May 28, 2025 • 39 mins
Today, Doug Pike interviews Jared Broach about his winery Charleston Taylor Estate.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:46):
And it starts now Thursday edition, No, not Thursday Wednesday
edition of the program I'm from the Future will so
sometimes it's hard to stay in your human time. I
think you're just ready for this a week to be over,
already jumping ahead. No, there's actually there's some pretty good
stuff going on. If the weather will stop doing what
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it's doing, I think we're okay for a little while now.
Right before I left the house this morning, it started raining.
Of course it did, but it didn't rain badly until
I got here. And then one of the there's a
woman who just she and her husband just bought a
house out in great Wood about I don't know. They
just closed on it a few weeks ago and just
got moved in good and all of a sudden, this
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is her first experience with traffic from great Wood to
the Galleria area under heavy thunderstorm, and she was pretty
much white knuckling it the whole way and said it
took her about an hour to get here, and just said, well,
that's where you live now, and it's it's great Wood
is about as far as I could go and feel
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comfortable still driving in every morning. I wouldn't mind living
out toward Richmond even but the commute would be a
little bit more more difficult for for me. Of course,
then I could if I parlayed my directions correctly. I
could also, though, turn that into well, the golf course
is on the way home, so i'll stop there on
the why daily. You know, I'm far too old to
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ever be a really, really really good golfer, but I'm
convinced that I can still get better. And it's I
used to kind of laugh when I was younger that
I could hit the ball really far, But it was
all the old guys who were really good around the greens,
and their short games were great, and that's how they
scored well and now I'm trying to become that I used.
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I tried to overpower the game for many years and
it doesn't work. It really doesn't work. And the guys
who are out there playing professional golf and overpowering it
are just superhuman. Scottie Scheffler, Rory McElroy hits it a mile,
Brandon or Bryson De'shamba he hits it about two miles,
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and they're pretty good at what they do. The weather
is going to pass, if it hasn't already. I think
it looks like it kind of gets out of here.
Depending on where you live around here and can hear
my voice, it'll get out of here at least by
this afternoon sometime for you. It should anyway, and then
we'll see how it goes from there. I took a
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brief glimpse at the markets earlier in the price of
oil and gold and all of that, and there really
wasn't anything noteworthy going on there, so we'll skip over that.
I have a personal public service announcement, will if I may, okay.
This one is directed to the inconsiderate people who make
no effort whatsoever to actually park within the lines in
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public parking spots in our building. As a matter of fact,
we have just such a person. Will oh yeah, yes,
and I've seen his vehicle make model license play. Now,
I'm not gonna give you any I'll give you the
making model. It's a Ford Flex. Okay, that's all I'm
gonna tell you. I'm not gonna tell you what Flory
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parks on or she. I don't know, but you wouldn't
have a hard time figuring out who it is because
it's the person who always parks in an area where
we have between pillars in the parking garage usually three
spots right, a left, or right in the middle. This person,
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as they come through the parking garage just turns the
wheel as far as it will go at just the
right point to get kind of halfway diagonally into the spot. Wow, okay,
I'll show you pictures. I'll show you pictures in the
break rear tires all over the yellow lines, front tires,
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caddy wampus. I mean, this person has zero regard for
the people who also work in this building, just rolls
more or less into an open spot, leaves front wheels
completely turned, doesn't check to see where he even if
he's actually in the parking spot at all, then just
turns off the car, gets out and walks away. And
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I'm not kidding you, man, and for I'm gonna show
you right now and for for the rest of us,
we have to deal with this idiot. I'm deciding which Yeah,
how would you like to come in and have to
try to figure out how to part next to that will? Yeah,
it's a little difficult, you know. Now, he's a narcissist.
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He's a he thinks he's better. He or she must
feel far superior to the rest of us, just working stiffs.
And after parking here for years, I can tell you
that's the only person in this building who feels that
entitled and that so much above the rest of us.
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And I'm just about tired of it. I'm not gonna
do anything to that person's car. That wouldn't be right.
I'm not that, although I may at some point, since
I have the photographs now, I may just roll down
to security and say, hey, can you just leave a
note on this person's car to try just to just
take an extra thirty seconds to back up and then
go straight into the spot and leave room for someone
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to park next to you. If you think I'm out
of line.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Here or no.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
I mean, it definitely is annoying, especially because you know,
I mean I get here a little bit later in
the morning. Yeah, but I have to park up higher,
so I park on the top floor of our parking.
I get early, and so I never really have to
deal with that because I used to park on the
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on the floor below. But again I would run into
the same issue where same car, not same car. Sometimes
it was different. Well then I guess he or she
sold the other car and now they have this one.
There can't be that many rude, just uncarrying.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
People in this building. I refuse to believe that there
there's more than one. Maybe they're man.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
It doesn't you know, it doesn't take long to just reverse, yeah,
and go right back in verse. Line her up a
little bit with the yellow lines. Try to get all
four tires inside the lines.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
It's not that hard. No, it's really not that hard.
They kind of have lines to designate exactly where you're
supposed to go. Yeah. Yeah, if if you weren't supposed
to park between the lines, they just erase all the
lines and we could just all just get up to
the door and just stop, just leave your car right there.
I've come close to putting a note on that person's car,
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but that's it seems like the type of person who
would then retaliate somehow. They they wouldn't know that it
was you. Well, unless they're listening to the show right now.
I hope, I hope they really do. I didn't say
what floor it's on, I didn't say what color it is,
and I'm sure it's not the only one in the
build building, but it's a habit. This is this person's habit.
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This total disregard for anybody else in the building who
might need a parking place close to the door. All right,
enough of that, I'm gonna let it go. We gotta
get out of here. Yeah, I know, I know, I know.
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Speaker 1 (10:20):
Yeah, they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash him, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Thanks for listening to fifty plus on this wet Wednesday.
It'll it'll pass. It'll be dry Dursday, yes tomorrow. I suppose. Well,
that's hard. That didn't really, that didn't flow off the
tongue at all. It just kind of like I tripped
over the curb and skint my knee. Thanks, by the way,
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yesterday to doctor Jennifer Barman for sharing some of her
knowledge about mental health and seniors. It is still Mental
Health Awareness Month, by the way. Important takeaways were that
it's never too late to address any feelings you may
have of depression or anxiety or anything related to your
mental health, and that there are lots of resources available
as well. If you're really struggling at some point, all
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you have to do is down nine to eight eight,
which is entered around the clock every day by a
mental health crisis expert who can help you through just
about anything, though really not alone. By the way, we're
doing a lot better now with mental health issues than
we were in the nineteen seventies. This morning, will I
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came across something that I found very interesting. Back in
the seventies, Stanford University sent eight normal people, unbeknownst to
the facility, to a high ranking mental health hospital with
instructions to tell personnel that they were hearing voices, but
then after that to act perfectly normal, which they were
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to begin with from that introduction forward, and then just
see how it all panned out. And they did exactly that.
They went in, told the people there that they needed
to check in because they were hearing voices, and a
week later, a week later, all eight of them. After
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acting perfectly normal for the rest of that week, all
eight of them were diagnosed as having either schizophrenia or
bipolar disorder, which they didn't have, not at all. So
not so good in the seventies, however, Well, and now
it's better now, but and also still in the seventies.
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After that study was revealed, the hospital called foul and
asked for another try. We want you to send eight
people over here, and one of them is going to
be normal, and then we'll figure out who the normal
person is who's faking. We can tell the difference between
real mental disorder and fakery, they said. Well, a couple
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of weeks later, the hospital declared that it had figured
out exactly who was the fake patient. And guess what,
Stanford said, what we never said anybody? So strike two.
They should have closed the doors on that place right
then and there that we quit. We can't win for losing.
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You told us you'd send us one healthy person, and
we thought we found that person. Turns out there were none.
Let's go will to the fun stuff, shall we, because today,
after all, is national what day? Let me see if
it's up here. No, well, we talked about it yesterday
it's National Burger. Oh so you remember. That's good. That's good.
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Check online, by the way for deals and discounts. DoorDash says,
I'm gonna throw this to you will Do you agree
or disagree with DoorDash saying that today the most popular
type of burger is a chicken burger aka chicken sandwich. Yeah,
chicken sandwich. Yeah, but that's not a burger unless it's
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ground chicken. It's a sandwich. But a burger is a sandwich.
But a chicken sandwich is not a chicken burger. You
could just call a burger a meat sandwich. Well, no,
we don't do that, though, do we? Maybe we should? No,
we need to. We need to discern between the chicken
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sandwich a La Popeyes and chick Filet and every other
pit place that has a drive through window, they all
have a chicken sandwich.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Well, now, a lot of burger places have chicken sandwich,
that's my point, But they don't call it a chicken burger. Yeah,
Burger King sells chicken sandwiches, but it doesn't say chicken
burger on the menu next to next to whopper. They
might as well call it a chicken burger, though, I
think they should call it a chicken whopper chicken.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
A whopper chicken would be that would be like a
hungry jack meal, hungry man, hungry a man handler. That's
what was. How do you remember that? None of those
commercials that was before your time? Your parents would remember
those commercials. They're irrelevant now. So do we count a
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chicken sandwich as a burger?
Speaker 1 (15:27):
No?
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Yes, no, so it's fifty to fifty and amongst the
two of us. Also on the burger beat, by the way,
Wendy's just released a brand new burger with grilled cheese
as the bun. So they've got grilled cheese bun with
a patty in the middle, and I guess pickles and
mayo and ketchup and whatnot. There's the cats though. Do
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you like that? You think that would be good?
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (15:53):
I mean it seems like a lot, you know. So
it's like a grilled cheese sandwich.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Boom, and then then open it up, put a hamburger
patty in there, and then put the other stuff on
it and then close it up.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
And then oh, so it's it's two slices of bread,
cheese on both, probably cheese on both. So it's not
a grilled cheese ingredients for their and another grilled cheese
on the bottom.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
I didn't I didn't analyze it. I just read it, okay,
And here's the deal. You know what the problem is
with that? I think it sounds delicious. Actually, my cardiologists
might not agree. But uh, the problem is guess where
you have to go to get it? Canada. It's the
only place, or so they got the best stuff over there?
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They don't. They have maple syrup and cheeseburgers, all dressed
lays before, never heard of them, that's yeah, because it's
a Canadian flavor and they're sooke, all dressed, yes, dressed
up as what. It's a bunch of different In other words,
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they had a they had a malfunction at the factory
and a bunch of stuff piled into one bunch of
potato chips, and somebody quick named this dressed and it's good.
What do they taste like? Hey, kind of tastes like everything.
How'd you get your hands on them? They started selling
them here because they went over so well in Canada,
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I'm sure.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Also, I just looked up this grilled cheeseburger from Wendy's
and I'm correct. It is a grilled cheese the burger.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
With cheese, and then another grilled cheese bowl. Four pieces
of bread, four pieces of bread. They lost me there,
they lost. That's too much. And it's buns. Too many buns.
Two buns per sandwich. That's all you need, the top
and a bottom.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
This is a four bun sandwich. No with only one patty.
But I guess you can't. If you're gonna have four buns,
you can't have more than one patty.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
You could, man, you could turn that into something that
a family could eat really quickly. It's the biggest sandwich ever.
He has too many buns, far too many. I've lost
interest in it now. I'm not going to Canada for that.
Not a chance uh sliding scale. You're not alone or
nothing new about it, nothing new about it. New cooking
term going viral on TikTok. This is so so typical
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of TikTok. Just take something that's been there for a
thousand years, spin it and then put it on so
it can go viral. It's called water based cooking. Water
based cooking will and you know what it means. Why,
It's just things being boiled, steamed and cooked as soups
or stews. That's it. There's nothing new about that. It's
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been going on since fire, since the first two sticks
got rubbed together, made a hot spark and ignited some
peat moss. There's been water based cooking, and if you
cook in cold water, the results will vary. I just
want to make sure everybody knows that, you know, I
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wouldn't want anybody to be confused by how that all works.
All Right, we got to take a break, don't we. Yep,
might as well. A late health. Late health is the clinic.
It's an office of clinic, I don't know. It's a
medical facility here in town where the doctor there, doctor
Andrew Doe, performs vascular procedures. He and his colleagues have
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been there a long time. They've done thousands of procedures,
all of which are aimed at alleviating pain or ugly things,
the pain part or annoying things and annoying things, especially
for guys over around my age, a little bit younger,
a little bit older. If you've got an enlarged, non
cancerous prostate, you can you can go through something called
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prostate artery embolization, where they identify the blood supply to
that prostate, which is making it grow bigger and constrict
everything that's trying to get out of you when it
needs to get out of you. And they can shrivel
that prostate by cutting off the blood supply to it.
They can make ugly veins go away. They can make
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some headpains go away with just the closure of tiny
little capillarias that are running around in your brain and
causing inflammation. They can help women with fibroids. There are
so many things they do there. Those things and many others.
I had doctor Doe on the air not that long
ago talking about all the different things they do at
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Speaker 1 (21:08):
What's life without a net?
Speaker 5 (21:10):
If I suggest to go to bed, leave it off.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Just wait until the show's over. Sleepy. Back to Doug
Pike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Fifty plus on this dreary Wednesday afternoon, which probably wouldn't
be a bad afternoon to settle into a good book
or an early dinner, and maybe open a bottle of
fine wine. Which brings me to my next guest, a
man who's life shifted into high gear a few years ago,
changed lanes a couple of times, and wound up with
his wife and him and his family in the wine
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business in Johnson City. And with that, I'll welcome to
fifty plus. Jared Broach, the owner and founder of Charleston
Taylor Estate Wine, planted its first grapes just three years ago.
Welcome aboard, Jared.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
Hey, thanks for having me. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
That's my pleasure. So one day you're a guy in
DC and your friends introduce you to a one from Georgia,
and you get married, and you move to Colorado the
next day, and I guess not very long after that,
you wind up in Johnson City, raising two great kids
and a bunch of grapes. How often do you just
sit back and go wow?
Speaker 6 (22:13):
Uh? You know, there's less and less time to sit
back and go wow anymore. But yeah, it seems like
on Saturdays, when people kind of depart and we close
and I get everything cleaned, I do try to sit
out on the patio and look at the grapes and think, man,
can't believe I'm here from you know, essentially DC.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Yeah, and your winery is named after your children. I
think that's pretty special. How'd that come to be?
Speaker 5 (22:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (22:37):
Well, you know, we like to tell everybody when we
were when we were planning on halving them, we were like, oh, yeah,
we're gonna name a winery after we.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
Had to tick of fans names.
Speaker 6 (22:44):
But no, it was Whitney and I got married in Charleston,
South Carolina, so that's where Charleston came from. And her
maiden name was Taylor. So we named our daughter Taylor
Perfect and so, you know, it kind of came naturally.
And then when we were thinking of a winery name,
it was like, man, this sounds really fancy. Taylor's a
little upset, so she's the older one that's not called
Taylor Charleston.
Speaker 5 (23:04):
Oh boy, Yeah, Charleston Taylor just had a better ring.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Yeah, I'm not gonna get involved in that. So how
did you wind up in Texas from where you started?
You and your wife?
Speaker 5 (23:15):
Yeah, you know, it was back in twenty twenty.
Speaker 6 (23:18):
My mom came to watch the kids and was like, hey,
you got you know, we've been you know, we've been
all over the world to wine country and you know,
we love the wine. And my mom was like, hey,
you should go check out Texas wine country.
Speaker 5 (23:28):
And I, you know, at the time I told her,
I was like, I never even heard of it.
Speaker 6 (23:31):
And so we flew down to Fredericksburg on on a
random weekend. Whitney and I bought a house that weekend
because we loved the town so much.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
And you know, we weren't going there to buy a house,
but we just did.
Speaker 6 (23:43):
And then we started coming to Fredericksburg, you know, all
the time, you know, in twenty twenty, and from there
we were like, oh my god, we should just we
got to get out of Denver and we've got to
get down here better.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
You know.
Speaker 6 (23:54):
We we thought it was a better place to raise
our kids, and you know, so we looked for some
wineries for sale, couldn't find one we really liked and
decided we just develop our own property off of it.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
And so we bought.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
Thirty acres and you know, right on June ninety and
got to work right then, you know, planting the grapes
and then getting the tasting room built.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
It's a pretty sweet spot right off two ninety. It
makes it a lot easier for people to come up
and visit. You've done it.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
Yeah, you know, you know, my mom lives in Houston,
so it's pretty easy for her to get up here.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
All the time.
Speaker 6 (24:23):
Uh And you know, like from Austin, we're barely an
hour or not even an hour, depending on where you're at.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
And you know, same with San Antonio.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
So it's you know, it's a great you know, if
you come and stay for the weekend, there's great hotels.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
You know, we have Carter Creek.
Speaker 6 (24:35):
Which is a really nice winery and hotel right by
us to stay. And then yeah, I mean we're you know,
we're thirty minutes closer to U than Fredericksburg for most people.
And you know, it's also what we like to say
in Johnson City is there's slightly better wine out here.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Just happened to have that for him. Huh.
Speaker 5 (24:52):
Jared Brooch exactly.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Jared Broach from Charleston Taylor Estate Wines on fifty plus here.
There are quite a few wineries up there in the
Old Country now, some been there a long time. What's
your strategy to separate your wines from everybody else's.
Speaker 6 (25:05):
Yeah, so we focus on like a luxury red market,
So we're making, you know, trying to craft high end
red wines and then sparkling wines because Whitney loves sparkling
wine and I love red, so.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
You know, we're trying to do that.
Speaker 6 (25:17):
But we're we're an experiential winery, so we try to
make it so it's hands on.
Speaker 5 (25:21):
Like we do these.
Speaker 6 (25:21):
Wine blending classes where people can come and we can
craft their own their wine for them, Like we can
help them find the blend that's perfect for their palate
and it like corporate groups love it because they can
bring clients out here. They do blending, they get bottles
label with their logos, so that's like a hands so
everything's kind of hands on. Between that, My wife teaches
Italian cooking classes, so just like you're in Italy, you
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make bosta.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
Fresh sauces, fresh.
Speaker 6 (25:44):
And it's i mean, you know, small groups without the
plane ticket to Italy that oh man. You know, that's
been pretty exciting and that's been really popular.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
People have loved that.
Speaker 6 (25:53):
But then you know, even we have we found it
well from the eighteen hundreds here on property when we
were developing it, and I you know, it was like
the perfect size, and the engineer in me, you know,
was like, okay, I got to put some wine down
in there. So we have a barrel of wine aging
you know, forty forty feet below the earth, you know,
like a perfect cellar environment. Yeh yeah, so we let
people taste that. It's it's just it's a really hands onlinery.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Yeah that those wells have been on that property for
quite some time, right. I saw something about Haunted well tours. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (26:22):
Yeah, like we call it well aged, so you know,
like play on play on well aged line. But yeah,
it's we had a ghost hunter come in and you know,
stayed the night in this dome looking at this this
well and came back and you know, with a couple
of stories for us that you know, we love to
tell when people go tasting in there.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Fantastic. So back to the grapes, Okay, a couple more questions. First,
what type of soil, what type of temperatures and moisture
levels or ideal for growing grapes.
Speaker 6 (26:48):
You know, it really depends on the grape varietal. Right now,
we have a full acre of Cabernet sauvignon planted, and
you know, we have a very sandy loam soil, so
you know, it's hit or missing. The hill country, you know,
one hundred yards in any direction, and we can change
from a sandy loam to.
Speaker 5 (27:04):
You know, straight up limestone.
Speaker 6 (27:06):
But where we're at is kind of on on a
downward on the downside of a hill.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
So what ends up happening is we get a lot
of sediment from.
Speaker 6 (27:15):
This hill that comes down with all the rains and
it kind of deposits in this low area that we
have our vineyard at, you know, and so it made
it we have at least four feet the entire vineyards
at least four feet deep of sandy loam, so it
allows the roots to.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
Really, you know, grow.
Speaker 6 (27:31):
We do have drip drip irrigation, and you know, so
that's so for water levels and and in the last
couple of weeks we've had plenty of rain, so we
have rim in short of water levels. But yeah, I
mean it really a lot of this just comes down
to that soil and we you know, some some areas
might have twenty five feet deep of soil and another
might have two inches.
Speaker 5 (27:50):
It's it's just crazy how it works up here in
the whole country.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
And forgive my ignorance, but where do you get grape seeds?
Speaker 5 (27:57):
So, yeah, we don't.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
We don't start from the actual grape seed. I mean,
if I I mean, I guess we have.
Speaker 6 (28:04):
Yeah, yeah, somebody did now nowadays, Uh, nurseries raid like
you know what we call like you know, little little
roots rootstocks, and we buy we buy certain clones because
you know, we want them to survive. Right, it takes
it takes three years after a plant them to even
get grapes or you know bridge you use, so I
could try that though now, I mean, we have enough
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grapes now that I could probably try to plant a few.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
How many varieties do you offer now?
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Uh? So we have we buy grapes still from other
producers or other farmers, but we have about eight different red.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
Ones that we have.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
But we have one just Cabernet sovenion planted We have
another four acres of sandy vacy that we are currently
planting or currently prepping the plant for the spring.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Yeah. Wine winery is a long term investment, isn't it.
You don't just get instant results, do you.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
No.
Speaker 6 (28:53):
Yeah, the the capital uh definitely under estimated the capital outlay,
and it's time to get everything.
Speaker 5 (29:00):
Like you have a budget, you have everything, and then
it's like, you know, you're just thrown out the windows triple.
That's you know, that's why the billionaires play this game.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
It's kind of like building a highway or anything the
government builds. Jared Broach or Charleston Taylor Estate Winery outside
Johnson City. There, Charleston Taylor dot com is a website.
Is that correct?
Speaker 5 (29:21):
That is correct.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
I'm glad I got it. Man out two nineties easy
for me. I may come out. I just may pop
in the door someday and say hello.
Speaker 5 (29:28):
I hope you do. I got a thing on the
house for you.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Yeah, thank you, Jared, I appreciate it. Have a good
work you bet all right. Charleston Taylor dot Com. I
looked at the website. I like what they're doing up there.
They actually make beer up there as well. Charleston Taylor
dot com. On the way out, I'll remind you about
ut Health Institute on Aging, which is the the collaborative
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amongst more than a thousand providers. I'm gonna find out
next week. I've got them coming in for lunch and
we're gonna discuss the future of what we're to do together,
and it's going to be even better than what we're
doing now, and I'm looking forward to that. Most of
the providers who are part of the Institute on Aging
are in the med Center, as you might imagine, but
they also most of them branch out during the week
(30:15):
at least a couple of days to outlying areas like
Paarland and Kingwood and the Woodlands and sugar Land and
Katie and all around. Friends would wherever you want to be.
Wherever you are, you're probably going to have pretty close
access to some of these providers, the people you need,
who have gone and got an additional training so that
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they can apply all of their medical knowledge to specifically,
specifically the seniors. It's a big advantage we have here
in this area, a big advantage over most anywhere else
in the country. We've got access to providers who know
us very very well, and they're willing to and able
to help us with pretty much. Whatever's alien is ut
(30:58):
dot edu slam aging is the website. Go there, check
out all the resources, and then work your way to
a consultation, maybe a visit, maybe an appointment, whatever it
takes to get you better with one of those people.
Ut dot edu slash aging.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Old guy's rule, and of course women never get old.
If you want to avoid sleeping on the couch. Ll
fin that sounds think a good please. Fifty plus continues.
Here's more with Doug Hi.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Welcome back to fifty plus, fourth and final segment already starting.
Holy cow, this one's been fast. I'll there's something I
want to do. From the what are You Thinking? Desk?
By way of a talk that was given by a
man named Dennis Prager, comes news of a study conducted
by what he called some college that tested male students
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and female students to determine what they think about when
they are loane. They put each of these students into
a room alone, left him there for about a half
an hour or so, and then asked, what did you
think about? You got any idea? What the what the
young men thought about? Will no, yeah you do, Yeah,
(32:13):
you do. What do you think they thought about?
Speaker 4 (32:15):
Will?
Speaker 2 (32:15):
I don't know. Just what would you have thought about
for thirty minutes all by yourself? What do I think
about for thirty minutes all by myself? Well, no, hold on,
you might be an outlier. Yeah, you're an outlier. The
overwhelming majority of them said they thought about sex and sports. Okay,
that was it, and then when they asked the young women,
(32:40):
it was well, we reviewed recent conversations and for the record,
he continued, they're in a man alive. Who has ever
reviewed a conversation? Have you will a conversation? Either you
have the conversation, and then it's over for guys. Pretty much,
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Why wouldn't you think about it? Because I got other
things to think about, like what sex and sports? Well,
he finished. He told the wives in the audience that
if they asked their husbands what they're thinking about and
the man says nothing, he's not lying. He's not lying.
We just kind of we just like to sit there
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and chill and stare at the TV, or watch a
game or wish we were playing the game. Fishing comes
into my mind. I don't know, I think, well, technically,
fishing I don't think fishing really is a sport so
much as it is an activity. I can see competition.
I understand perfectly competition in fishing, but I don't I
(33:45):
don't know that it's necessarily a sport. How would you
what differentiates sport from an activity or a game? Will
what do you think?
Speaker 4 (33:53):
I have some ideas what differentiates? I mean, I don't
know because sometimes people I guess fish for sport.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Well, yeah, it's after all, it's called sport fishing, and
I get that. But I think a competition a sport
it requires oh man, I think it just needs a rule.
Athleticism I think is involved in sport too, and there's
nothing I don't know if.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
You necessarily need to be athletic to play a sport.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
Well, then well to play it well, not to just participate,
not to be the kid out in right field chewing
on flowers.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
Well, you know, I mean there's some say major League
baseball players that in the past, you know, a long
time ago. You know, they one, they worked multiple jobs.
They had to because they make enough money. So they
were you know, coming in and go out to the
ball and you know, well maybe they weren't really keeping
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themselves in perfect shape, but they were still considered good
at the game.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
They were in good enough shape to play the game
at the highest level where other people were not. And
that Okay, we're not gonna get anywhere with that. Where else?
Oh no, not that one, maybe this one. Yeah. I
got a couple of minutes from the Sad and Pathetic Desk,
comes werere that the left, the Democrats, are so detached
(35:30):
from their party and its members now that they're spending
twenty million dollars to figure out how to speak to
American men, which could only be an issue if they
had abandoned American men, which they did when they tried
it out Kamala Harris util Moss last year. The disconnects
started longer than that ago, though, and somebody in that camp,
(35:54):
I guess, finally had the guts to say something about it. Well,
they're going to spend that twenty million on that's the
budget to quote, study the syntax, language and content that
gains attention and virality in these spaces. Spaces you mean,
like the ones between their ears, because that's about what's there.
(36:16):
If they think that's gonna help, They've spent so many
years coddling and and courting these tiny, fractional little groups
of people and kicked hard working Americans to the curb.
And it's getting worse too, not better. And if they
can't get traction soon, they're gonna they're still riding on
ball tires too. And that whole party may dissolve and
(36:39):
be replaced in not too long, may be replaced by
one that cherry picks its least offensive leaders right now,
the ones who have a hot chance of gaining some
traction and maybe trot them out as something altogether new.
I haven't heard anybody talk about that yet, but there
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may come a time when that is their only alternative
to regain some legitimacy in this country of ours. Let's
go to the fun stuff, shall we will? I'm not
gonna do. Let's see. Let's go with guess what I'm doing?
Better think twice or rock them, Sock them, rock them,
(37:23):
sock them. This is kind of cool. A Chinese company
held the world's first humanoid robot fighting competition and even
had a human referee. I saw the video. If you
need to just laugh at something, do that. They the
two robots are. They're in a fistfight and one of
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them even throws a kick. And but but their actions
and their pun their punches are very slow and predictable,
and their actions are just it looks like two drunks
on a corner trying to have a fistfight but not
really doing a good job of it. When the one
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robot throws that kick, it falls over backwards and then
has to and the referee actually goes over there and
starts counting over this robot, which then gathers itself, and
the punches are it's like watching a fight. It's like
watching a boxing match in slow motion with robots. It's
(38:25):
pretty pretty weak will and disappointing. All these robots that
can run faster and jump and spin and do all
these things, and that's the best two they could throw
in the ring, like watching six year old's box if
they were if they'd taken medicine to slow them down
a little bit. It's pretty bad. We got time for
(38:47):
one more, don't we. Yeah. Oh, by the way, I
checked on this day, at this one little side I
go to and found absolutely nothing of interest. It or
like twenty entries going all the way all the way
back more than one hundred years, not a one of
them worth mentioning on this program to my sophisticated audience.
So really nothing quick fun fact to know and tell.
(39:09):
Will Liechtenstein heard of that little country. Yes, guess how
many how many Olympic medals they've won in their history?
In their history, I'll say they've won five Olympic medals.
You're halfway there. Ten all in skiing. Imagine that, No sailing,
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no weightlifting, no, none of that, Just all skiers, because
that's what they do over there. There's only forty thousand people,
which so ten actually among forty thousand people is pretty good.
If you stopped it and added up how many people
we have and how many medals we've won. I bet
they've got a better win ratio than we do. Yeah. Oh,
(39:49):
I'm out of town. Oh gosh, all right, we'll be
back tomorrow. Thank you all so very much for listening.
We'll see at noon. Audios
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(00:27):
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Speaker 2 (00:46):
And it starts now Thursday edition, No, not Thursday Wednesday
edition of the program I'm from the Future will so
sometimes it's hard to stay in your human time. I
think you're just ready for this a week to be over,
already jumping ahead. No, there's actually there's some pretty good
stuff going on. If the weather will stop doing what
(01:08):
it's doing, I think we're okay for a little while now.
Right before I left the house this morning, it started raining.
Of course it did, but it didn't rain badly until
I got here. And then one of the there's a
woman who just she and her husband just bought a
house out in great Wood about I don't know. They
just closed on it a few weeks ago and just
got moved in good and all of a sudden, this
(01:31):
is her first experience with traffic from great Wood to
the Galleria area under heavy thunderstorm, and she was pretty
much white knuckling it the whole way and said it
took her about an hour to get here, and just said, well,
that's where you live now, and it's it's great Wood
is about as far as I could go and feel
(01:51):
comfortable still driving in every morning. I wouldn't mind living
out toward Richmond even but the commute would be a
little bit more more difficult for for me. Of course,
then I could if I parlayed my directions correctly. I
could also, though, turn that into well, the golf course
is on the way home, so i'll stop there on
the why daily. You know, I'm far too old to
(02:18):
ever be a really, really really good golfer, but I'm
convinced that I can still get better. And it's I
used to kind of laugh when I was younger that
I could hit the ball really far, But it was
all the old guys who were really good around the greens,
and their short games were great, and that's how they
scored well and now I'm trying to become that I used.
(02:38):
I tried to overpower the game for many years and
it doesn't work. It really doesn't work. And the guys
who are out there playing professional golf and overpowering it
are just superhuman. Scottie Scheffler, Rory McElroy hits it a mile,
Brandon or Bryson De'shamba he hits it about two miles,
(03:01):
and they're pretty good at what they do. The weather
is going to pass, if it hasn't already. I think
it looks like it kind of gets out of here.
Depending on where you live around here and can hear
my voice, it'll get out of here at least by
this afternoon sometime for you. It should anyway, and then
we'll see how it goes from there. I took a
(03:22):
brief glimpse at the markets earlier in the price of
oil and gold and all of that, and there really
wasn't anything noteworthy going on there, so we'll skip over that.
I have a personal public service announcement, will if I may, okay.
This one is directed to the inconsiderate people who make
no effort whatsoever to actually park within the lines in
(03:47):
public parking spots in our building. As a matter of fact,
we have just such a person. Will oh yeah, yes,
and I've seen his vehicle make model license play. Now,
I'm not gonna give you any I'll give you the
making model. It's a Ford Flex. Okay, that's all I'm
gonna tell you. I'm not gonna tell you what Flory
(04:08):
parks on or she. I don't know, but you wouldn't
have a hard time figuring out who it is because
it's the person who always parks in an area where
we have between pillars in the parking garage usually three
spots right, a left, or right in the middle. This person,
(04:28):
as they come through the parking garage just turns the
wheel as far as it will go at just the
right point to get kind of halfway diagonally into the spot. Wow, okay,
I'll show you pictures. I'll show you pictures in the
break rear tires all over the yellow lines, front tires,
(04:49):
caddy wampus. I mean, this person has zero regard for
the people who also work in this building, just rolls
more or less into an open spot, leaves front wheels
completely turned, doesn't check to see where he even if
he's actually in the parking spot at all, then just
turns off the car, gets out and walks away. And
(05:12):
I'm not kidding you, man, and for I'm gonna show
you right now and for for the rest of us,
we have to deal with this idiot. I'm deciding which Yeah,
how would you like to come in and have to
try to figure out how to part next to that will? Yeah,
it's a little difficult, you know. Now, he's a narcissist.
(05:33):
He's a he thinks he's better. He or she must
feel far superior to the rest of us, just working stiffs.
And after parking here for years, I can tell you
that's the only person in this building who feels that
entitled and that so much above the rest of us.
(05:54):
And I'm just about tired of it. I'm not gonna
do anything to that person's car. That wouldn't be right.
I'm not that, although I may at some point, since
I have the photographs now, I may just roll down
to security and say, hey, can you just leave a
note on this person's car to try just to just
take an extra thirty seconds to back up and then
go straight into the spot and leave room for someone
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to park next to you. If you think I'm out
of line.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Here or no.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
I mean, it definitely is annoying, especially because you know,
I mean I get here a little bit later in
the morning. Yeah, but I have to park up higher,
so I park on the top floor of our parking.
I get early, and so I never really have to
deal with that because I used to park on the
(06:43):
on the floor below. But again I would run into
the same issue where same car, not same car. Sometimes
it was different. Well then I guess he or she
sold the other car and now they have this one.
There can't be that many rude, just uncarrying.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
People in this building. I refuse to believe that there
there's more than one. Maybe they're man.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
It doesn't you know, it doesn't take long to just reverse, yeah,
and go right back in verse. Line her up a
little bit with the yellow lines. Try to get all
four tires inside the lines.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
It's not that hard. No, it's really not that hard.
They kind of have lines to designate exactly where you're
supposed to go. Yeah. Yeah, if if you weren't supposed
to park between the lines, they just erase all the
lines and we could just all just get up to
the door and just stop, just leave your car right there.
I've come close to putting a note on that person's car,
(07:40):
but that's it seems like the type of person who
would then retaliate somehow. They they wouldn't know that it
was you. Well, unless they're listening to the show right now.
I hope, I hope they really do. I didn't say
what floor it's on, I didn't say what color it is,
and I'm sure it's not the only one in the
build building, but it's a habit. This is this person's habit.
(08:05):
This total disregard for anybody else in the building who
might need a parking place close to the door. All right,
enough of that, I'm gonna let it go. We gotta
get out of here. Yeah, I know, I know, I know.
On the way out, I'm gonna introduce you to a
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(08:26):
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and sewer hookups at every site, Wi Fi and a
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pretty good fishing, by the way, when the weather cooperates.
Maybe not today, but once the sun comes back out
over there, I'd bet you could if you sat out
there for a little bittywhile and knew what you were doing,
probably catch yourself a redfish, maybe a flounder, maybe a
(09:10):
speckle trout. It's it's good fishing over that way most
of the time, and and it's it's a very fun,
enjoyable place. I'm planning to get over there as soon
as I can. I've looked at the website, I've talked
to Al a half a dozen times. Now. I know
how much effort they put into making that a fun,
(09:32):
enjoyable place to go spend a couple of nights or
a month. There are some people who are working in
town here and rather than use their accommodation money for
hotel rooms, they get a slab and they bring their
camper down and they park it there for however long
weeks months they're going to be in the greater Houston area.
(09:55):
Pretty good way to pretty good way to have yourself
some built in entertainment. Every week evening you get to
see the sun go down over the bay. Cedar cove
Rvresort dot Com. Okay, weather's getting better over there. I
just talked to Al yesterday. As a matter of fact,
Wins kind of calming down a little bit for us.
Go check that website out and see if it doesn't
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Speaker 1 (10:20):
Yeah, they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash him, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Thanks for listening to fifty plus on this wet Wednesday.
It'll it'll pass. It'll be dry Dursday, yes tomorrow. I suppose. Well,
that's hard. That didn't really, that didn't flow off the
tongue at all. It just kind of like I tripped
over the curb and skint my knee. Thanks, by the way,
(10:52):
yesterday to doctor Jennifer Barman for sharing some of her
knowledge about mental health and seniors. It is still Mental
Health Awareness Month, by the way. Important takeaways were that
it's never too late to address any feelings you may
have of depression or anxiety or anything related to your
mental health, and that there are lots of resources available
as well. If you're really struggling at some point, all
(11:13):
you have to do is down nine to eight eight,
which is entered around the clock every day by a
mental health crisis expert who can help you through just
about anything, though really not alone. By the way, we're
doing a lot better now with mental health issues than
we were in the nineteen seventies. This morning, will I
(11:34):
came across something that I found very interesting. Back in
the seventies, Stanford University sent eight normal people, unbeknownst to
the facility, to a high ranking mental health hospital with
instructions to tell personnel that they were hearing voices, but
then after that to act perfectly normal, which they were
(11:56):
to begin with from that introduction forward, and then just
see how it all panned out. And they did exactly that.
They went in, told the people there that they needed
to check in because they were hearing voices, and a
week later, a week later, all eight of them. After
(12:17):
acting perfectly normal for the rest of that week, all
eight of them were diagnosed as having either schizophrenia or
bipolar disorder, which they didn't have, not at all. So
not so good in the seventies, however, Well, and now
it's better now, but and also still in the seventies.
(12:40):
After that study was revealed, the hospital called foul and
asked for another try. We want you to send eight
people over here, and one of them is going to
be normal, and then we'll figure out who the normal
person is who's faking. We can tell the difference between
real mental disorder and fakery, they said. Well, a couple
(13:03):
of weeks later, the hospital declared that it had figured
out exactly who was the fake patient. And guess what,
Stanford said, what we never said anybody? So strike two.
They should have closed the doors on that place right
then and there that we quit. We can't win for losing.
(13:28):
You told us you'd send us one healthy person, and
we thought we found that person. Turns out there were none.
Let's go will to the fun stuff, shall we, because today,
after all, is national what day? Let me see if
it's up here. No, well, we talked about it yesterday
it's National Burger. Oh so you remember. That's good. That's good.
(13:49):
Check online, by the way for deals and discounts. DoorDash says,
I'm gonna throw this to you will Do you agree
or disagree with DoorDash saying that today the most popular
type of burger is a chicken burger aka chicken sandwich. Yeah,
chicken sandwich. Yeah, but that's not a burger unless it's
(14:12):
ground chicken. It's a sandwich. But a burger is a sandwich.
But a chicken sandwich is not a chicken burger. You
could just call a burger a meat sandwich. Well, no,
we don't do that, though, do we? Maybe we should? No,
we need to. We need to discern between the chicken
(14:32):
sandwich a La Popeyes and chick Filet and every other
pit place that has a drive through window, they all
have a chicken sandwich.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Well, now, a lot of burger places have chicken sandwich,
that's my point, But they don't call it a chicken burger. Yeah,
Burger King sells chicken sandwiches, but it doesn't say chicken
burger on the menu next to next to whopper. They
might as well call it a chicken burger, though, I
think they should call it a chicken whopper chicken.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
A whopper chicken would be that would be like a
hungry jack meal, hungry man, hungry a man handler. That's
what was. How do you remember that? None of those
commercials that was before your time? Your parents would remember
those commercials. They're irrelevant now. So do we count a
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chicken sandwich as a burger?
Speaker 1 (15:27):
No?
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Yes, no, so it's fifty to fifty and amongst the
two of us. Also on the burger beat, by the way,
Wendy's just released a brand new burger with grilled cheese
as the bun. So they've got grilled cheese bun with
a patty in the middle, and I guess pickles and
mayo and ketchup and whatnot. There's the cats though. Do
(15:49):
you like that? You think that would be good?
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (15:53):
I mean it seems like a lot, you know. So
it's like a grilled cheese sandwich.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Boom, and then then open it up, put a hamburger
patty in there, and then put the other stuff on
it and then close it up.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
And then oh, so it's it's two slices of bread,
cheese on both, probably cheese on both. So it's not
a grilled cheese ingredients for their and another grilled cheese
on the bottom.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
I didn't I didn't analyze it. I just read it, okay,
And here's the deal. You know what the problem is
with that? I think it sounds delicious. Actually, my cardiologists
might not agree. But uh, the problem is guess where
you have to go to get it? Canada. It's the
only place, or so they got the best stuff over there?
(16:43):
They don't. They have maple syrup and cheeseburgers, all dressed
lays before, never heard of them, that's yeah, because it's
a Canadian flavor and they're sooke, all dressed, yes, dressed
up as what. It's a bunch of different In other words,
(17:03):
they had a they had a malfunction at the factory
and a bunch of stuff piled into one bunch of
potato chips, and somebody quick named this dressed and it's good.
What do they taste like? Hey, kind of tastes like everything.
How'd you get your hands on them? They started selling
them here because they went over so well in Canada,
(17:26):
I'm sure.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Also, I just looked up this grilled cheeseburger from Wendy's
and I'm correct. It is a grilled cheese the burger.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
With cheese, and then another grilled cheese bowl. Four pieces
of bread, four pieces of bread. They lost me there,
they lost. That's too much. And it's buns. Too many buns.
Two buns per sandwich. That's all you need, the top
and a bottom.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
This is a four bun sandwich. No with only one patty.
But I guess you can't. If you're gonna have four buns,
you can't have more than one patty.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
You could, man, you could turn that into something that
a family could eat really quickly. It's the biggest sandwich ever.
He has too many buns, far too many. I've lost
interest in it now. I'm not going to Canada for that.
Not a chance uh sliding scale. You're not alone or
nothing new about it, nothing new about it. New cooking
term going viral on TikTok. This is so so typical
(18:28):
of TikTok. Just take something that's been there for a
thousand years, spin it and then put it on so
it can go viral. It's called water based cooking. Water
based cooking will and you know what it means. Why,
It's just things being boiled, steamed and cooked as soups
or stews. That's it. There's nothing new about that. It's
(18:48):
been going on since fire, since the first two sticks
got rubbed together, made a hot spark and ignited some
peat moss. There's been water based cooking, and if you
cook in cold water, the results will vary. I just
want to make sure everybody knows that, you know, I
(19:09):
wouldn't want anybody to be confused by how that all works.
All Right, we got to take a break, don't we. Yep,
might as well. A late health. Late health is the clinic.
It's an office of clinic, I don't know. It's a
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Andrew Doe, performs vascular procedures. He and his colleagues have
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been there a long time. They've done thousands of procedures,
all of which are aimed at alleviating pain or ugly things,
the pain part or annoying things and annoying things, especially
for guys over around my age, a little bit younger,
a little bit older. If you've got an enlarged, non
cancerous prostate, you can you can go through something called
(19:54):
prostate artery embolization, where they identify the blood supply to
that prostate, which is making it grow bigger and constrict
everything that's trying to get out of you when it
needs to get out of you. And they can shrivel
that prostate by cutting off the blood supply to it.
They can make ugly veins go away. They can make
(20:15):
some headpains go away with just the closure of tiny
little capillarias that are running around in your brain and
causing inflammation. They can help women with fibroids. There are
so many things they do there. Those things and many others.
I had doctor Doe on the air not that long
ago talking about all the different things they do at
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a late health and it's quite the list. If you
want to learn more about what they do there and
how they do it, which is usually within a couple
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Speaker 1 (21:08):
What's life without a net?
Speaker 5 (21:10):
If I suggest to go to bed, leave it off.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Just wait until the show's over. Sleepy. Back to Doug
Pike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Fifty plus on this dreary Wednesday afternoon, which probably wouldn't
be a bad afternoon to settle into a good book
or an early dinner, and maybe open a bottle of
fine wine. Which brings me to my next guest, a
man who's life shifted into high gear a few years ago,
changed lanes a couple of times, and wound up with
his wife and him and his family in the wine
(21:39):
business in Johnson City. And with that, I'll welcome to
fifty plus. Jared Broach, the owner and founder of Charleston
Taylor Estate Wine, planted its first grapes just three years ago.
Welcome aboard, Jared.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
Hey, thanks for having me. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
That's my pleasure. So one day you're a guy in
DC and your friends introduce you to a one from Georgia,
and you get married, and you move to Colorado the
next day, and I guess not very long after that,
you wind up in Johnson City, raising two great kids
and a bunch of grapes. How often do you just
sit back and go wow?
Speaker 6 (22:13):
Uh? You know, there's less and less time to sit
back and go wow anymore. But yeah, it seems like
on Saturdays, when people kind of depart and we close
and I get everything cleaned, I do try to sit
out on the patio and look at the grapes and think, man,
can't believe I'm here from you know, essentially DC.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Yeah, and your winery is named after your children. I
think that's pretty special. How'd that come to be?
Speaker 5 (22:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (22:37):
Well, you know, we like to tell everybody when we
were when we were planning on halving them, we were like, oh, yeah,
we're gonna name a winery after we.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
Had to tick of fans names.
Speaker 6 (22:44):
But no, it was Whitney and I got married in Charleston,
South Carolina, so that's where Charleston came from. And her
maiden name was Taylor. So we named our daughter Taylor
Perfect and so, you know, it kind of came naturally.
And then when we were thinking of a winery name,
it was like, man, this sounds really fancy. Taylor's a
little upset, so she's the older one that's not called
Taylor Charleston.
Speaker 5 (23:04):
Oh boy, Yeah, Charleston Taylor just had a better ring.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Yeah, I'm not gonna get involved in that. So how
did you wind up in Texas from where you started?
You and your wife?
Speaker 5 (23:15):
Yeah, you know, it was back in twenty twenty.
Speaker 6 (23:18):
My mom came to watch the kids and was like, hey,
you got you know, we've been you know, we've been
all over the world to wine country and you know,
we love the wine. And my mom was like, hey,
you should go check out Texas wine country.
Speaker 5 (23:28):
And I, you know, at the time I told her,
I was like, I never even heard of it.
Speaker 6 (23:31):
And so we flew down to Fredericksburg on on a
random weekend. Whitney and I bought a house that weekend
because we loved the town so much.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
And you know, we weren't going there to buy a house,
but we just did.
Speaker 6 (23:43):
And then we started coming to Fredericksburg, you know, all
the time, you know, in twenty twenty, and from there
we were like, oh my god, we should just we
got to get out of Denver and we've got to
get down here better.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
You know.
Speaker 6 (23:54):
We we thought it was a better place to raise
our kids, and you know, so we looked for some
wineries for sale, couldn't find one we really liked and
decided we just develop our own property off of it.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
And so we bought.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
Thirty acres and you know, right on June ninety and
got to work right then, you know, planting the grapes
and then getting the tasting room built.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
It's a pretty sweet spot right off two ninety. It
makes it a lot easier for people to come up
and visit. You've done it.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
Yeah, you know, you know, my mom lives in Houston,
so it's pretty easy for her to get up here.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
All the time.
Speaker 6 (24:23):
Uh And you know, like from Austin, we're barely an
hour or not even an hour, depending on where you're at.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
And you know, same with San Antonio.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
So it's you know, it's a great you know, if
you come and stay for the weekend, there's great hotels.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
You know, we have Carter Creek.
Speaker 6 (24:35):
Which is a really nice winery and hotel right by
us to stay. And then yeah, I mean we're you know,
we're thirty minutes closer to U than Fredericksburg for most people.
And you know, it's also what we like to say
in Johnson City is there's slightly better wine out here.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Just happened to have that for him. Huh.
Speaker 5 (24:52):
Jared Brooch exactly.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Jared Broach from Charleston Taylor Estate Wines on fifty plus here.
There are quite a few wineries up there in the
Old Country now, some been there a long time. What's
your strategy to separate your wines from everybody else's.
Speaker 6 (25:05):
Yeah, so we focus on like a luxury red market,
So we're making, you know, trying to craft high end
red wines and then sparkling wines because Whitney loves sparkling
wine and I love red, so.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
You know, we're trying to do that.
Speaker 6 (25:17):
But we're we're an experiential winery, so we try to
make it so it's hands on.
Speaker 5 (25:21):
Like we do these.
Speaker 6 (25:21):
Wine blending classes where people can come and we can
craft their own their wine for them, Like we can
help them find the blend that's perfect for their palate
and it like corporate groups love it because they can
bring clients out here. They do blending, they get bottles
label with their logos, so that's like a hands so
everything's kind of hands on. Between that, My wife teaches
Italian cooking classes, so just like you're in Italy, you
(25:42):
make bosta.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
Fresh sauces, fresh.
Speaker 6 (25:44):
And it's i mean, you know, small groups without the
plane ticket to Italy that oh man. You know, that's
been pretty exciting and that's been really popular.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
People have loved that.
Speaker 6 (25:53):
But then you know, even we have we found it
well from the eighteen hundreds here on property when we
were developing it, and I you know, it was like
the perfect size, and the engineer in me, you know,
was like, okay, I got to put some wine down
in there. So we have a barrel of wine aging
you know, forty forty feet below the earth, you know,
like a perfect cellar environment. Yeh yeah, so we let
people taste that. It's it's just it's a really hands onlinery.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Yeah that those wells have been on that property for
quite some time, right. I saw something about Haunted well tours. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (26:22):
Yeah, like we call it well aged, so you know,
like play on play on well aged line. But yeah,
it's we had a ghost hunter come in and you know,
stayed the night in this dome looking at this this
well and came back and you know, with a couple
of stories for us that you know, we love to
tell when people go tasting in there.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Fantastic. So back to the grapes, Okay, a couple more questions. First,
what type of soil, what type of temperatures and moisture
levels or ideal for growing grapes.
Speaker 6 (26:48):
You know, it really depends on the grape varietal. Right now,
we have a full acre of Cabernet sauvignon planted, and
you know, we have a very sandy loam soil, so
you know, it's hit or missing. The hill country, you know,
one hundred yards in any direction, and we can change
from a sandy loam to.
Speaker 5 (27:04):
You know, straight up limestone.
Speaker 6 (27:06):
But where we're at is kind of on on a
downward on the downside of a hill.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
So what ends up happening is we get a lot
of sediment from.
Speaker 6 (27:15):
This hill that comes down with all the rains and
it kind of deposits in this low area that we
have our vineyard at, you know, and so it made
it we have at least four feet the entire vineyards
at least four feet deep of sandy loam, so it
allows the roots to.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
Really, you know, grow.
Speaker 6 (27:31):
We do have drip drip irrigation, and you know, so
that's so for water levels and and in the last
couple of weeks we've had plenty of rain, so we
have rim in short of water levels. But yeah, I
mean it really a lot of this just comes down
to that soil and we you know, some some areas
might have twenty five feet deep of soil and another
might have two inches.
Speaker 5 (27:50):
It's it's just crazy how it works up here in
the whole country.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
And forgive my ignorance, but where do you get grape seeds?
Speaker 5 (27:57):
So, yeah, we don't.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
We don't start from the actual grape seed. I mean,
if I I mean, I guess we have.
Speaker 6 (28:04):
Yeah, yeah, somebody did now nowadays, Uh, nurseries raid like
you know what we call like you know, little little
roots rootstocks, and we buy we buy certain clones because
you know, we want them to survive. Right, it takes
it takes three years after a plant them to even
get grapes or you know bridge you use, so I
could try that though now, I mean, we have enough
(28:25):
grapes now that I could probably try to plant a few.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
How many varieties do you offer now?
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Uh? So we have we buy grapes still from other
producers or other farmers, but we have about eight different red.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
Ones that we have.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
But we have one just Cabernet sovenion planted We have
another four acres of sandy vacy that we are currently
planting or currently prepping the plant for the spring.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Yeah. Wine winery is a long term investment, isn't it.
You don't just get instant results, do you.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
No.
Speaker 6 (28:53):
Yeah, the the capital uh definitely under estimated the capital outlay,
and it's time to get everything.
Speaker 5 (29:00):
Like you have a budget, you have everything, and then
it's like, you know, you're just thrown out the windows triple.
That's you know, that's why the billionaires play this game.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
It's kind of like building a highway or anything the
government builds. Jared Broach or Charleston Taylor Estate Winery outside
Johnson City. There, Charleston Taylor dot com is a website.
Is that correct?
Speaker 5 (29:21):
That is correct.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
I'm glad I got it. Man out two nineties easy
for me. I may come out. I just may pop
in the door someday and say hello.
Speaker 5 (29:28):
I hope you do. I got a thing on the
house for you.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Yeah, thank you, Jared, I appreciate it. Have a good
work you bet all right. Charleston Taylor dot Com. I
looked at the website. I like what they're doing up there.
They actually make beer up there as well. Charleston Taylor
dot com. On the way out, I'll remind you about
ut Health Institute on Aging, which is the the collaborative
(29:52):
amongst more than a thousand providers. I'm gonna find out
next week. I've got them coming in for lunch and
we're gonna discuss the future of what we're to do together,
and it's going to be even better than what we're
doing now, and I'm looking forward to that. Most of
the providers who are part of the Institute on Aging
are in the med Center, as you might imagine, but
they also most of them branch out during the week
(30:15):
at least a couple of days to outlying areas like
Paarland and Kingwood and the Woodlands and sugar Land and
Katie and all around. Friends would wherever you want to be.
Wherever you are, you're probably going to have pretty close
access to some of these providers, the people you need,
who have gone and got an additional training so that
(30:37):
they can apply all of their medical knowledge to specifically,
specifically the seniors. It's a big advantage we have here
in this area, a big advantage over most anywhere else
in the country. We've got access to providers who know
us very very well, and they're willing to and able
to help us with pretty much. Whatever's alien is ut
(30:58):
dot edu slam aging is the website. Go there, check
out all the resources, and then work your way to
a consultation, maybe a visit, maybe an appointment, whatever it
takes to get you better with one of those people.
Ut dot edu slash aging.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Old guy's rule, and of course women never get old.
If you want to avoid sleeping on the couch. Ll
fin that sounds think a good please. Fifty plus continues.
Here's more with Doug Hi.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Welcome back to fifty plus, fourth and final segment already starting.
Holy cow, this one's been fast. I'll there's something I
want to do. From the what are You Thinking? Desk?
By way of a talk that was given by a
man named Dennis Prager, comes news of a study conducted
by what he called some college that tested male students
(31:51):
and female students to determine what they think about when
they are loane. They put each of these students into
a room alone, left him there for about a half
an hour or so, and then asked, what did you
think about? You got any idea? What the what the
young men thought about? Will no, yeah you do, Yeah,
(32:13):
you do. What do you think they thought about?
Speaker 4 (32:15):
Will?
Speaker 2 (32:15):
I don't know. Just what would you have thought about
for thirty minutes all by yourself? What do I think
about for thirty minutes all by myself? Well, no, hold on,
you might be an outlier. Yeah, you're an outlier. The
overwhelming majority of them said they thought about sex and sports. Okay,
that was it, and then when they asked the young women,
(32:40):
it was well, we reviewed recent conversations and for the record,
he continued, they're in a man alive. Who has ever
reviewed a conversation? Have you will a conversation? Either you
have the conversation, and then it's over for guys. Pretty much,
(33:01):
Why wouldn't you think about it? Because I got other
things to think about, like what sex and sports? Well,
he finished. He told the wives in the audience that
if they asked their husbands what they're thinking about and
the man says nothing, he's not lying. He's not lying.
We just kind of we just like to sit there
(33:22):
and chill and stare at the TV, or watch a
game or wish we were playing the game. Fishing comes
into my mind. I don't know, I think, well, technically,
fishing I don't think fishing really is a sport so
much as it is an activity. I can see competition.
I understand perfectly competition in fishing, but I don't I
(33:45):
don't know that it's necessarily a sport. How would you
what differentiates sport from an activity or a game? Will
what do you think?
Speaker 4 (33:53):
I have some ideas what differentiates? I mean, I don't
know because sometimes people I guess fish for sport.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Well, yeah, it's after all, it's called sport fishing, and
I get that. But I think a competition a sport
it requires oh man, I think it just needs a rule.
Athleticism I think is involved in sport too, and there's
nothing I don't know if.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
You necessarily need to be athletic to play a sport.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
Well, then well to play it well, not to just participate,
not to be the kid out in right field chewing
on flowers.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
Well, you know, I mean there's some say major League
baseball players that in the past, you know, a long
time ago. You know, they one, they worked multiple jobs.
They had to because they make enough money. So they
were you know, coming in and go out to the
ball and you know, well maybe they weren't really keeping
(35:03):
themselves in perfect shape, but they were still considered good
at the game.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
They were in good enough shape to play the game
at the highest level where other people were not. And
that Okay, we're not gonna get anywhere with that. Where else?
Oh no, not that one, maybe this one. Yeah. I
got a couple of minutes from the Sad and Pathetic Desk,
comes werere that the left, the Democrats, are so detached
(35:30):
from their party and its members now that they're spending
twenty million dollars to figure out how to speak to
American men, which could only be an issue if they
had abandoned American men, which they did when they tried
it out Kamala Harris util Moss last year. The disconnects
started longer than that ago, though, and somebody in that camp,
(35:54):
I guess, finally had the guts to say something about it. Well,
they're going to spend that twenty million on that's the
budget to quote, study the syntax, language and content that
gains attention and virality in these spaces. Spaces you mean,
like the ones between their ears, because that's about what's there.
(36:16):
If they think that's gonna help, They've spent so many
years coddling and and courting these tiny, fractional little groups
of people and kicked hard working Americans to the curb.
And it's getting worse too, not better. And if they
can't get traction soon, they're gonna they're still riding on
ball tires too. And that whole party may dissolve and
(36:39):
be replaced in not too long, may be replaced by
one that cherry picks its least offensive leaders right now,
the ones who have a hot chance of gaining some
traction and maybe trot them out as something altogether new.
I haven't heard anybody talk about that yet, but there
(37:00):
may come a time when that is their only alternative
to regain some legitimacy in this country of ours. Let's
go to the fun stuff, shall we will? I'm not
gonna do. Let's see. Let's go with guess what I'm doing?
Better think twice or rock them, Sock them, rock them,
(37:23):
sock them. This is kind of cool. A Chinese company
held the world's first humanoid robot fighting competition and even
had a human referee. I saw the video. If you
need to just laugh at something, do that. They the
two robots are. They're in a fistfight and one of
(37:43):
them even throws a kick. And but but their actions
and their pun their punches are very slow and predictable,
and their actions are just it looks like two drunks
on a corner trying to have a fistfight but not
really doing a good job of it. When the one
(38:04):
robot throws that kick, it falls over backwards and then
has to and the referee actually goes over there and
starts counting over this robot, which then gathers itself, and
the punches are it's like watching a fight. It's like
watching a boxing match in slow motion with robots. It's
(38:25):
pretty pretty weak will and disappointing. All these robots that
can run faster and jump and spin and do all
these things, and that's the best two they could throw
in the ring, like watching six year old's box if
they were if they'd taken medicine to slow them down
a little bit. It's pretty bad. We got time for
(38:47):
one more, don't we. Yeah. Oh, by the way, I
checked on this day, at this one little side I
go to and found absolutely nothing of interest. It or
like twenty entries going all the way all the way
back more than one hundred years, not a one of
them worth mentioning on this program to my sophisticated audience.
So really nothing quick fun fact to know and tell.
(39:09):
Will Liechtenstein heard of that little country. Yes, guess how
many how many Olympic medals they've won in their history?
In their history, I'll say they've won five Olympic medals.
You're halfway there. Ten all in skiing. Imagine that, No sailing,
(39:29):
no weightlifting, no, none of that, Just all skiers, because
that's what they do over there. There's only forty thousand people,
which so ten actually among forty thousand people is pretty good.
If you stopped it and added up how many people
we have and how many medals we've won. I bet
they've got a better win ratio than we do. Yeah. Oh,
(39:49):
I'm out of town. Oh gosh, all right, we'll be
back tomorrow. Thank you all so very much for listening.
We'll see at noon. Audios
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