August 14, 2024 • 36 mins
Today, Doug Pike discusses storm watching, rocky-mountain oysters, and a serious candy recall.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Remember when it was impossible to misplace the TV remote
because you were the TV remote. You 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 one. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike. Helpful information on your finances,
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the program starts right now.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
It does My gosh, second base, if you will, the
midway point around a week's daily bases, the second base
that Astros did very well last night. They rounded second
base more times than did the Rays, and.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Well, second base.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
It is so something totally different, by the way, than
when most of us were growing up. There's more than
a lot of ground to cover today, including a few
things from earlier in the week that I wasn't able
to share in the one hour. I get to talk
mostly about things other than politics. Now I really am,
I'm stepping away from all that. If you've listened to
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the last few days, you know that, so I'll move on.
I'll touch on that when it seems absolutely necessary, but
otherwise I'm going to count on all of you to
gather your own information the old fashioned way, which means
seeking out and it's an increasingly difficult task these days,
but seeking out unbiased news sources. And then just to
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be sure these days, you've got to go verify whatever
you've seen and read and heard long before you finally
opt to believe it. I tend to believe people who
speak calmly and who source what they say so that
I can, if it seems prudent, so that I can
go to that source and get whatever amounts to the
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rest of the story from that one point of view,
and then I'll go somewhere else and look it up again,
and go somewhere else and look it up again. If
it's an important issue, and in the upcoming election, that's
gonna be a really good idea for us all to do.
I keep going back in my head to something I
saw on Facebook about a week ago, and to paraphrase it, said,
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if you want to control people all you have to
do is accuse their enemies. Accuse your enemies of doing
what you are doing. Accuse your enemies of doing what
you're doing. And that just confuses the hell out of people,
and it's gonna end up leaving them down.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Who's actually telling the truth? I see a whole lot
of that going on on.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Television on every major networks news feed. Enough of that, though,
Looking at the forecast past four or five days, nearly
mirror images of the next four or five and this one,
except that those upcoming days, at least tomorrow, I think
in Friday, maybe slightly warmer, potentially even hot, which in
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my vocabulary means they'll top one hundred degrees today's highs
and lows in high coup by the way, still courtesy
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better your homes air.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Is going to be when they do it, when they
get it done.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
So here we go, look at it. The forecast. By
the way, you know, there's nothing to worry. And I'm
gonna say something about hurricanes too in just a minute.
Here's the haiku. Will are you ready sure? How to
beat summer? Go to bed early tonight, sleep until winter?
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Oh about that? Wow? Sleep until winter? Very creative. We're
talking hibernation here. Really.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Yeah, it's not gonna be hot when you wake up. Oh,
wake up on Christmas Eve. Do some online shopping now,
and then wake up on Christmas Eve.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
I'll say eight. I'll give you that one, six point eight.
Trying so hard.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
I thought that the creativity there and the departure from
it's hot today is gonna be hot tomorrow. I thought
that would maybe do something for you. Apparently not now,
Hurricane Ernesto looking at it, finally it did what it's
been what it's been promised to do for more than
a week.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
And I'll get to that in a second.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
It's made its northward turn as predicted a long time ago.
And by the way, if you're new around here and
you're you found the National Hurricane Center website, use it, okay,
but use it in the way it's intended to be used.
When you look at that tracking box that shows where
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they think a storm's gonna go. Don't pay much attention
to that path beyond about the third day. They show
it tracking for four, five, six, seven, eight days. I
don't know how many of this exactly, probably just a week,
a solid week, but anything passed those first three days
for the average storm. And I'll get to that in
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a second. It's it's just not probably gonna come true.
Ernesto was actually pretty easy to call to because there
were very strong influences, a major high and a major
low on either side of it, squeezing it through and
expelling it from the other end into the mid Atlantic.
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It's turned noised. What was it about five or six
days ago? Will maybe seven? There was a map that
was being circulated all over social media, especially the neighborhood app,
that showed this big orange eggplant out in the middle
of the Atlantic Ocean, and if you drew a straight
line through it, it came right to the Texas coast.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Everybody just went running and screaming into social media to
tell everybody we better get ready for another one. How
can this possibly happen to us? We don't deserve this, Please,
Dear God, don't let this storm come to Texas. Well,
it didn't, and if you looked at ever, this is
why I emphasized checking more than one source. There's a
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source I use that I've got it. I've got it
slugged as cyclocane spaghetti, and what it does is offer
up about a dozen or more models of where.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Storms are supposed to go.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
And since almost since day one, when this thing even
became something, that cyclocane spaghetti, whatever that source is called,
I can't remember officially, even before the National Hurricane Center
gave it anything pardon me, that merited graphs and charts
and all of that cyclocane spaghetti had it doing exactly
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what it's done, taking a rite over Puerto Rico.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
And then headed up to Canada.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
It's not even expected to touch the United States now
once again, that's five six days away. But this one's
been pretty easy because of those steering systems, very strong
steering systems.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Gosh, how much time do I have?
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Break already's getting started, Will and I have some really
good stuff to talk about today.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
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when they got there, it started doing work. The neighbors
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Speaker 4 (08:42):
And they did.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
They checked them all and most of them were just fine.
A little bit of touch up work on my mother
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They'll explain probably how it got cost. They will explain
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Speaker 1 (09:52):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash them, check his
fluids and spring on a fresh codl. This is fifty
plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Hi, welcome back.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
What is this the second segment of the program. I
went pretty quickly there that first one. Will just turned
around and boomed there it was moving to the ever
moving markets. The Dow nearly regained everything it puked up
a week or so ago, holding it around almost forty
thousand around eleven o'clock and showing no signs of going
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any other direction.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
But up.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
I don't know how much more it might go up today,
but I doubt too much. In any event, that thirty
nine nine I think it was and change just a
little while ago. Russell was down about a half a point,
but the other two were both green by a smidge,
a very light green, but green. Nonetheless, Gold dropped nearly
a full point, which sort of makes me think I
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missed out on something, But then again, it was still
twenty four eighty four, so not bad for an ounce
of gold, and oil also down for a welcome change
inside seventy eight dollars, though so it's still depending on
how you look at it and where you think it
should be. It's still anywhere from five to ten to
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fifteen dollars north of where it needs to be. At
least it was inside seventy eight for a change. Stepping
into the pool of today's non political news, I hope
you've all heard by now that the candy and snacks,
not all of them, but some specific ones at Target
and Walmart and I think Dollar General, they have come
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under the US Food and Drug Administrations highest level of
recall as a health hazard after confirmation of a particular
strain of salmonila that is quite powerful and potentially even deadly.
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The list of affected products is pretty long, much longer
than I can deal with here, and I would urge
all of you to do some research into that to
make sure that as good grandparents and good parents, and
just good stewards of your own health, you don't have
any of that stuff in your house because it's bad news. Okay,
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it's just bad news. If you have it in there,
toss it out immediately. Some of these products have best
buy dates as far out as April of twenty twenty
five two. So even as you continue to shop, keep
an eye, especially in well. Some stories will be more
diligent than others, but just double check those expiration dates
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and the make and model of what you're buying. There's
all kinds of news about that. Just go to just
go to the internet and type in candy recall and
you will find plenty of sources to find out exactly
what's on that list. This particular level of recall, by
the way, from the FDA carries a specific quote that
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really got my attention, and it was this and I quote,
there is a reasonable probability that the use of or
exposure to a violative product will cause serious adverse health
consequences or death.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
They're not playing with this one.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
That's a whole lot worse than Hey, we found some
bad cheese, or or somebody found a hair and a hamburger.
Don't mess around with this one. Don't look it up.
Make sure you don't some of that. There was one
of the products in there. It was those little yogurt
covered pretzels. You ever eat those will with the white
covering on.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Them, Maybe when I was little, but not anymore.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
I still I have it in the last year or so, probably,
but up until then even and and I would be
tempted to buy a big old jug of those things.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
That's how they sell them. It's amazing, the cheese puffs.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
And the little peanut butter pretzel things and those. I
guess it's some sort of permanently altered yogurt that sticks
to a pretzel that they put in those things. Kind
of every now and then, I'd buy a big old
jug of those and finish them off in two or
three days, But not anymore, at least not for a
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long time.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
So it was. It was. It was all candy at Target.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Store, not all the kit you're not paying attention to
the story, are You're just you're just skipping over and
hearing every other every about every fifth word I said,
number one, Not all the candy.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
Not all the candy.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
It's from a very specific manufacturer who labels candies for
many different companies, probably some store brands involved.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
But you better find out and you better go to
the website. Well, you're gonna get yourself killed eating some
of that stuff. It's not good for you anyway. I'm
trying really hard to eat fewer sweets, to eat fewer snacks,
and start.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Eating better overall. What happened with this guy? Do we know?
Is there some is there some breaking news here there
he is? Oh? Is that the that's the guy who
was up at the.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
University and I snuck in and Idaho, Yeah, and killed
allegedly killed those people.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
He's on trial and.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Oh they're claiming there's prejudicial media coverage. And take him
wherever you want him, present the facts and we'll we'll
find out one way or the other. I got a
hunch on inflation. I found a couple of stories, just
like I talked about yesterday. I mentioned this yesterday, and
sure enough, up they pop today again, stories that want
us to be thrilled. They think we should be jumping
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up and down for joy because inflation fell to just
two point nine percent in July. Just two point nine percent.
That's like having four flat tires on your car and
throwing a party could because you got one of them
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to hold air. Nothing's fixed, nothing's better. Things are still
about fifty percent higher on average than they were three
years ago when this administration took over. And I can't
ignore a story like that when it's trying to lead
you and me and everybody else in this country to
believe it happy days are here again.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
They're not. They're not.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
They're just not as bad. It's not getting worse as
fast as they thought it was. That's a great way to.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
Think of it.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
It's still getting worse, but it's not getting worse as
fast as they thought. That doesn't seem like much to
cheer about, does it, Because it's not. It's a guy
from technicoll. I know I'm gonna hold that. I'm gonna
hold that for later because I got one minute. Okay,
here we go faster on West Timer, Sorry, but you
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gotta go, or I got this great.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
Idea faster on West Steimer, that'll be perfect.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
The winner of the first this is a pop quiz,
will the first winner of the Indianapolis five hundred back
in nineteen eleven, which is also the cool model of
a historically awesome handgun.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
But that's for a different time.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
What was the top speed the average speed of this
winner of the first Indy five hundred, fifty.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Five miles an hour.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Lord, No, they're faster than that, even in nineteen seventy
miles And now you're cooking, yes, seventy four and change
seventy four and change. I guarantee you any on any
night on West tim or after about midnight, you'll find
all kinds of people, or on anywhere on six '
ten anytime I'm on fifty nine. It seems there are
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a whole lot of people going faster than seventy five
miles now.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Now they got places to be in a hurry too.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Apparently I watched the guy yesterday, so help me, will
he wove between me. I was in the left lane,
humming along posted speed and change a little bit, and
well posted.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
I'm more of that kind of guy.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
So I'm in the left lane doing that, and I
see somebody coming up behind me, So I'm going to
get over and get out of his way because I'm
trying to get by somebody going slower in the second lane.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
And anyway, this guy comes up.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
And weaves to the right of me, back to the
left of me, with barely a car and a half
between us, and then moves up and I'm thinking, God,
there's no way he can get between it, and there
he goes again and missed the two cars he split
going back to the right into a a farther outlane
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by maybe I so helped me, well, maybe a foot
on each side, a foot that's seventy something miles an hour,
and the rest of us doing sixty sixty five whatever.
It was just like that, and then just disappears over
the over the horizon, over the ramp, not a ramp
on an overpass. All right, we'll take a little break
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on the way out. I'll tell you about the Institute
on Aging that is over there at ut Health. It
is it's not it's not a it's not a place,
it's not a building. It's a conceptual advantage afforded to
seniors by medical caregivers who cared so much about us
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that they went back and got more more education as
to how they can apply their specific medical discipline and
knowledge to us.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
It's a long.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Winded explanation of something that means they just care. They
cared enough to go back and learn more so they
could treat us more correctly, more swiftly, more properly than
perhaps other providers could. It's great that they did that.
It's great that they continue to offer that service to
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us all over town. Really, there are a lot of
them in the Med Center, a lot of whom A
lot of them probably stay in the Med Center, but
there are also plenty of providers with ut Health Institute
on Aging who go to outlying communities, outlying clinics and
hospitals every day, and you can be seen by one
of them. You don't have to go into the med center.
If that spooks you a little bit, it's pretty hairy
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down there, the old traffic. If you have to go,
you do, But if you don't have to go, it's
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to the website, take a look around, check out the providers.
Check out all the different services they offer to us,
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all the different references and places and opportunities that they
share with us. Right here at utch dot edu slash
aging uth dot edu slash aging.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Aged to Perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Hi, welcome back to this plus. Thanks for listening. Certainly
do appreciate it. There's a guy from Texas.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
I saw a story this morning, actually from right here
in Houston. Paramedic in Houston. Guy named Mark Holmes, lives
in Parland. So I did some I did some pretty
deep research on this guy and his story, and I
found some It's military history, okay. He he was researching
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the military history of his grandfather, and now I'm I'm
neck deep in the story. I had to keep reading
until I saw the whole thing. His grandfather fought in Vietnam,
which makes me feel old, by the way, but anyway,
fought in Vietnam, earned a Purple Heart during his service there.
And unfortunately for Holmes, he was only three months old
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when his grandfather passed away. But his research, his research
actually turned up an amazing piece of memorabilia that belonged
to his grandfather. There's a collector, a guy named Austin Widman,
who I think is still I think is here in Texas.
I can't recall, but that wasn't that important to the story.
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But anyway, Wideman spent years collecting memorabilia, much as did
my father. By the way, throughout his life he had
one of the as a quick aside. He had one
of the largest collections of military insignia in the country,
so large in fact and so well cataloged and documented
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that it was displayed in the Houston Public Library not
once but twice, if memory serves, and for quite some
time while it was all in there. He did well,
not all of it, just what he wanted to show
over there. But anyway, the bottom line was he had
an amazing collection and that I kind of took interest
in it a little bit and it was fascinating. Anyway,
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The bottom line is Wideman in his collection, he was
reading the story about this this emt or a paramedic
right here and using looking for stuff from his grandfather,
and he thought, you know, I'll just rummage around through
my stuff see what I got. Well turned out, as
it turned out, in his collection he had the very jacket,
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the very uniform jacket that was worn by Holmes's grandfather
and positively identified as such, and that jacket actually bears
the the tears and burns sustained when as a young soldier,
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this man's grandfather triggered a landmine and got riddled across
his back with searing hot.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
Shrapnel, hence the purple heart. I found that a.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Really interesting and fascinating story, and it's stories like these
are in great part the reason I do My feature
that's I'm glad to say, has two sponsors right now,
and they're they're airing it as much as they can
because they support our military the same as I do.
It's called this and US Military History, and it.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
Can be heard.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
I can't remember exact airtimes, but it's the same time
each week on both KPRC and KBMME, and even a
couple of other stations as well through streaming. I wish
I could find a sponsor to run these things every
day on every station in the country. Each week, I
produced and am still producing, a minute long piece that
highlights two or three events from our military's history and
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names two or three soldiers who earned medals of honor
in that same week. I do recognize the sponsors right now,
by the way, it's rafter V Services, Offens Company and
Phoenix Knives out in Belleville, both of whom the owners
of both those businesses are very appreciative of our military,
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and when they heard that there was an opening to
do this, they kind of jumped right on it. So
if you know somebody's in who's thinking about that or
might even consider it at all, let me know and
I will take very good care of them and thank
them profusely for allowing me to share these pieces with
more and more people.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
Ah, two minutes.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
I talked about that yesterday and didn't scratch it out,
but it did. Did I didn't talk about that ninety
year old guy who was seen by a like a
TikToker pawning jewelry, did I? No, I don't believe that
this is another It's a good story. It really is
US Air Force veteran up in New Hampshire. Some TikToker
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sees this guy videoing or sees this guy pawning some
jewelry and just kind of walks up and asks him
why he's doing that. Well, it turned out this guy
his name is Donald, and Donald's wife has dementia, which
generates Hugh, he's old, okay, he's a he's a very
old Air Force veteran. He's not new to the game.
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He's probably a probably a Vietnam era guy somewhere in there.
May I don't know, Yeah, probably that. Anyway, her condition
generates big bills. And on top of that, his landlord
just recently raised his rent without money, Without the money
he was hoping to get from that jewelry, he was
going to lose his home probably and worse, his wife
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potentially could have been placed in a state run home,
which would almost never is the best option for anybody, really,
and it certainly wouldn't have been good for him either,
to have to know that his wife wasn't someplace where
he could take care of her every day, because that's
what he does. So this woman, Janelle Marie the TikToker,
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started to go fund me page for Donald and as
of Monday morning, barely a week into it, Well, another
pop quiz.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
Have you been hearing this story at all?
Speaker 2 (27:51):
No? God, I found another story that I want to
talk about.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Well, the go fund me page that Janelle started up
has raised three hundred and sixty five thousand dollars for
this man. Still so many good and generous people in
the world. I hope and pray they're all smart enough
to make decisions that will enable them to keep doing
good things for good people, rather than hand that money
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over to tax collectors or people who have done nothing
for this country except walk into it.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
Ah and not always lowfully. Oops, I slipped a little.
Do your research. You'll know what I'm talking about. So
go ahead, will what do you got? Oh?
Speaker 3 (28:29):
We got to go to break So I'll lead with
whatever it is you have, but I'm gonna vet it
so the audience knows that if you don't hear, we'll
talk shortly after I resume in the final segment.
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You'll know why.
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Okay, well I think that sounds like a good plan.
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Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
All right, welcome back fifty plus.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Before Will tells you what he's just so giddy and
excited to tell you. Will Melbourne at iHeartMedia dot com.
That's all I need to say, Will take it away.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
Will.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
It's actually not my email because my name isn't Will
is a diminutive.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
Well, that's how I type it in. Is it William.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Yes, be sure they get it right, because I'm sure
you're going to get some response.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Well, you like Fredericksburg, Doug, oh, love it?
Speaker 4 (30:50):
Well most days of the year.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Let's just say August thirty first, it's the last day
to be able to do it. There's two dates, but
the tenth is our past as it's the.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
Two of the convenient. That'sy. But you can't do this.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
I got another way. I got another question for you.
What you like oysters? That's a leading question I'm not
going to answer. Okay, Well, do you have you heard
of Rocky Mountain oysters?
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Because the Fredericksburg, Texas, tex Texas Estical Festival is scheduled
for the thirty first.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
If you're going to be a news man, you gotta
be able to say this with a straight shing I know,
and say it all right, what's happening August thirty first one?
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Well, Fredericksburg, Texas Testicle Festival is scheduled for August thirty first,
and you can go and get some Rocky Mountain oysters.
General admission is twenty dollars for old twenty bucks.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
Yes, that's ten. Have other things there too.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
They have hamburgers. Call them hamburgers. Wow, that's like that
believable beef. They got totals, my bet they do. They
rocky mountain poor bulls. That's what poors those poor bulls.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
Man, I've never had a rocky Mountain oyster.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Then why the fascination with a festival to celebrate them?
Speaker 2 (32:15):
I know there's gotta be some people out there that
want them going on.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
Yeah, Like I said when we were talking about this
during the break, wheell, if I were a cattle herder
from the eighteen hundreds and we were pushing cattle from
South Texas to Kansas, and we ran out of beans,
and we ran out of what else were we gonna?
(32:40):
Might have might have had a whole deer that somebody
shot one day, and we ran out of deer, and
we ran out of everything else. Then and only then,
might I have considered what you got cooking?
Speaker 4 (32:54):
Tonight's cook? Well, here's what I got for you. Let
me tell you how this is going to work.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (33:01):
Those what are those? Don't ask? Just eat them? Yeah,
don't ask?
Speaker 3 (33:06):
All right, let's go back over here to my page
of little just just get away from that.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
Uh not enough? Wait, I got that one Okay, I
did that one?
Speaker 3 (33:17):
Not enough late delivery or honk it out?
Speaker 4 (33:22):
Hmm, honk it out.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
This is kind of cool San Francisco neighborhood dealing with
loud disturbances nightly from driverless waym cars getting confused in
a parking lot and honking at each other all nine long.
Oh wow, that's a what is his name, Lionel Richie reference? Yeah,
(33:50):
just honking at eip me me meet me. Can you
imagine that would be kind of like being on the
I don't know, being at a red light and waiting
to seconds after the light turned green to move forward.
It would sound probably pretty similar to what that parking
lot sounds like. Come on, will help me out here. So, oh,
(34:11):
proof of gullibility. You want some proof that Americans are gullible?
All right, and we'll believe any that. Just Starbucks.
Speaker 4 (34:19):
Changed its coffee, changed the whole blend that they're using. Okay,
when did they change it? Oh, I have no idea,
all the way back in May.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
No, they changed it in May, and not one soul
said a word about it, not one soul noticed. Well,
but probably because they squeeze all that other garbage into it.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
That's what I was gonna say. Yeah, and the.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
People who are going in there and just ordering a
cup of coffee, you know what they're ordering Pike Place roast.
Speaker 4 (34:51):
Blind.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
Yeah, mine my personal blend. Yeah, we worked that out
years ago.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
I get a little piece.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Yeah, that's a that's gonna be a nice chunk of change.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
You would think, you would think, but it's a really
very small piece of Yeah. If like if I got
if I were to get a penny tomorrow, then that
that'd be my first payment.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
Wow on the deal. A single penny.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
Yeah, you would think that using my name like that.
But see they said Pipe Place and not Pike Radio. Dude, Okay,
that's why I can't get paid on it. They just
they they changed it just enough, just enough, just that
a little bit. Oh and what else do I want
to tell you about the TSA. Oh, here's some good
news and bad news. Well, the TSA says there are
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new scanners being rolled into airports across America that will
finally allow us to carry more than three ounces of
liquid in a little bottle. That's the good news. Guess
how long it's gonna take to get them into all
the airports? Well?
Speaker 4 (35:51):
Five years? Oh, you're an optimist. Oh you want me
to keep on guessing? One more guess? Okay, eight years,
then you're done.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
Sixteen years before they get this out there, still got
to carry that little little pill bottle full of shampoo
or whatever.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
All right.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
Woman in Florida found a message in a bottle from
nineteen forty five.
Speaker 4 (36:14):
I'll tell you what it's said tomorrow. That'll be kind. Well, no,
it's even boring, then I won't. That's it. Thanks for listening,
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It does My gosh, second base, if you will, the
midway point around a week's daily bases, the second base
that Astros did very well last night. They rounded second
base more times than did the Rays, and.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Well, second base.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
It is so something totally different, by the way, than
when most of us were growing up. There's more than
a lot of ground to cover today, including a few
things from earlier in the week that I wasn't able
to share in the one hour. I get to talk
mostly about things other than politics. Now I really am,
I'm stepping away from all that. If you've listened to
(01:32):
the last few days, you know that, so I'll move on.
I'll touch on that when it seems absolutely necessary, but
otherwise I'm going to count on all of you to
gather your own information the old fashioned way, which means
seeking out and it's an increasingly difficult task these days,
but seeking out unbiased news sources. And then just to
(01:57):
be sure these days, you've got to go verify whatever
you've seen and read and heard long before you finally
opt to believe it. I tend to believe people who
speak calmly and who source what they say so that
I can, if it seems prudent, so that I can
go to that source and get whatever amounts to the
(02:20):
rest of the story from that one point of view,
and then I'll go somewhere else and look it up again,
and go somewhere else and look it up again. If
it's an important issue, and in the upcoming election, that's
gonna be a really good idea for us all to do.
I keep going back in my head to something I
saw on Facebook about a week ago, and to paraphrase it, said,
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if you want to control people all you have to
do is accuse their enemies. Accuse your enemies of doing
what you are doing. Accuse your enemies of doing what
you're doing. And that just confuses the hell out of people,
and it's gonna end up leaving them down.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Who's actually telling the truth? I see a whole lot
of that going on on.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Television on every major networks news feed. Enough of that, though,
Looking at the forecast past four or five days, nearly
mirror images of the next four or five and this one,
except that those upcoming days, at least tomorrow, I think
in Friday, maybe slightly warmer, potentially even hot, which in
(03:25):
my vocabulary means they'll top one hundred degrees today's highs
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Speaker 4 (03:50):
Is going to be when they do it, when they
get it done.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
So here we go, look at it. The forecast. By
the way, you know, there's nothing to worry. And I'm
gonna say something about hurricanes too in just a minute.
Here's the haiku. Will are you ready sure? How to
beat summer? Go to bed early tonight, sleep until winter?
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Oh about that? Wow? Sleep until winter? Very creative. We're
talking hibernation here. Really.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Yeah, it's not gonna be hot when you wake up. Oh,
wake up on Christmas Eve. Do some online shopping now,
and then wake up on Christmas Eve.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
I'll say eight. I'll give you that one, six point eight.
Trying so hard.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
I thought that the creativity there and the departure from
it's hot today is gonna be hot tomorrow. I thought
that would maybe do something for you. Apparently not now,
Hurricane Ernesto looking at it, finally it did what it's
been what it's been promised to do for more than
a week.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
And I'll get to that in a second.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
It's made its northward turn as predicted a long time ago.
And by the way, if you're new around here and
you're you found the National Hurricane Center website, use it, okay,
but use it in the way it's intended to be used.
When you look at that tracking box that shows where
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they think a storm's gonna go. Don't pay much attention
to that path beyond about the third day. They show
it tracking for four, five, six, seven, eight days. I
don't know how many of this exactly, probably just a week,
a solid week, but anything passed those first three days
for the average storm. And I'll get to that in
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a second. It's it's just not probably gonna come true.
Ernesto was actually pretty easy to call to because there
were very strong influences, a major high and a major
low on either side of it, squeezing it through and
expelling it from the other end into the mid Atlantic.
(06:15):
It's turned noised. What was it about five or six
days ago? Will maybe seven? There was a map that
was being circulated all over social media, especially the neighborhood app,
that showed this big orange eggplant out in the middle
of the Atlantic Ocean, and if you drew a straight
line through it, it came right to the Texas coast.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Everybody just went running and screaming into social media to
tell everybody we better get ready for another one. How
can this possibly happen to us? We don't deserve this, Please,
Dear God, don't let this storm come to Texas. Well,
it didn't, and if you looked at ever, this is
why I emphasized checking more than one source. There's a
(07:02):
source I use that I've got it. I've got it
slugged as cyclocane spaghetti, and what it does is offer
up about a dozen or more models of where.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Storms are supposed to go.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
And since almost since day one, when this thing even
became something, that cyclocane spaghetti, whatever that source is called,
I can't remember officially, even before the National Hurricane Center
gave it anything pardon me, that merited graphs and charts
and all of that cyclocane spaghetti had it doing exactly
(07:38):
what it's done, taking a rite over Puerto Rico.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
And then headed up to Canada.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
It's not even expected to touch the United States now
once again, that's five six days away. But this one's
been pretty easy because of those steering systems, very strong
steering systems.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Gosh, how much time do I have?
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Break already's getting started, Will and I have some really
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when they got there, it started doing work. The neighbors
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And they did.
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That's why every few months we wash them, check his
fluids and spring on a fresh codl. This is fifty
plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Hi, welcome back.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
What is this the second segment of the program. I
went pretty quickly there that first one. Will just turned
around and boomed there it was moving to the ever
moving markets. The Dow nearly regained everything it puked up
a week or so ago, holding it around almost forty
thousand around eleven o'clock and showing no signs of going
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any other direction.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
But up.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
I don't know how much more it might go up today,
but I doubt too much. In any event, that thirty
nine nine I think it was and change just a
little while ago. Russell was down about a half a point,
but the other two were both green by a smidge,
a very light green, but green. Nonetheless, Gold dropped nearly
a full point, which sort of makes me think I
(11:13):
missed out on something, But then again, it was still
twenty four eighty four, so not bad for an ounce
of gold, and oil also down for a welcome change
inside seventy eight dollars, though so it's still depending on
how you look at it and where you think it
should be. It's still anywhere from five to ten to
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fifteen dollars north of where it needs to be. At
least it was inside seventy eight for a change. Stepping
into the pool of today's non political news, I hope
you've all heard by now that the candy and snacks,
not all of them, but some specific ones at Target
and Walmart and I think Dollar General, they have come
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under the US Food and Drug Administrations highest level of
recall as a health hazard after confirmation of a particular
strain of salmonila that is quite powerful and potentially even deadly.
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The list of affected products is pretty long, much longer
than I can deal with here, and I would urge
all of you to do some research into that to
make sure that as good grandparents and good parents, and
just good stewards of your own health, you don't have
any of that stuff in your house because it's bad news. Okay,
(12:38):
it's just bad news. If you have it in there,
toss it out immediately. Some of these products have best
buy dates as far out as April of twenty twenty
five two. So even as you continue to shop, keep
an eye, especially in well. Some stories will be more
diligent than others, but just double check those expiration dates
(13:02):
and the make and model of what you're buying. There's
all kinds of news about that. Just go to just
go to the internet and type in candy recall and
you will find plenty of sources to find out exactly
what's on that list. This particular level of recall, by
the way, from the FDA carries a specific quote that
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really got my attention, and it was this and I quote,
there is a reasonable probability that the use of or
exposure to a violative product will cause serious adverse health
consequences or death.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
They're not playing with this one.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
That's a whole lot worse than Hey, we found some
bad cheese, or or somebody found a hair and a hamburger.
Don't mess around with this one. Don't look it up.
Make sure you don't some of that. There was one
of the products in there. It was those little yogurt
covered pretzels. You ever eat those will with the white
covering on.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Them, Maybe when I was little, but not anymore.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
I still I have it in the last year or so, probably,
but up until then even and and I would be
tempted to buy a big old jug of those things.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
That's how they sell them. It's amazing, the cheese puffs.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
And the little peanut butter pretzel things and those. I
guess it's some sort of permanently altered yogurt that sticks
to a pretzel that they put in those things. Kind
of every now and then, I'd buy a big old
jug of those and finish them off in two or
three days, But not anymore, at least not for a
(14:43):
long time.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
So it was. It was. It was all candy at Target.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Store, not all the kit you're not paying attention to
the story, are You're just you're just skipping over and
hearing every other every about every fifth word I said,
number one, Not all the candy.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
Not all the candy.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
It's from a very specific manufacturer who labels candies for
many different companies, probably some store brands involved.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
But you better find out and you better go to
the website. Well, you're gonna get yourself killed eating some
of that stuff. It's not good for you anyway. I'm
trying really hard to eat fewer sweets, to eat fewer snacks,
and start.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Eating better overall. What happened with this guy? Do we know?
Is there some is there some breaking news here there
he is? Oh? Is that the that's the guy who
was up at the.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
University and I snuck in and Idaho, Yeah, and killed
allegedly killed those people.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
He's on trial and.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Oh they're claiming there's prejudicial media coverage. And take him
wherever you want him, present the facts and we'll we'll
find out one way or the other. I got a
hunch on inflation. I found a couple of stories, just
like I talked about yesterday. I mentioned this yesterday, and
sure enough, up they pop today again, stories that want
us to be thrilled. They think we should be jumping
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up and down for joy because inflation fell to just
two point nine percent in July. Just two point nine percent.
That's like having four flat tires on your car and
throwing a party could because you got one of them
(16:28):
to hold air. Nothing's fixed, nothing's better. Things are still
about fifty percent higher on average than they were three
years ago when this administration took over. And I can't
ignore a story like that when it's trying to lead
you and me and everybody else in this country to
believe it happy days are here again.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
They're not. They're not.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
They're just not as bad. It's not getting worse as
fast as they thought it was. That's a great way to.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
Think of it.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
It's still getting worse, but it's not getting worse as
fast as they thought. That doesn't seem like much to
cheer about, does it, Because it's not. It's a guy
from technicoll. I know I'm gonna hold that. I'm gonna
hold that for later because I got one minute. Okay,
here we go faster on West Timer, Sorry, but you
(17:23):
gotta go, or I got this great.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
Idea faster on West Steimer, that'll be perfect.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
The winner of the first this is a pop quiz,
will the first winner of the Indianapolis five hundred back
in nineteen eleven, which is also the cool model of
a historically awesome handgun.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
But that's for a different time.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
What was the top speed the average speed of this
winner of the first Indy five hundred, fifty.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Five miles an hour.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Lord, No, they're faster than that, even in nineteen seventy
miles And now you're cooking, yes, seventy four and change
seventy four and change. I guarantee you any on any
night on West tim or after about midnight, you'll find
all kinds of people, or on anywhere on six '
ten anytime I'm on fifty nine. It seems there are
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a whole lot of people going faster than seventy five
miles now.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Now they got places to be in a hurry too.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Apparently I watched the guy yesterday, so help me, will
he wove between me. I was in the left lane,
humming along posted speed and change a little bit, and
well posted.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
I'm more of that kind of guy.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
So I'm in the left lane doing that, and I
see somebody coming up behind me, So I'm going to
get over and get out of his way because I'm
trying to get by somebody going slower in the second lane.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
And anyway, this guy comes up.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
And weaves to the right of me, back to the
left of me, with barely a car and a half
between us, and then moves up and I'm thinking, God,
there's no way he can get between it, and there
he goes again and missed the two cars he split
going back to the right into a a farther outlane
(19:15):
by maybe I so helped me, well, maybe a foot
on each side, a foot that's seventy something miles an hour,
and the rest of us doing sixty sixty five whatever.
It was just like that, and then just disappears over
the over the horizon, over the ramp, not a ramp
on an overpass. All right, we'll take a little break
(19:37):
on the way out. I'll tell you about the Institute
on Aging that is over there at ut Health. It
is it's not it's not a it's not a place,
it's not a building. It's a conceptual advantage afforded to
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Speaker 4 (20:09):
It's a long.
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Winded explanation of something that means they just care. They
cared enough to go back and learn more so they
could treat us more correctly, more swiftly, more properly than
perhaps other providers could. It's great that they did that.
It's great that they continue to offer that service to
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us all over town. Really, there are a lot of
them in the Med Center, a lot of whom A
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there are also plenty of providers with ut Health Institute
on Aging who go to outlying communities, outlying clinics and
hospitals every day, and you can be seen by one
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If that spooks you a little bit, it's pretty hairy
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Check out all the different services they offer to us,
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Aged to Perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Hi, welcome back to this plus. Thanks for listening. Certainly
do appreciate it. There's a guy from Texas.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
I saw a story this morning, actually from right here
in Houston. Paramedic in Houston. Guy named Mark Holmes, lives
in Parland. So I did some I did some pretty
deep research on this guy and his story, and I
found some It's military history, okay. He he was researching
(22:13):
the military history of his grandfather, and now I'm I'm
neck deep in the story. I had to keep reading
until I saw the whole thing. His grandfather fought in Vietnam,
which makes me feel old, by the way, but anyway,
fought in Vietnam, earned a Purple Heart during his service there.
And unfortunately for Holmes, he was only three months old
(22:34):
when his grandfather passed away. But his research, his research
actually turned up an amazing piece of memorabilia that belonged
to his grandfather. There's a collector, a guy named Austin Widman,
who I think is still I think is here in Texas.
I can't recall, but that wasn't that important to the story.
(22:58):
But anyway, Wideman spent years collecting memorabilia, much as did
my father. By the way, throughout his life he had
one of the as a quick aside. He had one
of the largest collections of military insignia in the country,
so large in fact and so well cataloged and documented
(23:21):
that it was displayed in the Houston Public Library not
once but twice, if memory serves, and for quite some
time while it was all in there. He did well,
not all of it, just what he wanted to show
over there. But anyway, the bottom line was he had
an amazing collection and that I kind of took interest
in it a little bit and it was fascinating. Anyway,
(23:44):
The bottom line is Wideman in his collection, he was
reading the story about this this emt or a paramedic
right here and using looking for stuff from his grandfather,
and he thought, you know, I'll just rummage around through
my stuff see what I got. Well turned out, as
it turned out, in his collection he had the very jacket,
(24:06):
the very uniform jacket that was worn by Holmes's grandfather
and positively identified as such, and that jacket actually bears
the the tears and burns sustained when as a young soldier,
(24:27):
this man's grandfather triggered a landmine and got riddled across
his back with searing hot.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
Shrapnel, hence the purple heart. I found that a.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Really interesting and fascinating story, and it's stories like these
are in great part the reason I do My feature
that's I'm glad to say, has two sponsors right now,
and they're they're airing it as much as they can
because they support our military the same as I do.
It's called this and US Military History, and it.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
Can be heard.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
I can't remember exact airtimes, but it's the same time
each week on both KPRC and KBMME, and even a
couple of other stations as well through streaming. I wish
I could find a sponsor to run these things every
day on every station in the country. Each week, I
produced and am still producing, a minute long piece that
highlights two or three events from our military's history and
(25:26):
names two or three soldiers who earned medals of honor
in that same week. I do recognize the sponsors right now,
by the way, it's rafter V Services, Offens Company and
Phoenix Knives out in Belleville, both of whom the owners
of both those businesses are very appreciative of our military,
(25:47):
and when they heard that there was an opening to
do this, they kind of jumped right on it. So
if you know somebody's in who's thinking about that or
might even consider it at all, let me know and
I will take very good care of them and thank
them profusely for allowing me to share these pieces with
more and more people.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
Ah, two minutes.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
I talked about that yesterday and didn't scratch it out,
but it did. Did I didn't talk about that ninety
year old guy who was seen by a like a
TikToker pawning jewelry, did I? No, I don't believe that
this is another It's a good story. It really is
US Air Force veteran up in New Hampshire. Some TikToker
(26:33):
sees this guy videoing or sees this guy pawning some
jewelry and just kind of walks up and asks him
why he's doing that. Well, it turned out this guy
his name is Donald, and Donald's wife has dementia, which
generates Hugh, he's old, okay, he's a he's a very
old Air Force veteran. He's not new to the game.
(26:55):
He's probably a probably a Vietnam era guy somewhere in there.
May I don't know, Yeah, probably that. Anyway, her condition
generates big bills. And on top of that, his landlord
just recently raised his rent without money, Without the money
he was hoping to get from that jewelry, he was
going to lose his home probably and worse, his wife
(27:17):
potentially could have been placed in a state run home,
which would almost never is the best option for anybody, really,
and it certainly wouldn't have been good for him either,
to have to know that his wife wasn't someplace where
he could take care of her every day, because that's
what he does. So this woman, Janelle Marie the TikToker,
(27:39):
started to go fund me page for Donald and as
of Monday morning, barely a week into it, Well, another
pop quiz.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
Have you been hearing this story at all?
Speaker 2 (27:51):
No? God, I found another story that I want to
talk about.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Well, the go fund me page that Janelle started up
has raised three hundred and sixty five thousand dollars for
this man. Still so many good and generous people in
the world. I hope and pray they're all smart enough
to make decisions that will enable them to keep doing
good things for good people, rather than hand that money
(28:16):
over to tax collectors or people who have done nothing
for this country except walk into it.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
Ah and not always lowfully. Oops, I slipped a little.
Do your research. You'll know what I'm talking about. So
go ahead, will what do you got? Oh?
Speaker 3 (28:29):
We got to go to break So I'll lead with
whatever it is you have, but I'm gonna vet it
so the audience knows that if you don't hear, we'll
talk shortly after I resume in the final segment.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
You'll know why.
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Old guy's rule and of course women never get old
if you want to avoid sleeping on the couch.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
Okay, well I think that sounds like a good plan.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
All right, welcome back fifty plus.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Before Will tells you what he's just so giddy and
excited to tell you. Will Melbourne at iHeartMedia dot com.
That's all I need to say, Will take it away.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
Will.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
It's actually not my email because my name isn't Will
is a diminutive.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
Well, that's how I type it in. Is it William.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Yes, be sure they get it right, because I'm sure
you're going to get some response.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Well, you like Fredericksburg, Doug, oh, love it?
Speaker 4 (30:50):
Well most days of the year.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Let's just say August thirty first, it's the last day
to be able to do it. There's two dates, but
the tenth is our past as it's the.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
Two of the convenient. That'sy. But you can't do this.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
I got another way. I got another question for you.
What you like oysters? That's a leading question I'm not
going to answer. Okay, Well, do you have you heard
of Rocky Mountain oysters?
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Because the Fredericksburg, Texas, tex Texas Estical Festival is scheduled
for the thirty first.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
If you're going to be a news man, you gotta
be able to say this with a straight shing I know,
and say it all right, what's happening August thirty first one?
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Well, Fredericksburg, Texas Testicle Festival is scheduled for August thirty first,
and you can go and get some Rocky Mountain oysters.
General admission is twenty dollars for old twenty bucks.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
Yes, that's ten. Have other things there too.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
They have hamburgers. Call them hamburgers. Wow, that's like that
believable beef. They got totals, my bet they do. They
rocky mountain poor bulls. That's what poors those poor bulls.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
Man, I've never had a rocky Mountain oyster.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Then why the fascination with a festival to celebrate them?
Speaker 2 (32:15):
I know there's gotta be some people out there that
want them going on.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
Yeah, Like I said when we were talking about this
during the break, wheell, if I were a cattle herder
from the eighteen hundreds and we were pushing cattle from
South Texas to Kansas, and we ran out of beans,
and we ran out of what else were we gonna?
(32:40):
Might have might have had a whole deer that somebody
shot one day, and we ran out of deer, and
we ran out of everything else. Then and only then,
might I have considered what you got cooking?
Speaker 4 (32:54):
Tonight's cook? Well, here's what I got for you. Let
me tell you how this is going to work.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (33:01):
Those what are those? Don't ask? Just eat them? Yeah,
don't ask?
Speaker 3 (33:06):
All right, let's go back over here to my page
of little just just get away from that.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
Uh not enough? Wait, I got that one Okay, I
did that one?
Speaker 3 (33:17):
Not enough late delivery or honk it out?
Speaker 4 (33:22):
Hmm, honk it out.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
This is kind of cool San Francisco neighborhood dealing with
loud disturbances nightly from driverless waym cars getting confused in
a parking lot and honking at each other all nine long.
Oh wow, that's a what is his name, Lionel Richie reference? Yeah,
(33:50):
just honking at eip me me meet me. Can you
imagine that would be kind of like being on the
I don't know, being at a red light and waiting
to seconds after the light turned green to move forward.
It would sound probably pretty similar to what that parking
lot sounds like. Come on, will help me out here. So, oh,
(34:11):
proof of gullibility. You want some proof that Americans are gullible?
All right, and we'll believe any that. Just Starbucks.
Speaker 4 (34:19):
Changed its coffee, changed the whole blend that they're using. Okay,
when did they change it? Oh, I have no idea,
all the way back in May.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
No, they changed it in May, and not one soul
said a word about it, not one soul noticed. Well,
but probably because they squeeze all that other garbage into it.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
That's what I was gonna say. Yeah, and the.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
People who are going in there and just ordering a
cup of coffee, you know what they're ordering Pike Place roast.
Speaker 4 (34:51):
Blind.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
Yeah, mine my personal blend. Yeah, we worked that out
years ago.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
I get a little piece.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Yeah, that's a that's gonna be a nice chunk of change.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
You would think, you would think, but it's a really
very small piece of Yeah. If like if I got
if I were to get a penny tomorrow, then that
that'd be my first payment.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
Wow on the deal. A single penny.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
Yeah, you would think that using my name like that.
But see they said Pipe Place and not Pike Radio. Dude, Okay,
that's why I can't get paid on it. They just
they they changed it just enough, just enough, just that
a little bit. Oh and what else do I want
to tell you about the TSA. Oh, here's some good
news and bad news. Well, the TSA says there are
(35:34):
new scanners being rolled into airports across America that will
finally allow us to carry more than three ounces of
liquid in a little bottle. That's the good news. Guess
how long it's gonna take to get them into all
the airports? Well?
Speaker 4 (35:51):
Five years? Oh, you're an optimist. Oh you want me
to keep on guessing? One more guess? Okay, eight years,
then you're done.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
Sixteen years before they get this out there, still got
to carry that little little pill bottle full of shampoo
or whatever.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
All right.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
Woman in Florida found a message in a bottle from
nineteen forty five.
Speaker 4 (36:14):
I'll tell you what it's said tomorrow. That'll be kind. Well, no,
it's even boring, then I won't. That's it. Thanks for listening,
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