You know what I mean?

Today, Doug Pike discusses annoying phrases, ship wrecks, and eggs.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 3 (00:51):
Two day edition of the program starts right now. God,
it was so muggy and cloudy early this morning. I
don't know why Cast promised more of what we have now,
but at least it wasn't terrible. It really wasn't. By
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I would call that sky this morning, threatening, would you agree?

Speaker 2 (01:28):
Will?

Speaker 3 (01:28):
Were you out early? No good point? You just slept
through it. Yes, looks pretty good out there now. The
due point was such that the air close to the
ground at least wasn't all that bad, wasn't all that damp.
No condensation at all on my car, which I fully expected. Actually,
I opened the back door and there was condensation on

(01:50):
the patio, So I figured, okay, here we go again.
It's gonna be all sloppy wet. Yesterday it was so
the car itself was so damp that I almost had
to mop it to get out of the driveway and
be able to see where I was going. Forecast says
ten percent chance for in today, which is no big deal.
Twenty percent tomorrow, also no big deal. Neither of those

(02:13):
numbers should shut down any outdoors plans you might have.
And then after that, once we endure the next twenty
four thirty six hours or so, we've got four straight days.
I think right through the weekend that it's gonna be
quite not that would be five more days after today.
It should be just fine. Make your plans, get outside,

(02:34):
have some fun, absorb some vitamin D that is so critical,
so critical to your health. And yet more and more
people are. They're not ignoring it, but they're not getting
enough vitamin D from the sunshine because they're not outside.
Instead of instead of going outside and playing catch, they're

(02:55):
playing video games instead of going outside and going fishing,
or playing golf or just take in a walk. Sitting
on the couch watching TV. That's not healthy. That's not
how it's meant to happen. Not at all. Eighty two
degrees yesterday when I came off the golf course and
I felt great. It wasn't it wasn't so hot that

(03:17):
anybody in the group was just perspiring and just drenching
themselves with sweat. But just that little bit of just
a little bit of effort, just enough to make golf swings.
It got your attention, a little moisture coming out of
your skin, trying to shed off all that heat. Off

(03:37):
to market we go, thanks to Houston Gold Exchange. I
had to go back to the drawing board actually, as
I often do when I'm prepping early, and just double
check to make sure nothing's changed at first glance. This morning,
three in the green, one in the red. Of the
four major indices I checked a little while ago, all

(03:57):
four back in the green, but not not by any
major major move in any for any one of them.
Oil had rebounded, actually it was down a couple of
dollars a barrel this morning, and then only about an
hour ago had rebounded to actually being up a fraction
from yesterday's clothes and gold to anybody who has a

(04:21):
bunch of it, gold just keeps on giving, keeps on
climbing back around around ten o'clock, I think it was
when I last looked at gold up I want to say,
I don't know, eight ten bucks something like that, maybe twelve. Anyway,
it was at two thousand, eight hundred seventy three dollars
and change. And as we as we heard from Brad

(04:43):
Schweiss a few days ago, well, I'm about the middle
of last week, I guess it was. I talked to
him and then shared with you. There's a lot of
speculation and it's looking more and more like it's gonna
come true that Gold's gonna hit three thousand dollars an
hours before the the middle of this year. That's not
a bad thing. I guess for you, for those of

(05:04):
you who have a brick or two stepping into the
We're not gonna get the clock, huh, will nope, just
not at all. Nope, it's not capable of solving the problem.
I'm just messing with you.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
So what time do you have?

Speaker 3 (05:18):
I'm gonna I'm gonna put it on my official clock
out here, twelve ten. Twelve ten is correct, that's what
I also have. I don't know when the seconds break.
We're hitting thirty now, well, I don't have it on
this clock anyway, so it doesn't matter. You just give me,
give me a little heads up when we got about
thirty seconds left, will you? So moving into the news,

(05:41):
this is gonna take longer than a minute. So I'm
gonna go to something a little softer. Will I'm gonna
put you to work actually for a couple of minutes.
Are you ready? Yes?

Speaker 2 (05:50):
Over the rainbow.

Speaker 3 (05:53):
Size matters or stop saying that, Stop saying that. Yeah,
I like this one, this will this one might take
us all the way to the break too, if we
just work with it. There's a list of phrases that's
come out now. I don't know who put it together
or how much effort they put into it. But phrases
that annoy people every time they hear them, and it

(06:16):
includes try to pick one of the three that are here,
four actually that are here, and and it's not hey,
will I need you. Let's see.

Speaker 4 (06:29):
Phrases that annoy people just every time they hear them.
M it's gonna be a doozy.

Speaker 3 (06:39):
You know that. That should be on the list too.
One of them was I was today years old when
whatever they found out something that they should have realized
long ago. Another one is just a two word phrase,
well played, Do you use that at all? No? What
about I did a thing? I did it thing that

(07:01):
apparently is one of the ones that made the list,
But I've never said that, now have you? I done
never did say that. And the one that I think
really resonates with me is people who finish every sentence
it seems like with you know what I mean? Okay,
well you know that? And I feel called, oh do

(07:23):
you say that a lot? I say, you know you
know what I mean? The list will huh, that's that's
on the list all right for anyone who still says that.
By the way, and I think for I speak for
most of us, yeah, we know what you mean. Well,
you know what I mean.

Speaker 4 (07:42):
We got fifteen seconds left. Well I'll just go out
early and just really mess you up, you know what
I mean. Uh, yeah, you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (07:51):
No, we got to stop this right now. You want
to go last, you want to get one more in.

Speaker 4 (07:56):
Oh, I'll get one in and it's going to be
the title of this podcast episode.

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Speaker 1 (09:52):
Eight aged to perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike.

Speaker 3 (10:05):
Welcome back to fifty plus. Thankful listen, certainly do appreciate it,
you know we do, Will and I and I'm happy
to have you with us.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 3 (10:16):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 4 (10:17):
Will?

Speaker 3 (10:17):
I know what you mean? It's twelve nineteen. Say it
on a KPRC nine fil No, No, say the other part.
You know what I mean? You know what I'm saying? No,
what I'm saying. Are you picking up what I'm putting down?

Speaker 4 (10:31):
Will?

Speaker 3 (10:32):
Every day? That's oh man, there are lots of expressions
that just probably need to go by the wayside and
just be set up, put out to pasture. Yeah, you
know what I mean? If only we had that power, will,
If only we well, you know what we can do,

(10:52):
We can stop. Don't say Well, we're not going to
say it anymore today. I hope I won't and I
don't want you to either. So we'll just see how
into that you are. All right, I'm going to start
with the recent exposure of the US Agency for International
Development us AID and just where exactly it's been spending

(11:16):
taxpayers dollars recently. Are you ready for this? And this
is being investigated, and ultimately I think it's going to
be shut down the entire agency because it's not been
really doing the best job of earmarking federal tax dollars
for things that benefit Americans. For example, and this is

(11:41):
just I believe last year's dollars a million and a
half to quote advanced diversity, equity and inclusion in Serbia's
workplaces and business communities doesn't help us a bit. Seventy
thousand dollars for reduction of a Dei musical in Ireland.

(12:05):
That doesn't help us much. Two and a half million
dollars for electric vehicles in Vietnam, Forty seven thousand dollars
for a transgender opera in Colombia, thirty two thousand dollars
for a transgender comic book in Peru, two million dollars

(12:28):
for sex changes in lb LGP excuse me, LGBT activism
that's in quotes in Guatemala. And six million dollars to
fund tourism not to Disneyland, not to the Grand Canyon
in Egypt. Hundreds of thousands of dollars, it says here

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for a nonprofit linked to designated terrorist organizations, even after
an Inspector General launched an investigation into that expense.

Speaker 2 (13:02):
Millions, just millions of.

Speaker 3 (13:04):
Dollars to Eco Health Alliance, which was involved in research
at the Wuhan Lab. That doesn't seem to sit well
with a lot of people, I would bet. And then,
of course the hundreds of thousands of meals that went
to al Qaeda affiliated fighters in Syria. I'd like to

(13:24):
know why where else? Oh, very quick, here's another one
funding to print personalized contraceptives and birth control devices in
developing countries. And then oh, there's that hundreds of millions
of dollars to fund irrigation canals, farming equipment, and even fertilizer.

(13:45):
Fertilizer excuse me, used to support unprecedented poppy cultivation and
heroin production in Afghanistan, which benefits the Taliban. That's where
us AID was going, That's where this Agency on International
Development was throwing our money. And they can't shut that

(14:09):
place down fast enough as far as I'm concerned. It's
been going on for years too, and the list is
a whole lot longer than what I just mentioned. At
what point, at what point in our generation of staggering
federal debt did we think it was a good idea
to just keep right on sending checks to foreign countries,
even some we know we're sharing that windfall with our enemies.

(14:30):
It's very frustrating to see this and to just knock
down line items where all that money could have been
used way, way better over here. It's gonna stop though,
pretty soon. It's just one of dozens of agencies I'm
sure in programs being scrutinized by President Trump's Department of

(14:50):
Government Efficiency, which I suspect will shut that thing down
in short, short time. A what time might it be now?
Will it is twelve twenty four, four minutes? Let's go
to let's go to eggs for a bajillion dollars a

(15:13):
dozen alex. It's not the goose, by the way, that's
laying golden eggs these days, it is chickens. The price
of eggs through the roof, and eggs are driving up
not just the price to put a few in the
frying pan for breakfast, but food prices in a lot
of restaurants too, a whole lot. Major outbreak of avian
influenza resulted late last year in the mandatory elimination of

(15:39):
some thirteen point two million chickens. That was in December,
and then another eight million earlier this year. The problem
with avian flu, much like avian cholera, is that once
it's in these birds, it spreads like wildfire. It just goes,
it just goes racing through the flocks. And these birds

(16:00):
have to be have to be killed to stop the
spread of the disease. And the same as is the
case with chronic wasting disease and deer. It's it's far
better for the sake of the entire herd or flock,
as it were, the to just try to nip it

(16:21):
in the butt and get ahead of it, which is
not easy. Not evey all of us, every every one
of us who eats eggs at least is feeling the pinch.
There was a Chronicle story this morning, I think it
was from that said, just everyday, eggs are about six
dollars and seventy cents a dozen now, and that's that's

(16:41):
up a few omelets from an also high four to
sixty two back in mid January before December of last year. Well,
what we're eggs a buck and a half two bucks
a dozen wasn't bad. If you can get your hands
on a dozen or so chickens hens at least six
months old. That's the that's when they start laying, and

(17:02):
maybe a rooster. You can throw your alarm clock away too.
You just might be able to turn those birds into
a profitable side hustle. You ever thought of? That will
maybe get you a chicken coop. Put about two dozen
chickens in there, No, and then just bring eggs to
the studio. I'd buy a dozen from you. Why would
I do that for you? How about that? For money?

Speaker 4 (17:23):
Why would I? I don't care about your money?

Speaker 3 (17:27):
Really? Yeah, how much would you charge me for a
dozen eggs alone? What are you willing to pay? I'd
pay eighty percent of market? Amen? If I can go
to the grocery store and get them where at least
I know they're fresh. Oh, these will be fresh eggs. Yo.

(17:49):
You know what crazy to me? Is this whole notion
of never mind? I don't want to get in any
more of this if I don't have to. Some liberal
person actually wrote in a story about this, if people
would just start yelling and screaming more loudly about the
egg crisis, it would go away. Well, no, that's not

(18:10):
how it works. That won't fix the problem. The problem
is bird flu, and yelling at a disease won't impact it.
What you need to do, if you really care, is
maybe do some research on it. Maybe get yourself a
degree in solving this problem and disease analyzation and fixing it.

(18:35):
Analysis every step of the way, and shut it down
so it doesn't get into our chickens anymore. It's spread
so fast too, it's sad. Really, we just got to
keep it out of chicken farms and then we'll have
no problem but yelling, yelling at avian flu. Oh now

(18:55):
you want me to stop? Yeah, all of a sudden, Okay,
that's fine, not a problem, thank you. Without the clock,
it's a little tough. I'm sorry, almost said it.

Speaker 2 (19:06):
Go and fishing.

Speaker 3 (19:07):
If you're a fisherman, or if you think about maybe
liking fishing someday and you want to go try to
catch one, or you want to go visit places where
fishing is really good and get a guide to take
you out, or you want to go sit in a
seminar because you already do a lot of fishing, but
you don't catch very many fish. Well, aren't you in luck?
The Fishing Show kicks off on February twelfth and runs

(19:29):
through the sixteenth. That's next week at the George R.
Brown Convention Center, where it's been held for many years.
This by the way, being the fiftieth anniversary of this show.
All the new rods, all the new reals, the lures.
There are factory reps there, which is really for somebody
who's really into fishing and wonders about the technology in

(19:52):
something and wonders about the R and D process for
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there from Alaska to South America, dozens of fully rigged boats,
hundreds of kayaks. The clinics ongoing every day all day,

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and then of course kids stuff on Saturday and Sunday
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Speaker 2 (20:38):
You know they sure don't make them like they used to.

Speaker 1 (20:40):
That's why every few months we wash them, check us fluids,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax.

Speaker 2 (20:47):
This is fifty plus with Dougpike.

Speaker 3 (21:02):
I welcome back Segment three. Segment three coming up here
in about one second. There we go. We just started it.
I guess we technically started it earlier. Right, well, if
you want to get technical about it. You know what
I mean. You couldn't help yourself, could you. I held back.
I almost went. I almost went first to say it

(21:25):
in this segment, and now you're almost forcing me to
say it first in the last segment. You know what
I mean? Yes, you should huh, never mind, all right,
I will start. You want to do something on shipwrecks
or terrell owens, will.

Speaker 4 (21:47):
Let's do so then on shipwrecks.

Speaker 3 (21:51):
You know, actually, I kind of I'm fascinated by all
this stuff. I'm not kidding you. If I ever do
win the lottery, and I might play every now and
then just to see if I can, Because if I do,
I will invest money in in treasure hunting, not necessarily
just for the even just for the historical value of
finding a ship that nobody knew where it was on

(22:14):
the bottom of the ocean, I would do that. Here's
what I found this morning, this ship in the Mediterranean,
found about fifty miles off the coast of Israel, the
oldest shipwreck of its kind from that region, and in
pretty dog gone, amazing condition given its age, the distance.

(22:36):
And this is where I get into a little conflict
of what these these assumptions that are made about where
they found this thing? Okay, and the story said that
the distance it was found off the shoreline way out there,
like fifty miles or so, seems to indicate an ability
to navigate beyond sight of land, which wasn't thought possible

(22:57):
so long ago. All or and this is the way
my head works. Or what if that ship just suddenly
had some outbreak of a horrible disease on its crew
and it drifted that far offshore instead of just hugging
the shoreline and keeping an eye on land. What if

(23:18):
pirates And that apparently was one of the possibilities at
least any major storm could have knocked one of these
boats out. The thing wasn't but about maybe fifty sixty
feet long, which in modern day terms isn't long at all.
For something that's gonna be on the open ocean. So whatever. Whenever, However,

(23:40):
guess when that ship is believed to have sunk? Will
how many years ago?

Speaker 4 (23:45):
I'm gonna guess a year, and I'm gonna say it was.

Speaker 3 (23:51):
Seventeen twenty two. No, it was about let me do
the math here, about eight one hundred years BC. It's
that old. And it had some really very for the
time high tech, these big urns and jars and whatnot.

(24:12):
I'm talking about two and a half three foot tall
jars of whatever that ship was carrying. I don't know,
and I didn't. I didn't have time to read the
entire story, but I'm just fascinated. I'll probably go back
and read it right after the show. Going to too,
and I think this is pretty funny. What time are
we at now? Will I know when I have to stop?

(24:33):
We're at a ballpark. It is forty twelve thirty eight
thirty eight. Oh good, I have lots of time here.

Speaker 2 (24:39):
I'll do TEO.

Speaker 3 (24:40):
I'll do the t O story. It's pretty good. Former
NFL star Terrell Tarrell Owens. Terrell Owens, Yeah, Terrell, I
think he's what he prefers. This guy's never been one
to just shy away from saying something that might stir
the pot, might rile a few people, might ruffle some
feather feathers, And he did so. Boy did he ever.

(25:01):
Earlier this week, he came out what is it? Just
days before the Super Bowl now and said that the
Chiefs had helped this season in getting a shot at
their third straight Super Bowl. Help he means from the
NFL and its referees. And here's the quote from him.
It's blatant and obvious. And I never thought I would

(25:21):
say games are rigged. It's unreal the amount of calls
the Chiefs get. End quote. He also referred to lopsided
officiating in last year's Super Bowl matchup between the Chiefs
and the forty nine Ers. Looks that way to a
lot more people than just to two. Ask some Texans
fans what they think about how how Patrick Mahomes is treated.

(25:45):
I'm telling you there should be a red flag. And
I talked about this on my outdoor show over the weekend.
I rarely talk football or baseball or basketball because I
focus on hunting and fishing in the outdoor, outdoor recreation, golf,
et cetera, snowboarding, skiing all that stuff sailing. The bottom
line is I think there needs to be a red
flag in the referees belt loops, so there are waistbands

(26:08):
so that they can throw it as well, and the
penalty would be roughing the Patrick you like that will
it's fine, it should it should be in They might
as well, because that's that's what gets thrown a lot.
Patrick Mahomes says he doesn't see it. He doesn't think
it's real. But I've seen it more than once now

(26:30):
and it's really it's just it's hard to ignore how
soft they are on in fractions that somebody's in his shadow,
they'll throw a flag. It's very frustrating. There's a new
video of that Washington d C crash, by the way,
the military military helicopter and the commuter jet closer and

(26:53):
clearer than early videos. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to show
anything new. Really. I did see stories that say the
pilots on the jetliner tried unsuccessfully to climb out of
the helicopter's path but weren't able to clear it before
the collision that claimed all those lives. And by the way,
there's so much garbage in responses to any story that's

(27:17):
written about this that are trying to lay blame on
people that we don't know need to be blamed, people
who are serving our country, people who are flying commercial airliners.
It's a tragic accident. And I don't really all this

(27:38):
armchair quarterbacking by people who know absolutely nothing about flying
anything except just I guess, just flapping their gums and
see if they can fly off the ground. That's about it. Yeah,
I'll leave that alone. I'll leave it alone. There's no
reason for anybody who is not directly involved in that
investigation to be coming out with an opinion or or

(28:01):
theory or any of that stuff. Any of it so
I saw this morning. If it's not already on a
list to be checked out, was the concerning statistic that
fifteen percent of the inmates in US women's prisons are male,
fifteen percent. The comments beneath an X post ran the
gamut from awkward humor to statistical analytics, little or none

(28:25):
of which served any purpose other than to just waste words.
That's something that's going to have to be addressed by
people above my pay grade. And I think it would
be a good idea. Yeah, I do. I do.

Speaker 2 (28:40):
How much time Do I have left now?

Speaker 3 (28:42):
Will you have ten seconds? Doug? Well, why don't we
just call it a segment then and move on to
the Institute on Aging ut Health Institute on Aging that
is that amazing collaborative for which I have spoken many
many years now done so and I want you to

(29:02):
know what they do. In addition to the website that
I'm sure it took a lot of hands to create
all this information for us, the website shows invaluable resources
across the board. Across every facet of the medical care

(29:23):
spectrum that we might need as seniors is represented somewhere
in there. You might have to look a little bit
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whatever they're area of expertise, they have gone back and
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You need somebody to take care of you. You don't
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diploma on the wall, go to one who's part of
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to more quickly and more effectively probably treat you for
whatever it is that's got you wanting to go to
the doctor. And none of us want to go, but
when we need to. Sure is comforting to know that
you can see someone who understands us. Go check out
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somebody who can really take care of us. Ut dot
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Speaker 1 (30:38):
Old guy's rule. And of course, women never get old.
If you want to avoid sleeping on the couch.

Speaker 3 (30:46):
Okay, well do you think that sounds like a good plan.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
Fifty plus continues Here's more with Doug.

Speaker 4 (31:02):
Right.

Speaker 3 (31:02):
Welcome back to sixty plus. Thanks for listening. Certainly do
appreciate you allowing Will and me to join you in
your lunch break. I guess maybe that's what you're doing.
Maybe you're driving around town, running errands, going to the doctor,
to the doctor. Maybe who knows, And if you are,
I hope you have a a calming, comfortable message from

(31:24):
your provider, whoever that may be. It's it's no fun
be it's sick, and on knock on wood, I've avoided
the crud that seems to be going around so far.
Will have you or your girlfriend had any trouble with
health this winter? Don't, man, don't it's not even funny. Oh,

(31:46):
it's funny to me, Doug. That's true. Well, so y'all
staying generally healthy. Uh, my girlfriend was sick last week?
Did she have to not misteaching? She did? She she
had to stay home for a couple of up. Yeah,
but how do you think the kids took to that? What?
What grade does she teach? She teaches between third and fifth? Okay, yeah, okay,

(32:11):
that's a pretty I would imagine that's a pretty tough
age to teach those kids.

Speaker 4 (32:16):
Yeah. I think it's just, you know, it's I think
she's coming from, you know, teaching twice. I'm trying to
talk here, Doug. I'm trying to trying to improve you.
You're trying to mess me up right now, trying to fluster.

Speaker 3 (32:35):
Mess up your cadence, you know what I mean? All right? Anyway,
I saw a discussion yesterday about whether or not prisoners
who work, and they whether they're whatever work they're asked
to do, whether they should be paid minimum wage for

(32:59):
that work? And my response without giving it too much thought,
I think is that when every American who hasn't been
convicted of a crime is better off than they are now,
I think that might be the time to discuss this,

(33:19):
whether or not inmates who people. And I'm not talking
about everybody in prison, because there are people I'm I know,
not that I know personally, but I recognize that some
people have been wrongfully incarcerated, and I'm not talking about them.
They have far more than minimum wage coming to them,

(33:40):
I believe. But people who who did the crime, were
charged with it, were convicted of it, and are in
there now.

Speaker 2 (33:50):
They kind of put that on themselves.

Speaker 3 (33:52):
And if we're gonna, if we're gonna reimburse them for
the work they're doing, then maybe they could reimburse the
prison system for housing and food and medical care like
the rest of us have to pay. They're getting minimum
WAG for twenty thirty forty hours a week with zero expenses.

(34:13):
Maybe they ought to just get direct deposit and throw
that money into a four to oh one K. People
who commit crimes and do this, I think they still
have human rights one hundred percent. I'm not taking any
of that away from them. I'm not but building nest
eggs while you're in there. It really doesn't fall into

(34:36):
that category. I don't think. To uplift the discussion, I'll
share a story of research conducted at Rush University that
confirms what most of us I think already knew. And
I've had interviews on it. As a matter of fact
recently that with the Institute on as you had somebody

(34:56):
on I want to say about three weeks ago it
was now to talk about the importance to fend off
loneliness and cognitive problems and all sorts of everything and
anything up to Alzheimer's. If you just have regular social interaction,
you go to church, you go to bingo, you go

(35:17):
out to eat with friends, you go to sporting events,
day trips, overnight trips, social stimuli, any and all socialization
can delay the onset of dementia, according to this study,
by as much as five years. By as much as

(35:38):
five years, that's pretty that's a lot of extra time.
You get to where you can you can enjoy your family,
you can enjoy your friends, you can enjoy all of
that stuff without cognitive impairment. It's good stuff for practical
purposes like financials too. Those five years. Five years of
a clean mind, clear mind could save your family as

(35:59):
much as a half mellion dollars in years to come.
Memory care is not cheap. Memory care is not cheap,
and all of it is not good. If you if
you happen to get lucky and find a place that
really cares and can do it at an affordable rate,
it's it's a gift like no other to the person
who raised you, or whatever your relationship is with someone,

(36:22):
You're gonna have to care for that way, but you
got you just got to be careful with that stuff.
I'm working actually on perhaps having someone join the show
who is in that business, and if I can bring
them on board, I will. I will interview them regularly
because every probably at least once a week, I would

(36:43):
imagine somebody in this audience either has a family member
or knows someone who has a family member that has
been diagnosed with dementia to one degree or another. And
that's just it's horrific, it really is. I'm knock on wood.
I'm still okay so far. Every now and then I'll
forget stuff, but I always take myself back to the

(37:05):
quote that I heard on this show. Actually when I
asked someone, I said, you know, every now and then
I'll lose my keys. I can't find my key somewhere,
And is that a sign of Is that an early
sign of dementia? And she straight up said no, not that.
It's if you find your keys, but you can't remember

(37:27):
what they're for, that that's a bigger problem. That's that
is a problem, whereas just losing your keys, misplacing your keys.
I don't know. I found there was a set of
earbuds in the restroom. Will Did you see them last week? Yes,
last Friday, I think it was, and they sat there
all day that it really it uplifted my opinion of

(37:50):
humanity a little bit that they didn't get hyked. Just
what was that? It's a wine? Pointing at the ceiling. No,
it's a wine. Oh okay, we got one minute. Yeah? Really,
maybe feel good that they just sat there and I
presume the owner of them at some point came back,
because they were gone. I think that was on Thursday,
and then they were gone on Friday, but hopefully back

(38:13):
into the owner's hands. I bet they were, because I
feel like this building is full of a bunch of
honest people and they were Why are you laughing? I
don't know. I've always I've always tried to give anybody
and everybody. I don't care what they look like, I
don't care what they're dressed like. I don't care anything
about them other than that they're just a human being.
And until they proved me wrong, I'm gonna think they're

(38:35):
they're okay.

Speaker 4 (38:36):
Man, you sound like somebody that just got a new
pair of AirPods.

Speaker 2 (38:41):
Oh, Will, no, Will ten seconds.

Speaker 3 (38:44):
That's it. Oh, I got some stuff for tomorrow that's
gonna be fun, things that we remember from long long ago.
We'll see it then tomorrow at noon. Idios