The Beginning of FIFA in Houston

Today, Doug Pike discusses FIFA, the Spurs, and 12 years of 50+.

Episode Transcript

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

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Remember when social media was truly social? Hey John, how's
it going today?

Speaker 1 (00:20):
Well? This show is all about you only. 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, and by New

(00:42):
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Speaker 2 (00:48):
Com And now fifty plus with Doug Pipe. All right,
here we go.

Speaker 3 (00:53):
Friday edition of the program starts right now. Only got
the day of the week.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
Right will? That was last week, wasn't it? Yeah? Thank goodness,
I was just had my fingers crossed.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
On that welcome one and all to the only hour
on local radio at least that I know of, devoted
exclusively to seniors. What we like, what we think about,
what we need, what we want, what we'd like the
world to be like, where we'd like to go, all
of that for more than twelve years now. By the way,

(01:24):
my wife didn't think fifty plus had been on that
long will. But I was actually scrolling through emails trying
to delete as many as I could yesterday of the
bajillion I have, and out with the old and then
with the new. There's too much new coming in for
me to keep up and get it out of there.
But in any event, I came across a very early

(01:45):
email that referenced fifty plus and that was from twenty fourteen.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
So been a hot minute.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
I thought we were at in our eleventh year, but
actually I think it is our twelfth, believe it or not.
So thank you all for I do appreciate that for
more than twelve years now worked hard to inform and entertain,
mostly seniors, of course, but also the wonderful adult children
of older parents. Mine's only eighteen. My only child is eighteen.

(02:16):
He's not really into what I'm worried.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
About just yet.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
He's more focused on his life and getting it started
and going in a good direction. And I have no
problem with that at all. Quite proud of some of
the things he says. Now that he's gotten to eighteen,
and a little bit of that frontal cortex is starting
to mature, getting started by the way, in case you
haven't been outside and just turned on the radio or

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your smart device, by the way, and I saw something
about those today that kind of scared me.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
There's just all this.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
New technology is being plugged into what we think are
fairly simple and innocuous devices. But all of that new
technology enables those devices in your house, on your risk,
wherever they are in your hands. It enables them to
pretty much pluck out anything that's in that device and

(03:09):
use it, they say, to help you, but it's also
following you, it's tracking you, it's recording everything, and it's
getting a little bit creepy and scary, just a teensy bit.
I don't know where that's going to go, but I
certainly hope that we can. We can get ourselves back

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into some level of security with the with the help
of AI as I want the help from AI, but
I don't want it. I don't want AI to be
able to have access to everything in my phone or
my laptop or whatever. I think that's horribly intrusive. There's

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a lot of personal information in machines we have right now,
and I think a lot of us forget about how
how carefully we need to guard little things like a
social Security number, like medical information, just all financial information.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
We need to be.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
Very careful and very watchful of how and just how
quick we are to check the box when it says
before you can use this app, you have to sign
off on our policies. And before you know it, you
start reading that stuff and you realize that you've pretty
much given them the keys to the castle.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
So anyway, let's go to the weather. We'll do that.
Remember that yellow.

Speaker 3 (04:33):
Blob that the National Hurricane Center put on the map
this week down there, way down in the south end
of the Bay of Campeachy, that's what's going to bring
our rain early next week. I skipped over the forecast
here by the way, pretty nice today and tomorrow. That
a good chance for rain through the first three days
of next week. On the plus side, those three rainy
days bring back highs in the eighties, kind of high eighties,

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but nonetheless, and then after that it's right back in
the nineties. So the yellow blob, that's what's going to
bring that rain early next week. And if you go
to the website right now, the National Hurricane Center, I
don't think they've updated it yet. And what you will
see is what I saw this morning, I hope because
it's really kind of funny. But this, this low pressure
system now is marked as coming right up the coast

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from the Bay of Campeachee all the way over to
the Sabine River.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
Picture that in your head.

Speaker 3 (05:27):
Picture it as kind of a blob and not it's
not a straight line. It's a it's a two dimensional
blob that they have on that map, all in yellow
checkered lines, and for all the world it looks like
a giant banana that's going to eat South Texas. It's
it's that's the first time I've ever seen one of

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those low pressure systems really really look kind of weird
and represent something else. Usually they're just kind of oddball
shapes and whatnot. But this one looks for the world
like a banana. Anyway, let's go to by the way.
Only still, since it's since it showed up early in
the week, it's always been either zero and ten this

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is forty eight hour development in seven day development zero
and ten percent or ten percent and ten percent, and
that's what it still is. It's not I don't see
any chance for this to actually become something unless for
some reason it rolls back out into the Gulf of
America and finds it find some sort of life blood

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to suck out of the atmosphere.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
I think we're gonna be okay, though.

Speaker 3 (06:36):
Taking a look at Wall Street, early marks were more
green than red, with only the Nasdaq showing a slight decline,
but only a half an hour ago, all four were
back in the green, and the Dow pretty substantially green.
Gold regained more than one hundred of the dollars it
shed yesterday, sitting at about forty two thirty two an

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hour ago, and Oil, I am happy to report, had
dropped by more than three bucks a barrel and was
only a smidge north of eighty four dollars around.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
That same time. Thank you, Will. I don't want to
get to the thiefa stuff yet. Tell you what I
can do. This was interesting. I found this very interesting,
and I can do it in one minute. Will.

Speaker 3 (07:17):
A new report found that the majority of Republicans and
Democrat Democrats excuse me, agree on one hundred and twelve
different issues, the front runners obviously being and this is
where the majority of both parties agree on healthcare costs,

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on immigration, on childcare, on housing, affordability, on term limits,
AI taxes on the super rich, and government ethics. It's
those pesky extremists that caused the trouble, and because they're
the loudest, most of us just kind of go about
our business and take care of what we can and

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use our vote to express ourselves. The ones with the
megaphones are the ones bothering us so much. All right,
time for a little break here on the way out.
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we'll try to muscle on through these next.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
What do we got here? Forty forty three minutes, forty
two minutes. I'm sure it'll work.

Speaker 3 (09:21):
By the way, I saw something that I found quite human. Well,
I heard something I found quite humorous. After I saw it,
I gave it a listen, and I thought it was
and San Antonio Spurs fans forgive me.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
I had to.

Speaker 3 (09:36):
I send it personally to one of the women who
work here who is a huge Spurs fan, and she
knows I'm joking when I send this, but it is
a little bit kind of funny hit.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
It will.

Speaker 4 (09:50):
Each year, thousands of people choke on common foods, and
this Saturday night, during Game five, San Antonio fans are
at an all time high risk medical ex Bert's worn
that choking is usually caused by small round objects like
whole griefs, hard candy, or a twenty nine point halftime lead.

(10:10):
To avoid a catastrophic late game asphyxiation like we saw
in Game four, please to your food thoroughly. Before the
New York Knicks win their first championship in fifty three years,
don't do what the Spurs did. Breathe, san Antonio. Breathe
and let's go Nicks.

Speaker 2 (10:28):
And there you go.

Speaker 3 (10:30):
How about that? Breathe, san Antonio, breathe not bad. I
have to send this to my son here really quickly.
I don't know if I can. Yeah, there it is,
right there. He's he's looking probably for a code that
the airline sent him and it inadvertently was sent to
my email, and so I've got to take care of him.

(10:53):
He's on his way back from a very fun trip,
I would imagine. I can't imagine it not being fun,
being where he was and with the guys he was
hanging out with.

Speaker 2 (11:02):
There were there were chaperoons.

Speaker 3 (11:04):
No, they didn't get sent off to this place by themselves.
But they're coming in today and I'm gonna make sure
he I'm hoping they all have a smooth flight. It
should be not bad. I don't think that weather down
there down south of US, the Banana Blob, I don't
think it's big enough or tall enough to hurt anything
any any airline traffic there.

Speaker 2 (11:25):
You go.

Speaker 3 (11:26):
Speaking of FIFA, by the way, well no we haven't yet.
Will and I were talking about it during the break.
Play gets underway this week. It does not do so
without controversy. All This particular situation that I'm gonna mention
here first is something I find falls quite short of
actual drama.

Speaker 2 (11:46):
It doesn't even really it doesn't even really impact the
game at all.

Speaker 3 (11:50):
Zero fans around the world, though, are reacting very harshly
to a change in pregame protocol. You can imagine, well,
that actually happen in the NFL years ago, and people
finally forgot about it and quit doing it, And I think, maybe,
I think this might actually stick with FIFA and it
wouldn't bother me at all. But here it is the

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unforgivable change. Some are saying. Instead of each team sending
eleven men to the midfield, along with the officials and
other dignitaries for the playing of each team's national anthem,
this year's midfield rosters include each.

Speaker 2 (12:29):
Team's full squad.

Speaker 3 (12:32):
The nerve of those people to change from eleven people
to the full squad. That's what people are up in
arms about that and ticket prices, and I'll get to
that in a second. I actually find that to be
a good thing, though, and it's it it It stands
to reason that if you were selected for the your

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your country's World Cup team, you ought to be out
there on the on the pitch. You ought to be
they're listening to your nation's national anthem. I don't have
a problem with that at all, And honestly, I actually
find it to be a very good thing. And I'm
not sure why the rest of the team wasn't able
to be out there in the past.

Speaker 2 (13:13):
I don't know why that. Yeah, I just I'm I'm
kind of glad they're doing that, And I.

Speaker 3 (13:19):
Guess it's it's the old guard, the ogs who are
all worried about it. Another change, one that might draw
criticism from old school run to you drop camps, is this.
All of these games this year will include in each
half a three minute hydration break, kind of like what

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little kids used to get when they played outdoors around here.
They just call a big old time out right in
the middle of a soccer game. Okay, everybody, go get
some water from your mom. I don't think there's going
to be any moms out there to hand over the water.
But and that's it has its reasons. I understand it.
It's a play safety thing, I really do. But then again,

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I also don't recall seeing world class soccer players dropping
like flies during warm weather matches. I would be willing
to bet that. Well, I don't know if he would.
Now never mind another change? Well, no, no more changes.
That's enough changes. At least we have a climate controlled stadium.

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Those guys won't need a hydration break. Really, they're so
well conditioned and have been doing this for so long.
They can stay out there and run and run and
run for ninety minutes. I couldn't do that, not on
a bet right now. Not not if my shoes were
on fire and there was a lake ninety minutes run away,

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I'd just lose my feet. Our first World Cup game,
by the way, is if you didn't know, already, is
set for Sunday and it pitched Germany against Kursau. Tickets
if you're interested, start a little north of five hundred
dollars a seat, and the average is closer to a
thousand from what I read broadcast TV of the matches
in Mexico this week, by the way, where FIFA's dynamic

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pricing strategy seems to have not worked quite as planned well.
The TV showed big blocks of unfilled seats in the stadium,
seats that in past FIFA competitions all were filled, but
with premium seating in some of these upcoming matches, showing
high five figure prices and occasionally a six figure price

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if you want the really best seat in the house,
not a six figure. Excuse me, a five figure. There
are high fours and some fives. I didn't mean to
go that far out there, but nonetheless, that's still an
awful lot of money, and certainly right there with Super
Bowl money, which is also kind of crazy. I think
there are more individuals, though, because this is a world competition.

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It's not like the super Bowl in that there's most
of that money is spent by corporations to entertain clients
or executives or whatever. The ticket prices for the super Bowl.
But I think there are more just individual die hard
fans willing to pay a premium to see a World
Cup game, but maybe not fourteen thousand dollars to take

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the fam out and spend another thousand on hot dogs.
Probably it'll be okay, We're going to get through this.
And I don't think from what I'm reading that the
I don't think the traffic is going to be exactly horrible. Well,
did you want to share your information or you want
to keep that to yourself?

Speaker 2 (16:38):
You don't want to talk? No talking.

Speaker 3 (16:40):
There is over it that that FIFA Funfest, fee fi
FO fun thing whatever it is in on the east
side of downtown. There have been parking issues, there have
been admission issues.

Speaker 2 (16:55):
So if you're going.

Speaker 3 (16:55):
Over there, know that, like I said yesterday, the capacity
is seventy five hundred people and if you're number seventy
five oh one, you can't get in, and there's a
lot of enforcement over there until somebody else goes out.
So just hang in there and eventually you will get in.
Now there are on and off days for that too.

(17:18):
It doesn't go on continuously throughout the span of the
time we're going to have games here, So just get
online and look up FIFA Funfest. I believe it is
in Edo. That is East Downtown. I learned that yesterday
I wasn't aware.

Speaker 2 (17:35):
Oh I've got.

Speaker 3 (17:35):
Tax stuff here, I've got wasting money here the FBI
yesterday I talked about that. I've only got one minute, though,
so I'm going to back off of that and go
over here to I haven't chosen my order for all
of these says. I'll tell you this, this is kind
of easy and mild. Will Have you ever been exhaustor

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well mulated? That somebody came up with is when you're exhausted, overwhelmed,
and overstimulated at the same time. The exhaustion thing I've
got pretty well covered. Working six days a week, I'm
good at that. Overwhelmed I seldom get overwhelmed and overstimulated. No,

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I've given up caffeine, so that's out. But here are
a couple of things that this one site suggested might
get you in that mood. First of all, finding help
in the plumbing section at home depot. I've lived that,
and it is very frustrating. You go walking around looking
for some guy in an orange apron, and when you
need them, you can't find them. When you don't need them,
there's one on every row. How about choosing what to

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order from a cheesecake factory menu. That's like reading gone
with the wind.

Speaker 2 (18:48):
I already out Will.

Speaker 3 (18:49):
How about waiting for Will to not wave his hands
in front of me, or waiting for a CVS receipt
to print out?

Speaker 2 (18:55):
All the way? There were more, but I can't do them.

Speaker 3 (19:00):
Which is Institute ut Health Institute on Aging UTH I
call it is an amazing collaborative of thousands of providers
and I'm so thrilled that we have them here in Houston.
So lucky we are as seniors because the members of
the Institute on Aging all have gone back and got
an additional education to whatever got them their diploma diploma,

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pardon me, and now they know how to apply all
that knowledge specifically to us, straight through to us. It's
a big, big advantage over anybody else in the country.
They're only a handful of these places in these entities
around the entire United States, and ours, I'm still convinced
is the biggest and the first. It was started by

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a woman named doctor Carmel Carmel Dyer and she was
a wonderful person. That's who got this Institute on Aging
involved with fifty plus and I have heard a think
for that she's passed, but I so respected that woman
and her vision on this un unique opportunity that we have.
Most of these providers are in the med center, as
you might guess about the best doctors and therapists and

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trainers and all that in the world. But they also
many of them practice in outlying areas like Katie and
sugar Land and Kingwood and the Woodlands, and passa data
all over all over town.

Speaker 2 (20:18):
Literally all you got to.

Speaker 3 (20:20):
Do to learn about them and about what goes on
with the Institute on Aging is go to the website
utch dot edu slash aging, utch dot edu slash aging.

Speaker 1 (20:32):
Now, they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash him, check us words,
and spring on a fresh coat o wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike, fifty plus.

Speaker 2 (20:44):
Thanks for listening.

Speaker 3 (20:45):
I certainly do appreciate that getting into some of the
goodies from the day, and since most of us were
around when sixty Minutes debuted, I don't know how many
of you remember that remember the first week or two
or three, or six or fifty, but I'm all I'm
almost certain most of you have heard now that Scott Pelley,

(21:06):
who was there for a very long time was sixty
Minutes on CBS, was booted by the long running show's
boss after Pelly bowed up on the new sheriff and
the new sheriff showed Pelly the door. From a Western
Journal story today, in an interview, Pelley actually contended that
he is just like US troops because both go to

(21:26):
war to serve the country, and he argued media might
even be more important and I'll quote here, because there's
no democracy without journalism end quote. Well, if you think
journalism is what you're delivering, then you're wrong. The rif
between Pelly and Barry Weiss apparently started when Weiss asked

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the news magazine show staff in their very first meeting
with him, why do you think the country thinks you're biased,
to which Pelly, according to a post on X, said
why do you think so? Do you have a poll?
Is their market research? What are you talking about? And Yeah,
that was the wrong thing to say. That didn't answer

(22:10):
the question. He's denying that the question even is valid
with that kind of a response. Well, how about this
for research and little information on what makes the media
bias today? Remember in twenty twenty CBS's Crackerjack team wouldn't
discuss Hunter Biden's notorious laptop because it was against their standards.

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It hadn't been verified. Only by the time the story aired.
In the interview that would have held that laptop to account,
it was already known that the laptop and its contents
were in the possession of law enforcement and a handful
of media outlets, but they still didn't recognize it. They
still opted not to talk about it. When I worked

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at our local newspaper here twenty three years, having fun
and mostly hunting and fishing, playing golf and snowboarding my
way through life writing about it, which thrilled me.

Speaker 2 (23:09):
I so enjoyed writing about the outdoors.

Speaker 3 (23:12):
And at some point, if I ever do retire from radio,
I'm going to go back to writing. It won't be
hunting and fishing stories, because it's hard to find somebody
to publish them anymore, quite frankly, and I don't want
to write little blurbs for online sites. I don't want
to have a YouTube channel where I'm going to go
in there and tell somebody how to tie a knot
or put a rubber worm on a hook. I'll do

(23:35):
something more substantial than that. I hope and leave something
behind that people will continue reading.

Speaker 2 (23:41):
I still just quick sidebar. I still get a lot.

Speaker 3 (23:43):
Of people come up and meet me in social situations whatever,
and just say, man, we really enjoyed reading all that
outdoor stuff you guys used to do, and I'm glad
I was really blessed to get that position. The story
of how I got it too long to waste your
time on now, But I was in the right place

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at the right time and apparently showed enough potential to
get the job, and that was some kind of fun,
let me tell you.

Speaker 1 (24:12):
So.

Speaker 3 (24:12):
Anyway, back there, twenty three years of doing all of that,
and then I was occasionally asked, depending on what was
going on in the world, all of us over there,
all of us, everybody who could write at that newspaper,
at some point in time was asked to write news stories.
We had that much need for news writing in particular situations.

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And back then, if the editor of a news story,
everything went through editors. We'd do all our writing and
then it'd go to the editors. And sometimes we liked
what they changed, sometimes we didn't, but mostly in the
outdoor stuff they didn't because they didn't know anything about it.
But they were newsmen and they knew how to work
the news stories. And if they could go in and
read the story you just submitted and tell which side

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you were on based on how it was written, you'd
get it tossed back your way and told to be
told to rewrite it so that it wasn't biased left
or right, up or down, sideways or straight ahead.

Speaker 2 (25:08):
It had to be.

Speaker 3 (25:09):
It had to cover all the bases, It had to
share all the opinions, which journalism should be but is
no more. There's no question about that, no question about that.
I can't believe Pelly did that to himself. He knows,
he knows. Dog one, well, what goes on in that
newsroom and in that cutting room and editing and all

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of that, and it's not mainstream media is not unbiased
at all. It's well, we all know that I'm wasting
your time, am I not?

Speaker 1 (25:43):
So?

Speaker 2 (25:43):
Anyway?

Speaker 3 (25:43):
Moving on, just yesterday and the FBI announced that it
had made the first arrest of somebody on that most
Wanted Frosters list. That was good to see, no question
about that. And yeah, I put that I had that
up higher. And other the other things I've already talked
about came before that.

Speaker 2 (26:02):
But this, this.

Speaker 3 (26:03):
One guy, just this one guy, he's among thousands of people.

Speaker 2 (26:07):
They've caught him.

Speaker 3 (26:08):
He was on the FBI's most Wanted Fraudsters list. Most
of them, by the way, are immigrants who are under
the microscopes of the FBI and all sorts of other
law enforcement. And finally, finally, these people are going to
be caught. They're going to be prosecuted. And if they
can't slip out of the country as easy as many
of them slipped in, they'll they'll spend some time behind

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bars here. And they've got it coming. They've absolutely got
it coming. This one guy, Abdulahi rig is accused of
stealing more than four million dollars from a federal child
nutrition program during the COVID pandemic. Four million dollars, that's
what that guy pulled out of your pocket. In mind,

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and probably lived pretty high.

Speaker 2 (26:51):
On the hog.

Speaker 3 (26:53):
If I made four million dollars in a couple of years,
I'd be sporting some new clothes anyway. All right, Pause,
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Okay, well, I think that sounds like a good plan.

Speaker 2 (28:48):
Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug fifty plus. Thank
you for listening. Certainly do appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (28:55):
Cracking down on the waste of American tax dollars, a
federal government has shut down tens of million dollars that
were going to a Los Angeles agency supposedly helping the
homeless there. Now the Housing and Urban Development's no longer
going to pay this this entity, the LA Homeless Service Authority,

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which has received nearly a billion tax dollars from HUD
since twenty twenty one, five years, close to a billion
dollars in that city's homeless situation is very little changed.
So the New York Post piece this morning outlined just
why the situation there is so out of control, and
not only that, but also how it was used to

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influence elections. From a guy named John Cobalt, the story
of how progressives in California managed, almost without anyone noticing,
to slowly but surely guarantee that somebody like Spencer Pratt
wouldn't make it to the runoff or through the runoff
into the election in November. According to Cobilt, dating back
to twenty eighteen, a super majority Democrat legis out there,

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created this brand new electoral system, then expanded it in
twenty twenty COVID. Remember they got away with a lot
of stuff back then. A lot of states did.

Speaker 2 (30:11):
So that everyone on the voter rolls was mailed a ballot.
That was the new rule.

Speaker 3 (30:19):
Everybody on the roll gets a mail in ballot, and
they never bothered to take that down. At the same time,
a giant helped the homeless industry was formed when the
left started convincing good people, and in California, it happened
good people that it was their fault that drug addicts
and mentally.

Speaker 2 (30:37):
Ill people were on the street.

Speaker 3 (30:39):
Billions of dollars, scores of shelters, tens of thousands of
homeless people registered at shelters, whether they lived there or not,
and all of them, because they were registered there and
that was their official address, got mailed ballots for every
election at one shelter, at one shelter, one hundred and

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twenty bed facility. This story said there were eleven hundred
and sixty voters listed as living at that address. Now
the Dems have assured themselves another kind of another one
of their kind in the mayor's office, and they'll keep

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doing what they've been doing.

Speaker 2 (31:23):
A lot of homeless.

Speaker 3 (31:24):
People have said they were offered cigarettes or money for
their ballots out there. That's where La is now. I've
been there a couple of times. I liked that city,
I really did. I like going there. I like the
weather there, I liked the people there. I liked I
never did get to serve California, but that was always
something that was on my bucket list. But I have

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no interest to anymore in going to the state at all.
It makes me sad too, of daily life in Los
Angeles now. Co Bilt wrote this, and I quote my
wife and I can't walk on the beach, stroll in
the park, go to the theater or buy groceries without
our heads on a swivel or looking down for human

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waste end quote. That's disgusting, it really is. There's still
there may be enough conservatives in California to win a
fair election, but we'll never know.

Speaker 2 (32:19):
We'll never know.

Speaker 3 (32:20):
From Boston. I wanted to get this in. How much
time do I have? Will two and a half? Oh good,
plenty of time for this. It's a fairly short story,
but it just kind of tells you what's going on
in the world and how important it is for those
of us who still have common sense to try to
regain as much as we can. Up in Boston, two
young punks, both apparently juveniles, who robbed two other children

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who had set up a lemonade stand. These two, one
of them's in a hoodie. There's a picture of them.
One of them's got a big old hoodie over his head,
the other one. They look like early teenagers at best.
And on top of robbing these two little kids for
the fifty or so dollars they had in their jar,
one of them actually pulled a gun during this incident.

Speaker 2 (33:10):
This is not acceptable.

Speaker 3 (33:11):
We have to do something, and I'm concerned that the
solution might not be terribly palatable or even possible without
major major changes to our judicial system. You can't just
keep sending people in and letting them out the day after.
And even younger people, there's got to be some way
we can convince them that there's a better way to

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infuse themselves into society, in a better path to follow
Robin a lemonade stand is only it's not going to
lead to a PhD in anything. That's not especially when
you're that young. That's setting a course that I don't
think anybody would want them to follow. A taking a

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gun to a and stan robbery. That's a learned behavior,
by the way, and that type of learning isn't impossible
in a school or a stable home. I don't know
where they thought, you know, I don't know where they
where they learned that something like that might be a
good idea. All they learned is that they needed money
and they wanted it fast. They didn't have to work,
they didn't want to work for it, and so that's

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what they did.

Speaker 2 (34:22):
Not very good. How are we doing well? Thirty seconds? Okay,
I can handle this.

Speaker 3 (34:26):
I'll give you this one kind of similar really from
London this morning, video of a policeman being attacked by
a group of migrants, immigrants who were suspected of shoplifting.
One policeman against six or seven of these thugs, and
nobody dared to get involved for fear of the laws
over there that greatly favor the attackers.

Speaker 2 (34:45):
It's rough. It's very rough.

Speaker 3 (34:47):
Supreme courts reportedly debating which founding fathers were drunks as
part of a case about whether drug users have a
right to own guns.

Speaker 2 (34:54):
Where are we