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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Remember what 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):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Helpful information on your finances, good health, and what to
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UT Health Houston Institute on Aging, Informed Decisions for a healthier,
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Speaker 3 (00:44):
All right, welcome back Wednesday Editions. Program starts right now
place where guess where you and I can can learn
and smile and maybe scratch our heads occasionally, and every
now and then even long for a return to simpler time.
I don't know how many times in the past five
years or so, maybe more, I don't know. It depends
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on when I officially got old and started thinking back
to how much more fun I have when I was little,
and how much more freedom we had, it seems when
we were younger in this country, and now a lot
of that's been taken away from the kids by helicopter parents.
I think we all know what those are, and it's
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a shame too, because when I was growing up, we were,
especially the little boys, we were allowed to get dirty.
We were allowed to play in the mud and then
puddles in the street and just kind of go wherever
we wanted so long as mom could still see us.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Or know where we were.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
And we got stung by bees, we got bitten by mosquitoes,
we got sunburns, none of which is healthy. I understand that,
and I acknowledge that. But learning how to avoid problems,
learning how to avoid dangerous situations as part of growing up,
and a lot of the kids who are growing up
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now don't have that knowledge. Will Melbourne, Were you allowed
to just kind of go out and get dirty and
play in the mud and dirt when you were little?
Speaker 4 (02:23):
I don't know if I wanted to get dirty and
play in the mud when I was little, But if.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
You did, were you scolded for it or just okay,
let's get you cleaned up.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
No, I don't think so. I mean I used to
walk around my neighborhood a lot. I had my best
friend lived a block away from me, so well, I
would just go right over there.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
And it was okay.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Even How young were you talking about when you first
started going over to his house by yourself.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Well, I met him in the fourth grade, so okay,
so yeah, you're like ten years old by then, Yeah, yeah, okay,
Because I was my buddies and I when I was five, six,
seven years old, we were already playing baseball in the
street and you'd play and played, played, and then somebody
would hit a ball through a window and you just
all scattered like little rats.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
And it was pretty clear there it was gonna be
one of six kids, if I remember, we had about
enough for a three on three game of anything, and
that's what we did, and we fell down. We scraped
our knees, we scraped our elbows. I ended up with
get I had stitches probably one, two, three, four times
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before I was ten years old, and twice will I
think I've talked about the sport before, and it was
and just make all the jokes you want, but twice
was from being hit in the head by rocks. Because
we would choose up sides at this vacant lot down
the street and just take five minutes or so to
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gather up rocks, and then half the guys who'd go
to the left half would go to the We just
start throwing rocks at each other. And I was so
focused on throwing because I had a nice arm that
I wasn't really I wasn't playing much defense. And twice
just all and I'd see stars reach up to the
top of your head. You come down with a palm
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full of blood and just start walking home.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Did you ever play with lawn darts?
Speaker 3 (04:22):
No, we did not. I don't recall anybody in our
neighborhood having lawn darts. They actually probably were introduced a
little bit later than I would have played with them. Now,
there was an injury in the garage of the kids
across the street. They had, I think two boys and
the oldest was a girl. The two boys and they
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had a dartboard in their garage, mostly for the adults.
But as we got a little bit older, and I'm
talking five six, seven eight again, maybe the daughter probably
was ten around the time this happened, and he was
throwing a dart at the board, and right about that
same time, a five or six year old from up
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or down the street, one of the kids in our
in our little group, reached up to grab a dart
and pull it out of the board and took one
right in the wrist, just zipped him right in the wrist.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
And it stuck.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
She had a good arm on her too, and it
was it was into the hilt and just and we
all looked at it, and she looked at it, and
the kids just screaming, and she reaches over there, and
Yank's had dart out of there and shut up the
shut up. We're gonna get in trouble. We won't be
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able to ever play darts again. And so the attempt,
the attempt was to mask the entire incident. The outcome
actually was we didn't get to play darts again.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Now that's what I thought.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
You know, we didn't fool anybody's parents, but nobody filed
a lawsuit over it, which I could see that happening
in today's world. Everybody's so quick to just see if
they can get something for their child or themselves doing
something stupid. They'll hire somebody up to see if they
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can milk the cow. In any event, let's move on
from all of that. Holy cow, I am. The world's
not as simple as it was. We have so much
communication now, and I've got a story about that, by
the way, that'll get your attention a little later. In
the program. I am more optimistic now about things than
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I was six months ago. And I think the reason
so many people seem to be so bitter and jaded,
by the way, I still refuse to believe it's the
majority of people who are angry and bitter. Most of
us are just trying to dig out of the hole
we've been in for the last four years and seem
to be doing a fairly good job of it.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
We had a big.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Meeting, a big online meeting today with our whole iHeartMedia group,
and overall things look pretty good, I got to tell
you for us, at least. I can't speak for any
of the other radio companies or communications companies, but we're
doing pretty well, thanks in part to a really great
team actually in good leadership. And I'm not buttering up
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to those guys and men and women, but they do
a good job at what they do, and so I
I think mostly a lot of people were just so
bitter and jaded from enduring so much deceit and deception
for so long that it just kind of got hard
to tell where we really were and where we were
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being told we were, and they were usually two entirely
different things. Now they're actually sources for more balanced reporting
of the news. Well, I appreciate the PGA being up there,
so let me get my phone up where I can
actually see where we are. We got to go. Oh okay,
well let's do that. On the way out of go,
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this collaborative that's been around for a decade now, and
in that decade continues to grow and grow and grow
every year. We're having a meeting actually relatively soon over
here to discuss the future of not only the Institute
on Aging but its relationship with fifty plus. And I
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am very happy to report that I believe it to
be a strong one and it's only going to get
better after hearing some of the ideas I've heard from
people who are over there and going to make these
decisions with us, with us all. Really, it's a collection
of providers. It's a collection. The website is a collection
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The people who work on that website are devoted to
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Speaker 2 (09:30):
What's life without a net? If I suggest to go
to bed, sleep it off, just wait until the show's over. Sleepy.
Back to Dougpike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
All right, welcome back to fifty plus. Thanks for listening.
I am looking at will Melbourne's got the the PGA
Championship on the big TV in here, so I'm gonna
have to just figure out where I am in the
on the clock Stephen Yaeger and Jaeger and Gerard at five. Yeah,
you're through seventeens, you are through thirteen, uh Luke Donald,
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Donald Fox and Smally all at four and all in
the house, which is a good place to be on
that golf course with any score under par. I was
looking earlier about probably twenty minutes ago, and of the
eighty or so people, I think it was actually on
the golf course at some part of in some hole,
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depending anywhere. From one through seventeen, there were only i
want to say, like eighteen or nineteen people who were
under par. And that's a little bit unusual for a
first day, even in a tournaments as tough as they
set this one up. But it is set very difficult
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more us open like if you will, and we'll just
kind of have to see see how that goes. We'll
have to just see how that goes. I want to
pick one of the big names in the tournament as
the eventual winner, but I'm gonna reserve my pick for tomorrow.
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I think when we're about a third of the way
through the second round, and at least then I'll have
an idea who's maybe who's maybe getting off to a
good start, or or went out early and really through
darts and made a lot of birdies. It's a hard
This is a hard one to pick because the course
is going to be that difficult. I had a little
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bit more on it here. I'll go and see if
I can find it.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Where are they playing?
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Where are they playing at Quail Hollow in Charlotte, North Carolina. Charlotte,
North Carolina. Yeah, one of the things that certainly is
going to happen, and you'll you'll read it. If you
read about this more than just glancing at the scoreboard,
you'll start to see some frustration coming out of these
players because it's rough.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Okay, I mean by rough.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
I mean the greens are nearly impossible to chase down
and figure out. It seems, like I said, for all
the world like a US openly out and the rough
speaking of it's crazy thick and giving a lot of
players a lot of trouble. Jokingly, I'll say that I
hear that after the tournament they're going to cut that roof,
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then rough and then bail it and sell it.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
At rural feed stores.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
If you have any idea how thick it must be,
it's I believe they're cutting it or they last cut
it at five inches and five inches of rough, I
don't care what the turf is. Is just nearly impossible
to get a clean strike on the golf ball, unless
maybe you were to shave the leading edge of your
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club and just hone it to razor sharpness where it
could go through there like a sickle. You might have
a shot at getting out of that big fat mess
from the erosion of women's sports desk. I want to
get to this one. The erosion of women's sport. Oh good,
I've got a little time. I'm checking my checking my
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timer here, my personal timer, and I know I've got
at least four or five minutes a word. That for
the For the sixth time this season in Pennsylvania high
school athletics, the same boy has won the two hundred
meter race in the girls division. Had this person competed
as a boy, the story continued, his time would have
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been the fourth slowest in the meet and was more
than three seconds behind the boys actual better times, three
seconds behind the boys winning times. And he's competing as
a girl, and that is his right in Pennsylvania and
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taking home all the trophies, no matter who worked how
hard to be where they were. At what point is
this country gonna wake up to the demoralization really of
young women and girls told early, and we've been telling
girls this for a long time, especially since title line,
all the way back when it started. Great girls, Now
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you've got a chance to really excel at athletics. You
got a chance in sport, to get a scholarship, all
of these things, get your education paid for. You can
be anything you want to be. You can do whatever
you want to do if you'll just work hard. And
then they find out in high school that getting up
before dawn for practice and foregoing time with friends and
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eating nothing but healthy food and getting plenty of sleep,
and studying hard and making good grades, all of that.
You do all that, young lady, and you too can
win second place, not because another girl worked harder than
you did, but just because you're going to be competing
against boys. How on God's green earth is that fair?
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And the answer the question is it's not. It's just
not fair. It's just not fair to tell girls one
thing and then put a hurdle up in front of
that one thing that you told them was possible if
they just worked for it. Nope, it's almost possible. You
can get second place, but you're probably not gonna win
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first place. From the how this is an important one,
I wanted to get to. How much time do I
have left?
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Now?
Speaker 2 (15:21):
A little? About three?
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Yeah, two and a half. I can do this with
two and a half minutes, I believe. From the how
many is enough desk? By way of Breitbart, comes the
story of an illegal immigrant, a fifteen year old boy
from Columbia who was driving also illegally.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
He had no license, he's fifteen.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
He's doing ninety miles an hour and a forty five
miles zone in Aurora, Colorado, and he plows into the
car of a twenty four year old Caitlyn Weaver, who
died from her injuries. The boy originally was charged with
vehicular homicide, and the DA's office told Weaver's father that
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there would be.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
No plea deal.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Oh no, then new DA comes into office and she
Amy Padden is her name, She said, Otherwise, Now, no,
we're gonna give him probation. He's out. Boy's mother wanted
to send him back to Columbia because he's probably that
big of a pain in her side. So he applied
(16:25):
for asylum and on probation. Now he's back to doing
whatever he was doing before that fatal crash. And by
the way, if you're wondering, his mother claimed that he
took the car without permission, which lets her off the
financial hook. And oh, by the way, the jeep was uninsured.
(16:47):
So the family who lost their twenty four year old
daughter because a fifteen year old who shouldn't be in
the country was in the country driving at ninety miles
an hour. They have absolutely nothing coming to them. I
wonder if they can sue the state. I wonder if
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they can sue the state. Maybe not. And even if
they did, even if they want one hundred million dollars,
that doesn't replace their daughter. It just doesn't replace their daughter.
Will Where am I? You're in the studio, Doug Well,
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where am I?
Speaker 1 (17:30):
The pla?
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Oh? Never mind that, I'm not even national? What day?
Will you got ten seconds? Figure it out?
Speaker 2 (17:37):
His food?
Speaker 3 (17:38):
National chip?
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Off the old block?
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Not chow Day?
Speaker 3 (17:43):
No, it's National chocolate chip Day.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
I don't know what, but I'll come up with something.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
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go away. Same with fibroids and women. Same with ugly veins,
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which a lot of us start to get around our ages.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
What else, head pain?
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There are head pains that can be alleviated by shutting
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You don't have to make an all day deal out
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Speaker 2 (19:41):
Yeah, they sure don't make them like they used to.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
That's why every few months we wash them, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, welcome back.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Will and I watching the PGA Championship from Quail Hollow
and I giving him as brief an explanation as I
can of how the course is set up differently when
there's a big national championship going on than it is
when you and I go make a tea time somewhere
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and walk onto Ammuni coourse. Totally totally different place. And
there are municipal courses. Memorial is a great example. Memorial Park. Well,
that's where the Houston Open is played now, and it
is for fifty one weeks of the year a daily
fee facilit Well they shut it down a little bit
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earlier than that. Maybe let's call it forty eight weeks
of the year at least, or maybe fifty a daily
fee facility. You and I and anybody else if you're
lucky enough can get a tea time there. It's still
a very busy, busy place, and especially lucky if you
live in the city limits of Houston, where you get
a deep discount on the green fees, whereas if you're
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outside of Houston, you're paying a really really high price
to play there. But they take that course and turn
it into a PGA Tour tournament course over the course
of several months of preparation, and then after that it
reverts back to still a very challenging course, but not
quite as difficult as the tour players have.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
To deal with.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
How much does it cost to play a round of
golf depends on where you are. Well, let's say, for
Memorial Memorial. I know if you're outside of Houston, it's
more than one hundred dollars. I can't remember exactly how
much more, And I don't know what the rate is
inside because I live in sugar Land and haven't looked
it up in a while. I'm not quite sure.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
The average daily fee weekend and Fridays. Right weekends kind
of in golf courses start on Friday, basically weekend t
time prices start on Fridays and I want to say
the average now is either even for all public courses,
probably at or over one hundred dollars to go play golf.
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If you wait till later in the day, you can
usually get out in an afternoon or twilight tea time
at a pretty good discount. And then there'll be like
a super twilight where if you want to go out
at at four point thirty or five o'clock and just
get in as many holes as you can, you might
get lucky and get all eighteen in. You might not.
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There's even a lower price, but yeah, that's that's the
price of playing. Plus you got your clubs, and you
got your your concessions that you're gonna get something to
eat or drink maybe when you're there, and it just
goes on and on. But it's a it's a fun
game and it's addictive too, man.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
I do. I still practice very hard. I still play
as often as I can, which isn't often on my
schedule actually, but I make the most of the time
I have off. I'll just leave it at that. And
the reward it gives me is a is relaxation and
an ability to kind of disconnect from anything and everything
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that might be bothering me to focus on making a
better swing next time if I didn't make one this time,
Does that make sense?
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Are you bored now?
Speaker 2 (23:13):
No?
Speaker 4 (23:14):
Really, I just saw somebody make a crazy long putt.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
You know that happens. And the reason it happens is
because number one, you're watching the best players in the world. Basically,
you're watching the best players in the world. Number two,
even I've made putts of fifty or sixty feet over
the years. Oh yeah, it happens to Every golfer who
plays enough golf will make a monstrous putt at some
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time in their life.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
They will.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
It's just the odds are highly against it happening. But
it's always one in something. For a bad player, it
might be one in a million. For a really good player,
it might be one in five hundred or one thousand
putts that they make something sixty feet long. Because for starters,
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you've got to be on greens big enough to leave
yourself a sixty foot putt. Then you have to somehow
miraculously read where that putt is gonna move as it
goes through the undulation of the green, and then you
just have to hit it one of the coolest things ever,
Jack Nicholas, and I can't remember who was talking about
this shot, but it was kind of in a little
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demo thing. They were doing a little appearance they were
doing to Nicholas and somebody else of his stature, if
that's possible, we're talking about this putt. This one guy
had on the green. He said, now, this is just
an impossible putt, and Nicholas says, no, it's not. And
the guy turns it and says, well, then make it.
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He goes, okay, and he just walked over there. He
looked at it for maybe I don't know, five seconds,
stood over the ball and hit it. And I mean,
it's going up a hill, down a hill, left, right,
it's moving one hundred breaks in this putt, and his
caddy asking as the ball gets closer, starts walking over
to the hole, reaches over, grabs a pin, pulls it
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out of the cup in the putt falls.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
It was.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
It was a one in a billion, a soft shawt shell, turtles,
great blue herons, all kinds of wildlife over there at
Quail Hollow, not entirely unlike the place. I've been playing
a lot out there at black Hawk from the how
much time do I have?
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Two?
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Two minutes? Okay, this is easy. I want your opinion
of this too. From the poor decision desk, I think
out of USA today, and it's not their decision. It's
the decision of more than twelve hundred Starbucks employees. I
may have mentioned this last week, but now twelve hundred
of them are on strike because they don't like the
company's new dress code. And that new dress code, which
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went into effect in April, requires all of their workers
to wear a solid black top, and Starbucks has actually
agreed now to supply all of its employees with two
black t shirts. Starbucks says the disgruntle employees are limited
to people in fewer than one percent of their locations,
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so probably not going to change the rules just for them.
Welcome to the new world, Welcome to the real world,
Baristas of the Northwest, that's where most of that's going on.
Where the boss makes the rules. Period. Now you have
a choice if you don't want to do that. You
do have a choice, but you'll probably not like the
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consequences of it once it settles in on how it's okay?
So many look at all the restaurants that wear uniforms, well,
almost all of them do. At Burger King, when I
was a kid burger King McDonald's, they all had the
little paper hat. That's what you had to wear. That
was the forerunner of the hairnet. It was only now
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right now, you want me to break no two minute warning.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
I gave you a two minute and I said you
had two minutes. And then you said, oh that's true.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
You're right, that's true. Okay, I got to give you
this one. All right, we'll take a little break here.
We'll be right back to wrap up this edition of
the program Stick Around. It's fifty plus on AB nine,
fifty kprc Old Guys Rule, and of course women never
get old. If you want to avoid sleeping on the couch.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
I think that sounds like a good plan.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug Hi. Welcome back,
fifty plus. Final segment of the program starts right now.
Thank you all for listening to Will thank you all
for listening to me. By the way, going out to
that break or Jimmy Barrett talking about how important it
is that we let you guys know that we all.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
Want to help you grow your businesses. And one of
the things that everything he said was true. If you,
if you want to connect with this audience, if you,
if you want to at least start a conversation with
us about perhaps we can help.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
You, maybe we can't. Who knows.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
But one thing that I do uniquely here, I I'm
the only I'm the only on air person at iHeart
Houston who also has the ability to serve as the
person who handles your business side of this. So, in
addition to being available to you, just pick up, pick
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up the phone, call me. I'll give you my cell
phone number, and if you want to change copy on
the fly, you call me at eleven point fifteen, I
can change the copy for something important relative to your
business that same day. On fifty plus you can anything
you need I can do for you. I also I
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also get to kind of write good rates for you too,
because I write my own deals and because I'm able
to write up the campaigns for you. I also understand
very well all of our assets and all of the
different tools we have in the shed that can help
you grow your business. Do I take every endorsement that
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comes my way? Nope, I don't. In fact, I turned
one down just a couple of weeks ago, somebody heard
me talking about this and asked me to handle a
certain business that It's just not for me. Maybe next time,
maybe somebody else, But it just wasn't something that I
was comfortable endorsing because I wouldn't use the product ever,
(29:45):
And so I can't do that. If you hear me
talking about something, it's because I have vetted the people
who make it, who sell it, who produce it, who
offer the service, whatever it is, just to make sure
that that anybody who calls them is going to get
a fair shake and get good service at a good price.
(30:05):
That's what my job with endorsements is, to steer you
in the right direction. I've got a plumber I'm trying
to get on right now. I've known this guy for years,
and if he ever goes independent, I told him just
two days ago that I was gonna call him to
call me. Does he did that, and I would at
(30:28):
that point be his best endorser ever. This guy has
helped me just with a random phone calls. He just
does that for clients that he has and people he's
worked for over the years, and I just I called him.
I had an issue with a water heater and he
told me how to fix it without having to come
to the house. He just he's that generous with his
(30:51):
time and his knowledge. If there's something that really needs
a plumber, he'd be the first guy I'll ever call.
If it's something that I think I can maybe fix,
I call him. I'm not gonna tell you who he
is because I don't want to. He works for a
different company right now. He's still working for a company,
and he's very successful for obvious reasons.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
He's just that good.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
But if he ever if he ever goes solo, I'm
gonna be knocking on his door the next day as
soon as I hear about it. Enough of that, just
email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com, and I
will be happy, happy to talk to you about whether
it even makes sense. It might not make sense in
the place you are right now with your business, but
if it does, I can help make that happen, and
(31:33):
we'll get you off to a very good start at growth,
slow and steady. I'm not a flash in a pan.
I'm not gonna tell you to throw a ton of
money at something all at once. We're gonna go slow
and steady and grow it in increments, so your whatever
needs you have that arise from doing better can be
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accommodated comfortably all the way through. Well, let's go to
some fun stof and then I'll maybe give you some
good news. All right? These are these are from today.
Once is enough, harsh reality, or turn around?
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Once is enough?
Speaker 3 (32:15):
Somebody asked, what is something you tried once and immediately
knew it wasn't for you? Can you think of anything
that would fall into that category? Will that you can
say on the radio? Yeah, roller coasters? You don't like
roller coasters, now, you know? I did when I was younger,
and then I got to an agent. I don't know
what age it was, but my son was very young.
(32:36):
My wife and I became parents, me especially later in life,
and we took our son to the Fort ben County
Fair when he was little, and my wife said, take
him on that teacup ride.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Isn't that ought to be? Okay?
Speaker 3 (32:51):
That can't hurt me at all. I'm a I'm a
tough old dude. I'll be fine. So he and I
get on that thing and it starts spinning, and it's
gonna and faster and faster and faster. And I've developed
a little bit of vertigo issues a little. I get
queezy now sometimes when I'm on a boat, knock on wood.
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It's not on Lake Conrad or anything, but on the ocean.
I used I fished billfish tournaments for years, and every
now and then i'd feel a little bit woozy. I'd
go lie down for half an hour, and I'd be
fine the rest of the trip, whether we stayed out
there ten hours or three days. But now I get
on that tea cup ride and I don't feel good
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at all. And I climbed off that thing, and my
son's just happy as a lark. He's wanting to go again.
I said, Dad's not up for that.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Man.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
And I had to physically go lie down on an
old like an old riser somewhere. We found it in
the back of the fair grounds where it wouldn't be
nobody think I died. And I just had to sit
there with my wife and my sons for about, I
don't know, ten fifteen minutes. I told her to go
get him a snow cone or something like that. I
just I couldn't move, Yeah, I couldn't. Every time i'd
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get lift my head, I'd get dizzy. It was crazy,
and I still ever now and then I when I'm
on rough water, it used to be kind of any
water and it would just hit me for ten minutes
and go away or half an hour whatever. But now
if it's if it's bumpy, I'm gonna have to just
sit down and chill for a minute. And I don't
know why it is, but it seems to be a
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little more frequent recurrence than it used to be. Draws
me nuts, absolutely nuts. Let's move on, shall we?
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (34:34):
By the way, the things that made the cut here. Gambling?
Do you like to gamble?
Speaker 2 (34:39):
I never gamble.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
You've never done it deliberately? Yeah, like if you went
to Lake Charles, you wouldn't throw a dollar in a
slot machine or something. Okay, running, how are you on? Running?
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Depends?
Speaker 3 (34:52):
You know?
Speaker 2 (34:52):
Am I running for my life?
Speaker 3 (34:54):
You mean toward the crab's table. A couple of guys
that would do that. Yoga, let's go to that.
Speaker 4 (35:01):
I don't know about hot yoga. I've done some pilates.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
That's cute enough. Virtual reality, No, nah, that doesn't do
anything for me.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Really.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
I'd be if somebody said here, try this, I'd do it,
but I wouldn't I would stay in my own head
enough to realize that it's not It's not really an issue.
So whatever looks scary isn't scary, and I just stand
there and watch it happen. It'd be kind of funny
and interesting, I guess. And then go into a strip club.
Have you ever been to one of those?
Speaker 4 (35:31):
I have never been doing well?
Speaker 3 (35:34):
Never, Well, you're not missing anything, trust me. There's a
guy who say he's sitting with his wife in the
truck and he says, if I want She asked if
he liked going to those places, and he said, if
I was gonna spend a couple of hundred dollars hoping
something would happen that I really knew wasn't gonna happen,
I'd just take you to dinner.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Uh. One more?
Speaker 3 (35:59):
Do we have time for more?
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (36:00):
We have one minute? Okay, Oh that's perfect. It's kind
of appropriate.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
When is it my turn?
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Or back to harsh reality?
Speaker 2 (36:12):
When is it my turn?
Speaker 3 (36:14):
Somebody in New Jersey turned in one hundred dollars bill
that they found on the counter at a store. Hand
over the one hundred dollar bill while I'm here, give
me a lottery ticket. That's all I want is just
one little old lottery ticket and mister good Samaritan there.
It hadn't happened to me yet. I don't know if
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it asked to you. This dude won a million bucks
on that ticket. He won a million bucks. Will I
do good things? I do the right thing every stinking day,
and I guess you know. My reward is just knowing
that I did.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
The right thing.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
And I wish, I wish everybody would recognize that as
an accomplishment. Just don't don't get mad at people for
no reason, don't get grumpy like an old man. Just
do it right. Five seconds, will Holy cow. We'll be
back tomorrow to wrap up the week. Thank you all
for listening. I'll see you then. Audios
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
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Speaker 1 (00:20):
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All right, welcome back Wednesday Editions. Program starts right now
place where guess where you and I can can learn
and smile and maybe scratch our heads occasionally, and every
now and then even long for a return to simpler time.
I don't know how many times in the past five
years or so, maybe more, I don't know. It depends
(01:08):
on when I officially got old and started thinking back
to how much more fun I have when I was little,
and how much more freedom we had, it seems when
we were younger in this country, and now a lot
of that's been taken away from the kids by helicopter parents.
I think we all know what those are, and it's
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a shame too, because when I was growing up, we were,
especially the little boys, we were allowed to get dirty.
We were allowed to play in the mud and then
puddles in the street and just kind of go wherever
we wanted so long as mom could still see us.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Or know where we were.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
And we got stung by bees, we got bitten by mosquitoes,
we got sunburns, none of which is healthy. I understand that,
and I acknowledge that. But learning how to avoid problems,
learning how to avoid dangerous situations as part of growing up,
and a lot of the kids who are growing up
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now don't have that knowledge. Will Melbourne, Were you allowed
to just kind of go out and get dirty and
play in the mud and dirt when you were little?
Speaker 4 (02:23):
I don't know if I wanted to get dirty and
play in the mud when I was little, But if.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
You did, were you scolded for it or just okay,
let's get you cleaned up.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
No, I don't think so. I mean I used to
walk around my neighborhood a lot. I had my best
friend lived a block away from me, so well, I
would just go right over there.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
And it was okay.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Even How young were you talking about when you first
started going over to his house by yourself.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Well, I met him in the fourth grade, so okay,
so yeah, you're like ten years old by then, Yeah, yeah, okay,
Because I was my buddies and I when I was five, six,
seven years old, we were already playing baseball in the
street and you'd play and played, played, and then somebody
would hit a ball through a window and you just
all scattered like little rats.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
And it was pretty clear there it was gonna be
one of six kids, if I remember, we had about
enough for a three on three game of anything, and
that's what we did, and we fell down. We scraped
our knees, we scraped our elbows. I ended up with
get I had stitches probably one, two, three, four times
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before I was ten years old, and twice will I
think I've talked about the sport before, and it was
and just make all the jokes you want, but twice
was from being hit in the head by rocks. Because
we would choose up sides at this vacant lot down
the street and just take five minutes or so to
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gather up rocks, and then half the guys who'd go
to the left half would go to the We just
start throwing rocks at each other. And I was so
focused on throwing because I had a nice arm that
I wasn't really I wasn't playing much defense. And twice
just all and I'd see stars reach up to the
top of your head. You come down with a palm
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full of blood and just start walking home.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Did you ever play with lawn darts?
Speaker 3 (04:22):
No, we did not. I don't recall anybody in our
neighborhood having lawn darts. They actually probably were introduced a
little bit later than I would have played with them. Now,
there was an injury in the garage of the kids
across the street. They had, I think two boys and
the oldest was a girl. The two boys and they
(04:45):
had a dartboard in their garage, mostly for the adults.
But as we got a little bit older, and I'm
talking five six, seven eight again, maybe the daughter probably
was ten around the time this happened, and he was
throwing a dart at the board, and right about that
same time, a five or six year old from up
(05:06):
or down the street, one of the kids in our
in our little group, reached up to grab a dart
and pull it out of the board and took one
right in the wrist, just zipped him right in the wrist.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
And it stuck.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
She had a good arm on her too, and it
was it was into the hilt and just and we
all looked at it, and she looked at it, and
the kids just screaming, and she reaches over there, and
Yank's had dart out of there and shut up the
shut up. We're gonna get in trouble. We won't be
(05:39):
able to ever play darts again. And so the attempt,
the attempt was to mask the entire incident. The outcome
actually was we didn't get to play darts again.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Now that's what I thought.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
You know, we didn't fool anybody's parents, but nobody filed
a lawsuit over it, which I could see that happening
in today's world. Everybody's so quick to just see if
they can get something for their child or themselves doing
something stupid. They'll hire somebody up to see if they
(06:17):
can milk the cow. In any event, let's move on
from all of that. Holy cow, I am. The world's
not as simple as it was. We have so much
communication now, and I've got a story about that, by
the way, that'll get your attention a little later. In
the program. I am more optimistic now about things than
(06:38):
I was six months ago. And I think the reason
so many people seem to be so bitter and jaded,
by the way, I still refuse to believe it's the
majority of people who are angry and bitter. Most of
us are just trying to dig out of the hole
we've been in for the last four years and seem
to be doing a fairly good job of it.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
We had a big.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Meeting, a big online meeting today with our whole iHeartMedia group,
and overall things look pretty good, I got to tell
you for us, at least. I can't speak for any
of the other radio companies or communications companies, but we're
doing pretty well, thanks in part to a really great
team actually in good leadership. And I'm not buttering up
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to those guys and men and women, but they do
a good job at what they do, and so I
I think mostly a lot of people were just so
bitter and jaded from enduring so much deceit and deception
for so long that it just kind of got hard
to tell where we really were and where we were
(07:40):
being told we were, and they were usually two entirely
different things. Now they're actually sources for more balanced reporting
of the news. Well, I appreciate the PGA being up there,
so let me get my phone up where I can
actually see where we are. We got to go. Oh okay,
well let's do that. On the way out of go,
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I'll remind you at ut Health Institute on Aging is
this collaborative that's been around for a decade now, and
in that decade continues to grow and grow and grow
every year. We're having a meeting actually relatively soon over
here to discuss the future of not only the Institute
on Aging but its relationship with fifty plus. And I
(08:22):
am very happy to report that I believe it to
be a strong one and it's only going to get
better after hearing some of the ideas I've heard from
people who are over there and going to make these
decisions with us, with us all. Really, it's a collection
of providers. It's a collection. The website is a collection
of resources, and all of it is designed and specifically
(08:48):
aimed at helping the health and well being of seniors.
The people who are part of that have got extra
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The people who work on that website are devoted to
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Speaker 2 (09:30):
What's life without a net? If I suggest to go
to bed, sleep it off, just wait until the show's over. Sleepy.
Back to Dougpike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
All right, welcome back to fifty plus. Thanks for listening.
I am looking at will Melbourne's got the the PGA
Championship on the big TV in here, so I'm gonna
have to just figure out where I am in the
on the clock Stephen Yaeger and Jaeger and Gerard at five. Yeah,
you're through seventeens, you are through thirteen, uh Luke Donald,
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Donald Fox and Smally all at four and all in
the house, which is a good place to be on
that golf course with any score under par. I was
looking earlier about probably twenty minutes ago, and of the
eighty or so people, I think it was actually on
the golf course at some part of in some hole,
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depending anywhere. From one through seventeen, there were only i
want to say, like eighteen or nineteen people who were
under par. And that's a little bit unusual for a
first day, even in a tournaments as tough as they
set this one up. But it is set very difficult
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more us open like if you will, and we'll just
kind of have to see see how that goes. We'll
have to just see how that goes. I want to
pick one of the big names in the tournament as
the eventual winner, but I'm gonna reserve my pick for tomorrow.
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I think when we're about a third of the way
through the second round, and at least then I'll have
an idea who's maybe who's maybe getting off to a
good start, or or went out early and really through
darts and made a lot of birdies. It's a hard
This is a hard one to pick because the course
is going to be that difficult. I had a little
(11:28):
bit more on it here. I'll go and see if
I can find it.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Where are they playing?
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Where are they playing at Quail Hollow in Charlotte, North Carolina. Charlotte,
North Carolina. Yeah, one of the things that certainly is
going to happen, and you'll you'll read it. If you
read about this more than just glancing at the scoreboard,
you'll start to see some frustration coming out of these
players because it's rough.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Okay, I mean by rough.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
I mean the greens are nearly impossible to chase down
and figure out. It seems, like I said, for all
the world like a US openly out and the rough
speaking of it's crazy thick and giving a lot of
players a lot of trouble. Jokingly, I'll say that I
hear that after the tournament they're going to cut that roof,
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then rough and then bail it and sell it.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
At rural feed stores.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
If you have any idea how thick it must be,
it's I believe they're cutting it or they last cut
it at five inches and five inches of rough, I
don't care what the turf is. Is just nearly impossible
to get a clean strike on the golf ball, unless
maybe you were to shave the leading edge of your
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club and just hone it to razor sharpness where it
could go through there like a sickle. You might have
a shot at getting out of that big fat mess
from the erosion of women's sports desk. I want to
get to this one. The erosion of women's sport. Oh good,
I've got a little time. I'm checking my checking my
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timer here, my personal timer, and I know I've got
at least four or five minutes a word. That for
the For the sixth time this season in Pennsylvania high
school athletics, the same boy has won the two hundred
meter race in the girls division. Had this person competed
as a boy, the story continued, his time would have
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been the fourth slowest in the meet and was more
than three seconds behind the boys actual better times, three
seconds behind the boys winning times. And he's competing as
a girl, and that is his right in Pennsylvania and
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taking home all the trophies, no matter who worked how
hard to be where they were. At what point is
this country gonna wake up to the demoralization really of
young women and girls told early, and we've been telling
girls this for a long time, especially since title line,
all the way back when it started. Great girls, Now
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you've got a chance to really excel at athletics. You
got a chance in sport, to get a scholarship, all
of these things, get your education paid for. You can
be anything you want to be. You can do whatever
you want to do if you'll just work hard. And
then they find out in high school that getting up
before dawn for practice and foregoing time with friends and
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eating nothing but healthy food and getting plenty of sleep,
and studying hard and making good grades, all of that.
You do all that, young lady, and you too can
win second place, not because another girl worked harder than
you did, but just because you're going to be competing
against boys. How on God's green earth is that fair?
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And the answer the question is it's not. It's just
not fair. It's just not fair to tell girls one
thing and then put a hurdle up in front of
that one thing that you told them was possible if
they just worked for it. Nope, it's almost possible. You
can get second place, but you're probably not gonna win
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first place. From the how this is an important one,
I wanted to get to. How much time do I
have left?
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Now?
Speaker 2 (15:21):
A little? About three?
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Yeah, two and a half. I can do this with
two and a half minutes, I believe. From the how
many is enough desk? By way of Breitbart, comes the
story of an illegal immigrant, a fifteen year old boy
from Columbia who was driving also illegally.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
He had no license, he's fifteen.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
He's doing ninety miles an hour and a forty five
miles zone in Aurora, Colorado, and he plows into the
car of a twenty four year old Caitlyn Weaver, who
died from her injuries. The boy originally was charged with
vehicular homicide, and the DA's office told Weaver's father that
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there would be.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
No plea deal.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Oh no, then new DA comes into office and she
Amy Padden is her name, She said, Otherwise, Now, no,
we're gonna give him probation. He's out. Boy's mother wanted
to send him back to Columbia because he's probably that
big of a pain in her side. So he applied
(16:25):
for asylum and on probation. Now he's back to doing
whatever he was doing before that fatal crash. And by
the way, if you're wondering, his mother claimed that he
took the car without permission, which lets her off the
financial hook. And oh, by the way, the jeep was uninsured.
(16:47):
So the family who lost their twenty four year old
daughter because a fifteen year old who shouldn't be in
the country was in the country driving at ninety miles
an hour. They have absolutely nothing coming to them. I
wonder if they can sue the state. I wonder if
(17:09):
they can sue the state. Maybe not. And even if
they did, even if they want one hundred million dollars,
that doesn't replace their daughter. It just doesn't replace their daughter.
Will Where am I? You're in the studio, Doug Well,
(17:29):
where am I?
Speaker 1 (17:30):
The pla?
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Oh? Never mind that, I'm not even national? What day?
Will you got ten seconds? Figure it out?
Speaker 2 (17:37):
His food?
Speaker 3 (17:38):
National chip?
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Off the old block?
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Not chow Day?
Speaker 3 (17:43):
No, it's National chocolate chip Day.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
I don't know what, but I'll come up with something.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
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make it. Once that blood's gone, and the symptoms, the ugly,
ugly symptoms that if you know them, you hate them
go away. Same with fibroids and women. Same with ugly veins,
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which a lot of us start to get around our ages.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
What else, head pain?
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there a couple of hours. Somebody will have to drive
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Speaker 2 (19:41):
Yeah, they sure don't make them like they used to.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
That's why every few months we wash them, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, welcome back.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Will and I watching the PGA Championship from Quail Hollow
and I giving him as brief an explanation as I
can of how the course is set up differently when
there's a big national championship going on than it is
when you and I go make a tea time somewhere
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and walk onto Ammuni coourse. Totally totally different place. And
there are municipal courses. Memorial is a great example. Memorial Park. Well,
that's where the Houston Open is played now, and it
is for fifty one weeks of the year a daily
fee facilit Well they shut it down a little bit
(20:36):
earlier than that. Maybe let's call it forty eight weeks
of the year at least, or maybe fifty a daily
fee facility. You and I and anybody else if you're
lucky enough can get a tea time there. It's still
a very busy, busy place, and especially lucky if you
live in the city limits of Houston, where you get
a deep discount on the green fees, whereas if you're
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outside of Houston, you're paying a really really high price
to play there. But they take that course and turn
it into a PGA Tour tournament course over the course
of several months of preparation, and then after that it
reverts back to still a very challenging course, but not
quite as difficult as the tour players have.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
To deal with.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
How much does it cost to play a round of
golf depends on where you are. Well, let's say, for
Memorial Memorial. I know if you're outside of Houston, it's
more than one hundred dollars. I can't remember exactly how
much more, And I don't know what the rate is
inside because I live in sugar Land and haven't looked
it up in a while. I'm not quite sure.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
The average daily fee weekend and Fridays. Right weekends kind
of in golf courses start on Friday, basically weekend t
time prices start on Fridays and I want to say
the average now is either even for all public courses,
probably at or over one hundred dollars to go play golf.
(22:05):
If you wait till later in the day, you can
usually get out in an afternoon or twilight tea time
at a pretty good discount. And then there'll be like
a super twilight where if you want to go out
at at four point thirty or five o'clock and just
get in as many holes as you can, you might
get lucky and get all eighteen in. You might not.
(22:26):
There's even a lower price, but yeah, that's that's the
price of playing. Plus you got your clubs, and you
got your your concessions that you're gonna get something to
eat or drink maybe when you're there, and it just
goes on and on. But it's a it's a fun
game and it's addictive too, man.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
I do. I still practice very hard. I still play
as often as I can, which isn't often on my
schedule actually, but I make the most of the time
I have off. I'll just leave it at that. And
the reward it gives me is a is relaxation and
an ability to kind of disconnect from anything and everything
(23:05):
that might be bothering me to focus on making a
better swing next time if I didn't make one this time,
Does that make sense?
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Are you bored now?
Speaker 2 (23:13):
No?
Speaker 4 (23:14):
Really, I just saw somebody make a crazy long putt.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
You know that happens. And the reason it happens is
because number one, you're watching the best players in the world. Basically,
you're watching the best players in the world. Number two,
even I've made putts of fifty or sixty feet over
the years. Oh yeah, it happens to Every golfer who
plays enough golf will make a monstrous putt at some
(23:41):
time in their life.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
They will.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
It's just the odds are highly against it happening. But
it's always one in something. For a bad player, it
might be one in a million. For a really good player,
it might be one in five hundred or one thousand
putts that they make something sixty feet long. Because for starters,
(24:04):
you've got to be on greens big enough to leave
yourself a sixty foot putt. Then you have to somehow
miraculously read where that putt is gonna move as it
goes through the undulation of the green, and then you
just have to hit it one of the coolest things ever,
Jack Nicholas, and I can't remember who was talking about
this shot, but it was kind of in a little
(24:26):
demo thing. They were doing a little appearance they were
doing to Nicholas and somebody else of his stature, if
that's possible, we're talking about this putt. This one guy
had on the green. He said, now, this is just
an impossible putt, and Nicholas says, no, it's not. And
the guy turns it and says, well, then make it.
(24:47):
He goes, okay, and he just walked over there. He
looked at it for maybe I don't know, five seconds,
stood over the ball and hit it. And I mean,
it's going up a hill, down a hill, left, right,
it's moving one hundred breaks in this putt, and his
caddy asking as the ball gets closer, starts walking over
to the hole, reaches over, grabs a pin, pulls it
(25:09):
out of the cup in the putt falls.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
It was.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
It was a one in a billion, a soft shawt shell, turtles,
great blue herons, all kinds of wildlife over there at
Quail Hollow, not entirely unlike the place. I've been playing
a lot out there at black Hawk from the how
much time do I have?
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Two?
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Two minutes? Okay, this is easy. I want your opinion
of this too. From the poor decision desk, I think
out of USA today, and it's not their decision. It's
the decision of more than twelve hundred Starbucks employees. I
may have mentioned this last week, but now twelve hundred
of them are on strike because they don't like the
company's new dress code. And that new dress code, which
(25:52):
went into effect in April, requires all of their workers
to wear a solid black top, and Starbucks has actually
agreed now to supply all of its employees with two
black t shirts. Starbucks says the disgruntle employees are limited
to people in fewer than one percent of their locations,
(26:13):
so probably not going to change the rules just for them.
Welcome to the new world, Welcome to the real world,
Baristas of the Northwest, that's where most of that's going on.
Where the boss makes the rules. Period. Now you have
a choice if you don't want to do that. You
do have a choice, but you'll probably not like the
(26:38):
consequences of it once it settles in on how it's okay?
So many look at all the restaurants that wear uniforms, well,
almost all of them do. At Burger King, when I
was a kid burger King McDonald's, they all had the
little paper hat. That's what you had to wear. That
was the forerunner of the hairnet. It was only now
(27:02):
right now, you want me to break no two minute warning.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
I gave you a two minute and I said you
had two minutes. And then you said, oh that's true.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
You're right, that's true. Okay, I got to give you
this one. All right, we'll take a little break here.
We'll be right back to wrap up this edition of
the program Stick Around. It's fifty plus on AB nine,
fifty kprc Old Guys Rule, and of course women never
get old. If you want to avoid sleeping on the couch.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
I think that sounds like a good plan.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug Hi. Welcome back,
fifty plus. Final segment of the program starts right now.
Thank you all for listening to Will thank you all
for listening to me. By the way, going out to
that break or Jimmy Barrett talking about how important it
is that we let you guys know that we all.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
Want to help you grow your businesses. And one of
the things that everything he said was true. If you,
if you want to connect with this audience, if you,
if you want to at least start a conversation with
us about perhaps we can help.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
You, maybe we can't. Who knows.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
But one thing that I do uniquely here, I I'm
the only I'm the only on air person at iHeart
Houston who also has the ability to serve as the
person who handles your business side of this. So, in
addition to being available to you, just pick up, pick
(28:36):
up the phone, call me. I'll give you my cell
phone number, and if you want to change copy on
the fly, you call me at eleven point fifteen, I
can change the copy for something important relative to your
business that same day. On fifty plus you can anything
you need I can do for you. I also I
(28:57):
also get to kind of write good rates for you too,
because I write my own deals and because I'm able
to write up the campaigns for you. I also understand
very well all of our assets and all of the
different tools we have in the shed that can help
you grow your business. Do I take every endorsement that
(29:22):
comes my way? Nope, I don't. In fact, I turned
one down just a couple of weeks ago, somebody heard
me talking about this and asked me to handle a
certain business that It's just not for me. Maybe next time,
maybe somebody else, But it just wasn't something that I
was comfortable endorsing because I wouldn't use the product ever,
(29:45):
And so I can't do that. If you hear me
talking about something, it's because I have vetted the people
who make it, who sell it, who produce it, who
offer the service, whatever it is, just to make sure
that that anybody who calls them is going to get
a fair shake and get good service at a good price.
(30:05):
That's what my job with endorsements is, to steer you
in the right direction. I've got a plumber I'm trying
to get on right now. I've known this guy for years,
and if he ever goes independent, I told him just
two days ago that I was gonna call him to
call me. Does he did that, and I would at
(30:28):
that point be his best endorser ever. This guy has
helped me just with a random phone calls. He just
does that for clients that he has and people he's
worked for over the years, and I just I called him.
I had an issue with a water heater and he
told me how to fix it without having to come
to the house. He just he's that generous with his
(30:51):
time and his knowledge. If there's something that really needs
a plumber, he'd be the first guy I'll ever call.
If it's something that I think I can maybe fix,
I call him. I'm not gonna tell you who he
is because I don't want to. He works for a
different company right now. He's still working for a company,
and he's very successful for obvious reasons.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
He's just that good.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
But if he ever if he ever goes solo, I'm
gonna be knocking on his door the next day as
soon as I hear about it. Enough of that, just
email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com, and I
will be happy, happy to talk to you about whether
it even makes sense. It might not make sense in
the place you are right now with your business, but
if it does, I can help make that happen, and
(31:33):
we'll get you off to a very good start at growth,
slow and steady. I'm not a flash in a pan.
I'm not gonna tell you to throw a ton of
money at something all at once. We're gonna go slow
and steady and grow it in increments, so your whatever
needs you have that arise from doing better can be
(31:55):
accommodated comfortably all the way through. Well, let's go to
some fun stof and then I'll maybe give you some
good news. All right? These are these are from today.
Once is enough, harsh reality, or turn around?
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Once is enough?
Speaker 3 (32:15):
Somebody asked, what is something you tried once and immediately
knew it wasn't for you? Can you think of anything
that would fall into that category? Will that you can
say on the radio? Yeah, roller coasters? You don't like
roller coasters, now, you know? I did when I was younger,
and then I got to an agent. I don't know
what age it was, but my son was very young.
(32:36):
My wife and I became parents, me especially later in life,
and we took our son to the Fort ben County
Fair when he was little, and my wife said, take
him on that teacup ride.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Isn't that ought to be? Okay?
Speaker 3 (32:51):
That can't hurt me at all. I'm a I'm a
tough old dude. I'll be fine. So he and I
get on that thing and it starts spinning, and it's
gonna and faster and faster and faster. And I've developed
a little bit of vertigo issues a little. I get
queezy now sometimes when I'm on a boat, knock on wood.
(33:12):
It's not on Lake Conrad or anything, but on the ocean.
I used I fished billfish tournaments for years, and every
now and then i'd feel a little bit woozy. I'd
go lie down for half an hour, and I'd be
fine the rest of the trip, whether we stayed out
there ten hours or three days. But now I get
on that tea cup ride and I don't feel good
(33:35):
at all. And I climbed off that thing, and my
son's just happy as a lark. He's wanting to go again.
I said, Dad's not up for that.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Man.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
And I had to physically go lie down on an
old like an old riser somewhere. We found it in
the back of the fair grounds where it wouldn't be
nobody think I died. And I just had to sit
there with my wife and my sons for about, I
don't know, ten fifteen minutes. I told her to go
get him a snow cone or something like that. I
just I couldn't move, Yeah, I couldn't. Every time i'd
(34:04):
get lift my head, I'd get dizzy. It was crazy,
and I still ever now and then I when I'm
on rough water, it used to be kind of any
water and it would just hit me for ten minutes
and go away or half an hour whatever. But now
if it's if it's bumpy, I'm gonna have to just
sit down and chill for a minute. And I don't
know why it is, but it seems to be a
(34:25):
little more frequent recurrence than it used to be. Draws
me nuts, absolutely nuts. Let's move on, shall we?
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (34:34):
By the way, the things that made the cut here. Gambling?
Do you like to gamble?
Speaker 2 (34:39):
I never gamble.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
You've never done it deliberately? Yeah, like if you went
to Lake Charles, you wouldn't throw a dollar in a
slot machine or something. Okay, running, how are you on? Running?
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Depends?
Speaker 3 (34:52):
You know?
Speaker 2 (34:52):
Am I running for my life?
Speaker 3 (34:54):
You mean toward the crab's table. A couple of guys
that would do that. Yoga, let's go to that.
Speaker 4 (35:01):
I don't know about hot yoga. I've done some pilates.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
That's cute enough. Virtual reality, No, nah, that doesn't do
anything for me.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Really.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
I'd be if somebody said here, try this, I'd do it,
but I wouldn't I would stay in my own head
enough to realize that it's not It's not really an issue.
So whatever looks scary isn't scary, and I just stand
there and watch it happen. It'd be kind of funny
and interesting, I guess. And then go into a strip club.
Have you ever been to one of those?
Speaker 4 (35:31):
I have never been doing well?
Speaker 3 (35:34):
Never, Well, you're not missing anything, trust me. There's a
guy who say he's sitting with his wife in the
truck and he says, if I want She asked if
he liked going to those places, and he said, if
I was gonna spend a couple of hundred dollars hoping
something would happen that I really knew wasn't gonna happen,
I'd just take you to dinner.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Uh. One more?
Speaker 3 (35:59):
Do we have time for more?
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (36:00):
We have one minute? Okay, Oh that's perfect. It's kind
of appropriate.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
When is it my turn?
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Or back to harsh reality?
Speaker 2 (36:12):
When is it my turn?
Speaker 3 (36:14):
Somebody in New Jersey turned in one hundred dollars bill
that they found on the counter at a store. Hand
over the one hundred dollar bill while I'm here, give
me a lottery ticket. That's all I want is just
one little old lottery ticket and mister good Samaritan there.
It hadn't happened to me yet. I don't know if
(36:35):
it asked to you. This dude won a million bucks
on that ticket. He won a million bucks. Will I
do good things? I do the right thing every stinking day,
and I guess you know. My reward is just knowing
that I did.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
The right thing.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
And I wish, I wish everybody would recognize that as
an accomplishment. Just don't don't get mad at people for
no reason, don't get grumpy like an old man. Just
do it right. Five seconds, will Holy cow. We'll be
back tomorrow to wrap up the week. Thank you all
for listening. I'll see you then. Audios
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