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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hey John, how's it going today?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
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And now fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, a
Monday edition. Is this our first Monday or second Monday?
This is our second? That's right, we did it last week.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
I'm so thrown off by the introduction of Mondays being
live and the dissolution of them being my off day
that I've already lost track. I came in expecting fully
that we would have our first Monday meeting staff meeting,
and was reminded that it was not until.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Next week that that happens.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Just juggled my schedule a lot, but nothing that we
can overcome around here. So here we are on a
Monday sun in the sky after a a port landing
and run of drizzle and downpours and darkness and dank
sky with occasional lightning by the way, to remind us
all that our electricity might go out again at anytime.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
I really I say that with tongue in cheek. I
think that.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Centerpoint certainly learned from whatever happened back there during barrel
and hopefully that will and made improvements as well. When
they went back in to get the lights back on.
They didn't just fix whatever was broken, they improved whatever
was broken.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
So onward we plod.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Let's get to the weather and market checks quite briefly,
then we'll get into the juicy parts. First, your highs
and lows and haigh coup get ready will courtesy of
Houston goold Exchange dot Com.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
This one.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
No, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna judge it. I'm
not gonna give you any hint as to what I
think about it. I'm just gonna say it.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Are you ready? Hit me? Welcome back, sunshine, good weather
ahead for days? Humid? But what's new? Oh? I like
that one? And that's six's that's hardly a like what's
kind of it's good. It's only marginally better than mediocre.
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That's average.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Uh yeah, like a it's a C plus. Now see
it's not even a C plus. It's just kind of
a strong sea. That's the same thing. I guess I'm
not happy with that.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
I'll have to work harder on the next one.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Off to the market we trod courtesy of Texas Intoor
Air Quality Specialists. Because clean air is healthy air. Do
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to make sure you're breathing clean air in your house
all the time. Market was off to a pretty good
start this morning, but not entirely green. Somewhat volatile environment
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at present. We'll just have to wait and see as
the world continues to unfold around us and so many
surprising and different directions. Crude oil just under seventy seven
dollars early, and that's really not the right preposition to use.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
The correct term would be less than less.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Than seventy seven dollars early under is a spatial relationship,
and gold up up a few ticks und. It was
around nine thirty this morning. The last time looked through
the twenty three eighty nine fifty. So we've lost a
twenty four hundred mark. But twenty three eighty nine isn't
so bad, Okay. First and foremost, this Monday morning, I
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was extremely disappointed, as were millions around the world, appalled actually,
by France's shameful mockery of one of the most important
events in Christianity, the Last Supper. I'm not sure who
signed off on what social media reaction dubbed a freak show.
I'm not sure who organized it, who suggested it in
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the first place, but this was a big you know
what to every Christian on the planet, and commendably I
will say I saw tremendous support come out also from
non Christians around the world who were totally against what
France and the Olympic executives. They had to be aware
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and clearly chose to remain silent about it. What these
Olympic executives did tremendous support from people of all faiths
who recognize this as a horrible mistake. If you haven't
seen what they did, I encourage you to sit through
a few seconds of it if you can, and then
whatever your faith or even if you are entirely without
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religion personally, but still respect people who do believe in
their own God or spirit or higher power or whatever.
Just take a hard look at what happened there, because
whoever chose to create that bile display against Christianity just
might spit in your face next.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Just keep that in mind, all.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Right, coming back to what's left of what's going on
around here on the heels of the great open Border
Experiment conducted by soon out President Biden up in Massachusetts,
thousands of miles from the border, and with many examples
between there and the border, with many examples between Massachusetts
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and the border, but the snapshot from that state where
it finds itself with nearly ten percent of its workforce,
some four hundred and eighty thousand residents of Massachusetts either
don't speak English or have only limited ability to communicate
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with Americans who speak English. And that's from the twenty
twenty two census. So current numbers almost certainly much higher.
And so you know, by the way, former Border Patrol
Chief Rodney Scott said it was common knowledge the Vice
President Harris was supposed to be in charge of protecting
the border, but that she didn't have at least with him.
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She had no meaningful conversations whatsoever about it. Fuck that
away and pull it out when you need it in November.
All right, back to something of interest to anybody who,
to anybody who owns a newer model Toyota Tundra or
maybe one of the big Lexus SUVs. Toyota has recalled
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one hundred thousand of these vehicles. And the fix on
this recall.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
This is going to take more than a couple of days.
The fix on this recall is replacement of the entire engine.
That's all.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
The entire engine has to be replaced. I've got a
recall on my Explorer right now that I was. I've
gotten several letters on it, actually, and I've gone to
two three two different dealerships and made phone calls to
a couple more and said, hey, can I get this
thing in here and get it fixed? And so far
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I need to make another phone call. It's been about
another month now, but so far I've been told we can't.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Really get the parts we're trying you can.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
What you can do is go ahead and leave it
with us, and you'll we'll put you in line to
get yours fixed.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
And said how long would that take.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
And the last answer I got was, we're not sure,
maybe two three months. And so I'm gonna leave my
car with them, the one I've already paid completely for
and asked my insurance company to pay three months of
rental fee, which they're not gonna do.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
They shouldn't have to do that.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
I think Ford maybe ought to loan us all cars
while they get that fixed. And if that were, if
that were the law, if there was a recall and
the dealer, the manufacturer had to had do loan cars
to everybody who was under that recall, they get done
a lot faster, and there'd be a little bit more
attention paid to the manufacturing process. I'd bet all right,
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That's why every few months we wash them, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh code O wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike by Welcome Back, segment two
(11:02):
of this Monday edition of fifty plus.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
You know, I think I'm gonna I'm gonna stop saying
Monday or Tuesday or Wednesday, will because that kind of
kind of ties your hands behind your back on best.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Of us a little bit, doesn't it. Well too well,
I might be able to do that for you.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
I think that'll make it easier, and it would, it
would what it would do is and it would better
serve the audience, because if you're listening on Friday, for example,
and I say welcome back to Monday, it just it
just distracts you. It distracts you from the the meaningful
parts because it we all know what day it is
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when I'm doing the show live, so well, there's no
reason really.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
To mention that. I don't think I will anymore.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
From all the way up in Massachusetts where we just
were there to learn that four hundred and eighty thousand people,
about ten percent of their entire state's workforce, don't really
speak English either little or no. Also comes word that
the governor there Mara Healey, And this story's been around
a while, but I want to remind you of what
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happens when you let ten or twelve million people randomly
roll into your country and then distribute them all over
the place. So the Chelsea Soldiers Home, which was originally
opened in eighteen eighty two for returning Civil War veterans,
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used until recently to house veterans from other wars who
needed a place, who needed a sanctuary, who needed to
try to get a head start at getting back into
society and contributing as non military anymore Americans. Well, the
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governor wants to fix that problem they have with so
many illegal migrants in her state, and she is turning
it into a migrant center and booting all those veterans
to the curb.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
One by one.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
All these states that bragged about welcoming anybody and everybody
into their cities, Oh, we can't wait to have some
help some people who need help, wherever they come from,
whatever their status.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
We don't Oh, they're just people who need our help. Well,
as it.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Turns out, that's not all they are, that's for sure,
And these towns and cities across America are coming to
realize the tragic results of their actions and the actions
of those who let these people in in the first place.
As you know, the cost of illegal immigration is high.
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And if you don't know just how high, it was
determined that in twenty twenty three, US taxpayers taking into
account the thirty two billion dollars in taxes on wages
earned by illegal immigrants, and how exactly does that work? Actually,
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if you're in here illegally, how are you working in
how are you paying taxes on it? And more importantly,
how many illegals are not paying any taxes at all
because they're being paid cash as they climb out of
the pickup truck at the end of the day. That's so,
we got thirty two billion coming in anyway from those
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taxes somehow earned by illegal immigrants. Okay, the tab for us,
the rest that we actually are paying toward one hundred
and eighty two billion, is one hundred and fifty point
seven billion dollars, which amounts to just about eight thousand
eight hundred dollars per illegal migrant per year, and to
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you and me, that translates to about eleven hundred and
fifty six dollars that every US taxpayer has to s
shell out through our federal government. And by the way,
a whole lot of taxpayers in this country really don't
have eleven hundred and fifty six dollars to spare, but
we have to pay it to take better care of
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illegal migrants than of Americans, and that just that infuriates me,
It really does. Staying on the border real quick, those
four hundred and eighty thousand who can't or barely can't
speak English made it all the way to Massachusetts. A
couple days ago, three Palestinians who slid illegally across the
border near San Diego, which kind of at opposite corners
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of the nation from Massachusetts. They slid in there found
out to be Palestinians with ties to terrorism. Border agents there,
not really wanting to speak on the record, but speaking
nonetheless on condition of anonymity, are frustrated, extremely so by
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the lack of access to international criminal databases that are
vital really to rooting out the bad guys. The three
who were caught were in a much larger group. And
call me crazy, but I'm guessing that at least a
couple more of the young single men very fit, no
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no family with them, They're just they're just in a
big group of young guys coming across the border. Three
of them we found were known to be tied to terrorism.
How many of the rest of them are, But there's
just no formal record of it yet. It's just it's staggering.
It's just staggering. Oh and by the way, an illegal
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migrant from Venezuela just recently this weekend, I think it
was twenty five year old guy shot a San Antonio
police officer multiple times when the officer responded to a
domestic disturbance call about three in the morning. This guy
pulls out a rifle and shoots a police officer. He
was killed at the scene. They aren't The official story
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says they aren't sure whether it was return fire or
self inflicted. Either way, he's not gonna shoot any more
law enforcement people. And very fortunately, this officer, who actually
took several rounds is expected to survive.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
And I'm deeply thankful for that.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Real quick will since you only got about a half
a minute over there, Let's let's shift her around.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Uh, that looks familiar.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Great topical trivia or saved from.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
The pot, Saved from the pot.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Two rare orange lobsters were saved after ending up at
red lobster restaurants in Colorado and North Carolina. How somebody
there must have known about lobsters and they were rescued
and I'm sure taken to some cool aquarium somewhere to
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live out the rest of their lives.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
How many how many orange lobsters in I don't know,
will a million orange lobsters? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (18:12):
How many orange lobsters born that way? Among in a
million lobsters? Oh, I'll say one in a million, zero,
one in thirty million, two orange rescued. You know, they
all kind of turned that way after they're prepared, really,
but these were born that way, so they get a
free pass. So if you're a lobster and you're looking
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for a way to stay out of the pot, go
ahead and go ahead and paint yourself orange somehow. UT
Health Science Centers Institute on Aging is a fantastic collaborative
of providers from every medical discipline. They are, they get
their credentials, they get the study and done the med school,
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the internships, all of that to get that diploma on
the wall, put that dr in front of their names.
And this is not just doctors either, This is nurse practitioners,
this is clinical assistance, this is trainers and therapists, all
these people in the medical field. They get their official
credentials and then they go back for additional education and
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how that expertise can apply to seniors. And we are different,
you know it, I know it. Look at the people
around you who are twenty thirty, forty, fifty years old.
They look different than we do. Well we in my case,
I've got a lot more. I got more years on
a fifty year old than maybe most of you do.
But nonetheless I know better, and I know I'm very
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glad to have access to this huge, huge block of
providers who know my body, know my system, know my
mind better than probably I do.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Go to the website, look around. There's a tremendous number of.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Resources there from which to choose that can help you
with just about anything that you question about your medical future.
And then of course the providers themselves ut h dot edu,
slash aging, uth dot edu, slash aging.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
What's life without a net? I suggest you go to
bed and sleep it off. Just wait until the show's over. Sleepy.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Back to Dougpike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
SEG two done, SEG three Starting right now, fifty plus,
let's go Will. Let's start a little lighter in this segment,
and then we'll move to some some slightly more serious
news either just a lot of what I'm sharing here
are things that I want you to know about and
want you to do more research on. That's all it is.
I don't I don't get into super details. I don't
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try to spend twenty minutes on a single topic.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
I think that's for this audio. It's this audience is smart.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Enough that if there's interest, if there's a legitimate interest
in a topic, you'll go look for it. All right,
here we go, speaking of Will, this is time to play.
Which of these three do you want? We need a
name for that?
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Is there?
Speaker 4 (21:13):
What?
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Could you pick one? We'll just call it pick one?
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Okay, So I'm just sharing information. You sure that's ketchup?
Or great topical trivia? A Are you sure that's ketchup?
This is kind of it's the lunch hour. I may
reconsider it. No, this is a strong audience and it's
not that gross. A mom in New York says she
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found blood splattered on her daughter's Burger King Kids meal. Okay,
manager said, oh, don't worry about it. One of my
people back there in the kitchen cut himself for herself.
I don't know which, and he offered her a refund.
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She says that they need to take it more seriously.
What do you think that translates to?
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Will? I know what it means? That? I know what
it means? Two words? Okay, two words? You know? No?
Pay me? Oh pay me, That's what she's saying.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
She's saying, Oh no, no, no, no, you need to
pay me more than just a refund of my five bucks.
They have a five dollars. You get two junior whoppers
for five bucks. Now do you know that?
Speaker 2 (22:30):
No, I've done that. I don't go. I do her.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
King's not my favorite? What is your favorite out of
the fast foods.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Of all the fast food in this region? It's okay?
Speaker 3 (22:43):
And your favorite maiden may not be everybody else's. But
I'm just curious.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
I like tread Lightley going to slow Taco Bell. What's
wrong with that?
Speaker 5 (22:59):
There's nothing wrong with taco bell.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
I actually tried one of those crunchy wrap things. It
was just a Burrito Supreme in a different package. That's
what I was really And it costs a dollar more
than a burrito Supreme. And all you the only thing
you get more of in that. And this is just
my observation. I'm sure I missed something dramatically different in
the two. But the only thing you get more of
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is tortilla. M It's just like you're eating You're just
chewing through this giant rubbery tortilla to get to the
good stuff, and you have to eat more of that.
I guess it fills you up a little bit more,
but not it's not hote cuisine.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Yeah, it's not crazy. No, Now, let's do one more.
All right, Okay, let me scratch that one. Okay, I
got that one. Got that one.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
I'm gonna go back to the three that we were
talking about, or two of them anyway that looks familiar,
great topical trivia, Or I'll throw in this one. Oh no,
I'm gonna go with I'm gonna stick with. I'm just
sharing information.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
I'm just sharing informa. See if you dare tell your
your girlfriend.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
This a study fan. Like I said, I'm just sharing information.
A study found that women who don't have sex at
least once a week are seventy percent more likely to
die in the next five years. What what are you
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talking about? I'm just sharing information.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Will what is? What is it? Where'd you get that
from from my sources? Yeahs, I don't know from that?
Speaker 1 (24:37):
You know?
Speaker 2 (24:38):
No, I did not make that up.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
I actually I played a game for years on the
Outdoor Show called Could I Make This Up? And there
was for as long as as long as the game ran,
there was a website that shared very unusual, very hard
to believe outdoor stories, and my job each week was
to pick one of those and write one paragraph about it,
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maybe three sentences, all absolutely, one hundred percent factually correct.
And then the flip side was that I would also
create a three line story that was totally just something
that just blossomed and flowered in my head, a crazy,
mixed up, weird story. And sometimes both of them sounded
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ridiculously impossible. Sometimes both of them sounded very believable, but
inevitably the and the winner's got pretty good prizes on this.
And that's why I couldn't just arbitrarily just say okay,
well you win anyway, because I was at that point
I had some really good stuff fishing rods things like that. Yeah, yeah,
great prizes from some great sponsors of the show. And
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I may try to resurrect that game. It was a
lot of fun. And I have a file at home.
Now the stories would be dated, but one of them
is still true and one of them still false, so
I may just bring that one back up. I bet
I have a hundred of them in a in a
big old folder at the house. All right, Well, I'll
go back to the a little bit more serious stuff
and I'll do this one. And I'm thrilled to share this.
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By the way, hmm, how much time do I have?
You have a minute and a half. I'm gonna say
that I'm gonna tell you what I'm gonna tell you
about today, what national day this is? And then I
will tease the third segment by saying, if you've ever
needed the people who are about to get a really
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good gift, uh, you'll greatly appreciate the gifts they're gonna get.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
So what national day is it today? Will it is
National Olympics? No, No, it's not.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
And don't get me started on the Olympics. I don't
even know if I want to watch anymore after what
they did, upset. I'm not looking we got it on
in the studio. I'm not looking at that monitor, all right, No,
i'mal What National Food Day is it today?
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Yeah? And it's a good one.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Oh okay, okay, I'll give you a hit. It's Italian food. Okay,
brings it down. It's a national cabrici chicken. Hold on,
I'm gonna try really hard to transport it telepathically.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Okay, okay, what do you got? It's National Pizza to Day.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Oh no, we just didn't connect on that one. It's
National Lasagna Day. Will how do you like yours? More
meaty or more cheesy? Newly Aliver Garfield like that? You
know how I like it honestly on the plate? Wow,
I don't care. I love lasagna, I really really do.
I love a nice thick ricotta in it.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
I like that that big Stofer's family size. I could
probably eat a third of one of those without blinking.
It's just that good.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
And then it was just a third. Yeah I'm getting older.
Speaker 5 (27:49):
Yeah, I could put.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
As a teenager. Yeah, we probably could have sat down
and split one.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
We got pizza this weekend, and I could have eaten
that whole entire box of pizza just by myself.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
I used to do that.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
I had to be called out because I was I
was about I was about to eat it all top it,
and my girl friend was like, I have had none.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
It's okay, you can have the box and the little
Do they send a green pepper with the ones you get?
Speaker 5 (28:15):
No, No, there's no green pepper in this one.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Oh I can't remember which pizza place they send to
seven and there's just one green pepper sitting in the box.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
What are you supposed to do with that? Eat it? No? Yeah,
come on, it looks out of place. Hey we gotta
go a pizza.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
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Speaker 1 (30:24):
Com aged to perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
All right, welcome back, rounding third and heading home, hopefully
with a better result.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
I believe it was last night or the extra's loss
to the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Yeah, I hated to see that they were playing much
better baseball and still without some really key players. If
we can ever get back to speed, if we can
ever get Kyle Tucker back in there really swinging the
bat like I know he can, you know he can,
we'll be in pretty good shape. By the way, there's
been a lot of cackling and yelping going on about
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whether or not Vice President Harris ever was the borders are.
And to clarify, because I I did some digging this morning,
pretty much the same people who are saying it wasn't
the White House, It wasn't President Biden who gave her
that name, who coined that or put those two words together.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
It was the media.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
And there were several examples in the story I saw
this morning of media from CNN, CB CBS and ABC
News who did just that. They dubbed her the borders
are And now all the major media are trying to
make that goal. Well, oh no, no, she was never
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never the borders are. No, no, no, Well they're the
ones who called her that, and so they need to
kind of own it. They're trying to erase it. They're
trying to make believe it never happened, that she was
never truly in charge. That's what's coming along with it.
And I distinctly remember the day, I really do, the
day that I heard that she was in charge of
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our southern border security and how greatly that concerned me,
trust your gut, about how she'd handle being president too,
at a time when the biggest sharks in the world
see us as a just a flopping, dying whale.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
With hundreds of years of natural resources.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
Under our feet. That's attempting. That would be tempting to
anyone who had war on their mind and had world
dominance on their mind. Why just govern a country under
one world government if you can possess it.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
It's scary, it really is.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Three years ago, in fact, Harris's staff issued a statement
intended to make one thing clear, said, and that one
thing that was that Harris was not in charge of
the southern border. They wanted to quote, make one thing
clear that she wasn't in charge of the border. Well,
we already knew that, but they just wanted to make
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it clear on the local side. By the way to
mention this earlier, and I forgot, but I'm gonna get
it right now because I don't want to run out
of time.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
I am thrilled with this.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Nearly five thousand current and former firefighters in Houston are
about to get some big fat checks, one time checks
as part of Mayor Whitmire's six hundred and fifty million
dollars promise to make up for the seven years those
men and women work without a contract. Six of those
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firefighters will get the highest amount. That is, imagine getting
this as a bonus. Think about this as a bonus.
Will two hundred and seventy one thousand dollars, that's your
bonus one time? But then how many times do you
need that to get right?
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Right?
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Another three hundred and fifteen will get checks for at
least two hundred thousand dollars, and another three thousand, four
hundred and forty four, which makes up a lot of
the group, are going to get more than one hundred grand.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Each in back pay.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
That I suspect would be the standard rank of firefighter.
I don't know who's going to get less, but not
many of them. And whatever they get, they absolutely deserve.
They deserve every penny. The average firefighter, the average per
per person in the Houston Fire Department one hundred and
fifty three grand in change. That's pretty dark, but they
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deserve every of that. They really do every cent time.
Will we have three minutes, Let's I'm gonna catch one
more real quick? Oh yeah, this I find interesting.
Speaker 4 (35:14):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
With his own party deeming him unfit to run for
a second term, President Biden, with support from the VP,
who has aspirations of becoming p becoming president the Washington
Post it was, I think, or the Washington Something Review
maybe had a picture of Kamala Harris sitting atop a
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giant earth with a bunch of very familiar, very liberal
Democratic faces below and people below her all very much
smaller than her. And you know what the head was
will come a lot K A M A L O T.
I think that's pretty good anyway. Biden and Harris are
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pushing an agenda to basically turn our US Supreme Court
inside out and structure it completely.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
They want term limits.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
For justices so it could be so it could be
more fair, you know, because of and I quote from
the piece, numerous ethic scandals and decisions after decision overturning
long standing precedent quote. In other words, they're not getting
their way, so they want to change the rules. We
don't like the decisions we're getting from a conservative Supreme Court,
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so we're gonna put in more liberal and progressive judges.
We have to swing the pendulum in our direction. Their
way actually would lead rather quickly to a Supreme Court
made up overwhelmingly of justices who align with whatever party
holds the White House. And if if you can get
two terms in there you can. They're gonna be able
to replace eventually two a year you get two terms,
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you can put in four new judges, and if there
are a few leftovers, then there you go. I I
like the current system honestly. Life terms enable judges during
multiple presidents, and if they're they can just rule by
law and not by party line. They shouldn't be held
accountable to anyone but each other.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
That's it, not to the president, not to the vice president,
and certainly not to anybody else. I think it's absurd
that they want to change that. It's not broken, it
doesn't need fixing.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
Hum, there's that.
Speaker 4 (37:23):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
I don't want to get into what she said what
Harris said to the Federation of Teachers, because basically what
she said was a bunch of false stuff. She lied
about student loans, she lied about President Trump's plans for
Medicare and Medicaid, she lied about the banning of some
books from public libraries in schools. And to most of
those lies, the AFT just cheered. And where Harris actually
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totally missed a golden opportunity right here in Houston. She
could have piggybacked a trip to the border to hear
from agents there and afterward respond with a plan to
actually fix what she broke. I'll leave a little bit
for tomorrow. Will look like we're just about out of time.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
Is that close? Yes? Or no? Oh? Here we go
five four three two one.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
Official trivia Beijing is the only city that has hosted
both summer and Winter Olympics. Drop that on somebody tonight.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
You'll be glad you did.
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Monday edition. Is this our first Monday or second Monday?
This is our second? That's right, we did it last week.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
I'm so thrown off by the introduction of Mondays being
live and the dissolution of them being my off day
that I've already lost track. I came in expecting fully
that we would have our first Monday meeting staff meeting,
and was reminded that it was not until.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Next week that that happens.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Just juggled my schedule a lot, but nothing that we
can overcome around here. So here we are on a
Monday sun in the sky after a a port landing
and run of drizzle and downpours and darkness and dank
sky with occasional lightning by the way, to remind us
all that our electricity might go out again at anytime.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
I really I say that with tongue in cheek. I
think that.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Centerpoint certainly learned from whatever happened back there during barrel
and hopefully that will and made improvements as well. When
they went back in to get the lights back on.
They didn't just fix whatever was broken, they improved whatever
was broken.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
So onward we plod.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Let's get to the weather and market checks quite briefly,
then we'll get into the juicy parts. First, your highs
and lows and haigh coup get ready will courtesy of
Houston goold Exchange dot Com.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
This one.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
No, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna judge it. I'm
not gonna give you any hint as to what I
think about it. I'm just gonna say it.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Are you ready? Hit me? Welcome back, sunshine, good weather
ahead for days? Humid? But what's new? Oh? I like
that one? And that's six's that's hardly a like what's
kind of it's good. It's only marginally better than mediocre.
(02:51):
That's average.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Uh yeah, like a it's a C plus. Now see
it's not even a C plus. It's just kind of
a strong sea. That's the same thing. I guess I'm
not happy with that.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
I'll have to work harder on the next one.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Off to the market we trod courtesy of Texas Intoor
Air Quality Specialists. Because clean air is healthy air. Do
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you'll learn all about what they can do for you
to make sure you're breathing clean air in your house
all the time. Market was off to a pretty good
start this morning, but not entirely green. Somewhat volatile environment
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at present. We'll just have to wait and see as
the world continues to unfold around us and so many
surprising and different directions. Crude oil just under seventy seven
dollars early, and that's really not the right preposition to use.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
The correct term would be less than less.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Than seventy seven dollars early under is a spatial relationship,
and gold up up a few ticks und. It was
around nine thirty this morning. The last time looked through
the twenty three eighty nine fifty. So we've lost a
twenty four hundred mark. But twenty three eighty nine isn't
so bad, Okay. First and foremost, this Monday morning, I
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was extremely disappointed, as were millions around the world, appalled actually,
by France's shameful mockery of one of the most important
events in Christianity, the Last Supper. I'm not sure who
signed off on what social media reaction dubbed a freak show.
I'm not sure who organized it, who suggested it in
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the first place, but this was a big you know
what to every Christian on the planet, and commendably I
will say I saw tremendous support come out also from
non Christians around the world who were totally against what
France and the Olympic executives. They had to be aware
(05:02):
and clearly chose to remain silent about it. What these
Olympic executives did tremendous support from people of all faiths
who recognize this as a horrible mistake. If you haven't
seen what they did, I encourage you to sit through
a few seconds of it if you can, and then
whatever your faith or even if you are entirely without
(05:22):
religion personally, but still respect people who do believe in
their own God or spirit or higher power or whatever.
Just take a hard look at what happened there, because
whoever chose to create that bile display against Christianity just
might spit in your face next.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Just keep that in mind, all.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Right, coming back to what's left of what's going on
around here on the heels of the great open Border
Experiment conducted by soon out President Biden up in Massachusetts,
thousands of miles from the border, and with many examples
between there and the border, with many examples between Massachusetts
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and the border, but the snapshot from that state where
it finds itself with nearly ten percent of its workforce,
some four hundred and eighty thousand residents of Massachusetts either
don't speak English or have only limited ability to communicate
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with Americans who speak English. And that's from the twenty
twenty two census. So current numbers almost certainly much higher.
And so you know, by the way, former Border Patrol
Chief Rodney Scott said it was common knowledge the Vice
President Harris was supposed to be in charge of protecting
the border, but that she didn't have at least with him.
(06:49):
She had no meaningful conversations whatsoever about it. Fuck that
away and pull it out when you need it in November.
All right, back to something of interest to anybody who,
to anybody who owns a newer model Toyota Tundra or
maybe one of the big Lexus SUVs. Toyota has recalled
(07:10):
one hundred thousand of these vehicles. And the fix on
this recall.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
This is going to take more than a couple of days.
The fix on this recall is replacement of the entire engine.
That's all.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
The entire engine has to be replaced. I've got a
recall on my Explorer right now that I was. I've
gotten several letters on it, actually, and I've gone to
two three two different dealerships and made phone calls to
a couple more and said, hey, can I get this
thing in here and get it fixed? And so far
(07:49):
I need to make another phone call. It's been about
another month now, but so far I've been told we can't.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Really get the parts we're trying you can.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
What you can do is go ahead and leave it
with us, and you'll we'll put you in line to
get yours fixed.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
And said how long would that take.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
And the last answer I got was, we're not sure,
maybe two three months. And so I'm gonna leave my
car with them, the one I've already paid completely for
and asked my insurance company to pay three months of
rental fee, which they're not gonna do.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
They shouldn't have to do that.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
I think Ford maybe ought to loan us all cars
while they get that fixed. And if that were, if
that were the law, if there was a recall and
the dealer, the manufacturer had to had do loan cars
to everybody who was under that recall, they get done
a lot faster, and there'd be a little bit more
attention paid to the manufacturing process. I'd bet all right,
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we'll take a little break here on the way out
of late health. That's this is the vascular clinic, actually
clinics around town wherein you can be treated for most
anything that is vascular related. What they do using in
some cases pretty large instruments and tubing and whatnot, and
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in some cases down to pieces that are nearly or
even potentially slightly smaller than a human hair. They go
in there, they identify an artery that's causing problems and enlivening,
say an enlarge noncancerous prostate, or fibroids or ugly veins.
(09:33):
They go to the root cause of that situation. Even
head pain sometimes can.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Be treated this way.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
They go to the root cause and they shut it off.
They turn off the blood supply, and in doing that,
eventually that be like somebody not allowing you to breathe.
Eventually it just doesn't work out well and the problem
that enlarged prostate or the fibroid, or the headache or
the ugly vein goes away. It goes away only a
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couple of hours in the office. You get to recover
at home, no hospital stays where you might end up
going home with something you didn't even bring in there.
I also do regenerative medicine, which is fantastic. It's proving
just amazing, bringing tremendous results for people who suffer chronic pain.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
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Call them, set up a consultation, make an appointment to
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by Medicare and Medicaid.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
By the way, go to a.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
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Speaker 2 (10:38):
Yeah, they sure don't make them like they used to.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
That's why every few months we wash them, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh code O wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike by Welcome Back, segment two
(11:02):
of this Monday edition of fifty plus.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
You know, I think I'm gonna I'm gonna stop saying
Monday or Tuesday or Wednesday, will because that kind of
kind of ties your hands behind your back on best.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Of us a little bit, doesn't it. Well too well,
I might be able to do that for you.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
I think that'll make it easier, and it would, it
would what it would do is and it would better
serve the audience, because if you're listening on Friday, for example,
and I say welcome back to Monday, it just it
just distracts you. It distracts you from the the meaningful
parts because it we all know what day it is
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when I'm doing the show live, so well, there's no
reason really.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
To mention that. I don't think I will anymore.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
From all the way up in Massachusetts where we just
were there to learn that four hundred and eighty thousand people,
about ten percent of their entire state's workforce, don't really
speak English either little or no. Also comes word that
the governor there Mara Healey, And this story's been around
a while, but I want to remind you of what
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happens when you let ten or twelve million people randomly
roll into your country and then distribute them all over
the place. So the Chelsea Soldiers Home, which was originally
opened in eighteen eighty two for returning Civil War veterans,
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used until recently to house veterans from other wars who
needed a place, who needed a sanctuary, who needed to
try to get a head start at getting back into
society and contributing as non military anymore Americans. Well, the
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governor wants to fix that problem they have with so
many illegal migrants in her state, and she is turning
it into a migrant center and booting all those veterans
to the curb.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
One by one.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
All these states that bragged about welcoming anybody and everybody
into their cities, Oh, we can't wait to have some
help some people who need help, wherever they come from,
whatever their status.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
We don't Oh, they're just people who need our help. Well,
as it.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Turns out, that's not all they are, that's for sure,
And these towns and cities across America are coming to
realize the tragic results of their actions and the actions
of those who let these people in in the first place.
As you know, the cost of illegal immigration is high.
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And if you don't know just how high, it was
determined that in twenty twenty three, US taxpayers taking into
account the thirty two billion dollars in taxes on wages
earned by illegal immigrants, and how exactly does that work? Actually,
(14:05):
if you're in here illegally, how are you working in
how are you paying taxes on it? And more importantly,
how many illegals are not paying any taxes at all
because they're being paid cash as they climb out of
the pickup truck at the end of the day. That's so,
we got thirty two billion coming in anyway from those
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taxes somehow earned by illegal immigrants. Okay, the tab for us,
the rest that we actually are paying toward one hundred
and eighty two billion, is one hundred and fifty point
seven billion dollars, which amounts to just about eight thousand
eight hundred dollars per illegal migrant per year, and to
(14:53):
you and me, that translates to about eleven hundred and
fifty six dollars that every US taxpayer has to s
shell out through our federal government. And by the way,
a whole lot of taxpayers in this country really don't
have eleven hundred and fifty six dollars to spare, but
we have to pay it to take better care of
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illegal migrants than of Americans, and that just that infuriates me,
It really does. Staying on the border real quick, those
four hundred and eighty thousand who can't or barely can't
speak English made it all the way to Massachusetts. A
couple days ago, three Palestinians who slid illegally across the
border near San Diego, which kind of at opposite corners
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of the nation from Massachusetts. They slid in there found
out to be Palestinians with ties to terrorism. Border agents there,
not really wanting to speak on the record, but speaking
nonetheless on condition of anonymity, are frustrated, extremely so by
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the lack of access to international criminal databases that are
vital really to rooting out the bad guys. The three
who were caught were in a much larger group. And
call me crazy, but I'm guessing that at least a
couple more of the young single men very fit, no
(16:20):
no family with them, They're just they're just in a
big group of young guys coming across the border. Three
of them we found were known to be tied to terrorism.
How many of the rest of them are, But there's
just no formal record of it yet. It's just it's staggering.
It's just staggering. Oh and by the way, an illegal
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migrant from Venezuela just recently this weekend, I think it
was twenty five year old guy shot a San Antonio
police officer multiple times when the officer responded to a
domestic disturbance call about three in the morning. This guy
pulls out a rifle and shoots a police officer. He
was killed at the scene. They aren't The official story
(17:07):
says they aren't sure whether it was return fire or
self inflicted. Either way, he's not gonna shoot any more
law enforcement people. And very fortunately, this officer, who actually
took several rounds is expected to survive.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
And I'm deeply thankful for that.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Real quick will since you only got about a half
a minute over there, Let's let's shift her around.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Uh, that looks familiar.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Great topical trivia or saved from.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
The pot, Saved from the pot.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Two rare orange lobsters were saved after ending up at
red lobster restaurants in Colorado and North Carolina. How somebody
there must have known about lobsters and they were rescued
and I'm sure taken to some cool aquarium somewhere to
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live out the rest of their lives.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
How many how many orange lobsters in I don't know,
will a million orange lobsters? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (18:12):
How many orange lobsters born that way? Among in a
million lobsters? Oh, I'll say one in a million, zero,
one in thirty million, two orange rescued. You know, they
all kind of turned that way after they're prepared, really,
but these were born that way, so they get a
free pass. So if you're a lobster and you're looking
(18:33):
for a way to stay out of the pot, go
ahead and go ahead and paint yourself orange somehow. UT
Health Science Centers Institute on Aging is a fantastic collaborative
of providers from every medical discipline. They are, they get
their credentials, they get the study and done the med school,
(18:56):
the internships, all of that to get that diploma on
the wall, put that dr in front of their names.
And this is not just doctors either, This is nurse practitioners,
this is clinical assistance, this is trainers and therapists, all
these people in the medical field. They get their official
credentials and then they go back for additional education and
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how that expertise can apply to seniors. And we are different,
you know it, I know it. Look at the people
around you who are twenty thirty, forty, fifty years old.
They look different than we do. Well we in my case,
I've got a lot more. I got more years on
a fifty year old than maybe most of you do.
But nonetheless I know better, and I know I'm very
(19:40):
glad to have access to this huge, huge block of
providers who know my body, know my system, know my
mind better than probably I do.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Go to the website, look around. There's a tremendous number of.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Resources there from which to choose that can help you
with just about anything that you question about your medical future.
And then of course the providers themselves ut h dot edu,
slash aging, uth dot edu, slash aging.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
What's life without a net? I suggest you go to
bed and sleep it off. Just wait until the show's over. Sleepy.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Back to Dougpike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
SEG two done, SEG three Starting right now, fifty plus,
let's go Will. Let's start a little lighter in this segment,
and then we'll move to some some slightly more serious
news either just a lot of what I'm sharing here
are things that I want you to know about and
want you to do more research on. That's all it is.
I don't I don't get into super details. I don't
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try to spend twenty minutes on a single topic.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
I think that's for this audio. It's this audience is smart.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Enough that if there's interest, if there's a legitimate interest
in a topic, you'll go look for it. All right,
here we go, speaking of Will, this is time to play.
Which of these three do you want? We need a
name for that?
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Is there?
Speaker 4 (21:13):
What?
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Could you pick one? We'll just call it pick one?
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Okay, So I'm just sharing information. You sure that's ketchup?
Or great topical trivia? A Are you sure that's ketchup?
This is kind of it's the lunch hour. I may
reconsider it. No, this is a strong audience and it's
not that gross. A mom in New York says she
(21:37):
found blood splattered on her daughter's Burger King Kids meal. Okay,
manager said, oh, don't worry about it. One of my
people back there in the kitchen cut himself for herself.
I don't know which, and he offered her a refund.
(21:59):
She says that they need to take it more seriously.
What do you think that translates to?
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Will? I know what it means? That? I know what
it means? Two words? Okay, two words? You know? No?
Pay me? Oh pay me, That's what she's saying.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
She's saying, Oh no, no, no, no, you need to
pay me more than just a refund of my five bucks.
They have a five dollars. You get two junior whoppers
for five bucks. Now do you know that?
Speaker 2 (22:30):
No, I've done that. I don't go. I do her.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
King's not my favorite? What is your favorite out of
the fast foods.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Of all the fast food in this region? It's okay?
Speaker 3 (22:43):
And your favorite maiden may not be everybody else's. But
I'm just curious.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
I like tread Lightley going to slow Taco Bell. What's
wrong with that?
Speaker 5 (22:59):
There's nothing wrong with taco bell.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
I actually tried one of those crunchy wrap things. It
was just a Burrito Supreme in a different package. That's
what I was really And it costs a dollar more
than a burrito Supreme. And all you the only thing
you get more of in that. And this is just
my observation. I'm sure I missed something dramatically different in
the two. But the only thing you get more of
(23:21):
is tortilla. M It's just like you're eating You're just
chewing through this giant rubbery tortilla to get to the
good stuff, and you have to eat more of that.
I guess it fills you up a little bit more,
but not it's not hote cuisine.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Yeah, it's not crazy. No, Now, let's do one more.
All right, Okay, let me scratch that one. Okay, I
got that one. Got that one.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
I'm gonna go back to the three that we were
talking about, or two of them anyway that looks familiar,
great topical trivia, Or I'll throw in this one. Oh no,
I'm gonna go with I'm gonna stick with. I'm just
sharing information.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
I'm just sharing informa. See if you dare tell your
your girlfriend.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
This a study fan. Like I said, I'm just sharing information.
A study found that women who don't have sex at
least once a week are seventy percent more likely to
die in the next five years. What what are you
(24:24):
talking about? I'm just sharing information.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Will what is? What is it? Where'd you get that
from from my sources? Yeahs, I don't know from that?
Speaker 1 (24:37):
You know?
Speaker 2 (24:38):
No, I did not make that up.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
I actually I played a game for years on the
Outdoor Show called Could I Make This Up? And there
was for as long as as long as the game ran,
there was a website that shared very unusual, very hard
to believe outdoor stories, and my job each week was
to pick one of those and write one paragraph about it,
(25:02):
maybe three sentences, all absolutely, one hundred percent factually correct.
And then the flip side was that I would also
create a three line story that was totally just something
that just blossomed and flowered in my head, a crazy,
mixed up, weird story. And sometimes both of them sounded
(25:24):
ridiculously impossible. Sometimes both of them sounded very believable, but
inevitably the and the winner's got pretty good prizes on this.
And that's why I couldn't just arbitrarily just say okay,
well you win anyway, because I was at that point
I had some really good stuff fishing rods things like that. Yeah, yeah,
great prizes from some great sponsors of the show. And
(25:48):
I may try to resurrect that game. It was a
lot of fun. And I have a file at home.
Now the stories would be dated, but one of them
is still true and one of them still false, so
I may just bring that one back up. I bet
I have a hundred of them in a in a
big old folder at the house. All right, Well, I'll
go back to the a little bit more serious stuff
and I'll do this one. And I'm thrilled to share this.
(26:08):
By the way, hmm, how much time do I have?
You have a minute and a half. I'm gonna say
that I'm gonna tell you what I'm gonna tell you
about today, what national day this is? And then I
will tease the third segment by saying, if you've ever
needed the people who are about to get a really
(26:28):
good gift, uh, you'll greatly appreciate the gifts they're gonna get.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
So what national day is it today? Will it is
National Olympics? No, No, it's not.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
And don't get me started on the Olympics. I don't
even know if I want to watch anymore after what
they did, upset. I'm not looking we got it on
in the studio. I'm not looking at that monitor, all right, No,
i'mal What National Food Day is it today?
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Yeah? And it's a good one.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Oh okay, okay, I'll give you a hit. It's Italian food. Okay,
brings it down. It's a national cabrici chicken. Hold on,
I'm gonna try really hard to transport it telepathically.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Okay, okay, what do you got? It's National Pizza to Day.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Oh no, we just didn't connect on that one. It's
National Lasagna Day. Will how do you like yours? More
meaty or more cheesy? Newly Aliver Garfield like that? You
know how I like it honestly on the plate? Wow,
I don't care. I love lasagna, I really really do.
I love a nice thick ricotta in it.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
I like that that big Stofer's family size. I could
probably eat a third of one of those without blinking.
It's just that good.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
And then it was just a third. Yeah I'm getting older.
Speaker 5 (27:49):
Yeah, I could put.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
As a teenager. Yeah, we probably could have sat down
and split one.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
We got pizza this weekend, and I could have eaten
that whole entire box of pizza just by myself.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
I used to do that.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
I had to be called out because I was I
was about I was about to eat it all top it,
and my girl friend was like, I have had none.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
It's okay, you can have the box and the little
Do they send a green pepper with the ones you get?
Speaker 5 (28:15):
No, No, there's no green pepper in this one.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Oh I can't remember which pizza place they send to
seven and there's just one green pepper sitting in the box.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
What are you supposed to do with that? Eat it? No? Yeah,
come on, it looks out of place. Hey we gotta
go a pizza.
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Speaker 1 (30:24):
Com aged to perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
All right, welcome back, rounding third and heading home, hopefully
with a better result.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
I believe it was last night or the extra's loss
to the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Yeah, I hated to see that they were playing much
better baseball and still without some really key players. If
we can ever get back to speed, if we can
ever get Kyle Tucker back in there really swinging the
bat like I know he can, you know he can,
we'll be in pretty good shape. By the way, there's
been a lot of cackling and yelping going on about
(31:23):
whether or not Vice President Harris ever was the borders are.
And to clarify, because I I did some digging this morning,
pretty much the same people who are saying it wasn't
the White House, It wasn't President Biden who gave her
that name, who coined that or put those two words together.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
It was the media.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
And there were several examples in the story I saw
this morning of media from CNN, CB CBS and ABC
News who did just that. They dubbed her the borders
are And now all the major media are trying to
make that goal. Well, oh no, no, she was never
(32:10):
never the borders are. No, no, no, Well they're the
ones who called her that, and so they need to
kind of own it. They're trying to erase it. They're
trying to make believe it never happened, that she was
never truly in charge. That's what's coming along with it.
And I distinctly remember the day, I really do, the
day that I heard that she was in charge of
(32:30):
our southern border security and how greatly that concerned me,
trust your gut, about how she'd handle being president too,
at a time when the biggest sharks in the world
see us as a just a flopping, dying whale.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
With hundreds of years of natural resources.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
Under our feet. That's attempting. That would be tempting to
anyone who had war on their mind and had world
dominance on their mind. Why just govern a country under
one world government if you can possess it.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
It's scary, it really is.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Three years ago, in fact, Harris's staff issued a statement
intended to make one thing clear, said, and that one
thing that was that Harris was not in charge of
the southern border. They wanted to quote, make one thing
clear that she wasn't in charge of the border. Well,
we already knew that, but they just wanted to make
(33:32):
it clear on the local side. By the way to
mention this earlier, and I forgot, but I'm gonna get
it right now because I don't want to run out
of time.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
I am thrilled with this.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Nearly five thousand current and former firefighters in Houston are
about to get some big fat checks, one time checks
as part of Mayor Whitmire's six hundred and fifty million
dollars promise to make up for the seven years those
men and women work without a contract. Six of those
(34:03):
firefighters will get the highest amount. That is, imagine getting
this as a bonus. Think about this as a bonus.
Will two hundred and seventy one thousand dollars, that's your
bonus one time? But then how many times do you
need that to get right?
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Right?
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Another three hundred and fifteen will get checks for at
least two hundred thousand dollars, and another three thousand, four
hundred and forty four, which makes up a lot of
the group, are going to get more than one hundred grand.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Each in back pay.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
That I suspect would be the standard rank of firefighter.
I don't know who's going to get less, but not
many of them. And whatever they get, they absolutely deserve.
They deserve every penny. The average firefighter, the average per
per person in the Houston Fire Department one hundred and
fifty three grand in change. That's pretty dark, but they
(34:58):
deserve every of that. They really do every cent time.
Will we have three minutes, Let's I'm gonna catch one
more real quick? Oh yeah, this I find interesting.
Speaker 4 (35:14):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
With his own party deeming him unfit to run for
a second term, President Biden, with support from the VP,
who has aspirations of becoming p becoming president the Washington
Post it was, I think, or the Washington Something Review
maybe had a picture of Kamala Harris sitting atop a
(35:35):
giant earth with a bunch of very familiar, very liberal
Democratic faces below and people below her all very much
smaller than her. And you know what the head was
will come a lot K A M A L O T.
I think that's pretty good anyway. Biden and Harris are
(35:56):
pushing an agenda to basically turn our US Supreme Court
inside out and structure it completely.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
They want term limits.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
For justices so it could be so it could be
more fair, you know, because of and I quote from
the piece, numerous ethic scandals and decisions after decision overturning
long standing precedent quote. In other words, they're not getting
their way, so they want to change the rules. We
don't like the decisions we're getting from a conservative Supreme Court,
(36:23):
so we're gonna put in more liberal and progressive judges.
We have to swing the pendulum in our direction. Their
way actually would lead rather quickly to a Supreme Court
made up overwhelmingly of justices who align with whatever party
holds the White House. And if if you can get
two terms in there you can. They're gonna be able
to replace eventually two a year you get two terms,
(36:45):
you can put in four new judges, and if there
are a few leftovers, then there you go. I I
like the current system honestly. Life terms enable judges during
multiple presidents, and if they're they can just rule by
law and not by party line. They shouldn't be held
accountable to anyone but each other.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
That's it, not to the president, not to the vice president,
and certainly not to anybody else. I think it's absurd
that they want to change that. It's not broken, it
doesn't need fixing.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
Hum, there's that.
Speaker 4 (37:23):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
I don't want to get into what she said what
Harris said to the Federation of Teachers, because basically what
she said was a bunch of false stuff. She lied
about student loans, she lied about President Trump's plans for
Medicare and Medicaid, she lied about the banning of some
books from public libraries in schools. And to most of
those lies, the AFT just cheered. And where Harris actually
(37:44):
totally missed a golden opportunity right here in Houston. She
could have piggybacked a trip to the border to hear
from agents there and afterward respond with a plan to
actually fix what she broke. I'll leave a little bit
for tomorrow. Will look like we're just about out of time.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
Is that close? Yes? Or no? Oh? Here we go
five four three two one.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
Official trivia Beijing is the only city that has hosted
both summer and Winter Olympics. Drop that on somebody tonight.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
You'll be glad you did.
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