June 12, 2025 • 38 mins
Today, Doug Pike interviews Trae Bodge about making the most of your money.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Remember when it was impossible to misplace the TV remote
because you were the TV remote. Remember when music sounded
like this, Remember when social media was truly social?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hey John, how's it going today?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Well, this show is all about you. This is fifty
plus with Doug Pike. Helpful information on your finances, good health,
and what to do for fun. Fifty plus brought to
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Decisions for a healthier, happier life. And now fifty plus
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with Doug Pike.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
All right, here we go, light them up, We'll start
your engines.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
What else?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
What a playball? What's another? What's another catchphrase that starts
a competition?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Ready?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Set go? What does that start? A rain? Non non
professional on your marks? That's kind of it. And then
it said, go, we're gonna go till one o'clock. Anyway,
we're close to it. Wet and wild Thursday right started
with a lot of us being awakened pre alarm, I'm
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sure by the sound of thunder, maybe flashes of lightning,
just ripping through the curtains and the blinds, and got
in a lot of areas according to what I saw
and heard on the way in and just over the
all kinds of got a couple of text messages even, Hey,
are you getting this heavy rain?
Speaker 1 (01:41):
No?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
I actually didn't get it in sugar Land at needs,
at least not from the time I woke up, through
the time that I left the house and then got
on down here to the Galleria area. But in a
lot of areas around here, a heavy rain pounded on
the rooftops. And I hate to be the bearer of
bad news, but this rain is not gonna until a
little bit later this afternoon. On the plus side, well
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for some of you on the plus side, most of
the mess is south of I ten to the coast.
It's about a fifty or sixty mile wide band of
thunderstorms and legitimate rain and lightning and just not a
good time to be outside, really, And it's it's just
a pain in the backside if you have to be
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on the road. I don't. I don't like being in
heavy rain. I didn't have to drive through any heavy
rain this morning, and to its credit, the Southwest Freeway
was polite and orderly this morning, which it rarely is.
I'll have to check with sky Mike on how often
he has alerts for fifty nine relative to forty five
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and two forty nine and two ninety and to eighty
eight and all of the other freeways that come and
go from our big city. I wonder, but today really
was nice. It was such a departure from the norm
on dry streets on most days, including even Saturday Sunday,
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traffic is really light Saturdays, though it's a racetrack. It's
and it's just NonStop. If you go slower than about
if you go anywhere near the speed limit, you're gonna
get your doors blown off. On a ten mile stretch,
probably ten times, at least once a mile, somebody's going
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to come past you doing ninety to one hundred. It's
a little bit spooky sometimes. Moving to the markets briefly,
very briefly. It was pretty quiet this morning, although Boeing
did take a pretty big hit after one of its
airliners bound for the United Kingdom crashed barely a mile
off the runway over in India. Two hundred and forty
souls on board that plane and dozens more missing. I
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think because the plane crashed into a medical school. I
believe it's just it's tragic loss of life. There's video,
and I didn't really want to watch it, but then
again I kind of did, just to see what I
was talking about. And there's at least or at least
two videos of that plane lifting off from the runway
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and then just never getting much more than about maybe
one hundred feet off the ground. You could see that
the plane seemed to be struggling, as though, in my
pitifully lacking in expertise opinion, it just seemed like it
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was too heavy. It was just too heavy to fly.
And I don't know if that's anything to do with
what happened. It could have been mechanical failure, it could
have been anything other than anything that I would think
it was, because I really don't know, but God, it
was just so sad, just so sad to watch. And
I'll say a prayer for all of those families. I
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don't care where they were from what they were doing
on that plane. It's going to take a long time
to sort out the full scope of the damage and
the loss of life. It's just a sad day for
so many families over there. Otherwise, seeing things seem pretty
quiet up on Wall Street and in the data banks,
really where all the big money moves at the commands
of algorithms and and not just button pushing like most
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of us too. I admire anyone who handles their own finances,
at least if they're good at it, And there wouldn't
be so many people who are financial advisors if the
rest of us were any better at it than we are.
I have confidence in the guy I use, I really
do it. I've been with him for I was probably
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close to twenty years now, and just hold my breath
and do what he says, And so far, so good.
The people who do it themselves, surely they must know.
Surely they must know that they're way far behind all
the trading that's going on from those data banks where
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the biggest players move billions of dollars in nano seconds,
while you and I and anybody else who tries to
do it solo are just staring at a screen and
wondering what to do, and while thousands of trades are
being made back and forth on all these things. It's
fascinating to me, but I don't. I choose not to
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get too involved in it because I feel like I'm
it could be dangerous to me to try to take
the reins. At this point. I much prefer somebody who's
been who's been driving that wagon for a long long time. Uh,
hopping from desk to desk now and starting in well, no,
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you know what, I don't even want to go there yet.
I'm gonna talk a little bit about Los Angeles later
in the program, and what Gavin News I'm saying, and
what AOC is saying, what the mayor of Chicago said,
what the mayor of LA has said. And they are
just textbook examples, every one of them, of blaming somebody
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else for doing something that we would all consider wrong,
when it in fact is them who are doing the wrong.
They're as they mostly do. They are doing exactly what
they're accusing our president of doing. They're what they're accusing
anybody on the right of doing. That's their motive, and
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that's all they've got it. It's just a bad playbook
that they're reading out of. They keep doing it, but
very few people listen anymore. We know better now, all right,
we're gonna take a little break here on the way out.
Let me tell you about Cedar cove RV Resort. When
I ran into I don't remember exactly how we connected.
I believe that Al Kibby contacted me and just said, hey,
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I heard you talking about being able to help somebody
become involved with your program, and maybe I'd like to
do that. And that led to several discussions, several lengthy discussions,
and a bunch of emails back and forth, and lo
and behold, here they are. Well, they're not here. They're
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actually probably down there at Cedar Cove wondering when it's
gonna stop raining. Today. It's down in Baytown, Tri City
Beach Road, down near Thompson's Bay Camp and right on
Galveston Bay, with all the amenities you could ever want
in a place to park your RV or your camper
or whatever it is you want to sleep in overnight.
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I guess you could sleep in your truck technically if
you wanted to, or your van or whatever it was.
You just rent that slab and then and all the
slabs are concrete, all the roads are concrete in there.
It's a really nicely put together place. They've got water
and sewer hookups at every site, electricity at every site,
like a Wi Fi available, house with showers, and some
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pretty dog on good fishing. On days other than today,
probably it's gonna be pretty messy. Down there today to
find out more about this place and a lot of
people who are here on temporary work assignments. This is
something I didn't even realize Al was telling me about it.
They use their their housing money what a lot of
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people use for motels, They use it to rent a
place at a place like Cedar Cove Resort and park
their little camper there. And rather than wake up to
the sound of a dump truck empty and a dumpster
or city noise, or neighbors in a motel room next
to you banging on the walls or doing whatever they're doing,
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you just wake up to sunrises and sunsets over the water.
It's a pretty good way to do it. Go down
there and rent your spot, rent your spot for a
night a week all summer long. If you want drag
your boat back and forth, you can. You can market there,
I guess, with your RV or whatever, and then haul
it to the boat ramp every morning. Go fishing. Cedar
Cove Rvresort dot com, Cedarcove Rvresort dot com.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Yew.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
They sure don't make them like they used to.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
That's why every few months we wash them, check us
fluids and spring on a fresh coat of wax.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
This is fifty plus with Doug Pike. Hi, welcome back
to fifty plus. Thanks for listening. Certainly do appreciate it
on this soggy Thursday. Well, we'll talk in this segment
about money and specifically about saving it where you can,
and we'll do so with someone you've likely seen on
television more than a couple of times if you watch.
She's one of the best when it comes to stretching
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a dollar and she is Trey Bodge. Welcome back to
fifty plus. Trey.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Thanks so much for having me.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Oh, it's my pleasure. So let's start with the media
buzzword of the quarter, which is tariffs. They seem to
have fallen out of the news cycle a little bit lately,
but there's still a concern for lots of people. Are
there any specific items really going up dramatically because of tariffs?
Speaker 4 (11:05):
So the thing with tariffs is that it's still a
little bit of a wait and see. So we are
seeing price hikes across the board with imported items because
we do have this kind of ten percent baseline tariff.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
But we have a couple of tariffs.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
That are still hanging in the balance, like China, for example.
So it's really hard to predict what's going to be
the biggest hit. But what I'm saying to consumers who
are concerned, which is almost everyone, is that those bigger
ticket items are really going to experience a more impactful
price hike. You know, ARP conducted a survey that found
that seventy three percent of US are worried about prices
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rising faster than our income. So it's so important to
employ savings tactics wherever you can save as much as
you can.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
For some of the everyday items that might be impacted.
How how can this audience of mind save on essentials
really until these trade deals get settled out with all
these other countries.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Sure, so employing savings tactics is something that you need
to do. You've probably heard me talk about it at
nauseum to the past dozen years. But now it's time
to get serious. So you want to take advantage of
those big retail sale moments like we have July fourth
coming up, Amazon Prime Day, Black Friday in July sales,
so utilize those sale moments. Also, shop strategically with your
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credit cards so you're earning points or miles that can
be applied to future things later, and then take advantage
of your memberships as well. So for example, if you're
an ARP member, you can get discounts do on all
sorts of things like a Walmart plus membership, ex on
mobile rewards, Avis, rental car, consumer cellular. So make sure
you're using all of these things combined to save as
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much as possible.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
I actually took advantage of my AARP membership or not ARP.
It was triple A actually for me. That got me
a better deal on a hotel room I needed last
weekend for a baseball tournament. So yeah, even every dime
I can, that's for sure, Trey Bodger.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
And everyone really needs to right now.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Yeah, Trey Bodge on fifty plus here. Is there real
impact from tariff's on groceries.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Absolutely so. A surprising number of groceries are imported. So
think about avocados, some tomatoes, coffee, wine. Those are things
that are coming from other places, and that's where we're
seeing some of these price hikes with tariffs. Now, some
retailers are announcing the price hikes and others are just
quietly ticking those prices up. So it's so important to
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look for sale. Joy loyalty programs by store brands, things like.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
That when you're grocery shopping.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
And for my fifty plus folks here Trey. How about medications, Yeah, medications.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
If you're being prescribed something new, definitely ask for your
doctor to prescribe the generic if it's available. That can
be a great way to save. And then you can
use your ARP membership to save on some prescriptions. Go
to a bigger box retailer like Walmart has discounts on prescriptions,
as does Costco. So there are ways to save on prescriptions.
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It takes a little bit of work, but worth it,
especially if you're taking a medication regularly.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Sure, it's summertime too, and lots of people are wondering
if thing afford a real vacation this year. Where are
some of the best domestic vacation deals right now?
Speaker 4 (14:24):
And so it really depends, of course, on where you listen.
My recommendation is a road trip. We have a big,
beautiful country out there and we should be taking advantage
of exploring it. It's a great way to save on
your destination. So what I like to do is approach
it with a couple destinations in mind, and I compare prices.
I look at what the flights are looking like with
the accommodations are looking like, and then make my decision
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based on that.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
But I think a road trip is really the most.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Budget friendly approach, and I've found that road trips are
really fun budget way to explore a place nearby, but
not sack provise your vacation altogether.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Yeah, I think this country has so many things to
offer to vacationers, then a lot of us tend to
just fly right over some great places that we could
have driven to in an hour and a half or
two hours.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
I agree one hundred percent.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
I love to travel, and I love to travel internationally,
but I have just as much fun when I'm traveling
domestically as well.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
What is the trend for hotel prices around here?
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Oh, it's tricky, you know.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
It's funny because sometimes if you book far ahead, you
do really well. But then sometimes if you wait until
the last minute, you could use a service like hotel
tonight and see if you can save a little bit
at a last minute hotel. I typically find that vacation
rental properties are cheaper than a hotel, and then also
they offer a lot of flexibility.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
You have maybe multiple rooms, multiple bathrooms.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
You can cook in the kitchen, maybe one meal a day,
so you're not eating out three times a day. So
that's the approach that I like to take when I'm
traveling with my family.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
So back to that tariff thing for a minute. What
bigger ticket items like TV's, appliances, furniture stuff like that,
What in those categories would be probably good to buy now?
And what should we maybe wait to buy until the
dust settles.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Yeah, so I would say all of it, So I
would really focus, though, of course, on the things that
you need. This is not time to panic buy. This
is time to look at your computer.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Is it operating fine? Then just leave it.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
If your washer dryer is kind of on the fritz,
it might be a good time to start looking for
deals because those prices could tick up depending on how
the China terror situation plays out. You know, as I
mentioned before, we've got July fourthcoming Amazon Prime Day, so
those will be some good opportunities to save and perhaps
avoid a higher and more aggressive price hike with those terraffs.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Personally, my wife and I took advantage of a Memorial
Day sale to buy a washer and dryer that we've
been wanting to get for a while. In timing, Yeah,
we saved probably three or four hundred dollars on each
one of them, so that was that was really nice back.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
To and the prices are probably more expensive now, so
your timing was really good.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Fingers crossed, I think yeah, I think we did pretty
well with this. What about phones? Everybody needs a cell
phone these days, despite everybody in my audience probably reaching
adulthood and raising families without them. Are there ways we
can keep that build down?
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (17:22):
I mean cell phones are a kind of new expense
if you think about it.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
You know, in the past decade or so.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
And now everyone in the family has one in their hand,
and it's expensive.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
And so a mistake that a lot of.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Consumers make is only looking at the big three carriers,
and you know they're worth a look, But I would
also look at smaller carriers as well, like Consumer Cellular
for example, they have really good deals right now, take
a look and see if you can find some flexibility
with pricing. And then also look at family plans versus
individual plans. Typically the family plan is less expensive. And
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then lastly, with those phones, you do not need to
upgrade every time there's a new iPhone.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
I think we're kind of in this cycle now.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Which is it makes me cringe because these devices are
so expensive, and you know, sometimes a carrier might say,
you know, free upgrade, but no, you're getting that upgrade.
You're locking into two years and then you're paying that
device off for the next two years. So try to
make your phone last longer. These are really powerful, great machines.
Let them go for a while before you upgrade.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
I won't say who had happened with, but my son
and I got burned. Well I'm the one who got
burned because I had to pay for it. My son
and I got burned on a deal about three years ago,
and all of a sudden, my wife says, what's this
expense right here? And we had been paying on something
that we were told wouldn't be charged, paying like twenty
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five bucks a month, and I guess they just didn't
think we'd look at it and see it. But they
had that charge on there for I think almost two
and a half years and we weren't.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
So Oh my gosh, that you bring up such a
good point. It is so important.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Every month just to look at your statements, because you know,
now that we're paying online automatically, maybe we're not paying attention.
You know, every single month, just quickly scroll through and
make sure I have discovered surprising things like that.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
And you know, you kick yourself if.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
You've waited months, years, and it's hard to get that
money back once it happened. So just do a quick
scroll every single month. Get in the habit, Trey Bude.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
You no better advice from anybody more qualified to give
it her website, True Trey t r u E t
r a e dot com. I hope I got that right,
didn't I you did?
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Thank you, Thank you Tray. It's been a pleasure.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Thank you so much. Always have a great day, you bet, Bobby.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Yeah. True Tray dot com t r u E t
r a e dot com. There's a ton of money
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what they will do is save you some time on
this earth. They'll I'll help keep you healthier, They'll make
you stronger, make you like waking up in the morning,
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and I mean anything. There's somebody at ut Health Institute
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those providers are in the medical center, as I've said
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at offices, and they see patients where they want to
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That's what I'm trying to get to. Go to that website.
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fifty plus with Doug Pike poor did the band fall
off the bridge? Will? I took him even to get
a chance to say hello? That's fine? Is it? Hell?
Speaker 1 (21:22):
For?
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Who?
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Me?
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Always thinking to yourself will of course. Okay, let's go
to La shall we from hopping from desk to desk,
and then at some point when I get there, we'll
also go all the way up to Pennsylvania where the
US Open is ongoing, and I well, i'll tell you
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that real quick. I got a call from Billy ray
Brown last night about nine thirty. If you're unfamiliar with him,
he played in US Opens, he won a few tournaments
on the PGA Tour. He's working right now for the
TV network. I can't remember which one, but he's up
there and he covers a ton of events for TV now.
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And he's also a member of the Texas Golf Hall
of Fame, which I don't know if you've heard one
of their PSAs that we're running on our stations, But
I'm happy for that whole Hall of Fame, and I'm
going to talk to it's executive director, Ali Jarrett. I'm
hoping to get her this weekend over on KBM and
trying to get Billy ray He said he would call
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me probably Friday night once he gets his weekend schedule,
and then we'll try to figure out a time that
we can talk on the air. About what's going on
at Oakmont, which is that it's just staggeringly difficult. And
the last time I looked out of about I want
to say, seventy five or eighty guys on the golf course,
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only I think fourteen or fifteen of them were it
even par or better. Everybody else was in the plus column.
And it wouldn't surprise me if the plus column is
is where the winner winds up after four days up there.
It's just absolutely brutal. The rof is something that Billy
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Ray walked with Shane Lowry and ry McElroy yesterday for
a long time going around in a practice round, and
he said, Billy Ray said he'd never seen anything that
difficult the way it's set up. Rory said he'd never
seen anything that difficult, and it was just staggering. There's
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so much going on there. There's a three hundred yard
par three there is. I made some little notes here.
What else is different about it. The roof is supposed
to be cut at five inches, but it's and that's bluegrass.
It's impossibly thick. Greens are rolling fourteen plus on the
stemp meter if you know what that is. It's basically
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like putting on asphalt or no, not even that slow,
like putting on a linoleum floor. There's a half a
dozen t shots where they can't even see the landing area.
And last I looked, the course is making a mess
of the world's best players. They'll adapt, they'll they'll figure
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out what they can. And several players are actually under
par on this first round, and more power to him.
JJ Spawn was four under last I looked, and he
was close to finished when that was. So if he
got through there at four man, he's he's already got
a full advantage. But I don't think that JJ Spawn's
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gonna win that tournament. And it's I think that if
he could just maintain four under par for four days,
he might have a pretty good shot. He just might
have a pretty good shot. So anyway, let me go
back to Los Angeles while I've got a little time here.
Formerly a very cool city too, I've been out there
a few times and loved it every time i've been
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out there. Now it's devolved into a city where, like
so many places in the country, where right is wrong
and wrong is right, and its leaders have allowed it
to burn quite literally and then taking the side of
law breakers over honest, hardworking Americans. That really bothers me.
The things that cities mayor and Governor Newsom have said
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are disturbing should be any way to anybody who stands
on the side of law enforcement and law and order
in our country. That mayor what is her name, I
can't recall, it doesn't matter, actually called for the citizens
of LA to come together and clean up the city
because there are only a year out from the World
Cup after all. Well, here's a newsflash, Mayor, if you
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had either a not tolerated all of that burning, not
tolerated all that painting, not tolerated all the looting and
broken windows and all of that, if you had not
tolerated that stuff, there wouldn't be anything to clean up.
To their credit, San Antonio had protests yesterday. Nothing got broken,
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nothing got burned, nobody got hurt. That's how it's supposed
to be peaceful protest. And they just they made a
mess of it all over there. And now they want
they want the good citizens of LA to rally and
come clean up what the bad citizens did. And most
of those people who were doing all that damage, by
the way, not from La. They flew in they they
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got busted in. They got paid to be there and
cause as much trouble as they could. Also, I saw
a story about there were two white protesters who blocked
the road. Two women. White women blocked the road and
would not let a black woman on her way to
work pass. They wouldn't let her through. They were shouting
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about how ice doing this, Ice doing that, Ice is
taking kids away from their parents. And the woman trying
to get to work, So what about my kids if
I lose my job, what happens to them? You know
what she was told by those two. I can't help
you with that. An American choosing illegal immigrants over another American.
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That's how far off center that that argument is. I'm
done with California. I'll welcome any California who wants to
move here and become a traditional Texan. Leave your California
stuff at the border. Okay, we'll take you bass fish
and we'll take you to a rodeo. Just leave all
that California behind you. Get a fresh start, a little
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common sense, no state income taxes too good reason to
move right there? Two among about probably one hundred I
don't know or more. Uh, where do you want to go, Will,
let's go to the easy stuff, the light stuff, the
softer stuff. And by the way, I've got a what's
in the attic thing for later, Will that you won't
believe what somebody found in their attic and it was
found twenty five years ago. I mean, guess it, will.
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It ended up being worth two point five million dollars.
It's worth a lot of money. I'll just tell you that,
of course it is. Yeah, that's what.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Now?
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Then? Yeah? Yeah, but they're interesting and there's nothing in
my attic worth this much money, I guarantee you. So
a painting that was found. This comes from the Good
News Network, which where there's all kinds of cool stuff
found in the dusty attic of a Connecticut barn twenty
five years ago. So this thing, I bet you got
passed it. The parents found it. The older parents found
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it twenty five years ago and thought, yeah, we ought
to do so with that someday, and they just left
it there. And they left it there, and they left
it there, and they passed away or moved on, moved
to a senior living facility or whatever, and the kids
come in and take over the house in the barn
and lo and behold they find it, and then you know,
this might be worth a little money. Let's check it out. Well,
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they got it professionally cleaned, and it turned out to
have been painted by a lesser known Dutch master, a
guy named Franz Post. He painted that portrait or that
not a portrait but a landscape in the year sixteen sixty.
And how much was it worth? Will three point seven
(29:08):
million or so? So uneducated in fine art. When the
gl Gabble fell at Sotheby's recently, the selling price was
seven million dollars. You're gonna go check your parents at it? No,
you might want to. You don't know what's up there?
Will do? They have a barn?
Speaker 4 (29:27):
No?
Speaker 2 (29:28):
You know. I got a good friend, a guy named
Rick Bice, who has a barn, and he's got so
much stuff in there. There's bound to be something in
there that's worth seven million dollars and he doesn't even
know about it. He's got some sons that'll probably go
through it someday, and and they're both really good kids too,
And whatever they find out there, they deserve, and they're
gonna find some good stuff because Rick's a pretty savvy
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collector of all kinds. He's got large numbers of all
kinds of things. Oh, we gotta go, don't we. Let's
take a little break here, shall we. Let me tell
you about champ tree preservation. All this rain we've gotten,
there's been some wind. If you drive through a lot
of neighborhoods, you're gonna see at least some little limbs
(30:11):
falling out of trees, and maybe some pretty big ones.
And occasionally, I was told this morning there have been
some whole trees knocked over by these recent storms. And
with the wind gets the wind gets going, the ground
gets soft, and things that were things that happened to
your trees six months, a year, a year and a
(30:31):
half ago, start to rear their ugly heads. The roots
supports them, root systems get compromised, and all of a sudden,
you've got a tree that looks pretty up on top,
but it doesn't have the support underground to hold that
big giant trunk and all those limbs and all those
leaves up. Wind comes along, ground gets a little wet
(30:54):
because it rains all day, and down comes the tree,
maybe in your yard, maybe on your maybe on the
neighbor's house. That's even worse. And if you don't want
that to happen. I strongly recommend while it's still early
in the season to get Champion Tree Preservation out there
and let them assess your trees to make sure that
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they don't need anything. If they need a little TLC,
Champion Tree will take care of that. If they need
limbs removed, they can take care of that. If they
need to come out, they'll do that as well. Their
arbists are going to make the decisions, help you figure
out what needs to be done with those trees, and
then they can get somebody there quickly to do the
work because they own all their own equipment. Whatever you
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can do to a tree, whatever equipment it takes, they
own it. It's on their lot and they also have
a tree farm. By the way, if you need to
replace a tree, they can help you with that as well.
Good people. I've been talking to them now and I'm
really happy to have them on board. Call for a consultation,
not gonna cost you a dime. Two eight one three
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two zero eighty two oh one, or go to the
website championstree dot com. That's championstree dot com. Old guy's rule.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
And of course women never get old if you want
to avoid sleeping on the couch.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Okay, well, I think that sounds like a good plan.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Fifty plus continues.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Here's more with Doug. I do appreciate it, you know,
I do. On even rainy day, sunny day, I don't
care if you're listening to this program. I greatly appreciate it.
By the way, neglected to mention when I was talking
about Optimi Iron Doors, they've got a big summer sale
going on. All this talk about tariffs we had with
Trey Bodge and a lot of companies are already raising
(32:44):
their prices because of what they see as a potential
issue with iron and steel and aluminum and other metals. Well,
Optimm Iron Doors didn't raise their prices at all. And
on top of that, there's summer sale which runs through
July takes additional money off that price. So if you
want to stay ahead of that iron door curve Optima
(33:08):
iron Doors dot Com, just go there. The day that
terrif issue was announced, I think it was last week,
Jason told me he had two people come to the
showroom that morning and just say, okay, we're ready. We
don't want to wait around another minute. Just go ahead
and let's get this done. So if you're thinking about it,
(33:31):
you don't have to think about it anymore. Just going
over there at North Post Oak Optima iron Doors dot Com.
The showroom's great. They're good people, they'll take care of you.
I got one of their doors on my house too.
I didn't get an iron door. I got a wood door,
big old, tall, beautiful wood door. We love it. My
wife and I do all right. From the medical desk,
I'll I'll save some fun stuff for later. Medical desks.
(33:55):
Scientists have identified a new way that certain cancer cells
sustain themselves. And even better, it's already been determined that
a ginger derived molecule, just something from a ginger root,
shuts down the ability of those cells to survive and thrive.
(34:15):
It disrupts something. It's way way over my pay grade,
but what it does is just shut down that cancer.
This research is still very much in its infancy, but
the early indications hold tremendous progress for some cancers that
we're dealing with. Still, I wish I could someday tell
(34:37):
you that they were all taken care of, but not yet,
not yet. Maybe you and I maybe some of us
at least will live long enough to see the disappearance
of cancer. Uh, that's a that's a big ask. Let's
just let's just get rid of some of the easier
stuff first. I suppose today today, by the way, will
(34:59):
is national. Let me see if it's up here World
Day against Child Labor Russia Day. No, we're not gonna
do that. One Philippines Independence Day, and that's all they
have on the screen here. I happen to know also
that it is National Jerky Day. Will National Jerky Day?
(35:21):
And you, Oh, you don't eat that, do you? We
already talked about that. I mean, I all eat it.
Sometimes I gotta have flaws. I got some jerky, a
little sample of jerky, said to me the other day
that had a little one of those little brush slash
flass things, a little device that you could brush or
(35:43):
not brush them, but there was a little like a
brush that you could stick between your teeth, and then
one of those little flass things that's pinned between about
a half inch apart, just enough to get in there
between your teeth and get all that stuff out of there.
You know, if you leave it there, you can just
be eating jerky all day. Really can't just can't slurp
(36:03):
it on out. I don't like that. I don't like
that's so nasty. I'm so sorry. I apologize. All right, Well,
got gas? What's the buzz or I'll drink to that.
I'll drink to that. Coffee officially the most important drink
in America. Number one beverage that Americans can't live without.
(36:26):
But if you just talk about taste now, and most
of the people who say they can't live without coffee
say it's because of the buzz they get the caffeine rush.
If you're talking about taste, coffee falls off. Fifty three
percent of people say that soft drinks are their favorites.
And to establish that this was this survey was done
(36:50):
by somebody who lives up north. They didn't say soft drinks.
They said soda, which we don't say. I found out
something the other day too. What are you talking about?
What don't say soda? Its soft drinks? Is what they're called.
Will and my generation, that's my generation. Will. Okay, let
me ask you this. When you when you're thirsty and
(37:12):
you're say outside somewhere and you you really it's hot
and you want something you want to just wet your whistle.
What are you looking for? Probably water? Yeah, at where
and just out there if they were presuming it's clean
and available. A water fountain, right, sure? In Minnesota. What
(37:32):
do they call that? A soda fountain? No, a pop found.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
No, this is.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
Something I didn't know until like maybe six months ago. Okay,
A bubbler, that's what they call it. So bubbler. Well,
it's just different. What makes the world go around? Will,
that's all. It's nothing, nothing earth shattering, nothing that cures
or or finishes anything. Really, But you would call it
(37:59):
a so to fountain if you were getting some soda.
That's not a soft drink fountain. I would go to
the soda fountain to get a soft drink. Yes, I would.
I would, Well, I swear I would.
Speaker 4 (38:13):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
There's more hydrogen will in a gallon of gasoline than
in a gallon of liquid hydrogen. I'll let you figure
that out for us tomorrow. I want a full report
on that. Use AI if you need to. All right,
we gotta go. We'll be back tomorrow to wrap up
the week. Thank you all for listening. Audios
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What else?
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What a playball? What's another? What's another catchphrase that starts
a competition?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Ready?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Set go? What does that start? A rain? Non non
professional on your marks? That's kind of it. And then
it said, go, we're gonna go till one o'clock. Anyway,
we're close to it. Wet and wild Thursday right started
with a lot of us being awakened pre alarm, I'm
(01:21):
sure by the sound of thunder, maybe flashes of lightning,
just ripping through the curtains and the blinds, and got
in a lot of areas according to what I saw
and heard on the way in and just over the
all kinds of got a couple of text messages even, Hey,
are you getting this heavy rain?
Speaker 1 (01:41):
No?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
I actually didn't get it in sugar Land at needs,
at least not from the time I woke up, through
the time that I left the house and then got
on down here to the Galleria area. But in a
lot of areas around here, a heavy rain pounded on
the rooftops. And I hate to be the bearer of
bad news, but this rain is not gonna until a
little bit later this afternoon. On the plus side, well
(02:05):
for some of you on the plus side, most of
the mess is south of I ten to the coast.
It's about a fifty or sixty mile wide band of
thunderstorms and legitimate rain and lightning and just not a
good time to be outside, really, And it's it's just
a pain in the backside if you have to be
(02:26):
on the road. I don't. I don't like being in
heavy rain. I didn't have to drive through any heavy
rain this morning, and to its credit, the Southwest Freeway
was polite and orderly this morning, which it rarely is.
I'll have to check with sky Mike on how often
he has alerts for fifty nine relative to forty five
(02:49):
and two forty nine and two ninety and to eighty
eight and all of the other freeways that come and
go from our big city. I wonder, but today really
was nice. It was such a departure from the norm
on dry streets on most days, including even Saturday Sunday,
(03:13):
traffic is really light Saturdays, though it's a racetrack. It's
and it's just NonStop. If you go slower than about
if you go anywhere near the speed limit, you're gonna
get your doors blown off. On a ten mile stretch,
probably ten times, at least once a mile, somebody's going
(03:34):
to come past you doing ninety to one hundred. It's
a little bit spooky sometimes. Moving to the markets briefly,
very briefly. It was pretty quiet this morning, although Boeing
did take a pretty big hit after one of its
airliners bound for the United Kingdom crashed barely a mile
off the runway over in India. Two hundred and forty
souls on board that plane and dozens more missing. I
(03:58):
think because the plane crashed into a medical school. I
believe it's just it's tragic loss of life. There's video,
and I didn't really want to watch it, but then
again I kind of did, just to see what I
was talking about. And there's at least or at least
two videos of that plane lifting off from the runway
(04:22):
and then just never getting much more than about maybe
one hundred feet off the ground. You could see that
the plane seemed to be struggling, as though, in my
pitifully lacking in expertise opinion, it just seemed like it
(04:45):
was too heavy. It was just too heavy to fly.
And I don't know if that's anything to do with
what happened. It could have been mechanical failure, it could
have been anything other than anything that I would think
it was, because I really don't know, but God, it
was just so sad, just so sad to watch. And
I'll say a prayer for all of those families. I
(05:05):
don't care where they were from what they were doing
on that plane. It's going to take a long time
to sort out the full scope of the damage and
the loss of life. It's just a sad day for
so many families over there. Otherwise, seeing things seem pretty
quiet up on Wall Street and in the data banks,
really where all the big money moves at the commands
of algorithms and and not just button pushing like most
(05:29):
of us too. I admire anyone who handles their own finances,
at least if they're good at it, And there wouldn't
be so many people who are financial advisors if the
rest of us were any better at it than we are.
I have confidence in the guy I use, I really
do it. I've been with him for I was probably
(05:49):
close to twenty years now, and just hold my breath
and do what he says, And so far, so good.
The people who do it themselves, surely they must know.
Surely they must know that they're way far behind all
the trading that's going on from those data banks where
(06:10):
the biggest players move billions of dollars in nano seconds,
while you and I and anybody else who tries to
do it solo are just staring at a screen and
wondering what to do, and while thousands of trades are
being made back and forth on all these things. It's
fascinating to me, but I don't. I choose not to
(06:30):
get too involved in it because I feel like I'm
it could be dangerous to me to try to take
the reins. At this point. I much prefer somebody who's
been who's been driving that wagon for a long long time. Uh,
hopping from desk to desk now and starting in well, no,
(06:53):
you know what, I don't even want to go there yet.
I'm gonna talk a little bit about Los Angeles later
in the program, and what Gavin News I'm saying, and
what AOC is saying, what the mayor of Chicago said,
what the mayor of LA has said. And they are
just textbook examples, every one of them, of blaming somebody
(07:15):
else for doing something that we would all consider wrong,
when it in fact is them who are doing the wrong.
They're as they mostly do. They are doing exactly what
they're accusing our president of doing. They're what they're accusing
anybody on the right of doing. That's their motive, and
(07:38):
that's all they've got it. It's just a bad playbook
that they're reading out of. They keep doing it, but
very few people listen anymore. We know better now, all right,
we're gonna take a little break here on the way out.
Let me tell you about Cedar cove RV Resort. When
I ran into I don't remember exactly how we connected.
I believe that Al Kibby contacted me and just said, hey,
(07:59):
I heard you talking about being able to help somebody
become involved with your program, and maybe I'd like to
do that. And that led to several discussions, several lengthy discussions,
and a bunch of emails back and forth, and lo
and behold, here they are. Well, they're not here. They're
(08:19):
actually probably down there at Cedar Cove wondering when it's
gonna stop raining. Today. It's down in Baytown, Tri City
Beach Road, down near Thompson's Bay Camp and right on
Galveston Bay, with all the amenities you could ever want
in a place to park your RV or your camper
or whatever it is you want to sleep in overnight.
(08:39):
I guess you could sleep in your truck technically if
you wanted to, or your van or whatever it was.
You just rent that slab and then and all the
slabs are concrete, all the roads are concrete in there.
It's a really nicely put together place. They've got water
and sewer hookups at every site, electricity at every site,
like a Wi Fi available, house with showers, and some
(09:02):
pretty dog on good fishing. On days other than today,
probably it's gonna be pretty messy. Down there today to
find out more about this place and a lot of
people who are here on temporary work assignments. This is
something I didn't even realize Al was telling me about it.
They use their their housing money what a lot of
(09:24):
people use for motels, They use it to rent a
place at a place like Cedar Cove Resort and park
their little camper there. And rather than wake up to
the sound of a dump truck empty and a dumpster
or city noise, or neighbors in a motel room next
to you banging on the walls or doing whatever they're doing,
(09:46):
you just wake up to sunrises and sunsets over the water.
It's a pretty good way to do it. Go down
there and rent your spot, rent your spot for a
night a week all summer long. If you want drag
your boat back and forth, you can. You can market there,
I guess, with your RV or whatever, and then haul
it to the boat ramp every morning. Go fishing. Cedar
Cove Rvresort dot com, Cedarcove Rvresort dot com.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Yew.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
They sure don't make them like they used to.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
That's why every few months we wash them, check us
fluids and spring on a fresh coat of wax.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
This is fifty plus with Doug Pike. Hi, welcome back
to fifty plus. Thanks for listening. Certainly do appreciate it
on this soggy Thursday. Well, we'll talk in this segment
about money and specifically about saving it where you can,
and we'll do so with someone you've likely seen on
television more than a couple of times if you watch.
She's one of the best when it comes to stretching
(10:41):
a dollar and she is Trey Bodge. Welcome back to
fifty plus. Trey.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Thanks so much for having me.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Oh, it's my pleasure. So let's start with the media
buzzword of the quarter, which is tariffs. They seem to
have fallen out of the news cycle a little bit lately,
but there's still a concern for lots of people. Are
there any specific items really going up dramatically because of tariffs?
Speaker 4 (11:05):
So the thing with tariffs is that it's still a
little bit of a wait and see. So we are
seeing price hikes across the board with imported items because
we do have this kind of ten percent baseline tariff.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
But we have a couple of tariffs.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
That are still hanging in the balance, like China, for example.
So it's really hard to predict what's going to be
the biggest hit. But what I'm saying to consumers who
are concerned, which is almost everyone, is that those bigger
ticket items are really going to experience a more impactful
price hike. You know, ARP conducted a survey that found
that seventy three percent of US are worried about prices
(11:41):
rising faster than our income. So it's so important to
employ savings tactics wherever you can save as much as
you can.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
For some of the everyday items that might be impacted.
How how can this audience of mind save on essentials
really until these trade deals get settled out with all
these other countries.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Sure, so employing savings tactics is something that you need
to do. You've probably heard me talk about it at
nauseum to the past dozen years. But now it's time
to get serious. So you want to take advantage of
those big retail sale moments like we have July fourth
coming up, Amazon Prime Day, Black Friday in July sales,
so utilize those sale moments. Also, shop strategically with your
(12:25):
credit cards so you're earning points or miles that can
be applied to future things later, and then take advantage
of your memberships as well. So for example, if you're
an ARP member, you can get discounts do on all
sorts of things like a Walmart plus membership, ex on
mobile rewards, Avis, rental car, consumer cellular. So make sure
you're using all of these things combined to save as
(12:46):
much as possible.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
I actually took advantage of my AARP membership or not ARP.
It was triple A actually for me. That got me
a better deal on a hotel room I needed last
weekend for a baseball tournament. So yeah, even every dime
I can, that's for sure, Trey Bodger.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
And everyone really needs to right now.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Yeah, Trey Bodge on fifty plus here. Is there real
impact from tariff's on groceries.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Absolutely so. A surprising number of groceries are imported. So
think about avocados, some tomatoes, coffee, wine. Those are things
that are coming from other places, and that's where we're
seeing some of these price hikes with tariffs. Now, some
retailers are announcing the price hikes and others are just
quietly ticking those prices up. So it's so important to
(13:33):
look for sale. Joy loyalty programs by store brands, things like.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
That when you're grocery shopping.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
And for my fifty plus folks here Trey. How about medications, Yeah, medications.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
If you're being prescribed something new, definitely ask for your
doctor to prescribe the generic if it's available. That can
be a great way to save. And then you can
use your ARP membership to save on some prescriptions. Go
to a bigger box retailer like Walmart has discounts on prescriptions,
as does Costco. So there are ways to save on prescriptions.
(14:09):
It takes a little bit of work, but worth it,
especially if you're taking a medication regularly.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Sure, it's summertime too, and lots of people are wondering
if thing afford a real vacation this year. Where are
some of the best domestic vacation deals right now?
Speaker 4 (14:24):
And so it really depends, of course, on where you listen.
My recommendation is a road trip. We have a big,
beautiful country out there and we should be taking advantage
of exploring it. It's a great way to save on
your destination. So what I like to do is approach
it with a couple destinations in mind, and I compare prices.
I look at what the flights are looking like with
the accommodations are looking like, and then make my decision
(14:49):
based on that.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
But I think a road trip is really the most.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Budget friendly approach, and I've found that road trips are
really fun budget way to explore a place nearby, but
not sack provise your vacation altogether.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Yeah, I think this country has so many things to
offer to vacationers, then a lot of us tend to
just fly right over some great places that we could
have driven to in an hour and a half or
two hours.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
I agree one hundred percent.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
I love to travel, and I love to travel internationally,
but I have just as much fun when I'm traveling
domestically as well.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
What is the trend for hotel prices around here?
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Oh, it's tricky, you know.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
It's funny because sometimes if you book far ahead, you
do really well. But then sometimes if you wait until
the last minute, you could use a service like hotel
tonight and see if you can save a little bit
at a last minute hotel. I typically find that vacation
rental properties are cheaper than a hotel, and then also
they offer a lot of flexibility.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
You have maybe multiple rooms, multiple bathrooms.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
You can cook in the kitchen, maybe one meal a day,
so you're not eating out three times a day. So
that's the approach that I like to take when I'm
traveling with my family.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
So back to that tariff thing for a minute. What
bigger ticket items like TV's, appliances, furniture stuff like that,
What in those categories would be probably good to buy now?
And what should we maybe wait to buy until the
dust settles.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Yeah, so I would say all of it, So I
would really focus, though, of course, on the things that
you need. This is not time to panic buy. This
is time to look at your computer.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Is it operating fine? Then just leave it.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
If your washer dryer is kind of on the fritz,
it might be a good time to start looking for
deals because those prices could tick up depending on how
the China terror situation plays out. You know, as I
mentioned before, we've got July fourthcoming Amazon Prime Day, so
those will be some good opportunities to save and perhaps
avoid a higher and more aggressive price hike with those terraffs.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Personally, my wife and I took advantage of a Memorial
Day sale to buy a washer and dryer that we've
been wanting to get for a while. In timing, Yeah,
we saved probably three or four hundred dollars on each
one of them, so that was that was really nice back.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
To and the prices are probably more expensive now, so
your timing was really good.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Fingers crossed, I think yeah, I think we did pretty
well with this. What about phones? Everybody needs a cell
phone these days, despite everybody in my audience probably reaching
adulthood and raising families without them. Are there ways we
can keep that build down?
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (17:22):
I mean cell phones are a kind of new expense
if you think about it.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
You know, in the past decade or so.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
And now everyone in the family has one in their hand,
and it's expensive.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
And so a mistake that a lot of.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Consumers make is only looking at the big three carriers,
and you know they're worth a look, But I would
also look at smaller carriers as well, like Consumer Cellular
for example, they have really good deals right now, take
a look and see if you can find some flexibility
with pricing. And then also look at family plans versus
individual plans. Typically the family plan is less expensive. And
(17:54):
then lastly, with those phones, you do not need to
upgrade every time there's a new iPhone.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
I think we're kind of in this cycle now.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Which is it makes me cringe because these devices are
so expensive, and you know, sometimes a carrier might say,
you know, free upgrade, but no, you're getting that upgrade.
You're locking into two years and then you're paying that
device off for the next two years. So try to
make your phone last longer. These are really powerful, great machines.
Let them go for a while before you upgrade.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
I won't say who had happened with, but my son
and I got burned. Well I'm the one who got
burned because I had to pay for it. My son
and I got burned on a deal about three years ago,
and all of a sudden, my wife says, what's this
expense right here? And we had been paying on something
that we were told wouldn't be charged, paying like twenty
(18:44):
five bucks a month, and I guess they just didn't
think we'd look at it and see it. But they
had that charge on there for I think almost two
and a half years and we weren't.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
So Oh my gosh, that you bring up such a
good point. It is so important.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Every month just to look at your statements, because you know,
now that we're paying online automatically, maybe we're not paying attention.
You know, every single month, just quickly scroll through and
make sure I have discovered surprising things like that.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
And you know, you kick yourself if.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
You've waited months, years, and it's hard to get that
money back once it happened. So just do a quick
scroll every single month. Get in the habit, Trey Bude.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
You no better advice from anybody more qualified to give
it her website, True Trey t r u E t
r a e dot com. I hope I got that right,
didn't I you did?
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Thank you, Thank you Tray. It's been a pleasure.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Thank you so much. Always have a great day, you bet, Bobby.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Yeah. True Tray dot com t r u E t
r a e dot com. There's a ton of money
saving advice on that site. You t house Institute on
aging may not save you a ton of money, but
what they will do is save you some time on
this earth. They'll I'll help keep you healthier, They'll make
you stronger, make you like waking up in the morning,
(20:03):
all of these things. Anything that's bothering you really medically,
and I mean anything. There's somebody at ut Health Institute
on Aging, who knows exactly how to apply their medical
knowledge specifically to you, to a senior and that's a
huge difference. That's a huge benefit to us to have
that available to us right here in town. Most of
(20:25):
those providers are in the medical center, as I've said
so many times, but also many of them spend time
in outlying communities all around here, at hospitals, at clinics,
at offices, and they see patients where they want to
be seen, which is closer to home. A lot of
people don't like driving into the medical center. I understand
that it's busy, it's crazy, and if you're older and slower,
(20:46):
you don't want to mess with that, and you might
want to you might not go there, and you don't
need to to see providers from the Institute on Aging.
That's what I'm trying to get to. Go to that website.
Take a look around ut dot edu slash aging, ut
dot ed u slash aging Aged to Perfection. This is
(21:09):
fifty plus with Doug Pike poor did the band fall
off the bridge? Will? I took him even to get
a chance to say hello? That's fine? Is it? Hell?
Speaker 1 (21:22):
For?
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Who?
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Me?
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Always thinking to yourself will of course. Okay, let's go
to La shall we from hopping from desk to desk,
and then at some point when I get there, we'll
also go all the way up to Pennsylvania where the
US Open is ongoing, and I well, i'll tell you
(21:45):
that real quick. I got a call from Billy ray
Brown last night about nine thirty. If you're unfamiliar with him,
he played in US Opens, he won a few tournaments
on the PGA Tour. He's working right now for the
TV network. I can't remember which one, but he's up
there and he covers a ton of events for TV now.
(22:06):
And he's also a member of the Texas Golf Hall
of Fame, which I don't know if you've heard one
of their PSAs that we're running on our stations, But
I'm happy for that whole Hall of Fame, and I'm
going to talk to it's executive director, Ali Jarrett. I'm
hoping to get her this weekend over on KBM and
trying to get Billy ray He said he would call
(22:27):
me probably Friday night once he gets his weekend schedule,
and then we'll try to figure out a time that
we can talk on the air. About what's going on
at Oakmont, which is that it's just staggeringly difficult. And
the last time I looked out of about I want
to say, seventy five or eighty guys on the golf course,
(22:48):
only I think fourteen or fifteen of them were it
even par or better. Everybody else was in the plus column.
And it wouldn't surprise me if the plus column is
is where the winner winds up after four days up there.
It's just absolutely brutal. The rof is something that Billy
(23:08):
Ray walked with Shane Lowry and ry McElroy yesterday for
a long time going around in a practice round, and
he said, Billy Ray said he'd never seen anything that
difficult the way it's set up. Rory said he'd never
seen anything that difficult, and it was just staggering. There's
(23:29):
so much going on there. There's a three hundred yard
par three there is. I made some little notes here.
What else is different about it. The roof is supposed
to be cut at five inches, but it's and that's bluegrass.
It's impossibly thick. Greens are rolling fourteen plus on the
stemp meter if you know what that is. It's basically
(23:50):
like putting on asphalt or no, not even that slow,
like putting on a linoleum floor. There's a half a
dozen t shots where they can't even see the landing area.
And last I looked, the course is making a mess
of the world's best players. They'll adapt, they'll they'll figure
(24:10):
out what they can. And several players are actually under
par on this first round, and more power to him.
JJ Spawn was four under last I looked, and he
was close to finished when that was. So if he
got through there at four man, he's he's already got
a full advantage. But I don't think that JJ Spawn's
(24:31):
gonna win that tournament. And it's I think that if
he could just maintain four under par for four days,
he might have a pretty good shot. He just might
have a pretty good shot. So anyway, let me go
back to Los Angeles while I've got a little time here.
Formerly a very cool city too, I've been out there
a few times and loved it every time i've been
(24:51):
out there. Now it's devolved into a city where, like
so many places in the country, where right is wrong
and wrong is right, and its leaders have allowed it
to burn quite literally and then taking the side of
law breakers over honest, hardworking Americans. That really bothers me.
The things that cities mayor and Governor Newsom have said
(25:13):
are disturbing should be any way to anybody who stands
on the side of law enforcement and law and order
in our country. That mayor what is her name, I
can't recall, it doesn't matter, actually called for the citizens
of LA to come together and clean up the city
because there are only a year out from the World
Cup after all. Well, here's a newsflash, Mayor, if you
(25:36):
had either a not tolerated all of that burning, not
tolerated all that painting, not tolerated all the looting and
broken windows and all of that, if you had not
tolerated that stuff, there wouldn't be anything to clean up.
To their credit, San Antonio had protests yesterday. Nothing got broken,
(25:58):
nothing got burned, nobody got hurt. That's how it's supposed
to be peaceful protest. And they just they made a
mess of it all over there. And now they want
they want the good citizens of LA to rally and
come clean up what the bad citizens did. And most
of those people who were doing all that damage, by
the way, not from La. They flew in they they
(26:21):
got busted in. They got paid to be there and
cause as much trouble as they could. Also, I saw
a story about there were two white protesters who blocked
the road. Two women. White women blocked the road and
would not let a black woman on her way to
work pass. They wouldn't let her through. They were shouting
(26:41):
about how ice doing this, Ice doing that, Ice is
taking kids away from their parents. And the woman trying
to get to work, So what about my kids if
I lose my job, what happens to them? You know
what she was told by those two. I can't help
you with that. An American choosing illegal immigrants over another American.
(27:03):
That's how far off center that that argument is. I'm
done with California. I'll welcome any California who wants to
move here and become a traditional Texan. Leave your California
stuff at the border. Okay, we'll take you bass fish
and we'll take you to a rodeo. Just leave all
that California behind you. Get a fresh start, a little
(27:25):
common sense, no state income taxes too good reason to
move right there? Two among about probably one hundred I
don't know or more. Uh, where do you want to go, Will,
let's go to the easy stuff, the light stuff, the
softer stuff. And by the way, I've got a what's
in the attic thing for later, Will that you won't
believe what somebody found in their attic and it was
found twenty five years ago. I mean, guess it, will.
(27:48):
It ended up being worth two point five million dollars.
It's worth a lot of money. I'll just tell you that,
of course it is. Yeah, that's what.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Now?
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Then? Yeah? Yeah, but they're interesting and there's nothing in
my attic worth this much money, I guarantee you. So
a painting that was found. This comes from the Good
News Network, which where there's all kinds of cool stuff
found in the dusty attic of a Connecticut barn twenty
five years ago. So this thing, I bet you got
passed it. The parents found it. The older parents found
(28:22):
it twenty five years ago and thought, yeah, we ought
to do so with that someday, and they just left
it there. And they left it there, and they left
it there, and they passed away or moved on, moved
to a senior living facility or whatever, and the kids
come in and take over the house in the barn
and lo and behold they find it, and then you know,
this might be worth a little money. Let's check it out. Well,
(28:42):
they got it professionally cleaned, and it turned out to
have been painted by a lesser known Dutch master, a
guy named Franz Post. He painted that portrait or that
not a portrait but a landscape in the year sixteen sixty.
And how much was it worth? Will three point seven
(29:08):
million or so? So uneducated in fine art. When the
gl Gabble fell at Sotheby's recently, the selling price was
seven million dollars. You're gonna go check your parents at it? No,
you might want to. You don't know what's up there?
Will do? They have a barn?
Speaker 4 (29:27):
No?
Speaker 2 (29:28):
You know. I got a good friend, a guy named
Rick Bice, who has a barn, and he's got so
much stuff in there. There's bound to be something in
there that's worth seven million dollars and he doesn't even
know about it. He's got some sons that'll probably go
through it someday, and and they're both really good kids too,
And whatever they find out there, they deserve, and they're
gonna find some good stuff because Rick's a pretty savvy
(29:50):
collector of all kinds. He's got large numbers of all
kinds of things. Oh, we gotta go, don't we. Let's
take a little break here, shall we. Let me tell
you about champ tree preservation. All this rain we've gotten,
there's been some wind. If you drive through a lot
of neighborhoods, you're gonna see at least some little limbs
(30:11):
falling out of trees, and maybe some pretty big ones.
And occasionally, I was told this morning there have been
some whole trees knocked over by these recent storms. And
with the wind gets the wind gets going, the ground
gets soft, and things that were things that happened to
your trees six months, a year, a year and a
(30:31):
half ago, start to rear their ugly heads. The roots
supports them, root systems get compromised, and all of a sudden,
you've got a tree that looks pretty up on top,
but it doesn't have the support underground to hold that
big giant trunk and all those limbs and all those
leaves up. Wind comes along, ground gets a little wet
(30:54):
because it rains all day, and down comes the tree,
maybe in your yard, maybe on your maybe on the
neighbor's house. That's even worse. And if you don't want
that to happen. I strongly recommend while it's still early
in the season to get Champion Tree Preservation out there
and let them assess your trees to make sure that
(31:15):
they don't need anything. If they need a little TLC,
Champion Tree will take care of that. If they need
limbs removed, they can take care of that. If they
need to come out, they'll do that as well. Their
arbists are going to make the decisions, help you figure
out what needs to be done with those trees, and
then they can get somebody there quickly to do the
work because they own all their own equipment. Whatever you
(31:38):
can do to a tree, whatever equipment it takes, they
own it. It's on their lot and they also have
a tree farm. By the way, if you need to
replace a tree, they can help you with that as well.
Good people. I've been talking to them now and I'm
really happy to have them on board. Call for a consultation,
not gonna cost you a dime. Two eight one three
two zero eighty two oh one to eight one three
(32:01):
two zero eighty two oh one, or go to the
website championstree dot com. That's championstree dot com. Old guy's rule.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
And of course women never get old if you want
to avoid sleeping on the couch.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Okay, well, I think that sounds like a good plan.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Fifty plus continues.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Here's more with Doug. I do appreciate it, you know,
I do. On even rainy day, sunny day, I don't
care if you're listening to this program. I greatly appreciate it.
By the way, neglected to mention when I was talking
about Optimi Iron Doors, they've got a big summer sale
going on. All this talk about tariffs we had with
Trey Bodge and a lot of companies are already raising
(32:44):
their prices because of what they see as a potential
issue with iron and steel and aluminum and other metals. Well,
Optimm Iron Doors didn't raise their prices at all. And
on top of that, there's summer sale which runs through
July takes additional money off that price. So if you
want to stay ahead of that iron door curve Optima
(33:08):
iron Doors dot Com, just go there. The day that
terrif issue was announced, I think it was last week,
Jason told me he had two people come to the
showroom that morning and just say, okay, we're ready. We
don't want to wait around another minute. Just go ahead
and let's get this done. So if you're thinking about it,
(33:31):
you don't have to think about it anymore. Just going
over there at North Post Oak Optima iron Doors dot Com.
The showroom's great. They're good people, they'll take care of you.
I got one of their doors on my house too.
I didn't get an iron door. I got a wood door,
big old, tall, beautiful wood door. We love it. My
wife and I do all right. From the medical desk,
I'll I'll save some fun stuff for later. Medical desks.
(33:55):
Scientists have identified a new way that certain cancer cells
sustain themselves. And even better, it's already been determined that
a ginger derived molecule, just something from a ginger root,
shuts down the ability of those cells to survive and thrive.
(34:15):
It disrupts something. It's way way over my pay grade,
but what it does is just shut down that cancer.
This research is still very much in its infancy, but
the early indications hold tremendous progress for some cancers that
we're dealing with. Still, I wish I could someday tell
(34:37):
you that they were all taken care of, but not yet,
not yet. Maybe you and I maybe some of us
at least will live long enough to see the disappearance
of cancer. Uh, that's a that's a big ask. Let's
just let's just get rid of some of the easier
stuff first. I suppose today today, by the way, will
(34:59):
is national. Let me see if it's up here World
Day against Child Labor Russia Day. No, we're not gonna
do that. One Philippines Independence Day, and that's all they
have on the screen here. I happen to know also
that it is National Jerky Day. Will National Jerky Day?
(35:21):
And you, Oh, you don't eat that, do you? We
already talked about that. I mean, I all eat it.
Sometimes I gotta have flaws. I got some jerky, a
little sample of jerky, said to me the other day
that had a little one of those little brush slash
flass things, a little device that you could brush or
(35:43):
not brush them, but there was a little like a
brush that you could stick between your teeth, and then
one of those little flass things that's pinned between about
a half inch apart, just enough to get in there
between your teeth and get all that stuff out of there.
You know, if you leave it there, you can just
be eating jerky all day. Really can't just can't slurp
(36:03):
it on out. I don't like that. I don't like
that's so nasty. I'm so sorry. I apologize. All right, Well,
got gas? What's the buzz or I'll drink to that.
I'll drink to that. Coffee officially the most important drink
in America. Number one beverage that Americans can't live without.
(36:26):
But if you just talk about taste now, and most
of the people who say they can't live without coffee
say it's because of the buzz they get the caffeine rush.
If you're talking about taste, coffee falls off. Fifty three
percent of people say that soft drinks are their favorites.
And to establish that this was this survey was done
(36:50):
by somebody who lives up north. They didn't say soft drinks.
They said soda, which we don't say. I found out
something the other day too. What are you talking about?
What don't say soda? Its soft drinks? Is what they're called.
Will and my generation, that's my generation. Will. Okay, let
me ask you this. When you when you're thirsty and
(37:12):
you're say outside somewhere and you you really it's hot
and you want something you want to just wet your whistle.
What are you looking for? Probably water? Yeah, at where
and just out there if they were presuming it's clean
and available. A water fountain, right, sure? In Minnesota. What
(37:32):
do they call that? A soda fountain? No, a pop found.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
No, this is.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
Something I didn't know until like maybe six months ago. Okay,
A bubbler, that's what they call it. So bubbler. Well,
it's just different. What makes the world go around? Will,
that's all. It's nothing, nothing earth shattering, nothing that cures
or or finishes anything. Really, But you would call it
(37:59):
a so to fountain if you were getting some soda.
That's not a soft drink fountain. I would go to
the soda fountain to get a soft drink. Yes, I would.
I would, Well, I swear I would.
Speaker 4 (38:13):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
There's more hydrogen will in a gallon of gasoline than
in a gallon of liquid hydrogen. I'll let you figure
that out for us tomorrow. I want a full report
on that. Use AI if you need to. All right,
we gotta go. We'll be back tomorrow to wrap up
the week. Thank you all for listening. Audios
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