October 17, 2024 • 38 mins
Today, Doug Pike discusses the election, old buildings, and a Texas pizzeria.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Remember when it was impossible to misplace the TV remote
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hey John, how's it going today?
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Well?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
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Speaker 4 (00:50):
All right, Thursday edition of the program starts try now,
and thank you all for listening, Thanks for joining us,
sharing your lunch hour with us at least? Yeah, I
wonder Will what percentage of this audience you think is
actually eating lunch between twelve and one.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
Whether they listen or not.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
What percentage of people in Houston older than fifty eat lunch.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
From twelve to one? I have no idea.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
You don't even want to venture a guess. No, the
good thing this wasn't a pop quiz, you'd.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
Have failed it. Oh, do you have an answer, No,
I don't.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
I wonder how could I have failed it?
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Doug, Well, the same way you give me like a
four and a five on some of my high coops.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
That's about how Oh that's a failure on my part.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Huh.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
All right, let's move on, shall.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
We woke up this morning to the coolest temperature we've
seen probably well certainly since spring.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
Get it while you can too.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
We're gonna see the numbers go back up again in
a few days. Not too hot, not all the way
to hot, but at least a little warmer, and for
some of us probably a little more. There is that
the same guy who continues to call me when I'm
on the air. He knows better, he knows better. Something
may be up there all calling during the break. In
any event, Uh, very few of us are gonna complain
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if the numbers go back up five or six degrees
or even ten.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
I'd be comfortable ten degrees higher than we are now.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Quick official look at the weather from Texas IAQ specialists.
As always, because cleaner air is healthier air, especially at home,
D'll pound two to fifty say healthy air, and you're
gonna learn a whole lot more about getting your duckwork
cleaned and cleaned by them too. They're very good at
what they do. So let's just do this. His and
Lows and Haiku will here we go. You ready, I
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am Summer is history, but just on the calendar.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
Never drop your guard.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Hmmm.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
No, one's okay.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
I like that one, the glowing endorsement from you. I'll
give that one to seven point one. WHOA, okay, I'll
take that. I'll take that seven point one for that one.
And that one, ironically probably consumed a little less time
than the last line was eluding me because I had
something much better, but it took six syllables instead of five.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
So anyway, yeah, I worked that out.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
It worked out just fine in the markets thanks to
Houston Gold Exchange. There he is probably texting back to
say I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
In the markets.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Indicators all off to the races this morning, except for
the Russell two thousand, which pretty much stumbled out of
the gate and actually was running backwards, running the wrong
way around the track.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Just a little short while ago, oil was.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
At seventy dollars in change and gold gold up another
chunk about another ten or fifteen dollars. A little while
ago north of two thousand, seven hundred dollars an ounce.
I have no explanation for why it's that high. Well,
I guess it's supply and demand, obviously, but I don't
know whether the supply is lower or the demand is higher.
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I suspected in this country the demand would be considerably lower.
So somewhere around the world, not sure where, somebody's buying
up an awful lot of gold. Let's getting the good stuff,
shall we, And by the good stuff, I mean the
few days we have left before our presidential election. Lots
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at stake on both sides, and I'll encourage all of
you to vote and vote early. Don't wait until the
last minute. Don't wait until election day, certainly because I
got a hunch there's going to be a pretty good crowd,
and I got a hunch there may be some problems
at some.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Of the poles, So go early when it's not a
big deal.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
I saw something yesterday too, and I don't know that
if this is true or not, but I'll just pass
it along in case it is, because it's something that's
easily remedied. I read a story that said, if you
go into a polling place and if you get your
ballot handed to you, and the person who hands it
to you maybe puts a check mark by your by something,
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or writes a number on it, or writes anything anything
on that ballot, hand it back to them and say,
give me a blank one, because according to the story
I read, and it seemed fairly well sourced.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
I can't. I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna at all
say that it's gospel. It's not.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
But if it's true, if it's true at all, that
ballots can be thrown out, if they've been written on,
then what's the harm in saying I'm not gonna use
that when I want another one, And maybe they'll do
that before you, And that would be a way if
it is true. If it is true, people who are
dishonest could just put a little check mark and just
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say remember to you know, remember to fill in the box,
and just kind of throw a little check mark on there,
and then down the line somewhere people who are counting
those ballots might pull yours out and throw it away
and just disqualify it just for a little ink mark
or pencil mark or whatever. If somebody knows more about that,
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By the way, by all means, please do email me
whether that's true or not, and then I'll report back
next week to confirm or squash that little note.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
But on the outside chance that it could be.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Right, I don't want anybody in my audience's ballot to
be tossed for something as simple to avoid as that.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
And you know, I don't care which way you vote.
Everybody gets a vote.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Hopefully, hopefully not too many unlawful votes will be cast
in this election. It happens all the time. Dead people vote.
People vote in every presidential election since they've been counted.
And how that happened, I'm really not sure. Well, I
kind of have an idea. All right, let's move on
from that. So I'm looking up front, looking at Kamala
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Harris and how she continues to kind of dodge hard questions,
either because she doesn't have an answer or she's been
told not to answer, which is a possibility that we
all have to consider. When asked on Fox about whether
she noticed declines in President Biden's cognitive wellness in meetings
almost every week for nearly four years, she answered by
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criticizing President Trump. Totally ignored, totally ignored the original question.
I got a little bit more about that, I say what,
I'm gonna go ahead and hit a break on time.
Keep will Melbourne happy, keep us on track here, because
I have an interview coming up in just a few
minutes with a man who knows a whole lot more
than almost everybody in this audience about electrical grids and
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how electricity moves.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
On the way out.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
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Speaker 1 (09:23):
Aged to perfection. This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Tay false alarm on the interview. It's in the next segment,
not this one. I got a little ahead of myself
because we usually kick off a good interview in the
twelve eighteen Dash twelve twenty launch period.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
This one's gonna launch at twelve thirty one way or
the other.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Going back to where I was, I'm gonna I'm gonna
go back to Vice President Harris and something She's done this.
It seems to show desperation to me. Frankly, she He's
throwing all kinds of hail. Mary's just just letting everybody
run down field, throw the ball way up in the
air and just hope it doesn't get intercepted. She was
losing and may still probably still is losing the support
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of black men in this country. There was a lot
written about that, and former President Obama came out and
raked these black men over the coals for not for
not actually.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
Voting, not wanting to vote for her, and her response.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
Her response was to come out this week and talk
about talk about making weed legal and reparations. And that's
just it's so it almost should be insulting, I think
for these these men who are making their own decisions
based on their own thought about the country to for her,
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if she was gonna do something about that, why didn't
she do it a long time ago. This is the
same woman who prosecuted thousands of cases for marijuana when
she was in California. I don't know, I just get
I just get frustrated by all this. These are just
more empty promises. They're just things that are being thrown
out there to see what's gonna get her more support?
And I don't think any of it is. Honestly don't
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I honestly don't. Oh, well, moving on from there, let's
get away from that. Let's some in fact, let's just
let me see here where I want to go. Well,
we're gonna come to you and do something lighter, certainly
in the next couple of minutes, and then maybe I'll
go back to the real news pages. You get to
pick make it stop, gobble gobble, or fill her up?
Speaker 5 (11:46):
Make it stop.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
That's just you're telling me to do or you want
to go ahead and do that story kind of both
pull last three thousand Americans but not you or me.
Are you generally enjoying this presidential election or do you
wish it were over? Well, i'll pull you. We'll have
a one person poll here. Are you enjoying it or
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do you wish it was over? Technically it were over.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
I don't know if I enjoy any election, but you
know I would agree with that.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
I don't know. Yeah, I don't know that I enjoy them.
They are they're necessary in this country in which we
live so far to determine who's going to lead us.
And I hope we'll continue to have them no matter
who wins. And I hope that our country continues to
thrive and actually will to regain its thriving nature after
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this election. We'll see how it goes anyway. The bottom
line is two thirds said they can't wait till it's over.
I think I would be in that bucket you will, Yeah,
I can't wait.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
I would like to know what the results are. Good,
Just come on, get it over with, Just get it
over with.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Twenty one percent actually said will that they are enjoying
it and wish it would continue, and they are nuts.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
I think.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
I'll take one more than I'll go back to the
news Will, and I'll leave. No, I'll take the other
two off the table for now, and I'll go to California.
Is the new Florida? Hail to the Mouse or stay
in your lane?
Speaker 5 (13:30):
Hell to the Mouse.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Take a guess what this is about? A legitimate guess.
You can't possibly miss this.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
Hell to the Mouse is about Mickey Mouse. Yes, thank you.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
It's about Disneylands, well, all the Disney parks. Actually, they
are introducing now yet another more expensive, faster way to
skip all the lines. You too, can go to any
ride in the park any time you want, and just
get in front of all those commoners who only spent
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one hundreds of dollars on their entrance ticket, and you
can pass them all.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
All you got to do.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Is buy a Lightning Lane Premiere pass that's being introduced
towards the end of this month, and it's going to
go from anywhere from one hundred and something dollars up
to about four hundred dollars depending on the park, and
then as time rolls on, depending on the season and
how full the park tends to be. Honestly, if Disney
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continues in the direction it's going in now, I think
there may not be lines at Disney World for many
more months, in if maybe years. They've just changed everything
about the way that park. At least Disneyland in California
I went to. That's the one you went to as well, right, well, yes, yeah,
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so we tried the same bricks and pay the same
money for our refreshments and souvenirs and all that long
long ago.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
And it's just I think it's gone in a bad direction.
I really do. I don't.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
I think Walt Disney would just be rolling over just
come like, come on, just come on, why are.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
We like this.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
We're supposed to be something different, something entirely different in
any event, that's what that's about. Anywhere anywhere from two
to four hundred more dollars just to skip the lines,
and skip the lines in grand style too. There are
other little incremental boosts you can get. There's one I
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can't remember what it's called, but you have to pick
the time you're going to come back and ride, and
when you show up at that time, you get to
skip the line. This one, the super Deluxe what do
you call it? Lightning Lane Premiere pass. Anytime, just walk
up there and just turn your nose up at everybody
who's in line and been waiting for an hour and
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a half, and you just waltz right up to the
next available car or mouse trap or whatever they.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
Have out there. I don't know what it is.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
All right, let's go back to more news. Let's see
this one here. That one there I like, Well, it's
short news WNBA news. Angel Reese, remember her, she's the
one who complains about Caitlyn Clark. That's her name, right,
Will the basketball star? Yes, yeah, Well she's been complaining
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about Caitlyn Clark all season long and whining, and now
she's whining about how her WNBA salary, which she didn't
even know. She didn't even know what it was. She
has other sources of income, obviously, and she had no
idea of really what her actual WNBA salary was. And
somebody who was sitting with her when this was done,
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I believe, had to tell her an assistant of some sort.
She's crying and whining that her salary doesn't even pay
her bills, which, if you were to compare it to
the NBA, NBA guys make a ton of money, and
more power to them.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
That's the game that people want to watch.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
The WNBA had an opportunity if everybody kind of rallied
around the introduction of Caitlyn Clark, and they all could
have been making more money, more money than any of
them's making right now. But they chose to snub her
and ignore the records she's already broken, and do a
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lot of things that didn't help their cause. The reason
I tell you all this is she lives. She's complaining
about her salary not paying her bills. However, she lives
in a place that costs her pop. Quiz will what
does Angel Reese's rent per month and where in the
place she lives.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
I don't know where it is. I don't know how
much it is. I don't know how big it is.
I know nothing about it, but I do know the
amount of her rent. Well, I would assume that she lives,
maybe in Chicago, because that's who she plays for. I
couldn't even have told you that, honestly, I would say, what,
maybe thirty two hundred. She wouldn't get the key to
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the door for that will.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
She pays eight thousand dollars a month for her place,
eight grand month, so she's not she can't be living
too badly. And to complain about her WNBA salary, she
might just if she didn't work in the NBA, she
wouldn't have all those other sources of income. She might
want to butt her up to the NBA WNBA and say, man,
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you know, this isn't so bad. I appreciate the opportunity
to enjoy the lifestyle I enjoy, which is primarily being
accommodated by her playing in the w NBA. It's a
long way to get to nothing. I guess we're at
the bottom of the hour. We're gonna go ahead and
take a break. When we get back, we're gonna talk
to doctor Andrew Phillips about electricity. Ut Health Institute on
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If it's medical related, it's part of the Institute on Aging.
These are providers who go get their diploma in whatever
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Speaker 2 (20:37):
Now, they sure don't make them like they used to.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
That's why every few months we wash them, check his
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Speaker 5 (21:03):
All right, welcome back. Well things happen.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
I talked to the man who set up the man
who was going to talk about electricity, and he was
called into a very important, very big, high level meeting
because he's a high level guy.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
That's the kind of people I like to get on
this program.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Although yeah, I have some other ideas on people I'd
like to talk to as well. And as a matter
of fact, I'm going to make a note here. Oh
I know what I can put in here stand by.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
Interview. Okay, Once I have that note in front of
me on the way out of here today, I'll be
in good shape.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
I'm gonna set something up that I think will really
shed some light on electricity.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
Huh no, pun intended. It's made that up.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
That's pretty good, even as much or more as coming
from this man who I was going to talk to,
who actually he holds a bunch of patents in the
United States that have to do with electricity and electrical
grids and how all that juice moves around the country,
and those are the kind of things we're going to
talk about when I can get him on the air,
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and I think it'll be very, very interesting.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
I truly do.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
I want to get to some good news because there's
still more election news, but oh my god, how boring
is it?
Speaker 5 (22:18):
Really?
Speaker 4 (22:19):
So there are two things I found today, one of
which is is truly remarkable and holds great promise for
extending many women's lives, and the other ones just kind
of verifies something I've been talking about. It validates something
I've been talking about for a long, long time. First
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is a new procedure, a new treatment regimen that combines
chemo and radiation and reduces the rates of death from
cervical cancer by forty percent. That is significant cervical cancer,
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the piece says here impacts more than three hundred thousand
women worldwide, and the regiment has been heralded this new
one as remarkable. It's been called the biggest gain in
survival since adoption of chemo radiation in nineteen ninety nine.
It's thirty five years ago if you're one, twenty five
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years ago, if you're keeping score at home. These were
the words of a woman named doctor Mary McCormick, the
lead investigator of the trial at University College in London, says.
The trial of the new treatment plan was conducted over
ten years. This isn't something they just cooked up yesterday. Okay,
it's got ten years of history. They recruited patients from Italy, Brazil,
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the United States, India and Mexico. Short course of chemo
before chemo radiation, standard treatment, that's what it was involving.
Standard treatment, says here involved a combination of chemo and
radiotherapy concurrently. I believe anyway, the bottom line is, hey,
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it's going to reduce that rate, reduce that rate by
forty percent.
Speaker 5 (24:13):
That's awesome. That is awesome, amazing. The other one is just.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
Something that I don't know if you how long you've
listened to this program, but occasionally I have talked about
a very strong belief that in a few years.
Speaker 5 (24:29):
With a little more research, the.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
Whole notion of going global with electric cars is going
to fall off the grid, so to speak, because they're
going to use hydrogen to fuel cars. And there is
a group over in also over in Great Britain at
Warwick Manufacturing Group.
Speaker 5 (24:50):
This car was built by.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Students actually, and it is well, it's being built by students,
and it's not long from being read to take out
on the streets, and well they're gonna take it to
tracks actually and try and try and break land speed records.
They've got four or five of them. In mind, this
car runs entirely on hydrogen, and that hydrogen is being harvested,
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if you will, from sewage, from sewage. Their cars being
made also to keep it in that renewable thing, from
old parts from other cars, from other.
Speaker 5 (25:28):
Real race cars.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
These are parts that weren't fit for actual racing cars
now but are still.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
There's some of the.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
Real carbon fiber, all kinds of things on these. The
car looks beautiful, by the way, it's the Laman's prototype
race car.
Speaker 5 (25:45):
If you know what Laman's cars look like.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
They're absolutely gorgeous and they have beautiful lines. I love them,
I really do. And they're using spare and unused parts
to just keep this car going and going and going.
And in a few weeks or may be a couple
of months, they're gonna be out there in some really
impressive places making some really important headway in hydrogen as
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a fuel for transportation. The only byproduct when you burn
hydrogen for fuel, and these engines act very similarly to
current internal combustion engines that use hydrocarbon fuels ghastly, and
boy oh boy, if hydrogen works, the only byproduct of
those engines is water, So you just see little puddles
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of water. I guess we're somebody idled for a while,
but nothing else. And then when you hit the gas
on one of those things, boy, if this one works,
they're gonna be fun to drive too. And that takes
all the heat off of all our electricity because we're
gonna need it. We're gonna need it for a whole
lot of other things, a whole lot.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
Of other things. How we doing well? I got two
minutes here, minute and a half. Yeah, okay, let's go.
Uh oh.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
This I saw yesterday and I'm gonna say it for
my audience because I didn't get to it if anybody
tells you violent crime is down and they read about
it and they heard about it, well tell them to
go back and look again. Tell them to do their
own fact checking. Because early reports that showed violent crime
crime was trending downward actually were revised by federal officials
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earlier in the week and show a fairly significant uptick.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
Duh, we knew it. We all saw it, we all
felt it.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
We all have seen the snippets in the local news
about increases in violent crime, but it wasn't being reported
that way at the federal level until this revision was made.
And it shows under Biden and Harris the last few
years up, up and away with violent crime. A lot
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of that has to do with violent criminals being sent
back out amongst us after judges don't hold them.
Speaker 5 (28:04):
In jail or prisoner anywhere else. It's bad. It's very bad.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Sales of luck.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
Like the jobs reports we get every month, warm fuzzy
number gets put out on time, the left falls and
drools all over the new jobs, most of which by
the way, usually are federal government jobs, and then later
hardly ever even seeing light in liberal papers, are on television,
the revised numbers are issued, and they're always lowers. It's
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never better than we expected. It's never better than what
was reported. It's always lower. We got to take a
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I suggest you go to bed and sleep it off.
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Speaker 5 (31:00):
I just stumbled on a headline. Thanks for listening. By
the way, final segments of the program starts right now.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
Find somebody over in Armenia, or some group of people
whatever has found found an entire fourth century church. I
love history and all of that kind of stuff. World
history fascinates me. I told Will if I win the lottery,
I'm going to become a part time archaeologist. And when
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I'm not archaeologis, I'm going to be traveling the world
looking at old stuff. There's cool old stuff to look
at all around the world. And ironically, I live in
a country that's one of the newest on the planet,
one of the youngest. We look at buildings that were
built in the eighteen hundreds as being old and historic,
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and Armenia goes hey, we got a fourth century church.
And Egypt goes hey, we got some stuff too in
Rome and Italy and all of Europe. All of Europe
has stuff. On a trip to Sweden years ago, a
fishing trip actually, and there's a story behind that, I've
told it on my outdoor show over on KBA ME
more than once. But on a fishing trip to Sweden,
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once we stopped at a place that they wanted to
show us our hosts. And I stood in a barn,
a thatched roof barn that was built in the late
I want to say, the late sixteen hundreds, maybe early
seventeen hundreds, something like that, and I just and it's
still there. And the fences over there, interestingly enough, were
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all rocks. They don't have barbed wire fences over where
we were. They have rock fences that have been there
for a couple of hundred years. It's amazing. All that's amazing. Okay,
trip down memory well, not memory lane, but history lane.
I suppose we'll jump off of that. I'll go back
to you will and give you a chance to pick
(32:56):
a good one. Stay in your lane. I mentioned that
one earlier puncture prevention or such a Texas.
Speaker 5 (33:05):
Thing, such a Texas thing.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
You couldn't resist, could you. And I'm glad too, because
this is interesting Pete Seria employees. It just says in Texas.
And I could have punched up whole story and seen
the whole thing. And I want to say I saw
something about this yesterday as well, but it showed up
where I saw it today, and so that's why it's
in here took justice into their own hands by pretty
(33:31):
much beating the tar out of a guy who tried
to rob their restaurant. He goes in there, swaggered up,
and I don't even know what kind of weapon he
was carrying. I would presume in Texas, if he was
going to try to rob anything or anybody, he'd have
some sort of weapon. And he ended up taking a
good old fashioned country whipping. And I think I remember
(33:54):
seeing a picture of the guy, actually his mugshot, and
whoever whoever took it to him knew what they were doing.
They they popped him pretty good. And I bet you
he won't go back in that place. I'll bet you
he won't. All right, where do I want to go now?
There's just so much here will I'm gonna go to
(34:17):
Illegal Immigrant gang news, the Newsmatch News. Gosh, this phone
of mine, it's just blowing up. Newsmax published a story.
I'm gonna put it over here where I can't hear it.
Speaker 5 (34:28):
There we go.
Speaker 4 (34:29):
Newsmax published a story today about that vicious Venezuelan gang,
the Trende Aarrawa. They have taken truth, well, they took
control a while back. That's its past tense now of
apartment buildings in San Antonio, right right down the street
in San Antonio, there's a bunch of funds. It's activities
(34:49):
with drug dealing with prostitution of both men or not
men but women and children, extortion, and law enforcement from
pretty much branch that could be gathered up.
Speaker 5 (35:02):
Put a big raid on.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
That apartment complex this past week and wound up arresting
nineteen people. They went apartment to apartment, open them up,
check out who's there, make sure they belong, and make
sure they're not bad guys. They arrested nineteen. Aurora, Colorado
had or I don't know, maybe still has a problem
(35:24):
with members of that same gang doing the same things
up there. And you know what, without an open border
and without unvetted access to this country for millions upon
millions of people, little or none of this could have happened.
We heard all along, this is something else about Vice
President Harris.
Speaker 5 (35:45):
For the last two and a half three years.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
We've heard the border secure, you don't have to worry
about the border, nothing's going on there. And then what
was it two three four weeks ago, whenever it suited her,
when other timing felt right I'm gonna fix the border
if you elect me.
Speaker 5 (36:01):
Why didn't it fixed?
Speaker 2 (36:02):
Now?
Speaker 4 (36:03):
If she wanted to have anybody's catch, anybody's attention, she
should have done all these things.
Speaker 5 (36:09):
They all could have been done in the past year.
Speaker 4 (36:11):
President Biden hasn't really been doing much of anything, and
I understand that, and honestly, a lot of that's not
his fault.
Speaker 5 (36:18):
He just couldn't do it. I'm tired of talking about
her in news news. I got a minute? Will or not?
You have a minute? Fifty?
Speaker 2 (36:30):
Oh, that's right?
Speaker 4 (36:31):
In news news from Fox News. CBS News has been
accused by the Center for American Rights of quote significant
and intentional news distortion and quote after altering Kamala Harris's
answer to a specific question that originally aired on Face
the Nation and then behind the very same question suddenly
(36:53):
there is a different response from her in primetime sixty minutes.
This has been filed with the FCC and they wanted investigated.
Speaker 5 (37:01):
And I couldn't agree more.
Speaker 4 (37:04):
You can't go back and let her put a new
answer into a question where if you ever hear the
original answer. She just fumbled the ball, which she does
sometimes a lot of times. She fumbled the ball on
that one. All right, Well one minute left, I'm gonna
give you. We'll go back to gobble Gobble. Fill her
up her next level irony, gobble Gobble butter Ball.
Speaker 5 (37:30):
It's a turkey related item.
Speaker 4 (37:32):
Has unveiled a new Thanksgiving turkey and this will help
a lot of people who are forgetful. This could be
great for seniors. It goes from cook to cook from frozen. Well,
you start with frozen.
Speaker 5 (37:45):
Then you just cook it. But it takes five hours.
Speaker 4 (37:48):
But at least you don't have the worry of having
everybody show up for dinner and realizing you didn't thaw
the turkey, which can take several days in the refrigerator.
Now you just take it right out of the freezer,
throw it in the oven, and.
Speaker 5 (38:03):
You can eat five hours later. That's not bad very quickly.
Speaker 4 (38:07):
By the way, a ten month old fire station Jeremy
burned to the ground yesterday because the city opted not
to install smoke detectors. Twenty two million in damage. We'll
be back next week.
Speaker 5 (38:19):
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All right, Thursday edition of the program starts try now,
and thank you all for listening, Thanks for joining us,
sharing your lunch hour with us at least? Yeah, I
wonder Will what percentage of this audience you think is
actually eating lunch between twelve and one.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
Whether they listen or not.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
What percentage of people in Houston older than fifty eat lunch.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
From twelve to one? I have no idea.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
You don't even want to venture a guess. No, the
good thing this wasn't a pop quiz, you'd.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
Have failed it. Oh, do you have an answer, No,
I don't.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
I wonder how could I have failed it?
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Doug, Well, the same way you give me like a
four and a five on some of my high coops.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
That's about how Oh that's a failure on my part.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Huh.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
All right, let's move on, shall.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
We woke up this morning to the coolest temperature we've
seen probably well certainly since spring.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
Get it while you can too.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
We're gonna see the numbers go back up again in
a few days. Not too hot, not all the way
to hot, but at least a little warmer, and for
some of us probably a little more. There is that
the same guy who continues to call me when I'm
on the air. He knows better, he knows better. Something
may be up there all calling during the break. In
any event, Uh, very few of us are gonna complain
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if the numbers go back up five or six degrees
or even ten.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
I'd be comfortable ten degrees higher than we are now.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
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(02:42):
am Summer is history, but just on the calendar.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
Never drop your guard.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Hmmm.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
No, one's okay.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
I like that one, the glowing endorsement from you. I'll
give that one to seven point one. WHOA, okay, I'll
take that. I'll take that seven point one for that one.
And that one, ironically probably consumed a little less time
than the last line was eluding me because I had
something much better, but it took six syllables instead of five.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
So anyway, yeah, I worked that out.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
It worked out just fine in the markets thanks to
Houston Gold Exchange. There he is probably texting back to
say I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
In the markets.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Indicators all off to the races this morning, except for
the Russell two thousand, which pretty much stumbled out of
the gate and actually was running backwards, running the wrong
way around the track.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Just a little short while ago, oil was.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
At seventy dollars in change and gold gold up another
chunk about another ten or fifteen dollars. A little while
ago north of two thousand, seven hundred dollars an ounce.
I have no explanation for why it's that high. Well,
I guess it's supply and demand, obviously, but I don't
know whether the supply is lower or the demand is higher.
(04:07):
I suspected in this country the demand would be considerably lower.
So somewhere around the world, not sure where, somebody's buying
up an awful lot of gold. Let's getting the good stuff,
shall we, And by the good stuff, I mean the
few days we have left before our presidential election. Lots
(04:29):
at stake on both sides, and I'll encourage all of
you to vote and vote early. Don't wait until the
last minute. Don't wait until election day, certainly because I
got a hunch there's going to be a pretty good crowd,
and I got a hunch there may be some problems
at some.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Of the poles, So go early when it's not a
big deal.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
I saw something yesterday too, and I don't know that
if this is true or not, but I'll just pass
it along in case it is, because it's something that's
easily remedied. I read a story that said, if you
go into a polling place and if you get your
ballot handed to you, and the person who hands it
to you maybe puts a check mark by your by something,
(05:14):
or writes a number on it, or writes anything anything
on that ballot, hand it back to them and say,
give me a blank one, because according to the story
I read, and it seemed fairly well sourced.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
I can't. I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna at all
say that it's gospel. It's not.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
But if it's true, if it's true at all, that
ballots can be thrown out, if they've been written on,
then what's the harm in saying I'm not gonna use
that when I want another one, And maybe they'll do
that before you, And that would be a way if
it is true. If it is true, people who are
dishonest could just put a little check mark and just
(05:58):
say remember to you know, remember to fill in the box,
and just kind of throw a little check mark on there,
and then down the line somewhere people who are counting
those ballots might pull yours out and throw it away
and just disqualify it just for a little ink mark
or pencil mark or whatever. If somebody knows more about that,
(06:18):
By the way, by all means, please do email me
whether that's true or not, and then I'll report back
next week to confirm or squash that little note.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
But on the outside chance that it could be.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Right, I don't want anybody in my audience's ballot to
be tossed for something as simple to avoid as that.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
And you know, I don't care which way you vote.
Everybody gets a vote.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Hopefully, hopefully not too many unlawful votes will be cast
in this election. It happens all the time. Dead people vote.
People vote in every presidential election since they've been counted.
And how that happened, I'm really not sure. Well, I
kind of have an idea. All right, let's move on
from that. So I'm looking up front, looking at Kamala
(07:08):
Harris and how she continues to kind of dodge hard questions,
either because she doesn't have an answer or she's been
told not to answer, which is a possibility that we
all have to consider. When asked on Fox about whether
she noticed declines in President Biden's cognitive wellness in meetings
almost every week for nearly four years, she answered by
(07:28):
criticizing President Trump. Totally ignored, totally ignored the original question.
I got a little bit more about that, I say what,
I'm gonna go ahead and hit a break on time.
Keep will Melbourne happy, keep us on track here, because
I have an interview coming up in just a few
minutes with a man who knows a whole lot more
than almost everybody in this audience about electrical grids and
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On the way out.
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Speaker 4 (09:30):
Tay false alarm on the interview. It's in the next segment,
not this one. I got a little ahead of myself
because we usually kick off a good interview in the
twelve eighteen Dash twelve twenty launch period.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
This one's gonna launch at twelve thirty one way or
the other.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Going back to where I was, I'm gonna I'm gonna
go back to Vice President Harris and something She's done this.
It seems to show desperation to me. Frankly, she He's
throwing all kinds of hail. Mary's just just letting everybody
run down field, throw the ball way up in the
air and just hope it doesn't get intercepted. She was
losing and may still probably still is losing the support
(10:13):
of black men in this country. There was a lot
written about that, and former President Obama came out and
raked these black men over the coals for not for
not actually.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
Voting, not wanting to vote for her, and her response.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
Her response was to come out this week and talk
about talk about making weed legal and reparations. And that's
just it's so it almost should be insulting, I think
for these these men who are making their own decisions
based on their own thought about the country to for her,
(11:02):
if she was gonna do something about that, why didn't
she do it a long time ago. This is the
same woman who prosecuted thousands of cases for marijuana when
she was in California. I don't know, I just get
I just get frustrated by all this. These are just
more empty promises. They're just things that are being thrown
out there to see what's gonna get her more support?
And I don't think any of it is. Honestly don't
(11:23):
I honestly don't. Oh, well, moving on from there, let's
get away from that. Let's some in fact, let's just
let me see here where I want to go. Well,
we're gonna come to you and do something lighter, certainly
in the next couple of minutes, and then maybe I'll
go back to the real news pages. You get to
pick make it stop, gobble gobble, or fill her up?
Speaker 5 (11:46):
Make it stop.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
That's just you're telling me to do or you want
to go ahead and do that story kind of both
pull last three thousand Americans but not you or me.
Are you generally enjoying this presidential election or do you
wish it were over? Well, i'll pull you. We'll have
a one person poll here. Are you enjoying it or
(12:09):
do you wish it was over? Technically it were over.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
I don't know if I enjoy any election, but you
know I would agree with that.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
I don't know. Yeah, I don't know that I enjoy them.
They are they're necessary in this country in which we
live so far to determine who's going to lead us.
And I hope we'll continue to have them no matter
who wins. And I hope that our country continues to
thrive and actually will to regain its thriving nature after
(12:45):
this election. We'll see how it goes anyway. The bottom
line is two thirds said they can't wait till it's over.
I think I would be in that bucket you will, Yeah,
I can't wait.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
I would like to know what the results are. Good,
Just come on, get it over with, Just get it
over with.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Twenty one percent actually said will that they are enjoying
it and wish it would continue, and they are nuts.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
I think.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
I'll take one more than I'll go back to the
news Will, and I'll leave. No, I'll take the other
two off the table for now, and I'll go to California.
Is the new Florida? Hail to the Mouse or stay
in your lane?
Speaker 5 (13:30):
Hell to the Mouse.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Take a guess what this is about? A legitimate guess.
You can't possibly miss this.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
Hell to the Mouse is about Mickey Mouse. Yes, thank you.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
It's about Disneylands, well, all the Disney parks. Actually, they
are introducing now yet another more expensive, faster way to
skip all the lines. You too, can go to any
ride in the park any time you want, and just
get in front of all those commoners who only spent
(14:06):
one hundreds of dollars on their entrance ticket, and you
can pass them all.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
All you got to do.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Is buy a Lightning Lane Premiere pass that's being introduced
towards the end of this month, and it's going to
go from anywhere from one hundred and something dollars up
to about four hundred dollars depending on the park, and
then as time rolls on, depending on the season and
how full the park tends to be. Honestly, if Disney
(14:36):
continues in the direction it's going in now, I think
there may not be lines at Disney World for many
more months, in if maybe years. They've just changed everything
about the way that park. At least Disneyland in California
I went to. That's the one you went to as well, right, well, yes, yeah,
(14:57):
so we tried the same bricks and pay the same
money for our refreshments and souvenirs and all that long
long ago.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
And it's just I think it's gone in a bad direction.
I really do. I don't.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
I think Walt Disney would just be rolling over just
come like, come on, just come on, why are.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
We like this.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
We're supposed to be something different, something entirely different in
any event, that's what that's about. Anywhere anywhere from two
to four hundred more dollars just to skip the lines,
and skip the lines in grand style too. There are
other little incremental boosts you can get. There's one I
(15:42):
can't remember what it's called, but you have to pick
the time you're going to come back and ride, and
when you show up at that time, you get to
skip the line. This one, the super Deluxe what do
you call it? Lightning Lane Premiere pass. Anytime, just walk
up there and just turn your nose up at everybody
who's in line and been waiting for an hour and
(16:03):
a half, and you just waltz right up to the
next available car or mouse trap or whatever they.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
Have out there. I don't know what it is.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
All right, let's go back to more news. Let's see
this one here. That one there I like, Well, it's
short news WNBA news. Angel Reese, remember her, she's the
one who complains about Caitlyn Clark. That's her name, right,
Will the basketball star? Yes, yeah, Well she's been complaining
(16:33):
about Caitlyn Clark all season long and whining, and now
she's whining about how her WNBA salary, which she didn't
even know. She didn't even know what it was. She
has other sources of income, obviously, and she had no
idea of really what her actual WNBA salary was. And
somebody who was sitting with her when this was done,
(16:54):
I believe, had to tell her an assistant of some sort.
She's crying and whining that her salary doesn't even pay
her bills, which, if you were to compare it to
the NBA, NBA guys make a ton of money, and
more power to them.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
That's the game that people want to watch.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
The WNBA had an opportunity if everybody kind of rallied
around the introduction of Caitlyn Clark, and they all could
have been making more money, more money than any of
them's making right now. But they chose to snub her
and ignore the records she's already broken, and do a
(17:36):
lot of things that didn't help their cause. The reason
I tell you all this is she lives. She's complaining
about her salary not paying her bills. However, she lives
in a place that costs her pop. Quiz will what
does Angel Reese's rent per month and where in the
place she lives.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
I don't know where it is. I don't know how
much it is. I don't know how big it is.
I know nothing about it, but I do know the
amount of her rent. Well, I would assume that she lives,
maybe in Chicago, because that's who she plays for. I
couldn't even have told you that, honestly, I would say, what,
maybe thirty two hundred. She wouldn't get the key to
(18:19):
the door for that will.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
She pays eight thousand dollars a month for her place,
eight grand month, so she's not she can't be living
too badly. And to complain about her WNBA salary, she
might just if she didn't work in the NBA, she
wouldn't have all those other sources of income. She might
want to butt her up to the NBA WNBA and say, man,
(18:41):
you know, this isn't so bad. I appreciate the opportunity
to enjoy the lifestyle I enjoy, which is primarily being
accommodated by her playing in the w NBA. It's a
long way to get to nothing. I guess we're at
the bottom of the hour. We're gonna go ahead and
take a break. When we get back, we're gonna talk
to doctor Andrew Phillips about electricity. Ut Health Institute on
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Aging is that collaborative i've told you about for now,
probably nine years, maybe eight years, I'm not sure. It's
a group of providers of people from the entire medical field.
If it's medical related, it's part of the Institute on Aging.
These are providers who go get their diploma in whatever
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field they want, and then they opt to go back
at some point in their career to study further to
learn how their area of expertise can be applied specifically
to you, me and anybody else who qualifies as a senior.
It's a pretty big brush I'm painting with here, but
learning about senior medicine is it's not like going back
(19:49):
to school and starting over. There's a lot of commonality
between older and younger bodies. But anybody who's looked in
the mirror, anybody who's woke up and tried to their
toes right away, you know that we're different, and you
know that being helped by someone who understands us better
has got to be better than just going to any
(20:10):
other doctors, any other therapists, any other trainers, anybody else
in medicine. They're good people to know, and they're available
through ut Health Institute on Aging, as are hundreds of
other resources and all kinds of different information you can
gather at this website utch dot edu slash aging uth
(20:33):
dot edu slash aging.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Now, they sure don't make them like they used to.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
That's why every few months we wash them, check his
fluids and spring on a fresh code of wax. This
is fifty plus with Dougpike.
Speaker 5 (21:03):
All right, welcome back. Well things happen.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
I talked to the man who set up the man
who was going to talk about electricity, and he was
called into a very important, very big, high level meeting
because he's a high level guy.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
That's the kind of people I like to get on
this program.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Although yeah, I have some other ideas on people I'd
like to talk to as well. And as a matter
of fact, I'm going to make a note here. Oh
I know what I can put in here stand by.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
Interview. Okay, Once I have that note in front of
me on the way out of here today, I'll be
in good shape.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
I'm gonna set something up that I think will really
shed some light on electricity.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
Huh no, pun intended. It's made that up.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
That's pretty good, even as much or more as coming
from this man who I was going to talk to,
who actually he holds a bunch of patents in the
United States that have to do with electricity and electrical
grids and how all that juice moves around the country,
and those are the kind of things we're going to
talk about when I can get him on the air,
(22:10):
and I think it'll be very, very interesting.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
I truly do.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
I want to get to some good news because there's
still more election news, but oh my god, how boring
is it?
Speaker 5 (22:18):
Really?
Speaker 4 (22:19):
So there are two things I found today, one of
which is is truly remarkable and holds great promise for
extending many women's lives, and the other ones just kind
of verifies something I've been talking about. It validates something
I've been talking about for a long, long time. First
(22:42):
is a new procedure, a new treatment regimen that combines
chemo and radiation and reduces the rates of death from
cervical cancer by forty percent. That is significant cervical cancer,
(23:04):
the piece says here impacts more than three hundred thousand
women worldwide, and the regiment has been heralded this new
one as remarkable. It's been called the biggest gain in
survival since adoption of chemo radiation in nineteen ninety nine.
It's thirty five years ago if you're one, twenty five
(23:26):
years ago, if you're keeping score at home. These were
the words of a woman named doctor Mary McCormick, the
lead investigator of the trial at University College in London, says.
The trial of the new treatment plan was conducted over
ten years. This isn't something they just cooked up yesterday. Okay,
it's got ten years of history. They recruited patients from Italy, Brazil,
(23:48):
the United States, India and Mexico. Short course of chemo
before chemo radiation, standard treatment, that's what it was involving.
Standard treatment, says here involved a combination of chemo and
radiotherapy concurrently. I believe anyway, the bottom line is, hey,
(24:08):
it's going to reduce that rate, reduce that rate by
forty percent.
Speaker 5 (24:13):
That's awesome. That is awesome, amazing. The other one is just.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
Something that I don't know if you how long you've
listened to this program, but occasionally I have talked about
a very strong belief that in a few years.
Speaker 5 (24:29):
With a little more research, the.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
Whole notion of going global with electric cars is going
to fall off the grid, so to speak, because they're
going to use hydrogen to fuel cars. And there is
a group over in also over in Great Britain at
Warwick Manufacturing Group.
Speaker 5 (24:50):
This car was built by.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Students actually, and it is well, it's being built by students,
and it's not long from being read to take out
on the streets, and well they're gonna take it to
tracks actually and try and try and break land speed records.
They've got four or five of them. In mind, this
car runs entirely on hydrogen, and that hydrogen is being harvested,
(25:14):
if you will, from sewage, from sewage. Their cars being
made also to keep it in that renewable thing, from
old parts from other cars, from other.
Speaker 5 (25:28):
Real race cars.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
These are parts that weren't fit for actual racing cars
now but are still.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
There's some of the.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
Real carbon fiber, all kinds of things on these. The
car looks beautiful, by the way, it's the Laman's prototype
race car.
Speaker 5 (25:45):
If you know what Laman's cars look like.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
They're absolutely gorgeous and they have beautiful lines. I love them,
I really do. And they're using spare and unused parts
to just keep this car going and going and going.
And in a few weeks or may be a couple
of months, they're gonna be out there in some really
impressive places making some really important headway in hydrogen as
(26:11):
a fuel for transportation. The only byproduct when you burn
hydrogen for fuel, and these engines act very similarly to
current internal combustion engines that use hydrocarbon fuels ghastly, and
boy oh boy, if hydrogen works, the only byproduct of
those engines is water, So you just see little puddles
(26:33):
of water. I guess we're somebody idled for a while,
but nothing else. And then when you hit the gas
on one of those things, boy, if this one works,
they're gonna be fun to drive too. And that takes
all the heat off of all our electricity because we're
gonna need it. We're gonna need it for a whole
lot of other things, a whole lot.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
Of other things. How we doing well? I got two
minutes here, minute and a half. Yeah, okay, let's go.
Uh oh.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
This I saw yesterday and I'm gonna say it for
my audience because I didn't get to it if anybody
tells you violent crime is down and they read about
it and they heard about it, well tell them to
go back and look again. Tell them to do their
own fact checking. Because early reports that showed violent crime
crime was trending downward actually were revised by federal officials
(27:25):
earlier in the week and show a fairly significant uptick.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
Duh, we knew it. We all saw it, we all
felt it.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
We all have seen the snippets in the local news
about increases in violent crime, but it wasn't being reported
that way at the federal level until this revision was made.
And it shows under Biden and Harris the last few
years up, up and away with violent crime. A lot
(27:56):
of that has to do with violent criminals being sent
back out amongst us after judges don't hold them.
Speaker 5 (28:04):
In jail or prisoner anywhere else. It's bad. It's very bad.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Sales of luck.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
Like the jobs reports we get every month, warm fuzzy
number gets put out on time, the left falls and
drools all over the new jobs, most of which by
the way, usually are federal government jobs, and then later
hardly ever even seeing light in liberal papers, are on television,
the revised numbers are issued, and they're always lowers. It's
(28:32):
never better than we expected. It's never better than what
was reported. It's always lower. We got to take a
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Speaker 2 (30:33):
What's life without a net?
Speaker 5 (30:34):
I suggest you go to bed and sleep it off.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Just wait until this show's over. Sleepy.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 5 (31:00):
I just stumbled on a headline. Thanks for listening. By
the way, final segments of the program starts right now.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
Find somebody over in Armenia, or some group of people
whatever has found found an entire fourth century church. I
love history and all of that kind of stuff. World
history fascinates me. I told Will if I win the lottery,
I'm going to become a part time archaeologist. And when
(31:25):
I'm not archaeologis, I'm going to be traveling the world
looking at old stuff. There's cool old stuff to look
at all around the world. And ironically, I live in
a country that's one of the newest on the planet,
one of the youngest. We look at buildings that were
built in the eighteen hundreds as being old and historic,
(31:48):
and Armenia goes hey, we got a fourth century church.
And Egypt goes hey, we got some stuff too in
Rome and Italy and all of Europe. All of Europe
has stuff. On a trip to Sweden years ago, a
fishing trip actually, and there's a story behind that, I've
told it on my outdoor show over on KBA ME
more than once. But on a fishing trip to Sweden,
(32:10):
once we stopped at a place that they wanted to
show us our hosts. And I stood in a barn,
a thatched roof barn that was built in the late
I want to say, the late sixteen hundreds, maybe early
seventeen hundreds, something like that, and I just and it's
still there. And the fences over there, interestingly enough, were
(32:34):
all rocks. They don't have barbed wire fences over where
we were. They have rock fences that have been there
for a couple of hundred years. It's amazing. All that's amazing. Okay,
trip down memory well, not memory lane, but history lane.
I suppose we'll jump off of that. I'll go back
to you will and give you a chance to pick
(32:56):
a good one. Stay in your lane. I mentioned that
one earlier puncture prevention or such a Texas.
Speaker 5 (33:05):
Thing, such a Texas thing.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
You couldn't resist, could you. And I'm glad too, because
this is interesting Pete Seria employees. It just says in Texas.
And I could have punched up whole story and seen
the whole thing. And I want to say I saw
something about this yesterday as well, but it showed up
where I saw it today, and so that's why it's
in here took justice into their own hands by pretty
(33:31):
much beating the tar out of a guy who tried
to rob their restaurant. He goes in there, swaggered up,
and I don't even know what kind of weapon he
was carrying. I would presume in Texas, if he was
going to try to rob anything or anybody, he'd have
some sort of weapon. And he ended up taking a
good old fashioned country whipping. And I think I remember
(33:54):
seeing a picture of the guy, actually his mugshot, and
whoever whoever took it to him knew what they were doing.
They they popped him pretty good. And I bet you
he won't go back in that place. I'll bet you
he won't. All right, where do I want to go now?
There's just so much here will I'm gonna go to
(34:17):
Illegal Immigrant gang news, the Newsmatch News. Gosh, this phone
of mine, it's just blowing up. Newsmax published a story.
I'm gonna put it over here where I can't hear it.
Speaker 5 (34:28):
There we go.
Speaker 4 (34:29):
Newsmax published a story today about that vicious Venezuelan gang,
the Trende Aarrawa. They have taken truth, well, they took
control a while back. That's its past tense now of
apartment buildings in San Antonio, right right down the street
in San Antonio, there's a bunch of funds. It's activities
(34:49):
with drug dealing with prostitution of both men or not
men but women and children, extortion, and law enforcement from
pretty much branch that could be gathered up.
Speaker 5 (35:02):
Put a big raid on.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
That apartment complex this past week and wound up arresting
nineteen people. They went apartment to apartment, open them up,
check out who's there, make sure they belong, and make
sure they're not bad guys. They arrested nineteen. Aurora, Colorado
had or I don't know, maybe still has a problem
(35:24):
with members of that same gang doing the same things
up there. And you know what, without an open border
and without unvetted access to this country for millions upon
millions of people, little or none of this could have happened.
We heard all along, this is something else about Vice
President Harris.
Speaker 5 (35:45):
For the last two and a half three years.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
We've heard the border secure, you don't have to worry
about the border, nothing's going on there. And then what
was it two three four weeks ago, whenever it suited her,
when other timing felt right I'm gonna fix the border
if you elect me.
Speaker 5 (36:01):
Why didn't it fixed?
Speaker 2 (36:02):
Now?
Speaker 4 (36:03):
If she wanted to have anybody's catch, anybody's attention, she
should have done all these things.
Speaker 5 (36:09):
They all could have been done in the past year.
Speaker 4 (36:11):
President Biden hasn't really been doing much of anything, and
I understand that, and honestly, a lot of that's not
his fault.
Speaker 5 (36:18):
He just couldn't do it. I'm tired of talking about
her in news news. I got a minute? Will or not?
You have a minute? Fifty?
Speaker 2 (36:30):
Oh, that's right?
Speaker 4 (36:31):
In news news from Fox News. CBS News has been
accused by the Center for American Rights of quote significant
and intentional news distortion and quote after altering Kamala Harris's
answer to a specific question that originally aired on Face
the Nation and then behind the very same question suddenly
(36:53):
there is a different response from her in primetime sixty minutes.
This has been filed with the FCC and they wanted investigated.
Speaker 5 (37:01):
And I couldn't agree more.
Speaker 4 (37:04):
You can't go back and let her put a new
answer into a question where if you ever hear the
original answer. She just fumbled the ball, which she does
sometimes a lot of times. She fumbled the ball on
that one. All right, Well one minute left, I'm gonna
give you. We'll go back to gobble Gobble. Fill her
up her next level irony, gobble Gobble butter Ball.
Speaker 5 (37:30):
It's a turkey related item.
Speaker 4 (37:32):
Has unveiled a new Thanksgiving turkey and this will help
a lot of people who are forgetful. This could be
great for seniors. It goes from cook to cook from frozen. Well,
you start with frozen.
Speaker 5 (37:45):
Then you just cook it. But it takes five hours.
Speaker 4 (37:48):
But at least you don't have the worry of having
everybody show up for dinner and realizing you didn't thaw
the turkey, which can take several days in the refrigerator.
Now you just take it right out of the freezer,
throw it in the oven, and.
Speaker 5 (38:03):
You can eat five hours later. That's not bad very quickly.
Speaker 4 (38:07):
By the way, a ten month old fire station Jeremy
burned to the ground yesterday because the city opted not
to install smoke detectors. Twenty two million in damage. We'll
be back next week.
Speaker 5 (38:19):
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