May 7, 2025 • 38 mins
Today, Doug Pike interviews Dr. Robert Roush about the perils of scamming.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:01):
Remember whether 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 3 (00:20):
Well, this show is all about you. This is fifty
plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Helpful information on your finances, good health, and what to
do for fun. Fifty plus brought to you by the
UT Health Houston Institute on Aging Informed Decisions for a healthier,
happier life.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
And now fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, here
we go, my goodness, Wednesday, middle of the week. Will
and don't. I don't want anybody. I love the Astros
as much as anybody else, but hey, give us a chance.
Here we have some good stuff coming up, and I
will and I we're just talking about this. I thought
the game was starting at one to ten, he says.
(01:02):
It starts at twelve ten. So I'm just I'm I'm
giving you the option, but I'm hoping you'll hang around
because in the first hour of the game, they're not
gonna lose and they're not gonna win. After the show,
you can join it in progress over on kbmme and here.
The rest of the game which is the that'll include
(01:25):
the end of it, which we'll when we'll find out
whether they won or lost. By the way, they're seventeen
and seventeen, now, will they're kind of in a seventeen
and eighteen. Oh oh, that's right after yesterday's game. Yeah,
they're blow five hundred again. That is so sad. And
with the pitching we have, if we had anything resembling
well that yeah, I don't remember when we've gotten off
(01:47):
to this bad start in a long time. I know
we have, but man, oh man, the bats absolutely positively
have to heat up. I don't care who gets the hits.
I don't don't care if they all get one hit.
I don't care if half of them get two hits.
But they got to score runs, and enough enough of
(02:09):
the astros they'll take care of business. I hope. Sunday,
by the way, is Mother's Day. I'm just saying, for
those of us who have lost our moms and my
hands in the air, try to try to take a
little time that day to just remember the good stuff
about how you got raised, about how you managed or
(02:31):
she managed to get you as far as you've gotten
wherever that is in life today you're still here, you're
still ticking, and if it weren't for your mother, none
of that would have happened. So all the good things
that have happened in your life, even if you've had
some bad things, and most of us have, but all
of those good things couldn't have happened without your mom.
So just pay a little tribute as best you can.
(02:55):
We have plowed through our bad weather. I think that
absolutely drenched the upper coast yesterday evening and this morning,
and I hope that's the end of it for a while.
I really do. I ran the Weather Channel's twenty four
hour radar forecast a little while ago, and outside of
a slight chance for light rain this afternoon south of
(03:17):
I ten narrows it down pretty good. We look okay,
we really do. I was actually shocked this morning, walked
out the door after listening to thunder the whole time
I got ready for work and expected it to just
be a miserable morning. I walk out there, pati on
driveway almost completely dry. It poured early last night. There
(03:39):
almost had to have been a lot of wind overnight
to dry up the yard in the driveway. I would
have never known it rained, but for a few damp
spots out there along the eve of the roof, where
little droplets had fallen off during the rest of the night.
My friends, who played black Hawk all the time, trade
emails this morning to let each another other each other
(04:00):
know that the course wasn't even cart pass only today
and after all the the atmospheric disturbance yesterday evening and
through the night. I would have I would have bet
you'd had that had needed a canoe to get down
one of the fairways. Uh, this is it. Welcome to springtime.
If you're over here, you need an umbrella and rubber boots.
(04:22):
If you're over there, you need sunscreen and sunglasses. Speaking of,
I've misplaced a pair of very nice sunglasses, my favorites,
and I honestly don't know where they are right now,
and it's kind of bothering me a little bit. I
want to think that they're at the house in one
place that I haven't still checked. And if they're not there,
I'm not sure where they're gonna be. Oh and by
(04:45):
the way, no matter whether you're here or there, you're
gonna need mosquito spray. Moving on Market's mostly up gold
and oiled down a little and enough of that now,
will if you've got that up there, how am I
gonna know what time? It is? All informed? Will you?
Will you please do and give me I got a
one minute. When it's down to one minute, then let
(05:08):
me know otherwise it's all good. Well we got three
right now? Yeah, I know, well I know that because
I'm looking at my own personal clock, and that's what
it says. Let me see, I'll get the big one
up here so I can see it a little better.
Twelve ten, it says here on May the seventh, from
the hmm, where do I want to go? From the
let's talk desk in the White House, President Trump said
(05:29):
to be in negotiation with the African nation of Rwanda
about taking in illegal immigrants being deported from the US
for various reasons, mostly because they because they've committed crimes,
depending on which crime, depending on what people And make
no mistake that it's going to take quite some time
just to eject people who've committed violent crimes while they've
(05:52):
been here illegally. The past administration let millions of people
come here, and several countries saw Biden's open border as
a way to shed their their prisons and other places
where bad people were kept of burdens of having to
feed and house those people. Hopefully this deal can be
(06:15):
struck so that we have a place to send all
the criminals Rwanda's willing to take. And I hope they've
got plenty of room at the end over there, because
we've got a lot of people to ship out of
here before we can feel a little bit more comfortable.
And make no mistake, I saw a story today about
President Trump wanting to turn Alcatraz back into a prison.
(06:39):
It's not just I'm not gonna, I'm not anywhere near
saying it's only illegal immigrants committing crimes, because we have
plenty of that going on. Just a little while ago,
I got a story from where was it from, I
can't remember exactly, about a woman who was robbed at
gunpoint at a local garden center here in town. Turned
her back for a few and before she knew it,
(07:01):
somebody had come up, threatened her and stolen her purse
and everything in at perst, phone, keys, wallet, credit cards,
all of that stuff. Bam, just like that. Who knows
who did that, but whoever it is is a criminal.
If there are criminals, fine tho them. In Alcatraz though.
The worst ones in Alcatraz, that's the plan. The most
dangerous Americans in America will be there, and the ones
(07:26):
that we can deport, we will. I think that's a
pretty darn good idea. I'm down to seconds, right, Will,
thirty seconds, you know what, I'm gonna leave early and
talk about ut Health Institute on Aging. It give me
a little bit more time for them. It's an amazing collaborative.
Providers from every medical discipline you can name are part
(07:46):
of this organization, part of this collaborative, and what they
do is get additional training on top of whatever it
was it got them out of med school or out
of therapy school or training school, whatever, and learn to
apply it specifically to seniors because we are different. I'm
(08:07):
way different than Will. Will's way different than me, and
Will and I are both different from my teenage son.
Everybody's different in age groups, and seniors especially have special
issues that need to be addressed. From that perspective, that's
what you get from the Institute on Aging. Go to
their website, it's ed ut H dot ed u slash aging.
(08:31):
Look around there at all the resources first, and then
work on finding your way to a provider who can
help you get over whatever medical homp you're on right now.
And they're mostly in the medical center, no doubt about it.
That's where they belong, but most of them also do
a lot of work in outlying hospitals and clinics and
offices and whatnot, all the way from Kingwood and the
(08:53):
Woodlands down to Pearland and sugar Land and Katie and
everything east to here as well. Ut H dot ed
U slash aging, ut H dot edu slash aging.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Once life without a net, I suggest you go to bed,
sleep it off.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Just wait until the show's over. Sleepy. Back to Doug Pike,
as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Fifty plus, thanks for listening. Certainly do appreciate it. We'll
talk in this segment about something that impacts more seniors
that are willing to talk about it, and that is
financial exploitation senors. Seniors tend to be fairly easy targets
for scammers, and once they're scammed, seniors also tend to
feel kind of embarrassed or ashamed that they've been taken.
(09:39):
I no fooling. I told Will just a minute ago,
right as I sat in here to get ready for
the show. I got a scam text from somebody telling
me that they were from a collections agency and whatever,
and I just report spam and moved on. I know better,
but a lot of people don't. They might have may
might have fallen for that and opened up a can
(09:59):
of worms they couldn't close. So with that, I'm going
to bring in doctor Robert Rausch, Professor of geriatric at
Baylor College of Medicine, man who's worked for years to
help people who've become victims of scams get past that.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Welcome aboard, Doc, Well glad to be here, mister Pike.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
I have enjoyed your show in the past and looking
forward to participating today and hopefully shed some light on
what we can all do to protect ourselves. I'm not
surprised that you got a text this morning.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
I'm so I'm only surprised I didn't get two or three.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
My wife called me not yesterday I was at cardiac
rehab session of old things, said that she'd got the
text that PayPal was reporting that I'd spent eight hundred
and forty five dollars at a Walmart.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Oh my gosh, No.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
You didn't do that. I want you to call that number.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Oh, call that number and see what they can do
for you. Huh So right off the top, right off
the top of your dog. So we can shock this
audience talk about how much money seniors lose to fraud
every year more well.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
I was shocked when I did my latest update on this.
Back in twenty eleven or so, the MetLife Foundation had
reported a measly three point five billion dollars lost to
fraud by elders. The AARP just recently published a statistic
(11:36):
of sixty one point five billion dollars. Oh my gosh,
that's of elders into the pockets of the scammers.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
And it's just it is a crime.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
It's widespread, and you're right about people being embarrassed to
call and report that they've been scammed. It's understandable. It's
really something what we've tried to do a medical school
at Baylor and is to try to help all the
people who work with older people. Is in healthcare, and
(12:10):
then beyond that, anchors and attorneys and clergy, anybody needs
to know what are some of the red flags for
what causes people to lose this kind of money. Amount
of money and the significance of it is simply this,
If an older person losing enough money to warrant having
(12:32):
to make a decision to pay for routine living costs,
shelter and utilities and all that food versus or in
addition to the out of pocket health care costs most
of it. If you ever figured out how much you
spent out of pocket over and above what's your insurance
covers for health care? If they forego needed health care,
(12:56):
a frail elder can spiral down so fast that anisians
need to add this to their problem list. And when
they interview, when they see their patients for routine visits,
you know, how's your money going? Anybody asks you to change,
you will, you know there's something like.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
That which sure never been talked to.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
Those types of things because it's kind of infringing on
our privacy and personal liberty and things like that. But
I tell you, in this day and age, you got
to be you got to be careful.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Any advocate you can get, whether it's your doctor, your trainer,
your nurse practitioner, your friendly neighborhood banker, anybody who can
act on your behalf and keep you from getting scammed
is a valuable asset. Talk about some of the things
these scammers use. Some of the most current scams that
are out there now, doc.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
The most recent one is the use of AI.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
We all, we're all wowed by.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
The power of generative artificial intelligence and what it can
do in health, but anything good can also be put
to for a bad purpose. And any if anybody were
recording our voices on this radio program and turned it
into they could make me sound like I'm asking for
(14:19):
money if I call you know, a friend or stuff
like that.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
That's so right, like that, it really.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
Is, it is, it really really is. And then of
course the usual fishing, all that stuff that we get
on our emails and our text messages. They want you
to contact them, and then it goes back as far
as the old romance scams. I'm telling you, I wish
(14:47):
every American could have seen the testimony that Mickey Rooney
gave before the Senate Aging Committee in twenty eleven about
I he was at one time he was the highest
paid movie star in the world. He and here he
was in his latter years being scammed by his own family,
mainly a good for nothing grandson. It was just horrible.
(15:13):
So if it can happen to people like him. It
can happen to anybody, and it just goes to show you.
I first got started this in two thousand and six
and seven, having read a piece in the AARP Bulletin,
which by the way, I highly recommend people read as
frequently as they come out because they have a great
(15:34):
fraud watch segment now that they didn't have then. But
the sitting Commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission a
guy named Christopher Cox, who had been a member of
the House of Representatives. He was the first chairman of
the Department of Homeland Security. He later became He was
an attorney in the White House under Ronald Reagan, and
(15:58):
he wrote about how unscrupuloss financial advisors had swindled his
elderly parents at both in their early nineties, out of
nearly all of their life savings, using at the time
almost a legal, you know, thing of buying and selling
stocks and bonds almost on a daily basis, and taking
(16:20):
his commission regardless of money.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Wow, So if you add that up, you can go
through a million dollars real fast.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
And that's what happened.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
And so the thought occurred to me, if that could
happen to the parents of the securities in exchange. Yeah yeah,
portraying the lawyer and the experienced person. They could happen
to anybody, and so anyhow, we always need to be
aware of what happens to us over the life course.
And one of the most significant ones is in some
(16:55):
people developed by a cognitive impairment. They can do almost
everything they used to could do well, then go to
the opera and then go play golf and go ahead,
dinner with friends, drive everything, but they make four times
the financial errors and those piece persons without. And so
we just all need to be aware of what's happening
to us and and talk about it.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Actually, only the.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
Two best words I could give to anybody h to
help protect themselves is to this be rude.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
And hang up. Yeah, hang up A good point.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
Those so on calls come in, just hang up. You
don't need to tell them I'm so sorry, I don't
have time to.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
Talk well, and the more you say, the more potential
they could use that against you. With AI. The best
thing I answered the phone with a kind of a
weird voice, and so if if they copied that voice,
nobody's going to get any money out of me. Uh,
right at the end. We're almost out of time. Dot
really very quickly explain how important it is if you
(17:58):
do get scammed to report it so that we can
go try to catch these people.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
Absolutely, and I'll leave this number with the AARP Fraud
Watch National work. The number is eight seven seven nine
zero eight three three six zero. They have free trained
specialists that'll help you the best they can. Personally know
Amy Nosinger, who's a great medical social worker who runs
(18:24):
that thing, and so I highly recommend the ARP Fraud Watch.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
Thank you so very much, Doctor Relsh. I really do appreciate.
I'm afraid we're out of time, my friend. We'll do
it again, though, I'd like to thank you so much.
All right, yes, sir, oh okay, all right, we gotta
take a little break here. We kind of ran short
on time. I would like to bring that one back
up again. It's a good one. A late health also
(18:49):
a good one. If you need anything that can be
done at a vascular clinic, that's where you need to go.
I've been speaking for doctor Doe and his associates for
many years now, and I'm happy to continue doing so.
The most common procedure they do there is called prostate
artery embolization, and as implied it, it's for men men
who have the symptoms of an enlarged, non cancerous prostate,
(19:13):
and boyn't that a terrible mess. If you have the symptoms,
you know the symptoms, and if you don't have them
by the time you get fifty five sixty, you might
be feeling them. Hopefully not, but it could happen. They
also do veins, ugly veins on your legs or wherever
they are on your body. They can make those go
away fibroids and women, even some head pains can be
(19:34):
alleviated with vascular procedures, all of which are done in
the office. You don't have to worry about going to
the hospital and bringing home something you didn't have when
you got there. They allow you to use Medicare and Medicaid.
Most of what they do is covered by that, and
you're only going to be there for a couple hours.
You'll need somebody to drive you home, but after that
you're going to go home and recover in a place
(19:56):
where you know you're comfortable and you know you're safe.
Three five, eight, eight, thirty eight eighty eight. They also
do regenerative medicine. By the way, that's very helpful with
chronic pain. Seven to one, three five, eight, eight, thirty
eight eighty eight dawn.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
They sure don't make them like they used to.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
That's why every few months we wash him, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike h right, welcome back to
fifty plus.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
This just end for those of you who have loyally
stayed aboard the good ship fifty plus. The Astros are
leading under the excellent pitching from from ber Bell Doz
and thanks to one run, somebody hit a double and scored.
Whoever was I think it was maybe Diz who scored
(20:46):
from first? I don't remember Myers. What was Myers who scored?
And then who hit the I If you don't know
the answers, I don't just jump in there and give
me happy.
Speaker 6 (20:59):
I knew that Meyers scored. He's scored from first off
a double.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Oh and just like that, we got Brewers on first
and second with one out. I'm gonna turn away from
that and get back to what I'm doing here, oh quick.
And something I messed up yesterday on Berry Hill when
I was talking about them and all the delicious Mexican
food they serve up every single day in sugar Land.
I mistakenly said go to Berryhillgrill dot com. That is
(21:25):
not right now. If you want to go find all
that delicious Mexican food, and it probably would pop up
at some point, but just the direct line, the direct
email is berry Hill sugar Land dot com. Why I
didn't do that, Well, usually I don't use the website.
I have them on in my saved phone numbers in
(21:45):
my phone, so I don't really have to look them
up very often. I kind of know the menu pretty well,
and I know the number. I know how to get
to the number. I don't have it. I don't have
it memorized. I remember more friends high school numbers. Then
I do the numbers of people I'm in contact with
almost daily around here. I could not tell you any
(22:07):
of their numbers because I don't ever have to dial them.
I just find the name and run it up from
the I sure hope not desk. Well, you'll find this amusing.
Probably comes word that left handed people may be slightly
more prone to suffer from a few specific mental disorders
(22:28):
than right handed people. I'm left handed why are you smiling?
You got to kick out of that, did you. It's funny,
it's kind of funny. So far, so good, So far,
so good. But oh there we go. Oh that's what
we needed to get out of that ending a double play,
and we got it. Thank you, Capper for grounding out
(22:49):
the third. Uh. Yeah, I'm left handed. I know a
lot of other people who are left handed. Yeah, there's
a story I would tell, but I'm not gonna about
being left handed.
Speaker 6 (23:03):
How much time do I have? Well, oh, well we
are It is twelve thirty eight right now, so we
have seven minutes.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Good, okay, I just okay, Oh yeah, I see it.
I have my clock up in here. I'll tap that
phone and every now and then I'll just tap that
phone and that little clock will come up, and at
least i'll know the minutes from the watch what you Say,
Desk comes the story of ms NBC walking Back, a
statement that was made by a former FBI assistant director
(23:32):
who said during an episode I think it was on
Monday Morning Joe co hosted by a guy named Jonathan Lamar.
This guy goes in and talks about the current director
of the Bureau Cash but tell about how he's out
partying more than he's in the office, and it's it's
(23:52):
just chaotic, and on and on and on he went.
And then on Monday, I think it was Friday, he
said that. And then on Monday Lamaire walked back what
was said about Patel, calling it a misstatement that hadn't
been verified. This one actually doesn't surprise me at all.
The left of America American media has a long standing
(24:17):
habit of presenting a lie and looking straight into the
camera with a dead straight face and telling lies, and
then a day or week, or month or a year
two years later, depending on the size of the lie,
they'll come, oh, no, we were wrong about that. We
didn't know it at the time, but we were wrong
about that. Both those statements were true. Number one, you
(24:41):
were wrong about it. Number two, you did know about it.
In many of these cases, they knew dog on well
exactly what they were doing. And if they if all
of those media outlets are that gullible that they can
be told something by the left and will not go
research it themselves and will not when they find out
it's untrue expose the untruth, then that's on them, and
(25:05):
shame on every one of them too, honest to goodness,
It's just it's so frustrating. Usually they when they start
off one of these things, they'll let all the other
outlets in on the game so they can repeat the
same message, the same false message. But this story about
Patel apparently was even it wasn't even credible enough to
(25:26):
get picked up by anybody else. They just said, now,
we're not touching that. We know that's not true. We're
not touching it. Where do we go from here? Will?
We'll go to some of the little short fun things
that I had in store both yesterday and today and
the day before. I always have more than I need,
which is what you need when you're gonna try to
(25:47):
do a talk show. If you ever aspire to do this,
you've got to prepare for about twice as much time
as you're actually gonna have. That's the only way to
be comfortable knowing that you'll have plenty. Today. Will is
school nurse day. And if if you want back in
this studio, you're gonna have to bring a note from
your doctor. I want back in this studio. Uh, what else?
(26:10):
You're not at school? So I can't drop that one
on you. By the way well over, mind, I'm not
gonna worry about that thing. Uh. I'll give you three choices, will,
what's for dinner? Thumbs up? Or who are you? Who
are you? GSA says if you don't have a real
ID starting today, you need to be at the airport
(26:31):
at least three hours before departure. In other words, if
you have a flight at noon today, you needed to
be there last night. Is what they're trying to tell you. Really,
because whatever they tell you, it's gonna take twice as long.
I think my idea, I presume is right. I got
it last year and it's got the star on it.
I hope that's right. Are you familiar with all this, will?
(26:53):
I believe so. Yeah, your license also should have a
star on it, and that way you can move right
on through there. I think I'm going to try to
get one of the one of those free passes where
they go ahead and vet you beforehand and make sure
that you're an upstanding American citizen and that you are
you are free to move about the country without hindrance.
Speaker 6 (27:17):
You want one more, will, I saw a story the
other day about it was an old promotion. I think
that American airlines did where certain flyers could purchase this
kind of pass and it essentially allowed them to.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
Have free first class tickets anytime they wanted to go.
Speaker 6 (27:40):
So there was this person that got it, and from
I would say, like the nineteen eighties to the early
two thousands, this person essentially racked up about twenty one dollars.
Speaker 7 (27:55):
In flights and so they canceled. He just kept on going, Yeah,
and we gotta go, We gotta get out of here. Yeah,
speaking of going, all right, we'll tell you a little
break here. We'll be right back more fifty plus after.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
This old guys rule.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
And of course, women never get old if you want
to avoid sleeping on the couch.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Okay, well, I think that sounds like a good plan.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug. All right, welcome back,
fourth and final segment of the program starts right now.
Thank you all for listening. Despite the astros being on
over on seven ninety. You know, if you gotta go
watch the astros, I understand. I'm not gonna knock you
for it. I'm kind of leaning over it, and I'm
kind of looking side eye at the game myself in
(28:42):
the studio here because I'm just passionate about baseball, always
have been since I was I played my first year
of baseball at eight. There was no t ball, there
was no dad pitch, there was none of that. You
just you played in the street or in a sandlot
until you were eight and you were a pee wee,
(29:02):
and then at ten.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
You moved to Little League. And from the day I
first put on my first baseball uniform, I just fell
in love with the game and just never have stopped
loving it. I really I appreciate it. I've learned a
lot from some people who are really smart about baseball
over the years, and so I watch it with different
(29:24):
eyes than the casual fan. And there's just so much.
It's like chess multiplied by chess. There are so many decisions,
so many options with every move that goes on out there,
every single pitch, there are a thousand potential different outcomes,
maybe more, I don't know. There's one. Oh did we
walk him? I thought we'd struck him out. Oh, well,
(29:46):
so now they've got a base runner, but we've got
two outs on him. That's good. From the pick the
wrong poster boy desk comes wave after wave of evidence.
It just keeps piling off, piling up, as if we
didn't already have enough to show that Democrats who portray
this Abrego Garcia guy as a family man from Maryland
or pretty much one hundred and eighty degrees off what
(30:07):
he really is, and we, the taxpayers, by the way,
funded all these trips by politicians to go visit this
guy who's in prison in his home country and was
deemed by two federal judges here to be a member
of MS thirteen. They just keep saying, Oh, maybe he
might be. We're not really sure. He's just a family guy.
(30:29):
No he's not. But the Left just hasn't quite yet
given up on trying to bring him back here, which,
by the way, if you look around and you'll see
the stories about it, if somehow the man was successfully
brought back to the United States, that would only result
in him either being sent immediately back to El Salvador
(30:52):
or to another foreign country, because by US law, under
his current circumstance, though, would be the only two options available.
But they keep banging that tambourine for some reason. Will
I'm kind of gonna come back to you, then I'll
go back to the other stuff, and I'm gonna kind
of flippityflop, as they say in radio, what's for dinner?
(31:18):
Meaningless words or no way they got everyone? Meaningless words? Okay,
where did it go? There is the list of words
and phrases that are overused so much that they've become meaningless.
Will this is? This is? I agree with this one.
Unprecedented Every time you turn around, this is unprecedented. Well,
(31:44):
pretty much you could make that case for a lot
of things that happen longer than usual wait times. How
many times do you hear that?
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Now?
Speaker 4 (31:53):
When when you dial up the customer service line of
a company somewhere and what you're trying to do is
get just a little help for a little question, and
what they want to do is shake you off. They
want you to go to their website and let some
little AI operated chat bot try to help you with
your problem before they have to pay somebody to sit
(32:16):
there and talk to you on the phone. That happens
wait too much? Yeah, unusual weight times. That means we
don't want to talk to you. You know what? You
know where that's being used the most now where pharmacies
or you call them and ask them you want to
ask about something that's that only the pharmacists can answer
a question that only the pharma maybe a drug interaction
(32:38):
or something like that from the person who's been prescribed.
You know who's been dispensing the medicine. You've been prescribed
for years. We're expensing experiencing longer than usual weight times.
If you want to leave a message, somebody will get
back to you within an hour, or if you want
to go to our website, you can chat with an
(32:59):
I'll wrap this in quote live person. It's usually some
chatbot comes on and says, I'll have I'll take it
from here. We'll worry. You don't need to talk to
a person. I got this speaking of did you see
well the story I think it was yesterday about a
kind of a human like robot over in Japan in
some factory that just went postal on people, just went
(33:23):
after them and just was swinging, swinging dukes, little bot
dukes and everything, kung fu kicking and doing all kinds
of crazy stuff. Apparently I don't know exactly what it did,
but it just said it basically picked a fight with
the people working there. Now are you looking it up?
(33:44):
Are you doing something else? Are you looking it up?
Let's see don't ask me to go look for it again,
because I don't remember what. Well, what did it say
about that? It just said chatbot or this robot, this
human like robot in Japan just started beating up people
around him.
Speaker 6 (34:03):
You even like robot? Because I found something that said
that there was a claim that a robot killed twenty
nine people.
Speaker 4 (34:11):
Oh lord, no, no, that that was substrapulation. Yes, no,
this one just threw a few punches or something like that. No,
you would have already heard about it, and so would I.
If a robot had killed twenty people anywhere, I'm gonna
go back to No way they got everyone leave me alone?
(34:34):
Or thumbs up, thumbs up, thumbs up? Only eleven people,
Not eleven people. Only eleven percent of people, excuse me,
say they have hitchhiked ever and would do it again.
Will have you ever hitchhiked anywhere? I have, guest, never
hitch hiked now, Back when I was a younger man,
(34:56):
back in the covered wagon days, will we would? And
I say we my friends who were avid surfers, just
nuts for surfing, but too young to have cars. My
parents never knew about it. I think I finally told
them when I was a grown man, long sense removed
from the house, and all but a couple of friends
(35:18):
of mine and I and sometimes on our own, we
would just walk to the freeway and hitch a ride,
carrying a surfboard, a couple of bucks, and a bar
of whack, basically in a towel, and just hitchhike to
the beach and surf all day, and then about two
thirty or three o'clock you had to quit surfing and
(35:41):
find your way back to the roads. To find your
way back to well, you'd go up Beach Road and
then you'd go to two eighty eight, and then you'd
get a ride all the way back to where you'd started.
It was just crazy in modern thinking. Everybody you would
tell that today would think you were just absolutely nuts
(36:02):
and it's a miracle you were alive. But carrying a
surfboard actually worked in our favor because there were only
a couple of people who could pick you up if
you had a surfboard with you. That would be other surfers.
You know, if you get if a car stops and
they've got three surfboards on the top and three guys
in a car, yeah, I'll jump in with them. They're
(36:23):
gonna be okay if if it was some crazy looking
person in a pickup truck, you just hopped in the
back and when they say, hey, you want to ride
up front? Now, I'll stay back here with my board
and knock on wood. Nothing ever happened to any of us.
And we we did that more than a couple of times.
(36:44):
More than a couple of times. It was very interesting.
All Right, that's enough of that one will. Yeah, we
did that, and we did it a lot. Only eleven
percent of seventy three percent of people say they've never
they would never hitchhike these days, that ought to be
ninety nine percent and they're just one crazy person. But
ninety nine percent of people should be smart enough not
(37:06):
to hitchike anymore because you just don't know, You have
no idea, what's out there? How are we doing? About
a minute? Will we do? We have one minute? Last? Okay,
let's do this. Then I talked about Alcatraz. I'll leave
that alone. I've got so much we can talk about tomorrow,
from Aggie stuff to oh here's one. I'm not even
sure what to call this desk. Some website my source
(37:28):
called it a naughty website. So be prepared. This naughty
website rated the fifty states from least kinky to most kinky.
Will how many seconds do I have? You have thirty
five sacks perfect so you can play along. What do
you think was the number one state of the kinkiest
steakiest state in America? It should be right, it should
(37:49):
be right there in front of you. Yeah, Texas, No Nevada,
Las Vegas. You know, with all that crazyness goes up
Number two Colorado, number three Oregon, how is that happening?
And number four Texas? Not a podium finished, but apparently
there is a whole lot going on beneath the lone star,
(38:13):
beneath the covers too. Maybe after we finish our low
end senior plate and crawl into bed, that's it for now.
We'll see tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
Audios.
Remember whether 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 3 (00:20):
Well, this show is all about you. This is fifty
plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Helpful information on your finances, good health, and what to
do for fun. Fifty plus brought to you by the
UT Health Houston Institute on Aging Informed Decisions for a healthier,
happier life.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
And now fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, here
we go, my goodness, Wednesday, middle of the week. Will
and don't. I don't want anybody. I love the Astros
as much as anybody else, but hey, give us a chance.
Here we have some good stuff coming up, and I
will and I we're just talking about this. I thought
the game was starting at one to ten, he says.
(01:02):
It starts at twelve ten. So I'm just I'm I'm
giving you the option, but I'm hoping you'll hang around
because in the first hour of the game, they're not
gonna lose and they're not gonna win. After the show,
you can join it in progress over on kbmme and here.
The rest of the game which is the that'll include
(01:25):
the end of it, which we'll when we'll find out
whether they won or lost. By the way, they're seventeen
and seventeen, now, will they're kind of in a seventeen
and eighteen. Oh oh, that's right after yesterday's game. Yeah,
they're blow five hundred again. That is so sad. And
with the pitching we have, if we had anything resembling
well that yeah, I don't remember when we've gotten off
(01:47):
to this bad start in a long time. I know
we have, but man, oh man, the bats absolutely positively
have to heat up. I don't care who gets the hits.
I don't don't care if they all get one hit.
I don't care if half of them get two hits.
But they got to score runs, and enough enough of
(02:09):
the astros they'll take care of business. I hope. Sunday,
by the way, is Mother's Day. I'm just saying, for
those of us who have lost our moms and my
hands in the air, try to try to take a
little time that day to just remember the good stuff
about how you got raised, about how you managed or
(02:31):
she managed to get you as far as you've gotten
wherever that is in life today you're still here, you're
still ticking, and if it weren't for your mother, none
of that would have happened. So all the good things
that have happened in your life, even if you've had
some bad things, and most of us have, but all
of those good things couldn't have happened without your mom.
So just pay a little tribute as best you can.
(02:55):
We have plowed through our bad weather. I think that
absolutely drenched the upper coast yesterday evening and this morning,
and I hope that's the end of it for a while.
I really do. I ran the Weather Channel's twenty four
hour radar forecast a little while ago, and outside of
a slight chance for light rain this afternoon south of
(03:17):
I ten narrows it down pretty good. We look okay,
we really do. I was actually shocked this morning, walked
out the door after listening to thunder the whole time
I got ready for work and expected it to just
be a miserable morning. I walk out there, pati on
driveway almost completely dry. It poured early last night. There
(03:39):
almost had to have been a lot of wind overnight
to dry up the yard in the driveway. I would
have never known it rained, but for a few damp
spots out there along the eve of the roof, where
little droplets had fallen off during the rest of the night.
My friends, who played black Hawk all the time, trade
emails this morning to let each another other each other
(04:00):
know that the course wasn't even cart pass only today
and after all the the atmospheric disturbance yesterday evening and
through the night. I would have I would have bet
you'd had that had needed a canoe to get down
one of the fairways. Uh, this is it. Welcome to springtime.
If you're over here, you need an umbrella and rubber boots.
(04:22):
If you're over there, you need sunscreen and sunglasses. Speaking of,
I've misplaced a pair of very nice sunglasses, my favorites,
and I honestly don't know where they are right now,
and it's kind of bothering me a little bit. I
want to think that they're at the house in one
place that I haven't still checked. And if they're not there,
I'm not sure where they're gonna be. Oh and by
(04:45):
the way, no matter whether you're here or there, you're
gonna need mosquito spray. Moving on Market's mostly up gold
and oiled down a little and enough of that now,
will if you've got that up there, how am I
gonna know what time? It is? All informed? Will you?
Will you please do and give me I got a
one minute. When it's down to one minute, then let
(05:08):
me know otherwise it's all good. Well we got three
right now? Yeah, I know, well I know that because
I'm looking at my own personal clock, and that's what
it says. Let me see, I'll get the big one
up here so I can see it a little better.
Twelve ten, it says here on May the seventh, from
the hmm, where do I want to go? From the
let's talk desk in the White House, President Trump said
(05:29):
to be in negotiation with the African nation of Rwanda
about taking in illegal immigrants being deported from the US
for various reasons, mostly because they because they've committed crimes,
depending on which crime, depending on what people And make
no mistake that it's going to take quite some time
just to eject people who've committed violent crimes while they've
(05:52):
been here illegally. The past administration let millions of people
come here, and several countries saw Biden's open border as
a way to shed their their prisons and other places
where bad people were kept of burdens of having to
feed and house those people. Hopefully this deal can be
(06:15):
struck so that we have a place to send all
the criminals Rwanda's willing to take. And I hope they've
got plenty of room at the end over there, because
we've got a lot of people to ship out of
here before we can feel a little bit more comfortable.
And make no mistake, I saw a story today about
President Trump wanting to turn Alcatraz back into a prison.
(06:39):
It's not just I'm not gonna, I'm not anywhere near
saying it's only illegal immigrants committing crimes, because we have
plenty of that going on. Just a little while ago,
I got a story from where was it from, I
can't remember exactly, about a woman who was robbed at
gunpoint at a local garden center here in town. Turned
her back for a few and before she knew it,
(07:01):
somebody had come up, threatened her and stolen her purse
and everything in at perst, phone, keys, wallet, credit cards,
all of that stuff. Bam, just like that. Who knows
who did that, but whoever it is is a criminal.
If there are criminals, fine tho them. In Alcatraz though.
The worst ones in Alcatraz, that's the plan. The most
dangerous Americans in America will be there, and the ones
(07:26):
that we can deport, we will. I think that's a
pretty darn good idea. I'm down to seconds, right, Will,
thirty seconds, you know what, I'm gonna leave early and
talk about ut Health Institute on Aging. It give me
a little bit more time for them. It's an amazing collaborative.
Providers from every medical discipline you can name are part
(07:46):
of this organization, part of this collaborative, and what they
do is get additional training on top of whatever it
was it got them out of med school or out
of therapy school or training school, whatever, and learn to
apply it specifically to seniors because we are different. I'm
(08:07):
way different than Will. Will's way different than me, and
Will and I are both different from my teenage son.
Everybody's different in age groups, and seniors especially have special
issues that need to be addressed. From that perspective, that's
what you get from the Institute on Aging. Go to
their website, it's ed ut H dot ed u slash aging.
(08:31):
Look around there at all the resources first, and then
work on finding your way to a provider who can
help you get over whatever medical homp you're on right now.
And they're mostly in the medical center, no doubt about it.
That's where they belong, but most of them also do
a lot of work in outlying hospitals and clinics and
offices and whatnot, all the way from Kingwood and the
(08:53):
Woodlands down to Pearland and sugar Land and Katie and
everything east to here as well. Ut H dot ed
U slash aging, ut H dot edu slash aging.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Once life without a net, I suggest you go to bed,
sleep it off.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Just wait until the show's over. Sleepy. Back to Doug Pike,
as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Fifty plus, thanks for listening. Certainly do appreciate it. We'll
talk in this segment about something that impacts more seniors
that are willing to talk about it, and that is
financial exploitation senors. Seniors tend to be fairly easy targets
for scammers, and once they're scammed, seniors also tend to
feel kind of embarrassed or ashamed that they've been taken.
(09:39):
I no fooling. I told Will just a minute ago,
right as I sat in here to get ready for
the show. I got a scam text from somebody telling
me that they were from a collections agency and whatever,
and I just report spam and moved on. I know better,
but a lot of people don't. They might have may
might have fallen for that and opened up a can
(09:59):
of worms they couldn't close. So with that, I'm going
to bring in doctor Robert Rausch, Professor of geriatric at
Baylor College of Medicine, man who's worked for years to
help people who've become victims of scams get past that.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Welcome aboard, Doc, Well glad to be here, mister Pike.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
I have enjoyed your show in the past and looking
forward to participating today and hopefully shed some light on
what we can all do to protect ourselves. I'm not
surprised that you got a text this morning.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
I'm so I'm only surprised I didn't get two or three.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
My wife called me not yesterday I was at cardiac
rehab session of old things, said that she'd got the
text that PayPal was reporting that I'd spent eight hundred
and forty five dollars at a Walmart.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Oh my gosh, No.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
You didn't do that. I want you to call that number.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Oh, call that number and see what they can do
for you. Huh So right off the top, right off
the top of your dog. So we can shock this
audience talk about how much money seniors lose to fraud
every year more well.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
I was shocked when I did my latest update on this.
Back in twenty eleven or so, the MetLife Foundation had
reported a measly three point five billion dollars lost to
fraud by elders. The AARP just recently published a statistic
(11:36):
of sixty one point five billion dollars. Oh my gosh,
that's of elders into the pockets of the scammers.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
And it's just it is a crime.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
It's widespread, and you're right about people being embarrassed to
call and report that they've been scammed. It's understandable. It's
really something what we've tried to do a medical school
at Baylor and is to try to help all the
people who work with older people. Is in healthcare, and
(12:10):
then beyond that, anchors and attorneys and clergy, anybody needs
to know what are some of the red flags for
what causes people to lose this kind of money. Amount
of money and the significance of it is simply this,
If an older person losing enough money to warrant having
(12:32):
to make a decision to pay for routine living costs,
shelter and utilities and all that food versus or in
addition to the out of pocket health care costs most
of it. If you ever figured out how much you
spent out of pocket over and above what's your insurance
covers for health care? If they forego needed health care,
(12:56):
a frail elder can spiral down so fast that anisians
need to add this to their problem list. And when
they interview, when they see their patients for routine visits,
you know, how's your money going? Anybody asks you to change,
you will, you know there's something like.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
That which sure never been talked to.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
Those types of things because it's kind of infringing on
our privacy and personal liberty and things like that. But
I tell you, in this day and age, you got
to be you got to be careful.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Any advocate you can get, whether it's your doctor, your trainer,
your nurse practitioner, your friendly neighborhood banker, anybody who can
act on your behalf and keep you from getting scammed
is a valuable asset. Talk about some of the things
these scammers use. Some of the most current scams that
are out there now, doc.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
The most recent one is the use of AI.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
We all, we're all wowed by.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
The power of generative artificial intelligence and what it can
do in health, but anything good can also be put
to for a bad purpose. And any if anybody were
recording our voices on this radio program and turned it
into they could make me sound like I'm asking for
(14:19):
money if I call you know, a friend or stuff
like that.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
That's so right, like that, it really.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
Is, it is, it really really is. And then of
course the usual fishing, all that stuff that we get
on our emails and our text messages. They want you
to contact them, and then it goes back as far
as the old romance scams. I'm telling you, I wish
(14:47):
every American could have seen the testimony that Mickey Rooney
gave before the Senate Aging Committee in twenty eleven about
I he was at one time he was the highest
paid movie star in the world. He and here he
was in his latter years being scammed by his own family,
mainly a good for nothing grandson. It was just horrible.
(15:13):
So if it can happen to people like him. It
can happen to anybody, and it just goes to show you.
I first got started this in two thousand and six
and seven, having read a piece in the AARP Bulletin,
which by the way, I highly recommend people read as
frequently as they come out because they have a great
(15:34):
fraud watch segment now that they didn't have then. But
the sitting Commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission a
guy named Christopher Cox, who had been a member of
the House of Representatives. He was the first chairman of
the Department of Homeland Security. He later became He was
an attorney in the White House under Ronald Reagan, and
(15:58):
he wrote about how unscrupuloss financial advisors had swindled his
elderly parents at both in their early nineties, out of
nearly all of their life savings, using at the time
almost a legal, you know, thing of buying and selling
stocks and bonds almost on a daily basis, and taking
(16:20):
his commission regardless of money.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Wow, So if you add that up, you can go
through a million dollars real fast.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
And that's what happened.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
And so the thought occurred to me, if that could
happen to the parents of the securities in exchange. Yeah yeah,
portraying the lawyer and the experienced person. They could happen
to anybody, and so anyhow, we always need to be
aware of what happens to us over the life course.
And one of the most significant ones is in some
(16:55):
people developed by a cognitive impairment. They can do almost
everything they used to could do well, then go to
the opera and then go play golf and go ahead,
dinner with friends, drive everything, but they make four times
the financial errors and those piece persons without. And so
we just all need to be aware of what's happening
to us and and talk about it.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Actually, only the.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
Two best words I could give to anybody h to
help protect themselves is to this be rude.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
And hang up. Yeah, hang up A good point.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
Those so on calls come in, just hang up. You
don't need to tell them I'm so sorry, I don't
have time to.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
Talk well, and the more you say, the more potential
they could use that against you. With AI. The best
thing I answered the phone with a kind of a
weird voice, and so if if they copied that voice,
nobody's going to get any money out of me. Uh,
right at the end. We're almost out of time. Dot
really very quickly explain how important it is if you
(17:58):
do get scammed to report it so that we can
go try to catch these people.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
Absolutely, and I'll leave this number with the AARP Fraud
Watch National work. The number is eight seven seven nine
zero eight three three six zero. They have free trained
specialists that'll help you the best they can. Personally know
Amy Nosinger, who's a great medical social worker who runs
(18:24):
that thing, and so I highly recommend the ARP Fraud Watch.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
Thank you so very much, Doctor Relsh. I really do appreciate.
I'm afraid we're out of time, my friend. We'll do
it again, though, I'd like to thank you so much.
All right, yes, sir, oh okay, all right, we gotta
take a little break here. We kind of ran short
on time. I would like to bring that one back
up again. It's a good one. A late health also
(18:49):
a good one. If you need anything that can be
done at a vascular clinic, that's where you need to go.
I've been speaking for doctor Doe and his associates for
many years now, and I'm happy to continue doing so.
The most common procedure they do there is called prostate
artery embolization, and as implied it, it's for men men
who have the symptoms of an enlarged, non cancerous prostate,
(19:13):
and boyn't that a terrible mess. If you have the symptoms,
you know the symptoms, and if you don't have them
by the time you get fifty five sixty, you might
be feeling them. Hopefully not, but it could happen. They
also do veins, ugly veins on your legs or wherever
they are on your body. They can make those go
away fibroids and women, even some head pains can be
(19:34):
alleviated with vascular procedures, all of which are done in
the office. You don't have to worry about going to
the hospital and bringing home something you didn't have when
you got there. They allow you to use Medicare and Medicaid.
Most of what they do is covered by that, and
you're only going to be there for a couple hours.
You'll need somebody to drive you home, but after that
you're going to go home and recover in a place
(19:56):
where you know you're comfortable and you know you're safe.
Three five, eight, eight, thirty eight eighty eight. They also
do regenerative medicine. By the way, that's very helpful with
chronic pain. Seven to one, three five, eight, eight, thirty
eight eighty eight dawn.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
They sure don't make them like they used to.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
That's why every few months we wash him, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike h right, welcome back to
fifty plus.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
This just end for those of you who have loyally
stayed aboard the good ship fifty plus. The Astros are
leading under the excellent pitching from from ber Bell Doz
and thanks to one run, somebody hit a double and scored.
Whoever was I think it was maybe Diz who scored
(20:46):
from first? I don't remember Myers. What was Myers who scored?
And then who hit the I If you don't know
the answers, I don't just jump in there and give
me happy.
Speaker 6 (20:59):
I knew that Meyers scored. He's scored from first off
a double.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Oh and just like that, we got Brewers on first
and second with one out. I'm gonna turn away from
that and get back to what I'm doing here, oh quick.
And something I messed up yesterday on Berry Hill when
I was talking about them and all the delicious Mexican
food they serve up every single day in sugar Land.
I mistakenly said go to Berryhillgrill dot com. That is
(21:25):
not right now. If you want to go find all
that delicious Mexican food, and it probably would pop up
at some point, but just the direct line, the direct
email is berry Hill sugar Land dot com. Why I
didn't do that, Well, usually I don't use the website.
I have them on in my saved phone numbers in
(21:45):
my phone, so I don't really have to look them
up very often. I kind of know the menu pretty well,
and I know the number. I know how to get
to the number. I don't have it. I don't have
it memorized. I remember more friends high school numbers. Then
I do the numbers of people I'm in contact with
almost daily around here. I could not tell you any
(22:07):
of their numbers because I don't ever have to dial them.
I just find the name and run it up from
the I sure hope not desk. Well, you'll find this amusing.
Probably comes word that left handed people may be slightly
more prone to suffer from a few specific mental disorders
(22:28):
than right handed people. I'm left handed why are you smiling?
You got to kick out of that, did you. It's funny,
it's kind of funny. So far, so good, So far,
so good. But oh there we go. Oh that's what
we needed to get out of that ending a double play,
and we got it. Thank you, Capper for grounding out
(22:49):
the third. Uh. Yeah, I'm left handed. I know a
lot of other people who are left handed. Yeah, there's
a story I would tell, but I'm not gonna about
being left handed.
Speaker 6 (23:03):
How much time do I have? Well, oh, well we
are It is twelve thirty eight right now, so we
have seven minutes.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Good, okay, I just okay, Oh yeah, I see it.
I have my clock up in here. I'll tap that
phone and every now and then I'll just tap that
phone and that little clock will come up, and at
least i'll know the minutes from the watch what you Say,
Desk comes the story of ms NBC walking Back, a
statement that was made by a former FBI assistant director
(23:32):
who said during an episode I think it was on
Monday Morning Joe co hosted by a guy named Jonathan Lamar.
This guy goes in and talks about the current director
of the Bureau Cash but tell about how he's out
partying more than he's in the office, and it's it's
(23:52):
just chaotic, and on and on and on he went.
And then on Monday, I think it was Friday, he
said that. And then on Monday Lamaire walked back what
was said about Patel, calling it a misstatement that hadn't
been verified. This one actually doesn't surprise me at all.
The left of America American media has a long standing
(24:17):
habit of presenting a lie and looking straight into the
camera with a dead straight face and telling lies, and
then a day or week, or month or a year
two years later, depending on the size of the lie,
they'll come, oh, no, we were wrong about that. We
didn't know it at the time, but we were wrong
about that. Both those statements were true. Number one, you
(24:41):
were wrong about it. Number two, you did know about it.
In many of these cases, they knew dog on well
exactly what they were doing. And if they if all
of those media outlets are that gullible that they can
be told something by the left and will not go
research it themselves and will not when they find out
it's untrue expose the untruth, then that's on them, and
(25:05):
shame on every one of them too, honest to goodness,
It's just it's so frustrating. Usually they when they start
off one of these things, they'll let all the other
outlets in on the game so they can repeat the
same message, the same false message. But this story about
Patel apparently was even it wasn't even credible enough to
(25:26):
get picked up by anybody else. They just said, now,
we're not touching that. We know that's not true. We're
not touching it. Where do we go from here? Will?
We'll go to some of the little short fun things
that I had in store both yesterday and today and
the day before. I always have more than I need,
which is what you need when you're gonna try to
(25:47):
do a talk show. If you ever aspire to do this,
you've got to prepare for about twice as much time
as you're actually gonna have. That's the only way to
be comfortable knowing that you'll have plenty. Today. Will is
school nurse day. And if if you want back in
this studio, you're gonna have to bring a note from
your doctor. I want back in this studio. Uh, what else?
(26:10):
You're not at school? So I can't drop that one
on you. By the way well over, mind, I'm not
gonna worry about that thing. Uh. I'll give you three choices, will,
what's for dinner? Thumbs up? Or who are you? Who
are you? GSA says if you don't have a real
ID starting today, you need to be at the airport
(26:31):
at least three hours before departure. In other words, if
you have a flight at noon today, you needed to
be there last night. Is what they're trying to tell you. Really,
because whatever they tell you, it's gonna take twice as long.
I think my idea, I presume is right. I got
it last year and it's got the star on it.
I hope that's right. Are you familiar with all this, will?
(26:53):
I believe so. Yeah, your license also should have a
star on it, and that way you can move right
on through there. I think I'm going to try to
get one of the one of those free passes where
they go ahead and vet you beforehand and make sure
that you're an upstanding American citizen and that you are
you are free to move about the country without hindrance.
Speaker 6 (27:17):
You want one more, will, I saw a story the
other day about it was an old promotion. I think
that American airlines did where certain flyers could purchase this
kind of pass and it essentially allowed them to.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
Have free first class tickets anytime they wanted to go.
Speaker 6 (27:40):
So there was this person that got it, and from
I would say, like the nineteen eighties to the early
two thousands, this person essentially racked up about twenty one dollars.
Speaker 7 (27:55):
In flights and so they canceled. He just kept on going, Yeah,
and we gotta go, We gotta get out of here. Yeah,
speaking of going, all right, we'll tell you a little
break here. We'll be right back more fifty plus after.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
This old guys rule.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
And of course, women never get old if you want
to avoid sleeping on the couch.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Okay, well, I think that sounds like a good plan.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug. All right, welcome back,
fourth and final segment of the program starts right now.
Thank you all for listening. Despite the astros being on
over on seven ninety. You know, if you gotta go
watch the astros, I understand. I'm not gonna knock you
for it. I'm kind of leaning over it, and I'm
kind of looking side eye at the game myself in
(28:42):
the studio here because I'm just passionate about baseball, always
have been since I was I played my first year
of baseball at eight. There was no t ball, there
was no dad pitch, there was none of that. You
just you played in the street or in a sandlot
until you were eight and you were a pee wee,
(29:02):
and then at ten.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
You moved to Little League. And from the day I
first put on my first baseball uniform, I just fell
in love with the game and just never have stopped
loving it. I really I appreciate it. I've learned a
lot from some people who are really smart about baseball
over the years, and so I watch it with different
(29:24):
eyes than the casual fan. And there's just so much.
It's like chess multiplied by chess. There are so many decisions,
so many options with every move that goes on out there,
every single pitch, there are a thousand potential different outcomes,
maybe more, I don't know. There's one. Oh did we
walk him? I thought we'd struck him out. Oh, well,
(29:46):
so now they've got a base runner, but we've got
two outs on him. That's good. From the pick the
wrong poster boy desk comes wave after wave of evidence.
It just keeps piling off, piling up, as if we
didn't already have enough to show that Democrats who portray
this Abrego Garcia guy as a family man from Maryland
or pretty much one hundred and eighty degrees off what
(30:07):
he really is, and we, the taxpayers, by the way,
funded all these trips by politicians to go visit this
guy who's in prison in his home country and was
deemed by two federal judges here to be a member
of MS thirteen. They just keep saying, Oh, maybe he
might be. We're not really sure. He's just a family guy.
(30:29):
No he's not. But the Left just hasn't quite yet
given up on trying to bring him back here, which,
by the way, if you look around and you'll see
the stories about it, if somehow the man was successfully
brought back to the United States, that would only result
in him either being sent immediately back to El Salvador
(30:52):
or to another foreign country, because by US law, under
his current circumstance, though, would be the only two options available.
But they keep banging that tambourine for some reason. Will
I'm kind of gonna come back to you, then I'll
go back to the other stuff, and I'm gonna kind
of flippityflop, as they say in radio, what's for dinner?
(31:18):
Meaningless words or no way they got everyone? Meaningless words? Okay,
where did it go? There is the list of words
and phrases that are overused so much that they've become meaningless.
Will this is? This is? I agree with this one.
Unprecedented Every time you turn around, this is unprecedented. Well,
(31:44):
pretty much you could make that case for a lot
of things that happen longer than usual wait times. How
many times do you hear that?
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Now?
Speaker 4 (31:53):
When when you dial up the customer service line of
a company somewhere and what you're trying to do is
get just a little help for a little question, and
what they want to do is shake you off. They
want you to go to their website and let some
little AI operated chat bot try to help you with
your problem before they have to pay somebody to sit
(32:16):
there and talk to you on the phone. That happens
wait too much? Yeah, unusual weight times. That means we
don't want to talk to you. You know what? You
know where that's being used the most now where pharmacies
or you call them and ask them you want to
ask about something that's that only the pharmacists can answer
a question that only the pharma maybe a drug interaction
(32:38):
or something like that from the person who's been prescribed.
You know who's been dispensing the medicine. You've been prescribed
for years. We're expensing experiencing longer than usual weight times.
If you want to leave a message, somebody will get
back to you within an hour, or if you want
to go to our website, you can chat with an
(32:59):
I'll wrap this in quote live person. It's usually some
chatbot comes on and says, I'll have I'll take it
from here. We'll worry. You don't need to talk to
a person. I got this speaking of did you see
well the story I think it was yesterday about a
kind of a human like robot over in Japan in
some factory that just went postal on people, just went
(33:23):
after them and just was swinging, swinging dukes, little bot
dukes and everything, kung fu kicking and doing all kinds
of crazy stuff. Apparently I don't know exactly what it did,
but it just said it basically picked a fight with
the people working there. Now are you looking it up?
(33:44):
Are you doing something else? Are you looking it up?
Let's see don't ask me to go look for it again,
because I don't remember what. Well, what did it say
about that? It just said chatbot or this robot, this
human like robot in Japan just started beating up people
around him.
Speaker 6 (34:03):
You even like robot? Because I found something that said
that there was a claim that a robot killed twenty
nine people.
Speaker 4 (34:11):
Oh lord, no, no, that that was substrapulation. Yes, no,
this one just threw a few punches or something like that. No,
you would have already heard about it, and so would I.
If a robot had killed twenty people anywhere, I'm gonna
go back to No way they got everyone leave me alone?
(34:34):
Or thumbs up, thumbs up, thumbs up? Only eleven people,
Not eleven people. Only eleven percent of people, excuse me,
say they have hitchhiked ever and would do it again.
Will have you ever hitchhiked anywhere? I have, guest, never
hitch hiked now, Back when I was a younger man,
(34:56):
back in the covered wagon days, will we would? And
I say we my friends who were avid surfers, just
nuts for surfing, but too young to have cars. My
parents never knew about it. I think I finally told
them when I was a grown man, long sense removed
from the house, and all but a couple of friends
(35:18):
of mine and I and sometimes on our own, we
would just walk to the freeway and hitch a ride,
carrying a surfboard, a couple of bucks, and a bar
of whack, basically in a towel, and just hitchhike to
the beach and surf all day, and then about two
thirty or three o'clock you had to quit surfing and
(35:41):
find your way back to the roads. To find your
way back to well, you'd go up Beach Road and
then you'd go to two eighty eight, and then you'd
get a ride all the way back to where you'd started.
It was just crazy in modern thinking. Everybody you would
tell that today would think you were just absolutely nuts
(36:02):
and it's a miracle you were alive. But carrying a
surfboard actually worked in our favor because there were only
a couple of people who could pick you up if
you had a surfboard with you. That would be other surfers.
You know, if you get if a car stops and
they've got three surfboards on the top and three guys
in a car, yeah, I'll jump in with them. They're
(36:23):
gonna be okay if if it was some crazy looking
person in a pickup truck, you just hopped in the
back and when they say, hey, you want to ride
up front? Now, I'll stay back here with my board
and knock on wood. Nothing ever happened to any of us.
And we we did that more than a couple of times.
(36:44):
More than a couple of times. It was very interesting.
All Right, that's enough of that one will. Yeah, we
did that, and we did it a lot. Only eleven
percent of seventy three percent of people say they've never
they would never hitchhike these days, that ought to be
ninety nine percent and they're just one crazy person. But
ninety nine percent of people should be smart enough not
(37:06):
to hitchike anymore because you just don't know, You have
no idea, what's out there? How are we doing? About
a minute? Will we do? We have one minute? Last? Okay,
let's do this. Then I talked about Alcatraz. I'll leave
that alone. I've got so much we can talk about tomorrow,
from Aggie stuff to oh here's one. I'm not even
sure what to call this desk. Some website my source
(37:28):
called it a naughty website. So be prepared. This naughty
website rated the fifty states from least kinky to most kinky.
Will how many seconds do I have? You have thirty
five sacks perfect so you can play along. What do
you think was the number one state of the kinkiest
steakiest state in America? It should be right, it should
(37:49):
be right there in front of you. Yeah, Texas, No Nevada,
Las Vegas. You know, with all that crazyness goes up
Number two Colorado, number three Oregon, how is that happening?
And number four Texas? Not a podium finished, but apparently
there is a whole lot going on beneath the lone star,
(38:13):
beneath the covers too. Maybe after we finish our low
end senior plate and crawl into bed, that's it for now.
We'll see tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
Audios.
Popular Podcasts
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com
24/7 News: The Latest
The latest news in 4 minutes updated every hour, every day.
Therapy Gecko
An unlicensed lizard psychologist travels the universe talking to strangers about absolutely nothing. TO CALL THE GECKO: follow me on https://www.twitch.tv/lyleforever to get a notification for when I am taking calls. I am usually live Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays but lately a lot of other times too. I am a gecko.