Upcoming 50+ Expo

Today, Doug Pike discusses the upcoming 50+ Expo, St. Judes, and mist.

Episode Transcript

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

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

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

(00:43):
with Doug Pike.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Welcome yet again to fifty plus. Thank you all for listening.
Will and I are sitting here. Will are you full
or half full? You're about halfway? You could eat more,
you probably will eat more later. We were treated thanks
to the sixty fifth birthday party surprise party for one
of our coworkers. Either guy who's kind of held the

(01:05):
reins on all things that need doing around here that
nobody else wants to do. Basically, his name's Charlie Pinyon.
He's been here a long time. He celebrated his sixty
fifth today, and in celebration we sneak it. Well I didn't.
I wasn't involved in it at all except to make
one quick phone call a long time ago to get

(01:26):
berry Hill Baja Grill involved with us. Anyway, our office
manager made the call and got lunch catered for. I
guess there are probably about thirty people here today and
I will and I usually it's not on purpose, it's
just incidentally. It happens where the food finally gets laid

(01:50):
out and opened up right at twelve o'clock. And of
course I can't eat in the studio. That just wouldn't
be right. It would make a mess. Probably there's there's
a fair to good chance that I'd make a mess
if I tried to eat lunch in the studio. But
today we had time to get lunch, and it, as usual,
was delicious. So thanks to my friends out at berry

(02:12):
Hill and sugar Land Sugar Creek Boulevard in fifty nine.
If you get by there, tell them I was singing
their praises. I had fish, tacos, I had I had
a beef. I didn't do a chicken this time, but anyway,
I did that, And then of course, one hundred percent
of course trace leches to kind of wash it all down.

(02:35):
And for the first time ever, will I have sweet
tea in here as my beverage of choice to do
a broadcast. Usually it's either water maybe coffee, but that's
about the only two. Not today. Oh I man, I
could use a nap if I eat anything else. And
it's still going to be there when we're finished, I'm
pretty sure will and there will be more. There will

(02:57):
be leftovers, and that stuff actually travels pretty well, most
of it. So we're in for another glorious day to
day across Southeast Texas as we head for the weekend.
And even the weekend looks above average. Still a rising
chance of rain ahead of us right through next Wednesday,
I think it is, but that chance never gets above
forty percent, so to me, that just smells like another

(03:22):
round of afternoon thunderstorms for a few days. General reminder,
by the way, that next Wednesday, I'll be broadcasting live
from the fifty plus x Poet Stafford Center in Stafford.
As you would imagine. There's a guy named John Sasma
he's a producer of the show. Said he's got about

(03:43):
six dozen vendors confirmed for this one. A nice turnout
as it is, all of whom own businesses or provide
services of significance and relevance to us. To our crew,
hence the name fifty plus, and I had kind of
laugh over both of us using the same name for

(04:05):
what we do, and we decided, hey, let's just collaborate
and let's try to make something out of this. So
the show's gonna run nine am to two pm. I
think I'm pretty sure it's free admission. I'm not gonna
don't hold me to that, but I'm pretty sure it is.
I'll check during the break. I plan to be around
there to meet and shake hands with as many of

(04:26):
you as possible. I hope some of you come out
and hunt me down. I'll be walking around until about
probably eleven forty five or so, and then I'll have
to go hide in the corner somewhere and get this
show taken care of live from out there about I
think it's about eleven or eleven thirty. Kimberly Johnson from
Next Level Urgent Care is gonna speak, and then, well,

(04:50):
I won't be I don't want to just get up
on a stage and do a live radio show. That
makes me very uneasy and nervous because I feel like
I have a lot of paperwork in front of me.
I'll had a lot of no vats that I use,
and so I don't like to I at least I
like to have my back to a wall so nobody
can look over my shoulder. That's the least comfortable part

(05:11):
of live broadcasts is when there's access to behind you.
I don't mind if somebody's out in front of me
because I feel like I'm speaking directly to them almost.
That's okay. Anyway. I'll be out there pretty early, and
then i'll hang around a little bit later after the show.
I've got another hour after I finish my fifty plus
show before they close the doors on the fifty plus

(05:34):
expo out there at Stafford Center. I might even have
some things to give away if I can get our
promotions crew involved. I believe I'm gonna have some things.
I don't know what they're gonna be, but i'll definitely
whatever they give me, I'll bring them out there and
we'll spread them out on a table. Take one, please
don't take a whole bunch. If there's something really good
I've got, I'm gonna put them all out there. Don't

(05:55):
take them all. Speaking of next week, the National Hurricane
Center has thrown two yellow blobs onto the Tropics map
neither of which is really of any concern to anybody
just yet, and neither of which also is expected to
be somebody to get a name anytime in the next week.
So we're kind of okay there the closest at President

(06:19):
Center between Miami and the Bahamas, and kind of easing
toward the northwest, looking like it's going to run across
the state of Florida and then maybe punch up whatever
it becomes into the eastern Gulf of Mexico shore east
northeastern shoreline. Who knows they can change, I'll spin on

(06:39):
a dime. The other one's still closer to Africa than
South America even and only a twenty percent chance of
development in the next whole week, but it is starting
out farther south than any of the previous systems we've
had this season. Currently in the Atlantic Ocean, by the
way off the east coast. Apparently Umberto has run off
with another HURR somewhere and left poor Gabrielle all alone,

(07:03):
and hopefully she won't attract any new suitors before she
finally rents a truck and moves out. That would be nice,
get that one out of the way, not worry about
any anybody over there. It's not supposed to do anything
that one's supposed to just just vanish, just like Umberto did,
just duck around a corner, never to be seen again.

(07:26):
Fun fact to know and tell. Austria and Italy, after
many years of work, finally completed the world's longest tunnel.
It's designed to eventually move goods and passengers between those
two countries, and then later on there's gonna be more
and more and more, and it's gonna be pretty cool.
Uh oh, Will says, I gotta go. I'll go. That
one wasn't that important to anybody around here on my

(07:49):
way out. This is of great importance still, And those
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storm season yet. And if your trees aren't healthy and strong,
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(08:10):
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(08:31):
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What's life without a nap? If I suggest to go
to bed, that's sleep it off.

Speaker 1 (09:00):
To wait until the show's over, sleepy. Back to Doug Pike,
as fifty plus continues, Welcome back to fifty plus.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
Thanks for listening, certainly to appreciate it. Let me get
this big old giant thing of chlorox wipes out of
the way before I knock it over and break something.
I don't want to do that. Going back kind of
the front, the markets, not much going on earlier, ID
I didn't listen earlier to the Fox News before but earlier,

(09:27):
at least the big four indicators I watched were batting
seven point fifty to borrow a baseball term, as though
the Astros were in the playoffs. Only strikeout early was
the DOW, and it wasn't even down a tenth of
a point, So not much to see there, and I
doubt anything of significance is going to happen later on today.

(09:47):
I'm not sure it does any good to dwell on
those numbers anyway, but it is marginally interesting to me.
I follow it for I guess just out of habit
got to be staring at a twenty four to seven
look at all the market stuff if you really want
to immerse yourself in at that deeply to do any good,

(10:08):
I would think, and it would take. In addition, I'm
seeing for some reason a lot of a lot of ads.
Really is all they are that people telling you that
they've been picking stocks forever and they're always a winner.
And here's this week's picks that we made, and four
of them did great, one of them didn't do so well,

(10:29):
and they're always throwing you that one that didn't do
so well, just to make you think that they're spot
on and up and up. I don't trust anything like that.
I really don't. There's no way I would do that.
It's a lot like fishing. Honestly. Unless you do it
a lot, you're probably not going to get really good
at it, but you may still enjoy going and it's
going to cost you money. Oil was down a little

(10:51):
more this morning, about sixty one and a quarter at
the open, and gold was up fourteen bucks and again
north of thirty nine hundred. Announced it's pretty special in
Houston News, our Mayor John Whitmer's seventy million dollar investment
in the relocation of the city's homeless got underway in

(11:13):
a pretty big way with removal of a large homeless
encampment over off Rothwell off Rothwell beneath Highway fifty nine.
The folks who lived there were given ample notice, according
to police and everybody else who was involved with that,
although some of them said they didn't hear about it,
maybe they were just gone that day, or maybe they

(11:34):
were asleep, they did or didn't know one way or
the other that their area would be cleaned out down
to the bear concrete. Most of them are gone when
the work started, which it means most of them got
in the message, and the ones who remained were either
given rides to shelters or other facilities where they might

(11:54):
start fresh and try to find a better path. A
chronicle story mentioned one man got my attention. This guy's
in a homeless encampment, and he was worried about losing
his phone and noted that it's had to be replaced
several times already. Who pays for that phone? How where

(12:21):
does he charge it? What? I talked about it with
a coworker, and I came to the conclusion that I
would be I'd bet money that some relative or long
ago close friend of his, somebody who really cares about
this guy, is paying for his phone now if he

(12:41):
wasn't a relative. I don't know how many more phones
I would buy than the one I started with for somebody.
If somebody just can't keep up with phones, I guess
you can get them cheap enough and pay for basic service,
just so that person could call somebody in an emergency
if it was necessary. But my first reaction was why

(13:03):
does this guy have a phone? And it took me
a minute to get to the conclusion. I did, and
I think that's probably right. So I have no quarrel
with anybody having a phone, so long as somebody other
than my tax dollars is paying for it. I don't
really I don't really like that idea. There's that, There's
that that I can fold up and put away. Now,

(13:26):
let's go to something a little softer, a little lighter,
And I'm not even gonna ever mention that tunnel again.
I thought at one point I thought that would be
kind of interesting and cool to talk about, and I
long long ago decided I was wrong. It doesn't make
much sense at all now, So back to some government
shutdown news. Thanks in great part to Democrat Chuck Schumer,

(13:49):
the everyday lives of every American really haven't changed that much.
I'm at work, most of us are wills here, everybody
who's supposed to be here this morning, and a whole
lot more. By the way, there suddenly there's this giant
crowd of people as somebody sitting at every desk because
we got a big free lunch coming and celebrating Charlie's birthday.

(14:11):
So anyway, and if you don't know, all those government
employees who aren't being paid now will be reimbursed in
full once the Congress turns on the money spigot again. Now,
that may create hardship, and I'm sure it does for
a lot of sort of lower income federal employees, but

(14:32):
and I'm sure that they've worked out things with their
employers before about how, hey, if the government shuts down,
I'm not gonna have any income. But as soon as
it starts back up again, I'll bring you the big
check and we'll cover it all. I'm in the camp, honestly,
of so many Americans, and I feel strongly that the
first people whose pay should be stopped for a shutdown

(14:53):
are members of Congress. If they can turn off the
money to everybody else, then they should start with themselves
and set an example of how we have to make
a sacrifice on behalf of the country. Otherwise, it's really
it's really bold of them to think that they deserve

(15:13):
to be paid first, and when they work for us,
we ought to be able to fire them until they
can get their ducks in a row and go take
care of the problem. And that's all it is, is
a problem, and problems can be solved. I bet you
if we did that, if it was okay, you guys
can shut down, but your checks are going to be
the last ones cut. I bet it wouldn't take long

(15:34):
to get things running again. The Democrats and excluding the
ones in New York City, have been on electing Mom
Donnie as their new mayor and watching him turn that
once awesome city into a lawless playground for criminals who
will have increasingly hard times finding victims by the way,
after the remaining good people pack up and move anywhere

(15:55):
else around the country. Democrats know who causes shut down.
They know it was them. The ones who don't can
just look at the voting record that the ones who don't,
meaning people just civilians among us, just look at the
voting records. After two attempts to restart it, the Democrats
all but three anyways, still got their heels dug in
and voting to stay shut down, whereas every Republican voted

(16:19):
to reopen at the current spending level and then start
working toward some other compromise if there is a reasonable
one without adding the one point two three four trillion whatever.
It was a big package that, as Maxine Waters said
this week, is going to make sure that everybody, and

(16:40):
she emphasized that word when she said it, that everybody
gets free medical care, that means people who aren't Americans.
That's how I take that statement, and I don't know
how else it could be taken. When she very emphatically
says everybody gets free medical care, she knows what she meant,

(17:02):
and they're going to try to do it. But what
it is. They still think that they can somehow make
these people eligible for the vote, and if that ever happens,
maybe buy their way back into power with just an
endless supply of handouts, which is kind of how socialism
and communism were supposed to be happy with what you get.

(17:25):
You know, you're not supposed to want more. Stop there
on that. I get bored talking about that. I really do,
and I hate that I even have to do it,
so I'm not going to anymore. In a new survey,
eighty six percent of people say they feel concerned about
their own health when a coworker gets sick. Forty two
percent say they think less of a co worker who

(17:47):
shows up sick. We talked about this yesterday, Will, Yeah,
I thought, so let me scratch that out. That was
an I don't know what else I scratched out, but
I knew it wasn't that I can go to a
brand new page. That'll be a lot easier. Kim Jong
Unn has ordered North Koreans to check women for capitalist
breast implants. That'd be a lot of guys probably signing

(18:10):
up for that job. Take a little break here on
the way out. Cedar Cove RV Resort down in Baytown
near Trice Well, at the end of Tri City Beach Road,
near Thompson's Bay Camp, right there on Galveston Bay, with
all the amenities you could want in a place to
park your RV for a night, a week, weekend, maybe
all summer, all winter, all fall, and year round. I

(18:32):
wonder if anybody stays year round down there. It probably
would be if you had your own RV or motor home.
I would think that the rent, if you will, wouldn't
be as much as many places that have the same
view as Cedar Cove does. They've got electric water and
sewer at every site. They've got free Wi Fi. They've

(18:53):
got a convenience store, the bathhouses there if you need
a shower and don't want to use up your RV water.
It's all there, just waiting for you to bring the
family down there and see what it's like to wake
up to beautiful sunrises over the water and go to
sleep to sunsets over the water. Pretty good fishing down
there too. And by the way, if you don't happen
to own an RV or a motor home or a

(19:14):
pop up trailer or anything like that, Al Kibbi will
rent you one. He's got one down there for rent.
It's kind of what will calls B and B on
the Bay, which I think is a great description of
what you're getting for your money. You take the family
down there and see if you like the lifestyle, which
you will, and then once you do, you can go

(19:35):
out and find one of your own and let somebody
else enjoy that experience for the first time. Cedar Cove
Rvresort dot com is a website. Go check it out.
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Speaker 1 (19:46):
Aged to perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike. All right,
welcome back to fifty plus. Thanks for listening. Certainly to
appreciate third, appreciate it. Third segment of four begins. Now
let me go to.

Speaker 2 (20:04):
This I found interesting, but marginally so. At first I
thought it was a joke actually, but it's not. After
one hundred thirty three years, one hundred thirty three years
in business Maxwell House Coffee. This is from a USA
Today story by a woman named Julia Gomez. Maxwell House

(20:26):
Coffee has changed its name for a limited time, granted,
but nonetheless changed its name to Maxwell Apartment. It's a gimmick, okay,
it's something to do with a bargain or I don't
really understand the motivation for it, other than to create
a buying frenzy. But for a limited time you can

(20:49):
get that Maxwell Apartment Coffee. It's actually the same stuff,
just in a little different packaging. And after it's launched
a couple of days ago on Amazon that the whole
run is nearly sold out. So all you have to do, apparently,
to make a lot of money in this country is
just dangle a shiny object in front of somebody and

(21:11):
tell them they can have it for it's the same
shiny object we brought out last week, but it's different.
And if nothing else at all, I think Americans are compulsive,
especially the younger generations that have grown up following the
latest influencer trends on TikTok or Instagram or snapchat. Is

(21:34):
that all of them? Is that the Big three for
younger people will snapchat, Instagram and TikTok probably so two okay, okay,
they want it now, They want whatever it is. So
as long as somebody they perceive as cool as pitching it,
my gosh, they're gonna buy it. Where they get the

(21:55):
money for all of this stuff they're buying these days
is beyond me. That and that's just kind of a
sign of the times. Honestly, what I consider a good
salary might not be considered much at all to some
younger people who are coming up in an age where
entry level jobs pay more, mid level jobs pay more,

(22:15):
all jobs pay more. Typically, by the way, speaking of
making a lot of money, two things, one Joy Reid,
formerly with MSNBC, came out and said in an interview
this week, or maybe it was on a podcast, that
she thought the idea of eliminating the income tax which

(22:36):
is being tossed around and it would be replaced with
other sources of revenue for the country. She just did
not agree at all that it's okay to allow Americans
to earn as much money as they want, and heaven forbid,
even let them share that wealth with their airs, with
their children. I have no idea where somebody would come

(23:01):
up with an idea like that. And I guarantee you
if she were to apply that same thought to herself
and think, Okay, yeah, I've got a chance. I just
got this big contract that somebody wants me to sign.
I'm gonna make a ton of money. Oh wait, the
government wants how much? She'd almost certainly change her tune.

(23:22):
I would bet Elon Musk back in the news again.
I took a poll around the office this morning and asked,
how much do you think that Elon Musk is worth
these days? And one guy came close. He said, I
think a while back it was about four hundred billion
dollars and he was close. But Elon Musk this I

(23:45):
think it was this week, maybe last week, or at
some point the last time somebody looked and added it
all up. His net worth now exceeds and he's the
only person on the planet redefining the term holing in dough,
which those of us of my age and a few
years younger and older remember very well. That was the

(24:08):
expression you use if somebody was just really wealthy. Now
it involves bags, and I don't know, I don't know
exactly how someone is described as being rich among younger people.
But the bottom line is Elon's just just describing it
in a new way. He's worth more than five hundred

(24:29):
billion dollars. And before anybody says that's too much, be
sure to count up how many jobs he's created, how
much research he's done, and just how many people and
organizations he's helped on the way to half a trill.
I would have I would have bet a lot even
ten years ago that nobody on this planet could accumulate

(24:54):
a trillion dollars in net worth, which is more, by
the way, than I think a major priority of countries
even can boast now our country worth a lot of money,
but we also owe a lot of money. Maybe if
Eli can keep it up for six or eight or
ten more years, he can pay down half our debt.
That'd be a nice gift to the United States of America.

(25:16):
I guess that would depend on which way the country's
going at the time. Five hundred billion dollars, that's more
than will and I may combined in what ten years
will about that? All Right? There's that. I'm really I'm
bored with the shutdown, I really am. I don't think

(25:36):
it's going to last a whole lot longer. I really don't,
but it's it's still going.

Speaker 1 (25:41):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (25:41):
The Chicago Teachers' Union, by the way, chose recently to
honor the life of a woman who was convicted of
killing a police officer in the nineteen seventies. I kind
of got to wonder what's being taught in history class
up that way if that's the kind of people they honor.
That's what's scared me about education now is that the

(26:02):
people who are doing it. There are a lot of
good teachers out there, but there are also a lot
of other than good teachers out there. And the issue
is that the others out there are heavily influencing the
ones in many districts, from what I read, trying to

(26:22):
nudge out the ones that don't want to go along
with some of the far left really bizarre ideas that
are being pushed into some school districts if the right
people or the wrong people, depending on way you think,
get in there. I'm not a big fan of men

(26:42):
in women's restrooms. I'm not a big fan of men
in women's sports or boys in girls' sports. And I
think that that and those and several other issues that
have been really pushed hard by the left, need to
be re examined now that they're not in control anymore,
and really looked at more deeply than they have been lately,

(27:05):
because up until well up until the election, basically a
whole lot of people in this country were scared to
say a word against any of that stuff. And now
even our war Department has been put on notice that
everybody involved has to pass physical fitness tests and has

(27:26):
to be if they're assigned to a combat role, they
have to be physically fit to do that combat job.
And I think for us to be a fighting force
worth its salt, a fighting force that can defend our country.
Ask anybody who's actually been to combat and gotten severely

(27:51):
injured and had to be carried out by another soldier
who's already wearing sixty or eighty pounds of gear, Ask
them who they want reaching down and picking them up
and trying to get them out of the gunfire. It's
nothing personal at all. It's just a matter of being
able to do the job, and that I think is
critical if we're going to maintain status as a legitimate force.

(28:15):
We got to move out. Boy, I went a little
bit long on that. Sorry about that well. Country Boy's roofing,
as I mentioned a little while ago when I was
talking about Champions tree preservation, roofing is another issue that
needs to be dealt with in case you need some
help before any kind of a storm blows up and
rolls through here. Hopefully that doesn't happen, but it's not

(28:37):
gonna cost you to get Country Boy's roofing out of
your house to take a good look for you. If
they find damage, might be hail damage from there was
gotta been five six weeks ago now, but whenever it was,
there was some hail damage in this region. And if
that's still up there on your roof, your roof may
not be totally ready to handle a big storm other

(28:58):
little wind events, things fall out the trees and bang
into your roof and maybe jostle something loose. Who knows.
I don't know that much about roofs, but John Eitman
and his son Zach do, and they'll send either they
or somebody else from that company will come out to
your house and walk that roof for yours and make
sure it's doing the job it was built to do.
If there's a little problem, they'll take care of that

(29:19):
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This is where it gets good for my listeners. I
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Tell anybody who is past or present military, Tell anybody

(29:41):
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if you can't write a check for the roof and
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all means, just check in with their finance company that
Country's Country Boys is using now and let them make

(30:05):
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(30:28):
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(30:52):
Guy's rule.

Speaker 1 (30:53):
And of course, women never get old if you want
to avoid sleeping on the couch.

Speaker 2 (31:00):
I think that sounds like a good plan.

Speaker 1 (31:02):
Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug.

Speaker 2 (31:05):
Welcome back to fifty plus, fourth and final segment, Star TRD. Now,
I believe that I can get all the way to
the end of this program, which is what's six minutes
out something like that, without having to go to anything
really deep or troubling or worrisome at all. And there's
lots of it still here, believe me. But I just

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don't think we need to do that right now. So
I will start, by the way, with a good news
medical piece. If your grandchild has asthma, listen up please,
or if you know someone who's grandchild, a child with asthma. Okay, whoever,
wherever they are to you, A new two and one

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in haler is reducing kids asthma attacks by as much
as forty five percent in clinical trials. That's great news.
There's one hundred and thirteen million kids worldwide who have
that condition have asthma. There's still some more testing to
be done. These are clinical trials, they're not available at

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the drug stores yet, but the results so far have
been really really positive, and anything that can help little
kids feel better, I'm one hundred percent four. That's why
we do our tournament every year for Saint Jude Children's
Research Hospital, do a golf tournament up at Golf Club
of Houston. They're kind enough to let us come on

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to both of their courses fill them up, which we
do every year. We have for many many years now,
and every year we set the bar higher on what
we want to do, and so far, for every one
of the ten or eleven years it's been since we
started this tournament, we've actually been able to do that,

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and I'm hoping we can do it again. If you
are interested at all in helping fight pediatric cancers. And
helping these kids regain life. In most cases, these are
the sickest of sick children. These are children who have
been told there's just nothing else we can do for
you here in Xyz City anywhere else in the country,

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we have nobody who can help you. And they take
their cases to Saint Jude. Saint Jude, if they can,
we'll accept those patients. And from that point forward, those
little kids and their families aren't charged to dime for
all of the care they get, aren't charged to dime
for transportation, aren't charged to dime for food, for accommodations.

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They have a giant apartment building where families of these
truly really sick kids get to stay for no charge
at all. I've got to go over there years ago,
and like an idiot, I asked hey worth the patient
billing department, and the woman who was giving the tour

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had heard that question before clearly, and she just said,
you know, Doug, we don't have one, and that just
really hit home with me. Okay, So everything everybody's doing
in there is paid for through donations by people like
you and me, and that's why we do this tournament.
I'm very proud to serve on the committee of this tournament.
So if you want to participate at any level, I

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would be more than happy to talk to you. And
we have levels starting at team simple, team memberships or
team participation all the way up to fifty thousand dollars
presenting sponsor opportunities. All depends on how much you and
your company and anybody else you know wants to throw
in to help get these kids right. And it costs

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upwards of four hundred five hundred thousand dollars to ultimately
get one of these kids back on their feet and
get them where they can go home, and even after
they've gone home, anything related to that treatment of that
particular disease ever pops up again, just bring them right
back and get after it again. It's pretty fascinating today,

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will In case you didn't know, I'm sure everybody's talking
about it. It's National Produce Missing Day, National Produce Missing Day.
And the little hook line that I had in this
piece that I get that told me this said, when
was the last time you were ever scared when you

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reached down to pick up a bell pepper? And that
mister went off. Well, first of all, I'm not scared
of miss and I don't think will is either. It's
just like, oh okay, my arm's wet. Now what do
I do? Is it necessary? It sort of reduces the impactfulness,
the impact to make it a little softer of any

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other national day. We have just be National Horrible Disease Day,
and it just kind of like, okay, but there's all
also a national produced missing day. So it drags, it
drags the significance out of far more important days. I
think not all the way out.

Speaker 1 (36:11):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (36:11):
Fun fact to know and tell if you need something
to break the ice over the weekend. Somewhere over the
Rainbow was almost cut from the Wizard of Oz and
can you feel the Love Tonight? Almost cut from the
Lion King? As if anybody really wanted to know, we
all saw this one coming. Meta. I'm not even sure

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how to define meta. It's gonna start collecting data from
user interactions with AI chatbots to sell targeted ads. Google
upgrading its smart home products so they'll be able to
converse rather than just respond to commands. That's getting a
little creepy because there are some people who there's some

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really lonely people, there's some really messed up, mixed up
people who are gonna start having long conversations with robots,
and that's just kind of I don't think that's right
this one. Know that one no, one minute of just
seconds left now already, uh list of things people supposedly

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find creepy fifty years from now, La boo boos, elf
on the shelf, dating acts at home, laser hair removal,
and smart speakers all gonna be just gone, just like
the show. We're done, Thanks audios