Returning Money

Today, Doug Pike discusses returning lost money.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Remember when it was impossible to misplace the TV remote
because you were the TV remote. Remember when music sounded
like this, 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 one. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike. Helpful information on your finances,
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(00:43):
plus with Doug Pike.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
All right, welcome board, Thank you all for listening. I
certainly do appreciate. Let me get that microphone where it belongs.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
Good Heavens chaos, huh, chaos for the last I don't
know how many hours. But it's all been positive. That's
the good thing. It's all been very positive. And I
am more than happy to be sitting here right now
talking to all of you and got.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
All kinds of good things to share. It's Tuesday. It's
my start of the week.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
Everybody else started yesterday. I, with it being my day off,
did what I like to do on days off, which
is play golf.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
I didn't get to go fishing, didn't get to go hunting.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
So I played golf and I had a chance to
go out and play on behalf of Kobe Gallic, the
guy from Kobe Stevens dot com who hosted a tournament
that in this case benefited.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
A group called Mosaics.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
And I'm trying to get Elizabeth from Mosaics on the show,
probably either late this week or early next week, to
talk about what that organization does, because I got a
brief overview from her during the tournament and then for
a few minutes afterward we got into a little bit
more detail. But by and large, what they do is

(02:00):
and they've been around for several years now, and the
growth that they've experienced because of what they're doing and
the good work they're doing.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
Is just amazing.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
And so I'm kind of highlighting them, if you will,
this morning or this afternoon. Excuse me, it was morning
just four or five minutes ago. In any event, I'm
highlighting them because what they do is and I'm going
to put it in a nutshell and then when I
get Elizabeth on the air, I'll let her go into
more detail. But what they do is is bring in

(02:30):
and provide help for people who are either experiencing mental
health issues or some sort of addiction issue, some sort
of dependency issue, and people who really aren't finding their
own way out and need some help. And that's exactly
where Mosaics comes in from, or comes from. I learned

(02:53):
a little bit about the origin of the group from
her yesterday. I'll let her tell all of that once
I can finally get on the air. But yet it
was wonderful, I believe. The website, if you're interested, is
Mosaics TX dot org. That's where I learned some of
what I just told you. As a matter of fact,
Mosaics TX dot org. So I don't know how long

(03:17):
you've been around here, but this is perfectly normal for
this time of year or in coastal southeast Texas. Little
warmer over the next several days after these two days
of pretty chili nights, Really we haven't turned on the
heater in the house yet, and this morning when I
woke up it was sixty two. That was a little

(03:39):
on the chili side. But that's what blankets are for.
And I do have a little kind of cheating. I
have a little space heater, and my son, he's eighteen
years old. He doesn't need a heater. He probably didn't
even pull the covers up past his ankles. That's how
I was when I was his age. He's like a
furnace and he just burns energy all day long. He eats,

(04:00):
he burns it off, and then he eats some more,
and then he burns that off. This is how it
works in our little piece of autumn. If you will,
it's cool, it's warm, it's cool, then it's warm again,
then cool with thunderstorms, and warm cool, warm with thunderstorms,
maybe from the north, maybe from the south, who knows,
And then warmer days and random cooler days, and then

(04:23):
a month or so of steady cool or even occasional
cold in the spring, which greatly resembles autumn. It's just
a roll of the dice every day. And now that
we have technology, it's a little more palatable. It's a
little more easy to see it coming, so that you
can prepare a little bit. But I can't imagine. I

(04:47):
didn't really care about the weather when I was a
little kid. But back in the sixties, the fifties, and
all the way back through history, there really wasn't much
of a way to know whether this time of year
in this region tomorrow might be thirty degrees, it might
be seventy five or eighty degrees. It was a roll
of the dice. There was no way to call up

(05:09):
north either to ask them what was going on up there,
unless you had a friend in the telegraph office. I
vividly remember being able to send telegrams, and that is
just such an antique and archaic means of communication now
might as well be smoke signals, for heaven's sakes. Times
for changing market news. We were up one down three earlier,

(05:35):
but no big swings really in either way. Oil was
up nearly a bucket barrel, which is it's not great
for gas prices, but it started from a very very
comfortable range, so that's not going to hurt anybody's travel plans.

Speaker 2 (05:49):
And gold gold was down.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
A smidge but still holding a full sawbuck north of
forty one hundred dollars an ounce.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
Well, do you know what a sawbuck represents? No?

Speaker 3 (06:03):
You know, and that's okay because you're young and you
don't Back one hundred million years ago, when I and
my audience were growing up, a saw buck was ten dollars.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
It was a ten dollar bill, and.

Speaker 3 (06:16):
I saw some explanation at in some AI source that
the one in the zero somehow resemble some sort of
like a hobby horse or some sort of other thing
like that.

Speaker 2 (06:30):
It doesn't look like that at all.

Speaker 3 (06:31):
Honestly, I don't know how they come up with that reference,
but anyway, that's what it's called. A ten dollar bill
is a sawbuck, and I think it's Oh now, I'm
drawing a blank on the five And everybody in the audience,
i'm sure of my age or within ten years either way,
is saying it.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
Out loud and I just can't hear you. All.

Speaker 3 (06:50):
If you were in the same room and you didn't
speak reasonably loudly, I might not be able to hear
you either. But that's just another whole issue that I've
got to deal with. Sometimes, a little good news before
we go into the break perfect. I've got a minute
to tell you this story, and I think it's a
good one. Seventeen year old kid Australia. He's at the

(07:10):
gas station convenience store, same like we have over here.
He notices on the sidewalk a wad of cash with
a big rubber band around it, picks it up. Turns
out there's thirty five hundred dollars there, Will, Why are
you shaking your head? No, you wouldn't have done the
right thing, would you. Well, what I know you would?

Speaker 2 (07:32):
I know better what he did and what I would
have done.

Speaker 3 (07:35):
And what Will would have done is walked it into
the store handed it to the cashier. Now, that might
have been in some parts of this country of ours,
handing it to the cashier in the convenience store may
have been a mistake, but it wasn't in this case.
And so this guy's got a chance. He's trying to
find his money. The same guy's trying to find his money.

(07:56):
So he calls the convenience store and luckily for him,
a second honest person works there and said, yeah, this
kid brought it in and dropped it off for us.
All his money's there. Can't find this kid anywhere. They
got a little closed circuit TV image of me, but
that's all they have. They put that out on the

(08:16):
internet and Voiley, they find him, and since then he
has gotten He got a thousand.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
Dollars reward from the guy who dropped the money.

Speaker 3 (08:25):
Somebody put up a a go Fundme account for him,
and he raised another ten grand there, and all's well.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
That ends well for everybody involved.

Speaker 3 (08:36):
Country Boy's roofing is happy this time of year, especially
because it's sunny and once you're up on the roof,
it's kind of warm, even on that big, old dark roof.
On most of the houses, that might be the warmest
place in the neighborhood, which means it's a great time
to get somebody up there to look around and make
sure there's no damage to your roof from all of

(08:57):
the summer stuff. We add no damage at all, so
you don't have to worry about getting through winter with
some sort of a little leak that might pop up.
And if there is something up there, they'll tell you.
They'll tell you what it is, they'll tell you what
it'll cost you to fix it. They'll tell you whether
and they probably can whether or not they can fix
it with what they have on the truck, because little

(09:17):
roof problems are pretty simple, pretty affordable. But what you
don't want to hear is, you know what, man, you
had some halo while back, or man, there's something fell
on your roof. I don't know when or what, but
it really messed.

Speaker 2 (09:29):
It all up.

Speaker 3 (09:30):
Or your roof's just super old and you've got to plan,
change it out the whole thing. That's what you needs,
a new roof. Well, the good news is if you're
dealing with country boys two things. Number One, if you
can't just write a check for a roof, they have
a finance company they're working with now that can help
you make that whole thing a little bit easier. You
get the new lid right away because you need it
on your house, but then you get to pay it

(09:52):
off incrementally so it doesn't just just crumble your empire.
The other thing is if you are a first response
under an educator or past or present military. Here we
are on Veterans Day, he'll give you fifteen hundred dollars
off that new roof of years fifteen hundred dollars off
a complete roof, or anybody in one of those categories.

(10:14):
And if you're not in one of those categories, he'll
drop one thousand dollars off for just dropping my name
and say, hey, Doug sent me. Let him get all
the paperwork done. He's not worried about this. Get all
the paperwork done. Then say oh, by the way, Doug
sent me, and he'll just scratch the number out and
subtract one thousand dollars. That's the kind of guy John
Eiman is, and that's kind of company I like to
work with.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
For sure.

Speaker 3 (10:35):
He'll take care of you no matter what and make
sure that roof of years works. Country Boy's roofing with
a comp with it dot Com? Excuse me, countryboys roofing
dot Com? Country with a K, Boys with a Z
or spell it like you spelled it in grade school.
Country Boy's roofing like God?

Speaker 2 (10:51):
Did it again? Will countryboysroofing dot com? What's life without
a net? If I suggest you go to bed, sleep
it off.

Speaker 1 (10:59):
Just wait until the shows over. Sleepy back that Doug
Pike as fifty plus continues.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
All right, welcome back, Thank you for listening. Certainly do
appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (11:09):
We will go to the news as we trip typically
do on a Tuesday in this segment. Today different than
yesterday in that the Senate finally last night cleared cleared
the heads of a few forward looking Democrats who got
them to vote in favor of the bill that restores
the function of our government in the Senate. Once it

(11:31):
gets to the House, we'll be home free and everybody
will be able to fly around the country for Thanksgiving
without worrying about their flights being canceled. I think that
was a really big tipping point. I don't think anybody
in Washington, d C. Wanted to see us experience the
chaos that's gone on for the past week in air

(11:55):
travel pushed into the Thanksgiving holiday. There is no way
anybody in this country would have taken that lightly, and
heads would have rolled next year in the midterms for
sure if this wasn't done by then. I truly what
I hope that we can come away with this from

(12:16):
that's not a horrible grammar is a law that somehow
prohibits members of Congress from receiving their paychecks anytime they
shut down the government. Then we would know how much
they really care about reopening it. Because all that happened
this time, the only people who suffered were people who
had no way of really sharing their feelings on this.

(12:41):
They're a whole lot of people in this country, I
can assure you, who would much rather have the government
open and quit worrying about things that trillions of dollars
being sent around the world and benefiting nobody here. That's
the issue I have with all that. When you when
you get down and look at all of the things

(13:02):
that were being funded by US citizens that did not,
in any way, shape or form help us. It's really
startling that that stuff got through in the past four years.
And I know, I'm sure there was commotion made over
all of these expenses, all this money being doled out.

Speaker 2 (13:22):
For nothing in return. But I can also be equally.

Speaker 3 (13:28):
Sure that there was little or no mention of any
of those kind of projects in programs on mainstream media's.
That's something they didn't want to talk about. It was
it would have put their friends, their favorites, cast a
very unfavorable light on those people, and that's the last
thing they wanted. They had their heart set on Kamala

(13:50):
Harris being the president and just holding onto the Senate,
holding onto the House, and just riding along and driving
this train right off the cliff. But it didn't happen
that way, Thank goodness, Thank goodness. This shut down set records,
by the way, and it's important that we all understand
exactly why it was shut down. It was because our

(14:12):
president and the conservatives in Congress didn't want to throw
all that money at stuff that we didn't need or want.

Speaker 2 (14:19):
Or ask for.

Speaker 3 (14:20):
It didn't want to pour money down the Affordable Care
Act drain, because, as I've heard a few people say
now already, if it was so affordable, then why did
it need to be subsidized.

Speaker 2 (14:35):
Why would we have.

Speaker 3 (14:36):
To pay more and more and more into something that's affordable,
Because that kind of shuts down any notion that it's
affordable in any way, shape or form. We'll get it done, though,
I bet you were back up to full speed, and
everybody will be back at their desks or their consoles,
or their monitors or whatever, probably by weeks in.

Speaker 2 (14:57):
They know they know what's coming.

Speaker 3 (15:00):
By now, I'm sure you've heard that Nancy Pelosi's leaving
politics when her term expires yet next year. But what
I didn't realize until this morning, and I just kind
of giggled almost.

Speaker 2 (15:11):
It just makes so.

Speaker 3 (15:13):
Typical of what's going on with that party. Guess who's
talking about running for her office, or at least running
for office, and who knows she might have to wait
a year or two to get locked into the upper crust.
Nancy's daughter, That's who. That woman's only chance, I think,
the way the country is turning right now, her only

(15:35):
chance would be to promise not to run our country
like her mother has for the past one hundred years
or so.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
Pelosi. I'm sure there was some good. There's got to
have been some good.

Speaker 3 (15:46):
She did over the years, but I haven't yet honestly
found it. And I'm not I'm not just saying that flippantly.

Speaker 2 (15:54):
I've looked at some of the.

Speaker 3 (15:56):
Voting records and things that they've passed and what not,
and none of them really coincide with my view of
America and the way I feel like this country should
be run.

Speaker 2 (16:09):
Uh, and it's it was bound to happen. All kinds
of things are happening there. She's leaving.

Speaker 3 (16:17):
Schumer's in a heap of trouble with the progressives in
his party for kind of tipping the scales back toward
getting the country running again. They were gonna go, they
were gonna go to the mat and just make everybody
suffer as much as they could and then blame the
right for doing what they exactly just did. They started

(16:38):
and they wanted to finish it. And I think Schumer's
gonna have some really heavy lifting to do in the
next few years if he wants to stick around and
make a few more bucks.

Speaker 2 (16:48):
Oh mercy, let's get to something a little lighter.

Speaker 3 (16:50):
I'm gonna I'm trying very hard to go back and
forth three minutes or thirty seconds.

Speaker 2 (16:56):
Oh, okay, as a pitchfork and a donut. Okay, I
get it.

Speaker 3 (17:01):
Uh So the pitchfork in donut gets me to hear
in library news you had another late return of a book.

Speaker 2 (17:08):
It was a children's book that was checked out.

Speaker 3 (17:12):
Drum roll please, forty six years ago.

Speaker 2 (17:17):
Somewhere that I get it.

Speaker 3 (17:20):
When if you hold onto a late library book long enough,
they'll take the fine away. I think forty six years
qualifies for that. But I still think the guy will
make a donation to the library, maybe one hundred bucks.

Speaker 2 (17:30):
Let them buy some more books.

Speaker 3 (17:32):
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I've spoken for so many years now, where everybody who
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I know that all of these medical providers from every
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(17:56):
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(18:20):
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Speaker 2 (18:24):
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Speaker 3 (18:26):
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Speaker 2 (18:51):
Now, they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash them, check us.

Speaker 1 (18:56):
Words, and spring on a fresh code of wax. This
is fifty plus with Doug Pike. Welcome back to fifty plus.
Thank you for listening.

Speaker 3 (19:05):
I'm in the throes of trying desperately to figure out
today's word word before Will did. It took him six
and that tells me that it's a very obscure word,
which he confirms, Yes, yeah, okay, it's a very obscure word.
I've got two greens and of gold, and I know

(19:26):
where that gold actually goes now because of process of elimination.
And I got two, I got one try to beat
him in two to time, and I don't know if
I'm gonna make it. My head's got so much stuff
at it right now. But I got a lot of
stuff to talk to you guys about too, And it's
we're going to get back into that now.

Speaker 2 (19:47):
It was bound to happen.

Speaker 3 (19:49):
I think I wish I could have said no, but
I felt it coming, as most of us probably did.

Speaker 2 (19:56):
And it did.

Speaker 3 (19:58):
Violent protests outside a Turning Point USA event at UC
Berkeley on Monday that was yesterday. A lot of these
people wearing head scarves to hide their identities or show
their political colors whatever, carrying left wing signs, the story said,
and they started to fight, to turn bloody and got

(20:21):
some folks arrested. After the police regained control, and event
attendees were walking out trying just trying to get out
of there. The liberal protesters, because there was a good
police force, backed up a little bit, and all they
did was just they shouted profanity like they always do.

(20:44):
I think some of these people must talk to their
children like that. I don't know, I don't I've never
seen them doing anything else. This does just got to stop,
it really does. The Left can't have a civil conversation
with anyone who degrees or disagrees with them right now,
and that that's frustrating, because that's what we need, that's

(21:07):
what we want, most of us, and I'm talking about
most of us on both sides, most Democrats. I still
believe most Democrats would like to be able to sit
down at a table with Republicans. Most conservatives would like
to sit down at a table with liberals and just

(21:29):
have a conversation, and then at the end of that conversation,
pretty good chance they would just have to agree to
disagree and then try to meet up again a little
later and have another conversation. But throwing bottles and rocks
and throwing punches and kicking people and jumping up and

(21:50):
down on people's cars just because you don't like their politics.
I saw a video of probably a dozen people. Was
a woman in a very nice car, a very expensive,
nice car, and somehow had gotten herself tangled up in
a mob of idiots right in the middle of the

(22:10):
street where in whatever town they were in, and those
people thought it was okay to jump up and down
on her car, to kick the side view mirrors off
of the car, to kick dense into the doors and
the side panels. It was perfectly fine for them to
do that, so they thought. And these were not conservatives,

(22:31):
I'm assuring you of that.

Speaker 2 (22:34):
They were not.

Speaker 3 (22:35):
There were people who just they just have believed so
many fallacies, so many bits of misinformation, just that they
are convinced that it's somebody else's fault that they're where
they are when it's not. This whole utopia promised by
socialism doesn't work, and they're going to find that out

(22:57):
soon enough. It never has. Folks in New York City
are about to learn that lesson the hard way socialists
instead of police gius what New York City's already tried
that a couple of times. They've tried sending social workers
out to do the jobs of police, and it doesn't work,
and the social workers get hurt, and once one or

(23:17):
two of them get hurt, the rest of them are
going there quitting. They don't want that. Nobody wants that.
By the way, in Great Britain. I found this quite interesting.
It took a while, but it happened. The head of
the BBC, who also was head of the BBC back
on January sixth, the date of the the election issues,

(23:43):
this guy had to finally resign over the way the
network BBC deliberately biased the editing of the speech President
Trump gave on that day before the protests moved into
the Capitol. It took this guy five years to finally

(24:04):
just say, Okay, enough's enough.

Speaker 2 (24:06):
I've been beat up. And I would suspect that.

Speaker 3 (24:08):
Somewhere, somehow he got a letter saying, you know what,
we're just gonna sue you and sue you into generational
bankruptcy over what you did to what he said, because
it's they just get They cherry picked out everything he said,
and it wasn't a lot on either way, but everything

(24:29):
he said about being peaceful and being and just not
going crazy, they took all of that out. And there
were some things he said in there that out of
context sound pretty incendiary, but with the whole speech, they
sort of make sense. And that's exactly the parts they
took out. That's exactly the parts they took out, and

(24:50):
That's why socialism in New York is gonna fail. That's
why socialism anywhere else is going to fail like it
always has. And that's why me of people who who
try to twist the truth into pretzels eventually get found out.
You want to hear something fun, when you do you

(25:10):
shop in Target? Will not at all You've never have
you been to Target?

Speaker 2 (25:15):
But you don't go in there? Where do you go?
Whole Food? Not man, no me neither, you know, I try.
I'm not knocking Whole Food.

Speaker 3 (25:22):
They got a bunch of cool stuff in there, and
to their credit, the couple of times I've gone in
there for specific things that my wife wanted or I
wanted or whatever, they're not as outrageously priced as some
people make them out to be. Because I do most
of the grocery shopping in our family, and I compared

(25:42):
some items the same exact items, and it was surprisingly
refreshing to see that there's a premium. There is a
premium because you've got all these other things in the store.
But it wasn't like I wouldn't go in there if
I needed something and couldn't find it down the street.
So that's off to that. But anyway back to Target. Yeah,

(26:06):
I'll go back to Target. I can do it in
two minutes. There is a new policy that's gone into
effect now for all of their employees. It's called the
ten four policy. By this ten to four policy, if
a worker is within ten feet of a shopper, they're
required to smile, make eye contact, wave, and even just

(26:26):
use friendly body language. And at four feet, which I'm
guessing is going to be the checkout lines, or if
somebody just walks up and really needs help finding an item,
we're supposed to get a personal greeting, a smile and
helpful interaction ex sales kind of like Chick fil A
done it well a little bit, all that politeness and kindness, and.

Speaker 2 (26:46):
It goes a long ways. It really does.

Speaker 3 (26:48):
Now, if one of those people working in Target and
they've got their red shirt on and their khaki pants
or whatever color they're wearing, now, if they're swamped, I
get it, go ahead and do that other part of
your job.

Speaker 2 (26:58):
I'm not going to be offended by that.

Speaker 3 (27:00):
But for some of them, I've been around some of
them I have seen in these stores that will it
quite literally ignore me and or deliberately turn and avoid me,
I'm gonna be tempted to just say a little something
something because after all ten to four, you know, customer
service has been slipping for years, ever since the first generation.

(27:23):
It wasn't alive when terrorists ran two jetliners into the
Twin Towers. Americans rallied, All Americans rallied then, and it
was really uplifting to see it. But it's all kind
of slipped the way now. We've forgotten all of that
side by side, neighbor to neighbor, good stuff. American flags
flying everywhere nowadays. You drive through some neighborhoods, you see

(27:46):
flags from more than a dozen countries, even occasionally flying
above the American flag.

Speaker 2 (27:52):
Which is not supposed to be legal. That really bothers me,
it does.

Speaker 3 (27:56):
I saw, especially here we are on Veterans Day, and
to think that other country's flags are flying over hours
in our country, that's messed up. I saw an immigrant
on TV. He was from another country. He flies the
American flag in front of his house. Been here fifteen
years and absolutely loves it. He loves the American dream

(28:17):
and he's living it and he's proud of it. We
need more of them, for sure. Here is some information
on a music event up coming down in Galveston that
many of you in this audience I think would truly enjoy.

Speaker 2 (28:31):
It is called.

Speaker 3 (28:32):
The Songwriter Well, the official name of the whole thing
is the Old Quarter Songwriter Festival. It's going to occur
over November thirteenth through the fifteenth, that's this coming weekend,
and it will They're bringing in some of the best
artist songwriters and singers and songwriters in Texas, and those artists,

(28:56):
in turn have been offered the chance to bring in
some of their friends from all over the country. They're
gonna be playing in very small intimate venues, well mostly
small intimate venues. There's only three or four of them
on the docket, but one of them is a little
bit bigger. But anyway, the point is to get into
these places and immerse yourself in the lyrics and the

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music of these songs. Not make a bunch of noise
and rant and rave like you're at some heavy metal concert.
Just sit back and listen to some of the most
incredible songwriting you'll ever hear. Thirteenth through the fifteenth. It's
hosted by Old Quarter Acoustic Cafe down there to really
island Icon. If you Will and this is their first

(29:39):
ever attempt at this festival, and I'm one hundred percent
sure it's gonna be amazing.

Speaker 2 (29:44):
Tickets.

Speaker 3 (29:45):
All the information about who's coming, where they're gonna be,
and win is available at Old Quarteracousticcafe dot com.

Speaker 2 (29:53):
Go there, check it out.

Speaker 3 (29:54):
Old Quarter Acousticcafe dot Com.

Speaker 1 (29:58):
Aged to perfect. This is fifty plus with Doug Pike
and the fifty plus certainly do appreciate. Fourth and final
segment starts now. I got a few minutes. I just
got it in an email. Well, I don't know if
I just got it.

Speaker 3 (30:12):
Actually, it came in quite a bit ago after I
talked about that story about the kid in Australia finding
money and turning it in doing the right thing. My
buddy Dan, Dan weighs in that years ago, several years ago,

(30:33):
his wife found a briefcase at McDonald's and turned it
into the manager. The next day lady came in looking
for it, and it turns out that briefcase will had
fifteen thousand dollars cash in it. Okay, And the woman

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told Dan's wife, because they kind of got met back
up in there, not to worry that she was gonna
get something for.

Speaker 2 (31:05):
Turning it in.

Speaker 3 (31:07):
And still waiting seven years ago, Will seven years ago,
this liar told a woman who probably could have used
the money, certainly could have anybody could use a little
help for handing over fifteen grand, which would have been

(31:28):
really tempting. But no, Dan's wife was raised right just
like he he is or he was, and they did
the right thing. And I'm you know it just it
just goes to show you. It just goes to show you.
I wish, I man, I wish I could do something.

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Just people find money like that all the time, and unfortunately,
in this me me me era we're in now, most
of them keep that money for me be me.

Speaker 2 (32:02):
That's what they do. I hate that, all right, Sorry Dan,
and sorry for your wife too.

Speaker 1 (32:08):
That was.

Speaker 2 (32:10):
Really that was really wrong of that woman.

Speaker 3 (32:14):
And you know, the sad part is my gut says
she hadn't lost a wink asleep over that. I doubt
it with all all my being. I'm sure that she
hadn't lost a wink asleep. And that's horrible. From the
Odds and Ends Desk from the White Tail Deer Files,
and no, I'm not going to talk about deer hunting

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in Texas a white tailed dough was found. I don't
know who founded or how did a ten foot deep
well near Niagara, New York, and it was rescued by
professionals from ended up being a couple of different first
responder groups in the area that all got in on
the act and somehow put their heads together and roped

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and tied and lifted to safety that deer, which is
pretty good. And then, and you know, honestly, that's the
sort of thing I've seen numerous Texans do on video.

Speaker 1 (33:09):
Now.

Speaker 3 (33:10):
I haven't come across the situation where I would be
asked or required or whatever to do something like that,
but I would if I could. I don't mind saving
an animal. I'm a hunter, but fair game and fair
chase are fair game and fair chase. A deer in
a well is not fair chase. A deer running through

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the woods because I stepped on a twig and spooked it,
and that's fair chase. And that animal gets away till
I learned how to be quieter in the woods. Same
thing happened down in Georgia another but not the same thing,
but a similar thing, similar animal. It's a white tailed
deer again. And these iron gates in front of people's homes.

(33:52):
Iron fences around some properties. They do a lot of
good keeping big pigs out of there. That's helpful, But
sometimes deer will try to get through those fences and
get their heads stuck because they just run into it
like a like they're going to go through the whole fence.
They don't know. They never study geometry or math or

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any of that, and so they get stuck, as this
one did, and firefighters ended up coming out and prying
those fence bars apart with one of those jaws of
life things. Now all the homeowners got to do is
squeeze those things back together. And I got a hunch
they I bet they didn't stick around to fix the
guy's fence. That would have been nice. I think maybe

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in it depends on whether they have other calls to
go to or what it would be a policy thing.
I think maybe because you wouldn't want to have to, Oh,
never mind, let's just get out of that and get
something else. That's kind of cool. This is kind of funny.
I found it anyway, and I titled it Seeing is Believing.
Police in Ireland got several calls about a lion, a

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lion running loose.

Speaker 2 (35:00):
Over the countryside over there.

Speaker 3 (35:02):
Now, hey, Ireland, they tend to have a couple of
pints every now and then, so maybe there was something
to do with that. What they saw maybe just wasn't
a lion. And it turns out it wasn't. Of course,
there are no lions running around Ireland. However, what there
was running across the countryside was one of those big
old Newfoundland dogs.

Speaker 2 (35:23):
You ever seen one of them?

Speaker 3 (35:23):
Will?

Speaker 2 (35:24):
They're giants?

Speaker 3 (35:24):
They're big dogs, right, And this one had just come recently,
at least from the groomer, which had cut it to
look like a lion. Yeah, that happens. That happens, all right,
we'll check that one. Good news or bad news will
up or down? Up for good, bad, down for bad,

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up for good.

Speaker 2 (35:46):
Thank you. I have a couple of these two and
I can get us here. How much time do I have?

Speaker 1 (35:50):
Three?

Speaker 2 (35:51):
Two? Two and a half? Okay? Perfect? Maybe I should
have Actually I might should have saved this one for
hump Day, but no, I'm not gonna wait. Okay, So
here's the deal.

Speaker 3 (36:02):
A unique antibody like compound, according to a story from
the Good News Network, which is really a nice site
to visit. If you're looking for something to lift you
up a little bit. And now it may be that
somebody won the lottery by using a Ouiji board or
something like that. You might see some of those stories
in there, but mostly predominantly they're stories that are good

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for all of us, good for all of us in
some way, as is this one. And what they found
was this compound found only in camelids, which are the alpacas,
the lamas, and the dromedaries.

Speaker 2 (36:43):
And what we just a big group we call camels.

Speaker 3 (36:47):
And the bottom line is that this particular compound actually
shows great promise for treating human brain disorders, including Alzheimer's disease.

Speaker 2 (36:59):
This is one of those things.

Speaker 3 (37:00):
That makes normal people scratch their heads and disbelieve how
did they figure that out? But I just think, my
lucky stars that there are people who can figure that out.

Speaker 2 (37:12):
And it's real, It's very real.

Speaker 3 (37:16):
The story goes into a lot of detail that I
certainly didn't understand, and pretty much anybody outside that research
wouldn't understand either most likely or at least out of medicine.
So bottom line is this opening an entirely new era
of biologic therapies for brain disorders. And that we can

(37:37):
always use that. I don't know if you've ever been
around anybody with with Alzheimer's disease or any of the
other brain disorders, but they're they're devastating, they really are.

Speaker 2 (37:47):
They're just very.

Speaker 3 (37:48):
Slow, very hurtful or painful and painful either emotionally or physically,
but either way, it's a horrible way to go. In
more medical breakthrough news, new drug combination shows a great
promise also for the treatment of advanced prostate cancer. This
was still in pretty early stages of development, but it

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is providing researchers with an entirely new path that is
kind of fingers crossed hoped will lead to better chances
for men whose prostate cancers.

Speaker 2 (38:20):
Cancers are in advanced stages will end on what good news.
We'll get to the rest of it tomorrow. Thanks for listening, Audios.