October 3, 2024 • 37 mins
Today, Doug Pike discusses Galveston, AI podcast hosts, and the Astros.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Remember when it was impossible to misplace the TV remote
because you were the TV remote. Remember when music sounded
like this.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
It?
Speaker 3 (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. This is fifty
plus with Doug Pike, Helpful information on your finances, good health,
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Speaker 4 (00:50):
We go on this Thursday, the end of my work
week actually, and for those of you still working the
fourth of five, by traditional standard, you worn't five days
around here? Will or for six or four?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Or what?
Speaker 4 (01:06):
I work five.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Days around here, sometimes six, depending on if I'm needed
on the weekends.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
That makes sense. There's special it's a different crew on
the weekend overall, but nonetheless all of them good. So
Happy Thursday, every one pretty much an instant replay outdoors
of Wednesday and Tuesday and Monday, except except for the
astros who came from far far behind to win the
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AL West despite some serious injuries, some serious turns of
bad fortune.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
To the team.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
They lost two in a row to former manager A. J.
Hinches Detroit Tigers, both games played at one thirty in
the afternoon, and only that because we didn't win enough
games to get a buye through the wild card. And honestly,
I think we would have held up better had the
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Tigers not been managed by a guy AJ Hinch, who
knows this team inside and out. Basically, he knew more
about the astros, more about the individual players and their
likes and dislikes at the plate than most. And I
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think his strategy yesterday of essentially throwing a bullpen game
worked against our guys because they tend to They tend
to do better and better the farther they get into
a game with a particular pitcher. I don't know how
many of our hitters actually saw the same pitcher even
twice yesterday, let alone three or four times for somebody
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who's trying to throw a full game. Hunter Brown did
his job. Hunter Brown did very well, but in the
end we just couldn't do it. And then our closing
our closers, they're gonna have to look at that. They're
gonna have to look at that pretty strongly and figure
out just what to do. Still, all of that what
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I consider a really good job of navigating very rough water.
Throughout the entire season, Every almost every player, every outstanding
player we have, every standout in the lineup wound up
off the field for more than just a couple of games.
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Weeks at a time. Kyle Tucker missed I don't know,
a long long stretch right as he was hot as
a pistol he Brews. He gets a bone bruise in
his leg and is out for what essentially was too long,
too long, and they still won the division, So hats
off to them, more power to them. We'll see how
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it turns out. That the team has a history of
filling holes with good players, and we may have some
holes in the lineup before next season, and I hope
that they make equally good decisions as they have in
the past. Picking up Jeremy pinya great deal. Picking up
pretty much everybody they've picked up in the last couple
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of years has proved pretty good. Now we've had some
some of those guys go back down to Triple A,
go back down and do some work and get more
ready than they were when they got called up. A
lot of those guys got called up a little too soon,
I think because they just the astros had holes they
had to fill. When people get injured, you have to
put a player in that place to have a complete
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bench and a complete rotation and complete bullpen. Anyway, that's
enough baseball. Stepping into the weather forecast A I got time.
This is perfect. I'm not late at all. Stepping in
the weather forecast courtesy of Texas Intoor Quality Specialists. Because
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I'm not going to go into details. D'll pound two fifty,
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say healthy air. Then stay on the line and you
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can explain far better than I what they do, how
they do it, and why it'll be beneficial to you.
So here we go the weather just ahead of the weekend.
Uh I see, well, I tell you what. We'll just
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say it in haiku. Are you ready? Will yes? All eighties?
Next week? I think we've turned the corner. But don't
bet on it. Okay, I'm raising my game a little,
didn't I That was see that was pretty good, Doug.
I think you're ending the week on a high note.
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That's an eight point two. Eight point two, you know,
because there's some humility to it. You're not claiming to
know what the weather's going to not you. I'm just
I'm doing what every weather man does. I'm just forecasting. Well,
that's what I like to hear, forecasting eight point two.
That's a very good score.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
It's a very good score. It's angry I needed to
average out the scores for we should do that. Well,
what did what did callum give you yesterday?
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Seven?
Speaker 2 (06:19):
I'd like to hear that one.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
I bet you would.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
I bet you would.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
I still have the paperwork from Tuesday when you threw
a four point seven at me. It's a knife in
the heart, you know. Really here, I am just working
my fingers to the bone, putting sometimes two as many
as three minutes into these things. Wow, three minutes of creativity.
This one actually kind of came to me pretty quickly
that the theme of it did, and then I just
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had to manipulate the words to get everything right. Some
of the words involved in weather forecasting are multiple syllables,
can burn up an entire line of a high coup
with a few of them. But that's that's not ever
gonna happen. I just can't. It doesn't tell a story.
One word doesn't tell enough of a story to be
part of a haikup. If it's five syllables or more,
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off to market. We go, ever so briefly, because I
got about forty five seconds here, four indicators, the big
ones not really moving enough in either direction. Although the
doll is dumped out about three hundred points. I believe
I heard Fox News talking about just a second ago,
gold still hanging around twenty six sixty nine. And oun
it's last night looked pretty good price if you got
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little pieces around the around the house that don't mean
that much to you anymore. And oil here's where the
bad news kicks in. Oil up nearly three dollars a
barrel north of seventy three dollars. Now thanks to all
that trouble in the Middle East. Somebody please get them
to quit fighting each other. Gee, if we only had
a president who could come through it and stop wars
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Speaker 3 (09:12):
K once life without a net. I suggest you go
to bed, sleep it off, just wait until the show's over. Sleepy.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Ali, Welcome back to fifty plus.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Thank you for listening on my Friday, your Thursday, my Saturday,
which would be tomorrow, your Friday. I won't be around much.
I'm gonna be playing golf, okay, at a very special
place too, by the way, the Covey at Big Easy Ranch.
There's something going on. I think it's it's the Oh yes, right,
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the nest. Oh yeah, this beautiful turning turnhouse if you will,
between the ninth and tenth holes. It's beautiful. I believe
it's Eagles Nest. I want to go. I'll double check
that during the next break because I want to be
certain that I know what I'm talking about. And if
I'm wrong, Billy Brown's going to be very upset with me,
and I'll rectify it one way or the other between
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now and Sunday morning. The bottom line is I'm going
out there to do a round of golf and see
what they've done with the place. Every time I turn around,
he's doing something fantastic with it, and I can assure
you this is no exception. The last time I was
out there, I got a grand tour from Billy Brown,
the man who owns this place is a magnificent place,
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And we went to the hilltop, the highest elevation on
the property where he's built it an additional thirty feet
high or so, where if I if I stood on
my tiptoes up there, I could probably see my house
in sugar Land from the top of that thing on
a clear, clear, clear day with really big binoculars. It
would be hard. It would all so be well beyond
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the curvature of the earth. So that's just a pipe dream.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
In local news.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
In local news, US customs is just gonna be a
pop quiz. Here will say, Oh wait a minute, we
got to hold on. We need to wish your girlfriend
a happy birthday. I'm not going to ask how old
she is at all. I'm not that stupid. But what
I want to know is you told me that you
were going to take her to Galveston yesterday. You got
a sunny, beautiful day, how to go? It was great.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
We had an amazing time in Galveston, got some good food,
We went to the state park, walked around there played
some Putt Putt, got some candy from the King's you've
ever been there, get to see you know, the taffy
being made. Got some ice cream.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Dang, it was really good.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Sweets for the sweets, Sweets for the sweet and as
a bonus, you actually saw the Gulf of Mexico on
one of its better days.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Yes, it was nice and blue and it was clear.
It was really really good. You could see all the
ships out and they.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
See hanging out.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Yeah, a big old long line of ships, no doubt
about that.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
And I mean I knew that.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
It was also a Wednesday, so not a lot of traffic.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
On the island, but it was.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
It was good. I mean, I definitely recommend anybody to
go down just for a little day trip.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
And honestly, all the stuff that you packed into one
day doesn't really scratch the surface even of what galves.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
No, that's pretty much just along the sea wall, except
for I mean, but the strand was so close, you know,
well Putt Putt's right on the sea wall.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
It looks on across the streets still from the pier.
Yeah really yeah, I know. Do they need a little
fresher carpet maybe.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Maybe a little bit, a little bit, you know, needs
a little TLC from here and there. But I mean overall,
it's a it's they got two courses. It's to be honest,
To be honest, Doug, I think I could take you
on the green really pretty good. You want some of that, dude,
I'm pretty good and what put But there's obstacles, you know.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Bring bring a roll of money with you.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
I'm just saying.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
I'm just saying. I when I was a younger man,
before I even learned to play golf, I was a
a put putt player.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
And I won bicycles, Okay, I mean I won some
heavy duty stuff at putt putt.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
I think my low score might have been like twenty six.
Why like that?
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Well, I were sharing.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
We're there for almost every afternoon for a long time,
and and knew exactly where to hit the ball at
exactly what speed to make a hold of one.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Every time I did, I got, I got, we both
got a hole in one, and then I almost got
a second hole in one. But it was right at
the little windmill. No, it wasn't the windmill. But there's
this one course that has a giant block of cheese
and holes. No, we played we just played eight yeah,
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one course, okay, because we had already played that putt
putt course. We played the other one back in over
the holidays.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
So there's a block of cheese.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
There's a block of cheese, and it has holes in it.
I hope not. That would be the stinkiest block of
chiese I've ever seen. But it went through the hole
and then it was about to go right and right.
I needed to right on the lip of the hole.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
It stopped and it stopped.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
And then I hit it and it didn't go No,
I'm just kidding. I went right in. But still two
two on something that should have been a one.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
Yeah, it was almost one. That doesn't really count for me,
So does it all?
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Right?
Speaker 4 (15:01):
So it sounds like you guys had a good time.
I'm so happy for you. Love Galveston. In US Customs
and Border Patrol News, how about that? The US Customs
and Customs and Border Patrol at Bush Intercontinental Dang, that's
two in a row. Wheel Bush Intercontinental Airport stopped a
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drug smuggler who was transporting cocaine inside a secret compartment
of his motorized wheelchair. Thought he'd play the old wheelchair
card and get a free pass. And these border patrol agents,
customs agents sized them up and thought, you know, the
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cushion in the seat of that thing just looked a
little bigger than it should be. And there's something kind
of suss dropped that young person's word in there, something
kind of suss about the whole frame of this thing.
And so they pulled him over to the side and
they got him out of that wheelchair and they went
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to picking it apart. And guess the weight of how
much cocaine they pulled out of that little motorized wheelchair.
And it's got it's a legitimate It was built on
a frame of a legitimate motorized wheelchair. So it looked
very real.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
And what are we talking kilos?
Speaker 4 (16:25):
Oh, no, we're talking pounds. They measured in pounds. We're
in the United States of America. Will we used the
wrong weight, the non global weight?
Speaker 2 (16:33):
All right? How many pounds could tell you in kilos?
Let's see, I'll say and hold out five pounds.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
Guy wouldn't even have charged the battery for five pounds. No,
they found twenty six pounds wow of cocaine stuffed in
that wheelchair. Now, first question that comes up is how
many wheelchair got with twenty five twenty six pounds of
cocaine have gotten through over the years because you look
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at somebody in that condition, you think, oh, I'm sorry
for that person, and maybe they just give them a pass.
The other question is, and here's here's why I'm gonna
ask it, that bust amounted to a whopping twenty percent
of all the cocaine seized at US ports, not an intercontinental,
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everything they've picked off at US ports since February points
of entry February. You know, and you know why. You
know why because they don't need to bring it through
the airport anymore. They can just wade across the river.
Waded across the river using using those bundles for floats.
I don't know if that stuff floats or not. All right, Well,
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you're you're ringing the washrag again, aren't you am. I'll
take a break. Oh no, we're right on time. For
heaven's sake, I want to get you out on time.
If you are over fifty five, there's a one in
four chance or so that you are dealing already with
an enlarged non cancerous prostate. If you are you know
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the symptoms. If you're not, be thankful so far, but
keep an eye out for maybe a kind of a
restricted flow of yurine when you go to the bathroom,
or maybe you feel like you gotta go and you
go in there and you feel like you're all emptied out,
and then you go sit back down at your desk,
or get walk away from the tree and get back
in the golf cart or whatever you're doing, and five holes,
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five minutes later, one hole later, you gotta go again.
The all those and more, there's a lot of signs
of it. Really, you could go to the website and
check it out. All those indicat an enlarged prostate and
if that's getting up in the middle of the night
two or three times, that's another one. And if you're
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shut it off. They clog the drain, so to speak,
so that that nasty old prostate can't get any more
oxygenated blood, which means it's going to shrivel up and
with it go the symptoms of that. They also do
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got them. There's even some procedure with their vascular knowledge,
the vascular surgeries to alleviate head pain. Believe it or not,
I didn't know that was possible, but it is. They
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extremely helpful for people who have chronic pain. Much of
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Speaker 3 (20:17):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
That's why every few months we wash them, check us
fluids and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This
is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
All right, welcome back.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
Thanks for listening, certainly to appreciate it. Fifty plus on
this Thursday afternoon, a sunshiny Thursday, and I don't even
have to look outside to know that. I know it's
beautiful outside, and I'm going to take advantage this afternoon.
I think that's my plan. It's a good plan, and
I hope it comes together. I truly do. I am
missing a piece of paper and I am terribly disturbed
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by its absence in here. Will hmm, I'll have to
go back and check and figure out where exactly that is.
It's not a big deal, So onto a few local
headlines and then what we'll save the fourth segment for
some from lighter, much lighter stuff. Although I have a
few here that are still good. I think we did
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that one. Yeah, oh no, we didn't. Actually, I'll have
to come back to that few local headlines from and
just to kind of give you an idea of how
the world is turning these days. And some of this
is disturbing. Every now and then you find something good.
But I, instead of trying to go into all these stories,
I just grab the headlines from click to Houston's website
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to describe kind of how out of sync this city
and world are with where they were four years ago.
On crime comes this one? Give me give me a
one to ten on how serious you think these are?
Will Okay couple seen in viral Houston road rage video
now accused in real estate rental scheme. That's like, that's
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messed up? Am I right or wrong?
Speaker 2 (22:13):
No? You're absolutely right.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
They they're crooks, and then they're road ragers, and maybe
one of their real estate deals went bad. I don't know.
Here's another one. Fort Bend County man gets life in
prison for sexually abusing a child over a fourteen year period.
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How does it go on for fourteen years?
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Un?
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Well, well, I kind of know. I bet you I
know because I read a lot about this kind of stuff.
This guy had that victim so convinced that either either
A they weren't doing anything wrong. B If that victim
told that, there would be repercussions, serious repercussions, or both.
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Those are the only three scenarios where that can go
on for fourteen years. That's disgusting. In housing, how about
this one? Will fifty three mobile homes need to be
relocated in ninety days after surprise notice from landlord.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
That's awful.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
How would you like to be one of those people?
I wouldn't. You got your house set up, you got
your feeling kind of like you you've finally got something
going in your life, you're you're settled, you've got an address,
all that stuff, and you get a notice that in
ninety days you're out of there. You're either going to
roll it out yourself or we're gonna roll it out
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for you. And I get what the guy did was
sold the land. There's no question about it. I would
I would imagine. I don't know, but I bet that's
what it was. Just so many people now, and so
many in the whole country. We've gone from a country
of acts to a country of X plus twenty something million.
And I think part of what we're seeing is kind
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of a byproduct of this influx, this rush of people,
not all of whom are here to have a good
time and become productive members of our society. There are
a lot of them, they're on our streets already. A
lot of these people. We don't know much about them,
we really don't. And every time you hear that, let
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it sink in a little deeper. So you understand why
we should be a little more cautious about just giving
them the keys to the castle. A lot of these
people are already convicted of crimes, many of the thousands
of them convicted of violent crimes and even murders, either
in the country from which they came or right here
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in America since they got here. Since they got here,
they just went about their usual the only life they know,
life of crime. And I don't know whose fault that is.
I don't know where they came from. I don't know
anything about their upbringing. But if you live the life
of crime where you came from when you get here,
and that's all you know, then you're gonna do the
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same thing. And that's what they're doing. And it's it's
just it's making all of us edgier. It's making all
of us feel less safe in our own country, less
safe in America. That just that's wrong. It's messed up.
There's also good news, though, and and this is kind
of good news. Like if you're if you're in this world,
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it's amazing. And if you're not, you'll say, why are
you even talking about that? But I'm fascinated by the
past I'm fascinated by the future, I'm fascinated by space,
all these things. So this one, this one comes up
in animal history news scientists working in Siberian permafrost. Just
what they found will digging around in Siberian permafrost, think
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about it? Let me think about it. Come on, I
know you are this smart.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
At least did they find a ma'amo?
Speaker 4 (26:11):
You know you're kind of I'll give you partial credit
for that. What they found actually is very empty and
you would have never guessed this one because I wouldn't
even have known they were there. The mummified remains, which
is important because usually they just find bones, right, They
found the almost perfectly mummified remains, skin, hair, organs, and all, okay,
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of a juvenile rhinoceros from the Pleistocene era. That's way
back okay, that's way way back there. And well, the
left side of it was was kind of destroyed, they think,
because it may have become unfrozen for a while and
predators got to it. But the bottom line is that's
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that's a lot to find and probably none of that
entire story will have any impact whatsoever on our lives.
But it's still pretty cool that they found it, and
then on the flip side of that, what I have
a minute, golly. This past month, scientists studying photographs from
Mars found a rock with black and white striations that
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are that are very similar to those of alpine granite,
if you know what that is. There's still a lot
of thought to be put into this to determine exactly
what it is they found, But everything like this is
a clue, and those clues lead us closer to solving
a mystery that to this point really has no definition.
We're not even sure why we're looking at all these things,
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knowing full well that we have no idea what we're
gonna find, and we're just doing it because space is
after all. Captain Kirk said, the last Frontier? Was it
who said that? Or somebody in Star Wars? It's Star
Trek here the final Frontier? They said, all right, it's
the final second. I've got here. I got to take
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this last break of the programming. On the way out,
I'll tell you about Braun's roofing. Skiter. Braun and I
had a conversation just this week actually about a lot
of things, but a lot of it was centered around
how he still wants to make sure that everyone knows
that he will get somebody from his company out to
your house, usually within twenty four hours, to make sure
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that your roof is doing its job and will continue
to do its job for a long time to come good.
Rufill last fifteen, sixteen, eighteen years possibly if you take
care of them. So you get somebody up on that
roof every couple of years, and when they come down
from the ladder, as they're walking over to you, you
kind of size them up and put crossed fingers behind
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your back, because what you want to hear is your
roof's great, we'll be back in a couple of years.
What you might hear is, actually, we found something and
you need to address it. And so here's what we found.
They'll show you pictures and then they'll tell you all
about what they'll do to fix it, and they will
tell you how long it's gonna take, the materials they're
gonna use, and importantly, what it's gonna cost you. And
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rather than waste a bunch of your time getting two, three,
four more estimates, whatever it is the best thing you
can do. And the thing that I've done now for
the last probably ten or twelve years, it's just say okay,
get started, get started, get it done, get that roof
patched up. I got a brand new roof on there now,
and I'm feeling pretty good about that. I really am
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Bron's Roofing did that as well. Worked on my mom's
home when she was alive out in Katie, worked on
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Aged to perfection. This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
Hi, welcome back, fourth and final segment of fifty plus.
Thank you for listening on this beautiful Thursday outside. It's
gonna be a nice day. It's gonna be nice tomorrow,
a little bit of chance over of rain over the weekend,
but nothing to really get worried about. Let's lighten it
up a little bit, Will and I have so much
other darkness here, man, I'm just gonna I'm gonna try
to bypass it all and make it all the way
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to the end without messing up. Okay, well, tip of
the iceberg? Which way did they go? Or or AI
more human than we think?
Speaker 2 (31:04):
AI more human than we think?
Speaker 4 (31:07):
I love this one. I love this one. Someone told
two fake AI podcast hosts these are AI podcast hosts, okay,
that they weren't real and we're about to be turned
off And a clip of their reaction is going viral.
It says here because they had a full blown crisis
(31:30):
when they realized they weren't human. What do you think
of that? Oh? Wow, are you stunned? I'd have to
watch the clip. Yeah, no, I think we should look
it up. Maybe we can do that together after the show.
See if you can find it. I could probably go
back to the source and find it. Maybe you can
find it more quickly over there. All right, I'm gonna
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leave tip of the Iceberg in there, and then I'm
gonna add in what's in a word or you're hoarding
the wrong stuff.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
You're hoarding the wrong stuff.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
Americans are panickers, I think in this day and age,
and and there's some justification for that, the way we've
been treated over the last four years. But they're buying
toilet paper again and hoarding it and just stacking it
up in there house, filling rooms with it because of
the port strike. But there's no reason to be and
(32:28):
even I knew this, Okay, ninety percent of our toilet
paper comes is made and comes from either here, Canada
or Mexico. They don't bring it in on boats. Ninety
percent leave it there. Same for paper towels, that paper products.
(32:48):
We've got plenty in North America. You don't have to
hoard it, you don't have to beat people up, leave
it alone. Back to it will read my shirt. Tip
of the iceberg or tip of the iceberg?
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Read my shirt.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
Oh you're just determined, aren't you. If you had to
wear a T shirt and this is pop quiz, will
you did it to yourself? If you had to wear
a T shirt with your most used phrase? What would
it say?
Speaker 2 (33:17):
My most used phrase? Probably?
Speaker 4 (33:24):
You know, yeah, that would that would be about right.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
I say it a lot.
Speaker 4 (33:29):
Yeah. The top ones were no worries. I don't know,
I just work here. That's so corny and cliche. Where
did I leave my dot dot dot? And I'm not
a doctor who says that. Anybody that's not a nurse, sir,
nurse nurse might say that. And I pulled some of
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the people in in the office over there. One of
them said hers would say bananas. Another one said I
forgot the other two never mind, doesn't matter. That's probably
what I could have. I forgot, Yeah, I forgot. Or
my glasses are broken and I need some super glue.
There's gonna drop a super glue in this entire office.
(34:11):
We have everything else, But I refuse. Somebody actually said
put some tape on there, like no, I absolutely refuse.
And it's not Fortunately it's not the nose piece that's broken.
It's one of the earpieces, and I have no idea
why it flipped on it. These were These were not
the cheapest glasses I could have bought either. These were
in the middle of the pack. Okay, well, tip of
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the Iceberg, tip of the Iceberger, tip of the iceberg.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Ooh, I'm gonna go with tip of the Iceberg number two?
Speaker 4 (34:41):
Okay, pull found the top people we refuse to tip,
even when prompted our mechanics, concession stand workers at sporting events,
and fast food employees. Basically, any restaurant worker where you're
just picking the food up for yourself, you agree.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
I don't know if I've ever been asked to tip
my mechanic.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
No fast food places. Oh, rest assured they have tip
jars in there. Well I go through the drive through, Yeah, okay,
well yeah, you definitely shouldn't have to tip there. I
think if somebody's just somebody's providing you with the item
that you buy, it's like you you don't tip in
a department store when you buy a pair of pants.
(35:27):
I don't think you could have to tip when you
buy food, except for a restaurant serves you, they bring
the food to you. They maybe help with menu selections.
A server is a valuable thing and deserves the tip
every store. It seems like I got a tip jar
these days. Every place does. Even the surgeons who do circumcisions,
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they have one of those on their desk.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
No man, that you get it?
Speaker 5 (35:54):
Yeah, I get it.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
Doug Wow, The Blue Hour with Doug Pike. Huh, it's
just it's a.
Speaker 4 (36:04):
Very old joke. Kind the very old joke. Uh okay,
Letter of the lawbreaker. One more reason or locked up,
tip of the iceberg number the clost top of it.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Letter of the law break.
Speaker 4 (36:16):
US postal service employee charged with stealing more than a
million and a half bucks in checks and fraudulently securing
a pandemic relief loan. No wonder he was too busy
to deliver the mail. He's busy counting his money. I
know he or she. I don't know. It doesn't say
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one more reason? Locked up or learning the hard way,
Learning the hard way, it's always good. A student in
Canada found out the engine in his two year old
car will not be replaced under warranty because he did
what to it will? He took that sticker off, He
put maple syrup in the tank. No, not really. What
he did was over rev the engine.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (36:57):
And that's that I can understand why the manufacturer would
say no to that. You can't do that. This is
all about learning the hard way and about reading the
fine print. You have to read your warranty when they
say wall to wall, when they say front to back,
bumper to bumper, warranty for three years or thirty thousand
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miles or whatever it is. Now, there are fine print
points that you better read and understand. And yeah, if
you stand there and just hammer your foot into the
gas and overread the engine, that damages the engine in
a way that it's not supposed to be damaged. Ten
nine eight. Already, Holy cow, thirty seven percent of people
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think time travel is possible. I learned that in twenty
twenty six. Yesterday,
Remember when it was impossible to misplace the TV remote
because you were the TV remote. Remember when music sounded
like this.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
It?
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Remember when social media was truly social? Hey John, how's
it going today?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
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Speaker 4 (00:50):
We go on this Thursday, the end of my work
week actually, and for those of you still working the
fourth of five, by traditional standard, you worn't five days
around here? Will or for six or four?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Or what?
Speaker 4 (01:06):
I work five.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Days around here, sometimes six, depending on if I'm needed
on the weekends.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
That makes sense. There's special it's a different crew on
the weekend overall, but nonetheless all of them good. So
Happy Thursday, every one pretty much an instant replay outdoors
of Wednesday and Tuesday and Monday, except except for the
astros who came from far far behind to win the
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AL West despite some serious injuries, some serious turns of
bad fortune.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
To the team.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
They lost two in a row to former manager A. J.
Hinches Detroit Tigers, both games played at one thirty in
the afternoon, and only that because we didn't win enough
games to get a buye through the wild card. And honestly,
I think we would have held up better had the
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Tigers not been managed by a guy AJ Hinch, who
knows this team inside and out. Basically, he knew more
about the astros, more about the individual players and their
likes and dislikes at the plate than most. And I
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think his strategy yesterday of essentially throwing a bullpen game
worked against our guys because they tend to They tend
to do better and better the farther they get into
a game with a particular pitcher. I don't know how
many of our hitters actually saw the same pitcher even
twice yesterday, let alone three or four times for somebody
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who's trying to throw a full game. Hunter Brown did
his job. Hunter Brown did very well, but in the
end we just couldn't do it. And then our closing
our closers, they're gonna have to look at that. They're
gonna have to look at that pretty strongly and figure
out just what to do. Still, all of that what
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I consider a really good job of navigating very rough water.
Throughout the entire season, Every almost every player, every outstanding
player we have, every standout in the lineup wound up
off the field for more than just a couple of games.
(03:39):
Weeks at a time. Kyle Tucker missed I don't know,
a long long stretch right as he was hot as
a pistol he Brews. He gets a bone bruise in
his leg and is out for what essentially was too long,
too long, and they still won the division, So hats
off to them, more power to them. We'll see how
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it turns out. That the team has a history of
filling holes with good players, and we may have some
holes in the lineup before next season, and I hope
that they make equally good decisions as they have in
the past. Picking up Jeremy pinya great deal. Picking up
pretty much everybody they've picked up in the last couple
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of years has proved pretty good. Now we've had some
some of those guys go back down to Triple A,
go back down and do some work and get more
ready than they were when they got called up. A
lot of those guys got called up a little too soon,
I think because they just the astros had holes they
had to fill. When people get injured, you have to
put a player in that place to have a complete
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bench and a complete rotation and complete bullpen. Anyway, that's
enough baseball. Stepping into the weather forecast A I got time.
This is perfect. I'm not late at all. Stepping in
the weather forecast courtesy of Texas Intoor Quality Specialists. Because
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can explain far better than I what they do, how
they do it, and why it'll be beneficial to you.
So here we go the weather just ahead of the weekend.
Uh I see, well, I tell you what. We'll just
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say it in haiku. Are you ready? Will yes? All eighties?
Next week? I think we've turned the corner. But don't
bet on it. Okay, I'm raising my game a little,
didn't I That was see that was pretty good, Doug.
I think you're ending the week on a high note.
(05:50):
That's an eight point two. Eight point two, you know,
because there's some humility to it. You're not claiming to
know what the weather's going to not you. I'm just
I'm doing what every weather man does. I'm just forecasting. Well,
that's what I like to hear, forecasting eight point two.
That's a very good score.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
It's a very good score. It's angry I needed to
average out the scores for we should do that. Well,
what did what did callum give you yesterday?
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Seven?
Speaker 2 (06:19):
I'd like to hear that one.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
I bet you would.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
I bet you would.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
I still have the paperwork from Tuesday when you threw
a four point seven at me. It's a knife in
the heart, you know. Really here, I am just working
my fingers to the bone, putting sometimes two as many
as three minutes into these things. Wow, three minutes of creativity.
This one actually kind of came to me pretty quickly
that the theme of it did, and then I just
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had to manipulate the words to get everything right. Some
of the words involved in weather forecasting are multiple syllables,
can burn up an entire line of a high coup
with a few of them. But that's that's not ever
gonna happen. I just can't. It doesn't tell a story.
One word doesn't tell enough of a story to be
part of a haikup. If it's five syllables or more,
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off to market. We go, ever so briefly, because I
got about forty five seconds here, four indicators, the big
ones not really moving enough in either direction. Although the
doll is dumped out about three hundred points. I believe
I heard Fox News talking about just a second ago,
gold still hanging around twenty six sixty nine. And oun
it's last night looked pretty good price if you got
(07:29):
little pieces around the around the house that don't mean
that much to you anymore. And oil here's where the
bad news kicks in. Oil up nearly three dollars a
barrel north of seventy three dollars. Now thanks to all
that trouble in the Middle East. Somebody please get them
to quit fighting each other. Gee, if we only had
a president who could come through it and stop wars
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Speaker 1 (09:20):
Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Ali, Welcome back to fifty plus.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Thank you for listening on my Friday, your Thursday, my Saturday,
which would be tomorrow, your Friday. I won't be around much.
I'm gonna be playing golf, okay, at a very special
place too, by the way, the Covey at Big Easy Ranch.
There's something going on. I think it's it's the Oh yes, right,
(09:56):
the nest. Oh yeah, this beautiful turning turnhouse if you will,
between the ninth and tenth holes. It's beautiful. I believe
it's Eagles Nest. I want to go. I'll double check
that during the next break because I want to be
certain that I know what I'm talking about. And if
I'm wrong, Billy Brown's going to be very upset with me,
and I'll rectify it one way or the other between
(10:17):
now and Sunday morning. The bottom line is I'm going
out there to do a round of golf and see
what they've done with the place. Every time I turn around,
he's doing something fantastic with it, and I can assure
you this is no exception. The last time I was
out there, I got a grand tour from Billy Brown,
the man who owns this place is a magnificent place,
(10:38):
And we went to the hilltop, the highest elevation on
the property where he's built it an additional thirty feet
high or so, where if I if I stood on
my tiptoes up there, I could probably see my house
in sugar Land from the top of that thing on
a clear, clear, clear day with really big binoculars. It
would be hard. It would all so be well beyond
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the curvature of the earth. So that's just a pipe dream.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
In local news.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
In local news, US customs is just gonna be a
pop quiz. Here will say, Oh wait a minute, we
got to hold on. We need to wish your girlfriend
a happy birthday. I'm not going to ask how old
she is at all. I'm not that stupid. But what
I want to know is you told me that you
were going to take her to Galveston yesterday. You got
a sunny, beautiful day, how to go? It was great.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
We had an amazing time in Galveston, got some good food,
We went to the state park, walked around there played
some Putt Putt, got some candy from the King's you've
ever been there, get to see you know, the taffy
being made. Got some ice cream.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Dang, it was really good.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Sweets for the sweets, Sweets for the sweet and as
a bonus, you actually saw the Gulf of Mexico on
one of its better days.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Yes, it was nice and blue and it was clear.
It was really really good. You could see all the
ships out and they.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
See hanging out.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Yeah, a big old long line of ships, no doubt
about that.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
And I mean I knew that.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
It was also a Wednesday, so not a lot of traffic.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
On the island, but it was.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
It was good. I mean, I definitely recommend anybody to
go down just for a little day trip.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
And honestly, all the stuff that you packed into one
day doesn't really scratch the surface even of what galves.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
No, that's pretty much just along the sea wall, except
for I mean, but the strand was so close, you know,
well Putt Putt's right on the sea wall.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
It looks on across the streets still from the pier.
Yeah really yeah, I know. Do they need a little
fresher carpet maybe.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Maybe a little bit, a little bit, you know, needs
a little TLC from here and there. But I mean overall,
it's a it's they got two courses. It's to be honest,
To be honest, Doug, I think I could take you
on the green really pretty good. You want some of that, dude,
I'm pretty good and what put But there's obstacles, you know.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Bring bring a roll of money with you.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
I'm just saying.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
I'm just saying. I when I was a younger man,
before I even learned to play golf, I was a
a put putt player.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
And I won bicycles, Okay, I mean I won some
heavy duty stuff at putt putt.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
I think my low score might have been like twenty six.
Why like that?
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Well, I were sharing.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
We're there for almost every afternoon for a long time,
and and knew exactly where to hit the ball at
exactly what speed to make a hold of one.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Every time I did, I got, I got, we both
got a hole in one, and then I almost got
a second hole in one. But it was right at
the little windmill. No, it wasn't the windmill. But there's
this one course that has a giant block of cheese
and holes. No, we played we just played eight yeah,
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one course, okay, because we had already played that putt
putt course. We played the other one back in over
the holidays.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
So there's a block of cheese.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
There's a block of cheese, and it has holes in it.
I hope not. That would be the stinkiest block of
chiese I've ever seen. But it went through the hole
and then it was about to go right and right.
I needed to right on the lip of the hole.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
It stopped and it stopped.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
And then I hit it and it didn't go No,
I'm just kidding. I went right in. But still two
two on something that should have been a one.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
Yeah, it was almost one. That doesn't really count for me,
So does it all?
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Right?
Speaker 4 (15:01):
So it sounds like you guys had a good time.
I'm so happy for you. Love Galveston. In US Customs
and Border Patrol News, how about that? The US Customs
and Customs and Border Patrol at Bush Intercontinental Dang, that's
two in a row. Wheel Bush Intercontinental Airport stopped a
(15:22):
drug smuggler who was transporting cocaine inside a secret compartment
of his motorized wheelchair. Thought he'd play the old wheelchair
card and get a free pass. And these border patrol agents,
customs agents sized them up and thought, you know, the
(15:46):
cushion in the seat of that thing just looked a
little bigger than it should be. And there's something kind
of suss dropped that young person's word in there, something
kind of suss about the whole frame of this thing.
And so they pulled him over to the side and
they got him out of that wheelchair and they went
(16:08):
to picking it apart. And guess the weight of how
much cocaine they pulled out of that little motorized wheelchair.
And it's got it's a legitimate It was built on
a frame of a legitimate motorized wheelchair. So it looked
very real.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
And what are we talking kilos?
Speaker 4 (16:25):
Oh, no, we're talking pounds. They measured in pounds. We're
in the United States of America. Will we used the
wrong weight, the non global weight?
Speaker 2 (16:33):
All right? How many pounds could tell you in kilos?
Let's see, I'll say and hold out five pounds.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
Guy wouldn't even have charged the battery for five pounds. No,
they found twenty six pounds wow of cocaine stuffed in
that wheelchair. Now, first question that comes up is how
many wheelchair got with twenty five twenty six pounds of
cocaine have gotten through over the years because you look
(17:06):
at somebody in that condition, you think, oh, I'm sorry
for that person, and maybe they just give them a pass.
The other question is, and here's here's why I'm gonna
ask it, that bust amounted to a whopping twenty percent
of all the cocaine seized at US ports, not an intercontinental,
(17:30):
everything they've picked off at US ports since February points
of entry February. You know, and you know why. You
know why because they don't need to bring it through
the airport anymore. They can just wade across the river.
Waded across the river using using those bundles for floats.
I don't know if that stuff floats or not. All right, Well,
(17:53):
you're you're ringing the washrag again, aren't you am. I'll
take a break. Oh no, we're right on time. For
heaven's sake, I want to get you out on time.
If you are over fifty five, there's a one in
four chance or so that you are dealing already with
an enlarged non cancerous prostate. If you are you know
(18:15):
the symptoms. If you're not, be thankful so far, but
keep an eye out for maybe a kind of a
restricted flow of yurine when you go to the bathroom,
or maybe you feel like you gotta go and you
go in there and you feel like you're all emptied out,
and then you go sit back down at your desk,
or get walk away from the tree and get back
in the golf cart or whatever you're doing, and five holes,
(18:37):
five minutes later, one hole later, you gotta go again.
The all those and more, there's a lot of signs
of it. Really, you could go to the website and
check it out. All those indicat an enlarged prostate and
if that's getting up in the middle of the night
two or three times, that's another one. And if you're
dealing with that, you can go to a late health
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correct that situation by shutting off the blood supply. They
find the exact artery that supplies that prostate and they
shut it off. They clog the drain, so to speak,
so that that nasty old prostate can't get any more
oxygenated blood, which means it's going to shrivel up and
with it go the symptoms of that. They also do
(19:24):
fibroids for women. They do ugly veins for anybody who's
got them. There's even some procedure with their vascular knowledge,
the vascular surgeries to alleviate head pain. Believe it or not,
I didn't know that was possible, but it is. They
also do regenerative medicine around there too, and that's proving
extremely helpful for people who have chronic pain. Much of
(19:48):
what they do is covered by Medicare and Medicaid. You'll
have to call them to see if that's the case
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Speaker 3 (20:17):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
That's why every few months we wash them, check us
fluids and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This
is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
All right, welcome back.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
Thanks for listening, certainly to appreciate it. Fifty plus on
this Thursday afternoon, a sunshiny Thursday, and I don't even
have to look outside to know that. I know it's
beautiful outside, and I'm going to take advantage this afternoon.
I think that's my plan. It's a good plan, and
I hope it comes together. I truly do. I am
missing a piece of paper and I am terribly disturbed
(21:03):
by its absence in here. Will hmm, I'll have to
go back and check and figure out where exactly that is.
It's not a big deal, So onto a few local
headlines and then what we'll save the fourth segment for
some from lighter, much lighter stuff. Although I have a
few here that are still good. I think we did
(21:24):
that one. Yeah, oh no, we didn't. Actually, I'll have
to come back to that few local headlines from and
just to kind of give you an idea of how
the world is turning these days. And some of this
is disturbing. Every now and then you find something good.
But I, instead of trying to go into all these stories,
I just grab the headlines from click to Houston's website
(21:46):
to describe kind of how out of sync this city
and world are with where they were four years ago.
On crime comes this one? Give me give me a
one to ten on how serious you think these are?
Will Okay couple seen in viral Houston road rage video
now accused in real estate rental scheme. That's like, that's
(22:11):
messed up? Am I right or wrong?
Speaker 2 (22:13):
No? You're absolutely right.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
They they're crooks, and then they're road ragers, and maybe
one of their real estate deals went bad. I don't know.
Here's another one. Fort Bend County man gets life in
prison for sexually abusing a child over a fourteen year period.
(22:35):
How does it go on for fourteen years?
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Un?
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Well, well, I kind of know. I bet you I
know because I read a lot about this kind of stuff.
This guy had that victim so convinced that either either
A they weren't doing anything wrong. B If that victim
told that, there would be repercussions, serious repercussions, or both.
(23:03):
Those are the only three scenarios where that can go
on for fourteen years. That's disgusting. In housing, how about
this one? Will fifty three mobile homes need to be
relocated in ninety days after surprise notice from landlord.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
That's awful.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
How would you like to be one of those people?
I wouldn't. You got your house set up, you got
your feeling kind of like you you've finally got something
going in your life, you're you're settled, you've got an address,
all that stuff, and you get a notice that in
ninety days you're out of there. You're either going to
roll it out yourself or we're gonna roll it out
(23:44):
for you. And I get what the guy did was
sold the land. There's no question about it. I would
I would imagine. I don't know, but I bet that's
what it was. Just so many people now, and so
many in the whole country. We've gone from a country
of acts to a country of X plus twenty something million.
And I think part of what we're seeing is kind
(24:06):
of a byproduct of this influx, this rush of people,
not all of whom are here to have a good
time and become productive members of our society. There are
a lot of them, they're on our streets already. A
lot of these people. We don't know much about them,
we really don't. And every time you hear that, let
(24:28):
it sink in a little deeper. So you understand why
we should be a little more cautious about just giving
them the keys to the castle. A lot of these
people are already convicted of crimes, many of the thousands
of them convicted of violent crimes and even murders, either
in the country from which they came or right here
(24:50):
in America since they got here. Since they got here,
they just went about their usual the only life they know,
life of crime. And I don't know whose fault that is.
I don't know where they came from. I don't know
anything about their upbringing. But if you live the life
of crime where you came from when you get here,
and that's all you know, then you're gonna do the
(25:13):
same thing. And that's what they're doing. And it's it's
just it's making all of us edgier. It's making all
of us feel less safe in our own country, less
safe in America. That just that's wrong. It's messed up.
There's also good news, though, and and this is kind
of good news. Like if you're if you're in this world,
(25:35):
it's amazing. And if you're not, you'll say, why are
you even talking about that? But I'm fascinated by the
past I'm fascinated by the future, I'm fascinated by space,
all these things. So this one, this one comes up
in animal history news scientists working in Siberian permafrost. Just
what they found will digging around in Siberian permafrost, think
(26:01):
about it? Let me think about it. Come on, I
know you are this smart.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
At least did they find a ma'amo?
Speaker 4 (26:11):
You know you're kind of I'll give you partial credit
for that. What they found actually is very empty and
you would have never guessed this one because I wouldn't
even have known they were there. The mummified remains, which
is important because usually they just find bones, right, They
found the almost perfectly mummified remains, skin, hair, organs, and all, okay,
(26:32):
of a juvenile rhinoceros from the Pleistocene era. That's way
back okay, that's way way back there. And well, the
left side of it was was kind of destroyed, they think,
because it may have become unfrozen for a while and
predators got to it. But the bottom line is that's
(26:54):
that's a lot to find and probably none of that
entire story will have any impact whatsoever on our lives.
But it's still pretty cool that they found it, and
then on the flip side of that, what I have
a minute, golly. This past month, scientists studying photographs from
Mars found a rock with black and white striations that
(27:16):
are that are very similar to those of alpine granite,
if you know what that is. There's still a lot
of thought to be put into this to determine exactly
what it is they found, But everything like this is
a clue, and those clues lead us closer to solving
a mystery that to this point really has no definition.
We're not even sure why we're looking at all these things,
(27:41):
knowing full well that we have no idea what we're
gonna find, and we're just doing it because space is
after all. Captain Kirk said, the last Frontier? Was it
who said that? Or somebody in Star Wars? It's Star
Trek here the final Frontier? They said, all right, it's
the final second. I've got here. I got to take
(28:01):
this last break of the programming. On the way out,
I'll tell you about Braun's roofing. Skiter. Braun and I
had a conversation just this week actually about a lot
of things, but a lot of it was centered around
how he still wants to make sure that everyone knows
that he will get somebody from his company out to
your house, usually within twenty four hours, to make sure
(28:23):
that your roof is doing its job and will continue
to do its job for a long time to come good.
Rufill last fifteen, sixteen, eighteen years possibly if you take
care of them. So you get somebody up on that
roof every couple of years, and when they come down
from the ladder, as they're walking over to you, you
kind of size them up and put crossed fingers behind
(28:43):
your back, because what you want to hear is your
roof's great, we'll be back in a couple of years.
What you might hear is, actually, we found something and
you need to address it. And so here's what we found.
They'll show you pictures and then they'll tell you all
about what they'll do to fix it, and they will
tell you how long it's gonna take, the materials they're
gonna use, and importantly, what it's gonna cost you. And
(29:07):
rather than waste a bunch of your time getting two, three,
four more estimates, whatever it is the best thing you
can do. And the thing that I've done now for
the last probably ten or twelve years, it's just say okay,
get started, get started, get it done, get that roof
patched up. I got a brand new roof on there now,
and I'm feeling pretty good about that. I really am
(29:28):
Bron's Roofing did that as well. Worked on my mom's
home when she was alive out in Katie, worked on
my mother in law's home up in the Woodlands, and
a whole lot of neighbors and friends over the years
that I've been associated with Braunze, and I'm really happy
to be there with them. Bronzrooofing dot Com is a
website free estimates usually within twenty four hours. Put this
number in your phone because if there ever is a
(29:50):
real problem with your roof and it's leaking like a
sieve or a tree fell on it or whatever, you
need to get them out there quickly and you don't
need to be trying to think of what I've do
I been talking about. Think of the number I get. Yeah,
I can't remember that number. It's it's I don't know
who's whatever it is. Well, it's Bronze Roofing and it's
two eight one four eight zero ninety nine hundred. Put
(30:11):
that in your phone. Bronze roofing two eight one four
eight zero ninety nine hundred.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Aged to perfection. This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
Hi, welcome back, fourth and final segment of fifty plus.
Thank you for listening on this beautiful Thursday outside. It's
gonna be a nice day. It's gonna be nice tomorrow,
a little bit of chance over of rain over the weekend,
but nothing to really get worried about. Let's lighten it
up a little bit, Will and I have so much
other darkness here, man, I'm just gonna I'm gonna try
to bypass it all and make it all the way
(30:52):
to the end without messing up. Okay, well, tip of
the iceberg? Which way did they go? Or or AI
more human than we think?
Speaker 2 (31:04):
AI more human than we think?
Speaker 4 (31:07):
I love this one. I love this one. Someone told
two fake AI podcast hosts these are AI podcast hosts, okay,
that they weren't real and we're about to be turned
off And a clip of their reaction is going viral.
It says here because they had a full blown crisis
(31:30):
when they realized they weren't human. What do you think
of that? Oh? Wow, are you stunned? I'd have to
watch the clip. Yeah, no, I think we should look
it up. Maybe we can do that together after the show.
See if you can find it. I could probably go
back to the source and find it. Maybe you can
find it more quickly over there. All right, I'm gonna
(31:51):
leave tip of the Iceberg in there, and then I'm
gonna add in what's in a word or you're hoarding
the wrong stuff.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
You're hoarding the wrong stuff.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
Americans are panickers, I think in this day and age,
and and there's some justification for that, the way we've
been treated over the last four years. But they're buying
toilet paper again and hoarding it and just stacking it
up in there house, filling rooms with it because of
the port strike. But there's no reason to be and
(32:28):
even I knew this, Okay, ninety percent of our toilet
paper comes is made and comes from either here, Canada
or Mexico. They don't bring it in on boats. Ninety
percent leave it there. Same for paper towels, that paper products.
(32:48):
We've got plenty in North America. You don't have to
hoard it, you don't have to beat people up, leave
it alone. Back to it will read my shirt. Tip
of the iceberg or tip of the iceberg?
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Read my shirt.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
Oh you're just determined, aren't you. If you had to
wear a T shirt and this is pop quiz, will
you did it to yourself? If you had to wear
a T shirt with your most used phrase? What would
it say?
Speaker 2 (33:17):
My most used phrase? Probably?
Speaker 4 (33:24):
You know, yeah, that would that would be about right.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
I say it a lot.
Speaker 4 (33:29):
Yeah. The top ones were no worries. I don't know,
I just work here. That's so corny and cliche. Where
did I leave my dot dot dot? And I'm not
a doctor who says that. Anybody that's not a nurse, sir,
nurse nurse might say that. And I pulled some of
(33:50):
the people in in the office over there. One of
them said hers would say bananas. Another one said I
forgot the other two never mind, doesn't matter. That's probably
what I could have. I forgot, Yeah, I forgot. Or
my glasses are broken and I need some super glue.
There's gonna drop a super glue in this entire office.
(34:11):
We have everything else, But I refuse. Somebody actually said
put some tape on there, like no, I absolutely refuse.
And it's not Fortunately it's not the nose piece that's broken.
It's one of the earpieces, and I have no idea
why it flipped on it. These were These were not
the cheapest glasses I could have bought either. These were
in the middle of the pack. Okay, well, tip of
(34:33):
the Iceberg, tip of the Iceberger, tip of the iceberg.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Ooh, I'm gonna go with tip of the Iceberg number two?
Speaker 4 (34:41):
Okay, pull found the top people we refuse to tip,
even when prompted our mechanics, concession stand workers at sporting events,
and fast food employees. Basically, any restaurant worker where you're
just picking the food up for yourself, you agree.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
I don't know if I've ever been asked to tip
my mechanic.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
No fast food places. Oh, rest assured they have tip
jars in there. Well I go through the drive through, Yeah, okay,
well yeah, you definitely shouldn't have to tip there. I
think if somebody's just somebody's providing you with the item
that you buy, it's like you you don't tip in
a department store when you buy a pair of pants.
(35:27):
I don't think you could have to tip when you
buy food, except for a restaurant serves you, they bring
the food to you. They maybe help with menu selections.
A server is a valuable thing and deserves the tip
every store. It seems like I got a tip jar
these days. Every place does. Even the surgeons who do circumcisions,
(35:49):
they have one of those on their desk.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
No man, that you get it?
Speaker 5 (35:54):
Yeah, I get it.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
Doug Wow, The Blue Hour with Doug Pike. Huh, it's
just it's a.
Speaker 4 (36:04):
Very old joke. Kind the very old joke. Uh okay,
Letter of the lawbreaker. One more reason or locked up,
tip of the iceberg number the clost top of it.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Letter of the law break.
Speaker 4 (36:16):
US postal service employee charged with stealing more than a
million and a half bucks in checks and fraudulently securing
a pandemic relief loan. No wonder he was too busy
to deliver the mail. He's busy counting his money. I
know he or she. I don't know. It doesn't say
(36:37):
one more reason? Locked up or learning the hard way,
Learning the hard way, it's always good. A student in
Canada found out the engine in his two year old
car will not be replaced under warranty because he did
what to it will? He took that sticker off, He
put maple syrup in the tank. No, not really. What
he did was over rev the engine.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (36:57):
And that's that I can understand why the manufacturer would
say no to that. You can't do that. This is
all about learning the hard way and about reading the
fine print. You have to read your warranty when they
say wall to wall, when they say front to back,
bumper to bumper, warranty for three years or thirty thousand
(37:18):
miles or whatever it is. Now, there are fine print
points that you better read and understand. And yeah, if
you stand there and just hammer your foot into the
gas and overread the engine, that damages the engine in
a way that it's not supposed to be damaged. Ten
nine eight. Already, Holy cow, thirty seven percent of people
(37:42):
think time travel is possible. I learned that in twenty
twenty six. Yesterday,
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