Teacher Nominations

Today, Doug Pike discusses teacher nominations.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Remember when it was impossible to misplace the TV remote.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Because you were the TV remote.

Speaker 1 (00:09):
Remember when music sounded like this, Remember when social media
was truly social?

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

Speaker 1 (00:20):
Well, this show is all about you. This is fifty
plus with Doug Pike. Helpful information on your finances, good health,
and what to do for fun. Fifty plus brought to
you by the UT Health Houston Institute on Aging, Informed
Decisions for a healthier, happier life.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
And now fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, let's
tee it up, shall we. Thursday edition of the program
starts right now. And none of that is important. Let
me put my phone down where I don't have to
worry about it. If it rings, I'm just gonna let
it ring too. I'm still getting on average now, I'm

(01:04):
getting anywhere from eight to twelve, which I guess on
average it would be about ten spam calls per day,
every single day, which means I have to go in there.
I have to confirm that they are indeed spam and
then delete their blocked the number and delete the history.
And it's just it's a few keystrokes, it's a few

(01:26):
taps on the screen. That's all it is, really. But
nonetheless it's just the the scammers are just incessant. They
just won't let go. And I talked about that latest
scam that and I'll say it again because it's important
for people like you and me who are comfortable now

(01:46):
with internet technology but not confident, maybe not confident in
our ability not to get scammed. The latest one is
one of those situations where you want to go to
a site to do some shopping or learn more about
this or that or whatever, and to prove you're a
human you have to either have to type in the

(02:13):
letters and numbers of these jumbled looking little things. It's
hard to tell sometimes which one's a capitalization and which
one's not. You have to type those into a box,
or you have to look at a series of say
nine photographs, and tap on the ones that show a
school bus, a fishing rod, a sidewalk, whatever, a mailbox.

(02:39):
And if you get it right, hooray, you get sent
to the site. If you get it wrong, it'll give
you another try. But the way these are set up,
whatever you touch, whether they're right or wrong, when you
click go ahead, take me to where I want to go.
A box pops up that says, oh, wait, we've had
some sort of a problem on our end. We're gonna

(03:00):
need you to do this again. All you gotta do
to fix this problem and move forward is just click
this box, this new little square, whatever it is, and
when you click that, you open up your entire device,
whatever it is, to the people who are going to
just suck it dry, just copy everything in there and

(03:22):
then leave you not knowing anything has been done. So
be very very careful with things like that. And if
there's any doubt at all in your mind, first of all,
don't push the button, don't tap on that screen, whatever
it is. Don't the instructions are, don't do it. I
had one this morning. I had an email that I

(03:44):
looked at it and said it wanted me to do something.
I can't remember exactly what it was. It was from
some financial institution. And when it told me to click
this box for more information about whatever it was, and
I looked at the website it was gonna take me to.
It wasn't anything remotely like the title of the institution.

(04:11):
It was just somewhere on the planet. I don't know
where it was, but all I immediately closed that and
then restarted my computer and just I'll take that minute
or two it takes to restart my computer to keep
it from getting burned. It's just crazy how sophisticated these
things are and how determined they are to prey on

(04:36):
people who aren't quite savvy with technical stuff, and that's
a lot of us. And they don't care, and you're
never gonna get that money back. If they get it
out of your account, you're probably never gonna get it returned.
Even some of the some of the sites where they
monitor all of your stuff all day, every day, true

(05:00):
millions and bazillions of data points being monitored every nanosecond
by these people. Used to say that they would a
lot of them would say they you know, they'll cover
you up to a million dollars loss if they can't
stop the threat. Now it just says, you get your
money back, So be careful with those things. They're they're good,

(05:20):
they're certainly a great front front line help, a great
safety net. But even they are kind of conceding that
they don't they're not able to fix things every single time.
And I'm sure that some of the bigger scams that
occurred in years past cost them a lot of money

(05:41):
because they were offering to replace everything that was lost.
Now it's just you get your money back in fifteen twelve, fifteen,
eighteen dollars a month times a year. You're not getting
back a lot of money. You lose one hundred thousand
dollars and get back three hundred bucks. Maybe it's it's
still a better safety net than nothing, but just be

(06:03):
aware of what you are buying. The coverage you're buying,
you know will There may be a business model here,
just scam insurance. Scam insurance which is sort of like
what these security sites offer, but something that if you
really get burned, you can pay us a little bit

(06:25):
a month, and the most people aren't going to get burned,
so their money would just be accruing in your company account.
There's an entrepreneurial opportunity right there, and I don't know
that it exists, but it should all right. In any event,
the tropics are kind of quiet right now, nothing to
see out there, and we do have rain chances coming along.

(06:47):
I actually saw some weather site I think it was
forty eight hours ago that had a giant yellow blob
identical to what the National Hurricane Center would put up
if something we're starting to brew up. But this was
just on an independent site and it covered, boy, it

(07:08):
covered almost half the Gulf of Mexico. Oh you look
at that as someone who's watched the NHC stuff forever,
you think, holy cow, we're about to get just clobbered.
But in fact, as soon as I saw that, I
went to the NHC site and it was just one
of those nothing to worry about for seven days, We're good.
So same thing here. We're gonna get some rain over

(07:30):
the next few days, possibly some heavy rain in some places,
but that's just summertime in southeast Texas. Nothing to see.
Nasdaq was up really good. The rest of the things
I kind of watched were flat. And that was back
at nine o'clock, so I didn't look again. There was
no reason too, I didn't think. I think the I
think the Dow was actually up a little bit more

(07:50):
than it was back then, oiled down half a buck
gold idling, still around thirty three hundred dollars. And so
and with that we will go. We go to the
first break of the program, in which I get to
tell you all, well some about the UT Health Institute
on Aging. I've spoken on behalf of this entity for

(08:13):
the better part of ten years now, and for as
long as they will allow me, I will continue to
do just that because it is that important to us,
to every senior in Greater Houston. What the Institute on
Aging does is welcome in healthcare providers from every medical
discipline who are willing to go back and get additional

(08:35):
training to whatever got them that diploma or certificate or whatever,
so that they could apply their knowledge specifically to us,
which is such an advantage over anybody who lives anywhere
else in the country. They're only maybe a handful, maybe
one hand four five I guess, opportunities even similar to

(08:55):
what we have here. But since we're right here and
we have the medical center here, all of these providers
are top notch. All of these providers are a lot
of them head of the class out of med school.
They have tons of experience, and now they're applying it
specifically to us to keep us living longer, healthier, happier lives.

(09:16):
Go to the website, look around. You'll see tons of
resources that you never even knew existed that are all
of benefit to seniors. And then on top of that,
of course, you can work your way into access to
all of these specific providers who mostly work in the
med center, but also many of them, most of them,
I would say, spend a little time in outlying communities,

(09:37):
outlying hospitals and clinics and offices where people who can't
or don't really want to go into the medical center
can be seen by these super qualified I guess is
a good word for them, super qualified medical providers uth
dot edu slash aging uth dot edu slash aging without

(10:00):
a net. If I suggest to go to bed, sleep
it all, just wait until the show's over. Sleepy.

Speaker 1 (10:06):
Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues, Welcome back
to fifty plus.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
Thank you all for listening. I certainly do appreciate it.
We didn't get very far down my notes, that's for sure,
in that first segment, but we will. We'll make our
way through as much of it as we can. And
then tomorrow, well tomorrow, I've got two interviews schedule, both
of which are going to be good. I'll probably be
post something about them somewhere later this afternoon, I guess,

(10:32):
either that or early tomorrow morning on Facebook, so you'll
know what's coming. By the way, I heeart is bringing back,
as we do around this time of year, getting closer
to the start of school, our Thank a Teacher little program.
Everybody I think remembers now in our group. I don't
think that we would be able to nominate the people

(10:53):
who taught us, especially maybe back in grade school, because
most of those people are long since retired and some
of them just not around anymore. I remember, I believe
it was first grade at Sutton Elementary School, Missus Shadele,
and then I think third grade was Turner, and I'm

(11:18):
it's pretty sketchy beyond those two names. Those two names
keep coming up to me. And if I had a minute,
I could probably remember the name of my English teacher
at Sharpstown High School, because I really learned a ton
from her, and that's kind of where I developed my
passion for writing, even was from some of her inspiration.

(11:40):
And I'll come up with her name at some point,
and I'll somebody out there probably remembers who it might
have been back in the mid seventies, Thank you very much.
The English teacher who was teaching senior English when I
was there. Everybody remembers at least one, maybe a couple
of them. They challenged us maybe they believed in us

(12:01):
they made learning fun, and I had there were a
couple of teachers there that weren't that way at all,
But mostly I think back then teachers were still teaching
what they should have been teaching and not trying to
indoctrinate us in anything. So this is your chance, or
maybe the chance for one of your offspring or even

(12:24):
a grandchild to think one of what they considered to
be one of the best teachers around. Powered by donors,
choose and what's gonna happen. We're gonna you are going
to nominate these outstanding public school teachers and give them
a chance to win five thousand dollars worth of stuff

(12:45):
to stock their classroom with whatever they need. You need
to send the teacher of the day, the name, the school,
and pretty much why this teacher is going to be nominated.
Go to iHeartRadio dot com slash teachers, iHeartRadio dot com

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slash teachers and help us say thank you to the
educators shaping our future. Got to be somebody out there
that's really worthy of this, and probably a lot more
than we think would I would. I'm still convinced that
the majority of teachers are still in it to help

(13:28):
the kids and not not lean them in a political direction,
or or cover up things that need to be shared
with their parents, or whatever it may be. By the way,
a little point to ponder to get the second segment
moving forward. Charlie Chaplin outlived Elvis Presley. If you'd have

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asked me to just take a knee knee jerk shot
at which one of those people live the law or
live into this century or the last century longer, I
probably would have chosen Elvis Presley. Charlie Chaplin seems so
far back there, one hundred years back there now, whereas

(14:14):
Elvis far more contemporary, and you would have thought for
sure that he lived longer. But old Charlie he hung out.
He hung around for a very long time.

Speaker 1 (14:23):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (14:23):
Coming out the gate here with some news. Mainstream media
is doom and gloom. Stories about the economy aren't holding
up well now that the second quart of data has
been released. Even CNBC reported that our nation is doing
better than expected, which is just glowing praise for them
to even concede that anything is going right. And at

(14:47):
the hands of the president they still contend is everything
from the devil to a Nazi, whatever other criticism or
foul despicable name they can throw at him one by one.
A story at the Federalists quoted recent stories from all
the Trump hater news outlets, and they're just they're moving,

(15:10):
They're almost being forced to concede that this is going better,
that this this is the guy the president was, He's
the guy who was certain to send our nation into
a downward tumble. And then all of their predictions have
pretty much been debunked. Just nothing, no substance of truth
in any of it. Just like I talked about yesterday,

(15:30):
after watching some National network news broadcasts throughout the early
part of the week, I listened to this stuff, and
I know for a fact that it's wrong. And they
stare right into the camera and just with the most
most honest face and honest delivery they can possibly muster,
they say words that they have to know aren't true.

(15:52):
My gut tells me they're running with anything and everything
they can to distract Americans from what's being uncovered by
the DOJ, by the FBI about that fake Russian dossier.
And there was a Breitbart story just yesterday. A little
later that I could get to it. FBI Director Cash
Pattel said he found big stacks of sensitive documents on

(16:14):
the Trump Russia prob buried in what are called burn bags,
which these these high level security agencies of the of
the country have available to them so that things that
just don't ever need to get into anybody else's hands
can be destroyed by fire, just reduced to ashes. And

(16:35):
sure enough, sure enough, there's there are thousands of documents
in there tagged as classified or higher and would have
been burned had they not been found by Patel, all
kinds of stuff that referenced that Russia hoax. They were
in a room by the way, a secret room used

(16:57):
by former Director James Coby and his associates, according to
the story. Also found, the story said, was this classified
annex to the formal space available to John Durham and
his boy. There's just all kinds of stuff. This room
was never intended to be found. It also has hard
drives from a whole lot of computers, and I'll be

(17:19):
interested to see what they turn up. Even a New
York Times columnist wrote recently that President Trump was piling
up wins for the United States far beyond anyone on
his team's expectations. That's a pretty bold thing for a
New York Times guy to write. It really is. At

(17:40):
least that guy had the courage to write what he's
witnessed instead of just towing the liberal disparaging line about
this guy. This guy, we call President Trump and we'll
see how it works out.

Speaker 1 (17:53):
For them all.

Speaker 2 (17:54):
I've gotten what about a minute and a half? Huh?
Will is that correct? Thumbs up? Yes, sir, thank you.
In underhanded reporting news, the New York Times admitted recently
that it published a photograph that was alleged to have
shown a boy severely malnourished in Gaza because of being

(18:16):
starved by a lack of aid being delivered to that region.
The boy in the photo is clearly in horrible physical condition,
but it turns out that the boy has cerebral palsy,
which contributes greatly to his distressed physical appearance. It's no

(18:37):
fault of his own. This disease has just overtaken this
poor boy's body, and he looks he looks bad. Worth noting,
by the way the Times published their correction, this is
just hamas everyday occurrence. They published faked photos, They manipulate photos,

(18:57):
they manipulate facts, and figures in all that to draw
sympathy upon themselves. But they got caught this time. And
at least the Times tried to get it right by
running a correction at its communications channel, which has about
eighty nine thousand or so followers. That sounds like a

(19:19):
lot of people, right. Well, that same correction also should
have been run on and along with a pretty strong apology.
I would think on the what is it called the
main channel of the New York's Times, that one has
fifty five million followers. So they took the easy way out,

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Speaker 1 (21:44):
That's why every few months we wash them, check his fluids,
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Speaker 2 (21:51):
This is fifty plus with Doug Pike. Welcome back to
fifty flaus. Thank you for listening. In breaking news, I
suppose it is if you haven't heard it all right.
Kamala Harris, who who made little waves at least when
she talked about running for governor of California over the
past month or two, I think was just kind of

(22:13):
testing the waters and came out today after probably being
told that, oh she didn't have really any more support
in California than she did back in November. She's opted
out of that race. Gavin's out. Newsom's out because his
term expires. He's going to be at the end of

(22:34):
the year. He's out of there or November or whatever
it is. He's the Lane duck, as they call him.
So they've got a couple of other front runners. I
can't even remember their names, and I really don't care
what California does politically because hopefully it's not gonna impact me.
But she's out of that, and what it sounds like

(22:55):
is that she thinks she's got a shot at the
twenty twenty eight presidential race. I don't know who's telling
her that, and I know that she wouldn't have to
go up against President Trump because he's not going to
get another term. This will be his second and last.
And I don't think we should alter anything to do

(23:16):
with how many times someone can be president. I think
that's enough. He's got enough time to do what he
needs to do to get this country on track, and
if he's given that opportunity, then in turn, we will
be able to identify someone who can continue keeping us
on the path that he puts us on. He's a

(23:38):
very smart man, and nobody should be able to nobody
should disbelieve that he's playing chess and most of these
people he's dealing with around the world or playing checkers,
and it's every time we turn around, he's done something
that nobody thought he could do. So I don't have
any problem with him. I would have a problem with her, though,

(24:00):
because if really I don't see her winning, if we
can get voter ID rules in place, I won't worry.
And if not, though, if the less, it's a The
liberals insist that we don't need to show an ID
to vote, even though I've got to show mine to
buy a fishing license, even though you have to show
yours to cash a check in your own bank. That then, then,

(24:24):
my gut says, they've come up with a new scam
with the polls, and and they think they can do
that because that's the only that's the only path I
see to this country three and a half years from now,
looking up and saying, wow, look at where we are now,
and look at where we were then, on the border,

(24:46):
on education, on inflation, on pretty much everything. There's no
way she can, no way she can dance into this.
I don't, I really don't think in a pitiful display.
I call it of delusional ignorance among very closed minded
people who just don't get it. There's a video of

(25:06):
a couple of dozen protesters dressed in black, one carrying
an upside down American flag on a pole, which I
find really disgusting. And the others delivering a cardboard coffin
to the private home of Wisconsin US Representative Brian Steele.

(25:27):
There's text on the cardboard coffin that hints that these
people are not a fan of President Trump or his no,
his big beautiful Bill, nor of the Senator or the representative.
And it concluded with an rip message for democracy. All
that as even left leaning economists and TV networks are

(25:50):
finally conceding that President Trump has our country pointed in
the right direction, and in the right strong direction it is.
I feel sorry for those people and how uninformed they
are and how much garbage they've ingested over the past
four years that led them to be so easily convinced

(26:13):
that the Emperor had new clothes. The Emperor wasn't wearing
any clothes at all. He didn't do anything but put
our country in a big hot mess, and we're digging
out of it, slowly but surely.

Speaker 1 (26:25):
So.

Speaker 2 (26:25):
Imagine if President Trump had been elected and we were
already on a little bit better path, and he didn't
have to start from negative numbers on everything, it could
have just gotten better all the faster. I do feel
for people who still don't think he's doing a good job.
Is all the data, every indicator so far as that

(26:47):
he's doing just fun. And as I mentioned recently in
a kind of a related thing, I don't have the
time or the crayons to explain it to them. I
really don't. I love that line. It's appropriate here, I
believe as well. The people who carried a cardboard coffin
up a guy's private home driveway and put it on

(27:07):
his doorstep, that's a special kind of a special kind
of ignorant and determination. Ignorance and determination and just no
respect for anybody but their position. Thirty one year old
guy in California. Oh, we gotta go, don't we never mind?

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plus with Doug Pike. Hey, welcome back to fifty plus.
Thank you for listening. Fourth and final segment of the
program starts right now from Cajun Company Company, Really, Doug
from Cajun Country. I'm half Cajun too, by the way.
My dad full blown New Orleans raised and Cajun through
and through. But my dad a much more honest man

(28:56):
than this woman over there, a thirty five year old
who's allegedly been shifting money among her personal and business
accounts to hide her actual income and using false ID
and fake names and fake children and whatnot on the
applications to collect money from Medicaid, when in fact this

(29:22):
why she. I guess she just addicted to jobbing the
system and stealing from hard working taxpayers. This woman turns out,
owns a half a dozen businesses and made for herself
in the past four years more than nine and a
half million dollars, and still collecting checks from medicaid. Investigators

(29:51):
caught her flaunting her lavish lifestyle. She do not even
trying to She not even trying to hide it on
Facebook when they figured out who she was. She's out
there in very expensive jewelry, She's had cosmetic surgery, she's
got real estate purchases, even bought a Lamborghini, all on
social media, and all while collecting checks disabled or what

(30:16):
is it called disability checks from the government. That's pretty
gutsy right there. And I don't know how much time
she's facing, but I hope she gets every minute of
it in a federal lockup somewhere. That's pretty bold, pretty brassy.
Mainstream media one more time finds itself kind of backed

(30:38):
into a corner after the incident with that guy at
a Michigan Walmart, stabbing people. This guy was I don't
remember exactly how many people he stabbed, but some of
them were very seriously wounded. He didn't have a very
big knife either. It was kind of a folding pocket knife,
I would guess based on the description they put in
the story I read. Eventually stopped by a black man

(31:00):
with a gun. The good samaritan. This is a good
samaritan who showed up, never fired his weapon, He used
it instead just to de escalate the situation by backing
that guy up and getting him away from anybody else
who he could say. He was taking advantage of people
who couldn't get away from him. So this guy shows up,

(31:21):
he draws his weapon, He tells the guy to back up,
and backs him up, and backs him up. It eventually
gets help from other people at that walmart who used
shopping carts and whatever they could to pin this guy
down and detain him until law enforcement arrived. A good
guy with a gun once again stopped what certainly could

(31:46):
have and probably would have been a far more tragic
outcome had he not been there. The guy's a hero,
he's a life saver. There's no question that guy was
the guy with the knife was on a rampage. He
cut up a lot of people, and he probably would
have done worse to somebody if he could have gotten
hold of them. And a good guy with the wherewithal

(32:07):
and with the calm head. And I'm sure that guy
with the knife posed a three. He could see that
this guy might have lunched at him any time, and
may have, may not. I have no idea. I didn't
see the entire incident, but I'm really glad that guy
was there. I'm glad he was armed, and I'm glad
he was able to keep anything worse from happening at

(32:30):
that spot. That's a good guy, good guy with a gun.
You hardly ever see stories about that, but this one
was caught on video, and that video is all over
the internet. I'm so glad that guy was there. Uh
three weeks after the you know know what, I'm gonna
say this. I'll talk about this tomorrow. I'm gonna talk
this is about the floods. And I don't want to

(32:52):
end on that note. It's not horrible, it's nothing bad,
but I just want to end with something a little
bit lighter. There was a poll taken to determine the
most hated food in America, and it would have been
the one I would have put on the top of
the list too, and that would be anchovies. I don't
know why anybody would eat anchovies? Will am I correct in?

(33:14):
Remembering that you're an anchovy on pizza guy, Well, then
you can have mine as well. That's okay. I'm not
bashing you for liking them, But if we ever have
the opportunity to eat pizza together, I'll say, you know what,
just double the double the anchovies on one side and
leave them off of the other, and then we'll both

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be right where we want to be. There's a new word,
by the way, for people who ask to have to
ask chat GPT what to do before they do anything,
and they're picking up a new nickname, sloppers. They're being
called apparently a reference to AI. Slop it just garbled

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low effort content online. I was talking to a woman
yesterday from Houston e and t about Carly, about about
AI and its place in the world of creativity. And
I don't think it'll ever truly replace human creativity, I

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told her, And I'll tell you because I've looked at
enough AI generated text and in any manner and form
and I still see indications where I can say, yeah,
that was done by that was done by AI. That
was done by AI. Because the human mind still is

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a little bit more capable of twisting things I think, uh,
and and creating suspense and creating mystery and drama than AI.
AI has just got to go with whatever's been fed
into it, and a lot of the times it's not
enough to make it much of a difference. Here's a

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story of determ termination in these final thirty seconds. Some guy, well,
the New York Post did a story. I don't know
where this guy's from, but he and his girlfriend been
dating a very long time and she waited a very
long time to accept his proposal for marriage. In fact,
she accepted it the forty third time that he offered it.

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I hope she's worth it. That's it for today. We'll
come back to wrap up the week tomorrow. Thank you
all so very much for listening. Audios