Pancakes or Waffles?

Today, Doug Pike discusses allergies, waffles, and a pilot's mistake.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Remember when it was impossible to misplace the TV remote.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Because you were the TV remote.

Speaker 1 (00:09):
Remember when music sounded like this, Remember when social media
was truly social?

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

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

(00:43):
with Doug Pike.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
All right, two day edition of the program starts right now.
Thank you all so very much. I took a look
at how we're doing will by the way, and we're
doing better. Yeah. I'm really happy to report that audience
numbers are up, and I will share them with you
during the break because I don't want to embarrass somebody
who's on another one of our stations. But we're beating him. Ah,

(01:09):
I got that. I got that. Yeah, Okay, first live
show back in the saddle. For those of you who
aren't familiar, perhaps maybe joining for the first or second
or third time, or however many that didn't include a Monday.
Mondays are my only day off, so there's a Will
goes to great links to cherry pick just the right,
just the right segments to put in. Is that about

(01:30):
a good way to describe what you do? Cherry pick? Yeah,
the best, nothing but the best. I would go through
and I'll pick my favorite episode of the week. Okay,
that's fair enough, and then that's what you get on
Monday and on Saturday and on Saturday. Nobody told me that, Yeah,
the show plays on Saturdays on KPRC. What time Will?

(01:53):
I don't know, Well, I'll have to go find out. Well,
that's good news as well. In any event, we're doing
quite well and I'm happy to report that and anything
and everything you think that would make this show better.
I encourage you to email me and just let me know. Hey,
more of Will, less of you and Will. I don't

(02:13):
want any prank phone calls. I know your number. I'll
see it on caller Idea. Okay you think so, Yeah,
you can get your You're gonna get your girlfriend to
call in for you. Maybe I'm just an anonymous listener
who'd love to hear more of Will mal Es. Yeah,
we could arrange that. I've always told you that you
are welcome to create your own little mini feature a

(02:36):
feature at if you will, and we'll we'll do it
a couple of times a week, and if it's really good,
if it catches on, then maybe we'll just ramp it
up some more. Will We'll see how that goes. I'd
be happy to do it for you. Let's get into
the weather in the markets first, then dive right into
the news and weather news from Texas into wear quality specialists,

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because cleaner air is healthier error. As I've told you,
texasiaq dot net will get you information on them. Today's
going to be the warmest day of the week and
maybe the driest. Unfortunately, well, Wednesday is supposed to be dry.
Tomorrow is supposed to be dry until sometime after dark
or so when another mild cool front comes rumbling down

(03:19):
the state of Texas. Chances for showers and thunderstorms linger
through Saturday as well, and a temperature's moderate. So there
is that little bit of positive news to come out
of the weather forecast. In market news, Houston Goldexchange dot
Com brings that to us, nothing but little moves up
or down so far into the day, not buy any

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more or less than a third of a point going
green or red. Last time I looked, Oil tried to
climb early, but has dropped just a little bit since
yesterday's clothes and gold was up about ten bucks eleven
bucks somewhere in there. Last I looked at three thousand
and twenty seven dollars per Troy ounce. Way we go

(04:04):
Texas Children Texas Children's Houston Open, the golf tournament kicks
off this week. Great talk Sunday I had with Jason
Wood and the vice president of marketing for the Astros
in the nine o'clock hour of the Doug Pike Show,
then over on Sports Talk seven ninety fantastic event. Greatly
benefits Texas Children's Hospital and a lot of other local charities.

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And as I mentioned about a minute ago, whether toward
the end of the week looks a little suss to
borrow from Will's generation, is that your generation are the
one behind you? I think it's my generation. Okay, yeah, well, sush,
you know what that means. And if you're gonna go
to the I don't know whether they allow umbrellas. Oh yeah,

(04:49):
of course they would in the golf they should. If
you go to the tournament website you can find out
what you can and cannot bring the endo the golf
course into Memorial Park over there, and believe me, they're
very strict about that. I always carry a tiny little
leather man micra, but a multitool, a little baby multitool,

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if you will, that has a pair of scissors, a
knife blade, a fingernail file that doesn't really do much,
and a little baby screwdriver both actually both different heads
of screwdrivers, and then a very smaller one even that
I can use to tighten up eyeglass screws. All on
that one little thing, and I had it in my

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pocket right when I walked up. And it's a significant
significant distance from the media center or from the gate
to the media parking lot, and I had navigated that
whole that I was all finally got there and remembered
I had that thing in my pocket. I usually leave
it in the car. That's what I do when I
go to Astros games, and they run that drug sniffing

(05:54):
dog around my vehicle to make sure that I'm up
and up. And I asked the guy at the gate,
I said, you can't let me have this in there,
can you? No? I really can't, man, I'm sorry, said
can you hold onto it for me. He said, no,
I can't hold onto it for you. But if it
was kind of under some leaves under that bush right
there by the gate, I might notice if somebody disturbed

(06:18):
the leaves or something. And I just trusted. I trusted
because these days gone up in price. The first one
I bought was maybe twenty bucks many years ago, and
now they're about thirty five or something. Anyway, I tucked
my little leather man Micra under the leaves and walked
in and enjoyed some tournament stuff, and they went over

(06:39):
to I'm sure I went over to the media center
to get something to eat. That's not a maybe that's
a guaranteed. I'm meeting Art Strickling over there, probably Thursday,
if it's not pouring down rain. In any event, I
came out of there and lo and behold, it was
still there. Nobody had Nobody had snipped it out and
taken it. And so maybe maybe I'll have to use
that method again. Maybe I won't. Anyway, that's going on

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this week is a great tournament for it in some
of the best players in the world. Honestly, Scottie Scheffler's coming,
Ry McElroy's coming, that's one and two in the world.
JJ Spahn, the guy who lost to McElroy in a
playoff at the Players Championship. All of that going on
this week over at Memorial Park. Go to that website
and you can figure out exactly how you want to

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enjoy it and win. Watch the forecast coming up for
the next day or two and when you'll maybe it'll
be a good idea or a bad idea to be
over there in Memorial Park, staying in Houston. No, you
know what, we'll we'll go to it. We'll go to
a break early. That way, I'll have time. I got
to run back over to my desk for a minute
as well. UT House Institute on Aging. I have been

(07:44):
talking about them for the better part of probably nine
years now. It might be eight, but I think it's
nine almost since its inception, really, and what I like
about it is that it continues to grow, continues to
gather more and more medical providers from every aspect of medicine,
every single thing that has to do with medical attention.

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There's somebody at the UT Health Institute on Aging, some
bodies who are additionally trained beyond what it took to
get their diplomas and get their credentials. Additionally trained in
how they can apply that expertise to us to seniors.
That's a big deal. There are hundreds, if not thousands

(08:27):
of these providers around town now, most in the medical center,
as you might suspect, but many of them and others
work outside the medical center at least a few days
a week. They're in Perland, they're in Kingwood, they're in
the Woodlands, They're in Katie, they're in Sugarland, They're in everywhere.

(08:48):
That's just where they are. Go to the website. Look
at all the resources you can get access to for
absolutely no money. It's a free trip to the site.
It's loaded with education on seniors, our health, U t
h dot ed U slash aging, U t h dot
ed U slash aging. What's life without a NET? I

(09:09):
suggest you go to bed, sleep it off.

Speaker 1 (09:11):
Just wait until the show's over.

Speaker 2 (09:13):
Sleepy.

Speaker 1 (09:14):
Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
Here we go, second segment of this program starts right now.
Thank you all so very very much for joining Will
and me today. Will you got anything on your mind?
You want to talk about some grape you want to
get off your chest? Some good news you've had lately.
I want there to be more rain to push all
this palling out. I'm dying from. You know that. That

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is a fair that's a fair thing. My son suffers
from allergies, even a little bit more than I do now.
In fact, I've got a note on my desk to
stop and refill his over the counter meds because he's
he's using them up as as directed. He doesn't double
down on him, but he still needs some more. He's
about to run out, and I don't want that for him.

(10:16):
This is a kid who he grew up on golf courses,
he grew up on baseball fields, and he had allergies.
And we figured that out, and we took him and
got him checked for it, and one of the things
that he's allegedly allergic to. However, it's kind of like
you got to scratch your head a little bit and say, really,
is this possible? Bermuda grass, It's horrible. What's on courses, Bermuda?

(10:42):
What's on baseball fields? Bermuda In a lot of cases,
most cases. And he has no problem at all playing baseball,
even when he was even when he was little, even
as these allergies were coming on. There are other minor things.
There's nothing that he has to really worry about. He's
not an epipenn guy, and we know a young man
who is. He is required to carry his EpiPen just

(11:04):
in case one of his allergies gets triggered. And that's tough.
That's tough. He's had to not eat some things that
he would love to have eaten, I'm sure, just because
of that. And but he does Okay. He's a good
kid and I really respect him and his family. So
moving on, I heard talk about naming a street after

(11:27):
our late Mayor Sylvester Turner. May he rest in peace.
But if they're going to do that, maybe we look
at name in a street the one with the most
most potholes, maybe because that's something that that's a pet
peeve of mind about how Houston has been run, and
the roads of Houston have been not maintained to what

(11:51):
I think would be even a marginally reasonable standard as
far as potholes and bumps and dips and all the
these random problems with those roads go. Every time I
get off the freeway in Houston, I feel like I'm
driving over just over a load of bricks that fell
off a truck, and there's no I bet you that

(12:14):
the people, the mechanics and the just people who work
on any kind of cars on suspensions, especially just love Houston.
That makes them a lot of money. I bet a
lot of tires get banged up too trying to drive
around Houston. A lot of undercarriages. Every now and then
you'll see a stain after a big speed bump or

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something in a road, a big long oil stain where
somebody's oil pen got ripped off. Staying in Houston, No,
we'll stay in Texas, but not Houston anymore. We're gonna
go to a liberal judge who has blocked the recently
placed ban on drag shows at Texas A and M University.
According to this judge, no, it's fine, go ahead. And

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with the new rules in place, it seems pretty obvious
that now we've already seen a hundred examples of how
the left is going to fight the Trump administration in
the courts. For as long as they can find a
judge that the left that leans their way, that's who
they're looking for. If they can find a judge who
leans their way, they'll sue the administration over whatever bothers

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them and just judge shop it to the to at
least delay implementation of changes that well, frankly, that the
majority of Americans clearly favor. Fortunately, the people in charge
are not easily discouraged, and there's gonna be a lot
of legal wrangling all throughout these next four years because

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the left just won't they won't let up, they won't stop,
and they're doing everything they can. And I don't blame them.
If I had lost like they lost, i'd feel pretty
badly too, and I'd be trying to find ways to
do better. But I was hoping, just against all hope,
and it doesn't seem like it's going to go this way.
But I was truly hoping that after the dust settled

(14:12):
and the new administration was put in place, I was
hoping that the left might see a little more clearly
what their constituents probably want. A lot of former constituents
that voted for Donald Trump this year, otherwise he couldn't
have won. But they're they're just doubling down on on

(14:34):
staying far left. As best I can see, that's all
they're doing. They're staying far left and gonna just ride
it till it drops this, there's a story. Where did
it come? Hold on, I'm I tell you I'll find it. Presses.
Oh yeah, the on Thursday, coming back here to near

(14:54):
Houston on Thursday in the the Rosen Well in the
Fort ben County Fairgrounds down in Rosenberg building. Ce, you
and anybody else who signs up and wants to go
down there can go see two people who are going

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to conduct a town hall meeting down there, two people
who already know how it is to lose elections in Texas.
They're bringing in Tim Walls in Beto O'Rourke to conduct
a town hall meeting in Rosenberg. I'm not going to
be in attendance because my beliefs don't align with theirs,
and actually because I have a lot of other stuff

(15:36):
on my plate than that. But you watch, you watch
the local newscast this week for just a full on
fawning session over these two, both of whom, as I
just said, have lost really big elections in Texas. If
the Democrats were smart, I honestly believe they'd pull back,
they'd regroup, and they'd start trotting out people who better

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represent our countryes moderately left leaning people and not not
just swing for the fence home run left. Americans on
both sides are really tired of being told they have
to pay more and get less, and the actions and
the work of DOSE so far are opening the curtain

(16:21):
even wider to let Americans know that they've been They've
been duped out of not millions and billions of dollars,
but trillions of dollars for stuff that really just benefits
no American whatsoever. I still don't understand how how these
people can look us all in the eye and tell

(16:42):
us they know what's best for us, because clearly they
do not. Mercy take care of that. Oh, by the way,
in case you missed it, I think it's over the
last few weeks they've been up north touring with AOC
and Bernie Sanders, basically doing the same thing, just whistle
stopping as often as they can in places where they

(17:04):
know they're gonna get a friendly audience and know they're
gonna get their message heard. And the good news I
guess for me is I watch a lot of news
broadcasts just to kind of see where they are, and
I didn't see, but I only saw one brief mention
of the Sanders AOC thing. But you can count on
count on it being known to Houston, all of Houston

(17:27):
that looks at the major networks here, and we're all
going to know that that Tim and Betto are coming
to town. And if either one of them's wearing a
cowboy hat, I just might lose my mind. That you
bet on it? Will you want to take that bet?
I'll bet you a quarter that one of those two,
at least and possibly both are going to be wearing

(17:50):
almost all the photo ops, one of them is gonna
be wearing a cowboy hat. Maybe do you think they
will or not? You will put up a quarter? That
is from Texas. I don't care. His politics aren't obviously
his politics are right. Well, when did he win? Again?

(18:10):
He has one he's won an election in Texas. I
didn't say he'd never won at all. Well that's what
you did, yes said, I said he's lost big election. Okay,
but he's also one election. Well yeah, okay, I'll give
you that. That's fine. But is he gonna wear a
cowboy hat? I don't know. Maybe so you got you

(18:31):
feel confident enough to lay a quarter on it. I'm
not talking about a quarter of a million dollars. Well,
I'm talking about a quarter. Something we can flip and
see heads or tails. I got one in my pocket.
I'll put it up, put it on the counter right now.
You can put however many quarters you want. You don't
want the bet, it matters not to me. Well, okay,
I'll just okay, I'll let that go. Oh well, that's fine.

(18:55):
All right, let's take the next break of the program.
That way, I can polish up something I want to
talk about when we come back to by the Way.
And I have several good news stories, and I'm thinking
about will and I think this is a good idea,
and maybe I will entrust you to find one of
your own. Every Tuesday. Will, henceforth, throughout the land, every Tuesday, Will,

(19:16):
you will be tasked with finding and writing a brief synopsis.
Three sentences is all you really need, unless you need more,
to tell the story of something good, something good and
positive for Americans, not for the left or the right.
We're not gonna go political on it. But just a

(19:36):
good story. Okay, can you do that? All right? Challenge accepted? Really,
all right? Well, next Tuesday, I'm gonna hold your feet
to the fire. A late health is a it's a
group actually of vascular clinics around town where you can
go to be seen and treated for a variety of

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things that can be treated through through using these tiny,
teeny tiny, little tiny like hair thin tubes that can
be inserted into your veins and arteries and all just
all throughout wherever the blood's going. That's where they can go,
even down to the capillary level and make problems go away.

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Because within the human body everything runs. The fuel, the
gasoline for our whole body's engine is oxygenated blood, and
without that that part that is isolated and shut down
doesn't work anymore. For example, the most common procedure they
do prostate artery embolization. If you're a guy and you

(20:42):
have the symptoms, you know them, you hate them. You
can get rid of them by having the artery that
feeds that prostate plugged up. They just build a dam
right there in the middle of the artery. I don't
know what they use. I have no idea. I have
no idea how they do this, but they're very good
at it, and they do it all the time. They
do it all the time, and it works. You get
to go home after a couple of hours in the clinic,

(21:04):
getting treated, getting that blood supplies shut off to the prostate.
Then somebody drives you home and you prop up your
feet your easy chair and you watch an astro starting Thursday. Actually,
that'll be fun to do. A Late Health also takes
care of fibroids and women. They also take care of
a host of other issues that can be treated with

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Speaker 1 (21:47):
Aged to Perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike. All right,
welcome back. Third segment of the program starts right now,
and we will go to.

Speaker 2 (22:10):
Let's lighten it up for just oh. Actually, some good news.
This is some good news from this past week. There
were two sixteen year old girls set off on a
single paddle board from cedar Key, Florida, spring breaking having fun.
Didn't know much about paddle boarding and suddenly found themselves

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unable to get back to the place from which they
had started and didn't show up for several hours and
a lot later ended up being rescued, actually sixteen hours later,
and after they had to spend the night out there
on the water. They washed ashore a place called Turtle Creek,

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where they were in temperatures that dropped into the forties
overnight exactly, and that I mean they were not dressed
for that, obviously. They were on a pathle board, exhausted
though they when there was a boat of rescuers. There
were a lot of people looking for them in a
lot of places. And fortunately people who are on the
water and know the water well are pretty good and

(23:14):
even better now with AI at calculating just where something
of a certain size and shape might have drifted overnight
on the wind and the current. And a boat was
passing Turtle Creek and these the girls, they were just whipped.
They had very little strength left. They made it through

(23:36):
a very cold night with nothing to keep them warm
except each other, and they managed to stand up and
start waving when the rescuers were coming by, and lo
and behold, will pop quiz are you ready? So they launched.
They launched at Cedar Key. They showed up at Turtle
Creek the next morning. That's where they were rescued. They

(23:58):
had washed ashore there for all the money in the world,
and the China or and the what was it? All
the money in the world, and the camper and the
quarter in my pocket? For the quarter in my pocket?
Will how far is it between those two places? And
see there's the quarter right there? How far is it

(24:18):
between those two places? Twenty twenty two p edition of
the quarter? How far is it? Within? Within ten percent?
And they were gone for sixteen hours. Yeah, it was
two miles. I have to put my quarter back, Okay,

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actually fourteen miles will wow, and I can. I can
guarantee you that's almost a mile an hour. Yeah, they were.
They were getting pushed across their pretty hard well. And
that that helps to understand helps us to understand why
they weren't able to get back, because the two of
them sprawled out on that paddle board or standing on
it and paddling as well as they could if there

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was enough wind to blow them fourteen miles well, and
part of that's current too, but that's also fighting your
effort to get back to where you started. I've felt
that way more than once, when I was young on
a surfboard, a big wave day, and you'd get You
just work yourself to death trying to paddle out, and
then look up when you get there and realize that

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the current, the rip along the beach is moving you
so fast that you end up fifteen minutes later, half
a mile down the beach. It's yeah, the wind in
the current, when you're out there on that surfboard, it
can carry you a long ways. And if you're on
a short board, if you're a young, strapping teenager out

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there on a shortboard, even as strong as you are,
it's very hard to get momentum. On a short board.
You get in brief spurts. That's a sprinter's board. A
longer board is more of a paddler's board, a little easy,
and there's a glide to it once you make a
couple of strokes. That's shortboard. You can paddle hard as
you want and it'll go pretty fast. But then as

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soon as you stop paddling, it stops. Fun fact to
know and tell. Huh, I guess perhaps, all right, let's
go back to where am I thirty nine. I got
a couple of minutes in professional sports. We'll go to
professional sports for a minute, will and this includes a
pop quiz as well. The Women's National Basketball Association and

(26:27):
well at least one player that loudmouthed. Angel Reese said
recently that if the players in that league don't get
more money, they just might go on strike or quit
or otherwise somehow stop the spectacle of the WNBA, which
to the league actually would be more profitable than continuing

(26:50):
to just hemorrhage money to keep it afloat. If it
weren't for the stratospheric rise of Caitlin Clark, the woman
who who has pretty much the future of the WNBA
on her shoulders right now, that league wouldn't have a chance.
The NBA, the MLB, and the NFL all earn double

(27:15):
digit billions of dollars per year. I think for the
the NBA and Major League Baseball, I want to say
it's around ten to eleven billion, and then football is
maybe three or four more, or maybe it might be
seven or eight billion for the two previously mentioned, with
the NFL coming in at eleven, but whatever it is,

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the total is about thirty five forty billion dollars, and
the WNBA, for reference from several sources I checked, has
a very long history of actually losing about ten million
dollars a year, so I could see why Angel Reese's
threats might fall on death years and that I've I've

(28:03):
never really been a fan of hers at all, and
I'll i'll conceide that I actually watched more WNBA basketball
this year than I probably have in my life because
just because of Caitlin Clark, I wanted to see her play.
And she's living up to the hype too. She's a
very good player, and so is Reese. I'm not going

(28:24):
to take anything away from her for talent wise, but
probably help any cause she follows to be a little
more humble in the way she goes about her her
day to day. But that's just me. I'm not my business,
all right. Will you want something fun to do here
for a minute or two? Yes? What is today's international day? Here?

(28:45):
A waffle day? Yes, it's also a celebration of the
Greek Revolution, it says here, but that's that's not what
I had. It's International waffle Day, which could be confusing
because when you throw the word international out front, what
what do you think of then Belgian waffles? No, will, No,

(29:05):
the international It's not the International House of Belgian Waffles.
It's the International House of pancakes. So why they don't
just say it's World Waffle Day or something like that,
because if it's international, it's international world, or replace their
I hops internationally or they're just I Hops domestically, you know,

(29:29):
truth and advertising says there would have to be one
somewhere else, and advertising is never lied to us before. Doug, Well, no,
I haven't, I don't. I don't do that. I really don't.
Speaking of very quickly before we have to go to break,
if you or anybody else you know who owns a
company and or manages or buys marketing for that company,

(29:53):
want any part of this which is actually growing, it's
it's doing well, and I'm happy to share audience numbers
with anybody who wants to know if you're interested in
this or any other show for example, or for instance
that we handle here in Houston or anywhere else in
iHeart I can help you with that. I'm kind of
a unicorn, and that I do my shows and then

(30:14):
I also take care of a fairly short list of
people I really want to work with, and that's the
way I do my business. I kind of I get
a lot of references. And I've actually got several people
on the air now that i'm gonna have on and
talk about and talk with live to share their business
experiences and how their businesses have grown over the years.

(30:35):
Some new people I'm bringing in and I'm happy to
do that for them. So if you're interested or know
somebody who might be by all means, just tell them
to email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. Speaking of
new people, and I'm gonna have Wendy in here, not
in here, but on the phone shortly, and we'll talk
about the berry Hill Baja Grill, which is run by
her family and has been for decades. They started somewhere

(30:59):
around thirty years years ago, I'm not exactly sure. And
my wife and I have been eating at the Sugarland location,
which is off Sugar Creek Boulevard in fifty nine for
just about that long. We've moved out to sugar Land
thirty two years ago, and as soon as I found
berry Hill, I knew i'd found something that I was
really gonna like. And for a long time, best fish

(31:20):
tacos I've ever eaten. I've eaten a lot of them,
and I like Berry Hills more than any others. I've
found very family friendly, very casual restaurant. You don't have
to get fancied up. And when you go in there,
there's kind of a bar area with high tops and
a true bar to the right, and then tables, tables
and boosts to the left. It's a it's not a

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quiet candle lit place. It's a place where if there's
a home run on the TV, or if somebody shoots
a long three point to win a game, you're gonna
hear some cheering going on in there. You're gonna hear
a little bit of loud going on in there because
everybody's kind of relaxed and having a good time. They've
had the same two cooks in the kitchen for more
than a decade and they continue to just put out

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a delicious, consistent variety of Mexican food favorites. If you're
new to sugar Land, you go in there and try
to strike up a conversation with somebody around the bar.
I'm sure they'll talk to you. I've seen that happen before.
If you're not new You probably already know about berry Hill,
and good for you. I may see you there and
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Speaker 1 (32:38):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash them, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike.

Speaker 2 (33:04):
All right, welcome back fifty plus. Fourth final segment starts
right now. We'll get some good stuff. We'll get some
punch stuff. Fun, fun, fun, fun and interesting and uplifting
and all that.

Speaker 1 (33:16):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (33:16):
We talked about it being international waffle Day. Will do
you have an update on that? About the internationality of
the House of Pancakes? Yes, they are in fact international.
How many? How many countries cown? But it looks like
at least twenty countries? Holy cow, all enjoying the deliciousness

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of a fluffy pancake. Pancakes are waffles? Will ooh? Kind
of depends it depends on the place. I'm also, I
really like French toast free breakfast at best Western that's
a waffle for sure. Yeah, I've eating more than one
of those. My son likes it. I like French toast too.
My son makes good at French toast. By the way,

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if you're ever over at the house, if you're ever
out my way early in the morning, yes, swing by
my son to whip up some French toasts. Now, he'll
probably be at school. And if he's not at school,
he'll be at a baseball tournament somewhere. So sorry, Will,
So it's an empty gesture. Well, I had to rethink
it because he's the one who can really do it right,
and he's not there in the morning. He's gone, gone

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with the wind poof out longevity trick question or open
wide long jevity. There is only one constitution in the world, Well,
it's we know who it is. The US Constitution is
the only one in the entire world from the seventeen
hundreds that's still in use today. You consider that good

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or bad? Will I can serve it fine? I think
the Constitution itself doesn't need to be tinkered with, And
there are a whole lot of people who would love
to just tear it up and start all over and
make their own new rules. And but I mean, isn't
kind of the point of the Constitution that it can
be tinkered with. That's why we have the amendments. It

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has been tinkered with. That I'm talking about people who
flat out say we should just rip it up. Just
rip it up. If you want to talk about amendments,
I'm I'm in for that conversation. But when people say
that it's antiquated and it it just doesn't work at
all anymore. Technically it is a little antiquated. Well, yeah
it is, you know, technically it is from the seventeen hundreds. Yeah, yeah, No,

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we're living in twenty twenty five, are we. Well yeah,
trick question open wide or I forgot something. I'm just
kind of going down the list. I forgot something. United
Airlines flight from LA to Shanghai long flight right got
to go from Los Angeles to Shanghai, China, had to
turn around over the Pacific Ocean on Saturday will because

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the pilot forgot what I don't say, how to fly
the plane is co pilot. No co pilot was there,
but they could not land in Shanghai because the pilot
did not have his passport. Wow, they're an hour and
forty five minutes into this flight and had to do

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a yui in the sky much, I'm sure, to the
chagrin of everyone on board, who thought, good, we're almost
two hours into this hellish long flight. No, they had.
They ended up going back and dropped into San Francisco,
where they swapped out the crew, and then landed in

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Shanghai six hours late. Wow, though, Yeah, that's that's not good.
So he didn't know where he or she we don't
have Jao. They didn't know where their passport was. I
guess not, well, we we knew it. He or she

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did not leave it or did not have it on
the plane, that's all I don't Maybe just probably just
forgot it in the hotel or something like that, something stupid,
or maybe in the pilot's lounge. God, that's possibility as well.
But if I'm traveling internationally and I'm in charge of
three hundred and something people, I'm gonna make sure that

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little things like my passport aren't overlooked on the way
out the door. Trick question open wide or check your
attic O trick question. Have you ever heard the term
boomer asking? Boomer ask, boomer asking, and it doesn't have

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anything to do with the age of the person asking
the question. It's a takeoff boomerang will okay, okay, And
it's when you ask a question just so that you
can talk about yourself as soon as the other person
shuts up. It's like if I were to ask you, hey,
did you do anything fun this weekend? Will, and your

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answer would be yeah, And I might even ask what
did you do? But I would be just in my mind,
I'm already going to well, let me tell you what
I did. Let me tell you about what happened to
me this weekend. And you're just asking the question to
seem polite. You're seeding the question. You're seeding the conversation

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with so that a certain plant will grow from it
when it gets watered. That was a stretch, but you
know what I mean. You see what I mean? Hey man,
been seeing any good movies lately? Yeah? Really? Which one
to Well? Let me tell you about the one I
saw this weekend. All right, We're going to do open wide,

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whether you like it or not, because it's pretty good.
This is by default I'm going to it. And actually
are two of them two left that aren't nearly as
interesting as this guy shows up in China at the
er with his girlfriend's full fit stuck in his mouth mouth. Yes,
that's correct. They were trying to film a video and

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go viral with the video, and then it ended up
the only place they went was to the er, and
sure she got her fist in his mouth and then
his just his jaw just locked up, which can happen.
By the way, if you or anybody else's thinking about
trying that, you you locked that thing out. It's kind
of like a pair of oh what I'm thinking of

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a pair of plyers, but now not really like that.
There are some locking plyers, and if you understand what
those are, then that's what that was. We're down there
out of time. We got fifteen seconds. Whiz. How old
a cat in the UK just turned? How old? Still
kicking too? By the way, eight years old? That's darn closed.
That's one of your better guesses ever. Will fifty or

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thirty not fifty thirty years old? All right, that's gonna
wrap it up for today. Thanks for listening. We'll be
right back in here tomorrow at noon. Audios