April 10, 2024 • 36 mins
Today, Doug Pike discusses caferterias, a salmon accident, and eclipse reactions.
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Remember when it was impossible to misplacethe TV remote because you were the TV
remote. Remember when music sounded likethis, Remember when social media was truly
social? Hey, John, how'sit going today? Good? Well,
this show is all about you.This is fifty plus with Doug Pike,
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because clean air is healthier air.And now fifty plus with Doug Pike.
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Hi, Welcome aboard. Wednesday editionof the program starts right now. It's
just we and mil, We andmill really me? Excuse me? Well,
that's why I messed up, becauseyou need to say your name first,
Will and me? Will and metoday? Good thing too. I
could probably never spit out enough questionsto get through an interview the way I'm
talking already. I'm excited to seesome sunshine. And actually it's kind of
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weird really because to the east ofthe building, directly south of us over
here on the west Loop, there'sa lot of almost as much blue as
puffy clouds, right, But standup, will and look out that window
and tell me what you see.I know it's going to take a second.
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Take your time. It's only we'vegot a whole hour. It's very
different looking, isn't it. IfI were only to look to the south
west, I would think, ohboy, another day of horrible thunderstorms.
If I look to the southeast,I might want to go to the beach.
Yeah, it looks really nice fromwhere I'm Yeah, way better did
it looked last night, when whatwas it seventy eighty one hundred thousand people
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at one point were without power,and many still were this morning. I
understand that. Well, my neighborhood, and specifically my block, very specifically
my block were it was rough fora long time. It was rough for
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a long time. Every time thewind blew, we lost power for anywhere
from thirty minutes to two or threehours. And nobody could figure it out
for a long time. And finallyone of the neighbors took it upon himself
to kind of trace back to whereall this power and potential trouble was coming
from, and he found a treethat apparently nobody else in all of the
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land who works for the power company. Knew was there, and it was.
It was causing when the wind blewthe way the limbs on that tree
were moving, it caused power linesto meet, and I guess shored each
other out. I don't know howa lot about how all that works,
but I know it was a realproblem for a long time. And fortunately
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we've been knock on wood luckier overthe past I don't know, six,
eight, ten years. We've beenin that house thirty years and change,
I think, Ashley long time andstill okay. Well, we're getting a
new root thanks of the hail storm, and that's I'm sure we won't be
the only ones. There's going tobe a lot of hammering going on for
the next few months. In anyevent, Welcome to Wednesday. It looks
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some like I said, a wholelot like yesterday just now. But we're
going to have more and more sunshineas the day continues. Fortunately, Bidenflation
came in pretty hot again for Marchand shut down pretty much any notion of
rate cuts by the Fed, whichdidn't bode well for the stock market.
And it shows that all four ofthe big numbers, the big indicators,
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the indices as it were, downat least a full percentage point this morning,
and the russell was down two anda half percent an hour ago.
I haven't looked since. But ifyou were gonna, if you were gonna
get out yesterday or today, yesterdaymight have been your move and tomorrow might
be better a little bit at leastas things kind of settle out. There
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was a pretty big sell off thismorning and it was ugly. Oil Oil
said nah, watch this, andit went up only about by a quarter
I think it was, But it'sstill I just honestly cannot wait for that
unnecessary burden on us all to belifted. After what our president has done
to our petrochemical industry and what he'sdone to our strategic reserves. That's another
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little issue. Won't get into that. Gold also down. That's the bad
news. But the good news isby only five bucks, which means it's
still hanging very close to some historichighs. Thanks for providing that Houston Gold
Exchange. It's Master's Week in AUGUSTA. I'm Ac Goolfer. Please please bear
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with me for the next maybe twominutes. It looks like what I'm gonna
need to get through this what Ihave here par three competition today under pretty
nice weather, I would imagine Ihaven't even looked yet. And then the
forecast on opening day of competition tomorrowlooks a whole lot like our forecast did
beginning yesterday. They have a ninetypercent chance of arrange the same system.
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It's just gone through here. It'sprobably all the way through Louisiana now headed
for Mississippi, then Alabama, thenAugusta, Georgia. Not gonna be pretty,
and it'll be interesting. I'm kindof curious how how well they can
recover. They got three nice daysafter Tomorrow. Friday, Saturday, and
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Sunday look pretty good. Of course, drains really well too, so I
don't think they'll have any trouble gettingin the tournament without without having to hit
any shots on Monday. But theymay have to play more than eighteen holes
on Friday Saturday. And there's oneplayer in the field who, at least
stories I've seen say if that happens, if there are more than eighteen holes
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to be played in today, TigerWoods might have to step down. He
is, he's just he's not physicallywhere he has been. There's already talked
that extra holes on any one dayon that hilly course may just force him
to withdraw, which would be honestlythe right thing to do, since I'm
I'm pretty convinced now that he's he'stoo battered. He's two bruised, and
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no matter how competitive his mind maybe, his body just can't take the
walk. What will oh that darkclouds come to this side now? Well,
clearly they're moving west to east.This is the backside of it all.
I'm not concerned in the least.I'm scared. She relax, will
just relax. I tell, likeI used to tell my son when he
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was little, you're with me,You'll be okay. We're in a building,
a big building with big, heavy, thick windows, and really the
wind, well the wind, Yeah, the wind's moving some not a big
deal, will be okay. Ilike Scottie Scheffler if his wife doesn't go
into labor. I like Brooks Koepkauh. And as a super long shot,
a super long shot Zender Shuffley maybe. But my super long shot is
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the kid who won this past weekat San Antonio, ok she Batilla.
He goes out at plus nine thousand, which I think is I don't I
don't do the money part, soI don't understand it, but he was
down the list of pretty good waysand he's he's super young. He's riding
high after last week's win to Valero, probably still a little numb even from
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that, and that could work inhis favor. Actually in his first appearance
at Augusta. He's got great game, he drives it well, he knows
how to He was downed, helost his lead too on Sunday over there
and scrambled and came back and foughtto win, and he did. He's
my dark horse this week for sure. All Right, we gotta tell you
a little break on the way out. I'll tell you about Primo Doors.
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If you're getting a little tax refundor if you're not, but you just
think it's time for a new frontdoor, Primo Doors can help you with
that. And they've been doing thatfor the better part of ten plus years
now, and the owner of thecompany's been in the door business in Houston
for twenty plus years. They havethousands of selections in wood, iron,
and fiberglass doors. We talked toJason Fortenberry yesterday right here on fifty plus.
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Got a lot of good information ontaking care of your door. Once
you get your brand new door inthere, you should want to take care
of it. That's the first impressionyour home makes on anyone who comes to
your home. That front, thatfront door, it's got to look good,
it should look good, and it'sgot to make you feel safe as
well. So what I always recommendis, first go to the website Primo
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doors dot com. Take a lookat all the before and after pictures.
It'll get you all excited. Then, as my wife and I did,
you schedule an appointment over there andyou bring a picture of the front of
your house. You show them that, and then you go through more and
more selections and let the person who'shelping you kind of whittle it down for
you. They'll get to know youa little bit, they'll get to know
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your personality a little and show youthey could probably get it down to fewer
than ten doors still in the raceamongst all those thousands, and just the
first time you sit down over there, then you get to pick out the
handle set and the locking mechanism andall these different things, the stain color,
all of that goes into your frontdoor for your house, something that's
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going to make it look really reallynice. By the way, if you
drop my name, the owner ofthat company, Jason Fortenberry, promised he
will throw in a free handle set. This is something that's only available to
listeners of fifty plus, only availablehere or through me at least, and
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that's gonna save you hundreds of dollars. On that beautiful new front door of
yours, wood, iron, fiberglass. They've got them all and they'll help
you pick the right one. Promotedoors dot com. The showroom is right
over on North Post Oak, noteven ten minutes from where I'm sitting in
the galleria. Primodors dot com.What's life without a net? I suggest
you go to bed, sleep itoff, just wait until the show's over.
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Sleepy. Back to Doug Pike asfifty plus continues to bump bump,
bum, Welcome back, fifty plus. It's settling out a little bit now,
will It's not as ominous as itwas before, but it's really that's
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guy's moving fast. That front's onits way out of here. Next break,
I'll I'll flip on the Weather Channeland on my phone and see what's
up. Basically, uh, veryquickly, I kind of snickered this morning.
I didn't even read the whole story. I didn't have to because some
people just make it easy to pokefun at them, and Jackson Lee has
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done just that when she said atsome point in the last few days that
the moon was made mostly of gases. And I don't know where she learned
that, who she I don't knowwhere that came from. But it reminds
me a little bit of our vicepresident saying some of the things she said
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last week that just made absolutely nosense and absolutely were not true. But
I guess people who who are soself confident don't bother to verify anything.
If they believe it, they're goingto say it out loud, and they're
not going to bother with checking tomake sure it's correct, which kind of
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makes you look like a fool.Sometimes kind of makes you look like a
fool. Everybody knows the moon's madeof green cheese, right, Well,
green cheese, I gonna do itwas just a nice switch, sheese.
Well, it doesn't have holes init. It has holes on it,
but not in it. Okay,there's not. To my knowledge, there's
not a single crater that goes allthe way through to the other side of
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the moon. A right, pretty, I'm gonna technic that's a presumption on
my point. Sure, yeah,you ever been there? I watch the
Wallace and Grommet special when I wasa kid. Okay, all right on.
I was gonna say, onto thebasket of crazy stuff in this,
but we'll just go deeper into thebasket of crazy stuff, which continues to
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fill on a daily basis. There'sjust so many weird things happen. It's
almost hard to pick which stories toshare. They're all just so scary for
the future, and they all fallon the shoulders of either best I can
tell, either our sitting president andor the people who who are around him,
the people around with whom he surroundedhimself. They just they just continue
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to say, goofy, let's notdo that right now, We're gonna do
something different. Okay, are youready? Will hit me? It's not
blackjack, will It's okay though,check. Okay, yeah, let's try
that powerful stuff on the road again, or that is just nasty on the
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road again. Okay, Willie onthe road again. Three and four Americans
prefer driving to a vacation destination ifpossible. Well, I guess it's always
possible unless you're going to Hawaii orthe Bahamas, it'd be hard to drive
over there and any of it.The top three things we enjoy on road
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trips are what will, stops atthe gas station, frequent stops at the
gas all depending on your age,mine probably more frequent than yours. One
of them's the scenery, so Iguess it might be beautiful depending on where
you're driving. If you're driving westfrom here, once you get past San
Antoni, though, it's a littleuh, a little barren, it's a
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little dry and just more of thesame all the way through New Mexico and
probably all the way through I willsay at least New Mexico and New Mexico
has the plateaus though, yeah,which which are really nice to look at.
It. Like, if you're drivingearly and you get that sunrise that's
early driving west, you're not gonnaget much of a sunrise. It's gonna
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I mean, let you mean yeahlater, you know, and I met
that's okay, I this time,compass, I'm gonna give you one more
chance. That's nasty. I'll scratchout on the road again. Dumb it
down? Or who signed off onthis? Who signed off on this?
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Yeah? This is about kids andlunches. A healthier version of lunch Abule's
got approved last year by a lotof school cafeterias, but now Consumer Reports
is petitioning the government. What couldgo wrong there to act that idea because
they're still not very healthy. Theyactually these these new and improved lunchables,
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which, by the way, thenext one I would eat wouldn't be my
first. I used to eat those. We had them for my son,
and I would grab one every nowand then. They're not horrible. But
anyway, now they have more sodiumthan they had before, which is not
really is it more sodium and lessof the less lamb or whatever it is?
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Well not there are blogoni. Yeah, they're blowdy. They're ham too,
and I'm sure that those are justprime cuts, all of them.
Oh yeah, you know they are. What a joke. How much time
do I have? You have abouta minute? Okay, I'm gonna go
to That's nasty because it just ispeople are talking about the grossest things their
partner does, but that they've justcome to accept one mm hmm. She
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sucks her tea bags dry. That'sthat's what I taught. I don't know
who she is, but and whoeverher partner is just has come to accept
it. Now. That is whysucking the tea back you get that last
drop tea out of there. Youknow. Sometimes you just you hear things
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and you're like, I have neverthought about ever dingy. Well, the
other one, I'm not even.I'm not even. It's lunch hour.
I can't even. I'm not gonnago there. I'll go to powerful stuff
and then we'll get out of here. Chlorine was first added the pools in
the forties, the nineteen forties becauseit killed polio, which is a great
reason. But holy cow, thatstuff's more powerful than it doesn't. It
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does far more than just neutralize peain the pool. More reason to drink
it. Oh mercy, all right, I gotta go. Somebody's calling me.
I don't know who that is.I'll let that ring and I'll tell
you about kirk Holmes. Thirty plusyears, kirk HOOLMBS has been building custom
homes for and mostly now from kindof northwest Houston all the way out through
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average of ten, plus the twox six exterior walls that provide fifty percent
more insulation around the perimeter of yourhome to keep that gosh awful summer heat
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out and to keep those occasional winterdeep freezes out. Kirk Holmes was named
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that again, twenty twenty four SouthernLiving. Kind of a big title there,
it's a national honor. Twenty twentyfour Southern Living Builder of the Year.
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Let them help make your dream homebecome a reality. Kirkholmebs dot com.
That's k r K because at kirkholmbs it's all about you now.
They sure don't make them like theyused to. That's why every few months
we wash them, check his fluidsand spray on a fresh coat of wax.
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This is fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, welcome back to
fifty plus. I don't know whoit was who called me. They didn't
leave a message. That happened.Sometimes it's a Houston number. I just
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don't recognize it. It's not inmy contact so and I wouldn't have there's
only maybe two people on the planetwhose calls I would answer, maybe four
whose calls I would answer during ashow, and that would be it doesn't
matter who, but they're really importantpeople to me. All Right, well,
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I'm gonna go back. I wantto give you another chance, a
chance to redeem yourself by picking theright one. What about me? Bucket
challenge or a little too potent?Oh? Little too potent? This was
pretty interesting, and I hope noneof you have this. Not one of
you has this product in your house, And if you do, you might
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want to look it up and onlineand make sure you don't have the wrong
batch. Because a batch of aruba alo hand sanitizer, you got any
of that at home? Ow?Will? Oh good lord? OW?
I know that was one of myearliest producers. What's this? What's a
aruba alo? That's where it camefrom. I don't believe so good because
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it's been recalled due to a alittle problem, it says here, involving
it potentially causing what do you thinkhand sanitizer could call could cause if you
got the wrong batch, will leprosy? You're warm. It's pretty bad.
It's pretty bad. Blindness, blindyeah, loss of vision or coma.
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What you could go into a comafrom rubbing it on your hands, I
don't know, maybe rubbing it onyour brain or something. I'm not sure,
but yeah, that's one of thesepeople drinking it. I don't know
what they're doing will, but whateverit is, it's says a small problem
involving it potentially causing blindness recurd.I don't consider that a small problem.
Even if it's happened to one person. It's not a small problem. That's
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bad stuff. Okay, let's gowith Oh, this is kind of good.
This guy's barely in our club,by the way, in the fifty
plus club. He's fifty one yearsold. He is in Germany, and
he works at a museum and hewas fired. He was fired this past
week because he hung one of hisown paintings in the museum and it was
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part of their exhibit for a fullday before anybody actually noticed that it wasn't
I guess what was supposed to behanging in that spot, and they fired
him over it. He did itbecause he was hoping it might help him
break through as an artist. Ithink better work might help him break through
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as an artist more than hanging upone of his own paintings, which I
don't know, I've never seen one. I might go back to that full
story and see how good he isbefore I judge him. Ah, but
you know, if you're if you'rein a if you're gonna hang your painting
in a museum, it has tobe at least as good as everything else
in there, or it's gonna reallystand out. It's gonna be like if
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you got three kids in elementary school. You got a sixth grader or a
fifth grader and a kindergartener, andthey've all got paintings on the refrigerator.
You're gonna probably be able to tellwhich one was done by the kindergartener.
I'm just guessing, and that I'mafraid is what might have gotten him busted.
Like, wait a minute, that'snot a renoir, That is not
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a monette. Oh it's Bob,Bob or Heinrich. Yeah, it's in
Germany, so it wouldn't be Bob. I don't think. Oh, mercy,
where am I with all this stuff? Remember a few weeks ago when
a hailstorm took out a big Texassolar panel farm. Apparently India didn't get
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the They didn't hear that story,didn't read it, didn't see it,
or just didn't care about it,because they have now approved, not improved,
they have approved installation of rooftop solarpanels on ten million homes. They're
investing nine billion dollars, by theway, paying for the solar panels.
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That the country is not to thetune of nine billion dollars. Whereas around
here if you want to put thosethings on your roof, and there's one
roof on the way to where Iplay golf most of the time out at
black Hawk that had solar panels puton probably two and a half years ago,
And for two years after those solarpanels went up, there were wires,
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just extension cords leading up to theirall over their roof amidst the solar
panels. Now I don't know wherethey're putting those those panels in India,
but I just hope that climate doesn'tchange much there because that could be pretty
bad. Why this is something elsetoo that got my attention, riddled me
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this Batman, Why would a greenenergy crazy country like ours invest in I
don't know, billions of dollars inplacing a fuel depot in orbit of the
planet. Any idea, will?Why won't what they're gonna do, They're
gonna put this thing up there.It's gonna just be like a gas station,
like a giant BUCkies in the sky. Okay, And these little satellite
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that run on different fuels. HydrazineI think is the main one, and
that's what it's gonna refuel with.It's not like they're gonna run up and
get a few gallons of diesel thenfire up the engines anymore. That doesn't
work. But they're gonna supply hydrazento all these satellites that reply that require
that energy to keep going, andusually up to now and and still when
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one of those things run out offuel, it just it just is left
up there. It's just space junk. They can't do anything with it,
although it's perfectly fine to work.So now they're gonna have a refueling stop
up there in orbit to supply afuel. Why don't they just send the
space station up there and just gofrom satellite to satellite and put a bunch
of solar panels on them. Whywouldn't you do that? Will? I
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have no idea. I think itwould make a lot more sense, and
just run some astronauts up there witha bag of tools and a bunch of
solar panels and just I really movingthe The ISS would just be it would
be in convenient. Why just moveit around? But I think it's just
it's just supposed to be. Iknow it's moving, but I think it's
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supposed to just kind of be ahow about you just stationary station? You
know in orbit? It's stationary.Really, but's what I clarified. I
said that it's moving. I'm justsaying that I think that as a stationary
thing, well, well, youknow, as stationary as it can be.
So well, if they just moveit over next to a satellite,
throw some solar panels, and Ithink I think another one. I think
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it would be too too risky tomove some Wait, just whereas if you
can send something else up there thatyou can refuel, like a depot like
fish? Will do you like salmon? I love salmon? How much time
do you have? You have?One minute? Oh? Perfect? So
there's a truck up in in Oregon. I believe it was. I mean,
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I think it's an organ. I'mpretty sure it was organ carrying one
hundred and two thousand was in youngsalmon from a hatchery truck taking them somewhere
else to be delivered and dispersed,probably who knows where wreck oh No.
One hundred and two thousand young salmon. But luck was on their side because
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the truck overturned next to a big, beautiful, clear water running creek.
Wow, and the water in theruptured tank on the truck flushed all the
fish out and flushed most of themright into the creeks. Follow me,
that's great, and off they went. Yeah, so it's kind of if
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you are going to crash a truckof salmon, might as well right next
to the river. You know whereI'm fishing the next three years, probably
making a little trip to to theOregon in the creeks, a little ways
downstream from the skid marks. Yeah, I'm going, all right, we
got to take a little break hereon the way out. I'll tell you
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Here's more with Doug. All Right, welcome back. Final segment of the
show for today, anyway, hopenot the final, one forever. Final
segment of the show today starts nowand ends in about what six minutes will
seven minutes somewhere in there. Yep. By the way, I mentioned,
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I think it was yesterday I mentionedyesterday, or maybe it was this past
week late that we now have access. You have access to me through Pound
two fifty. You dial it onyour phone, the pound sign. That's
the tic tac toe thing for someof you, and then two five zero
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and the line will ring and itwill be answered, and you will hear
somebody say say the keyword and whatyou want to say there is fifty plus
and that gives you an opportunity.And I found a good use for this
will really during the show, Iwas just about to ask a question of
you, and I wasn't sure whichway it was going to go, and
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all of that good stuff, Butit dawned on me that if we can
encourage this audience to just remember poundtwo fifty, you don't have to remember
a whole phone number, you don'thave to save it you can just put
pound two fifty and then say fiftyplus. You can leave me a voicemail
which I can then go check.And I was gonna use it. Now
that might be a little bit latetoday, but earlier in the show I
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certainly could have used it to say, hey, Will and I were talking
about cafeterias during the break, whichI think should somehow make a revival.
I love eating at cafeterias. Idon't have a problem there at all.
It's it's affordable, it's healthy,it's good food. Healthy, it is
you think, so I do.All I read in this in this Houston
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Chronicle article was that Cleyburn is sellingchicken fried steak. Well, yeah,
they have that, but they alsohave fresh vegetables. They also have baked
chicken. Nobody's going there for thebaked chicken fish kindling Guini. I ordered
that once. There's a a Louvi'sclose to where my son practices baseball sometimes
in the summer, and I orderedit. In this this guy put this
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giant I don't know, like aclaw, almost like a whole rake of
it into a to go container andI said, no, no, I'm
eating here. And when he putit on a plate and send it down
the line. It looked like somebodyhad covered a football in linguini and chicken.
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Why And I told myself when Isat down, said I really shouldn't
eat all of this because it's alot. It's way more than I should
eat. And as I wiped mymouth after the final bite, I thought,
you know, I was right.I shouldn't have eaten all this,
but it was just so tasty.Well, then you don't have any room
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for the jello. Well, yeah, there's jel No, I don't get
that anymore. Well, what I'mkind of out of the jello? Will
and I were trying to remember there'sthere's Clevelands, there's Loubies, And there
used to be another chain. Therewas one in Sharpstown Center when that was
a cool place to hang out.And I can't remember the name of it.
But if somebody would just call andleave that for me, I'll sing
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your praises tomorrow pound two fifty saythe keyword fifty plus, and then when
it comes up, tell me whoyou are, and then tell me what
the name that dog on cafeteria chainwas that was here other than Louby's,
because I think loubis maybe the lastone standing really except for Clebrand's one little
location which you thought had burned,right, Well, I knew that.
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I remember. I think when Iwas in high school, I felt like
it burned. Yeah, okay,let's change the subject. NBC Legal or
note not NBC ABC Legal and thisexcuse me. Sonny host that she's on
the view too, decided to sharelast week that she thinks the eclipse and
the upcoming rare double emergence of cicadas, which she called kkaa does. She
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tried to tell that show's audience thatthey were somehow tied to the moon blocking
the sun. Uh. Even Whoopeetried to correct her, but she stood
her ground. Oh no, no, this is all tied together. Uh
real quick? Will. In apoll, twenty nine percent of people said
that they were in all of theeclipse, fifteen people said they felt that
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peace when they saw the eclipse.I think that's kind of interesting, and
five people conceded that they were actuallypretty bored, and a whole bunch more.
You know what they said, it'sa it's an aclipse. I said,
why are my eyes aching and bleeding? That was one of the most
searched things on the internet yesterday.Why do my eyes hurt? Well,
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we talked about that, didn't weWe did well. Guy says he's invented
a new popcorn bucket. Will andI kind of wish I had one.
I wish I'd have thought of thisfirst, I really do. It's it's
got a normal bucket top, butit's got at the bottom. It's the
size of a cup holder, soyou can put your You can put your
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nine dollars bucket of popcorn on oneside of your chair and your fourteen dollars
soft drink with mostly ice in iton the other side of the chair.
Oh and if you buy the gallonbucket of each you get a free refill,
which nobody can a gallon sod up. That's how much you have to
buy. I don't know, ohman. Anyway, there's a farm over
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in England. Now that is forthere's guy. Why do these people call
me during the show? Honest togoodness, I know that guy. He
knows better. Two minutes there's athere's a farm over in London, I
don't remember the name of it thatis growing black soldier flies, which are
basically the cheapest, fastest growing insects. To farm, no diseases. Oh,
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I know why he called. Ibet he. I bet he sent
me the message on what the ohman, I don't know if I can
get to it right now. I'llget to him tomorrow though, and I'll
credit him for doing that. Ibet he told us the name of that
of that that chain of cafeterias.So anyway, speaking of food, these
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are the cheapest, fastest growing insectsto farm. There's no diseases with them,
no nothing. And they're gonna feedthem to chickens and pigs as an
alternate source of protein than corn,because corn, I guess costs more money.
And yeah, and guess what.It won't be long before those what
do they call black soldier flies.You're gonna be able to get them at
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a store near you. Will yumydipped in chocolate on one aisle. I
love eating bugs, and probably beerbattered on the other aisle, and patties,
chatter, larvae, crickets. I'veseen sears Sears Roebuck used to sell
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chocolate covered ants and chocolate covered crickets. It's wrong with them a million.
Oh, I don't care, grasshoppers, all of that stuff, and you
can have if anybody ever gives mea hundred of them, I'm gonna give
you a hundred of them. Okay. I have no idea why anybody would
want to eat bugs. I getit. And people who think that cows
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and other animals are causing global warmingshould do some more research and understand really
where the sources of CO two are. And it's such a tiny little element
in the air. If we takeit down much more, the plants are
gonna die. And if they die, we die. We will be back
will and I will tomorrow at thiswell noon, We'll see you then.
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Hi, Welcome aboard. Wednesday editionof the program starts right now. It's
just we and mil, We andmill really me? Excuse me? Well,
that's why I messed up, becauseyou need to say your name first,
Will and me? Will and metoday? Good thing too. I
could probably never spit out enough questionsto get through an interview the way I'm
talking already. I'm excited to seesome sunshine. And actually it's kind of
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weird really because to the east ofthe building, directly south of us over
here on the west Loop, there'sa lot of almost as much blue as
puffy clouds, right, But standup, will and look out that window
and tell me what you see.I know it's going to take a second.
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Take your time. It's only we'vegot a whole hour. It's very
different looking, isn't it. IfI were only to look to the south
west, I would think, ohboy, another day of horrible thunderstorms.
If I look to the southeast,I might want to go to the beach.
Yeah, it looks really nice fromwhere I'm Yeah, way better did
it looked last night, when whatwas it seventy eighty one hundred thousand people
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at one point were without power,and many still were this morning. I
understand that. Well, my neighborhood, and specifically my block, very specifically
my block were it was rough fora long time. It was rough for
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a long time. Every time thewind blew, we lost power for anywhere
from thirty minutes to two or threehours. And nobody could figure it out
for a long time. And finallyone of the neighbors took it upon himself
to kind of trace back to whereall this power and potential trouble was coming
from, and he found a treethat apparently nobody else in all of the
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land who works for the power company. Knew was there, and it was.
It was causing when the wind blewthe way the limbs on that tree
were moving, it caused power linesto meet, and I guess shored each
other out. I don't know howa lot about how all that works,
but I know it was a realproblem for a long time. And fortunately
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we've been knock on wood luckier overthe past I don't know, six,
eight, ten years. We've beenin that house thirty years and change,
I think, Ashley long time andstill okay. Well, we're getting a
new root thanks of the hail storm, and that's I'm sure we won't be
the only ones. There's going tobe a lot of hammering going on for
the next few months. In anyevent, Welcome to Wednesday. It looks
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some like I said, a wholelot like yesterday just now. But we're
going to have more and more sunshineas the day continues. Fortunately, Bidenflation
came in pretty hot again for Marchand shut down pretty much any notion of
rate cuts by the Fed, whichdidn't bode well for the stock market.
And it shows that all four ofthe big numbers, the big indicators,
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the indices as it were, downat least a full percentage point this morning,
and the russell was down two anda half percent an hour ago.
I haven't looked since. But ifyou were gonna, if you were gonna
get out yesterday or today, yesterdaymight have been your move and tomorrow might
be better a little bit at leastas things kind of settle out. There
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was a pretty big sell off thismorning and it was ugly. Oil Oil
said nah, watch this, andit went up only about by a quarter
I think it was, But it'sstill I just honestly cannot wait for that
unnecessary burden on us all to belifted. After what our president has done
to our petrochemical industry and what he'sdone to our strategic reserves. That's another
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little issue. Won't get into that. Gold also down. That's the bad
news. But the good news isby only five bucks, which means it's
still hanging very close to some historichighs. Thanks for providing that Houston Gold
Exchange. It's Master's Week in AUGUSTA. I'm Ac Goolfer. Please please bear
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with me for the next maybe twominutes. It looks like what I'm gonna
need to get through this what Ihave here par three competition today under pretty
nice weather, I would imagine Ihaven't even looked yet. And then the
forecast on opening day of competition tomorrowlooks a whole lot like our forecast did
beginning yesterday. They have a ninetypercent chance of arrange the same system.
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It's just gone through here. It'sprobably all the way through Louisiana now headed
for Mississippi, then Alabama, thenAugusta, Georgia. Not gonna be pretty,
and it'll be interesting. I'm kindof curious how how well they can
recover. They got three nice daysafter Tomorrow. Friday, Saturday, and
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Sunday look pretty good. Of course, drains really well too, so I
don't think they'll have any trouble gettingin the tournament without without having to hit
any shots on Monday. But theymay have to play more than eighteen holes
on Friday Saturday. And there's oneplayer in the field who, at least
stories I've seen say if that happens, if there are more than eighteen holes
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to be played in today, TigerWoods might have to step down. He
is, he's just he's not physicallywhere he has been. There's already talked
that extra holes on any one dayon that hilly course may just force him
to withdraw, which would be honestlythe right thing to do, since I'm
I'm pretty convinced now that he's he'stoo battered. He's two bruised, and
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no matter how competitive his mind maybe, his body just can't take the
walk. What will oh that darkclouds come to this side now? Well,
clearly they're moving west to east.This is the backside of it all.
I'm not concerned in the least.I'm scared. She relax, will
just relax. I tell, likeI used to tell my son when he
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was little, you're with me,You'll be okay. We're in a building,
a big building with big, heavy, thick windows, and really the
wind, well the wind, Yeah, the wind's moving some not a big
deal, will be okay. Ilike Scottie Scheffler if his wife doesn't go
into labor. I like Brooks Koepkauh. And as a super long shot,
a super long shot Zender Shuffley maybe. But my super long shot is
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the kid who won this past weekat San Antonio, ok she Batilla.
He goes out at plus nine thousand, which I think is I don't I
don't do the money part, soI don't understand it, but he was
down the list of pretty good waysand he's he's super young. He's riding
high after last week's win to Valero, probably still a little numb even from
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that, and that could work inhis favor. Actually in his first appearance
at Augusta. He's got great game, he drives it well, he knows
how to He was downed, helost his lead too on Sunday over there
and scrambled and came back and foughtto win, and he did. He's
my dark horse this week for sure. All Right, we gotta tell you
a little break on the way out. I'll tell you about Primo Doors.
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If you're getting a little tax refundor if you're not, but you just
think it's time for a new frontdoor, Primo Doors can help you with
that. And they've been doing thatfor the better part of ten plus years
now, and the owner of thecompany's been in the door business in Houston
for twenty plus years. They havethousands of selections in wood, iron,
and fiberglass doors. We talked toJason Fortenberry yesterday right here on fifty plus.
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Got a lot of good information ontaking care of your door. Once
you get your brand new door inthere, you should want to take care
of it. That's the first impressionyour home makes on anyone who comes to
your home. That front, thatfront door, it's got to look good,
it should look good, and it'sgot to make you feel safe as
well. So what I always recommendis, first go to the website Primo
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doors dot com. Take a lookat all the before and after pictures.
It'll get you all excited. Then, as my wife and I did,
you schedule an appointment over there andyou bring a picture of the front of
your house. You show them that, and then you go through more and
more selections and let the person who'shelping you kind of whittle it down for
you. They'll get to know youa little bit, they'll get to know
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your personality a little and show youthey could probably get it down to fewer
than ten doors still in the raceamongst all those thousands, and just the
first time you sit down over there, then you get to pick out the
handle set and the locking mechanism andall these different things, the stain color,
all of that goes into your frontdoor for your house, something that's
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going to make it look really reallynice. By the way, if you
drop my name, the owner ofthat company, Jason Fortenberry, promised he
will throw in a free handle set. This is something that's only available to
listeners of fifty plus, only availablehere or through me at least, and
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that's gonna save you hundreds of dollars. On that beautiful new front door of
yours, wood, iron, fiberglass. They've got them all and they'll help
you pick the right one. Promotedoors dot com. The showroom is right
over on North Post Oak, noteven ten minutes from where I'm sitting in
the galleria. Primodors dot com.What's life without a net? I suggest
you go to bed, sleep itoff, just wait until the show's over.
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Sleepy. Back to Doug Pike asfifty plus continues to bump bump,
bum, Welcome back, fifty plus. It's settling out a little bit now,
will It's not as ominous as itwas before, but it's really that's
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guy's moving fast. That front's onits way out of here. Next break,
I'll I'll flip on the Weather Channeland on my phone and see what's
up. Basically, uh, veryquickly, I kind of snickered this morning.
I didn't even read the whole story. I didn't have to because some
people just make it easy to pokefun at them, and Jackson Lee has
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done just that when she said atsome point in the last few days that
the moon was made mostly of gases. And I don't know where she learned
that, who she I don't knowwhere that came from. But it reminds
me a little bit of our vicepresident saying some of the things she said
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last week that just made absolutely nosense and absolutely were not true. But
I guess people who who are soself confident don't bother to verify anything.
If they believe it, they're goingto say it out loud, and they're
not going to bother with checking tomake sure it's correct, which kind of
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makes you look like a fool.Sometimes kind of makes you look like a
fool. Everybody knows the moon's madeof green cheese, right, Well,
green cheese, I gonna do itwas just a nice switch, sheese.
Well, it doesn't have holes init. It has holes on it,
but not in it. Okay,there's not. To my knowledge, there's
not a single crater that goes allthe way through to the other side of
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the moon. A right, pretty, I'm gonna technic that's a presumption on
my point. Sure, yeah,you ever been there? I watch the
Wallace and Grommet special when I wasa kid. Okay, all right on.
I was gonna say, onto thebasket of crazy stuff in this,
but we'll just go deeper into thebasket of crazy stuff, which continues to
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fill on a daily basis. There'sjust so many weird things happen. It's
almost hard to pick which stories toshare. They're all just so scary for
the future, and they all fallon the shoulders of either best I can
tell, either our sitting president andor the people who who are around him,
the people around with whom he surroundedhimself. They just they just continue
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to say, goofy, let's notdo that right now, We're gonna do
something different. Okay, are youready? Will hit me? It's not
blackjack, will It's okay though,check. Okay, yeah, let's try
that powerful stuff on the road again, or that is just nasty on the
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road again. Okay, Willie onthe road again. Three and four Americans
prefer driving to a vacation destination ifpossible. Well, I guess it's always
possible unless you're going to Hawaii orthe Bahamas, it'd be hard to drive
over there and any of it.The top three things we enjoy on road
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trips are what will, stops atthe gas station, frequent stops at the
gas all depending on your age,mine probably more frequent than yours. One
of them's the scenery, so Iguess it might be beautiful depending on where
you're driving. If you're driving westfrom here, once you get past San
Antoni, though, it's a littleuh, a little barren, it's a
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little dry and just more of thesame all the way through New Mexico and
probably all the way through I willsay at least New Mexico and New Mexico
has the plateaus though, yeah,which which are really nice to look at.
It. Like, if you're drivingearly and you get that sunrise that's
early driving west, you're not gonnaget much of a sunrise. It's gonna
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I mean, let you mean yeahlater, you know, and I met
that's okay, I this time,compass, I'm gonna give you one more
chance. That's nasty. I'll scratchout on the road again. Dumb it
down? Or who signed off onthis? Who signed off on this?
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Yeah? This is about kids andlunches. A healthier version of lunch Abule's
got approved last year by a lotof school cafeterias, but now Consumer Reports
is petitioning the government. What couldgo wrong there to act that idea because
they're still not very healthy. Theyactually these these new and improved lunchables,
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which, by the way, thenext one I would eat wouldn't be my
first. I used to eat those. We had them for my son,
and I would grab one every nowand then. They're not horrible. But
anyway, now they have more sodiumthan they had before, which is not
really is it more sodium and lessof the less lamb or whatever it is?
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Well not there are blogoni. Yeah, they're blowdy. They're ham too,
and I'm sure that those are justprime cuts, all of them.
Oh yeah, you know they are. What a joke. How much time
do I have? You have abouta minute? Okay, I'm gonna go
to That's nasty because it just ispeople are talking about the grossest things their
partner does, but that they've justcome to accept one mm hmm. She
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sucks her tea bags dry. That'sthat's what I taught. I don't know
who she is, but and whoeverher partner is just has come to accept
it. Now. That is whysucking the tea back you get that last
drop tea out of there. Youknow. Sometimes you just you hear things
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and you're like, I have neverthought about ever dingy. Well, the
other one, I'm not even.I'm not even. It's lunch hour.
I can't even. I'm not gonnago there. I'll go to powerful stuff
and then we'll get out of here. Chlorine was first added the pools in
the forties, the nineteen forties becauseit killed polio, which is a great
reason. But holy cow, thatstuff's more powerful than it doesn't. It
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does far more than just neutralize peain the pool. More reason to drink
it. Oh mercy, all right, I gotta go. Somebody's calling me.
I don't know who that is.I'll let that ring and I'll tell
you about kirk Holmes. Thirty plusyears, kirk HOOLMBS has been building custom
homes for and mostly now from kindof northwest Houston all the way out through
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the hill country Austin, San AntonioCollege station. The only thing common to
all of their homes is that twentyyear structural warranty, which is twice the
average of ten, plus the twox six exterior walls that provide fifty percent
more insulation around the perimeter of yourhome to keep that gosh awful summer heat
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out and to keep those occasional winterdeep freezes out. Kirk Holmes was named
recently the twenty twenty four Southern LivingBuilder of the Year. Let me say
that again, twenty twenty four SouthernLiving. Kind of a big title there,
it's a national honor. Twenty twentyfour Southern Living Builder of the Year.
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Let them help make your dream homebecome a reality. Kirkholmebs dot com.
That's k r K because at kirkholmbs it's all about you now.
They sure don't make them like theyused to. That's why every few months
we wash them, check his fluidsand spray on a fresh coat of wax.
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This is fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, welcome back to
fifty plus. I don't know whoit was who called me. They didn't
leave a message. That happened.Sometimes it's a Houston number. I just
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don't recognize it. It's not inmy contact so and I wouldn't have there's
only maybe two people on the planetwhose calls I would answer, maybe four
whose calls I would answer during ashow, and that would be it doesn't
matter who, but they're really importantpeople to me. All Right, well,
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I'm gonna go back. I wantto give you another chance, a
chance to redeem yourself by picking theright one. What about me? Bucket
challenge or a little too potent?Oh? Little too potent? This was
pretty interesting, and I hope noneof you have this. Not one of
you has this product in your house, And if you do, you might
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want to look it up and onlineand make sure you don't have the wrong
batch. Because a batch of aruba alo hand sanitizer, you got any
of that at home? Ow?Will? Oh good lord? OW?
I know that was one of myearliest producers. What's this? What's a
aruba alo? That's where it camefrom. I don't believe so good because
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it's been recalled due to a alittle problem, it says here, involving
it potentially causing what do you thinkhand sanitizer could call could cause if you
got the wrong batch, will leprosy? You're warm. It's pretty bad.
It's pretty bad. Blindness, blindyeah, loss of vision or coma.
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What you could go into a comafrom rubbing it on your hands, I
don't know, maybe rubbing it onyour brain or something. I'm not sure,
but yeah, that's one of thesepeople drinking it. I don't know
what they're doing will, but whateverit is, it's says a small problem
involving it potentially causing blindness recurd.I don't consider that a small problem.
Even if it's happened to one person. It's not a small problem. That's
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bad stuff. Okay, let's gowith Oh, this is kind of good.
This guy's barely in our club,by the way, in the fifty
plus club. He's fifty one yearsold. He is in Germany, and
he works at a museum and hewas fired. He was fired this past
week because he hung one of hisown paintings in the museum and it was
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part of their exhibit for a fullday before anybody actually noticed that it wasn't
I guess what was supposed to behanging in that spot, and they fired
him over it. He did itbecause he was hoping it might help him
break through as an artist. Ithink better work might help him break through
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as an artist more than hanging upone of his own paintings, which I
don't know, I've never seen one. I might go back to that full
story and see how good he isbefore I judge him. Ah, but
you know, if you're if you'rein a if you're gonna hang your painting
in a museum, it has tobe at least as good as everything else
in there, or it's gonna reallystand out. It's gonna be like if
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you got three kids in elementary school. You got a sixth grader or a
fifth grader and a kindergartener, andthey've all got paintings on the refrigerator.
You're gonna probably be able to tellwhich one was done by the kindergartener.
I'm just guessing, and that I'mafraid is what might have gotten him busted.
Like, wait a minute, that'snot a renoir, That is not
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a monette. Oh it's Bob,Bob or Heinrich. Yeah, it's in
Germany, so it wouldn't be Bob. I don't think. Oh, mercy,
where am I with all this stuff? Remember a few weeks ago when
a hailstorm took out a big Texassolar panel farm. Apparently India didn't get
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the They didn't hear that story,didn't read it, didn't see it,
or just didn't care about it,because they have now approved, not improved,
they have approved installation of rooftop solarpanels on ten million homes. They're
investing nine billion dollars, by theway, paying for the solar panels.
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That the country is not to thetune of nine billion dollars. Whereas around
here if you want to put thosethings on your roof, and there's one
roof on the way to where Iplay golf most of the time out at
black Hawk that had solar panels puton probably two and a half years ago,
And for two years after those solarpanels went up, there were wires,
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just extension cords leading up to theirall over their roof amidst the solar
panels. Now I don't know wherethey're putting those those panels in India,
but I just hope that climate doesn'tchange much there because that could be pretty
bad. Why this is something elsetoo that got my attention, riddled me
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this Batman, Why would a greenenergy crazy country like ours invest in I
don't know, billions of dollars inplacing a fuel depot in orbit of the
planet. Any idea, will?Why won't what they're gonna do, They're
gonna put this thing up there.It's gonna just be like a gas station,
like a giant BUCkies in the sky. Okay, And these little satellite
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that run on different fuels. HydrazineI think is the main one, and
that's what it's gonna refuel with.It's not like they're gonna run up and
get a few gallons of diesel thenfire up the engines anymore. That doesn't
work. But they're gonna supply hydrazento all these satellites that reply that require
that energy to keep going, andusually up to now and and still when
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one of those things run out offuel, it just it just is left
up there. It's just space junk. They can't do anything with it,
although it's perfectly fine to work.So now they're gonna have a refueling stop
up there in orbit to supply afuel. Why don't they just send the
space station up there and just gofrom satellite to satellite and put a bunch
of solar panels on them. Whywouldn't you do that? Will? I
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have no idea. I think itwould make a lot more sense, and
just run some astronauts up there witha bag of tools and a bunch of
solar panels and just I really movingthe The ISS would just be it would
be in convenient. Why just moveit around? But I think it's just
it's just supposed to be. Iknow it's moving, but I think it's
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supposed to just kind of be ahow about you just stationary station? You
know in orbit? It's stationary.Really, but's what I clarified. I
said that it's moving. I'm justsaying that I think that as a stationary
thing, well, well, youknow, as stationary as it can be.
So well, if they just moveit over next to a satellite,
throw some solar panels, and Ithink I think another one. I think
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it would be too too risky tomove some Wait, just whereas if you
can send something else up there thatyou can refuel, like a depot like
fish? Will do you like salmon? I love salmon? How much time
do you have? You have?One minute? Oh? Perfect? So
there's a truck up in in Oregon. I believe it was. I mean,
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I think it's an organ. I'mpretty sure it was organ carrying one
hundred and two thousand was in youngsalmon from a hatchery truck taking them somewhere
else to be delivered and dispersed,probably who knows where wreck oh No.
One hundred and two thousand young salmon. But luck was on their side because
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the truck overturned next to a big, beautiful, clear water running creek.
Wow, and the water in theruptured tank on the truck flushed all the
fish out and flushed most of themright into the creeks. Follow me,
that's great, and off they went. Yeah, so it's kind of if
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you are going to crash a truckof salmon, might as well right next
to the river. You know whereI'm fishing the next three years, probably
making a little trip to to theOregon in the creeks, a little ways
downstream from the skid marks. Yeah, I'm going, all right, we
got to take a little break hereon the way out. I'll tell you
about Texas Home by A Plus ratedwith the Better Business Bureau, and they've
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been in business for twenty five years. They will buy your home as is.
Sometimes sometimes there's just a need tosell a home right away. You
don't want to go through the hassleof having to empty it and stage it.
And paint it and change out theflooring and all these things just to
squeeze top dollar out of that house, when really you just want to You
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want to sell the house, geta fair price for it as is.
Texas home Buyers will come to thathouse, they will walk around, they'll
look around outside, inside, andyou will get a cash same day offer
for that home as it sits,right where it sits. You don't have
to do a thing but show upat closing to get your check and sign
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the paperwork. They can usually dothat within a week, very quick closing.
Some maybe it's a foreclosure, maybethere's an inheritance, maybe there's a
death in the family. Maybe somebodythere's a divorce. There's all kinds of
reasons, somebody's going into assisted living, all kinds of reasons. People need
to sell homes unexpectedly and quickly,and Texas Home Buyers facilitates that every single
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day. Seven one three sixty fournine twenty two twenty two. Seven one
three sixty four nine twenty two twentytwo. Old guys rule, and of
course women never get old. Ifyou want to avoid sleeping on the couch,
Okay, you think that sounds likea good plan fifty plus continues.
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Here's more with Doug. All Right, welcome back. Final segment of the
show for today, anyway, hopenot the final, one forever. Final
segment of the show today starts nowand ends in about what six minutes will
seven minutes somewhere in there. Yep. By the way, I mentioned,
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I think it was yesterday I mentionedyesterday, or maybe it was this past
week late that we now have access. You have access to me through Pound
two fifty. You dial it onyour phone, the pound sign. That's
the tic tac toe thing for someof you, and then two five zero
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and the line will ring and itwill be answered, and you will hear
somebody say say the keyword and whatyou want to say there is fifty plus
and that gives you an opportunity.And I found a good use for this
will really during the show, Iwas just about to ask a question of
you, and I wasn't sure whichway it was going to go, and
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all of that good stuff, Butit dawned on me that if we can
encourage this audience to just remember poundtwo fifty, you don't have to remember
a whole phone number, you don'thave to save it you can just put
pound two fifty and then say fiftyplus. You can leave me a voicemail
which I can then go check.And I was gonna use it. Now
that might be a little bit latetoday, but earlier in the show I
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certainly could have used it to say, hey, Will and I were talking
about cafeterias during the break, whichI think should somehow make a revival.
I love eating at cafeterias. Idon't have a problem there at all.
It's it's affordable, it's healthy,it's good food. Healthy, it is
you think, so I do.All I read in this in this Houston
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Chronicle article was that Cleyburn is sellingchicken fried steak. Well, yeah,
they have that, but they alsohave fresh vegetables. They also have baked
chicken. Nobody's going there for thebaked chicken fish kindling Guini. I ordered
that once. There's a a Louvi'sclose to where my son practices baseball sometimes
in the summer, and I orderedit. In this this guy put this
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giant I don't know, like aclaw, almost like a whole rake of
it into a to go container andI said, no, no, I'm
eating here. And when he putit on a plate and send it down
the line. It looked like somebodyhad covered a football in linguini and chicken.
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Why And I told myself when Isat down, said I really shouldn't
eat all of this because it's alot. It's way more than I should
eat. And as I wiped mymouth after the final bite, I thought,
you know, I was right.I shouldn't have eaten all this,
but it was just so tasty.Well, then you don't have any room
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for the jello. Well, yeah, there's jel No, I don't get
that anymore. Well, what I'mkind of out of the jello? Will
and I were trying to remember there'sthere's Clevelands, there's Loubies, And there
used to be another chain. Therewas one in Sharpstown Center when that was
a cool place to hang out.And I can't remember the name of it.
But if somebody would just call andleave that for me, I'll sing
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your praises tomorrow pound two fifty saythe keyword fifty plus, and then when
it comes up, tell me whoyou are, and then tell me what
the name that dog on cafeteria chainwas that was here other than Louby's,
because I think loubis maybe the lastone standing really except for Clebrand's one little
location which you thought had burned,right, Well, I knew that.
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I remember. I think when Iwas in high school, I felt like
it burned. Yeah, okay,let's change the subject. NBC Legal or
note not NBC ABC Legal and thisexcuse me. Sonny host that she's on
the view too, decided to sharelast week that she thinks the eclipse and
the upcoming rare double emergence of cicadas, which she called kkaa does. She
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tried to tell that show's audience thatthey were somehow tied to the moon blocking
the sun. Uh. Even Whoopeetried to correct her, but she stood
her ground. Oh no, no, this is all tied together. Uh
real quick? Will. In apoll, twenty nine percent of people said
that they were in all of theeclipse, fifteen people said they felt that
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peace when they saw the eclipse.I think that's kind of interesting, and
five people conceded that they were actuallypretty bored, and a whole bunch more.
You know what they said, it'sa it's an aclipse. I said,
why are my eyes aching and bleeding? That was one of the most
searched things on the internet yesterday.Why do my eyes hurt? Well,
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we talked about that, didn't weWe did well. Guy says he's invented
a new popcorn bucket. Will andI kind of wish I had one.
I wish I'd have thought of thisfirst, I really do. It's it's
got a normal bucket top, butit's got at the bottom. It's the
size of a cup holder, soyou can put your You can put your
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nine dollars bucket of popcorn on oneside of your chair and your fourteen dollars
soft drink with mostly ice in iton the other side of the chair.
Oh and if you buy the gallonbucket of each you get a free refill,
which nobody can a gallon sod up. That's how much you have to
buy. I don't know, ohman. Anyway, there's a farm over
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in England. Now that is forthere's guy. Why do these people call
me during the show? Honest togoodness, I know that guy. He
knows better. Two minutes there's athere's a farm over in London, I
don't remember the name of it thatis growing black soldier flies, which are
basically the cheapest, fastest growing insects. To farm, no diseases. Oh,
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I know why he called. Ibet he. I bet he sent
me the message on what the ohman, I don't know if I can
get to it right now. I'llget to him tomorrow though, and I'll
credit him for doing that. Ibet he told us the name of that
of that that chain of cafeterias.So anyway, speaking of food, these
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are the cheapest, fastest growing insectsto farm. There's no diseases with them,
no nothing. And they're gonna feedthem to chickens and pigs as an
alternate source of protein than corn,because corn, I guess costs more money.
And yeah, and guess what.It won't be long before those what
do they call black soldier flies.You're gonna be able to get them at
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a store near you. Will yumydipped in chocolate on one aisle. I
love eating bugs, and probably beerbattered on the other aisle, and patties,
chatter, larvae, crickets. I'veseen sears Sears Roebuck used to sell
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chocolate covered ants and chocolate covered crickets. It's wrong with them a million.
Oh, I don't care, grasshoppers, all of that stuff, and you
can have if anybody ever gives mea hundred of them, I'm gonna give
you a hundred of them. Okay. I have no idea why anybody would
want to eat bugs. I getit. And people who think that cows
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and other animals are causing global warmingshould do some more research and understand really
where the sources of CO two are. And it's such a tiny little element
in the air. If we takeit down much more, the plants are
gonna die. And if they die, we die. We will be back
will and I will tomorrow at thiswell noon, We'll see you then.
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