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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Well?
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Fifty plus starts Now we'll go for an hour breaking
news from our building. This is kind of the talk
of the seventh floor, at least for now here. This
is for you, will. I ended up with two of
those and not one of the other that I was
looking for, So all's well. That ends well, Yeah, there's
a plumbing issue done and outside of the seventh floor
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restroom is a growing pool of water that originates inside
one of the commodes. I believe is overflowing and not
in a bad way. Don't It's not gross or anything.
It's just it's water, just it's just refill water. But
apparently a valve is stuck open and something's keeping everything
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from draining. And there's just this nice little boy if
it was about a half inch deeper and out on
a grassy field somewhere and make a good place to
run a skimboard. I'm having flashbacks to Pompano Beach, Florida,
where my grandparents lived when I was a kid. My
grandson father retired down there after a long career as
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an engineer with AT and T. Back he was actually
on the job that put in the original original phone
lines from the Thank You Will from New basically New
York to Miami, something like that, and that was that
was on his plate for pretty much his entire career,
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if I remember correctly. Fascinating place. But in the afternoons
in summertime in Southeast Florida, if you're not aware, there
are almost almost daily you get an afternoon shower and
it's you could just darn or set your watch by
them the cloud. It'd be a beautiful morning all morning long,
hot and sticky, like Southeast Florida is that time of year,
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and maybe a few puffy clouds maybe no clouds at all,
But by afternoon, as so much water was lifted from
the ground and carried into the sky by the heat,
the clouds would darken, and I would say, out of nowhere,
but everybody knew they were coming. You'd get about a
fifteen minute pretty heavy shower. Not an hour of rain,
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not two hours of rain, not a sprinkle all day long,
but about fifteen minutes, maybe twenty of pretty heavy rain,
just enough to fill from the edge of the street
into a couple of the yards. Near my grandfather's home.
There were no sidewalks. It was just it was asphalt roads.
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This is in Pompino Beach off Atlantic Boulevard. I could
find my way back to that house right now if
I were there and driving around, I could do it
on a bicycle. I know exactly where it is. I've
been back since I was an adult, too, and it
was simple to fun. It looks a lot different now.
Everything looks a lot different down there. But in any event,
my grandfather had built me a skimboard and shellacked it
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up real good. There was no other way to really
seal it like you would with say a fiberglass one
or anything like that. It was just a disk, a
wooden disc bebbled around one edge, so it would if
you slung it across that shallow, shallow water, you could
run behind it, jump on it, and slide in just
on that little sheet, that really thin little sheet of
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water for quite a distance. Actually a lot of fun.
In hindsight, I probably wasn't going as far as I
thought I was. But there were also those times when
I didn't go nearly as far as I had hoped,
And for whatever reasons, the skinboard hit a little pebble
or hit something that stopped it, and immediately I tumbled forward,
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did scrape one knee, one elbow, two elbows and a knee,
a knee and two elbows. I left a lot of
a lot of skin on the street down there, just
right you had to the primary was just right there,
right next to the asphalt road, and that's where you
had to be. And if you've got an inch or
too far left out toward the street going east, then
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down you went. All right. Enough of that today here Wednesday,
another virtual carbon copy of the past, what ten or
so and the future? Five or six seven day four
cast shows nothing but warm days and cool nights. Nothing else.
Warm days, cool nights, warm days, cool nights, and I'll
take that. After that, though, let's work in a little rain.
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We need quite a bit to catch up, too, but
I want to recover it slowly. Maybe a quarter inch
to a half inch here and there every other day,
let's call it even. That's fine if I'm just gonna
get my wish. I want every other day a quarter
to a half inch of rain, and that'd be enough.
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On a much brighter note about the weather, this was
the first morning, probably since June maybe somewhere back there,
first morning in a long time, that the National Hurricane
Center's web page shows no yellow, orange or red issues
anywhere on the map, and that's a good thing. Especially
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with the Gulf of Mexico finally cooling down a bit.
We might be No, I'm not even gonna say it.
You know what I'm thinking. But I'm not gonna say
it because historically there have been named storms in all
twelve months of the year, so we're never really out
of the woods. But I feel a little more confident,
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which brings us right by the way to today's His
and Low's and Haiku courtesy of Texas i AQ Specialists.
Because cleaner air is healthier air, especially in your home
that I'll pound two to fifty and say healthier. So
this one's a tribute actually to the nhc's clean slate
in the Atlantic and Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico. You
ready will, yes, nothing to see here, none close and
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none far away. Finally a break, let's hope, so a
sense optimism, which could sure surely bodes well for my score.
I'll give that one. I mean, I'll give that one.
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The six and a half, Oh will that's all? Yeah?
What what kept it from being any higher? What would
you have preferred?
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Do you?
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Can you offer critique? Construction? Critical?
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Or what is it?
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Constructive criticism? That's what I'm trying to spit out. You
got nothing to you got nothing. It just didn't have
to be in a bad mood. Maybe watch what you're
doing too, because you know what today is, uh National
mold Day on our on our clock right there. Well
that's not that maybe one of them, but that's not
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the one. You're making me kind of think about a
little bit. You know what it is? Oh what National
slap your coworker day? That's what it, Yes, sir, National
slap your coworker day. Look, look in the blue what
does that? What does it say? Well, it sounds like, uh,
you're maybe having a bad day. I might have to
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kinda just move some of that in your direction if
you don't watch your step, young man. Okay, we'll see.
We gotta go. Yeah, we do. I'll tell you about
late Health now, which is the They're not the but
they are vascular clinics. They do perform vascular surgeries and
vascular surgery. I interviewed doctor Doe enough times to learn
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that the instrumentation they use, it's essentially straws. They're like
long hair fine in some instances, straws that can be
manipulated and moved throughout your blood system, so and they
could go down into well for example. The thing they
do most there is prostate arty reimbolization for the guys
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who are having issues with the symptoms of that. And
the symptoms are no fun. I'm not gonna list them here,
But what they do is they insert They first they
identify which artery specifically is providing oxygen rich blood to
that prostate and letting it keep on making you miserable,
and then they stick one of those little flexible hoses
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in They're these tiny, tiny, tiny flexible hose and when
they get to the right spot and the right artery,
they flip the swish they inject it with. I don't
know if these silly putty or beach sand or what.
I have no idea, but whatever it is, it plugs
that artery and that eliminates the opportunity for that prostate
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now to do anything but shrivel up. It's dying, and
with it go all the symptoms of that dreadful prostate
that's bothered you for so long. They also help women
with fi boys. They also help people who have ugly
veins and don't want them anymore. There are instances even
where vascular surgery like that can alleviate head pain. They
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do all of that and so much more at a
late health locations around town. I would strongly urge you
to go to one of the go to the website
or to one of the clinics and have a consultation.
Just see if somebody can explain to you what they
could do to help you maybe get out of a
situation you're in medically that can be alleviated that way.
They also do regenerative medicine too, which is great with
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chronic pain. Much of what they do is covered by
Medicare and Medicaid. Be sure to check into all of
that and make sure you get some relief from whatever
symptoms you're dealing with that they can fix at a
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thirty eight eighty eight Once Life without a Nap. I
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Speaker 1 (10:58):
Just wait until the show's overs. Back to Doug Pike
as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
All right, welcome back, Kitch plus. I'm warning you will
be careful man. Today really is National Slap your Coworker Day.
And I'm just looking. I'm just looking for a reason,
got it? Oh? Yeah, you know it goes both ways.
Are you scared? Goes both ways? I don't think you
can catch me. Hi, Welcome back to fifty plus and
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again my thanks for choosing to listen to the show
here today. Feel free to share us with friends too. Well.
We'll talk in this segment about the work that's being
done around the world really to someday rid this world
of ours. From Alzheimer's disease and to explain what's being
done along that line more locally. I will welcome back
to this program Christine Howard, who's worked with the Alzheimer's
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Association for six years now as manager of its Annuel
Houston Walk to fight that horrible disease. Welcome back, Christine.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Thank you all so much for having me.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
You bet, it's my pleasure. So this fight against Alzheimer's
actually gets kind of personal for you, doesn't it. Do
you mind sharing the story of your grandmother?
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Of course? Yes, So we called her Mama because we're
Cajun and she had Alzheimer's for about eighteen years, so
we really watched what felt like slow motion in that progression.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
My grandmother also died of that horrible, wretched disease, so
I understand I wasn't as close geographically to her in
those final years as I would like to have been.
She was over in Decatur, Georgia with my aunt. But yeah,
we learned almost every day how this horrible thing was progressing.
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So what, let's get back to Houston. What exactly is
the goal here of the Alzheimer's Association.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Yeah, of course, So the goal for the Alzheimer's Association
in Houston, but really nationwide, is to create a world
without Alzheimer's and all other dementia. So we're doing a
lot to fund the research that is hoping to rid Alzheimer's,
but also dealing with the patients that are currently diagnosed
and the family members who are caregiving for them, because
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they need just as much help, if not more support
from us than the people who are actually living with
the disease.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
How long has you association been around here in Houston?
Speaker 3 (13:20):
In Houston, and we started in about the eighties, Okay,
then we joined with the National Alzheimer's Association later on.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Fantastic, the more the merrier, huh, Exactly.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
We all have the same goal.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Yeah, and what a great goal it is.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Too.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
We're not trying to make it a little easier. We're
trying to just eradicate this stuff, aren't we Exactly.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Our goal is definitely to eradicate it, but until then,
we do want to make it easier for those who
are living with it.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Well, that's also critically important because it's just so horrific.
You know it, you know it. How much money do
you think it's been raised so far? Around here to
help with this cause.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
So our chapter covers I believe it's thirty two counties,
and our goals this year alone to fundraise two point
seven million dollars. Wow, a hunt about a million dollars
of that we're hoping to fund raise in the Houston
area alone, And so we are working hard to get
companies signed ups, friends and families signed up to all
help fundraise.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
For this cause. Fantastic. And on the medical side, I
got to tell you, I've seen several stories recently about
new developments toward that cure, but there still isn't a cure.
But I feel, personally, and I'm on the outside looking
in kind of really at this, but I do read
everything I can find about it, and it seems that
the obstacles in front of finding a cure are kind
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of being cleared one by one, at least they're not
just all stacking up. How encouraged are you that we
are going to have a cure in a relatively short time.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
It's very encouraging. And even if it's not a cure,
that we find finding a way to stop it in
its tracks or even prevent it, I think those options
are much more likely and just as exciting as we
work our way towards that care.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
You know, I wasn't even thinking along those lines. But
prevention would be way more effective than a cure, wouldn't it,
because then you wouldn't even have to deal with it.
I like that. I like the way you think, Christine.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
I like you.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
So what's the date of the walk this year?
Speaker 3 (15:18):
This year, it's going to be on November ninth, That
is a Saturday, and we're going to be at the
University of Houston Main campus. So go koog's for all.
My cougar's out there.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
All right, fair, I'll let Matt Thomas know. Maybe we
can drag him over there for you. And how long
is this route?
Speaker 3 (15:35):
So I'll tell you a little secret. Okay, the route
is about three miles. We have a one mile shortcut,
but you don't even have to walk. When you show up,
we'll have plenty of entertainment. We'll have vendors and different
booths so you can get information about the Alzheimer's Association,
and we'll have a team tailgate area. So if you
want to come and just enjoy the day, there is
no requirement to do that actual walk, But if you
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want to get your steps in it is about three miles.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
You know, it's interesting. I've heard about that option being
offered at some of these charity walks where it's it's
almost like a couch potato option. Yeah, you just sign
up and write us a check for whatever it costs
to sign up. Still get your t shirts, still get
your koozie, but you can just stay at home, don't
even have to put on pants. That kind of what it's.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Exactly, You don't care exactly. So I also there a
free event too.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Oh, that's nice. That really is now. I've also heard
that there are a lot of corporate teams as you
were mentioning that kind of rally around this cause, what's
the biggest team as far as the numbers of people
who were involved you've had so far?
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Well, Baylor College of Medicine has been a huge corporate
team for us. They have about three hundred walkers last year. Yeah,
and so they're the team to beat. But we have
a number of great corporate teams, including in the medical
center at QUT Health Institute on Aging is really stepping
up this year. Deloitte has been a great corporate team
for us in the past, and NV is stepping up
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this year and being one of the leaders. So I
really love to see how the Houston corporations are getting
involved and showing their employees and their clients that they
care about this.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
I have it on uh from a confirmed source that
ut Health Institute on Aging is going to try and
beat that record this year. I don't know if they'll
make it.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
I think they can. Here to help them. I'm here
to help them, all right.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
So believe it or not, we're almost out of time again.
So where's the best place to go to find more
information about this walk?
Speaker 3 (17:30):
If you just google walk to End Alzheimer's Houston, you'll
find it. Or you can go to our website alb
dot org slash walk and you'll be able to find
the Houston walk there.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Fantastic. Christine Howard, thank you so very much. I really
appreciate your time and good luck with the run walk.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Thanks.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Sit on the couch. Whatever they want to do, as
long as they participate, I want to do. You know,
That's that's the way it ought to be. Thank you
so much. I appreciate it. Thank you all right, see
you later. City of Alpine, Well it takes I don't know.
I don't know how many weeks it would take to
walk to Alpine. I'm really not sure. I prefer that
you take the option to drive. In essence, you just
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get on iten and keep going, and then just keep
going and keep going and keep going, and then take
a break and then keep going some more. City of
Alpine is well worth every minute of whatever drive it
takes to get there, because what they're inviting you to
do now, in addition to all the other wonderful things
they have all year long, is celebrate kind of an
early Christmas December fifth through the seventh. On that Thursday,
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you can just the way they have it kind of
semi structure, you can do whatever you want. Really, you're
an Alpine. It's kind of laid back, not a big
deal to do whatever you want. But they suggest maybe
strolling through the shops, find a couple of cool Christmas
presents to bring back on one of the shops on
Murphy Street or Holland Avenue. And then on Friday they're
gonna have a wonderful Christmas concert. Then you can cap
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that long weekend on Saturday with a who are a
beautiful historic adobe homes that are decorated for the season.
That's Alpine's Adobe Trail, and that Adobe architecture is really
spectacular if you've never seen homes in that part of
the country, and how they've adopted long ago architectural style
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and made it and just brought it current. It's just beautiful,
free stargazing every night outside of Alpine. Just drive a
few minutes to get away from the few little city
lights there are in Alpine and you will be treated
to a nighttime sky like you if you're from Houston
and you really haven't gotten out of Houston much after dark,
you will be amazed at how many stars you can
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see in the sky out there in the middle of
the big Bend in Alpine. Find out more about all
of this and so much more that goes out. They're
just so much to talk about in favor of Alpine.
Do this go to Historicalpine dot org. Historicalpine dot org.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months sweet wash him, check his words,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
All right, welcome back fifty plus, thanks for listening on
this wonderful Wednesday. I guess it'll be followed. Will guy.
It's almost silly to say this. I don't know if
we can go this juvenile, But how about terrific Thursday?
Is that about the best we could do?
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Well?
Speaker 2 (20:36):
It is Wednesday? No, I'm trying. I know it's Wednesday.
You weren't paying attention. I said, welcome back to wonderful Wednesday,
and then looking ahead, trying to think of some catchy
little alliteration, and there's no really, there's no uplifting th word,
is there? Thrombosis Thursday? Now that doesn't ring. What else though? Thursday?
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That's too pedestrian? Thumbnail Thursday? No, that's kind of weird.
I wouldn't want to find that in your lunch. Thankful Thursday? Thankful?
Speaker 3 (21:11):
You know what?
Speaker 2 (21:12):
We could do that? No wonder thanksgivings on Thursday? Now
we know you just you just unfolded the mystery. I'm
sure that's it, because we can all be thankful for
our blessings on Thursday. I think that's it. Maybe you
can think that has anything to do with why it's
always on a Thursday?
Speaker 3 (21:32):
No?
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Or is it just to make sure that all the
college football games and a few professional games get played, Yep, yeah,
that's probably more of it. It follow the money, right, follow
the money all right? Speaking of I didn't get to
the market report in the opening segment and moving there
to the markets also known as the Red Sea, this morning,
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everything was down, literally everything red as a bucket of
fake Halloween blue ud stocks were down, oiled down, gold down,
all down. Price gold courtesy of Houston Goldexchange dot Com
actually came down nearly a full point. It dropped twenty
seven bucks, but still sitting two hours ago at two thousand,
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seven hundred and thirty two fifty, only thing I saw
that was up, and it was only a tick, thank goodness.
And I don't know where they're going to go from here,
but mortgage rates had crept back up, just a teeny
little fraction. Speaking of Herd this morning, that this administration's
vision of making houses more affordable, if Harris is elected,
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actually will have a totally opposite long term effect. I
heard it talked about this morning over on KTRH on
the way in and had the story in my inbox
when I got here from a little earlier. The problem
with that program, according to an expert who had been
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in reviewed, is that it would take. After you factor
in all the considerations of what's involved, it would only
take ninety eight years, if I heard correctly on AM
radio driving in this morning, it would only take ninety
eight years for the home order to realize any true savings.
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So I'm no genius, but I know that ninety eight
years is probably longer down the road that most of
us would make it. And if we got to wait
for an ROI a return on investment for that long.
There is no return on investment. There's just none. Less
than two weeks less than two weeks out from the
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election now, and you can't turn on a radio or
TV without here in as for one candidate or another.
Recorded history has no higher expendature of advertising money for
any election. I don't believe. I can't imagine would be
billions of dollars being just thrown out all over the country,
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each side trying to convince voters that their candidate's best
for this country, And every time I see one, honestly,
I wonder how anybody could be confused at this point
about which way they're going to vote and which way
this country should go for the long term to better
our country in the long term. I saw something this
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morning that really summed it up, and it If you're
on the fence, maybe this will help you make your decision.
For sixteen of the past twenty years a Democrat has
been in the White House. Eighty percent of those two decades.
Eighty percent of those two decades a Democrat in the
White House. Yet they blame one guy for everything that's
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wrong here and still claim that they know how to
fix it. If they could, they probably would. On the
way to the polling place, by the way, on your
way toward casting your vote, just to ask yourself if
you and your family and your friends and co workers
are be her off now than four years ago. And again,
I'm not going to tell you how to vote. Your
vote is your personal, private choice, and it's a choice
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that you should you should make sacred to you and
you alone. If you want to share it with somebody,
you're certainly welcome to do so. But it's nobody else's business.
And don't let anybody tell you it is. Don't let
anybody tell you it is. Just make sure you vote
one time, make sure you are qualified to vote before
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you cast that ballot, and we'll see, we'll see which
way the wind blows. We'll see there was some I
want to do that one, you know, I will. I'll
tell you about this because as a writer, it bothers me.
Vice President Harris finds yourself this morning, and don't bother
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waiting to hear about it on the evening news. Okay,
it's not going to happen, but look it up yourself
online and start reading about it. She has been accused
yet again of even more instances of plagiarism throughout her
professional life, same thing that essentially sunk President Biden's initial
go at the presidency back in nineteen eighty seven. The
Washington Free Beacon says. The story in The Washington Examiner
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claims that Harris quote lifted much of her two thousand
and seven testimony before Congress from a Republican district attorney
in Illinois named Paul Logley. She also copied a paragraph
from Wikipedia in a twenty twenty twelve or twenty twelve
report on human trafficking, and quote, there was more and
(26:39):
a lot more. Really overall, I think it was six
or seven more instances of plagiarism. And I'm you know,
I'm not knocking her as a person. I don't know
her as a person I really don't. I know her
as our vice president, the person who stood by her
president right up to the day somebody whispered in her
ear that if she was willing to turn on him,
she could make a run at the White House. She
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and Walls are kind of the best that Democrats could muster,
and neither of them has a moderate bone in their bodies.
Know this that if they're elected, they'll they'll start a
voting freedom from America, one by one, little thing at
a time. And I once again, I won't criticize you
for voting the other way either, if that's what you
truly believe in your heart. I will never I will
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never say a bad word about you. I will I'll
make my vote and you make your vote, and we'll
just we'll go with whatever happens. But I just happen
to hope it goes in a different direction. Braun's roofing.
Braun's roofing is twenty five, thirty thirty plus years now.
Holy cow. I've known Skeeter Braun for the better part
of i'd say twenty years, and he has done work
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on numerous roofs for myself and my family. Plus those
of friends and neighbors and whatnot. When's the last time
you had your roof inspected. If it's been a while
and you're not sure, really what condition your roofs, and
you might want to get bronze out there. It doesn't
cost you a dime. They'll come right to your house,
get up on that roof, walk around. They're not going
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to send a drone up there. They're going to go
up there invisibly with their own two eyes, inspect that
whole roof of yours, and then if you're lucky, they'll
come down and tell you nothing's wrong, see you later.
If you're unlucky, well, it's really the lucky part is
having bronze there, so there's no unlucky part at all,
because what they'll do is they'll explain to you what's
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wrong with your roof. They'll show you pictures of the
damage they found, and then they'll explain what it takes
to fix it, whether or not they have the materials
on the truck right now, how long it'll take to
fix it, how much it's going to cost, all of
the things you need to know to make a decision.
I would encourage you to make that decision right then
and there. If they've got the stuff on the truck,
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just say get started, because you can. You can spend
a lot of time trying to find better a better
price for the same quality work, or better work for
the same price. There is no better work. They're gonna
do the job right, and you won't find a better,
more fair price unless somebody's gonna be skimping something on you.
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Skeeter Brown doesn't cut corners. He and his crews do
exactly what it takes to fix the job and fix
the problem the first time. Bronzoofing dot com is the website.
You could go there anytime and find out what's going
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Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug boot Boot boot Boom.
Welcome back. Thanks for listening to fifty plus on this
wonderful Wednesday. Are we gonna go with terrific Thursday or
thankful Thursday? Tomorrow? It is gonna be thankful Thursday.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Try to help me remember, Okay, jot that down John
a note somewhere and just hit me in the morning. Clack,
click clack, click clack. Moving to hunger in a way
to eliminate some of it, at least around here. I
interviewed a woman named Lori Thurman from Texas Hunters for
the Hungry Hungry program on Sunday on my outdoor show
over on KBMME, and I was this is a program
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that for decades now has accepted whitetailed deer from hunters
who have extra and in this state we harvest around
three hundred to three hundred and fifty thousand deer a
year to keep the herd in check and to make
sure that it doesn't outpace its carrying capacity. The carrying
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capacity of the and its habitat. There has to be
enough food for all the deer to get them all
through a rough winter or a tough summer or whatever.
And if you have overpopulation, there's a risk that all
of those deer might be affected and lead to a
disease outbreak or something otherwise horrific. Bottom line is, there
are plenty of deer to go around, and for the
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better part of umpteen years, hunters have always provided two
hunters for the hungry and that meat in turn, and
it doesn't cost anything at most of the places who
process for hunters for the hungry, doesn't cost anything to
drop that field dress legally tagged deer off and then
it gets packaged into two pound two pound packages of
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ground meat, ground venison, very tasty, very lean meat, very
high in protein, and goes to food pantries which then
distribute it to people who really need some extra protein.
That's how it works. What I found out on Sunday
was that this past year they ended up with zero
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donations of white tailed deer into the program, and frankly,
I was shocked and disappointed that out of all the
deer hunters in all of this region, not a one
of them offered up meat to that program. One thing
that comes to mind very quickly is the price of meat.
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I would imagine that some hunters who may or may
not have it, may have been on the fence as
to whether to donate that much meat when they could
put it in their own freezer and eat it all year.
The way the economy is right now, I can't blame
them for not doing that. And the only I can't
think of another reason, really I had two yesterday I
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thought men maybe but maybe not. Bottom line is that
we've got to fix this. We've got to fix this.
And one of the maybe one other thing is that well,
the not enough people know about the program which takes
those deer. There's three processing houses in this general area.
I wish there were more, but anyway, that's where you
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can take that deer and usually at little or no expense,
they'll process it and ship it out even if you
don't hunt. Tell the Hunters you know about Hunters for
the Hungry. Millions of pounds of venison it's delivered around
Texas in its history, but this past year it was
just a disaster form Okay. To learn more about that program,
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look it up on Instagram or x or go through
the Houston Food Bank. That's the first stop for a
lot of meat once it gets through the processor. Hunters
for the Hungry Police try and if you do hunt,
find somebody in someplace one of your releases, maybe somebody
who's got an MLD permit. If you're a hunter, you
know what that is. They're always having to take out
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a lot of doze, and that meat would go a
long ways to help in a needy family. All right, Well,
let's get to something a little bit more fun and
light in these last couple of minutes. First of all,
where will I had titled this one disillusioned? And that's
a hint. Where was Hawaiian pizza actually invented? I'm gonna
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say Hawaiian pizza was invented in New York City. Buzz,
that's a that's a wrong answer, Buzz. I don't want
to make noises like any kind of a sound that
might be construed as some emergency signal because we could
get a lot of trouble for that. But I'm just
gonna say no, the actual origin of Hawaiian pizza can
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be traced back to Canada. That got you, didn't it?
Speaker 3 (34:40):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (34:40):
That makes sense because it's technically it's what Canadian ham,
Canadian bacon and pineapple. I think it ever? Uh looking back?
Let it go or walk of shame? Let it go.
Woman in Australia rock climbing when she dropped her phone
and got herself stuck in a crevice to retrieve it. Wow,
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seven hours later, hanging her upside down, somebody found her
and rescued her, but they didn't get her phone. Who
knows how far I don't know how far it dropped.
My mind keeps going back to that poor guy who
had to sever his own arm to get out from
between two rocks falls. The name of that movie one
hundred and twenty seven hours. You might try to watching
it recently, but it was It was really difficult. It
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is difficult to watch Walkershane, Where's the Pied Piper? Or
dumb criminal, Where's the Pied Piper? Chicago done it again.
Chicago has been named for the I don't know how many.
Speaker 4 (35:36):
Of your tenth year in a row, the most rat
infested city in America, followed by for bonus points will
for you?
Speaker 2 (35:47):
I gave you the answer to the pop quiz. What's
number two? New York?
Speaker 3 (35:53):
No?
Speaker 2 (35:54):
No, New York's three?
Speaker 3 (35:56):
Ok?
Speaker 2 (35:57):
The second most rat infested city in America actually kind
of surprised me a little bit in a way. And
then when you think about it, number two and number
four make perfect Sense two is La los Angeles, only
behind Chicago, and number four is San Francisco, and then
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comes Washington, D C. And that's it for us. We'll
see it tomorrow on Thankful Thursday. Audios