
pediatric cancer research, all of that stuff just remarkable. And
more remarkable about Saint Jude is there's no billing department
in the entire hospital. The people who are there, don't
pay anything for their travel, the treatment, food, housing. All
the parents of these kids have to do is just
watch over their children thanks to us. Okay. Sat Jude
(25:25):
Houston Golf Classic. That's where you need to go. Just
get online and search Saint Jude Houston Golf Classic and
get signed up. Read up on the hospital too. You'll
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If you do. In New York City, I guess in
(25:47):
an effort to out California, California. Are you ready for this?
Will you got dogs? Right?
Speaker 3 (25:54):
I do have dogs.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Here's the deal in New York City. If this bill
or whatever they're calling it at the city level becomes
ordnance and law, they're going to offer up paid sick
leave for employees who need to stay home to take
care of a sick pet, any animal that provides companionship
and that you are taking care of in accordance with
(26:19):
city ordinance. There I get dogs on a leaves, got
to pick up the poop, all that stuff. If it's sick,
you get to stay home, hang out with the dog,
hang out with the cat, any animal that provides companionship.
If it's sick, you get to stay there.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Opponents aren't sure how they'll cover the work those employees
would have done if they'd been on the job. You
mark my words. Will if that law passes. A day
after that happens, pet stores are going to have a
run on fish and birds and small animals that aren't
going to take a whole lot to care for. But boy,
(26:56):
if you look at one and it just looks at
you sideways, you're gonna ring ring Hello, This is the boss. Yeah, Boss,
I got a problem. My fish is sick. Uh huh, yeah, yeah,
my fish. Now I'm thinking about taking to the vet,
But you know, I probably just care for it home
for I don't know, four or five days, see how
(27:16):
it comes out, and if it still needs to go
to the vet, I'll take it then. You know, I
don't want to rush into things. Hopefully I can cure
it myself, because after all, it is my emotional support fish.
There'll be people taking advantage of that. Just hand over fist,
wouldn't you think, Well, I don't know, they say. The
guy who wrote the bill said it's for the mental
(27:38):
health of citizens of New York. But they got a
lot of other things around there that aren't being addressed
along those lines. At President I understand the importance of pets.
I do probably better than most of you might realize
just now as a matter of fact, but as a
law I see how easily that could be abused and
(27:59):
that it'll come back to bite them, just like being
a sanctuary city has, Just like being a sanctuary city has.
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been we did find something around the chimney, or we
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And mostly I'll just say, Okay, what's it going to take,
what's it gonna cost? Do you have the stuff on
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Speaker 1 (29:44):
Old guys rule, and of course women never get old.
If you want to avoid sleeping on the couch, came.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
I think that sounds like a good plan.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Hi. Welcome back to the final segment of the program.
Starts right now. Holy cow, this one went kind of quickly.
Will Would you agree or disagree? Yeah, it went pretty quickly, dude.
Some of it says, I have a missed call here
from a number I don't I'll figure it out later.
It doesn't matter, It doesn't matter at all. Back quickly
(30:26):
to the election. I thought about something this morning. I'm
kind of wary of the media's insistence on digging and
digging to find these singular examples of bad behavior. And
some of this goes both ways. Honestly, they look around,
they find one person who did something stupid, one person
who said something stupid, who's not even not even running
for office, not even involved in the political process beyond
(30:50):
the fact that that person's gonna vote. And I bring
that up because there was a woman, a woman down
in I don't remember where she was, probably Florida, i'm
not sure, may have been up north, may have been
out West. I don't know, but she was early voting,
and she walked into the polling place knowing full well,
(31:10):
I'm sure this woman was not She wasn't eighteen voting
in her first election. Okay, trust me on that. Let's
just leave it at that. So she walks in there
wearing a a Trump T shirt and the polling officials,
rightfully so said sorry, you can't take you can't wear
(31:32):
that in here. And she started displaying her foul mouth
and making a scene and actually took her shirt off
and wound up voting, And there's pictures of it all
over the internet. She wound up voting in her brazier
(31:53):
will just to make a point. She didn't have a
T shirt on, So that's okay, And honestly, I would
have to agree with pretty much everybody else who weighed
in on this. It's one thing to kind of test
the waters and maybe walk in with it on, but
have a sweater you could put over it or something
like that, just to say gotcha a little bit whatever.
(32:17):
It's another to start shouting expletives at people who are volunteering,
in most cases to work in these places and in
a place where every now and then a parent will
bring a child along to kind of show them how
the voting process works. She doesn't represent half of America
(32:38):
and any more than anybody on the other side represents
their half of America. Okay, And that's she was wrong
to make that scene to say what None of that,
None of that represents anybody really except that one person.
That's what that does. And it's it's it's just no.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
And it just.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Shows how exasperated and how what a what was that? Will?
Speaker 3 (33:06):
Don't worry about it.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
You weren't throwing away something illegal, were you?
Speaker 1 (33:11):
No?
Speaker 3 (33:12):
I was throwing away a drink?
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Oh okay, Well, in any event, there there she was.
And it's just there's no reason for this from the
I had a couple of minutes here good news or
never mind? Will, I'll just go with the good news first.
A New Jersey teacher on her way to actually not
great news for the kid she was working with here.
You'll you'll get it in a second. She's on her
(33:35):
way to her car after school. She comes across five
boys out in the parking lot about to gang up
and beat the snot out of a school mate. So
she tried to talk them out of fighting and they
didn't want any part of that. So the five of
them started punching and kicking and and just knocked this
other kid to the ground unconscious at the time. The
(33:57):
teacher took matters into her own hand and laid her
own body over that of the kid who was just
being pummeled, and quite probably saved his life because those
kids were just whipped up into a frenzy of violence
for some reason. That teacher is fifty six years old,
(34:19):
and her instinct, as always, according to her daughter, was
to protect somebody that needed protection, no matter what the
threat to herself. We need a whole lot more teachers
like those, and a whole lot fewer like some of
the ones who were who were in classrooms now, all right, Well,
(34:40):
dumbest idea ever, or from the men and Women's sports desk.
Dumbest idea ever. Twenty percent of Americans think that kids
of all ages should be allowed to vote. That is
one of the dumbest ideas ever. So that's a five
(35:01):
year old going to vote. Huh, what are they gonna want? Well,
if you'll give them free electronics, they'll vote for you.
That's how one half of this world works. Just give
out a bunch of free stuff, and people will support
you forever. They will. There's thirteen percent of people support
giving parents an additional vote for each child they have,
(35:21):
each minor child they have. How about votes for people
who can prove their citizens with a valid idea. What's
so hard about that to understand? We've already got We've
already had issues in that regard already. We haven't even
gotten to the election yet, and there's already bona fide
evidence that that's happening. It draws me crazy. I have
(35:43):
to show an idea to buy a phishing license. A
fishing license requires more identification than a vote for president
of the United States. I'll get to some of this
other stuff tomorrow. I guess is it too early to
put up Christmas decorations? Will? Yes?
Speaker 1 (35:59):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Would a street war erupt in your neighborhood if people
had their Christmas stuff up now? No, anytime before Halloween?
I mean, why not hardware stores do it. They've already
got Christmas stuff out. I know they throw the Thanksgiving
or the Halloween stuff out after the fourth of July
and they don't even hardly put anything for Halloween or
(36:23):
for Thanksgiving anymore. That's almost a lost cause, I'm afraid
by the way, after you binge on Halloween candy, guess
what you need to go eat a bunch of because
this type of food can help rebalance your micro biome
will know no. Enjoy your reesis, enjoy your snickers, enjoy
your candy corn, all that stuff, and then eat down
(36:46):
a heap and helping of sour kraut See tomorrow.
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