Scamming the 50+ Community

Today, Doug Pike interviews Elizabeth Leass about the 50+ community being scammed.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Remember when it was impossible to misplace the TV remote
because you were the TV remote. Remember when music sounded
like this? Remember when social media was truly social?

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hey John, how's it going today?

Speaker 3 (00:19):
Good?

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
you by the UT Health Houston Institute on Aging, Informed
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(00:44):
or replacement. Bronze roofing has you covered? And now fifty
plus with Doug Pike. All right, here we go Tuesday afternoon.
Thank you all for joining us. Another glorious day.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
And man, if you're if you're a godly person, powerful
person as I am, and I highly recommend that you
give thanks for what we have when our American neighbors
back toward the East are still just just living in
shock after what Hurricane Helene did over there. I've seen
a lot of hurricanes that I've witnessed first hand what

(01:17):
the worst of them can do, and Helene ranks right
up there with the absolute worst. Were you going to
say something, well, well, I thought I heard a sound
an utterance over there.

Speaker 4 (01:30):
No, I didn't say any Oh, okay.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
You just want to brag on your wordal accomplishment today,
it's not really an accomplishment with a tie. Yeah, it's
a finished in a tie and it's well, never mind,
I'm going to get it a word or when I'm
talking about Helene. The death toll already high, I want
to say it's thirty something, and it is absolutely going
to go higher. It's guaranteed. As the water recedes and

(01:52):
people are able to access some places that are still
entirely inaccessible, there's going to be more saddening disappointment. I
don't know how many people could still be still be
alive after enduring something like that, depending on what their
situation was. But with as much water as they had,

(02:16):
with as much erosion as they had, with the wind
that they had, anybody who was caught in that and
other than an extremely secure facility of some sort probably
didn't turn out well for them. And I hate to
hear that, and I hate to to just sit here

(02:37):
and know that it's gonna get worse. Moving into the day,
we will start with another fine forecast. Although I could
do without this heat. Frankly amazing how we plow through summer.
Somehow we plow through summer. And I think it because
it's because it comes on gradually. It doesn't it just
it doesn't go from winter to summer. We do get

(02:58):
those four or five days of spring in here, time
to acclimate, time to realize that it's going to get
hotter and hotter and hotter as we get into July,
August and September. But this is it's different on the
back end of it. It's just different. We plow through
summer that way because we've already endured this gradual increase

(03:21):
from a high in the seventies to one in the
low eighties, and then the little higher eighties, and then
oh boy, here comes ninety degrees. We don't want it,
but here it comes. And then we just go through summer.
We get over it, and then we get those four
or five days when it really feels nice. You get
a couple of days when the high temperature in the

(03:41):
lower or mid eighties and there's a breeze out of
the north, the air is drier, the air is cooler,
and then you get slapped in the face with a
wet mop like we did yesterday and are going to
get again this afternoon, potential record setting high this afternoon
after setting one yesterday. I don't know how many years.

(04:02):
It was mid nineties though, and it's going to be
the same today. It is what it is. Time now
for hides and Lowe's and Haiku. Courtesy is always of
Texas Indoor Air Quality Specialists, because cleaner air is healthier air.
They clean ductwork. That's what they do and that's all
they do. So dial pound two to fifty say healthy
air and then stay on the line. You ready. Well,

(04:26):
I am sunshine wall to wall, praying the tropics settle
where I lost my place. Oh and the air cools down.
Oh boy, that's so bad. Yeah, that's rough.

Speaker 4 (04:44):
I don't know if that's ever happened.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
Well, I would look right at it. I looked all
the way across it. Then I brought my eyes up
and I put them back down and they went down
to the wrong spot. So, yeah, that was a little clumsy,
I'll admit. I mean, that's the first mistake I've ever
made in right, I do, I think, I think, but
I think I have to take it into account. You
have to deduct I got it It's kind of like

(05:07):
it's like stepping out when I'm doing the or when well,
when somebody really good is doing the floor exercise in
the Olympics, if for someone Biles had put a toe
on the on the line, is it any word? Is
it worse than that?

Speaker 4 (05:20):
Or yeah? But I think this is more than I
fall down.

Speaker 2 (05:23):
I think there's more than a toe on the lown.
You think I fell down, I think you lost didn't
fall I'll go for that. Well, you stumbled the bed,
you know you were able to make a recovery.

Speaker 3 (05:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
I didn't put my hands on the ground. I kept
my hands in the air and my feet on the ground.
At first, I thought you were just doing a dramatic pause. No, no,
it wasn't. I'll confess that was no pause. It was
just it was going all right. It's like laying down
a perfect bunt and then tripping on the on the
way to first base.

Speaker 4 (05:52):
Wall to wall sunshine.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
It was the first line, sunshine, wall to wall sunshine,
praying the tropics settled. We're all trying that and the
air cools down and the air. That was a dramatic
pause there, but the first one was it? It was
It was a mad scramble to find the line.

Speaker 3 (06:09):
So spin it out, will I'm sorry, Doug, it's you
know what, it's a five time. Okay, I'm not gonna
be as harsh, but it's a warning. It's a warning,
for sure, a verbal warning. Yep, Okay, I'll take this.
I'll take a five. I was gonna write down like

(06:30):
a three point two or something. No, I'm I'm not
gonna punish you for the little misstep.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
I mean, I will, you know a little bit. But yeah,
to get a five out of that sounds pretty good.
Off to market, we tried. Thanks to Houston Gold Exchange,
I actually went by there today and sold some old
jewelry pieces to Brad Schweise. This is stuff that my
wife and I haven't looked at in haven't seen in years.
It took me a long time to find the couple

(06:56):
of old pieces that I had that I wanted to
sell to him. And in any event, I had just
not even a palm full of old jewelry pieces. It's
not like I went in there with a bucket full
of stuff, just a little bit, and I walked out
of there with a significant check. It's because gold is
worth about twenty six hundred and fifty dollars an ounce

(07:18):
right now anyway, So Houston Gold Exchange bringing this to us,
Thank you, Brad, Thank you, Houston Gold Exchange. Quite happy
with the outcome of that. Honestly, most of this audience
that bought random gold jewelry did so when it was
a few hundred bucks an ounce. It's currently more than
twenty six fifty last I looked, So do the math.
Then take that stuff to Houston Gold Exchange, let them

(07:41):
make an offer on it, and you'll kind of be stunned.
Like he told me this morning, he said, people come
in here with little, tiny pieces of gold that they
don't think are worth much, and suddenly at twenty six
fifty when they bought it at three hundred an ounce.
You don't have to have a whole lot for it
to add up. Anyway, All four of the major indicators
down the Dow quite significantly in just the last hour

(08:04):
or so. Three or four of them were down more
than a full point. Oil was down, or excuse me,
oil was up. That was the big shocker this morning,
up more than two dollars more than two dollars a barrel,
and back north of seventy dollars. Now, that's not where
it's supposed to be going, and it's not going to
do the left any favors. As we get a little

(08:27):
closer and closer to the election north of and as
I mentioned Gold more than twenty six hundred. All right,
let's take a little break here, shall we. On the
way out, I'll tell you about ut Health Institute on Aging,
a member of which, by the way, we're going to
be talking to here just shortly, amazing collaborative of providers
from every medical dispoint. Well, I don't know if she's

(08:48):
actually a member yet because she she hasn't finished her
her original training in her original education. A brilliant woman,
and we're going to talk about something very important to
this community of ours as seniors. The Institute on Aging
has providers mostly in the med center, from every discipline
in medicine, every discipline. And they also many of them

(09:10):
work in outlying clinics and hospitals and whatnot around the
Greater Metropolitan area. You can find one if you need
one who is close to you. And the reason they're
members of the Institute on Aging is because they have
gone back and been become more educated and learned how

(09:31):
to apply their skills from med school or from therapist
school or whatever, how to apply them specifically to seniors.
It's a brilliant thing that was started more than ten
years ago by a woman named doctor Carmel Dyer. She
was the one who sat across for lunch with me
and we hammered out this relationship that I cherish, I

(09:52):
truly do. It's so beneficial to us. Go see the
resources they have. Go check out the credentials that their
providers have at this website. Ut dot edu slash aging,
uth dot edu slash aging.

Speaker 1 (10:08):
Now, they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash them, check us
fluids and spring on a fresh code O wax. This
is fifty plus with Dougpike. Hi, welcome back to fifty plus.

Speaker 2 (10:28):
Thanks for listening. I certainly do appreciate it. You know
that giving me this little piece of your day. I
know you have choices, and I appreciate you for choosing
fifty plus. We'll talk in this segment about something you've
probably seen covered. If you watch the show every now
and then on one of those higher channels on Doctor Phil,
if you watch him for a while, you've certainly seen

(10:48):
something on it, and it's something that costs seniors billions
of dollars annually, I would guess, and that's online dating scams.
There are people in this world who know exactly what
to say, when to say it, how to say it
eventually to get you to reach into your wallet and
send them everything in there, or most of it anyway.

(11:08):
And to help sort this out, I'm going to bring
in Elizabeth Lease from UT Health Science Center. She's a
PhD student there and holds a Masters in public health,
and her dissertation, as you probably can guess right now,
focus is pretty much on preventing victimization. Welcome aboard, Elizabeth, Hi,
I'm glad to be here. Thank you. So I've heard

(11:29):
about these schemes for years and thought they might have
gone away by now. Our online romance schemes is common.

Speaker 5 (11:36):
They're were, yeah, especially with more accessibility for people to
commit crimes online, and they're becoming more sophisticated to more
people unfortunately are falling victims to them.

Speaker 2 (11:49):
Are these victims of these crimes and that's exactly what
they are? Are they do They target men or women.

Speaker 6 (11:55):
Most both, and they have different strategies. For me and women,
and they tailor it.

Speaker 2 (12:02):
And amongst the people who are perpetrating these crimes, it
might be a guy, it might be a gal. You
just don't know, do you.

Speaker 6 (12:09):
You still know who's on the other side of that
computer screen, and there's a lot of waste for them
to hide their identity.

Speaker 2 (12:15):
I can't see seeing your women being gullible after living
long enough to know about some of these schemes and scams.
So what does it draws that draws these crooks their
way and makes them vulnerable? And the guys too.

Speaker 6 (12:29):
I would argue that any person is vulnerable to being
potentially victimized by these sort of scams because and especially
people who are more likely to trust others. I mean,
that's the characteristic that we see. We all as humans
have basic needs and we all want love. And if

(12:50):
you're not in a current relationship, you're unhappy in your
current relationship, you might be seeking for a romantic partner.
You make sense set with our ice the culture that
people are looking online more than ever, that someone will
present themselves as a as what you want. They actually
will become that dream person for you, and you're more

(13:11):
likely possibly to fall for the person that's lying that's
purposely to see me because they're going to tell you
what you want to hear and my device. If it's
too good to be true, it probably is.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
What's the what's the bad guy's first move when they
when they think they found somebody that they can extort.

Speaker 6 (13:30):
Okay, so a lot of them will play the long
game and not ask for money right away. Sure, So
the oficial tactic, it's all manipulation and subtle, is to
build your trust, so they'll use deception. I have this
cat fishing that's really popular. Cat fishing is where you
present a photo that is not of you or is

(13:52):
not an accurate representation of you. So if you do
get a picture from someone, I recommend you something called
a reverse image search on Google, and you can actually
do it directly in Google. There's an option to do
that into Google how to do it, but there's also
some websites that specifically search images. And I have found
people just taking a screenshot of a video chat of

(14:14):
a person, even if you actually do that, because they
may lie about their and then I found their LinkedIn
and I can verify their identity. And then I found
since I had their knee and I went to their
Facebook and then I found out this person was married,
So there's all sorts of stories.

Speaker 2 (14:30):
That's just amazing. And I think it's important for people
who potentially may become victims to realize that these people
are going to be very calculating and very slow to
finally reach out and ask because that's their job, and
it takes time to make money in any profession, so
they don't mind waiting a little extra time. On average,

(14:50):
about how long are these people in touch with the
victim before they finally ask for money.

Speaker 6 (14:56):
My personal experience is as a couple East the first
person that was doing a romance scam, it was a week.
And I also had experiences where they never ask for
money and they're in it for other reasons besides just
exploiting you financially. They're in it because they might be lonely,
or they may be in a relationship where they feel
like they're trapped and can't get out, so they're looking

(15:18):
online to have their emotional needs met and you could
be taking advantage of the use that way.

Speaker 2 (15:24):
I saw something about the payment methods when they do
ask for money. What are they use in these days?

Speaker 6 (15:28):
And why anything that you use they use, and they
prefer wire transfer so that out of the country it's easier.
Once you send that wire transfer, there's no way of
collecting that money back. Cryptocurrency is also very similar is
once you give that cryptocurrency information, that's gone forever versus

(15:49):
your credit cards will protect you because you know, when
you use a credit card and there's an issue, you
can contact your credit card company. But you don't ever
want to give money to anyone, especially in a romantic relationship,
because if they're a legitimate relationship, they're not going to
ask you for money. It's not going to be about
actional like that. And they may tell you bob stories

(16:12):
that make you know. There's the saying, you know, they
took the word gullible out of the dictionary, and the
idea is that it's easy to be gullible. They didn't
take dollible out of the dictionary. I'm just teasing about
believe it.

Speaker 2 (16:27):
We're close to being out of time and I don't
want to let this. One thing that I want to
get to get past us. I want this audis to
know that if you do get scammed by one of
these people, there's no shame in reporting it. They're slick.
They're pros and we're vulnerable, and it happens. And that's
the only way to stop them, really is to report them.

Speaker 6 (16:44):
Right, absolutely report fraud dot STC dot gov as the
Federal Trade Commission, and please report also on the platform
where you met this person, so they.

Speaker 2 (16:55):
Know mercy's sake. So they start with online dating services
and sometimes end with a friendly, happy, perfectly comfortable relationship
where nobody's throwing money back and forth, and sometimes they
steal you blind. Elizabeth Lee, thanks so much for kind
of shedding some light on this. I'd love to I
do this one like once a quarter. I don't want

(17:16):
any of this audience getting burned. Thank you very much, time,
thank you so much, wonderful. Thank you. All Right, we've
got to take a little break, and on the way out,
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(17:38):
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I think they might. I don't know. I can't speak
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(18:23):
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(18:45):
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Speaker 1 (19:02):
Aged to perfection. This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.

Speaker 2 (19:13):
Twelve thirty four on AM nine fifty KPRC. You're listening
to fifty plus. I appreciate you doing that. Bring some
friends next time, Bring all you want. It's free. I'll
give you free tickets to listen to the show. Well,
will you do it out of your stash? Right? You'd
help them out? Huh, what are you talking about? Look
them up with some free listen to the show tickets
you think so? Yeah, we can send them out by

(19:33):
the bushel basket. They probably get lost in the mail
with all the ballots that are out there now though
still so or actually they're being secured in warehouses at
this point. They won't come out. They're going to find
so many men there. Oh wait, you didn't count this
truck load. Maybe we did, Maybe we didn't, Maybe we should,

(19:56):
maybe we shouldn't. That's some it's kind of a mess.
All eyes on the nation's ports this morning. After longshoreman
the men and women who load and unload ships from
around the world around here actually Houston, by the way,
the largest now the largest port in the country from
a story I saw just yesterday. I'm not sure at

(20:18):
in what capacity that distinction is made, but it's number
one in something good. I know that well. It was
until they all went on strike, which is a very
big problem. Went on strike at midnight last night, and
that move is going to cost this country. I think
the number is somewhere around four four and a half
billion dollars a day, which sounds like a lot of money,

(20:39):
but if you've ever looked at the national debt clock
and how fast it's spending and how much we're having
to pay just an interest on our debt, one thousand, billion,
million gazillion dollars isn't that much. What it will do.
What's gonna happen here is it's going to cause people
to run out and buy things in panic mode, kind

(21:00):
of like what we experienced during the pandemic, and they're
going to be hoarding stuff that if they would just
take what they need as they normally do and not
whine about things missing, we could probably get this taken
care of a lot easier. You'll see all sorts of
stuff missing from the shelves. If this thing goes on
much longer, which it well might. They the workers want.

(21:23):
The last I heard was they were offered a fifty
percent rays of fifty percent raise and turned it down.
And and oh, by the way, they also want to
guarantee that they won't be replaced by automation. Well, historically,
automation has made our lives much easier, much more comfortable,

(21:45):
and it's inevitable. Just like people who worked on farms
a long time ago didn't want to see tractors harvesting
the crops, but it happened because tractors can't strike. Tractors
don't stop work, can they just keep working as long
as you fuel them up. I'm pretty disappointed, actually, that
our president has opted to not intervene and push for

(22:07):
a solution on these two sides of this very critical
issue to this nation's entire economy. Same for our current
vice president too. One of them won't do it, and
the other one has no clue how to do it,
except maybe to tell both sides that she grew up
in a middle class family, which, by the way, is
a load of garbage. If you look up her past

(22:29):
and look up where she spent her childhood, doesn't look
like where I spent mine and I was in a
middle class family. The debate between jd. Vance and Tim Wallas,
by the way, goes down this evening, and as the
Estros game is going to be done, it starts at
one point thirty, so there should be no conflict there.
If the moderators are fair and if they ask the
right questions, there is no way that Walls can walk

(22:52):
out of there looking like anything but Unamerican. He's been
described by a lot of people in this country who
know him very well, even his own brother, as more
left leaning than Kamala Harris, which says a lot. If
you look at her record in politics, two of them
in charge of this nation, it would be like like

(23:12):
two little kids running through commis r Us, just just
giddy with excitement about what they could do. Anything he
says that doesn't sound communists or Marxist tonight is likely
to be quite untrue. Tune in this evenings to hear
what they have to say. Your own, make your own judgments.
The co founder of Netflix, by the way, co founder

(23:35):
of Netflix got caught or taught a little lesson a
while back when he donated seven million dollars to the
Harris campaign and Shortly after that, Netflix experienced one of
its worst runs of canceled subscription in the company's history.
Drop it if you've got it right now, drop it
unless you agree with his donation. Drop it like a

(23:57):
hot potato. There are plenty other ways to watch TV,
or better yet, just listen to your favorite radio shows
and stations right here on iHeartRadio. Quick fact for you,
the Biden presidency. I saw statistic this morning left Americans
spending twenty five hundred dollars a year more on groceries
twenty five hundred dollars. And I'm betting the farm that

(24:19):
not all of us got twenty five hundred dollars a
year raises during his presidency, and that would even that
only would have allowed us to break even and not
get any better through these higher prices. How anybody can
say that he and his VP, that either of them
has done good for this country. It escapes me. I

(24:40):
don't know what these people are thinking, except the ones
who are getting stuff for free off of their policies.
And people tend to gravitate towards free over having to
work for something. But there's no such thing as free.
Somebody's working for that, and there have been social experiments
done all around the world where they take from wealthier

(25:03):
people and distribute to less wealthy people. And the people
who are wealthy, who earned their money, who worked hard,
who started businesses, grew those businesses, all of that incentive
to make more money and to be more comfortable and wealthy,
and all of that provide for your family for a
generation or two whatever. They kind of give up on

(25:25):
that when they realize that the government is taking it
all from them and handing it to somebody else. That's
not that's not a sustainable practice. It's just not quick
fact for you. Another one none. Let's lighten it up
a little bit. I'm not gonna do that. We only
got about a minute and a half on this. Anyway,

(25:45):
we'll light it up in local news centerpoint this region's
major provider of electricity, kind of, I guess after Beryl,
that's what they're supposed to do. Anyway, is now working diligently,
although some say too little, too late, diligently behind barrel
to install thousands of stronger poles and where they can

(26:06):
to go ahead and bury the electric lines. You know,
when the millions of homes and businesses went dark during
barrel a Category one storm. Most of us in the
dark presumed Centerpoint had enough people and equipment on hand,
because surely they would have prepared at least for a
Cat one storm. They figured, Yeah, it's only going to

(26:26):
take a couple of days, won't be bad. A week later,
I was still in the dark, as were tens of
thousands of other people, at the end of a line
that originally included several million outages, all while rented generators.
These big giant generators that Center Point least cost them
millions and millions of dollars, sat idle. They never got

(26:48):
turned on. By the way, the men and women who
climbed the poles, the ones who restore the power, they're
the heroes. Okay, the ones who made bad decisions from
inside air conditioned offices and houses that had generators, they're
not heroes. I'll just leave it at that. I'll be
polite and just let it hang there. A let's take
a break, shall we will. Let's do that now. A

(27:10):
late health is a sit well, it's a collective of
vascular clinics around the city. I think three of them
now and maybe another one coming. I'm not sure. But
what they do is provide you access with treatments that
will make some pretty ugly conditions go away by shutting
off the blood flow to what's causing those. The biggest,

(27:34):
best and largest example of that is a larged, noncancerous prostates.
The problem with those is, and if you've got one,
you know a lot of guys, about a quarter of
men over fifty five are dealing with this, and whether
they know it or not, look up the symptoms if
you want. I don't want to waste the time telling
you about the symptoms. What I want to tell you

(27:54):
is that if you have them, you can go to
a Late Health. Most of what they do is covered
by Medicare and Medicaid. You go to a late Health,
they do this treatment and that blood supply to that
in large prostate is shut off and it withers up
and with it go all those symptoms. Same for in
some cases head pain can be alleviated that way, the

(28:17):
same for fibroids and women, for ugly veins and anybody
who's got them. All you gotta do is get in
touch with a Late Health and see what they can
do for you. They also do a lot of regenerative
medicine too. And most everything they do over there gets
knocked out in a couple of hours. In the office,
you're gonna need somebody to drive you home, okay, but

(28:37):
you get that taken care of in the office in
a couple of hours, You get home and you recuperate there,
so you're not bringing home something from a hospital that
you didn't have when you got there.

Speaker 7 (28:47):
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Speaker 2 (29:01):
Life without a net? I suggest to go to bed
and sleep it off.

Speaker 1 (29:04):
Just wait until the show's over.

Speaker 2 (29:06):
Sleepy.

Speaker 1 (29:07):
Back to Dougpike as fifty plus continues.

Speaker 2 (29:16):
Final segment starts now of fifty plus on this Tuesday,
another bright sunny day, thousand degrees outside again.

Speaker 4 (29:23):
I don't know why.

Speaker 2 (29:24):
I don't know why we get fooled the first time
we get that one little little baby cool snap, Oh,
there's a norther. The air is so dry and crispin.
It's only going to be eighty seven today. It's not
really anything to write home about. But when it's been
ninety seven for three months, I guess it's all right.
So today we'll like pop quiz. You earlier and you

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failed miserably. I'll give you one more shot. Today is national?

Speaker 4 (29:51):
What day will Today is national?

Speaker 2 (29:55):
I'll give you a hint. I will give you ahead.
It is a food product, most frauda most of the time.
It is something you would something you probably eat once
every couple of weeks at least, and maybe once a week.
I'm narrowing it down.

Speaker 4 (30:12):
National root Beer Float Day?

Speaker 2 (30:15):
Do you have? Man? Did you really get root beer floats?
Are you just making that up?

Speaker 3 (30:19):
No? Good?

Speaker 4 (30:20):
You know what I did get? Oh? No, the new Bluebell.

Speaker 3 (30:24):
They just came out with the root beer float A
and W lab and it tastes just like a root
beer float.

Speaker 2 (30:33):
It's kind of insane without the root beer though, without
the root beer. No, I have to have the root
beer because towards the end you kind of mix them
all together and it's it's awesome.

Speaker 4 (30:43):
Ain't not?

Speaker 2 (30:44):
Those are good?

Speaker 4 (30:45):
Root beer floats are great.

Speaker 2 (30:46):
That's not today though, Okay, that's another day. Today is
National Taco Day.

Speaker 4 (30:50):
Oh well, I do eat tacos every single.

Speaker 2 (30:53):
Every what every school?

Speaker 4 (30:55):
Did you do every week?

Speaker 2 (30:57):
Oh? That's not what you said.

Speaker 4 (30:58):
That is what I said.

Speaker 2 (30:59):
I will play for you line the audio.

Speaker 4 (31:02):
No, don't, don't play it for you.

Speaker 2 (31:04):
Quiz will you can redeem yourself by getting this within
five percent? What percentage of adults like to eat tacos?

Speaker 4 (31:13):
What percentage of adults like to eat tacos? I will
say seventy three percent.

Speaker 2 (31:21):
Buzz no, ninety yeah. Now in Texas, I believe that
could be true. But if you're if you're thinking of
a national poll, and certainly, oh, it's National Taco Day,
so we're gonna go with that. I don't know that
ninety percent of the people in the entire country of America,
although we have those extra millions of people who are

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from Latin American countries who probably if man I would,
if I was down there, I'd be eating tacos three
times a week. I love them, I absolutely do. I'll
even eat I like them so much, will that I
will eat Taco bell tacos, which have gotten extremely expensive.
By the way, you have to pay. You have to
pay a bunch of extra to get beans. If you

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take something off and add beans, they still charge you
for the beans, but you don't get a discount when
you take something off. It's outrageous.

Speaker 4 (32:14):
You have no.

Speaker 2 (32:14):
Comment on that whatsoever. No even hear what I said.

Speaker 4 (32:18):
Because I just get what they give me.

Speaker 2 (32:20):
Yeah, I know, you just accept it willingly. That's boy.
You're a You're a good one to have. M that's
an easy mark right there. That's what they call you. Really, Yeah,
you're an easy mark if you'll just take what they
give you take what.

Speaker 4 (32:36):
Are you switching out and replacing with beans?

Speaker 2 (32:39):
Uh? This is for my wife. She doesn't care about
tomatoes really, so she ditches the tomatoes, which they also
charge you for or no, they'll what is it?

Speaker 4 (32:47):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (32:47):
Yeah, that she gets rid of the lettuce and tomato.
No I don't want that?

Speaker 4 (32:51):
Why bean and cheese? Hoco?

Speaker 2 (32:54):
Well she acts meat, beans and cheese.

Speaker 4 (32:55):
Okay, well then get them.

Speaker 2 (32:57):
We eat beans and cheese talking. No they don't, Yes
they do.

Speaker 4 (33:02):
It's a burrito, but not a taco. Oom.

Speaker 2 (33:08):
Listen, will the hell that handbasket? Selling a handbasket? I
would never eat that and it's not a taco reference
and lost and found, Lost and found. In recent years,
Seattle police have lost twenty three guns. They've lost twenty

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three guns and have no idea where they went. Spokesperson.
Person spokesperson, that was kind of like when you said school, I.

Speaker 4 (33:38):
Didn't say school. I'm gonna send it to you, lad.

Speaker 2 (33:42):
A spokesperson said, and I quote, we're gonna do our
best to ensure that we do better, and we're gonna
keep looking for them end quote. That person ought to
be running for president. That's kind of what that sounds like. Yeah,
we're gonna try to do better. Well, you've had four
years to do better, but in recent years you've lost

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twenty three guns. So you're not doing better and you're
not gonna do better because you're not probably gonna change anything.
All right, Well, yeah, I'm still with you. I would
never eat that. They're real or bad investment.

Speaker 4 (34:17):
I would never eat that. A new three.

Speaker 2 (34:20):
Ingredient sandwich is trending, it says here, but it's probably
gonna be a hard sell. Bread, cream cheese and green olives.
Can you think of anything more disgusting than that? I
can't red green cheese or cream cheese and greens. No,

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you don't want to eat the green cheese, will.

Speaker 4 (34:44):
I'll eat the blue cheese though.

Speaker 2 (34:46):
Yeah that's good.

Speaker 4 (34:46):
Why would you eat blue cheese but not green cheese?

Speaker 2 (34:49):
Well? Because the green cheese. I'm trying to think of something. Nah,
I can't. I got nothing. I got nothing, all right,
And who is selling the sandwich? That would be nobody.
It's just one you have to make for yourself. So
you gotta go out and buy a jar of olives
pitted or unpitted, well, hopefully pitted pimento or no in

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the green olive.

Speaker 4 (35:11):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (35:12):
I don't need olives at all. I like black olives
on sandwiches.

Speaker 4 (35:18):
I'm a I'll have black olives on pizza sometimes.

Speaker 2 (35:21):
Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, I like them like that, But
I'm not just gonna eat them out of a jar,
not like potato chips or something. All right, very quickly
will bad investment to hell in a handbasket? Or no way, absolutely,
no way this happened, No way this, There is no
way that this is real. Says a dad from South

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Carolina walked thirty miles through hurricane debris to get to
his his daughter's wedding. I'm I'm calling boloney on that man.
Thirty miles. That would be like walking from from here
to the woodlands through hurricane debris, not just hitchhiking up

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the road. There's no way. That guy walk thirty miles
just make a phone call. I'm stuck in all this
hurricane debris that's thirty miles wide or long, whichever way
you're standing.

Speaker 4 (36:19):
There's no way.

Speaker 2 (36:21):
That's why I put that on there. Absolutely no way
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back tomorrow.