February 14, 2025 • 38 mins
Today, Doug Pike discusses gumdrops, chocolate, and Igloo recalls.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hey John, how's it going today? Well, this show is
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Speaker 1 (00:27):
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Speaker 2 (00:46):
All right, Friday edition of the program starts right now. Will,
and I just well, you weren't exactly lamenting the loss
of Alec Bregman where you were just commenting on it.
That's correct, he's a Red Sox apparently. Now I think
it was what for years, five.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Jillion dollars year, one hundred and twenty million, forty million
dollars a year.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
And now you know where loyalty stands. There is no loyalcy.
I was just talking about this with Will. I think
a lot of these players, a lot of players who
come out of college come from other countries wherever they originate.
Their their dream is to play big League baseball. And
as soon as they get a sniff of big League
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baseball and show any any glimmer that they might become stars,
an agent gets hold of them, and in some cases
a really good agent, And if they don't have a
great agent when they start, if their value goes up,
they'll fire whoever got them to where they are as
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quick as they can and find somebody like Boros who
will try to make them rich rich richer, a tricher.
And that guy, he's not doing it for his health.
He's he's making what will probably ten percent, fifteen percent.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I've had ten percent. That seems like the average cut
for an age agencies here. Agencies in media get fifteen percent,
so why wouldn't they in sports? I don't know anyway, Well,
those contracts are so big though, maybe ten percent is enough.
Either way, the incentive for the agent to get the
biggest money possible is pretty obvious as well. If you
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can sign him for forty million dollars a year, you
just got yourself a four million dollar paycheck per year.
That's not bad, though takes us a couple of months
to make.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
That kind of money. Will maybe you no, no, no, no, no,
don't you worry? Will uh No, I'm not making forty million.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
If I'm hearing that you're making four million dollars and
I'm not seeing a dime of it. We're gonna have
if we're gonna have some issues, Doug.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Trust me. Will just you're you're now, we're we're all good.
Let's just move forward, shall we? Only forty million dollars?
I'm not sure I can count that? H we did
establish yesterday?
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Though?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Was it that the Did I ever talk with you
about the Yeah, we talked about the highest number ever counted.
Why would you stop there? You've been at it for
what four or five days now?
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Probably tired?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Yeah, well, but just go one more, just to just
to intimidate anybody who wants to come along and beat it.
Don't let them have the easy one one million and one.
In fact, take it all the way up to one
million and six, and then they have to come up
with another syllable to get to one million in set.
Then make them work for it, will, don't give it away.
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Anybody can count to a million?
Speaker 4 (03:55):
All right, do it right now.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
I got a hunch i'd still be on when I
needed to go on the air for my outdoor show tomorrow.
So we're gonna pass, okay, Is that all right with you?
That's fine, all right, So Weather Texas Indoor Air Quality Specialists,
thank you for presenting this to us, and in so doing,
I will let well, by the way, I'll let you
know that cleaner air is healthier air, of course, and
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what Texas IAQ does is clean your duct work in
your house. In fact, I gotta get man, I got
to get him out, and I get one of his
guys out anyway to come check the duct or. I've
got to change out the upstairs duct work. It's been
in that house so long that it's kind of it's
sort of the insulation in the duct work has kind
of collapsed and just falling down to the bottom where
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I'm losing cold out of the wrapper basically is all
that's left on the top of that stuff. And so
great cold air coming out of the unit. But by
the time it gets to a vent more than ten
or fifteen feet away, it's the air is already warming
up because it's one hundred thousand degrees in the oven
or in the attic. So anyway, clearer air is healthier air.
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Texas iaq dot Net, you go there and you'll find
out what they do for you, and they do it
very very well. We have a little tiny chance of
rain this afternoon. I'm gonna bet no better chance tomorrow,
I'd bet probably, And then Sunday and Monday actually looked
pretty good, and Tuesday and Wednesday do not allegedly as
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in presuming forecasts are innocently accurate until proven otherwise. That's
what we've got ahead of us. Or you can just
wait until you wake up tomorrow and figure out whether
it's raining or not. Depends on what kind of plans
you have, if you're going to the fishing show, by
the way, that fiftieth annual where I was yesterday afternoon
and had a great time, Actually I really did. I've
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ran into a lot of people, a lot of people
I haven't seen in a while, some in a long while,
and it's the unofficial opening of spring as far as
I'm concerned, and it gets everybody fired up about fishing again.
I'll tell you more about that little bit looking at
the markets. Thanks to Houston goold Exchange dot com. Something
just popped into my head. Well you're too young for this,
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I think, But there was a show on Saturday mornings
when I was a kid called Romper Room. Have you
ever heard of that?
Speaker 4 (06:15):
I have never heard of that.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
This woman would come out toward the end of the
show and she would be holding up this this mirror
like a like a dresser mirror, if you will, and
she would be looking in it and seeing her own
reflection and saying, Romper, I looked it up to make
sure I could get it right. Romper Bumper stomper boo,
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tell me, tell me, tell me do And then it
went on and on from there, and then the camera
would kind of fade off of her, and when it
faded back, the mirror had become invisible and you could
see right through it, and she was asking She would say,
and I see Will and I see Doug, like she
could see into the audience, and it was just magical.
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When she called your name, I don't think I ever
heard Doug though. I don't think. I think they just
stuck with the most common name so they could so
they could thrill the most commonly named little children. There
was also there was another show on Channel thirteen called Kitttererick.
Have you ever heard of that? No? Kittererick was hosted
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by a young woman named Bunny Orsak, who wore into
the studio for the taping of these shows a black
leotard with a long tail, and the little cat ears
kind of like Catwoman in a Batman movie. And she
entertained kids on Saturday mornings from nineteen fifty four to
nineteen seventy one, and if you go look her up,
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I would suspect that there were a lot of dads
sitting around the TV that Saturday morning time, you know,
just to keep an eye on the kids. So anyway,
the four big indicators split down the middle, half up,
half up down. Little oil was down, actually, that was good.
Started the day a little green Finally tad beneath seventy
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one dollars actually but kind of waffling in both directions.
Around ten thirty Gold also stumbled a bit down thirty
three bucks and change, but still hovering above the twenty
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Speaker 1 (09:54):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash them, check us throuid,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike seven of Friday's edition.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Here of fifty plus rolls on, Thank you for listening.
Certainly appreciate you sharing the middle of your What are
we rounded third and headed home? To borrow that baseball
reference again? There are all kinds of references to baseball
in life, aren't there really? Growing up? And there are
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just so many. I don't want to get into it
all right now. Bottom line is baseball is I think
still is America's game. Football wants to claim it's taken over.
Some would say that someday soccer will be a mayor's game,
but I think soccer's got a long ways to go
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before it's got a shot at truly taking over. Even
with people moving here from all over the world, they
come here and they also get introduced to our sports,
traditional baseball and football. Baseball is the same around the world,
unless you go to cricket. I guess that's the closest
in some parts of the world. But I digress. In
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the news, local news Katie based Igloo. Have you seen
that big factory out there?
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Will? Of course, I used to drive by it all
the time when I would head back out to college.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Oh where did you go off for gott?
Speaker 4 (11:38):
I went to Trinity University in San Antonio.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Okay, yeah, so yeah, you definitely had to pass the
Igloo plant. I was out there for many years during
waterfowl season and actually had hunts. This is how undeveloped
the prairie was back then. There were in late in
the season. The birds didn't like to be close to
an interstate. It was kind of a busy for him.
But late in the season when there wasn't much food left,
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and especially a few years when when there was so
much rice being grown, even that little chunk of land
between the Igloo Plant and the freeway in the High Interstate,
that little strip there was all rice, and the geese,
because they were out of food elsewhere, would dump in
there and work. And I actually guided hunts in that
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little strip of land. And when we hunted there, we
didn't bring a dog for obvious reasons. Somebody stupid enough
to run out in the interstate and get hit trying
to pick up a goose. Well that's on them. But
I wasn't gonna send my dog out there, and I
wouldn't let anybody else bring theirs either. The dogs either
had to stay in the car, and good waterfowl dogs
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hated staying in the car while we were out there hunting,
and sometimes you'd go back in the entire front seat
and dashboard. I know at least one time this guy's
dog just said, Okay, you're never going to leave me
in the truck again. And he absolutely that dog absolutely
destroyed that guy's seats and his dashboard in his car,
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in his truck just gone, just reduced to rubble. So
back to Igloo. Here's the deal. They have had to
recall more than a million ninety quart flipping toe rolling
coolers after consumers reported they were recalling millions of these things. Well,
how many accidents do you think they had where people
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had finger injuries including lacerations, a few fractures, even partial
amputations caused by the toe handle on the cooler. How
many accidents prompted this million plus recall.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
I'm gonna go with two hundred twelve, now twelve.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
And I you know, if it's a problem. It's a problem.
I guess that's why you recall them, because even twelve
is I guess if you're one of those twelve, you
don't want it happening to anybody else. And probably another
guess I would make is that Igloo might be tired
of having to pay for all those injuries if any
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more were to occur, especially now that now that it's
it's known. I guess there's a little I don't know.
Do you think they get a break now that they've
recalled those things so let people know that they could
be dangerous. Do they get a break from litigation? I
don't know.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
No, probably not. I mean the damage was already done. No,
I don't mean for that twelve. I'm talking about number thirteen.
Oh no, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
I mean, like I think that that implies that everybody
is keeping up to date on when it's.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Just go to recalls dot com every day. Just check
it out. I've got one on my car. I was
talking to Joe Dogget yesterday, as a matter of fact,
going down to the Fishing Show about it, because he
and I share we drive the same making model car.
His is just one year older than mine. And we
both have gotten this recall. And the problem is that
every time I've called them, and this has been going
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on for quite some time, and every time I've called
a dealership, I've called multiple dealerships, and they always tell
me we don't have the parts. If you want to
leave the car here for a month or two, we'll
we'll put it in line. They want me to leave
my car there for a month to do a recall,
and I'm sorry, but I don't have another car that
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I can just hop into and drive. There's a pretty
funny bit that some guy does about his brother in
law being kind of up at he and having a
lot of money and talking about how one week the
Benz was in the in the shop so he had
to take the beamer. And this guy goes, yeah, we
were out at dinner the other night, all of us,
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and I told my friend my my civic was in
the shop, so I had to take the bus. I
thought that was a pretty good line. You like that,
you're smiling. That's a good one. Okay, I'm just checking.
I have to look over the top of this monitors see.
I can see your eyes, but your eyes are not
terribly expressive, except with the eyebrow raises. I catch you
on those sometimes, all right. So anyway, that's where that's
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what's been recalled. Let me tell you where they were
sold in just in case. That would have been Target
Costco Academy and Dick's Sporting Goods, and they would have
a date code. I don't know where that would be
on them. The date code would be December of twenty
twenty three or earlier. Okay, So let that be a
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warning to all the parents of young or teenage select baseball, soccer, lacrosse,
tennis teams, whatever. All these afternoon and morning, early morning
and all day long tournaments these kids play in that
cost you way more than an igloo cooler, I can
assure you, unless it's made of gold or something. My
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son's summer league baseball will take a stab. Five tournaments
so far that we know of that. That's all five
tournaments officially on the roster, and of course practice is included.
And two of those tournaments are out of the I mean,
like way far away. Gotta spend two or three nights
away from home. What's what's it gonna cost me to play? No, well,
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for him to play, oh, five tournaments.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Five tournaments.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Probably.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
I mean it's gotta be a few thousand dollars to it.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Yeah, twenty five hundred bucks. Twenty five hundred bucks. That
boy better come home sharp. You better have some you
better have some skills when he gets better have some hardware.
Well no, no, trust me, the hardware you get for
winning a kids baseball tournament. It's not four years, two
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hundred million dollars. It's not that or whatever. It was
five years four What was it for Bregman?
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Yeah, three twelve, something like three years, one.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Hundred and twenty. Oh yeah, one hundred and twenty not
four million, forty million dollars.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Yeah, four millions the cut of the age.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Oh, that's right. Yeah, Scott Boros, and he's got a
he's got several players who are in that stratospheric calendar caliber.
And yeah, that guy's doing okay for himself. He must
be a tough negotiator. I guess if you stick to
your guns and you've got really good talent, you can
get it. Uh. Oh, I have very little time left,
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so let me shift over to the switch over to Oh,
by the way, what national day is it? Let me
see if it's on your little official thing here. No,
not Valentine's Day either, we already know that.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Well, it has to just be Valentine's dad cares what
the other one is.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Well, are you really you really want to just ignore
National Gum Drop Day? Will cum drop? When is the
last time you had a gum I was gonna ask
you the same story. It's got to have been, I
would conservatively, I'd have to say a couple of years,
maybe more war I don't know what are are are
dots considered gum drops? Yeah, let's go with that. Then
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that then it's more recent.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Yeah, I would say, But I feel like the only
time I ever had dots was during Halloween, so it probably.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
You get them at the movies or just too expensive.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
No, I don't think I was more of a Junior
Mints if I was gonna go.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
To upity dude, dude, pretty hot cotting there, Man, what's
wrong with junior Mints or off Twizzlers? I like twin
Whizzlers is more down to earth that. Yeah, that's just
that's commoner's candy. Really, man, When you you go up
into the stratosphere of junior Mints, Holy cow, man.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
I didn't know that this was the Dugpike judgmental.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Hour're not judging you. I'm just saying, wow, money to
throw around like that junior mints. Wow you probably get
large popcorn, dude, didn't you? So what there you go again.
I'm sharing it with people. Yeah, sure, yeah, I'll take
that all right. Let me get out of here. A
Late Health the clinics around town. I think my right
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contact just moved off of my eyes somehow. Sorry. I
can see out of my right eye pretty good. Don't
need it for this. I've been talking about a late
health so long. I can do it with my eyes
closed and maybe I will watch me well. A late
health is a group of vascular clinics around town where
they do surgical well procedures. Not necessarily surgical, but I
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guess they are in many regards. Bottom line is they
can take care of a lot of things. The probably
the procedure they do most often is prostate artery embolization,
which helps men. And if you have the symptoms of this,
you know it. You know it's horrible. You don't want them,
and you can make them go away with one quick
maybe two, two and a half hour visit to a
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late health. You'll need somebody to drive you home because
they're gonna they're gonna take you down for this. They're
gonna knock you out, and when you wake up, that's
when you will already have started to experience these drinking
of that prostate to where along with it as it shrinks,
go the symptoms of it, and that'll make you a happier,
healthier guy for a long time. Also help with fibroids
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in women. They help with some types of head pain
that could actually be treated with vascular shut down around
your head and even fibroids in women. And they also
do regenerative medicine, by the way, which is tremendously effective
with chronic pain. Much of what they do is covered
by Medicare and Medicaid. You need to call them, find
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out what they can do for you and see whether
what you need done is covered, and they'll they'll figure
out a way to get you helped out the best
they can. Seven to one, three five, eight, eight, thirty
eight eighty eight. Seven to one, three, five, eight, eight
thirty eight eighty eight what's life without a NET? I
suggest you go to bed, sleep it off.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Just wait until the show's over. Sleepy Back to Dougpike
as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
All right, welcome back to fifty plus twelve thirty six
in the afternoon this Friday, and not a bad friday.
I don't believe. I haven't looked outside for a while,
but I suspect it's not bad. Glad you listening. You
are listening this afternoon. I do appreciate that. As always.
I'm gonna go back out to the Fishing Show tomorrow afternoon.
I can't stand it. I gotta go back. I've got
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a couple of more people I want to talk to
and see if I can't find a few things great
to talk about for Sunday. I actually got an interview.
I've got one tomorrow, got one tomorrow morning at nine
o'clock with a guy named Ellis Pickett, who I've known
for several decades. Actually we are way way way back.
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And I found out from Joe Dogget yesterday when he
and I drove down to the Fishing Show together that
tomorrow is the grand opening. It's kind of a quiet
grand opening. It's not the official public grand opening, but anyway,
there is now a Texas Surf Museum in Galveston. I'm
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not gonna tell you where it is. I'm not gonna
tell you anything about it, and it's not open to
the public tomorrow, I don't believe. But they are teeing
it up with dignitaries, and unfortunately I won't be able
to get down there tomorrow. But the long and the
short of it is, I'm gonna talk to Ellis about
what's in the museum, how it came to be, and
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all sorts of stuff in relation to the Texas surfing scene,
which has been around a little bit longer than I
think some of you might suspect. Even in this audience,
I know there are probably a lot of you who
grew up in the late sixties into the seventies and
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maybe did some surfing back then. I know I did
almost every week at least once, even going into winter.
We'd go down there and pull on wetsuits and paddle
out and then freezing cold water, and you go for
about thirty forty minutes until your toes went numb and
your fingertips went numb, and your lips were numb, and
then you'd come in and peel that wet suit off
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and sit in the car and turn on the heater
for a little while and then climb back into that
wetsuit and go out there and do it again. And
it was some. It was rough. It was rough. Where
am I going? Okay, here's an interesting story I found
this morning from Fox News about why liberal women report
being less happy than other women in this country. It
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was a study of thousands of American women found that
fifty one percent, and this is just one piece of
the puzzle, fifty one percent of conservative women eighteen to
forty in this country are married, more than half, slightly
but more than half. Only about thirty one percent of
women who identify as being liberal in that same age
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age group are married. It also found that conservative women
recognize a biological difference between women and men, whereas liberal
women tended not to recognize that difference so readily. And
since humans are social animals, we're hardwired, if you will,
to seek out companionship and long term relationships. It would
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kind of seem likely then that people who choose to
believe other than along that line at least, and it's
their right, they can believe whatever they want. I'm not
gonna I'm not going to try to change people that
who don't want to change. That's not my business. That's
their business, but what they believe might be somewhat responsible
for that group also being ranked among the least happy
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subsets of Americans overall. Speaking of liberals, both men and women,
some are some of them are pointing fingers now at
Elon Musk and they keep looking for different ways to
deflect what's going on. They're trying to say now that
he lacks the credentials and clearance necessary to dive into
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this nation's finances. Well, he actually has top secret clearance,
which was necessary to clear him for building rockets stuff
like that for us. They don't really care about that though.
What they care about is him having a clear line
of sight into all the money this government wastes on
a daily basis. Every day we're learning more and more
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and more about how many, how many of the tax
dollars of yours in mind, are just being flushed down
the toilet or burned in a barrel to support programs
by politicians who in some way, shape or form benefit
from funding those projects they're running. They're scared, and what
they're doing is they're screaming at the top of their lungs,
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but fewer and fewer people, it turns out are listening
to that, and we've got people in place now to
plug the leaks and let the legal chips fall where
they may, and they will fall, and a lot of
people aren't going to like it. Only recently doze In
Musk discovered I think I've already talked about this. The
retirement files of tens of thousands of federal employees are
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in Manila folders, buried underground in an old limestone mine,
where thousands of people work to keep track manually, one
paper page at a time of all that data, and
of course does is also a voice concern over how
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many people, some of them allegedly as old as one
hundred and fifty years one hundred and fifty and they're
still collecting Social Security or disability benefits or both. Whole
federal government just leaks like a sieve, and Musk is
charged with plugging those leaks. And hey, he's certainly not
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in it for the money. We know that he's not
in it for notoriety. He's already got that. He's not
in it for fame. He's already got that. He's just
in it because he wants to fix it. And that's
who we need in the place for that real quickly?
Will three percent of people hate all forms of chocolate?
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Are you in that group?
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Or no? All forms of chocolate?
Speaker 2 (28:16):
All forms of chocolate? Are there? Are there specific forms
of chocolate you hate?
Speaker 4 (28:22):
I don't know if I necessarily go towards dark chocolate
just because I don't like the bitterness of it.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
You know that's the most healthy, though.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
Yeah, that's why I don't want it.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
You just want just greasy, old milk chocolate, don't you?
Speaker 4 (28:37):
What's wrong with that?
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Nothing? Nothing? Really. I saw on my way out today
that my wife had bought me a box of Reese's
peanut butter cups, the little little ones, in a heart
shaped box. And I don't know how many of the
are in there, but I know that by tonight there
won't be nearly as many. If there are any left,
I'm not sure there will be, because once I start knows,
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it's kind of difficult to stop. A kind of fishing lures.
Speaking of watch this will the fiftieth Annual Fishing Show
happens to be ongoing at the George R. Brown Convention Center,
where it's been housed for many many years now, all
the way through Sunday afternoon. I think they'll shut the
doors around three. Let everybody start kind of bailing out
of there and getting everything out. Everything you can imagine
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for fishermen is under that roof. Now it's at the
far with the north end. I believe it is. Yeah,
the north end. I think of the George R. Brown. Yeah,
it faces north and south. It's at the north end,
and it occupies a ton of space as always, and
it is filled with people who can listen to your
stories or you can hear their stories about fishing. You
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can ask them any question you want about any of
the equipment you see in there, and the people who
can answer those questions intelligently are there. They are going
to be the ones you'll see at the Houston Fishing Show.
This isn't just a place to go buy stuff. This
is a place to learn about fishing. There are guides there,
there are outfitters there, there are you name it. If
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check out the seminar schedule and see if you can
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The reason I'm going back tomorrow is because I spent
three hours in there and I still there are still
aisles that I haven't even walked down once yet. So
I'll be back tomorrow and happy as a clam to
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This is fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, fourth
and final segment. The program starts right now. I hope
you're enjoying this race to the finish line. On Friday's
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edition of fifty plus. I had such a good conversation
with the people over at the Institute on Aging today too,
I really did. I'm excited. I'm excited about the future
of the show. I'm excited about what I can do
for them and they can do for us. And they've
done plenty over the years, and the relationship is only
about to grow stronger. We're gonna have a lot more collaboration,
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We're gonna have a lot more room for interviews on
things that are important to all of us in our
age group. And I've actually got the support now of
someone who is younger. She is at the age where
her parents are important and their health are greatly important,
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and her even grandparents who raised her. It's a long story.
It's a long story, but a wonderful, wonderful conversation this morning,
thrilled to death. As if you needed more evidence that
a high percential or percentage percential? What the heck is
a percential? Will if I coined a new phrase? Have
I created a new word again?
Speaker 4 (32:16):
Will think you just stumbled?
Speaker 2 (32:19):
That could be it too. Anyway, A high percentage of
illegal immigrants have no intention whatsoever of assimilating and are
more interested just in restructuring America. It's seeming to be
a woman in California at a park looks to be
a state park in California arrested this week for taking
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down the American flag and replacing it with a Mexican
flag while claiming loudly as liberals tend to do, just
boldly claiming that she was on Mexican land, and then
as she was being arrested, this is where she may
have crossed the line. That's going to cost her dearly.
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She told the arresting officers that she was going to
have her family kill all of them, said it more
than once too, all on video, all on the old
body cams, and that I think is going to get
her in a lot, a whole lot of trouble on
the same subject. By the way, plans for yet another
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operation scheduled by ICE to remove dangerous illegal immigrants in
Los Angeles has been foiled by a leak. This time
The La Times actually got hands on a leaked document
and turned it over, so maybe we can figure out
who did it this time that shared those plans with
the gang members and the criminals who were set for
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arrested deportation. The problem with doing this is that it
not only gives the criminals a chance to escape, and
you've probably heard people on the news talking about this
already unless you listen to liberal Bologne news, what it
does is it endangers the lives of everybody involved in
these roundups because so far the criminals have chosen to
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run away when they hear that Ice is coming for him.
But at some point some of these guys are violent
enough and well armed enough that they're going to hold
up in an apartment or in an apartment complex and
ambush these people who are there only to enforce the law.
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And at that point, yet another line is going to
have been crossed. US Attorney General Pambondi made it clear
this week that anybody who leaks this type of information
and inhibits the ability of law enforcement to do his
job without risking their safety, anybody who does that, this
could it would apply to innocent people too, because people
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who live in an apartment complex called the crossfire. Maybe
if if a firefight breaks out, she's gonna go after him.
She and to the fullest excent of law. These people
are going to be prosecuted. And already we found out
just this week most of the fingers being pointed down
as to the source of the league are within the FBI.
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And that's frightening that people sworn to uphold the code
of the FBI and the Constitution of the United States
have decided they don't need to do that. Now, It's okay,
we're just going to do this instead. We're just going
to do this instead. Found something else that I thought
was pretty interesting. Let me see if I could get
back to it. Is it here? Yes, Tom Homan Borders
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are launched an investigation into the one the only Alexandria
Ocassio Cortes and her webinar that was designed to show
illegal immigrants how to improve or well worse than the
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odds that they might get caught and deported by using
certain resistance tactics that were taught in the rebinar of
the webinar. Goy LEA it did it again? Will? These
aren't new words, are they? They're just fumbles. It's not
like I've caught a pass and then running over the
goal line. I fumbled the word ball in that case again. Anyway,
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AOC if nothing else, might end up getting the plug
pulled on federal money that's currently going to New York
City's empty wallet. That whole that used to be, and
it used to be it's not anymore. It used to
be one of the most amazing cities on the planet,
and it's got way too many illegal immigrants living in
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luxury hotels while Americans all over this country victims of fire,
victims of flood, victims of hurricanes, victims of just bad luck.
For some Americans have They're left on the street, they
have nowhere to go, they have no money they have.
The insurance companies are giving them trouble. But we're taking
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care of these people who just danced across the border
the last four or five years. Very frustrating four years.
That's the worst of it. And a miracle of miracles.
It's the leaks are plugged, basically, and hardly anybody trying
to get in here now, and I think that's going
to continue. Will do you want? We've got a minute,
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so a waste of time, But who's gonna waste more time?
Fact checking it up in smoke? Or all about the
spin up and smoke up in smoke And there's kind
of a it's a follow up, all about the spins
of follow ups. I use this to get to the end.
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Nobody knows for sure when the fire hydrant was invented.
You know why will because the patent for the fire
hydrant was lost in a fire out in California. The
wildfires might be a disaster for wine grapes, even if
they're just exposed to smoke in the air, not just
the fire, not fire, but just to smoke. However, a
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new study finds that wineries may have success using the
smokiness in the wine as a perk. That's apparently a
lot of bourbons get that. They get that smoky flavor.
Maybe it'll work with wine too, Who knows. Will you
a big wine drinker, No, nor am I, So we'll
never know, but it's fun to it's fun to guess.
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We'll be back Tuesday. Thank you very much for listening,
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Speaker 2 (00:46):
All right, Friday edition of the program starts right now. Will,
and I just well, you weren't exactly lamenting the loss
of Alec Bregman where you were just commenting on it.
That's correct, he's a Red Sox apparently. Now I think
it was what for years, five.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Jillion dollars year, one hundred and twenty million, forty million
dollars a year.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
And now you know where loyalty stands. There is no loyalcy.
I was just talking about this with Will. I think
a lot of these players, a lot of players who
come out of college come from other countries wherever they originate.
Their their dream is to play big League baseball. And
as soon as they get a sniff of big League
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baseball and show any any glimmer that they might become stars,
an agent gets hold of them, and in some cases
a really good agent, And if they don't have a
great agent when they start, if their value goes up,
they'll fire whoever got them to where they are as
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quick as they can and find somebody like Boros who
will try to make them rich rich richer, a tricher.
And that guy, he's not doing it for his health.
He's he's making what will probably ten percent, fifteen percent.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I've had ten percent. That seems like the average cut
for an age agencies here. Agencies in media get fifteen percent,
so why wouldn't they in sports? I don't know anyway, Well,
those contracts are so big though, maybe ten percent is enough.
Either way, the incentive for the agent to get the
biggest money possible is pretty obvious as well. If you
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can sign him for forty million dollars a year, you
just got yourself a four million dollar paycheck per year.
That's not bad, though takes us a couple of months
to make.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
That kind of money. Will maybe you no, no, no, no, no,
don't you worry? Will uh No, I'm not making forty million.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
If I'm hearing that you're making four million dollars and
I'm not seeing a dime of it. We're gonna have
if we're gonna have some issues, Doug.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Trust me. Will just you're you're now, we're we're all good.
Let's just move forward, shall we? Only forty million dollars?
I'm not sure I can count that? H we did
establish yesterday?
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Though?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Was it that the Did I ever talk with you
about the Yeah, we talked about the highest number ever counted.
Why would you stop there? You've been at it for
what four or five days now?
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Probably tired?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Yeah, well, but just go one more, just to just
to intimidate anybody who wants to come along and beat it.
Don't let them have the easy one one million and one.
In fact, take it all the way up to one
million and six, and then they have to come up
with another syllable to get to one million in set.
Then make them work for it, will, don't give it away.
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Anybody can count to a million?
Speaker 4 (03:55):
All right, do it right now.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
I got a hunch i'd still be on when I
needed to go on the air for my outdoor show tomorrow.
So we're gonna pass, okay, Is that all right with you?
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I'm losing cold out of the wrapper basically is all
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great cold air coming out of the unit. But by
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or fifteen feet away, it's the air is already warming
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Texas iaq dot Net, you go there and you'll find
out what they do for you, and they do it
very very well. We have a little tiny chance of
rain this afternoon. I'm gonna bet no better chance tomorrow,
I'd bet probably, And then Sunday and Monday actually looked
pretty good, and Tuesday and Wednesday do not allegedly as
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in presuming forecasts are innocently accurate until proven otherwise. That's
what we've got ahead of us. Or you can just
wait until you wake up tomorrow and figure out whether
it's raining or not. Depends on what kind of plans
you have, if you're going to the fishing show, by
the way, that fiftieth annual where I was yesterday afternoon
and had a great time, Actually I really did. I've
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ran into a lot of people, a lot of people
I haven't seen in a while, some in a long while,
and it's the unofficial opening of spring as far as
I'm concerned, and it gets everybody fired up about fishing again.
I'll tell you more about that little bit looking at
the markets. Thanks to Houston goold Exchange dot com. Something
just popped into my head. Well you're too young for this,
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I think, But there was a show on Saturday mornings
when I was a kid called Romper Room. Have you
ever heard of that?
Speaker 4 (06:15):
I have never heard of that.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
This woman would come out toward the end of the
show and she would be holding up this this mirror
like a like a dresser mirror, if you will, and
she would be looking in it and seeing her own
reflection and saying, Romper, I looked it up to make
sure I could get it right. Romper Bumper stomper boo,
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tell me, tell me, tell me do And then it
went on and on from there, and then the camera
would kind of fade off of her, and when it
faded back, the mirror had become invisible and you could
see right through it, and she was asking She would say,
and I see Will and I see Doug, like she
could see into the audience, and it was just magical.
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When she called your name, I don't think I ever
heard Doug though. I don't think. I think they just
stuck with the most common name so they could so
they could thrill the most commonly named little children. There
was also there was another show on Channel thirteen called Kitttererick.
Have you ever heard of that? No? Kittererick was hosted
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by a young woman named Bunny Orsak, who wore into
the studio for the taping of these shows a black
leotard with a long tail, and the little cat ears
kind of like Catwoman in a Batman movie. And she
entertained kids on Saturday mornings from nineteen fifty four to
nineteen seventy one, and if you go look her up,
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I would suspect that there were a lot of dads
sitting around the TV that Saturday morning time, you know,
just to keep an eye on the kids. So anyway,
the four big indicators split down the middle, half up,
half up down. Little oil was down, actually, that was good.
Started the day a little green Finally tad beneath seventy
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one dollars actually but kind of waffling in both directions.
Around ten thirty Gold also stumbled a bit down thirty
three bucks and change, but still hovering above the twenty
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Speaker 1 (09:54):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash them, check us throuid,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike seven of Friday's edition.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Here of fifty plus rolls on, Thank you for listening.
Certainly appreciate you sharing the middle of your What are
we rounded third and headed home? To borrow that baseball
reference again? There are all kinds of references to baseball
in life, aren't there really? Growing up? And there are
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just so many. I don't want to get into it
all right now. Bottom line is baseball is I think
still is America's game. Football wants to claim it's taken over.
Some would say that someday soccer will be a mayor's game,
but I think soccer's got a long ways to go
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before it's got a shot at truly taking over. Even
with people moving here from all over the world, they
come here and they also get introduced to our sports,
traditional baseball and football. Baseball is the same around the world,
unless you go to cricket. I guess that's the closest
in some parts of the world. But I digress. In
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the news, local news Katie based Igloo. Have you seen
that big factory out there?
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Will? Of course, I used to drive by it all
the time when I would head back out to college.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Oh where did you go off for gott?
Speaker 4 (11:38):
I went to Trinity University in San Antonio.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Okay, yeah, so yeah, you definitely had to pass the
Igloo plant. I was out there for many years during
waterfowl season and actually had hunts. This is how undeveloped
the prairie was back then. There were in late in
the season. The birds didn't like to be close to
an interstate. It was kind of a busy for him.
But late in the season when there wasn't much food left,
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and especially a few years when when there was so
much rice being grown, even that little chunk of land
between the Igloo Plant and the freeway in the High Interstate,
that little strip there was all rice, and the geese,
because they were out of food elsewhere, would dump in
there and work. And I actually guided hunts in that
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little strip of land. And when we hunted there, we
didn't bring a dog for obvious reasons. Somebody stupid enough
to run out in the interstate and get hit trying
to pick up a goose. Well that's on them. But
I wasn't gonna send my dog out there, and I
wouldn't let anybody else bring theirs either. The dogs either
had to stay in the car, and good waterfowl dogs
(12:45):
hated staying in the car while we were out there hunting,
and sometimes you'd go back in the entire front seat
and dashboard. I know at least one time this guy's
dog just said, Okay, you're never going to leave me
in the truck again. And he absolutely that dog absolutely
destroyed that guy's seats and his dashboard in his car,
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in his truck just gone, just reduced to rubble. So
back to Igloo. Here's the deal. They have had to
recall more than a million ninety quart flipping toe rolling
coolers after consumers reported they were recalling millions of these things. Well,
how many accidents do you think they had where people
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had finger injuries including lacerations, a few fractures, even partial
amputations caused by the toe handle on the cooler. How
many accidents prompted this million plus recall.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
I'm gonna go with two hundred twelve, now twelve.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
And I you know, if it's a problem. It's a problem.
I guess that's why you recall them, because even twelve
is I guess if you're one of those twelve, you
don't want it happening to anybody else. And probably another
guess I would make is that Igloo might be tired
of having to pay for all those injuries if any
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more were to occur, especially now that now that it's
it's known. I guess there's a little I don't know.
Do you think they get a break now that they've
recalled those things so let people know that they could
be dangerous. Do they get a break from litigation? I
don't know.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
No, probably not. I mean the damage was already done. No,
I don't mean for that twelve. I'm talking about number thirteen.
Oh no, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
I mean, like I think that that implies that everybody
is keeping up to date on when it's.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Just go to recalls dot com every day. Just check
it out. I've got one on my car. I was
talking to Joe Dogget yesterday, as a matter of fact,
going down to the Fishing Show about it, because he
and I share we drive the same making model car.
His is just one year older than mine. And we
both have gotten this recall. And the problem is that
every time I've called them, and this has been going
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on for quite some time, and every time I've called
a dealership, I've called multiple dealerships, and they always tell
me we don't have the parts. If you want to
leave the car here for a month or two, we'll
we'll put it in line. They want me to leave
my car there for a month to do a recall,
and I'm sorry, but I don't have another car that
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I can just hop into and drive. There's a pretty
funny bit that some guy does about his brother in
law being kind of up at he and having a
lot of money and talking about how one week the
Benz was in the in the shop so he had
to take the beamer. And this guy goes, yeah, we
were out at dinner the other night, all of us,
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and I told my friend my my civic was in
the shop, so I had to take the bus. I
thought that was a pretty good line. You like that,
you're smiling. That's a good one. Okay, I'm just checking.
I have to look over the top of this monitors see.
I can see your eyes, but your eyes are not
terribly expressive, except with the eyebrow raises. I catch you
on those sometimes, all right. So anyway, that's where that's
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what's been recalled. Let me tell you where they were
sold in just in case. That would have been Target
Costco Academy and Dick's Sporting Goods, and they would have
a date code. I don't know where that would be
on them. The date code would be December of twenty
twenty three or earlier. Okay, So let that be a
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warning to all the parents of young or teenage select baseball, soccer, lacrosse,
tennis teams, whatever. All these afternoon and morning, early morning
and all day long tournaments these kids play in that
cost you way more than an igloo cooler, I can
assure you, unless it's made of gold or something. My
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son's summer league baseball will take a stab. Five tournaments
so far that we know of that. That's all five
tournaments officially on the roster, and of course practice is included.
And two of those tournaments are out of the I mean,
like way far away. Gotta spend two or three nights
away from home. What's what's it gonna cost me to play? No, well,
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for him to play, oh, five tournaments.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Five tournaments.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Probably.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
I mean it's gotta be a few thousand dollars to it.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Yeah, twenty five hundred bucks. Twenty five hundred bucks. That
boy better come home sharp. You better have some you
better have some skills when he gets better have some hardware.
Well no, no, trust me, the hardware you get for
winning a kids baseball tournament. It's not four years, two
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hundred million dollars. It's not that or whatever. It was
five years four What was it for Bregman?
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Yeah, three twelve, something like three years, one.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Hundred and twenty. Oh yeah, one hundred and twenty not
four million, forty million dollars.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Yeah, four millions the cut of the age.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Oh, that's right. Yeah, Scott Boros, and he's got a
he's got several players who are in that stratospheric calendar caliber.
And yeah, that guy's doing okay for himself. He must
be a tough negotiator. I guess if you stick to
your guns and you've got really good talent, you can
get it. Uh. Oh, I have very little time left,
(18:29):
so let me shift over to the switch over to Oh,
by the way, what national day is it? Let me
see if it's on your little official thing here. No,
not Valentine's Day either, we already know that.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Well, it has to just be Valentine's dad cares what
the other one is.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Well, are you really you really want to just ignore
National Gum Drop Day? Will cum drop? When is the
last time you had a gum I was gonna ask
you the same story. It's got to have been, I
would conservatively, I'd have to say a couple of years,
maybe more war I don't know what are are are
dots considered gum drops? Yeah, let's go with that. Then
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that then it's more recent.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Yeah, I would say, But I feel like the only
time I ever had dots was during Halloween, so it probably.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
You get them at the movies or just too expensive.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
No, I don't think I was more of a Junior
Mints if I was gonna go.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
To upity dude, dude, pretty hot cotting there, Man, what's
wrong with junior Mints or off Twizzlers? I like twin
Whizzlers is more down to earth that. Yeah, that's just
that's commoner's candy. Really, man, When you you go up
into the stratosphere of junior Mints, Holy cow, man.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
I didn't know that this was the Dugpike judgmental.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Hour're not judging you. I'm just saying, wow, money to
throw around like that junior mints. Wow you probably get
large popcorn, dude, didn't you? So what there you go again.
I'm sharing it with people. Yeah, sure, yeah, I'll take
that all right. Let me get out of here. A
Late Health the clinics around town. I think my right
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contact just moved off of my eyes somehow. Sorry. I
can see out of my right eye pretty good. Don't
need it for this. I've been talking about a late
health so long. I can do it with my eyes
closed and maybe I will watch me well. A late
health is a group of vascular clinics around town where
they do surgical well procedures. Not necessarily surgical, but I
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guess they are in many regards. Bottom line is they
can take care of a lot of things. The probably
the procedure they do most often is prostate artery embolization,
which helps men. And if you have the symptoms of this,
you know it. You know it's horrible. You don't want them,
and you can make them go away with one quick
maybe two, two and a half hour visit to a
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late health. You'll need somebody to drive you home because
they're gonna they're gonna take you down for this. They're
gonna knock you out, and when you wake up, that's
when you will already have started to experience these drinking
of that prostate to where along with it as it shrinks,
go the symptoms of it, and that'll make you a happier,
healthier guy for a long time. Also help with fibroids
(21:10):
in women. They help with some types of head pain
that could actually be treated with vascular shut down around
your head and even fibroids in women. And they also
do regenerative medicine, by the way, which is tremendously effective
with chronic pain. Much of what they do is covered
by Medicare and Medicaid. You need to call them, find
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out what they can do for you and see whether
what you need done is covered, and they'll they'll figure
out a way to get you helped out the best
they can. Seven to one, three five, eight, eight, thirty
eight eighty eight. Seven to one, three, five, eight, eight
thirty eight eighty eight what's life without a NET? I
suggest you go to bed, sleep it off.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Just wait until the show's over. Sleepy Back to Dougpike
as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
All right, welcome back to fifty plus twelve thirty six
in the afternoon this Friday, and not a bad friday.
I don't believe. I haven't looked outside for a while,
but I suspect it's not bad. Glad you listening. You
are listening this afternoon. I do appreciate that. As always.
I'm gonna go back out to the Fishing Show tomorrow afternoon.
I can't stand it. I gotta go back. I've got
(22:32):
a couple of more people I want to talk to
and see if I can't find a few things great
to talk about for Sunday. I actually got an interview.
I've got one tomorrow, got one tomorrow morning at nine
o'clock with a guy named Ellis Pickett, who I've known
for several decades. Actually we are way way way back.
(22:53):
And I found out from Joe Dogget yesterday when he
and I drove down to the Fishing Show together that
tomorrow is the grand opening. It's kind of a quiet
grand opening. It's not the official public grand opening, but anyway,
there is now a Texas Surf Museum in Galveston. I'm
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not gonna tell you where it is. I'm not gonna
tell you anything about it, and it's not open to
the public tomorrow, I don't believe. But they are teeing
it up with dignitaries, and unfortunately I won't be able
to get down there tomorrow. But the long and the
short of it is, I'm gonna talk to Ellis about
what's in the museum, how it came to be, and
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all sorts of stuff in relation to the Texas surfing scene,
which has been around a little bit longer than I
think some of you might suspect. Even in this audience,
I know there are probably a lot of you who
grew up in the late sixties into the seventies and
(23:55):
maybe did some surfing back then. I know I did
almost every week at least once, even going into winter.
We'd go down there and pull on wetsuits and paddle
out and then freezing cold water, and you go for
about thirty forty minutes until your toes went numb and
your fingertips went numb, and your lips were numb, and
then you'd come in and peel that wet suit off
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and sit in the car and turn on the heater
for a little while and then climb back into that
wetsuit and go out there and do it again. And
it was some. It was rough. It was rough. Where
am I going? Okay, here's an interesting story I found
this morning from Fox News about why liberal women report
being less happy than other women in this country. It
(24:39):
was a study of thousands of American women found that
fifty one percent, and this is just one piece of
the puzzle, fifty one percent of conservative women eighteen to
forty in this country are married, more than half, slightly
but more than half. Only about thirty one percent of
women who identify as being liberal in that same age
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age group are married. It also found that conservative women
recognize a biological difference between women and men, whereas liberal
women tended not to recognize that difference so readily. And
since humans are social animals, we're hardwired, if you will,
to seek out companionship and long term relationships. It would
(25:23):
kind of seem likely then that people who choose to
believe other than along that line at least, and it's
their right, they can believe whatever they want. I'm not
gonna I'm not going to try to change people that
who don't want to change. That's not my business. That's
their business, but what they believe might be somewhat responsible
for that group also being ranked among the least happy
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subsets of Americans overall. Speaking of liberals, both men and women,
some are some of them are pointing fingers now at
Elon Musk and they keep looking for different ways to
deflect what's going on. They're trying to say now that
he lacks the credentials and clearance necessary to dive into
(26:06):
this nation's finances. Well, he actually has top secret clearance,
which was necessary to clear him for building rockets stuff
like that for us. They don't really care about that though.
What they care about is him having a clear line
of sight into all the money this government wastes on
a daily basis. Every day we're learning more and more
(26:28):
and more about how many, how many of the tax
dollars of yours in mind, are just being flushed down
the toilet or burned in a barrel to support programs
by politicians who in some way, shape or form benefit
from funding those projects they're running. They're scared, and what
they're doing is they're screaming at the top of their lungs,
(26:50):
but fewer and fewer people, it turns out are listening
to that, and we've got people in place now to
plug the leaks and let the legal chips fall where
they may, and they will fall, and a lot of
people aren't going to like it. Only recently doze In
Musk discovered I think I've already talked about this. The
retirement files of tens of thousands of federal employees are
(27:11):
in Manila folders, buried underground in an old limestone mine,
where thousands of people work to keep track manually, one
paper page at a time of all that data, and
of course does is also a voice concern over how
(27:31):
many people, some of them allegedly as old as one
hundred and fifty years one hundred and fifty and they're
still collecting Social Security or disability benefits or both. Whole
federal government just leaks like a sieve, and Musk is
charged with plugging those leaks. And hey, he's certainly not
(27:51):
in it for the money. We know that he's not
in it for notoriety. He's already got that. He's not
in it for fame. He's already got that. He's just
in it because he wants to fix it. And that's
who we need in the place for that real quickly?
Will three percent of people hate all forms of chocolate?
(28:12):
Are you in that group?
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Or no? All forms of chocolate?
Speaker 2 (28:16):
All forms of chocolate? Are there? Are there specific forms
of chocolate you hate?
Speaker 4 (28:22):
I don't know if I necessarily go towards dark chocolate
just because I don't like the bitterness of it.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
You know that's the most healthy, though.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
Yeah, that's why I don't want it.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
You just want just greasy, old milk chocolate, don't you?
Speaker 4 (28:37):
What's wrong with that?
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Nothing? Nothing? Really. I saw on my way out today
that my wife had bought me a box of Reese's
peanut butter cups, the little little ones, in a heart
shaped box. And I don't know how many of the
are in there, but I know that by tonight there
won't be nearly as many. If there are any left,
I'm not sure there will be, because once I start knows,
(29:00):
it's kind of difficult to stop. A kind of fishing lures.
Speaking of watch this will the fiftieth Annual Fishing Show
happens to be ongoing at the George R. Brown Convention Center,
where it's been housed for many many years now, all
the way through Sunday afternoon. I think they'll shut the
doors around three. Let everybody start kind of bailing out
of there and getting everything out. Everything you can imagine
(29:23):
for fishermen is under that roof. Now it's at the
far with the north end. I believe it is. Yeah,
the north end. I think of the George R. Brown. Yeah,
it faces north and south. It's at the north end,
and it occupies a ton of space as always, and
it is filled with people who can listen to your
stories or you can hear their stories about fishing. You
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can ask them any question you want about any of
the equipment you see in there, and the people who
can answer those questions intelligently are there. They are going
to be the ones you'll see at the Houston Fishing Show.
This isn't just a place to go buy stuff. This
is a place to learn about fishing. There are guides there,
there are outfitters there, there are you name it. If
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it had travel all kinds of travel destinations to go
catch big fish all over the world. Whether you absolutely
love fishing like I do, or you're just getting started,
or maybe you're just curious about it, go check out
this fiftieth Annual Fishing Show at the George ar Brown
Convention Center, Houston fishingshow dot com. That's where you can
(30:29):
check out the seminar schedule and see if you can
coordinate that with a chance to see everything on every aisle.
The reason I'm going back tomorrow is because I spent
three hours in there and I still there are still
aisles that I haven't even walked down once yet. So
I'll be back tomorrow and happy as a clam to
be there too. Houston Fishingshow dot com Aged to perfection.
(30:53):
This is fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, fourth
and final segment. The program starts right now. I hope
you're enjoying this race to the finish line. On Friday's
(31:14):
edition of fifty plus. I had such a good conversation
with the people over at the Institute on Aging today too,
I really did. I'm excited. I'm excited about the future
of the show. I'm excited about what I can do
for them and they can do for us. And they've
done plenty over the years, and the relationship is only
about to grow stronger. We're gonna have a lot more collaboration,
(31:36):
We're gonna have a lot more room for interviews on
things that are important to all of us in our
age group. And I've actually got the support now of
someone who is younger. She is at the age where
her parents are important and their health are greatly important,
(31:57):
and her even grandparents who raised her. It's a long story.
It's a long story, but a wonderful, wonderful conversation this morning,
thrilled to death. As if you needed more evidence that
a high percential or percentage percential? What the heck is
a percential? Will if I coined a new phrase? Have
I created a new word again?
Speaker 4 (32:16):
Will think you just stumbled?
Speaker 2 (32:19):
That could be it too. Anyway, A high percentage of
illegal immigrants have no intention whatsoever of assimilating and are
more interested just in restructuring America. It's seeming to be
a woman in California at a park looks to be
a state park in California arrested this week for taking
(32:42):
down the American flag and replacing it with a Mexican
flag while claiming loudly as liberals tend to do, just
boldly claiming that she was on Mexican land, and then
as she was being arrested, this is where she may
have crossed the line. That's going to cost her dearly.
(33:03):
She told the arresting officers that she was going to
have her family kill all of them, said it more
than once too, all on video, all on the old
body cams, and that I think is going to get
her in a lot, a whole lot of trouble on
the same subject. By the way, plans for yet another
(33:23):
operation scheduled by ICE to remove dangerous illegal immigrants in
Los Angeles has been foiled by a leak. This time
The La Times actually got hands on a leaked document
and turned it over, so maybe we can figure out
who did it this time that shared those plans with
the gang members and the criminals who were set for
(33:46):
arrested deportation. The problem with doing this is that it
not only gives the criminals a chance to escape, and
you've probably heard people on the news talking about this
already unless you listen to liberal Bologne news, what it
does is it endangers the lives of everybody involved in
these roundups because so far the criminals have chosen to
(34:12):
run away when they hear that Ice is coming for him.
But at some point some of these guys are violent
enough and well armed enough that they're going to hold
up in an apartment or in an apartment complex and
ambush these people who are there only to enforce the law.
(34:32):
And at that point, yet another line is going to
have been crossed. US Attorney General Pambondi made it clear
this week that anybody who leaks this type of information
and inhibits the ability of law enforcement to do his
job without risking their safety, anybody who does that, this
could it would apply to innocent people too, because people
(34:52):
who live in an apartment complex called the crossfire. Maybe
if if a firefight breaks out, she's gonna go after him.
She and to the fullest excent of law. These people
are going to be prosecuted. And already we found out
just this week most of the fingers being pointed down
as to the source of the league are within the FBI.
(35:15):
And that's frightening that people sworn to uphold the code
of the FBI and the Constitution of the United States
have decided they don't need to do that. Now, It's okay,
we're just going to do this instead. We're just going
to do this instead. Found something else that I thought
was pretty interesting. Let me see if I could get
back to it. Is it here? Yes, Tom Homan Borders
(35:37):
are launched an investigation into the one the only Alexandria
Ocassio Cortes and her webinar that was designed to show
illegal immigrants how to improve or well worse than the
(35:59):
odds that they might get caught and deported by using
certain resistance tactics that were taught in the rebinar of
the webinar. Goy LEA it did it again? Will? These
aren't new words, are they? They're just fumbles. It's not
like I've caught a pass and then running over the
goal line. I fumbled the word ball in that case again. Anyway,
(36:21):
AOC if nothing else, might end up getting the plug
pulled on federal money that's currently going to New York
City's empty wallet. That whole that used to be, and
it used to be it's not anymore. It used to
be one of the most amazing cities on the planet,
and it's got way too many illegal immigrants living in
(36:44):
luxury hotels while Americans all over this country victims of fire,
victims of flood, victims of hurricanes, victims of just bad luck.
For some Americans have They're left on the street, they
have nowhere to go, they have no money they have.
The insurance companies are giving them trouble. But we're taking
(37:06):
care of these people who just danced across the border
the last four or five years. Very frustrating four years.
That's the worst of it. And a miracle of miracles.
It's the leaks are plugged, basically, and hardly anybody trying
to get in here now, and I think that's going
to continue. Will do you want? We've got a minute,
(37:27):
so a waste of time, But who's gonna waste more time?
Fact checking it up in smoke? Or all about the
spin up and smoke up in smoke And there's kind
of a it's a follow up, all about the spins
of follow ups. I use this to get to the end.
(37:49):
Nobody knows for sure when the fire hydrant was invented.
You know why will because the patent for the fire
hydrant was lost in a fire out in California. The
wildfires might be a disaster for wine grapes, even if
they're just exposed to smoke in the air, not just
the fire, not fire, but just to smoke. However, a
(38:12):
new study finds that wineries may have success using the
smokiness in the wine as a perk. That's apparently a
lot of bourbons get that. They get that smoky flavor.
Maybe it'll work with wine too, Who knows. Will you
a big wine drinker, No, nor am I, So we'll
never know, but it's fun to it's fun to guess.
(38:32):
We'll be back Tuesday. Thank you very much for listening,
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