Something is Wrong with the Bathroom

Today, Doug Pike discusses bathrooms, burgers, and versatile paint. 

Episode Transcript

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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, only thee.This is fifty plus with Doug Pike,

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helpful information on your finances, goodhealth, and what to do for fun.
Fifty plus brought to you by theUT Health Houston Institute on Aging Informed
Decisions for a healthier, happier life, and by Texas Indoor Air Quality Specialists
because clean air is healthier air.And now fifty plus with Doug Pike.

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All right, sliding in sideways.We have the facility on the seventh floor
where we reside is currently under it'snot construction. Well, something something went
wrong in there this morning. Yougot any ideas what it was? Well,
I know, for it feels likemaybe the past month or so,

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maybe even two months. The toiletin the back has just it gets caught
on the sal Yeah, perpetual flashing. Well it can be stopped because and
I've taught two or three people,all you gotta do is grab a paper
towel from the dispenser and then goback there and grab that little knob that
people are kicking instead of just tappingI guess with their foot or pushing or

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whatever, and you have to grabit and pull it back out and it'll
stop. It just goes okay.But yeah, that's that's been a problem
that they've been talking about fixing forYou're right, a couple of months,
and in the process wasting. Iwould I would conservatively guess based on the
rate of flow when that thing ison power flush per perpetually, i'd probably

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say about a gallon a minute,yeah, if that, if not,
if not more more. Oh yeah, yeah, that's a conservative estimate.
A gallon of minute just being flusheddown and like we don't need fresh water
anymore. Yeah, but I feellike that's gotta be what it is or
somebody really well, they're bad there. Yeah, I'm not sure what's going

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on on us. I think they'vethey've taken something apart, because there there
were indications that something had been takenapart this morning and no need to go
into detail, but yeah, Ithink there's there's something else going on anyway.
At this it's lunch hour. We'reenough bathroom talk. Yeah, we're
done with that. Uh, thanks, for joining Will and me on this

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cloudy but cautiously optimistic I'll call itThursday afternoon. Alberto has moved into Mexico
now, and we should begin tosee the tides fall back along the coast.
And it can't come soon enough fora lot of my friends down there.
There is a lot of water whereit's not supposed to be right now.

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The one of the measuring sticks ismy buddy Robert's pier behind his house,
and there was a picture he postedyesterday of himself walking out the pier
and the piers in about knee deepwater, about knee deep water. We
got lucky with this one, okay, it was just it was a little

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a little bit of something with somehigh tides and a little bit of rain.
And here's the deal of it.The now that this one's past,
that just resets restarts the countdown clockon whatever else nature wants to throw at
us this summer season. And I'mnot trying to scare anybody at all.
I'm not telling you that anything's gonnahappen anytime soon, but I would remind

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you, especially New Texans, newcoastal Texans, to just stay prepared and
prepared. It just means make sureyou've got a couple of maybe a week's
extra supply of meds. Maybe youdon't need to hoard any food, you
don't need to hoard toilet paper.Just keep your eyes on the tropics,

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and if something really is coming,you'll know in plenty of time. These
things don't just boil up in anhour. You can watch them come all
the way across the Gulf of Mexico, all the way. If you're really
a weather nerd, kind of likeI am this time of year, you
can watch them roll off of thecoast of Africa, and you can follow

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them all the way over here speakingof weather, And that's, by the
way, gonna last all the waythrough Halloween more or less, would you
agree, Well, there's actually beennamed storms, named storms in all twelve
months of the year to hit thecontinental of the United States, so there
is no free period. But thecolder it gets, the softer these things

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happen. Yeah, November, October, October, Yeah, Halloween, October.
Well, when did do you rememberwhen Ike hit? What was that
late? I felt like that wasalso October. Probably I can look it
up. Do that. I'll giveyou a task, poor uh speaking of
weather. Let's take a swing atthe haikup highs and lows courtesy of Texas

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Texos Texas Indoor Air Quality Specialists.Because cleaner air is healthier air. Here
goes, and I want a ratingfrom one to ten on this. When
we're done, will are you ready? All right? Alberto is gone.
Enjoy a few better days, longsummer ahead. One to ten. I

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mean I like it. I thoughtthat was good, thank you. So
what's the number? Oh, I'llgive that one an eight. Leave a
little room for improvement. Sure,one day I'll hit a home run,
you know, will someday, Butthat even I would say, that's not
the home run. Haiku. No, it's serviceable, it's good. It's

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workman like. Also, Hurricane Ikewas formed September one, two thousand and
eight, and it hit Land onthe fourteenth. You know what you call
a guy with a Roberto Roberto?I saw that on a dad joke site.
I bet you did. Yeah,a great one. Oh that's just

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great, isn't it? Off tomarket? We go around nine o'clock this
morning and four Actually I checked itagain around ten. Pretty Much everything I
monitor for these purposes was green.That's the good news. And sadly,
the greenest number on the board thenwas oil, which was north of eighty
two dollars for the first time ina long time. It has since fallen

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inside of eighty two, but wellnorth of eighty one. So nothing to
write home about exactly. No needto rush to the and filler up now.
Price of gold courtesy of Houston Goldexchangedot Com also up a healthy Actually,
the last time I looked at wastwenty. I had fifteen dollars announce
here, but I think it wasup closer to twenty dollars announce just about

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I don't know. Fifteen minutes agoin local news, Houston police have detained
I'm so glad to have these kindof stories. Not well, I'm glad
these guys have been captured. Twomen are being detained in connection to the
strangulation death of twelve year old JoscelynNungerray, whose body was found recently in
a North Houston creek. That's justso sad, so tragic, and so

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darned unnecessary. And it was camerasat a convenience store that actually helped police
in their search for these guys.The last two people with whom there was
one of them, and her shownclearly in a video, and they probably
the last two people to ever seeher alive until proven guilty, they say.

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But I'm certainly glad those cameras werethere, because without them would have
been a problem. Speaking of cameras, to counter staffing shortages, Houston Police
Departments contracted have sixty four AI capablecameras put up in key areas around the
city, going to cost about onehundred and eighty thousand dollars. A little
less than that. HPD needs thehelp right now. There was a Houston

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is fifty plus with Doug Pike.All right, welcome back to fifty plus

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on what I believe is a prettydecent day outside. Haven't been out in
a while. I haven't even lookedoutside in a while. That was up
in my desk a couple of minutesago. I didn't see anything scary.
I've got a guy coming to thehouse this afternoon to do a little something
out of doors. And that's actuallya play on words, if you know
what's going on at my house.And anyway, he called because he's driving

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all the way down from around theairport and wants to make sure he's not
wasting his time in case there's somenasty weather. I don't think we're gonna
get anything, and I hope wedon't, so I can let him do
what he's got to do. Soback to where we were talking about these
police staffing shortages. They're gonna putin these AI capable cameras, and at

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present, at least from a story, I think they could be helpful,
but I'll get to that in asecond story by a guy named John Lomax.
The fifth the department's only clear andcurrently about half of its homicides and
only ten percent of property crimes.And after what our new mayor inherited and

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found out about, I think reallythat there's clearly a staffing shortage, and
I can't blame well meaning people fornot wanting to join police forces these days.
It's really kind of a thankless thingif you depending on where you are
and anyway, the ACLU has jumpedin and sees this AI as both these

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words were mentioned in their response toit, alarming and concerning, according to
one of its lawyers, with potentialfor misuse as a means for the police
to kind of police people even beforea crime has been committed. Now the
Constitution covers that potential abuse in theFourth Amendment. But until we can put

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more officers on the street, ifAI can boost current efforts to solve crimes
already committed that that could be avaluable tool and it could help people find
resolution. The well, the caseof that young girl I mentioned earlier still

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isn't resolved. They just have twopersons of interest. There's a long ways
to go before that adds up tofor those two and two add up to
four. This I found very interesting. I saw this yesterday and I glanced
over it, but I want toread. This says, imagine we lived
in a world where all cars wereevs, every one of them was an

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electric vehicle, and then along comesthis new invention, the internal combustion engine.
Think about how well they would sell, how easy it would be to
get your head turned if you're drivingan electric car when you find out that
this other vehicle with this other enginecomes out at about half the weight,

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half the price, and we'll almostquarter the damage done to the roads it
drives on. It can be refueledin one tenth the time, and has
a range of up to four timesthe distance in any weather condition, doesn't
rely on environmentally damaging use of nonrenewable rare earth elements to power it,

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and uses far less steel and othermaterials. Just think how exciting that would
be if only we were all drivingevs in along came internal combustion. What's
going to come along is hydrogen.I'm fairly certain of that. The only
byproduct of hydrogen hydrogen engines, andthere are more than a few of them

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being tested on the roads now,and we'll see. I hope it works
out because the only byproduct of ahydrogen engine is water, which wouldn't hurt
us to have a little bit moreof that. Yeah, I found that
very interesting when you flip it andlook at it that way. Sure does
make internal combustion look pretty good,especially as cleanly as we can do it.

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Now. Our standards in the UnitedStates aren't being met by other countries
in the world. But nonetheless,even with that done, even with what's
going on currently, it's still abetter option. I think President Biden has
made it known that he opposes Isaw the story this morning, and it

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really it really irked me. Heopposes pay raises for junior enlisted service members
in our armed forces. Republican Housemembers proposed that nah, no thanks,
as if we needed another reason notto vote for this man his ability to

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refuse additional compensation for the men andwomen who protect us and protect him.
Frankly, they protect us from foreigninvaders, okay, and that includes countries
all around the world, and itincludes all the people he's ushered into the
country, or at least many ofthem, in the past three and a
half years. We have no ideahow many soldiers came through here dressed up

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like down trodden civilians from countries,by the way, that are very hard
to leave. It's not like theyall just walked in from countries that don't
mind you leaving. A lot ofthese, a lot of these young men
came over here from countries not knownfor allowing anybody out from under their thumbs.

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Low ranking military personnel in this countrydon't exactly live a life of luxury.
Their pace stinks, especially when youweighed against what's asked of these people,
these courageous men and women. Highpercentage of young soldiers in fact,
are on food stamps or other socialprograms just to keep food on their tables

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while they're halfway around the world gettingshot at and he won't give them a
raise. That's I don't know,despicable comes to mind. I guess it
just it. It just flies inthe face of reason. Why would you
not support the people who are tryingto save your life. That's their job

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is if when when it breaks loosein ten thousand directions, that's who we're
gonna call on to protect us.And they can't get a raise, but
we can. We can support programsfor everybody else who can manage to get
in the country to the tune ofbillions and hundreds of billions of dollars,

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but not for our soldiers. Unbelievable. Also in politics, I found this
interesting. Several recent polls revealed thata majority of Hispanics in our country are
in favor in favor of mass deportationsof illegal immigrants. And that's not surprising.
Really, lawful immigrants from around theworld often get some benefits here,

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but not many people in this countryhave it better overall than the unlawful immigrants.
And at this present season, ingetting amnesty for another half million people
here unlawfully, no matter how longthey've been here, frankly unlawful is unlawful.
Against the law when you got hereis still against the law if you
haven't done anything about it, nomatter how many times you flip the calendar,

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he's just gonna hurt himself worse inNovember. Um, I've got self
destruct news. I've got good cancernews. Got time for one quick funny
one? Will if you got fifteenseconds? Um no, I'll wait,
I will wait all the way out. I'll jump out five seconds early.

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A late health probably something you don'twant to think about, really, but
a healthy prostate is equivalent to abetter life. And if you don't have
one, if you've got an enlargedprostate and it's kind of squeeze in that
that channel through which you urinate andgetting you up a couple of three times
a night and causing difficulty, difficultystarting and stopping that process, you probably

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would be greatly helped by a processcalled prostate artery embolization. That is what
a late health does. They're avascular clinic, okay, And that,
among other things, is what alate health can do by identifying the particular
artery that is feeding oxygenated blood toa troublesome piece of your anatomy. For

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the women, it's fibroids for everybodyand anybody who has ugly veins that can
be helped. And even some casesof head pain of chronic head pain could
be helped with vascular procedures seven one, three, five, eight, eight
eighty eight. Most of what they'redoing actually covered by Medicare and Medicaid too,

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so you don't have to worry aboutcoming out of pocket too deep for
that. They also do regenerative medicinewhich is very very effective lately for chronic
pain, which nobody should have tosuffer to find out more. And I
would strongly encourage that if you ifany of what I just said rang a
Bell, go to a latehealth dotcom a l at e a latehealth dot

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com. Yeah, they sure don'tmake them like they used to. That's
why every few months we wash them, check his fluids and spring on a
fresh code O wax. This isfifty plus with Doug Pike. Did you

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discover anything on the Internet, Well, welcome back to fifty plus. By
the way, thank you for listeningon this not so horrible Thursday, which
followed not terribly bad Monday and Tuesdayand not all that bad Wednesday, By
and large up here, we cameout pretty well from Alberto down south.

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They needed the rain frankly, soall's well, that ends well from this
one. But like I said veryearly in the program, just keep your
eyes on the gulf in the Atlanticbecause there's no telling what's coming next.
So do you find anything interesting whenyou were looking over there at the internet?
Now? Boring stuff as usual?Just kind of would you like to
go to lighthearted or somewhat heavy?Well? And then I'll let you pick

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from three things. Let's go withlighthearted. Yeah, it's probably time.
It's probably time. It's been kindof a weird week. You sure about
that? Or wimpy workforce or there'sgotta be more You sure about that?
Let's go with it. You're doingvery well, by the way, in

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mimicking my intonation of these things.I'm not sure whether that's good or bad,
but I think it's what do youthink? Oh I didn't even enjoy
it, or you didn't even noticeit? I don't even notice it?
Yeah you do, But that's nothingwrong with that? Are you sure about
that? Result of a twenty yearstudy on the American diet have been released

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and Americans are eating healthier. That'swhy I wrote are you sure about that?
In nineteen ninety nine, it saysforty nine percent of people said they
had a poor quality diet. Nowthat number is down to thirty seven percent.
I have a theory as to whywould you like to hear it?

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Will sure? Maybe it's because wecan no longer afford fast food. Gonna
have to go eat something out ofthe grocery store. Who can afford a
quarter pound or a big mac ora double cheeseburger? From what a burger?
These days? You're making me andHeaven forbid? We go into one

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of those boutique burger places where youcan drop fifteen twenty bucks on a single
patty brioche bun with lettuce and tomatoand a pickle and some mustard on it.
What do you get on a hamburger? Will a cheeseburger? I presume
cheeseburger. It kind of depends onwhere I'm going. Okay, you're you're
in You're in heaven and it's tobuild your own burger day. Okay,

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what are you putting on it?First? Well? What kind of bread
I'm probably getting up? Maybe likea potato roll. What the heck is
that? Come on, Doug,I don't eat potatoes. Are not bread,
will No, it's just the waythat it's oh the way it looks.

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Okay, well yeah, so it'sa it's a bun. Yeah,
it's a it's a fun football shapedbun, of course. Okay. And
then cheese? What type? Whatkind of cheese? I'm you know,
I like a swizz, I likea Gouda. What about a mushroom burger?
Were going there? Is that?Where we're going? A mushroom burgers?

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Like those? Yeah? Yeah,that and that Swiss cheesess. You
know what I like? So Ilike I like a good just smash burger.
You know, it's two smash paddies, cheese, pickles, and sauce.
I wonder when the first smash pattywas invented. You think somebody dropped
one on the floor and another dudecame by and stepped on it, and

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I feel like it's got to bedown for a while. The guy cooking
it looked down and said, wedon't have that kind of money, So
he slapped it back on the grill, flipped it a couple of times,
singed off the hairs, and thenthrew it on a bun so good.
Yeah, maybe I'll give you onemore wimpy workforce not helping your cause,

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or thieves are horrible people not helpingyour cause. This one's kind of short
and sweet. Different. Two peoplewho are self described protesters for something called
just Stop Oil, which is everythingthey almost everything they consume, or everything

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they look at, or everything theywear or touch has oil involved. But
they don't understand that anyway. They'vebeen arrested after they sprayed stone Hinge.
They went and sprayed stone Hinge withorange paint. Lock them up. This
is just it's gone too far.People are defacing historical artifacts, historical places,

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and for no reasonable, no connectedreason. Why do you paint stone
hinge because you're against oil? What'sthe connection there? Will? They're just
trying to make a splash. Arethey trying to get themselves seen and known?
Because they sure did, Yeah theyhave. It's trying to get as

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much attention as possible. They don'tneed to be attended to like that.
All right, moving on, I'llgo back to the other What do I
have left? You have one minuteand forty five seconds. Let's go to
some good news then. In medicalnews, lung cancer, the leading cause
of cancer related deaths worldwide by theway, but maybe not for long.

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A relatively new drug, now fiveyears into successful phase three testing, showed
that progression free survival data. Thisis something that could very soon help many,
many thousands of people around the world. They tested it on two hundred
and ninety six patients down in Australia, and five years later, sixty percent

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of the people who were given thissecond or third generation drug, I'm not
sure had no signs of progression whatsoever. Sixty percent. Now that compares to
only eight percent for those patients inthe study who were given a first generation

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medication from the same class, whichyou have to feel sorry for them because
well, not for the eight percent, but for the other percent unfortunately,
so they had a less favorable outcome. But looking forward, which what these
tests are designed to do, whichis what these tests are designed to do,

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that's a very favorable outcome. Alsoin cancer news from Scotland comes word
of a die that clings to cancercells, specifically in prostate cancer, and
what this does is give surgeons anincredible look at these tumors during their removal.
They can actually see the cancerous cellsall kind of glowing in the dark,

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and then the healthy cells not glowingin the dark, so they know
exactly what has to be removed.That also bodes well for future patients.
AH Texas home buyers. Let metell you about Texas Home Bears. They
have been around for thirty something years. I think it is always a great
rating with the Better Business Bureau aplus. And what they do is they

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come to your home, your singlefamily dwelling, a multiple family dwelling,
a piece of ground somewhere and ifyou want out of there quick and easy,
maybe a divorce, maybe a deathin the family, maybe flooding,
maybe a tree fell through the roof, whatever the reason, that property there.

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It is as it is, andyou don't want to have to do
a single thing, but say,yeah, I'll take that money they will
offer you. Usually when they'll comeby and look at the place and then
they'll go back to the office,they'll do a little work. And what
they will do after that work iscompleted is sin jew Usually on that same
day a top dollar cash offer forthat property. Top dollar cash offer.

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They specialize in foreclosures inheritances. Bythe way, those are two other reasons
you might want to ditch a homevery quickly and without the hassle of trying
to stage it and paint it andput in new flooring and just gussy it
up somehow change the landscape all that. You don't have to do any of
that. You just call Texas homeBuyers, get them to come take a
look around, and if you accepttheir top dollar offer, the closing usually

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can be done within two weeks.You'll have a check in your hands and
you can move on. Texas homeBuyers will take it from there. If
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home Buyers Radio, Saturday afternoons atthree on KPRC. What's life without a
net? I suggest to go tobed, sleep it off, just wait
until the show's over. Sleepy.Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues
segment foor. We call it inthe biz. I'm going into that right

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now. What do we have aboutseven minutes. Well exactly how do I
do it? Oh? Thank youall seriously for listening. I really do
appreciate it. And as a reminder, if you have any sort of topic
that you would like me to discuss, I'll go find an expert. Whatever
it is, I'll find an expertand I will interview that person, and

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I will I will make it knownthat that interview is coming on Facebook when
it comes. And so yeah,if you want to do that, just
dial pound two fifty, kind oflike I talk about sometimes for IAQ and
Texas IAQ and then instead of sayinghealthy air, you just say fifty plus

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and you'll have about fifteen seconds toleave me a voicemail and I will hear
it and I will respond to itas best I can, and we'll go
from there. All right, Movingon, Will, and I know we
don't have a ton of time.I am looking at solar powered manufacturing.

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I am looking at something like acoat of paint, and I'm looking at
just pick from one of those too. Let's just make it easy on you.
Fifty to fifty flip coin paint Paint'sgood. This one I like all

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the way over in China, Unfortunately, I wish it were here because it
would move faster. And if somebodyfrom Sherwin Williams or what's the other big
paint company drawn a blank anyway,some big paint company here needs to hop
on a plane and go over toChina and kind of hang around with these

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people and figure this out. Itis a coating that you can apply to
a home, much like paint thatchanges colors from season to season, essentially
and even within a period of justa few hours, to help keep the
structure cooler in hot weather and warmerin cold weather. This particular coating,

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whatever it is, if you heatit up to sixty eight degrees, for
example, the surface begins to changefrom darker to lighter. At eighty six
degrees, it fully lightens and reflectsup to ninety three percent of solar radiation.
And it's tough too. The experimentus have taken this stuff up to

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one hundred and seventy five degrees andit still shows no signs of damage.
So it's gonna last a while.I don't know how much that would cost,
but man, oh man, imagineputting that. You know what they
need to do is they need topaint roofs with it. Oh yeah,
around here, Holy cow, thatwould solve a lot of problems and lower

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a lot of electric bills. Butanyway, I found that very interesting.
And at some point it'll get overhere. Whatever it is they'll be,
they'll reverse engineer it. Somebody's gonnaget a hold of a piece of it,
or maybe a China will just shareit with us. They still do
have people who share things with us, and favorable things sometimes every now and
then. I don't know how that'sall gonna work out. Up in Washington,

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d C. Where we've raised ajust a bumper crop in the past
few years of pomposity and cronyism andarrogance. Comes word that three Democrats who
actually originally offered support for a bipartisanbill called the Presidential Ethics Reform Act,

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well three of them have had achange of heart. Three Democrats specifically have
had a change of heart. Andwhat it's looking like is that maybe just
maybe somebody from the White House orthat administration kind of came along and asked

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them to go the other way.Roe Kana from California, Raja Krishna Morti
from Illinois, and Kwaisi Mfume fromMaryland all withdrew their support of that bill,
and they say nobody talked to them. They just made that decision on
their own. And the concerns,at least two of them said, were
that the bill wasn't bipartisan enough.I find that very curious timing at best.

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If the polls showed President Biden aheadin all fifty states, I wonder
if they'd have done the same thing. I wonder if they'd have dropped their
support for that bill, because presidentialethics reform probably ought to be on a
lot of people's minds these days,and on both sides of the aisle.

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Just lay it all out there,let's sort it out. Let's just see
exactly what's going on, and seeif there's fairness in what's going on.
In self destruct news, the WNBA'sadded again, apparently disinterested at best in
the treatment of first picking the draftCaitlin Clark, who overnight, by the
way, put tens of thousands ofbutts in seats at games formerly attended mostly

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by the players families and close friends. For years, the WA has been
hollering, look at us, takea look at our product. It's great,
and when we finally got somebody towatch a superstar in basketball. She's
the all time leading scorer in collegebasketball, that's all, and so there's
somebody to watch. But instead ofthe players welcoming the elevated level of competition

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she could bring as she gets accustomedto the pace and the play at the
WNBA, what they've done is expressedmostly jealousy with a side of hostility.
Speaking of Caitlin Clark, by theway, since she won't be playing in
the Olympics, and that's a decisionthat I've seen, I've seen go either
way and could be explained for inclusionor exclusion on the Olympic team, and

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I don't really have a problem withthat. Other great players in the NBA
have been snubbed for Olympic bids aswell, so maybe next time. The
good news for Caitlin is there's wordfloating around now that she may be chosen
to join NBC's broadcast team in moreways than one, to get to Paris
for the Olympics, I suppose,and get paid handsomely for it. On

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top of that, I wouldn't blameher. I'm giddy with excitement over I
discovery in the South China Sea ofmore than nine hundred artifacts from two ancient
shipwrecks dating back to the Ming dynasty, which lasted roughly from the years thirteen
sixty eight to sixteen forty four.Absolutely beautiful stuff and from a river in

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China. Also kind of recently comesseventy six thousand gold and silver artifacts dating
back to the seventeenth century. Noneof it hours will We'll just have to
keep working. Thanks for listening.We'll see it tomorrow to wrap up the
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