July 19, 2024 • 37 mins
Today, Doug Pike interviews Skeeter Braun of Braun's Roofing about your roofing needs. Also, the Friday show will be moved to Monday.
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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 byTexas Indoor Air Quality Specialists because clean air
is healthier air. And now fiftyplus with Doug Pike. Let me get
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this microphone over here, turn itaround, bending over. Tried printing on
two different printers, zero response fromthe Printer's not think I know why we
had. Even before that great messup of the entire world's internet this morning,
we had some technical issues over hererelated to the storm that made it.
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Where we can get internet, wecan get Wi Fi, we can
get all that stuff from one sourcewhile we're connected to one Wi Fi connection,
but it won't print. Or wecan go to the other one and
it will print, but it won'tlet you get on the internet. It's
a mess, but we'll figure itout, because we know what we're doing,
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and we have several capable people doingthat. Friday, it is wishy
washy kind of a day around here. On the morning after former President Trump
accepted the Republican Party's nomination of himto represent them and US in November's election,
he spoke for more than an hourand a half, and he laid
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out his what I consider a prettystraightforward approach to putting this country back on
a path of growth, a pathof prosperity, and a path of law,
and how anyone could look at what'sgoing on in our country now,
what borders, crime, inflation,saber rattling amongst our adversaries. Globally,
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we are at present a rudderless ship, and the left has nobody who can
steer us back onto course. Andby the way, still a few thousand
people around here without power. Ifyou are among them, I haven't forgotten
about you, and I pray thatyour power is restored quickly. I wanted
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to say, by the way,that if you are driving around and you
happen to see, as my dearfriend here Missy always has seen a few
times lately, if you happen tosee one of these linemen's trucks or some
electrical crew of some sort, anysort, from anywhere in the country parked
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at a fast food place. Goin there, thank them and offer to
buy them lunch. Thank them andoffer to buy them lunch. We all
know that Centerpoint made some bad decisions, and those are going to be addressed.
But the people who came here fromall over the country to get us
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out of the dark and out ofthe heat deserve anything and everything we can
offer to them on the way outof town, and especially let them know
that the very small number of peoplewho yelled at them and screamed at them,
and threw things at them and justdid all these despicable things do not
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represent the overwhelming majority of Houstonians andTexans. There's just absolutely no excuse for
what those people did. I betthat only a few of these thousands of
men and women who came here haveany idea what a water burger is.
That's what Missy was buying for him. Saw him around and said, look,
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let's go to Waterburger. Come on, follow me and all she'd go.
You just gather up a little crewalignment and take them there. And
more power to her I'm going tostart watching as well. On the way
home yesterday, within the last mileand a half of my home, I
saw five different electric service trucks,two two, and one going in different
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directions. I don't know whose homesthey were about to go take care of,
but I'm sure those people were quitegrateful to finally get it done.
This is some It's all messed up. It really is all messed up.
So, speaking of trying to getback to usual, my schedule changes slightly
beginning next week, rather than offera best of edition of the program on
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Mondays, my former off hinting atwhere we're going and the only day off
I get each week, by theway, because and I wouldn't do this
if I didn't like it. Ido like being here. I do like
talking to all of you. Ilike hearing from all of you by email.
Anyway, the off day shifts allthe way to Friday to accommodate a
rescheduled staff meeting down here. That'sgonna henceforth throughout the land go on Mondays.
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As for the weather, which likelyalready has changed since I made my
notes a while ago, we're inone of those oddball patterns just now that
make things nearly impossible to predict,so high's and lows in hikup, and
I'm guessing that right about now alittle chill ran down Will Melbourne's spine because
he was supposed to have concocted one. Have you done that? Huh?
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That's what I thought you would say. Do you recall yesterday's conversation in which
I challenged you to do better?Since you have been so judgmental of my
recent highs and lows in haikup,you have plead the fifth? I bleed
the fifth. Okay, the firstline of my high coup for you will
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be this I am not surprised,oh wow. And then I'll finish the
rest of it later in the program. So my high coup, my high
coup for today is this instability chancesfor rain through a week? We miss
you, sunshine and Will? Whatdo you think? I think gets pretty
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good? You better butter me upmore than that, since you just totally
blew it off. You know youdid you know well, you knew that
you didn't stand a chance. Ithink that was the problem. Why waste
your time when defeat is certain kindof like in the White House right now?
Why bother. Just tell everybody yougot COVID. Then you don't have
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to do anything. All right,let's get some of this other pretty good
stuff that I've got something. Bythe way, if you'll listen to my
program tomorrow on kbm ME Sports Talkseven ninety, I have an announcement to
make that also pertains to the linemanand electricians who have come through here,
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and so by all means, pleasedo and it'll be it'll be something you'll
want to hear about, no questionabout it. I don't have a lot
of time, do I will,So I don't want to get anything anything
really too too deep. Oh here'ssomething that cheered me up. President Biden's
latest student debt cancelation plan. Afederal court has blocked it in full and
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prohibits borrowers from reducing their debt orextending it. Just pay your bills.
I'm still at a loss as towhy you and I should have to pay
off a loan taken by a teenager. I very sometimes not as happily as
others, but I pay my debts. If I encour a debt, I
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will pay it off. I'm notthrilled about picking up billions of dollars in
debt, accrewed by students who perhapsmade some wrong choices on their way down
the road of life. What ifI said my car identifies as a student
loan, maybe I could, maybeI could get it paid off. Snicker
if you will. But we're onlya few dots from connecting to that path.
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By the way, all right,on the way out, I'll tell
you all about ut Health Institute onAging. This is that collaborative I mentioned
for many many years now, actuallymany years that goes above and beyond training
its members. Well, they allhave specific training in their medical disciplines.
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These are all medical providers and therapistsand trainers and everybody who's involved in our
health. And in addition to theirschool they're normal regular schooling, they have
gone back and gathered additional education andinformation on how specifically to apply their knowledge
to seniors. We're different from youngpeople. I'm different from will we If
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you saw a standing side by side, it would be pretty easy to see
which of us is the older ofthe two. Unfortunately, but that's the
way life works. And if youwant to keep your life moving forward,
keep your life on a good track, you need to be working with providers
who are trained to take care ofus. And that's what you get with
ut Hell's Institute on Aging. Excellentresources at that website too. By the
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way, I encourage you to gotake a look at it ut dot edu
slash aging, uth dot edu slashaging. What's life without a net?
If I suggest to go to bed, leave it off, just wait until
the show's over. Sleeping back toDougpike as fifty plus can tues. Oh,
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I'm thrilled to death because I gotthe printer to work. I had
to change networks, change Wi Finetworks, and no step for a stepper,
no step for somebody who's as technologicallysavvy as myself, he said,
with tongue in cheek. Welcome backto fifty plus on Wishy Washy Friday,
not longer, not long really,after I had the pleasure of biting,
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by the way, into one ofShipley's new egg sausage and cheese colatchies.
Oh that's so good, definitely worththe weight. You'll hear more about that.
It's a month wears on in thissegment. I'm gonna welcome a man
I have known for a very longtime, a man who's been on my
roof almost as many times as SantaClaus, and my home is always better
when he and his helpers are done. That man is Skeeter Braun from Braun's
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Roofing. Welcome aboards, Keeter,Hey, Doug, what's going on to
guys? You know, just justlet it got you in my corner.
I'm sure you're getting tons tons ofcalls really cood. Yeah, people who
trust you like I do to givethem a free and non assessment. But
I also know that a lot oflocal roofers had permanent, permanent spit it
out, Doug, personal damage tohomes and businesses, just like the rest
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of us as an industry. Skeeter, are you and your your competitors getting
back up to speed at all?Yet? What Doug, we are?
You know? Number one? Youknow we had damages to our houses,
to our office and everything else likethat. So please be considerate of the
damages we've had. And like Isaid, we appreciate everybody's business and we're
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trying to do the best we can. It's just a little overwhelming, you
know. Every morning I showed myoffice at seven o'clock and there's one hundred
people wind up there with their checkbooks, desperate people with their checkbooks in hands.
So you know, it's just kindof a sad situation, and we
try to do the best we can. And we've kind of got to get
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ourselves up and running first in asituation where where we we're okay and our
trucks are okay and get gas andfuel and internet and so on and so
forth. But you know, youknow, we understand and we feel for
people, and and you know,it's it's just you know, overwhelming there
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when you have twenty five hundred peoplecalling you yeah, and and and you're
trying to do the best you canwith what you have and get to everybody
as soon as you can. Andso we'll we're doing the best we can.
Know. What reminds me of isbeing on an airplane when the oxygen
mask come down and they say putyour mask on first, and then help
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the kids and people. And that'sthat's kind of where you guys are.
So what I want you to do, if you can, is explain if
there are any ways really that mylisteners without actually getting up on a ladder
and getting on the roof, isthere any way they can detect something less
obvious than a whole tree on thehouse from the ground. Something specific.
Look, that's a good point.You're right, that's a good good point,
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something to start with. And Itell everybody walk around their house or
their office and see if there's anytrees laying down or anything that looks different
than what it should be, andeither get a roofer out there and or
a landscape person to start removing.And then you really need to get a
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roofer or somebody up on your roofto look at it. Blow the leaves
and the debris off of the roofand the gutters so next time it does
rain, we don't have the continuousproblems there. And at that point in
time, you know, if theysee damages or something that doesn't look right,
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then you have to call your insurancecompany. And that's what insurance companies
are there for. And you knowthey they will call your insurance companies.
You can say that hey, arerooting professional has been out there and they've
noted some damages. We need toget an adjuster out here, take a
look at it. And we alwaysload our trucks with temporary repair materials so
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that if there is something that's veryobvious, we can go in and fix
it right then and there, Wetake a picture of it, we give
the customer and an invoice. Itmight be four hundred and five hundred,
might be one thousand dollars. Andwe're not, you know, necessarily asking
to be paid right then and there, but we're we're letting them know,
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here's some evidence of problem, andyour insurance company needs to come out and
take a look at it. It'sa band aid. You get a band
aid for a less price, andthen once everybody wants the doctor determines what's
wrong, you can fix the wholething. I'm loving these analygies exactly right.
And so the insurance you call yourinsurance agent or whatever, and they
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send an adjuster out. Well,they take a look at it and take
some pictures, and then usually theywill send you a report. It usually
takes ten days or two weeks forthem to do that. And it's yes,
sir, I was gonna ask,how much damage skeeter to a roof
that's in good shape when the windstarts to blow, How much damage just
just wind do to shingles and whatnoton a on a presumably good roof,
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Well, Doug, and the problemhas been is not so much the hurricane
force constant the constant windflow of aof eighty ninety miles an hour doesn't really
do the damage. It's usually thesegusts and the little tornadoes that pomp through
the neighborhood tearing things off. Andat that point in time, you're you
know, we cover everything up toseventy five miles an hour in about three
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inches of rain an hour. Otherwisethat after you meet that point, then
that's covered by your insurance company.Ok and uh wind driven rain, small
you know, tornadic activity where theytear things up, that is all covered
by your insurance companies. You needto call them and take a look at
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and have them take a look atit. And you know, majority of
the insurance companies and adjusters are prettyfair sure, but you know, we
run into a lot of them.That I ran into one in al then
and it was a little, youknow, I want to say a little
was a you know, about aneighteen hundred square foot house, one story,
and they had eighty missing shingles,and Farmer's insurance denied the claim.
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Say you know, we'll only repairit. Okay, well, okay,
so I called Farmer's insurance, saidlisten, I'll go along with that.
Y'all find somebody that will repair itand warranty it, okay, because I'm
not going to do it. Yeahokay. And then they said, well
the roof is old and it's wornout and need to be replaced anyway,
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Okay, did you tell the homeownerthat before they paid you? Interesting?
Interesting? Yeah, So I'm sorry. It gets kind of down and dirty,
and you have to get your attorneyinvolved to write a letter to the
insurance you know company, or geta public adjuster to represent you. And
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a lot of these insurance companies aregoing out and they're just kind of testing
you. Say, hey, there'sno damage, okay, and see what
you have to say, some littleold lady. So it's that And I'm
not saying that every insurance company isthat way, but a lot of them
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are. And so you have tobe very proactive and professional about Hey,
okay, if you think you havese your day, your roofer tells you
you have a lot of damage,then the insurance company needs to pay for
it. Once again, I reallythink they're testing people to see who's going
to put up a fight who's not. There's a lot of them that put
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up a fight, they show upthe next day with a check in their
hands. Okay, so it's kindof a it's you know, it is
what it is, and I'm notthere's a lot of good insurance companies up
there, and a good adjusters,but there's a lot of insurance companies that
are out there not not sure.I understand that. Always a good idea
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to call Bronze Roof and for afree inspection, isn't it, Skeeter?
All right? You know we're alittle backed up, a little backed up,
but you call us and or goto our website, put your name
and phone number on. We'll takecare of you. We're trying to do
be the best we can and therain that we're having every day doesn't doesn't
help anything. Okay, So we'rewe're we're trying. We're trying to do
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the best. We can't get Putme, put me on the list.
Just said for a quick once over. I remember I called you about that
one little thing. Sure, andwe'll get that knocked down. But I
know you're just smoked. I'll goup there and take a look at it
and see if it's changed. Idoubt that it has. I'm sure will
be Okay, Skeeter Braun Braun's roofingfree inspections almost every time within twenty four
hours. Maybe a little bit lowerright now, right, No, I
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know, I understand, and I'lllet them know. Thank you, Skeeter.
I appreciate it, man, Ireally do. All right, buddy,
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now. They sure don't make themlike they used to. That's why every
few months we wash them. Checkhis words and spring on a fresh cod
wax. This is fifty plus withDoug Pike. Right afternoon, A little
peppin to my step. I've gotplans this afternoon, big plans, well
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not that big, just a resumption. Actually, I mentioned yesterday that I
got home and I was just twitchy. I hadn't caught a fish in a
week. It was like a it'sa drug for me. Fishing is a
drug and I hadn't had my fixin a week. And so I told
my wife I said, I'm goingout. As soon as I catch a
bass, I'll come home. AndI wasn't out very long, and I
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did catch a bass, and soI felt pretty good about it until my
buddy Brantley sent me a picture thismorning. Now, granted there was no
fish in his picture. All hehad to report on was the big splash
and the alleged monster bass that hadbroken his line. So I think mine
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counts more than his. He lostwhat he and he's a good fisherman.
He knows a big fish when hefeels it at the end of the line.
But I think his line broke becausehe hadn't tended to it in a
while. That's what I'm gonna accusehim of anyway. When I talk to
him tongue in cheek later, hesaid, man, if you change the
line on your reels more than onceevery three or four years, you might
you might be able to stay connectedto your fish. In any event,
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I caught a fish. He didn't, but he had the one that got
away story and I don't. Buttoday I have access if all has gone
well to the lakes that I fishmost often and that have still reasonable numbers
of fish in them, and I'mjust hoping that after a week, they're
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not smart enough to remember who Iam and what I look like as I'm
walking up and down the shoreline.Hopefully they'll just think I'm a tree that's
still blowing across the fairway somewhere andmistake me for some innocent little thing.
And actually I treat them better thanmost people do. I mashed down the
barbs and all my hooks so thatthe fish don't get hurt, and if
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something goes crazy, I don't gethurt either. So let's get back to
the news, shall we. NewYork Magazine, have you ever heard of
that? Will? New York Magazinenot New Yorker, New York. Yeah.
New York Magazine opted for its mostrecent cover what had to be AI
generated. Clearly, it was aside by side photograph that I wrap that
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in quotes of President Trump and PresidentBiden standing there in white boxer shorts on
a doctor's office scale, each ofthem on his own scale. Clearly the
scale a little tipped a little fartherover for Trump and Biden. I found
that photograph. I found that cover, and I'm not sure who thought it
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up or who signed off on itspublication, but I found it just abysmally
disrespectful to both men and to theoffice of the President of the United States.
It made waves, no doubt itgot attention, as it should have,
but likely not in the way thepublisher and its editors intended. Shame
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on them, Seriously, what hasthis country come to where that would even
be deemed remotely acceptable, especially righthere coming up on the election so soon.
Speaking of President Biden, it's notgoing to be long before he either
he either allows his name to bepulled off the Democratic ticket for November,
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or heaven help us, before heresigns his position and names someone else who
might take the reins for the nextfew months. Either way in a fair
election, and even if he stayson the ticket, well, really,
any one of those three scenarios,I think seals the fate of Democrats who
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really don't have anyone else who's qualifiedto run this country without making it even
worse. Harris, not a chance, no chance. Even our own party
knows she's unqualified. Michelle Obama istoo smart, actually, and I would
imagine enjoying her current lifestyle far toomuch to run for that office. She
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saw what it did to her husband, and I would suspect that they could
just walk away from that. We'llstill keep our fingers in the pie,
We'll keep our nose in the door, but not officially. I could see
that happening. Maybe Newsom he can'teven run a state without putting it into
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tens of billions of dollars worth ofdebt, and oh, by the way,
running off a major chunk of itspopulation. He actually may be the
worst of all their choices because hetried to turn this country into California,
and even California onions. No,that's a disaster waiting to happen from California
to Washington by way of Florida.The Treasury Department is warning banks that laws
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such as what Florida Governor Ron deSanta Is signed in back in May could
be bad for national security. Whatthe bill says is that banks should focus
on financial factors and considerations in thedecision making process of their day to day
business and not be forced to leaninto environmental or social or corporate governance as
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determining factors in that business of theirs. They should focus on banking related money
related issues because that's what they areis Institutions where money changes hands, they
shouldn't have to be bothered with anyof that stuff. Focusing on social issues
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can lead to satus in Republicans pointout, can lead to unfair discrimination easily
actually based on political beliefs or potentiallywell, it just harms that entire that
entire facet of our world. Thefinancial sector doesn't need to be ruled by
social mores. A back to schooltickled to report that a minute ago,
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I already did that. I'll tellyou what, I'll stand down and take
a break, and when we comeback, I've got one or two more
little things I want to get to, and then we'll get to some lighter
stuff to end the weekend or endthe week. If you have let age
slip up on you a little bitand you're like, oh boy, yeah,
I think I do have an enlargedprostate, non cancerous. They don't
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treat cancer at a late health.But if yours is non cancerous and still
enlarged and still giving you all thoseproblems in the middle of the night,
still give you problems in other aspectsof your life, by all means,
check with the late health and seeif they can't get you in there.
Everything they do is done in justa couple of hours, a little bit
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more in some instances, depending onwhat you're having done in their clinics.
All three, I think believe there'sthree now around town, and they do
vascular things. Is what they dowith the prostate issue. For example,
they isolate, They locate and isolatethe artery that's supplying that prostate with oxygenated
blood so it can grow and growand grow, and they shut it off.
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They turn off the spigot, andthat thing shrivels and withers and dies,
and with it go all those symptoms. Same with fibroids for women,
Same with ugly veins wherever they mightbe on anybody's body. Even some particular
head pains can be alleviated with vasculartherapy. They're very good at what they
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do, and most of what theydo is covered by Medicare and Medicaid.
They're also, by the way,doing regenerative medicine over there, which is
extreme, really helpful in getting ridof chronic pain. And nobody should have
to live in chronic pain. Sevenone three, five, eight, eight
thirty eight eighty eight seven one three, five eight eight thirty eight eighty eight
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Get a consultation, get an appointment, go over there and see what they
do. If you want to goto the website, that's fine as well.
A latehealth dot com a L AT E. A latehealth dot com
old guys rule, and of coursewomen never get old. If you want
to avoid sleeping on the couch,okay, well you think that sounds like
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a good plan. Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug rounding third and
heading home. The Astros by theway back in action tonight after a a
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much deserved for the entire league breakduring the All Star Week, the Home
Run Derby. The game itself prettymuch just spectacle. It's not a serious
undertaking at all, but it doesgather the players who receive the most votes
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in fair and impartial elections. Iguess I don't know anything about really how
all that's tallied and tabulated, Butthe players I saw on the field for
the game, and the players Isaw in the Home Run Derby certainly deserved
to be there. They are thebest of the best. It would be
interesting two if it were possible,and I wouldn't want to do it because
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it would risk injury with every pitch, but I would love to see those
same teams go at it for abouta month to see which of them really
was the best, which of themreally could put out some depth in a
pitching chart, because most of thoseguys were in there for three outs,
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one inning and out, and that'sall they needed to be in all the
pitchers, the hitters mostly got atleast a couple of three at bats,
and pretty much I would think,and I'm not certain, but I would
think that everybody who earned a spoton the All Star team also got some
time in the field. They maynot have had a ball come to them
the whole day. If you're notthe shortstop or the second basement or the
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first baseman or the well, ifyou're not an infield or let's just leave
it at that, there's no guaranteeyou're going to see the baseball at all,
and if your pitcher is doing hisjob, you probably won't because the
best pitchers produce a lot of groundballs that are weekly hit. That makes
you an outstanding pitcher who can bedefended with just the infield. You start
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launching things out into the nether regionsof the outfield, which is quite a
big space. Really. Next timeyou're at a baseball game at a Major
League baseball game, or even aminor league game, a professional baseball game,
or any of the million dollars stadiumsthat have been built at high schools
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in this region, take pause andreally study the amount of ground that has
to be covered by a baseball outfielderat that level. Pee wee. It's
not hard. Two kids could Theycan almost shake hands in the outfield sometimes,
but in real big time ball,And that's where I played. When
I played baseball, I left handed. I played in right field and just
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lived and briefed to throw people out, and usually I could. It was
a lot of fun. Back tohow much time do I have? Will
I've just kind of meandered off intobaseball and I didn't mean to you have
four and a half minute, SoI got four and a half. By
the way, the Open Championship ongoing over on the other side of the
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ocean. I will be talking aboutthat at length tomorrow as best I can,
and on my Outdoor show seven toten tomorrow on Sports Talk seven ninety
and then eight to ten on Sunday. Back to it. Kamala Harris,
I saw a story this morning thatsaid, Kamala Harris shouldn't be blamed for
the border crisis because that's actually theresponsibility of Alejandro Majorcus, which it is
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in great part, and that's true. But early on communication from the White
House was that Kamala Harris was goingto be in charge of the border and
she was gonna buy gosh, godown there, take care of it.
And I saw one interview recently forthe second or third time, I saw
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it again in which she is askedif she had been to the air or
to the border, the southern border, and it's gosh. I want to
think that it was AI generated andjust a spoof. But her answer to
the question is well, I haven'tbeen to Europe either. That doesn't really
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answer the question if you've been tothe border or not. It just says
you're not well traveled. And ifyou're supposed to be in charge of that,
why aren't you doing anything about it? And if it's may Orcus's issue,
why haven't we as a nation andas a Congress booted him to the
curb? If this was all hisresponsibility. Now, bear in mind,
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he's not taking orders, he's notmaking the orders. He's taking orders,
and he's gonna say whatever he's toldto say, and he kept telling us
all the while that that border wassecure when it never was. It never
was. So if not the border, then for Kamala Harris, exactly what
has she done in almost four yearsto lift this nation up and move it
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forward? On what platform? Couldshe possibly stand as a Democratic nominee for
President of the United States and say, look what I accomplished. I'll wait,
no, I won't. There's reallyno I can't think of anything.
Really, I cannot think of anythingthat drew her into favorable light. Favorable
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light. She has missed that everytime she's taken a swing at it.
And it's sad, but it justit reveals the weakness of that side,
the entire side. Their number twoperson or number one person is about to
step down, and number two thelogical successor under any other administration. Not
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a chance, Not a chance.Back to Houston real quick. A recent
poll showed that about half the peoplewho live here would consider moving away at
least from Houston. Proper crime,inflation, property values, taxes, and
now beryl. It all adds up, and as we've seen in so many
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large cities around this nation, ledby Democrats, the exodus does happen,
slowly, but surely it does happen, and then it implows. This whole
deal with Beryl may well marked todaywhen people finally fall out of love with
the city in which I grew upbecause it hasn't been anything like my childhood
Houston. Probably in thirty years.It's a just trend of abandonment in big
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cities continues. Our country is goingto start to look like one of those
sci fi movies where just the actualcities themselves are just shells. All right,
well, let's light it up realquick. Let's go too keep your
cool, never do that or dumbas a rock, dumb is a rock?
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Gen Z, what gen are you? Are you? Gen Z?
Okay? But well you're not doingthis though? Are chewing rock hard gum?
It says here to get chiseled jawlines. They're trying to now they're working
out their jaw muscles thinking that'll makethem look better. Somehow. I got
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news for you, gen Z.That's not how you do it. We'll
be back on Monday Live right here. Thanks for listening, 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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is healthier air. And now fiftyplus with Doug Pike. Let me get
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this microphone over here, turn itaround, bending over. Tried printing on
two different printers, zero response fromthe Printer's not think I know why we
had. Even before that great messup of the entire world's internet this morning,
we had some technical issues over hererelated to the storm that made it.
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Where we can get internet, wecan get Wi Fi, we can
get all that stuff from one sourcewhile we're connected to one Wi Fi connection,
but it won't print. Or wecan go to the other one and
it will print, but it won'tlet you get on the internet. It's
a mess, but we'll figure itout, because we know what we're doing,
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and we have several capable people doingthat. Friday, it is wishy
washy kind of a day around here. On the morning after former President Trump
accepted the Republican Party's nomination of himto represent them and US in November's election,
he spoke for more than an hourand a half, and he laid
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out his what I consider a prettystraightforward approach to putting this country back on
a path of growth, a pathof prosperity, and a path of law,
and how anyone could look at what'sgoing on in our country now,
what borders, crime, inflation,saber rattling amongst our adversaries. Globally,
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we are at present a rudderless ship, and the left has nobody who can
steer us back onto course. Andby the way, still a few thousand
people around here without power. Ifyou are among them, I haven't forgotten
about you, and I pray thatyour power is restored quickly. I wanted
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to say, by the way,that if you are driving around and you
happen to see, as my dearfriend here Missy always has seen a few
times lately, if you happen tosee one of these linemen's trucks or some
electrical crew of some sort, anysort, from anywhere in the country parked
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at a fast food place. Goin there, thank them and offer to
buy them lunch. Thank them andoffer to buy them lunch. We all
know that Centerpoint made some bad decisions, and those are going to be addressed.
But the people who came here fromall over the country to get us
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out of the dark and out ofthe heat deserve anything and everything we can
offer to them on the way outof town, and especially let them know
that the very small number of peoplewho yelled at them and screamed at them,
and threw things at them and justdid all these despicable things do not
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represent the overwhelming majority of Houstonians andTexans. There's just absolutely no excuse for
what those people did. I betthat only a few of these thousands of
men and women who came here haveany idea what a water burger is.
That's what Missy was buying for him. Saw him around and said, look,
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let's go to Waterburger. Come on, follow me and all she'd go.
You just gather up a little crewalignment and take them there. And
more power to her I'm going tostart watching as well. On the way
home yesterday, within the last mileand a half of my home, I
saw five different electric service trucks,two two, and one going in different
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directions. I don't know whose homesthey were about to go take care of,
but I'm sure those people were quitegrateful to finally get it done.
This is some It's all messed up. It really is all messed up.
So, speaking of trying to getback to usual, my schedule changes slightly
beginning next week, rather than offera best of edition of the program on
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Mondays, my former off hinting atwhere we're going and the only day off
I get each week, by theway, because and I wouldn't do this
if I didn't like it. Ido like being here. I do like
talking to all of you. Ilike hearing from all of you by email.
Anyway, the off day shifts allthe way to Friday to accommodate a
rescheduled staff meeting down here. That'sgonna henceforth throughout the land go on Mondays.
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As for the weather, which likelyalready has changed since I made my
notes a while ago, we're inone of those oddball patterns just now that
make things nearly impossible to predict,so high's and lows in hikup, and
I'm guessing that right about now alittle chill ran down Will Melbourne's spine because
he was supposed to have concocted one. Have you done that? Huh?
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That's what I thought you would say. Do you recall yesterday's conversation in which
I challenged you to do better?Since you have been so judgmental of my
recent highs and lows in haikup,you have plead the fifth? I bleed
the fifth. Okay, the firstline of my high coup for you will
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be this I am not surprised,oh wow. And then I'll finish the
rest of it later in the program. So my high coup, my high
coup for today is this instability chancesfor rain through a week? We miss
you, sunshine and Will? Whatdo you think? I think gets pretty
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good? You better butter me upmore than that, since you just totally
blew it off. You know youdid you know well, you knew that
you didn't stand a chance. Ithink that was the problem. Why waste
your time when defeat is certain kindof like in the White House right now?
Why bother. Just tell everybody yougot COVID. Then you don't have
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to do anything. All right,let's get some of this other pretty good
stuff that I've got something. Bythe way, if you'll listen to my
program tomorrow on kbm ME Sports Talkseven ninety, I have an announcement to
make that also pertains to the linemanand electricians who have come through here,
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and so by all means, pleasedo and it'll be it'll be something you'll
want to hear about, no questionabout it. I don't have a lot
of time, do I will,So I don't want to get anything anything
really too too deep. Oh here'ssomething that cheered me up. President Biden's
latest student debt cancelation plan. Afederal court has blocked it in full and
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prohibits borrowers from reducing their debt orextending it. Just pay your bills.
I'm still at a loss as towhy you and I should have to pay
off a loan taken by a teenager. I very sometimes not as happily as
others, but I pay my debts. If I encour a debt, I
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will pay it off. I'm notthrilled about picking up billions of dollars in
debt, accrewed by students who perhapsmade some wrong choices on their way down
the road of life. What ifI said my car identifies as a student
loan, maybe I could, maybeI could get it paid off. Snicker
if you will. But we're onlya few dots from connecting to that path.
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By the way, all right,on the way out, I'll tell
you all about ut Health Institute onAging. This is that collaborative I mentioned
for many many years now, actuallymany years that goes above and beyond training
its members. Well, they allhave specific training in their medical disciplines.
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These are all medical providers and therapistsand trainers and everybody who's involved in our
health. And in addition to theirschool they're normal regular schooling, they have
gone back and gathered additional education andinformation on how specifically to apply their knowledge
to seniors. We're different from youngpeople. I'm different from will we If
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you saw a standing side by side, it would be pretty easy to see
which of us is the older ofthe two. Unfortunately, but that's the
way life works. And if youwant to keep your life moving forward,
keep your life on a good track, you need to be working with providers
who are trained to take care ofus. And that's what you get with
ut Hell's Institute on Aging. Excellentresources at that website too. By the
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way, I encourage you to gotake a look at it ut dot edu
slash aging, uth dot edu slashaging. What's life without a net?
If I suggest to go to bed, leave it off, just wait until
the show's over. Sleeping back toDougpike as fifty plus can tues. Oh,
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I'm thrilled to death because I gotthe printer to work. I had
to change networks, change Wi Finetworks, and no step for a stepper,
no step for somebody who's as technologicallysavvy as myself, he said,
with tongue in cheek. Welcome backto fifty plus on Wishy Washy Friday,
not longer, not long really,after I had the pleasure of biting,
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by the way, into one ofShipley's new egg sausage and cheese colatchies.
Oh that's so good, definitely worththe weight. You'll hear more about that.
It's a month wears on in thissegment. I'm gonna welcome a man
I have known for a very longtime, a man who's been on my
roof almost as many times as SantaClaus, and my home is always better
when he and his helpers are done. That man is Skeeter Braun from Braun's
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Roofing. Welcome aboards, Keeter,Hey, Doug, what's going on to
guys? You know, just justlet it got you in my corner.
I'm sure you're getting tons tons ofcalls really cood. Yeah, people who
trust you like I do to givethem a free and non assessment. But
I also know that a lot oflocal roofers had permanent, permanent spit it
out, Doug, personal damage tohomes and businesses, just like the rest
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of us as an industry. Skeeter, are you and your your competitors getting
back up to speed at all?Yet? What Doug, we are?
You know? Number one? Youknow we had damages to our houses,
to our office and everything else likethat. So please be considerate of the
damages we've had. And like Isaid, we appreciate everybody's business and we're
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trying to do the best we can. It's just a little overwhelming, you
know. Every morning I showed myoffice at seven o'clock and there's one hundred
people wind up there with their checkbooks, desperate people with their checkbooks in hands.
So you know, it's just kindof a sad situation, and we
try to do the best we can. And we've kind of got to get
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ourselves up and running first in asituation where where we we're okay and our
trucks are okay and get gas andfuel and internet and so on and so
forth. But you know, youknow, we understand and we feel for
people, and and you know,it's it's just you know, overwhelming there
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when you have twenty five hundred peoplecalling you yeah, and and and you're
trying to do the best you canwith what you have and get to everybody
as soon as you can. Andso we'll we're doing the best we can.
Know. What reminds me of isbeing on an airplane when the oxygen
mask come down and they say putyour mask on first, and then help
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the kids and people. And that'sthat's kind of where you guys are.
So what I want you to do, if you can, is explain if
there are any ways really that mylisteners without actually getting up on a ladder
and getting on the roof, isthere any way they can detect something less
obvious than a whole tree on thehouse from the ground. Something specific.
Look, that's a good point.You're right, that's a good good point,
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something to start with. And Itell everybody walk around their house or
their office and see if there's anytrees laying down or anything that looks different
than what it should be, andeither get a roofer out there and or
a landscape person to start removing.And then you really need to get a
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roofer or somebody up on your roofto look at it. Blow the leaves
and the debris off of the roofand the gutters so next time it does
rain, we don't have the continuousproblems there. And at that point in
time, you know, if theysee damages or something that doesn't look right,
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then you have to call your insurancecompany. And that's what insurance companies
are there for. And you knowthey they will call your insurance companies.
You can say that hey, arerooting professional has been out there and they've
noted some damages. We need toget an adjuster out here, take a
look at it. And we alwaysload our trucks with temporary repair materials so
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that if there is something that's veryobvious, we can go in and fix
it right then and there, Wetake a picture of it, we give
the customer and an invoice. Itmight be four hundred and five hundred,
might be one thousand dollars. Andwe're not, you know, necessarily asking
to be paid right then and there, but we're we're letting them know,
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here's some evidence of problem, andyour insurance company needs to come out and
take a look at it. It'sa band aid. You get a band
aid for a less price, andthen once everybody wants the doctor determines what's
wrong, you can fix the wholething. I'm loving these analygies exactly right.
And so the insurance you call yourinsurance agent or whatever, and they
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send an adjuster out. Well,they take a look at it and take
some pictures, and then usually theywill send you a report. It usually
takes ten days or two weeks forthem to do that. And it's yes,
sir, I was gonna ask,how much damage skeeter to a roof
that's in good shape when the windstarts to blow, How much damage just
just wind do to shingles and whatnoton a on a presumably good roof,
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Well, Doug, and the problemhas been is not so much the hurricane
force constant the constant windflow of aof eighty ninety miles an hour doesn't really
do the damage. It's usually thesegusts and the little tornadoes that pomp through
the neighborhood tearing things off. Andat that point in time, you're you
know, we cover everything up toseventy five miles an hour in about three
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inches of rain an hour. Otherwisethat after you meet that point, then
that's covered by your insurance company.Ok and uh wind driven rain, small
you know, tornadic activity where theytear things up, that is all covered
by your insurance companies. You needto call them and take a look at
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and have them take a look atit. And you know, majority of
the insurance companies and adjusters are prettyfair sure, but you know, we
run into a lot of them.That I ran into one in al then
and it was a little, youknow, I want to say a little
was a you know, about aneighteen hundred square foot house, one story,
and they had eighty missing shingles,and Farmer's insurance denied the claim.
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Say you know, we'll only repairit. Okay, well, okay,
so I called Farmer's insurance, saidlisten, I'll go along with that.
Y'all find somebody that will repair itand warranty it, okay, because I'm
not going to do it. Yeahokay. And then they said, well
the roof is old and it's wornout and need to be replaced anyway,
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Okay, did you tell the homeownerthat before they paid you? Interesting?
Interesting? Yeah, So I'm sorry. It gets kind of down and dirty,
and you have to get your attorneyinvolved to write a letter to the
insurance you know company, or geta public adjuster to represent you. And
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a lot of these insurance companies aregoing out and they're just kind of testing
you. Say, hey, there'sno damage, okay, and see what
you have to say, some littleold lady. So it's that And I'm
not saying that every insurance company isthat way, but a lot of them
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are. And so you have tobe very proactive and professional about Hey,
okay, if you think you havese your day, your roofer tells you
you have a lot of damage,then the insurance company needs to pay for
it. Once again, I reallythink they're testing people to see who's going
to put up a fight who's not. There's a lot of them that put
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up a fight, they show upthe next day with a check in their
hands. Okay, so it's kindof a it's you know, it is
what it is, and I'm notthere's a lot of good insurance companies up
there, and a good adjusters,but there's a lot of insurance companies that
are out there not not sure.I understand that. Always a good idea
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to call Bronze Roof and for afree inspection, isn't it, Skeeter?
All right? You know we're alittle backed up, a little backed up,
but you call us and or goto our website, put your name
and phone number on. We'll takecare of you. We're trying to do
be the best we can and therain that we're having every day doesn't doesn't
help anything. Okay, So we'rewe're we're trying. We're trying to do
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the best. We can't get Putme, put me on the list.
Just said for a quick once over. I remember I called you about that
one little thing. Sure, andwe'll get that knocked down. But I
know you're just smoked. I'll goup there and take a look at it
and see if it's changed. Idoubt that it has. I'm sure will
be Okay, Skeeter Braun Braun's roofingfree inspections almost every time within twenty four
hours. Maybe a little bit lowerright now, right, No, I
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know, I understand, and I'lllet them know. Thank you, Skeeter.
I appreciate it, man, Ireally do. All right, buddy,
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in this business for many, many, many years. The only two things
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and the two by six exterior wallsfor better insulation between you and the
heat and cold of a temperamental Texas. That's all it is around here.
It could be extreme heat, extremecold. Your exterior walls are half again
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as thick as everybody else is ifyou're living in a kirkhome. Kirkhomes dot
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dot Com. That's k r Kbecause at kirk Holmes it's all about you
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now. They sure don't make themlike they used to. That's why every
few months we wash them. Checkhis words and spring on a fresh cod
wax. This is fifty plus withDoug Pike. Right afternoon, A little
peppin to my step. I've gotplans this afternoon, big plans, well
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not that big, just a resumption. Actually, I mentioned yesterday that I
got home and I was just twitchy. I hadn't caught a fish in a
week. It was like a it'sa drug for me. Fishing is a
drug and I hadn't had my fixin a week. And so I told
my wife I said, I'm goingout. As soon as I catch a
bass, I'll come home. AndI wasn't out very long, and I
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did catch a bass, and soI felt pretty good about it until my
buddy Brantley sent me a picture thismorning. Now, granted there was no
fish in his picture. All hehad to report on was the big splash
and the alleged monster bass that hadbroken his line. So I think mine
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counts more than his. He lostwhat he and he's a good fisherman.
He knows a big fish when hefeels it at the end of the line.
But I think his line broke becausehe hadn't tended to it in a
while. That's what I'm gonna accusehim of anyway. When I talk to
him tongue in cheek later, hesaid, man, if you change the
line on your reels more than onceevery three or four years, you might
you might be able to stay connectedto your fish. In any event,
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I caught a fish. He didn't, but he had the one that got
away story and I don't. Buttoday I have access if all has gone
well to the lakes that I fishmost often and that have still reasonable numbers
of fish in them, and I'mjust hoping that after a week, they're
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not smart enough to remember who Iam and what I look like as I'm
walking up and down the shoreline.Hopefully they'll just think I'm a tree that's
still blowing across the fairway somewhere andmistake me for some innocent little thing.
And actually I treat them better thanmost people do. I mashed down the
barbs and all my hooks so thatthe fish don't get hurt, and if
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something goes crazy, I don't gethurt either. So let's get back to
the news, shall we. NewYork Magazine, have you ever heard of
that? Will? New York Magazinenot New Yorker, New York. Yeah.
New York Magazine opted for its mostrecent cover what had to be AI
generated. Clearly, it was aside by side photograph that I wrap that
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in quotes of President Trump and PresidentBiden standing there in white boxer shorts on
a doctor's office scale, each ofthem on his own scale. Clearly the
scale a little tipped a little fartherover for Trump and Biden. I found
that photograph. I found that cover, and I'm not sure who thought it
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up or who signed off on itspublication, but I found it just abysmally
disrespectful to both men and to theoffice of the President of the United States.
It made waves, no doubt itgot attention, as it should have,
but likely not in the way thepublisher and its editors intended. Shame
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on them, Seriously, what hasthis country come to where that would even
be deemed remotely acceptable, especially righthere coming up on the election so soon.
Speaking of President Biden, it's notgoing to be long before he either
he either allows his name to bepulled off the Democratic ticket for November,
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or heaven help us, before heresigns his position and names someone else who
might take the reins for the nextfew months. Either way in a fair
election, and even if he stayson the ticket, well, really,
any one of those three scenarios,I think seals the fate of Democrats who
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really don't have anyone else who's qualifiedto run this country without making it even
worse. Harris, not a chance, no chance. Even our own party
knows she's unqualified. Michelle Obama istoo smart, actually, and I would
imagine enjoying her current lifestyle far toomuch to run for that office. She
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saw what it did to her husband, and I would suspect that they could
just walk away from that. We'llstill keep our fingers in the pie,
We'll keep our nose in the door, but not officially. I could see
that happening. Maybe Newsom he can'teven run a state without putting it into
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tens of billions of dollars worth ofdebt, and oh, by the way,
running off a major chunk of itspopulation. He actually may be the
worst of all their choices because hetried to turn this country into California,
and even California onions. No,that's a disaster waiting to happen from California
to Washington by way of Florida.The Treasury Department is warning banks that laws
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such as what Florida Governor Ron deSanta Is signed in back in May could
be bad for national security. Whatthe bill says is that banks should focus
on financial factors and considerations in thedecision making process of their day to day
business and not be forced to leaninto environmental or social or corporate governance as
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determining factors in that business of theirs. They should focus on banking related money
related issues because that's what they areis Institutions where money changes hands, they
shouldn't have to be bothered with anyof that stuff. Focusing on social issues
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can lead to satus in Republicans pointout, can lead to unfair discrimination easily
actually based on political beliefs or potentiallywell, it just harms that entire that
entire facet of our world. Thefinancial sector doesn't need to be ruled by
social mores. A back to schooltickled to report that a minute ago,
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I already did that. I'll tellyou what, I'll stand down and take
a break, and when we comeback, I've got one or two more
little things I want to get to, and then we'll get to some lighter
stuff to end the weekend or endthe week. If you have let age
slip up on you a little bitand you're like, oh boy, yeah,
I think I do have an enlargedprostate, non cancerous. They don't
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treat cancer at a late health.But if yours is non cancerous and still
enlarged and still giving you all thoseproblems in the middle of the night,
still give you problems in other aspectsof your life, by all means,
check with the late health and seeif they can't get you in there.
Everything they do is done in justa couple of hours, a little bit
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more in some instances, depending onwhat you're having done in their clinics.
All three, I think believe there'sthree now around town, and they do
vascular things. Is what they dowith the prostate issue. For example,
they isolate, They locate and isolatethe artery that's supplying that prostate with oxygenated
blood so it can grow and growand grow, and they shut it off.
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They turn off the spigot, andthat thing shrivels and withers and dies,
and with it go all those symptoms. Same with fibroids for women,
Same with ugly veins wherever they mightbe on anybody's body. Even some particular
head pains can be alleviated with vasculartherapy. They're very good at what they
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do, and most of what theydo is covered by Medicare and Medicaid.
They're also, by the way,doing regenerative medicine over there, which is
extreme, really helpful in getting ridof chronic pain. And nobody should have
to live in chronic pain. Sevenone three, five, eight, eight
thirty eight eighty eight seven one three, five eight eight thirty eight eighty eight
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Get a consultation, get an appointment, go over there and see what they
do. If you want to goto the website, that's fine as well.
A latehealth dot com a L AT E. A latehealth dot com
old guys rule, and of coursewomen never get old. If you want
to avoid sleeping on the couch,okay, well you think that sounds like
(29:37):
a good plan. Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug rounding third and
heading home. The Astros by theway back in action tonight after a a
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much deserved for the entire league breakduring the All Star Week, the Home
Run Derby. The game itself prettymuch just spectacle. It's not a serious
undertaking at all, but it doesgather the players who receive the most votes
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in fair and impartial elections. Iguess I don't know anything about really how
all that's tallied and tabulated, Butthe players I saw on the field for
the game, and the players Isaw in the Home Run Derby certainly deserved
to be there. They are thebest of the best. It would be
interesting two if it were possible,and I wouldn't want to do it because
(30:52):
it would risk injury with every pitch, but I would love to see those
same teams go at it for abouta month to see which of them really
was the best, which of themreally could put out some depth in a
pitching chart, because most of thoseguys were in there for three outs,
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one inning and out, and that'sall they needed to be in all the
pitchers, the hitters mostly got atleast a couple of three at bats,
and pretty much I would think,and I'm not certain, but I would
think that everybody who earned a spoton the All Star team also got some
time in the field. They maynot have had a ball come to them
the whole day. If you're notthe shortstop or the second basement or the
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first baseman or the well, ifyou're not an infield or let's just leave
it at that, there's no guaranteeyou're going to see the baseball at all,
and if your pitcher is doing hisjob, you probably won't because the
best pitchers produce a lot of groundballs that are weekly hit. That makes
you an outstanding pitcher who can bedefended with just the infield. You start
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launching things out into the nether regionsof the outfield, which is quite a
big space. Really. Next timeyou're at a baseball game at a Major
League baseball game, or even aminor league game, a professional baseball game,
or any of the million dollars stadiumsthat have been built at high schools
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in this region, take pause andreally study the amount of ground that has
to be covered by a baseball outfielderat that level. Pee wee. It's
not hard. Two kids could Theycan almost shake hands in the outfield sometimes,
but in real big time ball,And that's where I played. When
I played baseball, I left handed. I played in right field and just
(32:46):
lived and briefed to throw people out, and usually I could. It was
a lot of fun. Back tohow much time do I have? Will
I've just kind of meandered off intobaseball and I didn't mean to you have
four and a half minute, SoI got four and a half. By
the way, the Open Championship ongoing over on the other side of the
(33:07):
ocean. I will be talking aboutthat at length tomorrow as best I can,
and on my Outdoor show seven toten tomorrow on Sports Talk seven ninety
and then eight to ten on Sunday. Back to it. Kamala Harris,
I saw a story this morning thatsaid, Kamala Harris shouldn't be blamed for
the border crisis because that's actually theresponsibility of Alejandro Majorcus, which it is
(33:31):
in great part, and that's true. But early on communication from the White
House was that Kamala Harris was goingto be in charge of the border and
she was gonna buy gosh, godown there, take care of it.
And I saw one interview recently forthe second or third time, I saw
(33:52):
it again in which she is askedif she had been to the air or
to the border, the southern border, and it's gosh. I want to
think that it was AI generated andjust a spoof. But her answer to
the question is well, I haven'tbeen to Europe either. That doesn't really
(34:15):
answer the question if you've been tothe border or not. It just says
you're not well traveled. And ifyou're supposed to be in charge of that,
why aren't you doing anything about it? And if it's may Orcus's issue,
why haven't we as a nation andas a Congress booted him to the
curb? If this was all hisresponsibility. Now, bear in mind,
(34:35):
he's not taking orders, he's notmaking the orders. He's taking orders,
and he's gonna say whatever he's toldto say, and he kept telling us
all the while that that border wassecure when it never was. It never
was. So if not the border, then for Kamala Harris, exactly what
has she done in almost four yearsto lift this nation up and move it
(35:00):
forward? On what platform? Couldshe possibly stand as a Democratic nominee for
President of the United States and say, look what I accomplished. I'll wait,
no, I won't. There's reallyno I can't think of anything.
Really, I cannot think of anythingthat drew her into favorable light. Favorable
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light. She has missed that everytime she's taken a swing at it.
And it's sad, but it justit reveals the weakness of that side,
the entire side. Their number twoperson or number one person is about to
step down, and number two thelogical successor under any other administration. Not
(35:49):
a chance, Not a chance.Back to Houston real quick. A recent
poll showed that about half the peoplewho live here would consider moving away at
least from Houston. Proper crime,inflation, property values, taxes, and
now beryl. It all adds up, and as we've seen in so many
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large cities around this nation, ledby Democrats, the exodus does happen,
slowly, but surely it does happen, and then it implows. This whole
deal with Beryl may well marked todaywhen people finally fall out of love with
the city in which I grew upbecause it hasn't been anything like my childhood
Houston. Probably in thirty years.It's a just trend of abandonment in big
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cities continues. Our country is goingto start to look like one of those
sci fi movies where just the actualcities themselves are just shells. All right,
well, let's light it up realquick. Let's go too keep your
cool, never do that or dumbas a rock, dumb is a rock?
(37:01):
Gen Z, what gen are you? Are you? Gen Z?
Okay? But well you're not doingthis though? Are chewing rock hard gum?
It says here to get chiseled jawlines. They're trying to now they're working
out their jaw muscles thinking that'll makethem look better. Somehow. I got
(37:22):
news for you, gen Z.That's not how you do it. We'll
be back on Monday Live right here. Thanks for listening, Audios
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