October 29, 2024 • 36 mins
Today, Doug Pike discusses stuffing, health-related gadgets, and wrapping gifts.
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Well, this show is all about you. This is fifty
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Speaker 4 (00:56):
Oh my gosh, Welcome to Tuesday. A day behind my
first lap around Darmore Club out near Columbus. I gotta
tell you that was pretty good. Had a great time
a small group of friends from Texas Golf Media, including myself.
We played half the round with the director of Golf
out there, Nick Holligan, and then the other half with
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Hal Sutton. I also got to visit a few minutes
before we played with a man named Todd Barton, who's
the owner of the property on which that.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Pretty impressive golf course is built. I'm gonna have.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Hal on the phone with me Saturday morning at nine
by the way over on KBMME during the semi official
golf hour for that day, and I'm gonna dive in.
We're gonna talk about Darmore Club for a while, and
then I'll pick his brain on how golf has evolved
in recent years. That came up as a topic of
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discussion during lunch after the round over at Holl's house,
and it was really an interesting discussion on how and
why the game has changed the way it has, and
not just in how far people hit the ball, but
just how how people how people look at golf when
they go to play it, and a lot of it
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has to do with, as you can imagine, high technology,
the technology has changed at all.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
I'm gonna have him. We'll talk about that on Saturday.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
I don't want to I don't want to dwell on
it here, but the place is pretty darned and impressive.
If you get a chance to go out there, by
all means do and I'll have more on that over
the weekend. Shifting from golf to the weather, I don't
want to brag or anything will, but it actually rained
at my house twice yesterday in the early night. Wow
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yeah so yeah uh. And it wasn't it wasn't a downpour,
but it was a decent amount of rain both times,
and both times on the on the Weather Channel app
the there was kind of a light grin or maybe
a midtal green shade around sugar Land in general, and
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then kind of right over my house was like a
little light yellow thing where it's a little bit heavier rain.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
And sure enough this morning, I didn't dream it. There
was water all over my car, water all.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Over my son's truck, and still water all over the
grass that probably wouldn't have been there and certainly couldn't
be attributed to fog or mist or anything like that,
by the way, which is what I drove through about
thirty miles worth of the ride out to Darmore yesterday.
And you've driven in the fog right well enough times
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to know that it's nice if you've got somebody in
front of you with their tail lights on so you
can kind of get an idea of the distance between
you and the next car.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Yes, well, I was trying to take advantage of keeping
just close enough.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Where I could see that guy in the car in
front of me and not have to worry about me
crashing into something if he crashed into it first. Only
the guy was in an old white van, so it
wasn't even shiny. It was kind of like a matt
finish of white paint and no tail lights whatsoever. And
it was just like looking at a piece of square
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fog basically the whole time. But at least I could
make out the outline of the old rusty bumper and
the windows in the back. But other than that, I
was just I was almost flying blind and forced to
slow down a little bit just to make sure that
I stayed safe, which is.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
I've driven enough fog.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
I've driven in fog so bad will years ago on
the way out to a goose hunt in Sealy from
Katie that a long eye ten I and everybody else
on iten was doing maybe ten, twelve, maybe fifteen miles
an hour if it got to a light spot, And
at one point I literally had a guy who was
riding with me open the door on the passenger side
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to let me know where I was. On that right
side white stripe that designated where the lane was and
that was all we had to navigate. But it was
pretty rough, and I had four carloads of guys behind
me too, all trying to keep up, and it was.
It was a long ride to Sealy and then on
out toward Eagle Lake a little ways. I don't know
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that I've ever seen any thicker fog. I saw it
as thick sometimes out there, but it was it was
pretty rough. So going on into the weather, uh looking ahead,
look at men looking ahead Wednesday and Thursday holds solid
like seventy and eighty percent chances for widespread rain as
the pressure drops and a bunch of moisture gets sucked off.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
The Gulf of Mexico also going to be cooler, with
highs in the low eighties.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
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Speaker 3 (07:12):
Okay.
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I'm making no pretend like I'm making a note. And
then we'll move on markets. Markets thanks to Houston Gold
Exchange dot Com. As usual, it's green, green, green, like
what the spiders yell at NASCAR team drivers at the
start of a race coming out of turn four.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Green. Well, all except one.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
The Russell two thousand was down about half a point,
oil up as well, but still below sixty eight bucks
a barrel, which is nice for a change. And we
talked about this all the way back in the spring
and all the way through summer when gas prices were high.
What did we all know was coming lower gas prices
leading into the election.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
The trouble for the trouble for the left is they.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Can't do a darn thing about food prices, about electricity prices,
about water guy water bills, Holy cow, all of that stuff,
and pretty much all of it in some way, shape
or form attributable to four years of politics. Gold was
up crazy, up twenty three bucks and ounce. By the way,
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I'm sure Brad Twice is having a field day out there,
as he should, taking gold in and offering up a
fair market price for it. Anybody wants to bring something
out there, you're gonna get a nice, healthy return on
that little investment. No matter how small that little piece
of gold you have is, it probably be worth.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
The tank of gas.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
It was at almost two thousand, seven hundred and eighty
dollars an ounce last time I look. Will says we
need to go to a break. I'm not sure where
to go, but I think I'm gonna start in Alpine, Texas,
one of the most beautiful pieces of West Texas. You'll
find out there in the Big Ben inviting you to
celebrate an early Christmas from December fifth through the seventh.
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Out there, they've got plenty of room if you want
to go stay the whole weekend, long weekend. They've got
a schedule planned out for you. But you can really
do anything you want out there in Alpine, and everything
out there is a lot of fun.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
On Thursday, they're.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Recommending a stroll through the shops on Murphy Street and
Holland Avenue so you can get a little early Christmas
shop and done for.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
People you care about.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Then on Friday evening there's going to be just a
wonderful Christmas concert, and you can cat that long weekend
on Saturday with a tour of beautiful historic Adobe homes
decorated for the season on Alpine's Adobe Trail. Free stargazing
every night out in far West Texas. You drive a
couple of three miles outside of Alpine, get away from
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the few lights that there are in that little town,
and you will be treated to a night time sky
like you have never seen in your life. Go to
Historicalpine dot org. Just go there. Historicalpine Dot org and
click on the big box in the middle of that
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Speaker 2 (10:02):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
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 to
fifty plus.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Thanks for listening on this Tuesday morning afternoon.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Excuse me, got a little ahead of or behind myself.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
I guess it hasn't been morning for twenty minutes and
already I'm I got a lot going on this afternoon,
and a little bit it's in a little bit's on
my mind.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
We'll get through that, though, I know we will.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
In local news, in education news specifically, and you may
have already heard this story, and I hope you have,
and I hope all of you if you haven't, I
hope you'll pay attention here because this is somewhat telling
and it's frightening really that this went on innocent until
proven guilty. But at present comes word of a high
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school basketball coach who's alleged to have run a teacher
certification scheme that placed, if it's proven true, about two
hundred unqualified teachers in local classrooms. Now that's among thousands
of teachers in HISD. But nonetheless, nonetheless, it's still frightening
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that even one unqualified teacher could slip through the cracks
and into a classroom. The coach and four other people
have been charged. And this one shared in greater detail
at clicked to Houston and definitely worth a read. It's
no wonder our students don't seem to be learning on
pace with kids and other districts and other states and
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other countries, the importance of qualified, bonafide teachers, dedicated teachers
is highly underrated as far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
There's just I don't know.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
I think I think maybe the president should make the
most money in the country, then teachers, and then actors
and athletes, because their jobs, while entertaining, aren't nearly so
as important as those of teachers. If any of you,
by any chance in this audience like to fish, and
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you'll you'll understand why I'm at why I'm asking that
in just a second, and you like to volunteer.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Where is that dark look.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Kyle Lee, Oh, I'm just drawing a blank. Anyway, It's
down South Lake Jackson.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
There it is. It came back in my head just then,
Lake Jackson.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
You can volunteer to help Special Olympics Texas with its
East Region fishing competition down there at Sea Center, Texas.
And if you've never been to c Center, Texas, I
think you'll be in for a very pleasant surprise when
you find this magnificent place that's not only a giant
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aquarium with amazing exhibits, but it's also one of the
biggest hatcheries and fish rearing places in the state of
Texas as well. Millions upon millions of redfish fingerlings have
been grown there and eventually released into our base system
to help bring our red fish population. And they still
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do work with flounder as well. Tried spotted sea trout,
but spotted sea trout are a little bit too cannibalistic
turns out to really do much with them. Bottom line though,
is to help these kids, all you have to do
is just volunteer. They're gonna need people to do everything
from bait and hooks, tying knots, and cheering when big
fish get caught, and there will be fish caught. I
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know the ponds specifically that they're going to fish, and
those kids are gonna catch Fish November ninth, Sea Center
Texas on Lake Jackson. For details, go to the CEA
Center Texas website and look under events. Great opportunity to
help these kids and put smiles on all their faces.
From the Halloween desk comes news that the fun police
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have gotten involved up in New Jersey, where two towns
now prohibit kids older than fourteen from participating in Halloween. Pennsauken,
New Jersey, has done that since twenty seventeen. Way to go,
Pennsauken Upper Deerfield Township joined that wet blanket party this year.
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I kind of get it, honestly, if teenagers are being
teenagers and causing trouble and vandalizing things out in the
front yard, things like that. Down the street from me,
not many years ago, some friends had put out a
couple of inflatables in the front yard and kids, being
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idiot kids came by and slashed them a couple of times.
They slashed them the first time, the neighbor patched them
up and put them back up, and the kids came
back and did it again. And for those kids, no thanks,
Get them off the street and get them away from
all the decorations. But to shut it down for just
all teens fifteen and older because of the vandalism of
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a few or the whatever they're doing.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
I don't know. I think that's a little over the top.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Will you still going trick or treating?
Speaker 3 (15:32):
No? When'd you stop last year? Yeah? Probably some time
around then. What was your favorite costume you ever had
for Halloween? Well? One time I dressed up as a
nerd and Craig Biggio signed my glasses. He really, yes,
had a boy. Good for you, man, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
I came up in the era of it would have
been Superman probably number one.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Maybe Zorro. Are you familiar with Zorro? That was a
foil sword. Foil it's a skinny sword.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
The skinny sword, Yeah, that was him, and he would
carve his z What else back then? I can't Maybe,
I don't know. For the little kids, maybe Mickey Mouse
Mini Mouse. Disney's been around forever. That's enough of that, really,
nothing that exciting. From the Eyes in the Sky Desk
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comes a caution to those of you who might have
long flights in your holiday plans. I hadn't thought of
this before, but I got I got a pitch for
a product that is new in the eye care world,
and it really isn't applicable probably the most of this
older audience, but it's still the The cautions are worth
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mentioning here at least, especially if you wear contacts and
you have a long flight ahead of you somewhere during
the holidays or whenever. If you wear contacts, especially the
combination of airplane air, which is very dry and occasional
naps during that journey, can cause you some pretty bad
eye irritation. According to a company called Evo, it's ev
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OH that offers now an implantable columner lens that is
FDA approved and can help you avoid those dry, itchy
eyes by taking those contacts out and giving your eyes
a chance to lubricate themselves as they normally do. Like
I said, it doesn't work for a lot of us,
but if you're if you're a good candidate, maybe even
just at least ask your eye doctor if it's worth
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a closer look. No pun intended, but I'll take it
from the OH, from the we Gotta Go desk ro
we Gotta Go Yeah, UTAs Institute on Aging, that would
be a good place to go. Find an eye doctor
who could tell you about that implant and whether it's
a good thing for you or not. You T's Institute
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on Age is a collaborative effort, amongst other things, among
more than a thousand I'm going to go with that
from now on, because it's got to be. By this point,
they've been up and at it for more than ten
years now and recruiting more and more people to become
a part of the Institute on Aging, which means that
they have gone back to learn more about their specific
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discipline in medicine, whatever it may be, and so they
can apply it specifically all their knowledge, apply it more
specifically to.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Seniors that'd be us.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
They've also got a fantastic website that has just resource
after resource of value to anybody who's in our age category.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Go check it out yourself. Utch dot edu, slash aging,
uth dot edu, slash aging.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Once life without a Net, I suggest to go to bed,
sleep it off.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Just wait until the show's over.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Sleepy back that Doug Pike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Hi, welcome back to the Plus. Thanks for listen.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Certainly do appreciate you sharing your lunchtime with Will and me.
I had a boy I ate like a king yesterday
Holy Cow brisket, egg and cheese breakfast tacos at Darmore Club,
and I made the mistake. I didn't know because we
weren't teeing off until about ten o'clock, and I think,
you know, I probably ought to eat something for I
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go up there. So I grabbed a little something out
of Calatchi Factory on the way and then got up
there to find out that there were brisket, egg and
cheese tacos and couldn't help myself but to dive on
that sword, and then stayed hydrated throughout the round, and
then went over and had a delicious, delicious early dinner,
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late lunch, whatever you want to call it, over at Househouse.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
It was fantastic.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
If you, and well, if any of you really in
this audience are interested in what's going on in the election,
I'm deliberately steering clear of it at least this morning
or this afternoon, because, in case you didn't notice, frankly,
I'm growing weary of it. And anyone whose opinion can
be swayed at this point by anything that's being hammered
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into our brains is I don't know, you might want
to think about just well, I want you to vote.
I do, but try to at least put in a
little effort and figure out exactly what matters to you
most before next Tuesday or before you go drop something
in the box. It's really important, it really is. And
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one of the things that concerned me I saw this
morning is that in all of the swing states there
is no law against AI generated content in political ads,
and forty something percent I want to say it was
like forty three percent maybe of people just randomly polled.
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I don't know what their affiliation would be politically or
otherwise or anything about. There's no demographic information given, just
adults that many people for more than four out of
ten thought that they had seen artificial intelligence created ads
in there had passed by their ears or their eyes
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in the last several months, which is a little frightening.
One concern I have is that the election in general,
there's already been confirmation of unqualified people, people who should
not vote in this election, being registered to vote. And
on top of that, there was a court decision I
want to say, maybe yesterday even that said no, you.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Can't take them off the rolls.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
You got to leave them there and deal with it
at the I guess deal with it at the voting place,
which is just it's insane. There's no sense whatsoever. And
then on top of that, there were two fires deliberately
set at drop off ballot boxes up in the Northwest,
one I think in Oregon and one in Washington State.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
That's it.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
There's no way to figure out whose ballots were burned.
And equally implausible is the idea that they could those
people could be identified and allowed to take another swing
at it and hope nobody throws some sort of incendiary
device into the box. That's whoever did that. It really
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just doesn't get it. They really don't get it.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
So enough of that.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
I really I didn't mean to go back onto it
that quickly, but I did, And I'm sorry. I don't
want to talk about any of that from the cringe
factor desk. And this involves a political candidate, but still
it's it's not election news. Tim Walls in this relationship,
he apparently had. I heard about it this morning actually
when I was driving in with Jimmy and sheriff. The
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daughter of a high ranking official in the Chinese government
and Tim Wallas had a relationship that spanned quite a
significant amount of time, but wasn't allowed apparently to be
displayed in public. According to stories out today, she said
she wanted to marry him, and he broke it off
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because he believes she just more than him. She wanted
a US passport, so that didn't work out, but I
don't think it stopped him from going back to China
a bunch of times. Just that one just gets weirder
as you go into it. I'm like, I'm gonna jump
away from there. From the irony desk comes news that
the NFL, which is cracking down on finger gun gestures
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and throwing flags when it happens. Now, you see these
guys every now and then, they'll make a first down,
or they'll have a really good running play and then
jump up and point down the field with a couple
of fingers extended, an index and a middle finger or
just an index finger or whatever. There's no scene gesture
going on there. But that same NFL that's flagging players
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for just throwing up fingers to point in a direction,
not pointing them at another player, just pointing in a direction. Well,
that same NFL has hired a man whose stage name
is machine Gun Kelly. He's gonna perform at this international
game wherever it's gonna be played.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
I don't know when.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
Even Travis Kelcey jumps in say it's just absurd. This
is something that they've been doing. And he said it
very well. I'll quote him here. Unless you're doing it
at a defender.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
You got nothing.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
There's no reason, no reason to worry about it, none whatsoever.
Oh well, let's lighten it up a little bit, shall we. Okay,
what's in a name? Chin Chiller?
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Or not as easy as it looks? Ooh, not as
easy as it looks?
Speaker 4 (25:08):
People online talking about simple things that they're horrible at
and can you can you imagine just any of them
off the top.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Of your head?
Speaker 4 (25:17):
And these makes sense, they really do when you think
about them. On you Once I tell you, you'll say, yeah,
probably me too. You want to guess one, or you
want me to just jump get into it.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Okay. Wrapping gifts? How good are you at that?
Speaker 5 (25:33):
I'm okay at it? So I only do it, you know,
maybe once a year. Otherwise I'm just putting things into bags.
Yeah that boy, those bags made it easy, didn't they.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (25:44):
The bags and two pieces of tissue paper. You can
wrap a bicycle, of course? Uh got that. I'm what
are you liking between? If you had to grade yourself
on wrapping, what would it be?
Speaker 5 (25:56):
I would give myself see a I myself a C plus.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Myself a bee.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
I really would maybe a B minus, but a bee anyway,
because and I got that from my mother. She had
the decorative eye. She had the she always wrapped her
presence in. They wrap them beautifully, I'll just say it
that way. So good at that. The other ones are
how much posta to cook? And another one that a
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lot of people fumble with, even as adults if they're
not accustomed to it, And that's shuffling a deck of cards.
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Aged to perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
More cow Bell. Will remember that Saturday Night? Who doesn't
remember that Saturday Night Live It? That was pretty good?
Speaker 4 (28:29):
All right, Welcome back to fifty plus. Final segment of
the show starts right now. I'll give you some good
news and we'll go back to some interesting weird things.
Will and I Will team of grads from MIT is
putting people to sleep, literally with a advice that kind
of looks like a headband, but it actually is an
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EEG device, an electro and cephalogram that sends soothing audio
waves to the brain.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
It's like, oh, you need to fall asleep and just
stay asleep. They say, I put myself to sleep. I'm
so tired.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
They say it's an alternative to chemical sleep aids, which
have been in the news lately because many prescription versions
of sleep aids have been shown to potentially cause cognitive
decline and none of us want anything to do with that.
There's only small trials of this thing so far. You know,
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I kind of wonder if they'd like to try this
one on. I don't know an older guy who'd love
to sleep through the night maybe once or twice a
week and is on the radio pretty often, and sure
is sleepy sometimes.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Maybe just maybe, will you think you could reach out?
Oh I wasn't talking about myself. Oh no, no, just
does somebody else who's in radio and it's kind of tired.
Oh so everybody? Yeah? Pretty much? Yeah? I think so,
all right, here we go. Will, I'm going back to you.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
You're gonna stick with chin chiller and then no soup
for you or stuffed stuffed?
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Yeah, you might. What do you think it's about. I
think it's about being full, not.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
Necessarily No, and Campbell Soup's annual pole of Thanksgiving sides
we want the most in what it calls a shocking upset,
I think that's a little bit over dramatic.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
Stuffing. Will has overtaken mashed potatoes from the top spot.
I like stuffing a lot.
Speaker 5 (30:36):
I do too, but it's the only time of the
year that you ever eat stuffing, so it makes sense
that it would overtake mashed potatoes. You can have mashed
potatoes at any time. Well, you also can have stuffing
at any time. But how often do you eat mashed
potatoes in a year?
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (30:50):
Probably at least, I don't know. Maybe now you do not.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Mashed potatoes whenever I want? Can't you can? But do
you though?
Speaker 5 (31:04):
No?
Speaker 3 (31:05):
But I'm not.
Speaker 5 (31:06):
It's not stuffing. You're never getting stuffing outside of the end.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
Of November, not even at Christmas. No, dun't fire up
a brand new bird for Christmas. Come on, have some stuffing.
Don't lie to yourself, and don't lie to the audience.
I'm not okay, I'm gonna put you on the light detector.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
When you and your girlfriend sit down and try to
decide what you're gonna have for dinner, how often do
either of you say, I know what we need.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
We need mashed potatoes.
Speaker 5 (31:41):
Depends on what we're having. It's just zero. It depends
on what we're having. What you're gonna If you're gonna
cook up a little steak, you don't want a little
mashed potatoes with it.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
No, mashed potatoes reminds me more of beat loaf, all right,
or a pot row haven't had pot roast since I
don't know when, been a while, been a hot minute.
Usually it's just like l lobster and filets for US
surf and turf every night in the lap of luxury.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
Yeah, that's where I oh, yeah, that's where I am. Yeah,
you can count on that. All right, here we go, Will,
I'm gonna give you another one. I got a minute
or some couple of minutes important as wings best in America.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
But do they use it?
Speaker 3 (32:33):
But do they use it? This is a real short
and sweet.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
Eighty percent of Americans own at least one health related
gadget that could be a treadmill, that could be a
smart watch, one of those step trackers or whatever.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
But do they really use it? Of that? Of that,
where did go eighty percent? Will?
Speaker 4 (32:55):
What percentage of them do you think actively and vigorously
you who's their health related gadget?
Speaker 5 (33:03):
Out of the eighty percent, I'll say forty percent.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
I bet it's lowered in that treadmill.
Speaker 4 (33:10):
Every treadmill in America after six months becomes a hat
rack and a.
Speaker 5 (33:14):
Code Hamer smart watch. Then you probably have that on
your person, so it's counting those steps.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
Regard you ever had a smart watch? No, I have
weight watches. Well that's true. Yeah, you're you're of the
age when you look at your phone to see what
time it is, fair enough too, I mean, that's that's
how you grew up. I don't I'm not faulting you
for that.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
All right, let me hit one more counting sheep California
Go Gone Wild or slow speed chase counting shoe. So
glad you got this one. A woman in Minnesota recently
arrested for sheep rustling and this is only for the
fly fisherman in the audience. Does that make her a
wooly burglar? You know why I said that, because there
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is an artificial fly that fly fishermen throw this called
a wooly booger. Okay, but I just I kind of
played on words here and called her a wooly burglar
because she's stealing sheep.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
What does the wooly booger look like? It looks like,
you know what it looks like. It looks like a
pipe cleaner, A little fuzzier pipe cleaner. Like if a
pipe cleaner and a caterpillar, a fuzzy caterpillar had a baby.
That's what a wooly booger would look at. You use
it to catch catch almost anything on it. It's a
great bass fly.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
It's a great uh in smaller versions of great panfish fly,
there's some some people use them in.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
Salt water, very very versatile fly. I will give it that.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
H got a minute and a half. Hmm, I'll tell you.
I'll just give you some good news. There is video
out of California for the change. Is something good that
came out of there. And I was so happy to
see this has this happy ending. So don't worry about
it when I start. This girl, eleven year old girl
being followed home by I mean, she's walking home from school, okay,
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And she's walking down the street and there's video security
camera video from somebody's home of a man getting out
of a car and walking hastily behind her in effort
to catch up to her. And just as he catches
up and is putting hands on her, you hear this voice,
a woman's voice screaming, Hey, leave her alone, get away
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from her, leave her alone. And I don't know where
this woman was, she's not in the view from the camera,
but she's letting him know that he's he's not gonna
get away with this somehow, some way, and he backs
off and he walks off. They still haven't found this guy,
but they know what he's driving, and they know what
he looks like. He kind of so hopefully, hopefully they'll
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catch this guy. I was really glad to see that one.
Happy endings are my favorite. Oh I've got a Turtles
sorry for tomorrow too? Will you'll love this one. That's
it for today. We'll see you then. Audios
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Speaker 4 (00:56):
Oh my gosh, Welcome to Tuesday. A day behind my
first lap around Darmore Club out near Columbus. I gotta
tell you that was pretty good. Had a great time
a small group of friends from Texas Golf Media, including myself.
We played half the round with the director of Golf
out there, Nick Holligan, and then the other half with
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Hal Sutton. I also got to visit a few minutes
before we played with a man named Todd Barton, who's
the owner of the property on which that.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Pretty impressive golf course is built. I'm gonna have.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Hal on the phone with me Saturday morning at nine
by the way over on KBMME during the semi official
golf hour for that day, and I'm gonna dive in.
We're gonna talk about Darmore Club for a while, and
then I'll pick his brain on how golf has evolved
in recent years. That came up as a topic of
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discussion during lunch after the round over at Holl's house,
and it was really an interesting discussion on how and
why the game has changed the way it has, and
not just in how far people hit the ball, but
just how how people how people look at golf when
they go to play it, and a lot of it
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has to do with, as you can imagine, high technology,
the technology has changed at all.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
I'm gonna have him. We'll talk about that on Saturday.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
I don't want to I don't want to dwell on
it here, but the place is pretty darned and impressive.
If you get a chance to go out there, by
all means do and I'll have more on that over
the weekend. Shifting from golf to the weather, I don't
want to brag or anything will, but it actually rained
at my house twice yesterday in the early night. Wow
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yeah so yeah uh. And it wasn't it wasn't a downpour,
but it was a decent amount of rain both times,
and both times on the on the Weather Channel app
the there was kind of a light grin or maybe
a midtal green shade around sugar Land in general, and
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then kind of right over my house was like a
little light yellow thing where it's a little bit heavier rain.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
And sure enough this morning, I didn't dream it. There
was water all over my car, water all.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Over my son's truck, and still water all over the
grass that probably wouldn't have been there and certainly couldn't
be attributed to fog or mist or anything like that,
by the way, which is what I drove through about
thirty miles worth of the ride out to Darmore yesterday.
And you've driven in the fog right well enough times
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to know that it's nice if you've got somebody in
front of you with their tail lights on so you
can kind of get an idea of the distance between
you and the next car.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Yes, well, I was trying to take advantage of keeping
just close enough.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Where I could see that guy in the car in
front of me and not have to worry about me
crashing into something if he crashed into it first. Only
the guy was in an old white van, so it
wasn't even shiny. It was kind of like a matt
finish of white paint and no tail lights whatsoever. And
it was just like looking at a piece of square
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fog basically the whole time. But at least I could
make out the outline of the old rusty bumper and
the windows in the back. But other than that, I
was just I was almost flying blind and forced to
slow down a little bit just to make sure that
I stayed safe, which is.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
I've driven enough fog.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
I've driven in fog so bad will years ago on
the way out to a goose hunt in Sealy from
Katie that a long eye ten I and everybody else
on iten was doing maybe ten, twelve, maybe fifteen miles
an hour if it got to a light spot, And
at one point I literally had a guy who was
riding with me open the door on the passenger side
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to let me know where I was. On that right
side white stripe that designated where the lane was and
that was all we had to navigate. But it was
pretty rough, and I had four carloads of guys behind
me too, all trying to keep up, and it was.
It was a long ride to Sealy and then on
out toward Eagle Lake a little ways. I don't know
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that I've ever seen any thicker fog. I saw it
as thick sometimes out there, but it was it was
pretty rough. So going on into the weather, uh looking ahead,
look at men looking ahead Wednesday and Thursday holds solid
like seventy and eighty percent chances for widespread rain as
the pressure drops and a bunch of moisture gets sucked off.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
The Gulf of Mexico also going to be cooler, with
highs in the low eighties.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Starting tomorrow and running right through the weekend and without
further ado well highs and lows in Haiku. Courtesy of
Texas Air Quality Specialists Texas Indoor Air Quality Specialists. They
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Oh you gotta just go to dial pound two fifty
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they'll tell you all about it.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
So here we go.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Well you're ready, Yes, rain on Halloween.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Not much fun for trick or treat, but lawns will
love it, alright, just from that one word, I have.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Put a score down, all right. It's it's a six.
Only six. It's just to not point anything, not point anything.
Just six on the dot.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Okay, never mind, come on, show me what you have.
I had six five, Okay. I thought I could get
to there at least with that. It was topical. It's timely,
and it's something that's on everybody's mind. But it's not timeless, ug,
and that's what I'm looking You're looking for time less.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
I'm making no pretend like I'm making a note. And
then we'll move on markets. Markets thanks to Houston Gold
Exchange dot Com. As usual, it's green, green, green, like
what the spiders yell at NASCAR team drivers at the
start of a race coming out of turn four.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Green. Well, all except one.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
The Russell two thousand was down about half a point,
oil up as well, but still below sixty eight bucks
a barrel, which is nice for a change. And we
talked about this all the way back in the spring
and all the way through summer when gas prices were high.
What did we all know was coming lower gas prices
leading into the election.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
The trouble for the trouble for the left is they.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Can't do a darn thing about food prices, about electricity prices,
about water guy water bills, Holy cow, all of that stuff,
and pretty much all of it in some way, shape
or form attributable to four years of politics. Gold was
up crazy, up twenty three bucks and ounce. By the way,
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I'm sure Brad Twice is having a field day out there,
as he should, taking gold in and offering up a
fair market price for it. Anybody wants to bring something
out there, you're gonna get a nice, healthy return on
that little investment. No matter how small that little piece
of gold you have is, it probably be worth.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
The tank of gas.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
It was at almost two thousand, seven hundred and eighty
dollars an ounce last time I look. Will says we
need to go to a break. I'm not sure where
to go, but I think I'm gonna start in Alpine, Texas,
one of the most beautiful pieces of West Texas. You'll
find out there in the Big Ben inviting you to
celebrate an early Christmas from December fifth through the seventh.
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Out there, they've got plenty of room if you want
to go stay the whole weekend, long weekend. They've got
a schedule planned out for you. But you can really
do anything you want out there in Alpine, and everything
out there is a lot of fun.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
On Thursday, they're.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Recommending a stroll through the shops on Murphy Street and
Holland Avenue so you can get a little early Christmas
shop and done for.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
People you care about.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Then on Friday evening there's going to be just a
wonderful Christmas concert, and you can cat that long weekend
on Saturday with a tour of beautiful historic Adobe homes
decorated for the season on Alpine's Adobe Trail. Free stargazing
every night out in far West Texas. You drive a
couple of three miles outside of Alpine, get away from
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the few lights that there are in that little town,
and you will be treated to a night time sky
like you have never seen in your life. Go to
Historicalpine dot org. Just go there. Historicalpine Dot org and
click on the big box in the middle of that
page Doricalpine dot org.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
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 to
fifty plus.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Thanks for listening on this Tuesday morning afternoon.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Excuse me, got a little ahead of or behind myself.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
I guess it hasn't been morning for twenty minutes and
already I'm I got a lot going on this afternoon,
and a little bit it's in a little bit's on
my mind.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
We'll get through that, though, I know we will.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
In local news, in education news specifically, and you may
have already heard this story, and I hope you have,
and I hope all of you if you haven't, I
hope you'll pay attention here because this is somewhat telling
and it's frightening really that this went on innocent until
proven guilty. But at present comes word of a high
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school basketball coach who's alleged to have run a teacher
certification scheme that placed, if it's proven true, about two
hundred unqualified teachers in local classrooms. Now that's among thousands
of teachers in HISD. But nonetheless, nonetheless, it's still frightening
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that even one unqualified teacher could slip through the cracks
and into a classroom. The coach and four other people
have been charged. And this one shared in greater detail
at clicked to Houston and definitely worth a read. It's
no wonder our students don't seem to be learning on
pace with kids and other districts and other states and
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other countries, the importance of qualified, bonafide teachers, dedicated teachers
is highly underrated as far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
There's just I don't know.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
I think I think maybe the president should make the
most money in the country, then teachers, and then actors
and athletes, because their jobs, while entertaining, aren't nearly so
as important as those of teachers. If any of you,
by any chance in this audience like to fish, and
(12:30):
you'll you'll understand why I'm at why I'm asking that
in just a second, and you like to volunteer.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Where is that dark look.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Kyle Lee, Oh, I'm just drawing a blank. Anyway, It's
down South Lake Jackson.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
There it is. It came back in my head just then,
Lake Jackson.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
You can volunteer to help Special Olympics Texas with its
East Region fishing competition down there at Sea Center, Texas.
And if you've never been to c Center, Texas, I
think you'll be in for a very pleasant surprise when
you find this magnificent place that's not only a giant
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aquarium with amazing exhibits, but it's also one of the
biggest hatcheries and fish rearing places in the state of
Texas as well. Millions upon millions of redfish fingerlings have
been grown there and eventually released into our base system
to help bring our red fish population. And they still
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do work with flounder as well. Tried spotted sea trout,
but spotted sea trout are a little bit too cannibalistic
turns out to really do much with them. Bottom line though,
is to help these kids, all you have to do
is just volunteer. They're gonna need people to do everything
from bait and hooks, tying knots, and cheering when big
fish get caught, and there will be fish caught. I
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know the ponds specifically that they're going to fish, and
those kids are gonna catch Fish November ninth, Sea Center
Texas on Lake Jackson. For details, go to the CEA
Center Texas website and look under events. Great opportunity to
help these kids and put smiles on all their faces.
From the Halloween desk comes news that the fun police
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have gotten involved up in New Jersey, where two towns
now prohibit kids older than fourteen from participating in Halloween. Pennsauken,
New Jersey, has done that since twenty seventeen. Way to go,
Pennsauken Upper Deerfield Township joined that wet blanket party this year.
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I kind of get it, honestly, if teenagers are being
teenagers and causing trouble and vandalizing things out in the
front yard, things like that. Down the street from me,
not many years ago, some friends had put out a
couple of inflatables in the front yard and kids, being
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idiot kids came by and slashed them a couple of times.
They slashed them the first time, the neighbor patched them
up and put them back up, and the kids came
back and did it again. And for those kids, no thanks,
Get them off the street and get them away from
all the decorations. But to shut it down for just
all teens fifteen and older because of the vandalism of
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a few or the whatever they're doing.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
I don't know. I think that's a little over the top.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Will you still going trick or treating?
Speaker 3 (15:32):
No? When'd you stop last year? Yeah? Probably some time
around then. What was your favorite costume you ever had
for Halloween? Well? One time I dressed up as a
nerd and Craig Biggio signed my glasses. He really, yes,
had a boy. Good for you, man, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
I came up in the era of it would have
been Superman probably number one.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Maybe Zorro. Are you familiar with Zorro? That was a
foil sword. Foil it's a skinny sword.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
The skinny sword, Yeah, that was him, and he would
carve his z What else back then? I can't Maybe,
I don't know. For the little kids, maybe Mickey Mouse
Mini Mouse. Disney's been around forever. That's enough of that, really,
nothing that exciting. From the Eyes in the Sky Desk
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comes a caution to those of you who might have
long flights in your holiday plans. I hadn't thought of
this before, but I got I got a pitch for
a product that is new in the eye care world,
and it really isn't applicable probably the most of this
older audience, but it's still the The cautions are worth
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mentioning here at least, especially if you wear contacts and
you have a long flight ahead of you somewhere during
the holidays or whenever. If you wear contacts, especially the
combination of airplane air, which is very dry and occasional
naps during that journey, can cause you some pretty bad
eye irritation. According to a company called Evo, it's ev
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OH that offers now an implantable columner lens that is
FDA approved and can help you avoid those dry, itchy
eyes by taking those contacts out and giving your eyes
a chance to lubricate themselves as they normally do. Like
I said, it doesn't work for a lot of us,
but if you're if you're a good candidate, maybe even
just at least ask your eye doctor if it's worth
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a closer look. No pun intended, but I'll take it
from the OH, from the we Gotta Go desk ro
we Gotta Go Yeah, UTAs Institute on Aging, that would
be a good place to go. Find an eye doctor
who could tell you about that implant and whether it's
a good thing for you or not. You T's Institute
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on Age is a collaborative effort, amongst other things, among
more than a thousand I'm going to go with that
from now on, because it's got to be. By this point,
they've been up and at it for more than ten
years now and recruiting more and more people to become
a part of the Institute on Aging, which means that
they have gone back to learn more about their specific
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discipline in medicine, whatever it may be, and so they
can apply it specifically all their knowledge, apply it more
specifically to.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Seniors that'd be us.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
They've also got a fantastic website that has just resource
after resource of value to anybody who's in our age category.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Go check it out yourself. Utch dot edu, slash aging,
uth dot edu, slash aging.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Once life without a Net, I suggest to go to bed,
sleep it off.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Just wait until the show's over.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Sleepy back that Doug Pike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Hi, welcome back to the Plus. Thanks for listen.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Certainly do appreciate you sharing your lunchtime with Will and me.
I had a boy I ate like a king yesterday
Holy Cow brisket, egg and cheese breakfast tacos at Darmore Club,
and I made the mistake. I didn't know because we
weren't teeing off until about ten o'clock, and I think,
you know, I probably ought to eat something for I
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go up there. So I grabbed a little something out
of Calatchi Factory on the way and then got up
there to find out that there were brisket, egg and
cheese tacos and couldn't help myself but to dive on
that sword, and then stayed hydrated throughout the round, and
then went over and had a delicious, delicious early dinner,
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late lunch, whatever you want to call it, over at Househouse.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
It was fantastic.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
If you, and well, if any of you really in
this audience are interested in what's going on in the election,
I'm deliberately steering clear of it at least this morning
or this afternoon, because, in case you didn't notice, frankly,
I'm growing weary of it. And anyone whose opinion can
be swayed at this point by anything that's being hammered
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into our brains is I don't know, you might want
to think about just well, I want you to vote.
I do, but try to at least put in a
little effort and figure out exactly what matters to you
most before next Tuesday or before you go drop something
in the box. It's really important, it really is. And
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one of the things that concerned me I saw this
morning is that in all of the swing states there
is no law against AI generated content in political ads,
and forty something percent I want to say it was
like forty three percent maybe of people just randomly polled.
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I don't know what their affiliation would be politically or
otherwise or anything about. There's no demographic information given, just
adults that many people for more than four out of
ten thought that they had seen artificial intelligence created ads
in there had passed by their ears or their eyes
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in the last several months, which is a little frightening.
One concern I have is that the election in general,
there's already been confirmation of unqualified people, people who should
not vote in this election, being registered to vote. And
on top of that, there was a court decision I
want to say, maybe yesterday even that said no, you.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Can't take them off the rolls.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
You got to leave them there and deal with it
at the I guess deal with it at the voting place,
which is just it's insane. There's no sense whatsoever. And
then on top of that, there were two fires deliberately
set at drop off ballot boxes up in the Northwest,
one I think in Oregon and one in Washington State.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
That's it.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
There's no way to figure out whose ballots were burned.
And equally implausible is the idea that they could those
people could be identified and allowed to take another swing
at it and hope nobody throws some sort of incendiary
device into the box. That's whoever did that. It really
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just doesn't get it. They really don't get it.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
So enough of that.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
I really I didn't mean to go back onto it
that quickly, but I did, And I'm sorry. I don't
want to talk about any of that from the cringe
factor desk. And this involves a political candidate, but still
it's it's not election news. Tim Walls in this relationship,
he apparently had. I heard about it this morning actually
when I was driving in with Jimmy and sheriff. The
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daughter of a high ranking official in the Chinese government
and Tim Wallas had a relationship that spanned quite a
significant amount of time, but wasn't allowed apparently to be
displayed in public. According to stories out today, she said
she wanted to marry him, and he broke it off
(23:21):
because he believes she just more than him. She wanted
a US passport, so that didn't work out, but I
don't think it stopped him from going back to China
a bunch of times. Just that one just gets weirder
as you go into it. I'm like, I'm gonna jump
away from there. From the irony desk comes news that
the NFL, which is cracking down on finger gun gestures
(23:45):
and throwing flags when it happens. Now, you see these
guys every now and then, they'll make a first down,
or they'll have a really good running play and then
jump up and point down the field with a couple
of fingers extended, an index and a middle finger or
just an index finger or whatever. There's no scene gesture
going on there. But that same NFL that's flagging players
(24:10):
for just throwing up fingers to point in a direction,
not pointing them at another player, just pointing in a direction. Well,
that same NFL has hired a man whose stage name
is machine Gun Kelly. He's gonna perform at this international
game wherever it's gonna be played.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
I don't know when.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
Even Travis Kelcey jumps in say it's just absurd. This
is something that they've been doing. And he said it
very well. I'll quote him here. Unless you're doing it
at a defender.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
You got nothing.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
There's no reason, no reason to worry about it, none whatsoever.
Oh well, let's lighten it up a little bit, shall we. Okay,
what's in a name? Chin Chiller?
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Or not as easy as it looks? Ooh, not as
easy as it looks?
Speaker 4 (25:08):
People online talking about simple things that they're horrible at
and can you can you imagine just any of them
off the top.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Of your head?
Speaker 4 (25:17):
And these makes sense, they really do when you think
about them. On you Once I tell you, you'll say, yeah,
probably me too. You want to guess one, or you
want me to just jump get into it.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Okay. Wrapping gifts? How good are you at that?
Speaker 5 (25:33):
I'm okay at it? So I only do it, you know,
maybe once a year. Otherwise I'm just putting things into bags.
Yeah that boy, those bags made it easy, didn't they.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (25:44):
The bags and two pieces of tissue paper. You can
wrap a bicycle, of course? Uh got that. I'm what
are you liking between? If you had to grade yourself
on wrapping, what would it be?
Speaker 5 (25:56):
I would give myself see a I myself a C plus.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Myself a bee.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
I really would maybe a B minus, but a bee anyway,
because and I got that from my mother. She had
the decorative eye. She had the she always wrapped her
presence in. They wrap them beautifully, I'll just say it
that way. So good at that. The other ones are
how much posta to cook? And another one that a
(26:24):
lot of people fumble with, even as adults if they're
not accustomed to it, And that's shuffling a deck of cards.
Shuffling a deck of cards. And we got to shuffle
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Speaker 1 (28:05):
Aged to perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
More cow Bell. Will remember that Saturday Night? Who doesn't
remember that Saturday Night Live It? That was pretty good?
Speaker 4 (28:29):
All right, Welcome back to fifty plus. Final segment of
the show starts right now. I'll give you some good
news and we'll go back to some interesting weird things.
Will and I Will team of grads from MIT is
putting people to sleep, literally with a advice that kind
of looks like a headband, but it actually is an
(28:50):
EEG device, an electro and cephalogram that sends soothing audio
waves to the brain.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
It's like, oh, you need to fall asleep and just
stay asleep. They say, I put myself to sleep. I'm
so tired.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
They say it's an alternative to chemical sleep aids, which
have been in the news lately because many prescription versions
of sleep aids have been shown to potentially cause cognitive
decline and none of us want anything to do with that.
There's only small trials of this thing so far. You know,
(29:27):
I kind of wonder if they'd like to try this
one on. I don't know an older guy who'd love
to sleep through the night maybe once or twice a
week and is on the radio pretty often, and sure
is sleepy sometimes.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Maybe just maybe, will you think you could reach out?
Oh I wasn't talking about myself. Oh no, no, just
does somebody else who's in radio and it's kind of tired.
Oh so everybody? Yeah? Pretty much? Yeah? I think so,
all right, here we go. Will, I'm going back to you.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
You're gonna stick with chin chiller and then no soup
for you or stuffed stuffed?
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Yeah, you might. What do you think it's about. I
think it's about being full, not.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
Necessarily No, and Campbell Soup's annual pole of Thanksgiving sides
we want the most in what it calls a shocking upset,
I think that's a little bit over dramatic.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
Stuffing. Will has overtaken mashed potatoes from the top spot.
I like stuffing a lot.
Speaker 5 (30:36):
I do too, but it's the only time of the
year that you ever eat stuffing, so it makes sense
that it would overtake mashed potatoes. You can have mashed
potatoes at any time. Well, you also can have stuffing
at any time. But how often do you eat mashed
potatoes in a year?
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (30:50):
Probably at least, I don't know. Maybe now you do not.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Mashed potatoes whenever I want? Can't you can? But do
you though?
Speaker 5 (31:04):
No?
Speaker 3 (31:05):
But I'm not.
Speaker 5 (31:06):
It's not stuffing. You're never getting stuffing outside of the end.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
Of November, not even at Christmas. No, dun't fire up
a brand new bird for Christmas. Come on, have some stuffing.
Don't lie to yourself, and don't lie to the audience.
I'm not okay, I'm gonna put you on the light detector.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
When you and your girlfriend sit down and try to
decide what you're gonna have for dinner, how often do
either of you say, I know what we need.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
We need mashed potatoes.
Speaker 5 (31:41):
Depends on what we're having. It's just zero. It depends
on what we're having. What you're gonna If you're gonna
cook up a little steak, you don't want a little
mashed potatoes with it.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
No, mashed potatoes reminds me more of beat loaf, all right,
or a pot row haven't had pot roast since I
don't know when, been a while, been a hot minute.
Usually it's just like l lobster and filets for US
surf and turf every night in the lap of luxury.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
Yeah, that's where I oh, yeah, that's where I am. Yeah,
you can count on that. All right, here we go, Will,
I'm gonna give you another one. I got a minute
or some couple of minutes important as wings best in America.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
But do they use it?
Speaker 3 (32:33):
But do they use it? This is a real short
and sweet.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
Eighty percent of Americans own at least one health related
gadget that could be a treadmill, that could be a
smart watch, one of those step trackers or whatever.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
But do they really use it? Of that? Of that,
where did go eighty percent? Will?
Speaker 4 (32:55):
What percentage of them do you think actively and vigorously
you who's their health related gadget?
Speaker 5 (33:03):
Out of the eighty percent, I'll say forty percent.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
I bet it's lowered in that treadmill.
Speaker 4 (33:10):
Every treadmill in America after six months becomes a hat
rack and a.
Speaker 5 (33:14):
Code Hamer smart watch. Then you probably have that on
your person, so it's counting those steps.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
Regard you ever had a smart watch? No, I have
weight watches. Well that's true. Yeah, you're you're of the
age when you look at your phone to see what
time it is, fair enough too, I mean, that's that's
how you grew up. I don't I'm not faulting you
for that.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
All right, let me hit one more counting sheep California
Go Gone Wild or slow speed chase counting shoe. So
glad you got this one. A woman in Minnesota recently
arrested for sheep rustling and this is only for the
fly fisherman in the audience. Does that make her a
wooly burglar? You know why I said that, because there
(33:56):
is an artificial fly that fly fishermen throw this called
a wooly booger. Okay, but I just I kind of
played on words here and called her a wooly burglar
because she's stealing sheep.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
What does the wooly booger look like? It looks like,
you know what it looks like. It looks like a
pipe cleaner, A little fuzzier pipe cleaner. Like if a
pipe cleaner and a caterpillar, a fuzzy caterpillar had a baby.
That's what a wooly booger would look at. You use
it to catch catch almost anything on it. It's a
great bass fly.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
It's a great uh in smaller versions of great panfish fly,
there's some some people use them in.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
Salt water, very very versatile fly. I will give it that.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
H got a minute and a half. Hmm, I'll tell you.
I'll just give you some good news. There is video
out of California for the change. Is something good that
came out of there. And I was so happy to
see this has this happy ending. So don't worry about
it when I start. This girl, eleven year old girl
being followed home by I mean, she's walking home from school, okay,
(35:06):
And she's walking down the street and there's video security
camera video from somebody's home of a man getting out
of a car and walking hastily behind her in effort
to catch up to her. And just as he catches
up and is putting hands on her, you hear this voice,
a woman's voice screaming, Hey, leave her alone, get away
(35:30):
from her, leave her alone. And I don't know where
this woman was, she's not in the view from the camera,
but she's letting him know that he's he's not gonna
get away with this somehow, some way, and he backs
off and he walks off. They still haven't found this guy,
but they know what he's driving, and they know what
he looks like. He kind of so hopefully, hopefully they'll
(35:54):
catch this guy. I was really glad to see that one.
Happy endings are my favorite. Oh I've got a Turtles
sorry for tomorrow too? Will you'll love this one. That's
it for today. We'll see you then. Audios
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