December 10, 2025 • 38 mins
Today, Doug Pike discusses sharks, gators, and prostate cancer tests.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Remember when it was impossible to misplace the TV remote
because you were the TV remote. Remember when music sounded
like this? Remember when social media was truly social?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hey John, how's it going today?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Well? This show is all about you, only the good Ye.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
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 aj informed decisions for a healthier,
happier life.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
And now fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
All right, here we go Wednesday, Welcome one and all
of this. What n ninety something edition of fifty plus?
We're actually well past a thousand if we still had
the original several years, but we since we started weekdays,
we've still amassed what at some point in twenty twenty
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six is going to become a thousand episodes available. Well,
you talk about binge watching, how long do you think
that would would that take a month to listen to
those wills? That sound about right? I imagine so Holy Mackerel,
I don't know how long it would take to listen
to it. I don't I don't think I could listen
to myself for a month straight. But if any of
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you is interested in anything to do with senior related things,
somewhere in there.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
And in fairness to Will and.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
The other producers I've had over the years for this show,
not everything that's in each show is listed in the
podcast description because it would just take too much room.
I tend to bounce around a lot. Would you agree
with that? Not in II, of course, Yeah, I know it.
My wife says the same thing. My son just kind
of looks at me when I change courses right in
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the middle of a conversation. But that's just the way
my brain works.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
I can't help it. I just can't.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
So in any event, we'll be at a thousand before
too terribly long.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
We'd be pretty proud of that too, Will and I
hope my audience appreciates the work we put into these things.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
For this one, A quick look outside and a reminder
to get some sunshine today. Vitamin D, which does a
body good and always has. We talked about that yesterday
with doctor Mattock, and not only the health benefits of walking,
but also the social benefits.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
It's very hard to.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Meet new people while you're sitting at home watching game
shows or soap operas or reality TV, which I think
is the most unreal television of all. I've never understood
how you can take a bunch of people and hand
them things to say, things to how to express themselves,
and give them, give them all these little clues on
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how to act that's anything but naturally normal for them,
and then call it. Really that's the farthest thing from
the truth.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
There is so anyway you'll meet way more new people.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
If you're just out, even walking around the block, you're
you're quite likely to encounter somebody that you can say
hello to and maybe become part of my social experiment.
Who knows see just how many people will then share
a return greeting with you. I was two for two
yesterday at the grocery store, about in the thousands, still
in yet another game of who will talk to me
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at the grocery store, doesn't matter which one. And last night,
by the way, in a fast food place. This was
very interesting. Fast food is not something my wife and
I eat regularly, by the way, my son eats. He
eats a lot at Chipotle and some other some chicken
places and things like that, but not really. He's not
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a big burger fan for some reason. In any event,
I was in a burger place and standing.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
There in line.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
There was a man waiting also for his order, just
like I was doing, and he just kind of he
just he looked at me and he just he you
could see that he wanted to talk to somebody. I
didn't know about what, but he just said, Hey, how's
it going nice evening whatever. I can't remember exactly how
he started this, but within seconds and it just came
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out of him. Within seconds, he shared that his mother
had passed away on Monday.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
This guy was he was closer to sixty five.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Than to seventy or sixty I think, but really missing
his mom and it was all still so so fresh
for him, and he just I just let him talk.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
I just let him talk.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
I listened, and every now and then I'd let him
know i'd been that well. Once I let him know
I'd been in that same boat. But every now and
then I'd say, yeah, I understand, I do, because I've
been there for a year, for a decade since my
mom pass now, and I still miss being able to
talk and visit with her.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
And in that moment, that guy, he didn't need me.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
He just needed anybody, any pair of open ears. And
I'm kind of glad that I got that opportunity.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
I really am.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
I'm glad I stopped at that particular burger place too.
Wasn't on my original list. This is so weird. Seriously,
this is very truthful.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Something. Just when I was driving down Highway six.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
There are burger places all over the place, and I
had one in mind. But when I got to this one,
it just the car almost turned itself into the driveway
and into the parking lot, and I got out and
I walked through that door, and honestly, it was just
so it was good for my soul.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
I hope it was for his as well.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
I felt so so moved by the fact that he,
for some reason felt comfortable just letting loose and talking
to me about it. And I feel kind of like
I was raised right by my own mother and dad
to just let the guy talk. He had just lost
a parent, just lost a parent two days earlier, one
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day earlier, and yeah, it was still raw, and he
just needed to talk.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
He just needed to talk. Okay, I'll hold that for
a minute. I'll hold this.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Here's a kind of an interesting medical story. I'll go
ahead and use this. In the last minute or so
of this segment, there is a new urine test being
used to diagnose and catch prostate cancer very early. This
test only takes twenty minutes, and it's proving to be
nearly one hundred percent effective and accurate.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
That's a big jump.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
That's a really big jump from having to have prostate
exams and PSA checks in your blood every year. If
you can just go pee in a cup and find
out whether or not you got prostate cancer, that that's
a huge leap forward. A lot of guys out there
breathing a sigh of relief. I'm gonna ask their doctors
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about this.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
I hope.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
I haven't asked my doctor where they are in the
clinical trials on this, because I just found out about
it today, actually, but I intend to ask that question
and see if we can figure out just how far
this is from being something you can just go into
a quest or someplace else that does lab work. Hey,
check out my prostate cancer. Just feel free to use
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the whole cup if you need to. UT Health Institute
on Aging is an amazing collaborative of providers from every
medical discipline. They've got oncologists to optometrists to cardiologists, pull monologists.
All the ologies are covered by people who are part
of the Institute on Aging as our therapy, as are psychiatry, psychology,
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physical training, whatever it is. There's somebody there, and that's
the wrong way to say it. There's somebody who is
a member of the Institute on Agent because it doesn't
have its own building. But what they are is people
who have agreed to get additional training to whatever God
in those diplomas they have on the wall, so that
they might apply their specific body of knowledge to us,
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to seniors. Only a handful of places like this, or
a handful of Institutes on Aging, anything like this in
the entire country, and we are very blessed to have
one right down here. Most of those providers are centered
in the medical center, where you would guess they would be,
but they also work in outlying areas all around town,
so that if you don't want to go in there,
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if you don't want to experience the oh so friendly
and easy and navigable experience of the med center in
the middle of the week, you don't have to. You
can see somebody out in your neck of the woods.
Ut dot edu slash aging start there and get an
idea of all the resources they provide, all the access
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they provide, and then work your way toward discovering a
provider who can take really good care of whatever's bothering you,
based on more knowledge than the average doctor about what
makes seniors work. Ut dot edu slash aging ut h
dot ed u slash aging yew.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
They sure don't make them like they used to.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
That's why every few months we wash them, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh code O wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike. Welcome back fifty plus. Piano
is a fantastic instrument.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
It can It's the foundation on which most Between that
and guitars, I think guitars came in.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
I don't know when. Probably you know.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
I'm not even gonna guess, because guitars have been around
a long time.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
But the p I think was more of an.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Original foundational instrument on which all the other parts of
a complete symphony that requires an entire orchestra can be built.
And I'm fascinated by the ability of composers, especially some
of the earlier composers, and the way that they were
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able to sit down at a piano and write out
an entire symphony with every part, for every instrument one
note at a time, just one note at a time.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
I think that with AI, now it's all well, it's
already being done. It's gonna get worse, though. You can.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
You can hammer out maybe a couple of bars of
a tune that you think might have some possibilities, and
then just tell AI to flesh it out, turn this
into a three minute song out candy canes and unicorns.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
And AI just there. It is lyrics music. What do
you want?
Speaker 3 (11:08):
You want it fast? Slow, And that's that's the future. Unfortunately,
and it's gonna it's gonna intrude at some point, even
more so into the creative world.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
And it's gonna.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
I don't think AI will be able to put creativity
out of business, entirely human creativity, but it certainly it
certainly changes everything moving into a little bit of a
good thing, I would think. Whereasident Trump told it like
it was on Tuesday yesterday when he said straight out
that the Biden administration caused prices to go up and
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and he was in the process of bringing them down,
and every bit of that sentence was true. One by one,
all the things that we just paid through the nose
for eggs, housing, meds, gas trap close. Everything was sky
high under Sleepy Joe. And some of that was due
to the pandemic, but a good part of it was
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because he didn't react to that the right way, and
he just, frankly, he just wasn't even at the wheel
for about the last year, maybe eighteen months of his term.
Our economy is getting better, there's absolutely no question about that.
And President Trump's making good on just one campaign promise
after another.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Gas I talked about this yesterday.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Gas in the Greater Houston area only two forty nine
a gallon on average, and that where I am, even
the branded stations are inside of two dollars and twenty
cents a barrel or a gallon. Excuse me, not a barrel.
I'd be a lot of gasoline thirty two gallons. President
also continues to remove illegal immigrants from our country, and
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we've got yet another good reason to keep doing so
from this week when an illegal from Honduras, this guy
deported several times. By the way, he's the guy who's
been charged of a violet stabbing over in North Carolina
on a little commuter train. President Trump administration deported him
all the way back in twenty eighteen. Then Biden let
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him re enter along the Texas border in twenty twenty one.
Well not him personally, but his policies let that guy
back in. And then actually, to his credit, the Biden
administration actually kicked this guy out one more time, but
he returned as a god away sometime between then and
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along the way to racket up several arrests for violent
crimes and then finally stabbing this guy on the train.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
That's the kind of people we need to get out of.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Here, no matter what. We don't need them here. They're
not legally here, and they.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Need to go.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
They just need to be sent back to wherever they
came from or wherever they.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
Want to go, and we'll take them.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
But people who are here, people who are here and
doing it the right way and agreeing to some of
the A lot of people have taken the government's offer
to relocate, to go back and even get paid to
go back to where they were, and then at some
point come back the proper way, the lawful way, and
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get themselves back into the country. I think that would
be fantastic. Honestly, I don't have a problem with that.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
I don't have a problem with that at all.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Meanwhile, at least a half a billion dollars in counting
disappeared thanks to the hot mess in Minnesota, where US
tax dollars being funneled out of the country mostly and
apparently eventually Landing. And I talked about this yesterday too.
It just keeps coming up. It was all over the
news today. Millions of people being well, millions of millions
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of people defrauding our government across the country. Millions of
dollars up in Minnesota that never never left for the
right direction, ended up being spent on on real estate
and fancy cars and jewelry by the people who facilitated
the bigger transfers all the way over into the far
reaches of the world and some really bad parts of
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the continent of Africa. And that all despite whistleblowers, dozens
of them, coming forward telling the state and local government, hey,
you got fraud. That's reached new heights. There's no way
it could be any worse that well than all of
a sudden, it is going on and been going on
for years in the almost now completely overtaken state of Minnesota.
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New York City is an example of what's going to
happen if they don't get their ducks in a row
up there real quick. Investigators just getting started, and they've
got a long ways to go there. And I guarantee
you there are some people losing a lot of sleep
at night just knowing knowing what they've done, knowing the
trail they left, when they start thinking about it and
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wishing they'd probably never come.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Up with that.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
How much time do I have will I don't really
yet two and a half. Okay, I don't really want
to get into Jasmine Crockett right now, but I gotta
tell you. She threw her hat in the ring to
become a senator in the midterms, and I don't see
any legitimate chance for her to get there because she's
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very progressive, and her whole brand is tailored to this,
this little narrow audience rather than a statewide electorate. Her
policy positions, she wants to expand federal spending, she wants
to take really aggressively progressive social stances. She's gonna she's
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got all this combative messaging that she likes to throw
out there, and she's she's got the tambourine bangers on
every corner, but there aren't many of them. And what
she's risky is alienation within her party of the moderates,
the independence, the people in the middle who typically are
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going to decide a state wide race. You can, if
you have a small enough district and you can convince
a small enough group of people who really don't know
that much about politics that you're the answer, you might
get yourself into state office like she did. Her style,
just her style is a real challenge, confrontational, high energy approach.
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It'll work safely right in her little home district, but
they're not gonna get much farther than that. What she's
gonna do, and I've heard people talk about this already,
is raise a ton of money, because there's gonna be
a lot of money wanting to throw her. A lot
of people want to throw money at her, and then
she's not going to spend it all, and then she's
gonna just kind of move over to some move into entertainment.
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I think it was might have been on Michael Berry
Show that he talked about her becoming one of the
next hosts of the View something like that, she, by
the way, the woman who who and I watched the
clip earlier today.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
It was amazing.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
She sits there and just out loud in her normal
crazy voice, said, and I quote, just because someone has
committed a crime, it doesn't make them a criminal. That's
end quote right there. I'm sorry, Yes, missus Crockett. That
actually is the dictionary definition of a criminal. It's a
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person who commits a crime. So how she could say
that and really believe in what she said, it's just
mind bodling.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
As far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
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Aged to perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Third segment starts now, thank you for listening. Certainly do
appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
On this absolutely beautiful day outside, I got motivated a
little bit by Doctor Maddox segment yesterday talking about getting
outside and going on hikes and whatnot. And the one
thing I will I will say about starting if you
haven't been hiking or walking or just getting outside much
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of late, and blame it on the weather, blame it
on your job, blame it on whatever. Just make it
a priority in your life to get out there.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
We need that exposure to the outdoors.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Even if you don't run into anybody to talk to,
even if you go walk in the woods all by yourself,
just get out there and do it.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
And he mentioned Brasispen State Park.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
I forgot to tell the story yesterday about the the
fun time my wife and I had at Brasispen State
Park many many years ago. I wanted to take her
down there, and it was during the alligator mating season, okay,
And I knew that she didn't know that I wouldn't
tell her.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
And there are.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Literally I don't I think he said something like one
hundred alligators.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
There may be five hundred in that park. I don't know.
The bottom line is there's a.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Bunch of them, and mostly they stay in one big
reservoir that is flanked on I think two sides at
least by just marshland. And there's a levee where this
reservoir is, and then and it's the levee was created
by digging out some of the original marsh and piling
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it up around the perimeter of the thing. And the
trail that we were walking is along the top of
that levee. And we're walking along looking at all the birds,
a beautiful birds out there. There's beautiful scenery out there,
and the brush and the marsh grass on the left
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hand side of the trail, the way we were walking
was about waist high. Nobody's going to go walking off
into that, that's for sure, especially the time of year
we were at. To the right is the reservoir where
most of the alligators hang out most of the time.
And we're walking down this trail and I look ahead
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and I see a rushling in that that taller grass,
that taller marsh grass, and I thought, oh boy, that's
probably an alligator. I hope is not a terribly big one.
And we keep walking and this head starts coming out
of the grass, and this head is I'm trying to
think of something that big that would would kind of
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relate well. In any event, this alligator, the alligator that
followed that head out of the brush, out of the
marsh grass, was all of well. I had already seen
about six or seven feet of it, still hadn't seen
its hind legs.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
And my wife is.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Busy looking over the reservoir because she's keeping her eye
those little alligators in the reservoir. She doesn't want any
part of them. She's going to make sure none of
them come running all the way up that hill just
to snatch her off her feet and take her back
into into the marsh or into the reservoir. I'm looking
at nine ten eleven feet of alligator coming out of
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the marsh grass, and she finally turns toward me to
say something about something beautiful she'd just seen, or something
that might have gotten her attention, whatever, And before the
words could fall off of her lips, she just froze.
She absolutely froze. At this point, we're ten yards from
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this alligator, and it's it's still making it still its intent,
it's still to just go straight across the levee and
hobble on down into the reservoir. But she doesn't know that,
and she I couldn't have convinced her if I'd tried.
So she sees the alligator, she looks at me and says, ep,
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time to go home. And she turned around and started
walking away. Didn't ask me if I was coming, didn't
ask if I would escort her back to the car.
She just said time to go home, and started walking
back toward the car. And I don't blame her. She
grew up a little more city girl. She had some
outdoors exposure, but nothing like I had, nothing like the
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experience I've had with alligators and snakes and all the
other fun things you can trip over in the outdoors.
I've come close twice now to literally tripping over an
alligator because I wasn't paying attention I was so busy
fishing and walking the edge of a lake once that
I bumped an alligator's tail. And fortunately it was the
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south end of the alligator that I bumped. If it
had been the north end, I might have gotten my
leg taken off, but it was.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
It wasn't a giant.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
It was maybe six seven feet long, but fortunately I
scared it as much as it scared me. And when
it dove into that water, it was like somebody throwing
a coke machine into the lake. It would just frighten
us both so badly, so so badly. It's okay, though,
I still enjoyed being outdoors, and I hope you do too.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
Boy, I got off on a tangent, there, didn't I.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
I'm gonna be talking about I may talk about that
a little bit during fifty plus or during the Outdoor
Show Doug Pike Show this weekend on KBU. Me more so, though,
I'll be talking about a new rule that came down
federally actually, and the state's going to have to enforce it.
I'm pretty sure that they have no choice, but it's
going to prohibit the use of drones for fishing, in
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which a lot of shark fishermen on the beach use
drones to take their baits out far enough to get
to where.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
The bigger sharks hang out.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
They won't be able to do that anymore now they'll
have to either send out little motorized boats or paddle
them out on surfboards like my friends and I used
to do. You didn't hold the bait really close to
the surfboard. What you did was you just started paddling
out on your board and you clenched the leader. And
we're talking about ten and fifteen foot leaders. You clenched
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the leader between your toes, and then when you got
out far enough and you looked back and they're.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
Waving on the beach.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
They've got enough line out now, and you're far enough,
you just let your toes relax.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
And the bait sinks on down to the bottom. It's amazing.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Nobody ever got bitten by a shark doing that. We
were dragging chunks of bloody meat on a surfboard out
into the Gulf of Mexico to try to catch big sharks,
which are there, by the way, there are a lot
more sharks in the Gulf of Mexico. Then you might
realize and if people knew just how many were out there.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
A lot of them might not go back in the water.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
There's no really reason really to be scared of the
sharks in the Gulf of Mexico. Most of them are
especially in the daylight hours that at nighttime down the coast,
where the water gets deeper faster, there's some pretty big,
pretty big sharks come up into shallow water. But up
here mostly it's ankle biters, and they might nip at
you or something like that, especially if you're wearing something shiny,
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or if you've got to cut or scrape on you
somehow dropping blood in the water.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
But by and large, by and large, I'm just straight
way way off of what I talked about. What I
wanted to talk about today took care of that.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
I'm gonna bring some good news from the state legislator,
the federal House representatives actually when we get back from
this next break, and then I've also got another good
medical piece I can do, and a couple more things
to get us to the bottom of this one, or
I guess back to the top. Really on the way out,
I'm gonna tell you about Cedar Cove RV Resort down
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there in Baytown, the very end of Tri City b Troade,
quite close effect across the street really from Thompson's Bake
Camp if you know where that is, right on the bay.
All the amenities you can imagine in a great place
to park your RV for a night, a week, all summer,
however long you want to park that thing there. He's
got every he is Al Kibbi, and he and his
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wife Nancy have everything you could need to enjoy that
stay up to it, including a rental RV that sleeps
for quite comfortably and will accommodate you. He's got that
for rent you just you'll put it to one of
the preferred slabs down there. It's all concrete, the slabs
in the roads. All of the hookups have electric, water
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and sewer. You got free Wi Fi. There's a bathhouse
where you can go take a shower.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
If you want. And it's a pretty good fishing.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
When the tide and the time are right, which is
right now this time of year, is a really good
time to go maybe catch a red fish, especially when
the sun's out like it has been. I wouldn't be
you know, if I could get there quickly. I wouldn't
mind going down there. He keeps frozen bait on hand
in his little convenience store, but you can get fresh
bait and live bait right across the street at Thompson's
if you want big, big fun staying on the water
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like that, especially when it's cool at night, you can
get up there and maybe huddle around a little campfire
and really enjoy yourself and it. Just relax and enjoy
the breeze going through the palm trees, lapping of the
water against the shoreline. It's a nice lifestyle, it really is.
And you can rent it before you buy it now,
thanks to all and his wife. Cedar cove rv Resort
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dot com is a website. Go check it out cedar
cove Rvresort dot com.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
What's life without a net?
Speaker 4 (29:04):
I suggest you go to bed, sleep it off.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Just wait until the show's over. Sleepy. Back to Doug
Pike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
Pardon me, thanks for listening, Mercy's sakes, lingering, goop. Oh
this this voice is ninety I'd say eighty five percent today.
It sounds a little scratcher than it did this morning. Actually,
because I've been talking. I can't help it. This is
what I do for a living. I talk, Okay, I
try to. I try to explain that to my wife.
(29:33):
She understands that it that that's what I do for
a living. But she said, when you get home, why
can't you just be quiet? Well, it's because I'm fleshing
out stuff. I'm thinking about what I want to talk
about the next day when I come in here, or
when i'm over in KB me talking about the outdoors,
which I was here for a minute, actually more than
a minute. In good news or what I believe to
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be the long haul, some things are good now, some
things are good in perpetuity, and I think this will
be Legislation has been introduced by an Iowa representative and
mother of two woman named Ashley Henson.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
That would require the fathers of unborn children.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
To shoulder half the costs of prenatal care, delivery, insurance, premiums, medications,
all of that that has forever been solely responsible. The
poor mom ends up having to do that in almost
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every case when there's any kind of controversy whatsoever. The
deadbeat dad's disappear until that baby's born and they can
get that DNA test. But now if this piece of
legislation goes through, they're going to have to get into
their wallets from the time that early pregnancy tests come
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back comes back positive, and that's that's another boy, that's
another eight nine six. I don't know how early they
can detect that stuff. I have no idea about those things.
I'm gonna guess it's maybe at.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
A month, month and a half something like that.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
So you got an extra eight months of shelling out
money just because you got a little drunk and decided
to have a little fun one night.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
It might make you think a little bit.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
It might encourage a whole lot of these the players
out there to kind of rethink how bad they want
to be in the game when it's gonna cost them
right from the time, right from the time well let's
call it, well don't know, six weeks after they roll
out of the sack.
Speaker 4 (31:44):
Mm hmmmm, that will.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
I think that really could be more significant than even
the representative sees at present. Long term, down the line,
there's gonna be a lot of people who, now that
they know it's going to fall, a lot of men who,
now that they know it's really gonna cost them legitimate money,
they might just pump the brakes a little bit. President
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Trump and its staff, by the way, are said to
be looking into it and alternative to income tax, which
is fantastic. I think the goal, like is to liminate
federal income tax and replace it. It'll have to be replaced,
and that's gonna happen with tariffs and other means of
supporting us. All the investment that's coming back, all the
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purchases that will be made with what used to be
tax tax dollars. It's gonna be okay if we don't
have those tax dollars because the money we have, we
will be okay with spending because there won't be well,
might be much, might still be sales tax. There's gonna
be statewide sales tax what eight to a quarter here
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in Houston, so that to deal with. You're still probably
gonna have to pay taxes on a car if you
buy one. But if you can just think about the savings,
You think about how much money you would have in
your pocket if you didn't have to pay federal income
tax at all at all. And I hope they really
stay with this, I truly do. How much time do
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I have to do it? Four minutes?
Speaker 4 (33:14):
I hope, so five that's even better.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
I'm certain somebody's going to disagree, just because of the
way things change so frequently these days. But I read
this morning about a decade long study. It started back
in twenty fifteen or somewhere in there. Decade long study,
thirty one hundred adults, and it showed that people whose
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diets contained lots of coffee, lots of tea, lots of
berries and cocoa and oats and whole grains, and shoves
us right back to the granola asle right in the
produce department. If you eat all of that, long term
better hard health was the number one five also beneficial,
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that same basic heavy load of those things, the berries, cocoa, oats,
whole grains, olive oil, tea, coffee, all of those things
also very good for your brain and your gut health.
So I think I could now I'm going to have
to supplement that with some brisket every now and then,
(34:25):
or maybe some fahetas, or maybe some seafood and schiladas
at Berry Hill, But I could get on board.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
With the rest of that as just kind of a.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
Starting point, a base from which to work if I
know now that I know that the studies show it
benefiting my heart.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
Especially. My dad died of a heart attack.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
Now much of that was attributable to the fact that
he smoked lucky strikes, and people in this audience knew
exactly what those were. Alterless cigarette, just straight from the
lighted cigarette, straight to your lungs, nothing to slow all
those chemicals down, and that I think is most of
what caused it. But in any event, I smoked for
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a long time. I quit cop quite close to twenty
years ago.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
No, maybe more.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
I bet it's closer to thirty now. In any event,
I like the idea of keep in mind, keeping my
heart healthy, staying medical for another minute of quick and easy.
Breath test has been developed over in the UK. This
thing's being used to detect pancreatic cancer. It's like a
breathalyzer that detects pancreatic cancer early enough that it you
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might have a chance to get through. This is one
of the most difficult cancers to treat, and it's in
part because it's so difficult to detect and doesn't really
become detectable. Does it really become symptomatic until you're around
stage four.
Speaker 4 (36:00):
That's not helpful.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
Anybody who's ever dealt with anything to do with cancer,
or even talk to somebody knows that stage one is
a better place to find it than stage four. Pancreatic
usually shows up at four. I lost a family friend
to pancreat cancer three decades ago, maybe four, long long
time ago, very tough. And now this breath test, Holy
(36:22):
call it up. There it is and they can go
looking for it much much earlier. Next, I got a
couple more I want to do real quick about radicals
targeting children. This one is a pro abortion group promoting
a book called and this is the title, Abortion Is Everything.
It's gonna ship early next year, and it targets children
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roughly from five to eight years old. It's disgusting. I
read a little bit more about it. Go look it
up and make sure that your school's library, your elementary
school's library, doesn't have that in there, and that no
kids have access to anything like it.
Speaker 4 (37:02):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (37:03):
If you need a little laugh real quick, I got
a mint in a half. Maybe close something one.
Speaker 4 (37:07):
I can do this.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
If you're you remember having to dress your kids in
costumes for school. You got to be a ghost or
a goblin Halloween, pilgrims for Thanksgiving, elves for Christmas, and
on and on. Nine year old boy Oscar Wilkins got
the role of Elvis the Elf for his school's Christmas play,
and he came home and told his parents he'd been
cast as Elvis. Made no mention whatsoever that the rest
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of the kids would be Elves. All he knew was
that he would play the part of Elvis. So his
parents took him at his word and found an authentic
Elvis Presley costume. The King Elvis Presley sent him off
to school that day. There's a really really cool picture
of Oscar on stage, everyone around him, all the other
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little kids, nine year old's, eight year old's, seven year old,
six year olds, whatever. They're all dressed in Elf costumes,
and Oscar is dressed like the King. Sequin shirt, blue
suede shoes, the whole bit. We'll be back tomorrow, Audios.
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And now fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
All right, here we go Wednesday, Welcome one and all
of this. What n ninety something edition of fifty plus?
We're actually well past a thousand if we still had
the original several years, but we since we started weekdays,
we've still amassed what at some point in twenty twenty
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six is going to become a thousand episodes available. Well,
you talk about binge watching, how long do you think
that would would that take a month to listen to
those wills? That sound about right? I imagine so Holy Mackerel,
I don't know how long it would take to listen
to it. I don't I don't think I could listen
to myself for a month straight. But if any of
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you is interested in anything to do with senior related things,
somewhere in there.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
And in fairness to Will and.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
The other producers I've had over the years for this show,
not everything that's in each show is listed in the
podcast description because it would just take too much room.
I tend to bounce around a lot. Would you agree
with that? Not in II, of course, Yeah, I know it.
My wife says the same thing. My son just kind
of looks at me when I change courses right in
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the middle of a conversation. But that's just the way
my brain works.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
I can't help it. I just can't.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
So in any event, we'll be at a thousand before
too terribly long.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
We'd be pretty proud of that too, Will and I
hope my audience appreciates the work we put into these things.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
For this one, A quick look outside and a reminder
to get some sunshine today. Vitamin D, which does a
body good and always has. We talked about that yesterday
with doctor Mattock, and not only the health benefits of walking,
but also the social benefits.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
It's very hard to.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Meet new people while you're sitting at home watching game
shows or soap operas or reality TV, which I think
is the most unreal television of all. I've never understood
how you can take a bunch of people and hand
them things to say, things to how to express themselves,
and give them, give them all these little clues on
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how to act that's anything but naturally normal for them,
and then call it. Really that's the farthest thing from
the truth.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
There is so anyway you'll meet way more new people.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
If you're just out, even walking around the block, you're
you're quite likely to encounter somebody that you can say
hello to and maybe become part of my social experiment.
Who knows see just how many people will then share
a return greeting with you. I was two for two
yesterday at the grocery store, about in the thousands, still
in yet another game of who will talk to me
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at the grocery store, doesn't matter which one. And last night,
by the way, in a fast food place. This was
very interesting. Fast food is not something my wife and
I eat regularly, by the way, my son eats. He
eats a lot at Chipotle and some other some chicken
places and things like that, but not really. He's not
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a big burger fan for some reason. In any event,
I was in a burger place and standing.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
There in line.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
There was a man waiting also for his order, just
like I was doing, and he just kind of he
just he looked at me and he just he you
could see that he wanted to talk to somebody. I
didn't know about what, but he just said, Hey, how's
it going nice evening whatever. I can't remember exactly how
he started this, but within seconds and it just came
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out of him. Within seconds, he shared that his mother
had passed away on Monday.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
This guy was he was closer to sixty five.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Than to seventy or sixty I think, but really missing
his mom and it was all still so so fresh
for him, and he just I just let him talk.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
I just let him talk.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
I listened, and every now and then I'd let him
know i'd been that well. Once I let him know
I'd been in that same boat. But every now and
then I'd say, yeah, I understand, I do, because I've
been there for a year, for a decade since my
mom pass now, and I still miss being able to
talk and visit with her.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
And in that moment, that guy, he didn't need me.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
He just needed anybody, any pair of open ears. And
I'm kind of glad that I got that opportunity.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
I really am.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
I'm glad I stopped at that particular burger place too.
Wasn't on my original list. This is so weird. Seriously,
this is very truthful.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Something. Just when I was driving down Highway six.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
There are burger places all over the place, and I
had one in mind. But when I got to this one,
it just the car almost turned itself into the driveway
and into the parking lot, and I got out and
I walked through that door, and honestly, it was just
so it was good for my soul.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
I hope it was for his as well.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
I felt so so moved by the fact that he,
for some reason felt comfortable just letting loose and talking
to me about it. And I feel kind of like
I was raised right by my own mother and dad
to just let the guy talk. He had just lost
a parent, just lost a parent two days earlier, one
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day earlier, and yeah, it was still raw, and he
just needed to talk.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
He just needed to talk. Okay, I'll hold that for
a minute. I'll hold this.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Here's a kind of an interesting medical story. I'll go
ahead and use this. In the last minute or so
of this segment, there is a new urine test being
used to diagnose and catch prostate cancer very early. This
test only takes twenty minutes, and it's proving to be
nearly one hundred percent effective and accurate.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
That's a big jump.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
That's a really big jump from having to have prostate
exams and PSA checks in your blood every year. If
you can just go pee in a cup and find
out whether or not you got prostate cancer, that that's
a huge leap forward. A lot of guys out there
breathing a sigh of relief. I'm gonna ask their doctors
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about this.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
I hope.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
I haven't asked my doctor where they are in the
clinical trials on this, because I just found out about
it today, actually, but I intend to ask that question
and see if we can figure out just how far
this is from being something you can just go into
a quest or someplace else that does lab work. Hey,
check out my prostate cancer. Just feel free to use
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the whole cup if you need to. UT Health Institute
on Aging is an amazing collaborative of providers from every
medical discipline. They've got oncologists to optometrists to cardiologists, pull monologists.
All the ologies are covered by people who are part
of the Institute on Aging as our therapy, as are psychiatry, psychology,
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physical training, whatever it is. There's somebody there, and that's
the wrong way to say it. There's somebody who is
a member of the Institute on Agent because it doesn't
have its own building. But what they are is people
who have agreed to get additional training to whatever God
in those diplomas they have on the wall, so that
they might apply their specific body of knowledge to us,
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to seniors. Only a handful of places like this, or
a handful of Institutes on Aging, anything like this in
the entire country, and we are very blessed to have
one right down here. Most of those providers are centered
in the medical center, where you would guess they would be,
but they also work in outlying areas all around town,
so that if you don't want to go in there,
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if you don't want to experience the oh so friendly
and easy and navigable experience of the med center in
the middle of the week, you don't have to. You
can see somebody out in your neck of the woods.
Ut dot edu slash aging start there and get an
idea of all the resources they provide, all the access
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they provide, and then work your way toward discovering a
provider who can take really good care of whatever's bothering you,
based on more knowledge than the average doctor about what
makes seniors work. Ut dot edu slash aging ut h
dot ed u slash aging yew.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
They sure don't make them like they used to.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
That's why every few months we wash them, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh code O wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike. Welcome back fifty plus. Piano
is a fantastic instrument.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
It can It's the foundation on which most Between that
and guitars, I think guitars came in.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
I don't know when. Probably you know.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
I'm not even gonna guess, because guitars have been around
a long time.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
But the p I think was more of an.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Original foundational instrument on which all the other parts of
a complete symphony that requires an entire orchestra can be built.
And I'm fascinated by the ability of composers, especially some
of the earlier composers, and the way that they were
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able to sit down at a piano and write out
an entire symphony with every part, for every instrument one
note at a time, just one note at a time.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
I think that with AI, now it's all well, it's
already being done. It's gonna get worse, though. You can.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
You can hammer out maybe a couple of bars of
a tune that you think might have some possibilities, and
then just tell AI to flesh it out, turn this
into a three minute song out candy canes and unicorns.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
And AI just there. It is lyrics music. What do
you want?
Speaker 3 (11:08):
You want it fast? Slow, And that's that's the future. Unfortunately,
and it's gonna it's gonna intrude at some point, even
more so into the creative world.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
And it's gonna.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
I don't think AI will be able to put creativity
out of business, entirely human creativity, but it certainly it
certainly changes everything moving into a little bit of a
good thing, I would think. Whereasident Trump told it like
it was on Tuesday yesterday when he said straight out
that the Biden administration caused prices to go up and
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and he was in the process of bringing them down,
and every bit of that sentence was true. One by one,
all the things that we just paid through the nose
for eggs, housing, meds, gas trap close. Everything was sky
high under Sleepy Joe. And some of that was due
to the pandemic, but a good part of it was
(12:08):
because he didn't react to that the right way, and
he just, frankly, he just wasn't even at the wheel
for about the last year, maybe eighteen months of his term.
Our economy is getting better, there's absolutely no question about that.
And President Trump's making good on just one campaign promise
after another.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Gas I talked about this yesterday.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Gas in the Greater Houston area only two forty nine
a gallon on average, and that where I am, even
the branded stations are inside of two dollars and twenty
cents a barrel or a gallon. Excuse me, not a barrel.
I'd be a lot of gasoline thirty two gallons. President
also continues to remove illegal immigrants from our country, and
(12:50):
we've got yet another good reason to keep doing so
from this week when an illegal from Honduras, this guy
deported several times. By the way, he's the guy who's
been charged of a violet stabbing over in North Carolina
on a little commuter train. President Trump administration deported him
all the way back in twenty eighteen. Then Biden let
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him re enter along the Texas border in twenty twenty one.
Well not him personally, but his policies let that guy
back in. And then actually, to his credit, the Biden
administration actually kicked this guy out one more time, but
he returned as a god away sometime between then and
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along the way to racket up several arrests for violent
crimes and then finally stabbing this guy on the train.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
That's the kind of people we need to get out of.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Here, no matter what. We don't need them here. They're
not legally here, and they.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Need to go.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
They just need to be sent back to wherever they
came from or wherever they.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
Want to go, and we'll take them.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
But people who are here, people who are here and
doing it the right way and agreeing to some of
the A lot of people have taken the government's offer
to relocate, to go back and even get paid to
go back to where they were, and then at some
point come back the proper way, the lawful way, and
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get themselves back into the country. I think that would
be fantastic. Honestly, I don't have a problem with that.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
I don't have a problem with that at all.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Meanwhile, at least a half a billion dollars in counting
disappeared thanks to the hot mess in Minnesota, where US
tax dollars being funneled out of the country mostly and
apparently eventually Landing. And I talked about this yesterday too.
It just keeps coming up. It was all over the
news today. Millions of people being well, millions of millions
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of people defrauding our government across the country. Millions of
dollars up in Minnesota that never never left for the
right direction, ended up being spent on on real estate
and fancy cars and jewelry by the people who facilitated
the bigger transfers all the way over into the far
reaches of the world and some really bad parts of
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the continent of Africa. And that all despite whistleblowers, dozens
of them, coming forward telling the state and local government, hey,
you got fraud. That's reached new heights. There's no way
it could be any worse that well than all of
a sudden, it is going on and been going on
for years in the almost now completely overtaken state of Minnesota.
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New York City is an example of what's going to
happen if they don't get their ducks in a row
up there real quick. Investigators just getting started, and they've
got a long ways to go there. And I guarantee
you there are some people losing a lot of sleep
at night just knowing knowing what they've done, knowing the
trail they left, when they start thinking about it and
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wishing they'd probably never come.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Up with that.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
How much time do I have will I don't really
yet two and a half. Okay, I don't really want
to get into Jasmine Crockett right now, but I gotta
tell you. She threw her hat in the ring to
become a senator in the midterms, and I don't see
any legitimate chance for her to get there because she's
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very progressive, and her whole brand is tailored to this,
this little narrow audience rather than a statewide electorate. Her
policy positions, she wants to expand federal spending, she wants
to take really aggressively progressive social stances. She's gonna she's
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got all this combative messaging that she likes to throw
out there, and she's she's got the tambourine bangers on
every corner, but there aren't many of them. And what
she's risky is alienation within her party of the moderates,
the independence, the people in the middle who typically are
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going to decide a state wide race. You can, if
you have a small enough district and you can convince
a small enough group of people who really don't know
that much about politics that you're the answer, you might
get yourself into state office like she did. Her style,
just her style is a real challenge, confrontational, high energy approach.
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It'll work safely right in her little home district, but
they're not gonna get much farther than that. What she's
gonna do, and I've heard people talk about this already,
is raise a ton of money, because there's gonna be
a lot of money wanting to throw her. A lot
of people want to throw money at her, and then
she's not going to spend it all, and then she's
gonna just kind of move over to some move into entertainment.
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I think it was might have been on Michael Berry
Show that he talked about her becoming one of the
next hosts of the View something like that, she, by
the way, the woman who who and I watched the
clip earlier today.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
It was amazing.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
She sits there and just out loud in her normal
crazy voice, said, and I quote, just because someone has
committed a crime, it doesn't make them a criminal. That's
end quote right there. I'm sorry, Yes, missus Crockett. That
actually is the dictionary definition of a criminal. It's a
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person who commits a crime. So how she could say
that and really believe in what she said, it's just
mind bodling.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
As far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
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Aged to perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike.
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Third segment starts now, thank you for listening. Certainly do
appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
On this absolutely beautiful day outside, I got motivated a
little bit by Doctor Maddox segment yesterday talking about getting
outside and going on hikes and whatnot. And the one
thing I will I will say about starting if you
haven't been hiking or walking or just getting outside much
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of late, and blame it on the weather, blame it
on your job, blame it on whatever. Just make it
a priority in your life to get out there.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
We need that exposure to the outdoors.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Even if you don't run into anybody to talk to,
even if you go walk in the woods all by yourself,
just get out there and do it.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
And he mentioned Brasispen State Park.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
I forgot to tell the story yesterday about the the
fun time my wife and I had at Brasispen State
Park many many years ago. I wanted to take her
down there, and it was during the alligator mating season, okay,
And I knew that she didn't know that I wouldn't
tell her.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
And there are.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Literally I don't I think he said something like one
hundred alligators.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
There may be five hundred in that park. I don't know.
The bottom line is there's a.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Bunch of them, and mostly they stay in one big
reservoir that is flanked on I think two sides at
least by just marshland. And there's a levee where this
reservoir is, and then and it's the levee was created
by digging out some of the original marsh and piling
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it up around the perimeter of the thing. And the
trail that we were walking is along the top of
that levee. And we're walking along looking at all the birds,
a beautiful birds out there. There's beautiful scenery out there,
and the brush and the marsh grass on the left
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hand side of the trail, the way we were walking
was about waist high. Nobody's going to go walking off
into that, that's for sure, especially the time of year
we were at. To the right is the reservoir where
most of the alligators hang out most of the time.
And we're walking down this trail and I look ahead
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and I see a rushling in that that taller grass,
that taller marsh grass, and I thought, oh boy, that's
probably an alligator. I hope is not a terribly big one.
And we keep walking and this head starts coming out
of the grass, and this head is I'm trying to
think of something that big that would would kind of
(22:23):
relate well. In any event, this alligator, the alligator that
followed that head out of the brush, out of the
marsh grass, was all of well. I had already seen
about six or seven feet of it, still hadn't seen
its hind legs.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
And my wife is.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Busy looking over the reservoir because she's keeping her eye
those little alligators in the reservoir. She doesn't want any
part of them. She's going to make sure none of
them come running all the way up that hill just
to snatch her off her feet and take her back
into into the marsh or into the reservoir. I'm looking
at nine ten eleven feet of alligator coming out of
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the marsh grass, and she finally turns toward me to
say something about something beautiful she'd just seen, or something
that might have gotten her attention, whatever, And before the
words could fall off of her lips, she just froze.
She absolutely froze. At this point, we're ten yards from
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this alligator, and it's it's still making it still its intent,
it's still to just go straight across the levee and
hobble on down into the reservoir. But she doesn't know that,
and she I couldn't have convinced her if I'd tried.
So she sees the alligator, she looks at me and says, ep,
(23:46):
time to go home. And she turned around and started
walking away. Didn't ask me if I was coming, didn't
ask if I would escort her back to the car.
She just said time to go home, and started walking
back toward the car. And I don't blame her. She
grew up a little more city girl. She had some
outdoors exposure, but nothing like I had, nothing like the
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experience I've had with alligators and snakes and all the
other fun things you can trip over in the outdoors.
I've come close twice now to literally tripping over an
alligator because I wasn't paying attention I was so busy
fishing and walking the edge of a lake once that
I bumped an alligator's tail. And fortunately it was the
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south end of the alligator that I bumped. If it
had been the north end, I might have gotten my
leg taken off, but it was.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
It wasn't a giant.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
It was maybe six seven feet long, but fortunately I
scared it as much as it scared me. And when
it dove into that water, it was like somebody throwing
a coke machine into the lake. It would just frighten
us both so badly, so so badly. It's okay, though,
I still enjoyed being outdoors, and I hope you do too.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
Boy, I got off on a tangent, there, didn't I.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
I'm gonna be talking about I may talk about that
a little bit during fifty plus or during the Outdoor
Show Doug Pike Show this weekend on KBU. Me more so, though,
I'll be talking about a new rule that came down
federally actually, and the state's going to have to enforce it.
I'm pretty sure that they have no choice, but it's
going to prohibit the use of drones for fishing, in
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which a lot of shark fishermen on the beach use
drones to take their baits out far enough to get
to where.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
The bigger sharks hang out.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
They won't be able to do that anymore now they'll
have to either send out little motorized boats or paddle
them out on surfboards like my friends and I used
to do. You didn't hold the bait really close to
the surfboard. What you did was you just started paddling
out on your board and you clenched the leader. And
we're talking about ten and fifteen foot leaders. You clenched
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the leader between your toes, and then when you got
out far enough and you looked back and they're.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
Waving on the beach.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
They've got enough line out now, and you're far enough,
you just let your toes relax.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
And the bait sinks on down to the bottom. It's amazing.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Nobody ever got bitten by a shark doing that. We
were dragging chunks of bloody meat on a surfboard out
into the Gulf of Mexico to try to catch big sharks,
which are there, by the way, there are a lot
more sharks in the Gulf of Mexico. Then you might
realize and if people knew just how many were out there.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
A lot of them might not go back in the water.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
There's no really reason really to be scared of the
sharks in the Gulf of Mexico. Most of them are
especially in the daylight hours that at nighttime down the coast,
where the water gets deeper faster, there's some pretty big,
pretty big sharks come up into shallow water. But up
here mostly it's ankle biters, and they might nip at
you or something like that, especially if you're wearing something shiny,
(26:47):
or if you've got to cut or scrape on you
somehow dropping blood in the water.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
But by and large, by and large, I'm just straight
way way off of what I talked about. What I
wanted to talk about today took care of that.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
I'm gonna bring some good news from the state legislator,
the federal House representatives actually when we get back from
this next break, and then I've also got another good
medical piece I can do, and a couple more things
to get us to the bottom of this one, or
I guess back to the top. Really on the way out,
I'm gonna tell you about Cedar Cove RV Resort down
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there in Baytown, the very end of Tri City b Troade,
quite close effect across the street really from Thompson's Bake
Camp if you know where that is, right on the bay.
All the amenities you can imagine in a great place
to park your RV for a night, a week, all summer,
however long you want to park that thing there. He's
got every he is Al Kibbi, and he and his
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wife Nancy have everything you could need to enjoy that
stay up to it, including a rental RV that sleeps
for quite comfortably and will accommodate you. He's got that
for rent you just you'll put it to one of
the preferred slabs down there. It's all concrete, the slabs
in the roads. All of the hookups have electric, water
(28:06):
and sewer. You got free Wi Fi. There's a bathhouse
where you can go take a shower.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
If you want. And it's a pretty good fishing.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
When the tide and the time are right, which is
right now this time of year, is a really good
time to go maybe catch a red fish, especially when
the sun's out like it has been. I wouldn't be
you know, if I could get there quickly. I wouldn't
mind going down there. He keeps frozen bait on hand
in his little convenience store, but you can get fresh
bait and live bait right across the street at Thompson's
if you want big, big fun staying on the water
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like that, especially when it's cool at night, you can
get up there and maybe huddle around a little campfire
and really enjoy yourself and it. Just relax and enjoy
the breeze going through the palm trees, lapping of the
water against the shoreline. It's a nice lifestyle, it really is.
And you can rent it before you buy it now,
thanks to all and his wife. Cedar cove rv Resort
(28:57):
dot com is a website. Go check it out cedar
cove Rvresort dot com.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
What's life without a net?
Speaker 4 (29:04):
I suggest you go to bed, sleep it off.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Just wait until the show's over. Sleepy. Back to Doug
Pike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
Pardon me, thanks for listening, Mercy's sakes, lingering, goop. Oh
this this voice is ninety I'd say eighty five percent today.
It sounds a little scratcher than it did this morning. Actually,
because I've been talking. I can't help it. This is
what I do for a living. I talk, Okay, I
try to. I try to explain that to my wife.
(29:33):
She understands that it that that's what I do for
a living. But she said, when you get home, why
can't you just be quiet? Well, it's because I'm fleshing
out stuff. I'm thinking about what I want to talk
about the next day when I come in here, or
when i'm over in KB me talking about the outdoors,
which I was here for a minute, actually more than
a minute. In good news or what I believe to
(29:56):
be the long haul, some things are good now, some
things are good in perpetuity, and I think this will
be Legislation has been introduced by an Iowa representative and
mother of two woman named Ashley Henson.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
That would require the fathers of unborn children.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
To shoulder half the costs of prenatal care, delivery, insurance, premiums, medications,
all of that that has forever been solely responsible. The
poor mom ends up having to do that in almost
(30:38):
every case when there's any kind of controversy whatsoever. The
deadbeat dad's disappear until that baby's born and they can
get that DNA test. But now if this piece of
legislation goes through, they're going to have to get into
their wallets from the time that early pregnancy tests come
(31:02):
back comes back positive, and that's that's another boy, that's
another eight nine six. I don't know how early they
can detect that stuff. I have no idea about those things.
I'm gonna guess it's maybe at.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
A month, month and a half something like that.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
So you got an extra eight months of shelling out
money just because you got a little drunk and decided
to have a little fun one night.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
It might make you think a little bit.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
It might encourage a whole lot of these the players
out there to kind of rethink how bad they want
to be in the game when it's gonna cost them
right from the time, right from the time well let's
call it, well don't know, six weeks after they roll
out of the sack.
Speaker 4 (31:44):
Mm hmmmm, that will.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
I think that really could be more significant than even
the representative sees at present. Long term, down the line,
there's gonna be a lot of people who, now that
they know it's going to fall, a lot of men who,
now that they know it's really gonna cost them legitimate money,
they might just pump the brakes a little bit. President
(32:09):
Trump and its staff, by the way, are said to
be looking into it and alternative to income tax, which
is fantastic. I think the goal, like is to liminate
federal income tax and replace it. It'll have to be replaced,
and that's gonna happen with tariffs and other means of
supporting us. All the investment that's coming back, all the
(32:31):
purchases that will be made with what used to be
tax tax dollars. It's gonna be okay if we don't
have those tax dollars because the money we have, we
will be okay with spending because there won't be well,
might be much, might still be sales tax. There's gonna
be statewide sales tax what eight to a quarter here
(32:51):
in Houston, so that to deal with. You're still probably
gonna have to pay taxes on a car if you
buy one. But if you can just think about the savings,
You think about how much money you would have in
your pocket if you didn't have to pay federal income
tax at all at all. And I hope they really
stay with this, I truly do. How much time do
(33:12):
I have to do it? Four minutes?
Speaker 4 (33:14):
I hope, so five that's even better.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
I'm certain somebody's going to disagree, just because of the
way things change so frequently these days. But I read
this morning about a decade long study. It started back
in twenty fifteen or somewhere in there. Decade long study,
thirty one hundred adults, and it showed that people whose
(33:38):
diets contained lots of coffee, lots of tea, lots of
berries and cocoa and oats and whole grains, and shoves
us right back to the granola asle right in the
produce department. If you eat all of that, long term
better hard health was the number one five also beneficial,
(34:02):
that same basic heavy load of those things, the berries, cocoa, oats,
whole grains, olive oil, tea, coffee, all of those things
also very good for your brain and your gut health.
So I think I could now I'm going to have
to supplement that with some brisket every now and then,
(34:25):
or maybe some fahetas, or maybe some seafood and schiladas
at Berry Hill, But I could get on board.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
With the rest of that as just kind of a.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
Starting point, a base from which to work if I
know now that I know that the studies show it
benefiting my heart.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
Especially. My dad died of a heart attack.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
Now much of that was attributable to the fact that
he smoked lucky strikes, and people in this audience knew
exactly what those were. Alterless cigarette, just straight from the
lighted cigarette, straight to your lungs, nothing to slow all
those chemicals down, and that I think is most of
what caused it. But in any event, I smoked for
(35:12):
a long time. I quit cop quite close to twenty
years ago.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
No, maybe more.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
I bet it's closer to thirty now. In any event,
I like the idea of keep in mind, keeping my
heart healthy, staying medical for another minute of quick and easy.
Breath test has been developed over in the UK. This
thing's being used to detect pancreatic cancer. It's like a
breathalyzer that detects pancreatic cancer early enough that it you
(35:42):
might have a chance to get through. This is one
of the most difficult cancers to treat, and it's in
part because it's so difficult to detect and doesn't really
become detectable. Does it really become symptomatic until you're around
stage four.
Speaker 4 (36:00):
That's not helpful.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
Anybody who's ever dealt with anything to do with cancer,
or even talk to somebody knows that stage one is
a better place to find it than stage four. Pancreatic
usually shows up at four. I lost a family friend
to pancreat cancer three decades ago, maybe four, long long
time ago, very tough. And now this breath test, Holy
(36:22):
call it up. There it is and they can go
looking for it much much earlier. Next, I got a
couple more I want to do real quick about radicals
targeting children. This one is a pro abortion group promoting
a book called and this is the title, Abortion Is Everything.
It's gonna ship early next year, and it targets children
(36:43):
roughly from five to eight years old. It's disgusting. I
read a little bit more about it. Go look it
up and make sure that your school's library, your elementary
school's library, doesn't have that in there, and that no
kids have access to anything like it.
Speaker 4 (37:02):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (37:03):
If you need a little laugh real quick, I got
a mint in a half. Maybe close something one.
Speaker 4 (37:07):
I can do this.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
If you're you remember having to dress your kids in
costumes for school. You got to be a ghost or
a goblin Halloween, pilgrims for Thanksgiving, elves for Christmas, and
on and on. Nine year old boy Oscar Wilkins got
the role of Elvis the Elf for his school's Christmas play,
and he came home and told his parents he'd been
cast as Elvis. Made no mention whatsoever that the rest
(37:30):
of the kids would be Elves. All he knew was
that he would play the part of Elvis. So his
parents took him at his word and found an authentic
Elvis Presley costume. The King Elvis Presley sent him off
to school that day. There's a really really cool picture
of Oscar on stage, everyone around him, all the other
(37:53):
little kids, nine year old's, eight year old's, seven year old,
six year olds, whatever. They're all dressed in Elf costumes,
and Oscar is dressed like the King. Sequin shirt, blue
suede shoes, the whole bit. We'll be back tomorrow, Audios.
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