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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's itgoing today? Well, this show is
all about you. This is fiftyplus with Doug Pike, helpful information on
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your finances, good health, andwhat to do for fun. Fifty plus
brought to you by the UT HealthHouston Institute on Aging Informed Decisions for a
healthier, happier life and by TexasIndoor Air Quality Specialists because clean air is
healthier air. And now fifty pluswith Doug Pike. Let's try this one.
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Yeah, that's way better. Whoin the world came in here and
did all that and made a bigfat mess? Was it you? You
promise? Okay? Sometimes I wonderabout you? Will? All right?
Anyway? Welcome here we are onceagain, Thanks for listening. It was
on this day and I can't ignoreit. In nineteen forty four that American
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and Allied troops stormed a fifty milestretch of beaches over in France at Normandy.
Around Normandy, every man on everyone of those landing craft, every
one of them knew full well theywere likely to die. In the next
few hours. They were likely todie in their efforts to breach the just
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incredible defenses that the Germans had preparedfor this day. And still their mission,
their duty, their dedication to theircountries, and termination never to let
Germany win motivated them to do whatthey did. They just kept moving forward,
and they in this case counted roughlytwo hundred thousand soldiers from the US,
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from Britain and from Canada. Shipsfired heavy artility to get things started,
get the German fortification softened as theycould as these landing crafts were loaded
and launched, and as soon asthose boats got within gun range, the
sky just filled with hot lead.Soldiers started dying right then and there.
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And when the beaches finally fell quietenough again to hear the waves, twenty
nine thousand, twenty nine thousand Americansoldiers, eleven thousand British soldiers, and
five thousand Canadian soldiers lay dead onthe sand and the water, broken bodies
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everywhere. Another one hundred and seventythree thousand were wounded. And the men
who could, who could do everythingthey had done as they stepped onto that
beach, counted themselves just damned luckyto be alive, and said about staking
claim to the ground for which they'dfought and for which so many of their
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friends had died. Turning point DDay was a message to the Germans that
their quest for world domination, theirnotion of being somehow superior the fantasy of
that delusional man who led them,It was done. Took a bit more
time to sweep app sweep app sweepup after this battle, this staggering sacrifice,
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but that chapter at least was finished. Larger, small wars are fought
to turn back evil, which isdefined quite differently on either side of the
line. You have to remember theother side hates you as much as you
hate them. And we do thisdaily on a much smaller scale, not
even really battles, but just conflictionswithin ourselves, Little things we know are
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wrong that we need to make right, like returning the money when a cashier
hands back too much change. Willdo you do that or do you keep
it? I don't usually pay withcash, so that's that's yeah. Your
generation wouldn't even understand what I'm talkingabout. What do you mean give me
back something? The bill is ninedollars and seventy four cents and they extract
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nine dollars and seventy four cents,not all of which, of course makes
it to the seller or the bankalways takes this little piece off there.
That's why cash works so well.Will It's something that if you if I
give you fifty dollars and you gobuy something for fifty dollars, the person
you buy it from can then turnaround and buy something else that costs fifty
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dollars not forty seven dollars. Youknow that? Do you understand that?
Or did it just fire right overyour head? Oh? I get it.
I'm just checking. I'm just checking. It's all these little things that
we think about that we we wrestlewith internally. Golly, I don't know
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whether I should accept that invitation orthat job, or that whatever promotion,
or let the person that I knowis more worthy and would do a better
job have it just this time.That would be a tough one. If
you've been offered a promotion, butyou know there's somebody that could help the
company more, well, you don'tthink, so just lay down just as
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simple. It's your taking the bagof course. Oh my gosh, you
know that's the difference in our generations. I would have to think about that.
If they offered a promotion to somebodywho I genuinely thought was more capable,
more talented, I would I might. I don't have to think about
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it, but I think it woulddepend on what the relationship I have with
the company. I have a goodrelationship with this company. I like it.
I think I would want the companyto succeed. And unless that was
my one and only shot at something, then I might step down. I
might step out of the way letthe company keep moving forward, because that
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would benefit me as well in thelong run. Our generation, the senior
generation, looks at long term objectivesand not just how can I make another
dollar today. Took the ultimate sacrificeforty five thousand men and the wounding of
another one hundred and eighty three thousandto stop that level of evil in its
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tracks. Been a lot of battles, a lot of war since D Day,
but none that saw so many uniformedsoldiers fight over a single line in
the sand the Germans. The Germansthought they were prepared, and they were
almost What they underestimated was and whatcost them that beach Front, was their
disbelief that so many men would displaysuch courage under intense, ceaseless fire.
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Germans didn't realize that our memos weren'tfighting for themselves like the Germans were.
They wanted to start something. Wewanted to perpetuate something and leave freedom for
all the generations that followed those men. That's what they did. They were
fighting for will and for me andfor all of us. That's off to
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them. Eighty years we commemorate DDay today. We celebrate the brave men
who handed handed down our chance.They gave up their lives eighty years ago
so that we could be doing whateverit is we're doing now. All right,
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This is fifty plus with Doug Pike. Wow, I never heard that one
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before. Will what is that numberdo you have? Is there a little
counter by these things to let youknow how many times you've played them?
Nope, it's just an en luckyfor you. Yeah, and play them
as long as I want. Allright, moving forward, I guess as
we can do today thanks to thebrave men who fought on our behalf eighty
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years ago. Today over in France, man, let's just do this ten
seconds of forecast courtesy of Texas intoair quality specialists, because cleaner air is
healthier air. You really do needto call them, You really do.
In any event, forecasters absolutely blewit yesterday. It wasn't supposed to rain
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on Tuesday. I spoke of this. I looked at the forecast and said,
eh, not gonna rain on Wednesday. But it did. It rained
all over me on the north sideof town. It rained all over the
south side of town. It rainedall over Sugarland, it rained all over
Humble, and they totally missed thatone. I certainly hope they get their
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tropical weather stuff a little more dialedin before we see some of that.
Today through Sunday, once again forecastfor no rain at all. But what
do you know, who knows?Fingers crossed? I guess I'm thinking about
thinking about turning my forecast. Willit? Would this? Would this be
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too much? Turning the forecast intoa haikup? Think I can do it?
Sure? I think I can.I'm gonna consider it, and I'm
gonna try really hard to remember.Okay that and unless it starts taking too
much time, well just try itonce and see how it works. You
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can do it tomorrow. Yeah that'sbeen how many times have I heard that?
You can do it tomorrow? Maybeif I remember? Okay, unless
you you gonna remind me. Ifyou remind me, by nine o'clock tomorrow
morning, i'll have you a Haikuweather forecast. And this will be the
only one on planet Earth. Youcan think about this. Nobody is doing
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a weather forecast in Haiku. Noway, you don't think so. No,
No, this is gonna be oneof these these things that will be
heard everywhere. They'll they'll somebody willcopy it someday too. Will you think
it's that I'm fired up? Okay, well, I'm looking forward to it
tomorrow. I'll write it down andI'm gonna put it in my pocket,
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my shirt pocket. Here, I'mgonna turn it outwards so I can figure
out what the heck's on the notewhen I pull it out of my pocket.
Yeah, okay, here it is. I could in the pocket I
will remember in tomorrow's forecast, I'mgoing to be counting the syllables. Please
be all fine. I have noproblem with that. I've been writing poetry
will since I was in high school, actually a little bit before high school,
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but I got serious about it whenI found out girls liked it.
So there you go. Let's moveshow off to the market, but not
for long. Uh, basically flatas pancakes so far earlier this morning,
the last I looked. I don'tthink anything crazy has happened. Oil up
a few ticks now that Biden's gotthe deflection of his too little, too
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late border strategy to pull attention awayfrom where gas prices are. You know,
they threw them down real hard abouta week ago, and all of
a sudden they're coming back up again, marching forward as it always does,
seventy four bucks a barrel and inchingslowly upward as of forty five minutes ago,
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maybe an hour ago. I thinkit was gold courtesy of Houston Goldexchange
dot Com up a few ticks attwenty three point eighty three an ounce A
little while ago. I talked toBrad Schwiss yesterday. Brad Schweiss, the
owner of Houston Gold Exchange, andbased on his I don't know anything about
the gold industry, but based onhis forty plus years of expertise, he
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thinks it's headed up. Based onworld events of late and how things are
going, he thinks it's going up. So if you think it's a really
good investment right now, of course, go buy it. If you're sitting
on some old junker pieces that you'renever gonna use anymore, turn him into
cash and invest in something you thinkis going to do better. I'm not
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sure. I kind of like whathe's thinking about. I managed somehow yesterday.
By the way, just to giveyou an idea, says, I
took a day off, and I'mglad I did. I got a lot
done. I really did. AndI actually spent time at three different golf
courses will one in Humble, onein Richmond, and one even farther up
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way up ninety nine at fifty nine, starting Sugarland, plod to Golf Club
of Houston to get my media credentialsfor live golf, which, by the
way, if I have a secondafter I get to this, get through
this, i'll tell you about itwas a good experience. So I go
up and drop by there to getmy media credentials. Weather's great keep driving
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to go to a media day,a media day activity, a tour of
the new clubhouse at Highland Pines GolfClub and around golf after and we had
nice breakfast too. It was wonderful. So we get there and we go
through breakfast and it's starting to rain, and it rain a little bit harder,
and it'd bit harder and all ofa sudden kind of kind of quits
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a little bit. So we raceout there to play golf. On the
fourth tea box, I make aterrible swing and I'm so glad it actually
happened when it did, and abolt of lightning struck something so close to
us that we I mean the flashwas like a photo flash going off.
In my eyes, I thought,why was my buddy taking a flash photo
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with his phone in twenty twenty fourAnd then in the nano second it took
for me to process that question.That's when the thunderclap came right behind the
flash, and I mean it wasit was on property, dude, somewhere.
And that's when we all jump backin the carts and ran back to
the clubhouse like scared little children.And I don't do lightning. I'm not
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a big fan. You should havelifted your clubs up and the point of
them towards the sky. You knowthe line about one irons that Leech Revino
said many years ago. No,in a thunderstorm, Lee said, hold
up your one iron. It's avery difficult club. Hold up your one
iron because even God can't hit aone iron. You don't understand that because
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you don't play golfer. I don'tplay golf. Does And the sad part
is that every golfer in this audiencehas already heard that bright twenty times.
It's been around a while. Nobodycarries it one iron anymore. I don't,
not that I know of. Wehave to break, says well,
either that or he's shaking something outof his wrist, maybe spraying something.
UT Health Institute on Aging is agroup of men and women who are so
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dedicated to taking care of us thatin addition to all the training they went
through to get where they got whenthey got their diploma, the one that's
hanging in the office, well theywent back and got more education on specifically
how their teachings, how they're learningcan be applied to the senior body that's
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us. And we're a whole lotdifferent than younger people. We got stuff.
We got lug nuts that are loosenedup, we got breaks that are
about to fail. We got enginelights coming on in the dashboard of our
life. And the people in thiscollaborative at the Institute on Aging understand that
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and come at us and our problemsfrom that perspective. Go to the website,
look around first at all the resourcesthat are offered there, all the
different opportunities you have to probably answera lot of questions you have about your
health and other things. And thenfind one of these providers who is in
your area. They primarily are inthe med center, but a lot of
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them work outside of the med centerat least a couple of days a week,
and then schedule an appointment to gosee one of them and get whatever's
bothering you fixed up by somebody knowswho knows how to fix you and me
and the rest of us. Uth dot ed U slash aging ut h
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dot ed U slash aging Aged toPerfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike.
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Welcome back to fifty plus. Thanksfor listening on this beautiful day,
much more beautiful than the one yesterday. I drove all over town. I
got out to Like I said,I went by and picked up credentials at
Golf Club of Houston in advance ofLivegolf, and actually did a little quick
Facebook post with a photograph to letpeople know everything was going. This is
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after it finished raining, after Ihad left Highland Pines, had come back
to Golf Club of Houston to justsee who was hanging around. Se was
going out hitting balls, and it'sa very interesting setup there, totally different.
And I used to think I toldthe people that Live Golf when I
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was out there in the media centeryesterday, I talked to a couple of
them and said that a year anda half, two years ago, when
Live Golf was brand new and Ididn't know really anything about it, I
didn't know which way it was gonnaturn. I was very skeptical, and
I remained skeptical probably up until aboutmaybe six months ago, when I saw
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some of the changes that were beingmade throughout the golf world in reaction in
some part to what Live Golf wasdoing. Changing the amount of money that's
going into the PGA Tour, changingthe amount of money it's being paid to
the LB, LPGA, professionals,and my next question for if I can
find if I can find one ofany there are three people I'm gonna be
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looking for when I go back outthere, and if I can find one
of them, I'm going to askthem when Live Golf is going to draft.
I guess is that you could wrapthat in quotes some female players,
put some women on the teams andjust mix it up a little bit.
They've already mixed up golf a lot, and to its betterment. I think
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I'm I'm kind of coming into theirteam a little bit. I wasn't early
on, but it's going to beinteresting to see how it turns out.
And I'm glad they're going to havegood weather. Fingers crossed throughout the rest
of the event because I want toget back out there. I want to
see golf going on where all thegreat players on all the teams are on
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the course at the same time.That's going to be pretty interesting. I
like that concept, I really dothe more I think about it. The
downside for me is that it takesaway my ability to, for any good
purpose, broadcast live from out there. I got asked if I wanted to
broadcast from the tournament, and theydon't even start warming up until I'm off
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the air. The only advantage forme would be that I will be there,
and as soon as I get offthe air, I can go go
have a good time watching these guysplay golf. It'll be fun. It'll
be fun after that. On theway home, even as tired as I
was, I'd been up since thecrack of dawn, I have one of
those what the heck moments and steeredaway from home, and, as happens
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occasionally, somehow managed to land inthe parking lot at black Hawk Golf Club
country Club. I had just enoughenergy left to hit about a bunch of
balls. I probably hit one hundredballs, and then I fished a little
while. And then I actually woundup helping a friend out there, Jerry
Peterson. He had his grandson withhim and they were looking for bass.
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And that's the second time in fourdays that somebody's come to me saying,
hey, we're told you know wherethe bass are. The other time,
I actually it was ironically it was. It was with Jerry's son's wife and
their kids, and I put hisfour year old on a well. He
actually ended up kept catching three yesterday, there was only one bass notched by
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the youngster until I had to rollout of there. But I suspect they
probably caught some more where they wherethey were and where I had told him
to go. If that didn't workout, not bad on the way home,
I just you know, sometimes youjust have to drive to a golf
course. You just do uh tosome newsy stuff and I'll save some fun
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stuff for later, newsy stuff.Our president said tuesday that problems along the
border were not his fault, nothis fault at all. At ten twelve
to fifteen million people have come intoour country, almost all of them actually
in some way, shape or form, almost all of them technically illegal,
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it seems like to me. Andnow five months have changed before the election,
he's gonna shut it down kind of. He's still gonna let in twenty
five hundred a day through the officialcheckpoints. That's nine hundred thousand people a
year. And Chuck Schumer said earlierthis week or just late last week,
I think it was that the DemocraticParty's ultimate goal is to grant the right
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to vote to every one of theseillegal immigrants who's in this country. Now,
everybody, you get a vote,and you get a vote like Oprah.
You get to vote, and youget to vote, and everybody gets
a vote. All of these peopleare career criminals and they're they're cozied up
in hotels. They get whatever mealsthey want, whatever medical attention they need.
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They get cell phones. Here's adebit card too, in case you
want to take in a movie.We Americans cannot afford this. We cannot
afford this. Let me bring itin and that if for no other reason,
if for no other reason, wecan't allow this to go on,
it's because we can't afford it.What thirty four trillion dollars in debt,
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and we're giving away free stuff toeverybody in the world. While we've got
poor Americans who can't afford any ofwhat I just said. These other people
get for free. It's past week, don and GALLASA. By the way,
young woman nineteen years old from Oklahomain the in the surf, playing
around with their siblings, and herhand gets bitten by a shark. So
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she punches a shark in the faceand the shark lets go. Fortunately,
she's gonna end it well, she'sshe's gonna need she's had surgery and Fortunately
from the story I saw, she'sgonna be okay, She's gonna recover completely.
Had some tendons severed by that chart, a little one, I'm sure,
a little saying shark somewhere just mistookher hand for a fish, and
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when those things happen, typically theshark will bite and then let go and
go away. I'm going to tellyou more about what to do if you
actually run into a shark in thewater when I get back, but on
the way out, I'm going totell you about the little town of Alpine.
Little town with a big heart andsurrounded by the Big Bend, which
is absolutely positively one of the mostbeautiful landscapes you will ever see. I
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haven't been out there yet. I'vebeen around Alpine, but i haven't technically
gone into Alpine, and I'm tryingto make arrangements to do that and possibly
even do one or two editions offifty plus from out there live. That
would be kind of fun. They'vegot a great celebration of the fourth of
July coming up and do it insmall town style. They're going to have
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a parade. They've got the baseballteam there, They've got a beautiful stadium
out there. Saw Rush University's gota beautiful stadium and a wonderful summer theater
presentation of Sherwood The Adventures of RobinHood that was written by a guy named
Ken Ludwig. If you wondered allkinds of fantastic things to do. They've
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got one of the darkest night skieson the continent. And if you have
never seen the night sky outside ofHouston, Texas, you haven't seen anything.
The number of stars that are inthe night sky is stunning. It's
absolutely stunning and worth whatever it takesyou to get out there and have a
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good time in Alpine. They've gotghost tours, they have got that summer
theater, They've got a parade andall kinds of stuff set up for the
Fourth of July. Fun place togo, fun place to visit, and
no wonder quite a few people areretiring out that way. It's just absolutely
beautiful, cool nights in the summertimetoo. If for no other reason go
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out there to not sweat at nightlike we do down here. Visit alpinetx
dot com is the website. Visitalpinetx dot com. What's life without a
net? I suggest to go tobed and sleep it off. Just wait
until this show's over, Sleepy.Back to Dougpike as fifty plus continues,
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HYI welcome back fifty plus final segment. Oh we have a little bit extra
time today, don't we will nono again? Gosh uh? Very quickly,
back to the shark thing. Thereis the old school way to get
rid of a shark that came aroundand was either biting you or looking like
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it might buy you well, tojust punch them, Just wear back and
punch them right in the nose ifyou can. But punching a shark of
the nose. Number one, thewater is going to slow your punch and
the impact of that punch unless youcan catch it with its nose out of
the water. And number two,if the shark opens its mouth and lifts
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that nose just as you try topunch it, you might just send your
hand right into the shark's mouth.The new school technique that I've read about
that is more appropriate and better overallis to use your fingertips to go at
the shark's eyes and gills. Thoseare very sensitive, very sensitive areas on
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a shark, as they would beon a person. If we had gills.
I guess we Well, we haveour own very sensitive areas now,
don't we. But I guess ifyou try to punch that on the shark,
it might take you a while toget there. I got that taken
care of. Be respectful of sharks, don't be fearful of them. Don't
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let them ruin your trip to thebeach. But just respect them, and
I mean for real, because youbetter that or they'll get you. Oh,
where do I want to go forthis? Holy cow? Let's go
to the fun stuff and then Imight catch one more on the way out.
Well, pop quiz? Well,no, not a pop quiz,
just a selection process. Nice tractorand what would I do? And trust
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issues? And what would I do? A team at MIT has created an
AI chat bot think about this willcalled future You that lets you ask your
future self for life advice. Sothe do you have to put in your
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own information? I'm sure you would. Yeah, you would have to plug
in that. You would have toprobably answer one hundred questions at least.
If this is anywhere near legit,maybe you might have to answer questions for
two hours so that the AI candevelop a sense of who you are and
then replace you in the future sothat you can ask your future self what
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you should do, and by doingthat, you alter your future self if
you take the chatbot's advice, don'tyou so you just even just by asking
the chatbot what to do, you'vealready changed your entire future, probably not
for the better. I don't thinki'd ask him. I don't really want
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that. I want to be incharge of my own destiny. I really
do. Pro tip originality is deador smile you're on camera a mile you're
on camera. Security workers at TJMax, Marshalls and Home Goods Now are
wearing body cameras the thwart shoplifting.I think that's fantastic. I think every
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every well they already have cameras whereyou can see what's going on. But
what they're wanting now is body camerasto record the actions and reactions of the
thieves to being caught red handed,so that the actions of their security people
can be deemed appropriate under the circumstances, which I think is fantastic. Fantastic
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will how many how much time secondscould an artwork? A piece of art
bought online for a grand one thousanddollars it was signed, but the seller
advertised it as a fake Degas painting. Turns out it was a real Degas
for which this guy paid a grand. And that photograph or that painting is
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worth. How much will real quickyou know? One point two million,
thirteen million dollars. Good fine Audios
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's itgoing today? Well, this show is
all about you. This is fiftyplus with Doug Pike, helpful information on
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your finances, good health, andwhat to do for fun. Fifty plus
brought to you by the UT HealthHouston Institute on Aging Informed Decisions for a
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healthier air. And now fifty pluswith Doug Pike. Let's try this one.
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Yeah, that's way better. Whoin the world came in here and
did all that and made a bigfat mess? Was it you? You
promise? Okay? Sometimes I wonderabout you? Will? All right?
Anyway? Welcome here we are onceagain, Thanks for listening. It was
on this day and I can't ignoreit. In nineteen forty four that American
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and Allied troops stormed a fifty milestretch of beaches over in France at Normandy.
Around Normandy, every man on everyone of those landing craft, every
one of them knew full well theywere likely to die. In the next
few hours. They were likely todie in their efforts to breach the just
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incredible defenses that the Germans had preparedfor this day. And still their mission,
their duty, their dedication to theircountries, and termination never to let
Germany win motivated them to do whatthey did. They just kept moving forward,
and they in this case counted roughlytwo hundred thousand soldiers from the US,
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from Britain and from Canada. Shipsfired heavy artility to get things started,
get the German fortification softened as theycould as these landing crafts were loaded
and launched, and as soon asthose boats got within gun range, the
sky just filled with hot lead.Soldiers started dying right then and there.
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And when the beaches finally fell quietenough again to hear the waves, twenty
nine thousand, twenty nine thousand Americansoldiers, eleven thousand British soldiers, and
five thousand Canadian soldiers lay dead onthe sand and the water, broken bodies
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everywhere. Another one hundred and seventythree thousand were wounded. And the men
who could, who could do everythingthey had done as they stepped onto that
beach, counted themselves just damned luckyto be alive, and said about staking
claim to the ground for which they'dfought and for which so many of their
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friends had died. Turning point DDay was a message to the Germans that
their quest for world domination, theirnotion of being somehow superior the fantasy of
that delusional man who led them,It was done. Took a bit more
time to sweep app sweep app sweepup after this battle, this staggering sacrifice,
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but that chapter at least was finished. Larger, small wars are fought
to turn back evil, which isdefined quite differently on either side of the
line. You have to remember theother side hates you as much as you
hate them. And we do thisdaily on a much smaller scale, not
even really battles, but just conflictionswithin ourselves, Little things we know are
(04:03):
wrong that we need to make right, like returning the money when a cashier
hands back too much change. Willdo you do that or do you keep
it? I don't usually pay withcash, so that's that's yeah. Your
generation wouldn't even understand what I'm talkingabout. What do you mean give me
back something? The bill is ninedollars and seventy four cents and they extract
(04:26):
nine dollars and seventy four cents,not all of which, of course makes
it to the seller or the bankalways takes this little piece off there.
That's why cash works so well.Will It's something that if you if I
give you fifty dollars and you gobuy something for fifty dollars, the person
you buy it from can then turnaround and buy something else that costs fifty
(04:46):
dollars not forty seven dollars. Youknow that? Do you understand that?
Or did it just fire right overyour head? Oh? I get it.
I'm just checking. I'm just checking. It's all these little things that
we think about that we we wrestlewith internally. Golly, I don't know
(05:12):
whether I should accept that invitation orthat job, or that whatever promotion,
or let the person that I knowis more worthy and would do a better
job have it just this time.That would be a tough one. If
you've been offered a promotion, butyou know there's somebody that could help the
company more, well, you don'tthink, so just lay down just as
(05:35):
simple. It's your taking the bagof course. Oh my gosh, you
know that's the difference in our generations. I would have to think about that.
If they offered a promotion to somebodywho I genuinely thought was more capable,
more talented, I would I might. I don't have to think about
(05:57):
it, but I think it woulddepend on what the relationship I have with
the company. I have a goodrelationship with this company. I like it.
I think I would want the companyto succeed. And unless that was
my one and only shot at something, then I might step down. I
might step out of the way letthe company keep moving forward, because that
(06:18):
would benefit me as well in thelong run. Our generation, the senior
generation, looks at long term objectivesand not just how can I make another
dollar today. Took the ultimate sacrificeforty five thousand men and the wounding of
another one hundred and eighty three thousandto stop that level of evil in its
(06:40):
tracks. Been a lot of battles, a lot of war since D Day,
but none that saw so many uniformedsoldiers fight over a single line in
the sand the Germans. The Germansthought they were prepared, and they were
almost What they underestimated was and whatcost them that beach Front, was their
disbelief that so many men would displaysuch courage under intense, ceaseless fire.
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Germans didn't realize that our memos weren'tfighting for themselves like the Germans were.
They wanted to start something. Wewanted to perpetuate something and leave freedom for
all the generations that followed those men. That's what they did. They were
fighting for will and for me andfor all of us. That's off to
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them. Eighty years we commemorate DDay today. We celebrate the brave men
who handed handed down our chance.They gave up their lives eighty years ago
so that we could be doing whateverit is we're doing now. All right,
we got to take a little breakhere on the way out. I'll
tell you about late health. Latehealth has been around a very long time
(07:50):
and with several clinics in town,can accommodate just about anybody within a relatively
short drive. If you're dealing withand in law charged noncancerous prostate, they
can make it go away. Ifyou're dealing with fibroids, those can be
made to go away, as well, headaches, ugly veins. There are
(08:13):
a number of things that can beeliminated or certainly reduced inside these vascular clinics.
Is what they are at late healthprostate keeping you from sleeping at night,
other symptoms gone, fibroids bothering yougone. All of it can be
done, and most of what theydo at late Health it's covered by Medicare
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and Medicaid. You can call themif you like seven one, three,
five eight, eight thirty eight eightyeight seven one, three, five eight,
eight thirty eight eighty eight. Oh. By the way, they are
doing regenerative medicine as well, whichis fantastic for chronic pain. A lighthealth
dot com is a website. Gothere, take a look around, set
(08:56):
up a consultation to see what theycan do for you. Health dot com
A L A T E A latehealthdot com. You know, they sure
don't make them like they used to. That's why every few months we wash
them, check his fluids, andspring on a fresh coat O wax.
This is fifty plus with Doug Pike. Wow, I never heard that one
(09:31):
before. Will what is that numberdo you have? Is there a little
counter by these things to let youknow how many times you've played them?
Nope, it's just an en luckyfor you. Yeah, and play them
as long as I want. Allright, moving forward, I guess as
we can do today thanks to thebrave men who fought on our behalf eighty
(09:56):
years ago. Today over in France, man, let's just do this ten
seconds of forecast courtesy of Texas intoair quality specialists, because cleaner air is
healthier air. You really do needto call them, You really do.
In any event, forecasters absolutely blewit yesterday. It wasn't supposed to rain
(10:20):
on Tuesday. I spoke of this. I looked at the forecast and said,
eh, not gonna rain on Wednesday. But it did. It rained
all over me on the north sideof town. It rained all over the
south side of town. It rainedall over Sugarland, it rained all over
Humble, and they totally missed thatone. I certainly hope they get their
(10:43):
tropical weather stuff a little more dialedin before we see some of that.
Today through Sunday, once again forecastfor no rain at all. But what
do you know, who knows?Fingers crossed? I guess I'm thinking about
thinking about turning my forecast. Willit? Would this? Would this be
(11:05):
too much? Turning the forecast intoa haikup? Think I can do it?
Sure? I think I can.I'm gonna consider it, and I'm
gonna try really hard to remember.Okay that and unless it starts taking too
much time, well just try itonce and see how it works. You
(11:26):
can do it tomorrow. Yeah that'sbeen how many times have I heard that?
You can do it tomorrow? Maybeif I remember? Okay, unless
you you gonna remind me. Ifyou remind me, by nine o'clock tomorrow
morning, i'll have you a Haikuweather forecast. And this will be the
only one on planet Earth. Youcan think about this. Nobody is doing
(11:46):
a weather forecast in Haiku. Noway, you don't think so. No,
No, this is gonna be oneof these these things that will be
heard everywhere. They'll they'll somebody willcopy it someday too. Will you think
it's that I'm fired up? Okay, well, I'm looking forward to it
tomorrow. I'll write it down andI'm gonna put it in my pocket,
(12:09):
my shirt pocket. Here, I'mgonna turn it outwards so I can figure
out what the heck's on the notewhen I pull it out of my pocket.
Yeah, okay, here it is. I could in the pocket I
will remember in tomorrow's forecast, I'mgoing to be counting the syllables. Please
be all fine. I have noproblem with that. I've been writing poetry
will since I was in high school, actually a little bit before high school,
(12:31):
but I got serious about it whenI found out girls liked it.
So there you go. Let's moveshow off to the market, but not
for long. Uh, basically flatas pancakes so far earlier this morning,
the last I looked. I don'tthink anything crazy has happened. Oil up
a few ticks now that Biden's gotthe deflection of his too little, too
(12:56):
late border strategy to pull attention awayfrom where gas prices are. You know,
they threw them down real hard abouta week ago, and all of
a sudden they're coming back up again, marching forward as it always does,
seventy four bucks a barrel and inchingslowly upward as of forty five minutes ago,
(13:18):
maybe an hour ago. I thinkit was gold courtesy of Houston Goldexchange
dot Com up a few ticks attwenty three point eighty three an ounce A
little while ago. I talked toBrad Schwiss yesterday. Brad Schweiss, the
owner of Houston Gold Exchange, andbased on his I don't know anything about
the gold industry, but based onhis forty plus years of expertise, he
(13:41):
thinks it's headed up. Based onworld events of late and how things are
going, he thinks it's going up. So if you think it's a really
good investment right now, of course, go buy it. If you're sitting
on some old junker pieces that you'renever gonna use anymore, turn him into
cash and invest in something you thinkis going to do better. I'm not
(14:03):
sure. I kind of like whathe's thinking about. I managed somehow yesterday.
By the way, just to giveyou an idea, says, I
took a day off, and I'mglad I did. I got a lot
done. I really did. AndI actually spent time at three different golf
courses will one in Humble, onein Richmond, and one even farther up
(14:31):
way up ninety nine at fifty nine, starting Sugarland, plod to Golf Club
of Houston to get my media credentialsfor live golf, which, by the
way, if I have a secondafter I get to this, get through
this, i'll tell you about itwas a good experience. So I go
up and drop by there to getmy media credentials. Weather's great keep driving
(14:52):
to go to a media day,a media day activity, a tour of
the new clubhouse at Highland Pines GolfClub and around golf after and we had
nice breakfast too. It was wonderful. So we get there and we go
through breakfast and it's starting to rain, and it rain a little bit harder,
and it'd bit harder and all ofa sudden kind of kind of quits
(15:13):
a little bit. So we raceout there to play golf. On the
fourth tea box, I make aterrible swing and I'm so glad it actually
happened when it did, and abolt of lightning struck something so close to
us that we I mean the flashwas like a photo flash going off.
In my eyes, I thought,why was my buddy taking a flash photo
(15:35):
with his phone in twenty twenty fourAnd then in the nano second it took
for me to process that question.That's when the thunderclap came right behind the
flash, and I mean it wasit was on property, dude, somewhere.
And that's when we all jump backin the carts and ran back to
the clubhouse like scared little children.And I don't do lightning. I'm not
(15:56):
a big fan. You should havelifted your clubs up and the point of
them towards the sky. You knowthe line about one irons that Leech Revino
said many years ago. No,in a thunderstorm, Lee said, hold
up your one iron. It's avery difficult club. Hold up your one
iron because even God can't hit aone iron. You don't understand that because
(16:18):
you don't play golfer. I don'tplay golf. Does And the sad part
is that every golfer in this audiencehas already heard that bright twenty times.
It's been around a while. Nobodycarries it one iron anymore. I don't,
not that I know of. Wehave to break, says well,
either that or he's shaking something outof his wrist, maybe spraying something.
UT Health Institute on Aging is agroup of men and women who are so
(16:44):
dedicated to taking care of us thatin addition to all the training they went
through to get where they got whenthey got their diploma, the one that's
hanging in the office, well theywent back and got more education on specifically
how their teachings, how they're learningcan be applied to the senior body that's
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us. And we're a whole lotdifferent than younger people. We got stuff.
We got lug nuts that are loosenedup, we got breaks that are
about to fail. We got enginelights coming on in the dashboard of our
life. And the people in thiscollaborative at the Institute on Aging understand that
(17:30):
and come at us and our problemsfrom that perspective. Go to the website,
look around first at all the resourcesthat are offered there, all the
different opportunities you have to probably answera lot of questions you have about your
health and other things. And thenfind one of these providers who is in
your area. They primarily are inthe med center, but a lot of
(17:53):
them work outside of the med centerat least a couple of days a week,
and then schedule an appointment to gosee one of them and get whatever's
bothering you fixed up by somebody knowswho knows how to fix you and me
and the rest of us. Uth dot ed U slash aging ut h
(18:15):
dot ed U slash aging Aged toPerfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike.
(18:37):
Welcome back to fifty plus. Thanksfor listening on this beautiful day,
much more beautiful than the one yesterday. I drove all over town. I
got out to Like I said,I went by and picked up credentials at
Golf Club of Houston in advance ofLivegolf, and actually did a little quick
Facebook post with a photograph to letpeople know everything was going. This is
(19:00):
after it finished raining, after Ihad left Highland Pines, had come back
to Golf Club of Houston to justsee who was hanging around. Se was
going out hitting balls, and it'sa very interesting setup there, totally different.
And I used to think I toldthe people that Live Golf when I
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was out there in the media centeryesterday, I talked to a couple of
them and said that a year anda half, two years ago, when
Live Golf was brand new and Ididn't know really anything about it, I
didn't know which way it was gonnaturn. I was very skeptical, and
I remained skeptical probably up until aboutmaybe six months ago, when I saw
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some of the changes that were beingmade throughout the golf world in reaction in
some part to what Live Golf wasdoing. Changing the amount of money that's
going into the PGA Tour, changingthe amount of money it's being paid to
the LB, LPGA, professionals,and my next question for if I can
find if I can find one ofany there are three people I'm gonna be
(20:10):
looking for when I go back outthere, and if I can find one
of them, I'm going to askthem when Live Golf is going to draft.
I guess is that you could wrapthat in quotes some female players,
put some women on the teams andjust mix it up a little bit.
They've already mixed up golf a lot, and to its betterment. I think
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I'm I'm kind of coming into theirteam a little bit. I wasn't early
on, but it's going to beinteresting to see how it turns out.
And I'm glad they're going to havegood weather. Fingers crossed throughout the rest
of the event because I want toget back out there. I want to
see golf going on where all thegreat players on all the teams are on
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the course at the same time.That's going to be pretty interesting. I
like that concept, I really dothe more I think about it. The
downside for me is that it takesaway my ability to, for any good
purpose, broadcast live from out there. I got asked if I wanted to
broadcast from the tournament, and theydon't even start warming up until I'm off
(21:18):
the air. The only advantage forme would be that I will be there,
and as soon as I get offthe air, I can go go
have a good time watching these guysplay golf. It'll be fun. It'll
be fun after that. On theway home, even as tired as I
was, I'd been up since thecrack of dawn, I have one of
those what the heck moments and steeredaway from home, and, as happens
(21:41):
occasionally, somehow managed to land inthe parking lot at black Hawk Golf Club
country Club. I had just enoughenergy left to hit about a bunch of
balls. I probably hit one hundredballs, and then I fished a little
while. And then I actually woundup helping a friend out there, Jerry
Peterson. He had his grandson withhim and they were looking for bass.
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And that's the second time in fourdays that somebody's come to me saying,
hey, we're told you know wherethe bass are. The other time,
I actually it was ironically it was. It was with Jerry's son's wife and
their kids, and I put hisfour year old on a well. He
actually ended up kept catching three yesterday, there was only one bass notched by
(22:27):
the youngster until I had to rollout of there. But I suspect they
probably caught some more where they wherethey were and where I had told him
to go. If that didn't workout, not bad on the way home,
I just you know, sometimes youjust have to drive to a golf
course. You just do uh tosome newsy stuff and I'll save some fun
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stuff for later, newsy stuff.Our president said tuesday that problems along the
border were not his fault, nothis fault at all. At ten twelve
to fifteen million people have come intoour country, almost all of them actually
in some way, shape or form, almost all of them technically illegal,
(23:10):
it seems like to me. Andnow five months have changed before the election,
he's gonna shut it down kind of. He's still gonna let in twenty
five hundred a day through the officialcheckpoints. That's nine hundred thousand people a
year. And Chuck Schumer said earlierthis week or just late last week,
I think it was that the DemocraticParty's ultimate goal is to grant the right
(23:34):
to vote to every one of theseillegal immigrants who's in this country. Now,
everybody, you get a vote,and you get a vote like Oprah.
You get to vote, and youget to vote, and everybody gets
a vote. All of these peopleare career criminals and they're they're cozied up
in hotels. They get whatever mealsthey want, whatever medical attention they need.
(23:56):
They get cell phones. Here's adebit card too, in case you
want to take in a movie.We Americans cannot afford this. We cannot
afford this. Let me bring itin and that if for no other reason,
if for no other reason, wecan't allow this to go on,
it's because we can't afford it.What thirty four trillion dollars in debt,
(24:18):
and we're giving away free stuff toeverybody in the world. While we've got
poor Americans who can't afford any ofwhat I just said. These other people
get for free. It's past week, don and GALLASA. By the way,
young woman nineteen years old from Oklahomain the in the surf, playing
around with their siblings, and herhand gets bitten by a shark. So
(24:40):
she punches a shark in the faceand the shark lets go. Fortunately,
she's gonna end it well, she'sshe's gonna need she's had surgery and Fortunately
from the story I saw, she'sgonna be okay, She's gonna recover completely.
Had some tendons severed by that chart, a little one, I'm sure,
a little saying shark somewhere just mistookher hand for a fish, and
(25:03):
when those things happen, typically theshark will bite and then let go and
go away. I'm going to tellyou more about what to do if you
actually run into a shark in thewater when I get back, but on
the way out, I'm going totell you about the little town of Alpine.
Little town with a big heart andsurrounded by the Big Bend, which
is absolutely positively one of the mostbeautiful landscapes you will ever see. I
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haven't been out there yet. I'vebeen around Alpine, but i haven't technically
gone into Alpine, and I'm tryingto make arrangements to do that and possibly
even do one or two editions offifty plus from out there live. That
would be kind of fun. They'vegot a great celebration of the fourth of
July coming up and do it insmall town style. They're going to have
(25:51):
a parade. They've got the baseballteam there, They've got a beautiful stadium
out there. Saw Rush University's gota beautiful stadium and a wonderful summer theater
presentation of Sherwood The Adventures of RobinHood that was written by a guy named
Ken Ludwig. If you wondered allkinds of fantastic things to do. They've
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got one of the darkest night skieson the continent. And if you have
never seen the night sky outside ofHouston, Texas, you haven't seen anything.
The number of stars that are inthe night sky is stunning. It's
absolutely stunning and worth whatever it takesyou to get out there and have a
(26:33):
good time in Alpine. They've gotghost tours, they have got that summer
theater, They've got a parade andall kinds of stuff set up for the
Fourth of July. Fun place togo, fun place to visit, and
no wonder quite a few people areretiring out that way. It's just absolutely
beautiful, cool nights in the summertimetoo. If for no other reason go
(26:56):
out there to not sweat at nightlike we do down here. Visit alpinetx
dot com is the website. Visitalpinetx dot com. What's life without a
net? I suggest to go tobed and sleep it off. Just wait
until this show's over, Sleepy.Back to Dougpike as fifty plus continues,
(27:36):
HYI welcome back fifty plus final segment. Oh we have a little bit extra
time today, don't we will nono again? Gosh uh? Very quickly,
back to the shark thing. Thereis the old school way to get
rid of a shark that came aroundand was either biting you or looking like
(27:56):
it might buy you well, tojust punch them, Just wear back and
punch them right in the nose ifyou can. But punching a shark of
the nose. Number one, thewater is going to slow your punch and
the impact of that punch unless youcan catch it with its nose out of
the water. And number two,if the shark opens its mouth and lifts
(28:18):
that nose just as you try topunch it, you might just send your
hand right into the shark's mouth.The new school technique that I've read about
that is more appropriate and better overallis to use your fingertips to go at
the shark's eyes and gills. Thoseare very sensitive, very sensitive areas on
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a shark, as they would beon a person. If we had gills.
I guess we Well, we haveour own very sensitive areas now,
don't we. But I guess ifyou try to punch that on the shark,
it might take you a while toget there. I got that taken
care of. Be respectful of sharks, don't be fearful of them. Don't
(29:06):
let them ruin your trip to thebeach. But just respect them, and
I mean for real, because youbetter that or they'll get you. Oh,
where do I want to go forthis? Holy cow? Let's go
to the fun stuff and then Imight catch one more on the way out.
Well, pop quiz? Well,no, not a pop quiz,
just a selection process. Nice tractorand what would I do? And trust
(29:33):
issues? And what would I do? A team at MIT has created an
AI chat bot think about this willcalled future You that lets you ask your
future self for life advice. Sothe do you have to put in your
(30:00):
own information? I'm sure you would. Yeah, you would have to plug
in that. You would have toprobably answer one hundred questions at least.
If this is anywhere near legit,maybe you might have to answer questions for
two hours so that the AI candevelop a sense of who you are and
then replace you in the future sothat you can ask your future self what
(30:26):
you should do, and by doingthat, you alter your future self if
you take the chatbot's advice, don'tyou so you just even just by asking
the chatbot what to do, you'vealready changed your entire future, probably not
for the better. I don't thinki'd ask him. I don't really want
(30:48):
that. I want to be incharge of my own destiny. I really
do. Pro tip originality is deador smile you're on camera a mile you're
on camera. Security workers at TJMax, Marshalls and Home Goods Now are
wearing body cameras the thwart shoplifting.I think that's fantastic. I think every
(31:15):
every well they already have cameras whereyou can see what's going on. But
what they're wanting now is body camerasto record the actions and reactions of the
thieves to being caught red handed,so that the actions of their security people
can be deemed appropriate under the circumstances, which I think is fantastic. Fantastic
(31:37):
will how many how much time secondscould an artwork? A piece of art
bought online for a grand one thousanddollars it was signed, but the seller
advertised it as a fake Degas painting. Turns out it was a real Degas
for which this guy paid a grand. And that photograph or that painting is
(32:01):
worth. How much will real quickyou know? One point two million,
thirteen million dollars. Good fine Audios
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