Visit the city of Alpine, Texas

Today, Doug Pike interviews Chris Ruggia about the city of Alpine, Texas.

Episode Transcript

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Speaker 3 (00:52):
Monday edition of the program starts right now. Thanks for listening,
Thanks for sharing your lunch hour on this gorgeous Monday afternoon,
which I suppose is just a continuation of this morning.
And it's clear sky, although it was out where I
live a little more humid than I might have liked.

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Everything between the back door and the car without a
cloud in the sky. Everything was just wet. It looked
like it had rained, the moisture that had accumulated on
top of the I've got those big plastic garbage cans
that get picked up. The whole thing gets picked up
by the truck and dumped inside, you know what I'm
talking about, probably, And the entire top of that thing

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looked like somebody had just stood there with a watering
can and just covered it with as much water would
hold up there. It was amazing, really well, not amazing,
that's a little bit overkill, but you could just you
could just feel the moisture in the air. And there
was a little fog advisory issued earlier or last night
for this morning, but I guess it turned into bigger

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chunks of water than that pretty normal morning in south
east Texas when you look at it from the perspective
of somebody who's lived in Southeast Texas most of his
life anyway, and more of than to come right through
the week at some point the arrival of a cool
front that'll give us another day or two of fall
like weather. Thank goodness, that'll be welcome. So no time

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like the president. I guess to present today's highs and
low's and hiku courtesy still of Texas Indoor Air Quality Specialists.
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get all the goo and gunk out of your duct work. Ready,
well hit me. Welcome to autumn cooler days all this
week the next week. Who knows? Okay, alright, you lived

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here long enough you understand what that means. Yeah, I understand.

Speaker 4 (03:07):
I mean, now, by cooler days, are you talking about,
you know, low eighties.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
I'm talking about seventies, well, mid seventies. Yeah, yeah, seventies
coming up soon. I can hold you to that. You can, absolutely,
you can hold me to that, because you know, if
it's not mid seventies, it's gonna affect your scores for
the rest of the week. Well, the mid seventies, between
anything between seventy one and seventy eight, I guess, huh, Really,

(03:34):
you would say seventy seven would be mid seventies. No,
I'll take seventy four, five, six, and seven. I'll give
me seven and I'll leave out three.

Speaker 4 (03:45):
So me a twenty seven year old, you'd say I'm
in my mid twenties.

Speaker 3 (03:49):
Yeah, yeah, you're still in your mid twenties. Really sure?
Why not? All right? If it helps get me a
better score.

Speaker 4 (03:57):
It does, seven point seven, there we go.

Speaker 3 (03:59):
Well, there you go, it does, there you go?

Speaker 4 (04:01):
Makes me feel good.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
I had written down a paltry six point one.

Speaker 4 (04:05):
No, that's a seven point seven, right there, Doug. Well
that's what I was hoping for.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
That'll balance things out a little bit from those atrociously
low scores you gave me for no good reason last week.

Speaker 4 (04:16):
I don't think it was no good reason.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
I think there was rhyme too much, not a very
good reason. Okay, So right, all right, Yeah, I don't
want to dig myself in a hole that'll cost me
later in the way. To look at the markets now,
thanks to Houston Gold Exchange dot Com, three of the
four major indicators green anywhere, but not dramatically, so anywhere
from about a quarter of a point to a little

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more than a point. Only one was down. That was
the Nasdaq about an hour ago, and it was down
one hundredth of one percent, So not a whole lot
to worry about there. Oil down a nice chunk, though
a couple of bucks actually trading at sixty eight dollars
and twenty cents an hour ago and go gold. Gold

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just like an Acapulco cliff diver dropped seventy three bucks
an ounce this morning, still though a hefty twenty six
hundred and twenty one dollars so off that twenty seven
hundred dollars charge it made for the last couple of weeks,
but still still not bad. No idea why it dropped
so much. If if Brad Schweiss is listening this morning

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from out at Houston Goldexchange dot Com, perhaps he could
text me an answer as to why gold would have dropped,
would have shed so many dollars off its rate per
ounce in such little time on we plod now into
some of the most bizarre post election stuff I've witnessed
in my lifetime. And I've been around for I would

(05:48):
say more than a couple of elections. I've been voting
in presidential elections since the nineteen seventies. And well, yeah,
you weren't even born then, will You were just barely
born at the turn of the century, weren't you. Oh
my gosh, I'm a nineteen ninety seven. I'm a ninety
seven baby. I'm pretty quick with that. Math stuff. Wow,
nineteen ninety seven, holy com man. Also my forties, will Well,

(06:16):
I was. I'm a nineteen hundreds baby, That's what I call.
What does that make you? What? What generation are you?
Gen Z?

Speaker 4 (06:23):
I am the top of gen z, like.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
The top the best or just a top chronologically chronology
or both or both chronologically. You know, I'm a humble man.

Speaker 4 (06:32):
I'd say there are there are much better people out
there than.

Speaker 3 (06:36):
I really, Yes, how many A good decent amount of
a couple, I'd say there's at least, you know, at
one hundred. How many people are better than you, I'd
say at least forty, given, maybe not that many people

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better than you. Come on, you're pretty sharp cookie.

Speaker 4 (07:01):
I'll take it where I can get it.

Speaker 3 (07:03):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, there it is. I'm just handing it
to you. So back to the election stuff. There's this
movement among white women apparently who voted for Harris, albeit
maybe a pretty small movement, to either wear blue bracelets
as a show of loyalty to actually and some of
them are actually getting tattoos blue tattoos to show that

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they are what they call safe people. So in essence,
what they're doing is permanently labeling themselves as unwilling to
accept change and start trying to get along with other people.
They just want to make sure you know that they're safe.
I want to know what they're safe from, safe from what?

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Or it implies really that the right is somehow unsafe,
and I think that's once again divisive in this country.
And that's how they just keep doing it. They don't
come out and say conservatives are unsafe. They declare themselves
the smurfs of the world. The imagine. I don't know
how big these tattoos are that they're getting, but that's permanent.

(08:11):
That's permanent. And there were a whole lot of people
in this election. Had they died themselves blue four years ago,
they weren't voting on the blue side this time. Otherwise
it wouldn't have gone the way it went. We're close
to done with this segment, aren't we will? Holy count?
We gotta go. Well, let's why don't you fix that
clock on the wall so i'll know. Well, you wave

(08:33):
one finger in the air a minute ago, and I'm
I'm supposed to count to sixty and Tawkins, yeah, and
you're a professional dog should know. I do know. And
I'm getting out of here if you'll let me. UTA
Health Institute on Aging an amazing, amazing Why is my
phone beeping like there's some emergency? An amazing institute in

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a gathering, really a collaborative effort among more than a
I'm guessing more than a thousand healthcare providers now who are,
in addition to all the education it took them to
get that diploma on the wall in the office, they've
gone back and received additional education as regards how they
can apply their specialization specifically to us, specifically to senior

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It's a little boost, a little edge we have over
going to other providers. Not to say that any doctors
around here are not good, but if you're starting fresh
and you don't know where to turn for a doctor
for some specific issue you've determined that you may have,
I would start with UT Health Institute on Aging and
be sure that you're going to talk to somebody who

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understands what makes us tick or not tick so well
ut dot edu slash aging. At that website, you will
also find an abundance of resources, all of which will
be helpful to make it sure you live a longer, healthier, happier,
more robust life, ut H dot E d U slash Aging.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
Aged to Perfection. This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.

Speaker 3 (10:31):
Ali, Welcome back, Thanks to listening. Thanks for listening. Holy cow,
I was excited. I was telling Will about something I
just read kind of funny. But it's not that funny.
I don't need to I won't bother you with it.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
Uh, moving on?

Speaker 3 (10:43):
Where were we? Let's see here? H got that? Yeah,
I'm not gonna worry about I'm not gonna dwell on
the election stuff or fucking help it. By the way,
in the third segment, at the bottom of the hour,
I'm gonna bring in a guy named Chris Rugia from
all the way out in Alpine, and we're gonna talk
about what I've been telling you about for a couple
of weeks now that goes on in the first weekend

(11:03):
in December that they're doing out there, and Chris and
I are gonna try try and make a good solid
pitch as to why that drive, which is is not
it's not short, and he and I will both concede
that it's not a short drive out there, but I
think it's I think it's worth it. There's a lot
going on out there. It's really pretty Uh, by the way,

(11:26):
let me see, here's some good news I want to
get to because I want to make Sometimes I have
these good news pieces and I don't get to them
because we run out of time. I'm gonna make sure
I can get to this one. It's very interesting this guy. Uh,
it's it's been to be fair that the story is
several years old, and it actually happened right around the
onset of COVID back in twenty twenty. This guy started

(11:50):
experience some some I think there were headaches, and there
were several unidentifiable you know, they couldn't the doctors really
couldn't put a finger on it of what was causing
all this distress in this man. And ultimately he was
diagnosed in just in a couple of weeks all of
this transpired, he was diagnosed with something called extreme locked

(12:14):
in syndrome in his late twenties. This was not an
older man in late twenties, kind of like Will's age,
although I told him he was mid twenties at twenty seven,
a very extremely rare condition that kicks in beyond acute
toxic progressive luco and cephalopathy. And he has actually recovered
he's the first person ever to do so. What this

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condition does is well basically, in a couple of weeks,
it led to his diagnosis and then a dreadful prognosis
of declining use of everything but his brain. In a
month or two, he lost the ability to move, to speak,
and even to blink. A few months later, doctors told

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him he'd likely slipped into a komas soon and just
and die. And that was what he had, That's all
he had, and he couldn't express anything he was feeling.
He understood every word they said, he understood every bit
of it, but he could not move any muscle in
his body, couldn't even blink. And then somehow, lying in
his hospital bed almost well. It was ten months later,

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he moved his wrist. He just moved his wrist, just
a little bit, and a nurse saw it move and
ran and got all the doctors. They all came in
and said, do it again, do it again, do it again.
We need to see this. Do it again. And he did,
and one by one. Still who knows his physical abilities
returned fast forward through eighteen months of rehab and a

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couple of surgeries, even because his body had just withered
so he's walking, he's talking, he's got twenty four hour care,
I think, just to make sure he's okay at home.
Maybe he doesn't have it anymore. I don't know. But
back then, as he came out of all of that

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and got to go home, he needed that care. And
now researchers are just they're working with him as fast
as they can to try and figure out how in
the world he achieved something that was believed right up
until he came along to be absolutely impossible. I find
that kind of stuff fascinating. I really do. How much
time do I have left, Will, since I can't see

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and don't know three minutes?

Speaker 4 (14:26):
Oh, Doug, you have four minutes?

Speaker 3 (14:29):
Good good, good good? This is something.

Speaker 2 (14:31):
Ah good news. You know.

Speaker 3 (14:34):
I'll bother you for a minute. Will. Let's go through
a couple of these things, because some of them are
pretty good. Didn't know there was a record taking a
tumble or in a pickle, in a pickle, in a pickle.
If a woman, she looks to be in her twenties
or something. I don't even think they age her in
the story, but she and she's kind of a I

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think on the edge of social media influencer or whatever.

Speaker 4 (15:00):
Long.

Speaker 3 (15:00):
In the short of it is, she went to what
they call in Pittsburgh. There's a pickle themed festival there
that they call Picklesburg. You ever been to that, Will,
I've never been to Pittsburgh. I've been through the airport,
but that's as close as I got. And a good
friend of mine says, they have the absolute this is

(15:22):
just him, not me, absolute worst sports fans of any
city in America. He doesn't like him at all.

Speaker 4 (15:29):
Oh, I thought that was Philadelphia's. This's the same.

Speaker 3 (15:32):
Oh no, no, oh, you're right. Oh now, I'm not gonna
make the people in Pittsburgh mad. I pull that back
Pittsburgh and dump it all on Philly. You're exactly right, Will,
I'm glad you reminded me of that. Thank you. Anyway,
she goes to Picklesburg and starts eating all these pickles
and something she ate caused a severe allergic reaction and

(15:54):
her face puffed up like a toad frog. Man, I mean,
that's a Southern express and Will, have you ever heard
it before?

Speaker 4 (16:02):
Huffed up like a toad frog?

Speaker 3 (16:04):
Yeah? Now, yeah, well now you have, and now you
know what it means. There's a picture of her before
and after and the after picture she looks like she
got a bad implant job on every part of her face,
under her eyes, puffy lips, puffy knows, puffy everything that
poor woman has had. Yeah, she's been through it all now,

(16:27):
I guess. So she says she's still gonna eat pickles,
though I don't know that I would do that, would
you if you got that bad a reaction?

Speaker 5 (16:36):
No?

Speaker 3 (16:37):
Yeah, you're smart. So that makes two out of three
people related to this, you, me and her, and the
two out of three people know better. Two out of
three people know better. We'll just leave it at that.
How much time do I have now? Will you have
a minute and a half? Okay, I'm gonna go back then.

(16:59):
Didn't know that as a record, Well that's a shocker.
Or bonvoyage, bon voyage. All these people who talk about
leaving the country and they they don't, Well, now here,
here's a way that you can kind of just escape
for a little while and then come back. Cruise line,

(17:20):
I don't I don't know which one. I don't care.
It really makes no difference to the story. But this
cruise line has a package called a skip forward, which
will allow travelers to do what we'll think about.

Speaker 4 (17:31):
It skips forward.

Speaker 3 (17:36):
Yeah, and that's really not well, that's really not well
constructed to say what it is. So I'll give you
a break here. I don't want to burn up all
our time.

Speaker 4 (17:46):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (17:47):
What it lets you do is spend four years on
their cruise ship and come home just in time for
the next election. Not cheap, it says here, But then again,
neither his living here right now, that's a good point.
So four I don't know, four years on a cruise ship,

(18:08):
average cruise ship. What seven day run is gonna cost
you four or five thousand dollars? I don't know, two
thousand and three thousand. I bet it would cost what
for four years of that will quarter million dollars probably,
I don't know. All right, we got to go, oh
do we Okay, well, i'll do that on the cruise.

(18:30):
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This is fifty plus with Doug pike.

Speaker 5 (20:23):
Lli.

Speaker 3 (20:23):
Welcome back Monday issue. The program continues. Thanks as always
for sharing your lunch are We'll talk in this segment
about something I've shared with you for the past couple
of weeks. Only we'll get into in great We'll get
into it in great detail, actually, the charming little West
Texas town of Alpine, and to speak on behalf of
the town. I will welcome in Chris Rugia. How's the

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weather out there today, Chris.

Speaker 5 (20:48):
Well, it's in the mid seventies.

Speaker 3 (20:51):
Oh okay, we're supposed to get some of that a
little later in the week, but we don't have it
just yet. So before we get to what's happening out
there in early December, give us give me a little
history of Alpine. The town.

Speaker 5 (21:04):
Well, it's it's a railroad town. It's a West Texas
railroad town. One thing which you might imagine as being
flat and seeing nothing but railroad tracks as far as
I can see, but it's actually this part of West
Texas is Texas Mountain country. So the railroad came through

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the Glass Mountains and the Davis Mountains in the late
eighteen eighties. And so right along that track every thirty
miles or so, there's the water stops and so that's
Marathon and Alpine and Marfa are all in this northern
Big Bend region, So that's where Alpine began. There was

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there actually was a spring here that it was a
good water source and that was so there were some
you know, indigenous people who used that spring for a
long time before the railroad came. But but that's when
the town was established. And uh and now it's the
county seat of Brewster County. So we have a love
little courthouse uh in the middle of town and uh yeah,

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and uh and the railroad are our little downtown kind
of is oriented to that track.

Speaker 3 (22:14):
So we would all would all have to be, wouldn't it,
because that's that's where everything happened. You had to come
to the railroad to get your or the store next
to the railroad to get your stuff to take back
out to wherever you lived.

Speaker 5 (22:25):
Yeah, so Holland Avenue is is uh our our downtown
compared to Houston's is pretty small. You have there's yeah,
there's really just a few square blocks, so it's really
really walkable.

Speaker 1 (22:38):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (22:39):
And so Holland Avenue is the the old front street
that fronted on the railroad tracks. And then on the
opposite side of the tracks there's historic Murphy Street, which, sadly,
like so many places, the uh, the railroad in the
past was that dividing line between the races, Okay, and uh,
and so Murphy Street was historically the main streets for

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the Hispanic community.

Speaker 3 (23:04):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (23:05):
Now everything's mixed now, thank of course, but there's a
lot of so so we but we have two these
two uh commercial strips, you know, only a few walks
long that are on either side of the railroad.

Speaker 3 (23:19):
So let's get to December, specifically the fifth through the seventh,
when you're teeing up a nice long weekend of activities.
Talk me through the day by day lineup.

Speaker 5 (23:29):
Well on on Thursday that it starts Thursday evening and
that is what we call the wastle Crawl, which is
when we've got our local UH merchants are open later
in the evening and UH and they kind of compete
to have the best the best recipe for their snacks

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and their wastle, their you know, hot beverage that they're
going to share with you. That's the primary thing. On
on Thursday, December fifth, Yeah, and then on the sixth,
UH the university has their tree lighting and UH there's
Sorostate University has just a gorgeous campus. It's really really lovely.

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It's up on the along the hillside of Hancock Hill
and looks down over over the town and they've done
a lot of work over the last few years improving
the landscaping and making some really sweet little space new
spaces on campus. There's an outdoor area right in the
center of campus where they'll have a tree lighting, and

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there's also some some local holiday music going on on
Friday evening, but the main event is UH or events
are going to be on Saturday, and that is UH
the the new the kind of primary thing we're focusing

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on is UH the Adobe Christmas Trail tol which is
something that historic Alpine we really have. Those are the
folks that have taken the Christmas planning up a notch
over the last few years. They've really been spearheading a
lot of the organization in the community around what events
we're going to do in the holidays and and so

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a lot of places will do a holiday home tour
and enjoy the decorations that folks do in open house.
You know, you have kind of a progressive open house.
But in this case they're focusing on on historic Adobe
buildings and churches because Alpine, Yeah, Alpine has one of
the largest collections of historic Adobe structures in I think

(25:42):
it might be the largest in the state. I've heard
it's the largest in the Southwest, not counting Santa Fe.

Speaker 3 (25:47):
We're going to go with that.

Speaker 5 (25:49):
Yeah, Yeah, it sounds good, isn't it. There's so there
are a lot of historic Adobe structures, and so this
will be you know, visiting several nice little homes all
decorated for the holidays, and some of the churches. So
you'll get a lot of uh, you'll get a lot
of history and uh and of course holiday spirit. And

(26:12):
I think it'll conclude at the hotel Richie, which is
now we call it the Richie because it's not a
hotel anymore, but it is the oldest uh still standing
commercial structure in in Alpine. Yeah, that has a wood
like the front of it looks like wood frame, but

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the whole back part of it, the original building is
adobe and it has come kind of the living room
a town. It's now. Uh, the downstairs was lovingly renovated.
It's a little saloon room. It's a real cozy little room.
There's a courtyard to to the side of the building
where they have live music seven nights a week on

(26:55):
a little intimate, little, uh little stage and uh yeah,
it's just a wonderful right.

Speaker 3 (27:00):
Well, let's let's get Chris Rusia from Alpine here. Let's
get to the the elephant in the room, which is
you're pretty far out there from Houston. What's the best
way to tackle that drive?

Speaker 5 (27:10):
Okay, well, well, if you want to break it up,
San Antonio and Fredericksburg are got a halfway point, and
so that makes it too easy easy hawks. But there's
no question it it. It is a it's a day,
a full day, yeah, and there's nothing wrong with that.

Speaker 3 (27:31):
I don't have a problem with making a drive, especially
when I'm gonna end.

Speaker 5 (27:33):
Up drive, you still have a bit of a drive outline.
We're way too little to have uh commercial flight service,
but you can fly in the Midland, rent a car.
It's still a couple of hours, but that will make
you know a little mark.

Speaker 3 (27:51):
Yeah, that's not bad. And I would imagine that the
flight from here to Midland doesn't cost an arm and
a leg might be a good.

Speaker 5 (28:00):
Yeah, and you might be able to get a direct
list southwest.

Speaker 3 (28:03):
Well, everything I've ever heard about Alpine tells me it's
worth every mile of the drive. Brian Lilima, one of
our guys over here on kbm ME, played baseball out
there at Saul Ross And I read this morning that
Dan Blocker from Bonanza, another very notable alum. If they
had a football team back when he was there, I'd
bet he was on it.

Speaker 5 (28:20):
Yeah, he was on the football team. And your friend
getting to play play baseball out here, he probably got
to play in cochernaut Field is incredible. It was built
back in the nineteen forties, a small scale replica of
Wrigley made out of this native grant granite, and they

(28:41):
have all of this custom ironwork that was actually made
by artisans in San Antonio. The thing costs upwards of
a million dollars in the argans.

Speaker 3 (28:51):
I tell you what, I hate to do it, but
we got to break it up. I gotta go, and
I'm gonna keep sending them out your way. Chris laid
you here from the city of alb Go to Historicalpine
dot org and just click on the big box in
the middle of the page and that'll get you to
where we're talking about. Chris. Thanks a bunch. I really
appreciate your time this morning.

Speaker 5 (29:10):
Oh thank you, Doug.

Speaker 3 (29:11):
Oh yes, sir, bye bye. All right, we gotta take
a little break here. Braun's roofing boy, that's man. If
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Speaker 2 (31:10):
What's life without a net? I suggest you go to bed,
sleep it off, just wait until the show's over. Sleepy.
Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues. Four than final.

Speaker 3 (31:33):
Segment of the show starts right now. Thanks for listening.
I really do appreciate you joining us on Veterans Day.
I'm not going to neglect that. Certainly. Veterans Day is
the day that we set aside in this country to
acknowledge anyone and everyone who did or is serving in
our military. This is different from Memorial Day. Okay, this

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is just Veterans Day used to be called Armistice Day
in Veterans Day, anybody who is in uniform deserves just
a tip of the cap and a thank you for
protecting us and giving us the opportunity to do whatever
it is you're doing today. If you're at work. There

(32:19):
are a lot of people around the world who are
dealing with wars in their hometowns and they're not going
to work, and they're not getting enough food, and they're
not getting enough medical care and any of that stuff
because their defenses weren't able to stop something. And that

(32:40):
there are two sides to every war, and both sides
lose typically for a long long time before one side
finally prevails. And it really it should cause you to
stop and think about how protected we've been in this
country by having a very strong military and a very

(33:00):
best offense. Is a good defense, and I think most
of the countries around the world know better. That's why
we've really never had any foreign military invasion on our
on our soil. They know that. I think it was
I can't remember how long ago or who, Yeah, there
were there have been probably more than one. There's probably

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been more than one conversation around a table of generals
and admirals and all that saying, you know, we we
fight them over here, but we don't really want to
step onto American soil because most of us people have
the ability to defend themselves, and that's that's probably helped

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us avoid some problems over the years. So if you're
in the military, or if you ever were in the military,
tarry military, thank you for for signing up or thank
you for going if you were drafted, thank you for serving,
and thank you for enduring whatever it is you had

(34:04):
to endure to get over there, to wherever you went,
and to get yourself back here. I hope you're I
hope you understand how much I and most Americans appreciate
the service you provided for our country. Well, who was
anybody in your family in the military?

Speaker 4 (34:24):
Yes, well who my grandfathers and we're both in the military.
My on my dad's side. My grandfather was in World
War Two, and I'm on my mom's side. My grandfather
wasn't the Korean War?

Speaker 3 (34:42):
What branch army, Navy, Air Force, Navy and air Force.
My dad was a Navy guy. He was a Navy guy.
He was on a ship somewhere I don't know. And
the history evades me right now. He didn't talk about
it much. Really, he didn't. I know, I don't. Yeah,
I can't say. I don't know. I don't know whether

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he's served in combat. But I know that anybody who
who is in the military has sacrificed an awful lot
for this country because they sure as heck don't do
it to get rich. They don't get paid nearly enough.
I think they ought to get paid a lot more
than they do. But I don't think we'll ever do
that for the military, unfortunately.

Speaker 6 (35:23):
I remember we went to the World War Two Museum
in New Orleans when it was first opening up. Yeah,
and they have a giant database of all of the
veterans that served in World War Two.

Speaker 4 (35:38):
And if you want, you can go. I'm pretty sure
it's just a kiosk and you can go and type
in your person's name and stuff should come up about them.

Speaker 3 (35:52):
Sounds good to me. I stuff. I'm all about stuff, man.
I have I have space, new how much time to have? Three?

Speaker 4 (36:01):
You have one minute in forty five seconds.

Speaker 3 (36:06):
Let's just let's just do this, will okay? And I
had this earlier and you ignored it. But I think
I can do it. In a minute and what a
minute and twenty Now a woman in Texas, a mom.
Her name is Elise Ogletree, and she reclaimed this week
the world record will for all the money in the
world and the camper. What world record did she reclaim

(36:31):
for all going at trees? No, she reclaimed her record
that got beaten I think a year or so ago
in twenty fourteen. Oh, my largest donation of breast milk
by an individual. She originally broke the record in twenty

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fourteen after donating more than four hundred gallons, and then
another woman passed her up somehow. I didn't even know
there was Well I knew that people donated, but I
didn't realize in such quantity. Now she's got that record back.
She ran her official total up to just short of

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seven hundred gallons will and she says her actual total
is closer to a thousand, but around three thousand gallons
she donated didn't count for all the money in the
world again Will. How many babies has she helped feed
over the years.

Speaker 4 (37:32):
I'm gonna go with four hundred babies.

Speaker 3 (37:36):
Well, she has donated enough to take care of three
hundred and fifty thousand babies. That's a lot, and hats
off to her. More power to her. I wish there
were more women with that. I don't know. I think
that's pretty cool. That's it for us though. Audios