July 30, 2024 • 36 mins
Today, Doug Pike discusses the outdoors, venomous snakes, and the Olympics.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hey John, how's it going today?
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Well?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
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Speaker 2 (00:50):
All right, here we go, Tuesday edition of fifty plus.
Thank you all for joining us today and giving me
and Will a little piece of your lunch hour. I'm
looking really at a week of minimal rain chances. I'm
so happy to report for a much welcome change. Moving
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quickly into highs and lows and haiku courtesy of Texas
Indoor Air Quality Specialists. Because cleaner air is healthier air.
I'll pound two fifty and say healthier. So here we go.
Will Are you ready? I am? Highs are warm again,
still better than constant rain. Welcome back, summer.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Welcome back summer. That's that's you know what, I'll give
that one. I'll give that one an eate. Oh really,
that one flowed nicely.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Okay, I'm very proud of that. Then, and off to
market we go. I'm stunned, but thank you, yes, thank you.
It took more than thirty seconds to figure out. Off
to the market we go, thanks to Houston gooldexchange dot
com two up and two down among the big four indicators.
This is all at around ten o'clock this morning. I
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didn't dare look back. I kind of liked what I
saw overall, so I didn't want to jinx anything. More importantly,
oil was down to less than seventy five dollars a
barrel at the same time, and equally good at least
for the few of us who well of you. I
don't own solid gold any investment category. I'll have a
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few pieces I want to sell to bread. But that's
about it. Really. The rest of it is just what
it is. Gold's back up again today, sitting at two thousand,
four hundred and thirty eight dollars an ounce. Around the
same time I checked the markets in the price of
oil before we dive into the shallow end of the
politics pool. By the way, I'm really hesitanting. I want
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to just kind of share this. I've been very hesitant lately.
If you've sent me a friend request on Facebook, and
I have a lot of them sitting there right now,
and I apologize for not responding, but and I will
get to them. I'll sort through the backlog soon enough.
I hesitate though, because I've had to reset my password.
I don't know how many times when some hijacker sends
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me a request under the name of someone I know
or maybe think I should know, and who appears to
have common interest. And for the record, by the way,
I never accept requests from young single women, and nor
do I answer their messages in Messenger. Those are all
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I'm really confident that not on one of those is
legit at my age, so I just brush them off.
So if that's you and you want to be Facebook
friends with me, make the effort to send an email
at least from a legitimate email address, and we'll start
from there and see what happens. I know there's a
lot of women who fish, know a lot of women
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who hunt and enjoy the shoe sports. I just find
it almost almost impossible to believe they're looking for me
if you have made a request. By the way, the
more common friends we have, the more names I recognize,
the better. What I'll do then is either contact you
directly if I can, and actually, which I did with
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a coworker yesterday, Anthony from over on Sunny, and found
out it was indeed he who sent me a friend request.
Or maybe I'll ask a couple of our mutual friends
to see if they recognize and know you. It's nothing personal.
I just hate when I get hacked, I really really do.
If you're wondering who Kamala Harris really is and who
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she represents, now know this for entertainment at the campaign
rally she is doing in Atlanta, either tonight or tomorrow.
I can't believe or I can't recall she has actually
chosen Megan the Stallion, the woman who wrote a song
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called my wet you know you.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Know what will Oh? Sorry, I was communicating with Kenny Webster.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Okay, So anyway, if you if you don't, if you
can't fill in the blanks about my wet blank blankie, uh,
more power to you. Congratulations, You've been spared a level
of vulgarity under the guise of creativity that should never
have crossed into mainstream if you haven't look it up
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and be stunned, and then just step away from it.
And imagine imagine her State of the Union speeches if
she were elected. Okay, And in speaking about the Supreme
Court's decision on Roe v. Wade a while back, she
said this, and I quote, we pushed to move forward,
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that we are guided by what we see that can
be un burdened by what has been. And I know
everyone in this room understands this. Probably nobody in that
room understood it, and not even she because it made
absolutely no sense. Or here's another one. I've got less
than a minute. When she was talking about community banks.
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This is her direct quote and I quote, we invested
an additional twelve billion dollars into community banks because we
know community banks are in the community and understand the
needs and desires of that community, as well as the
talent and capacity of community end quote. Those are the
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words of the woman high ranking Democrats want to run
our country into the ground, I guess. And make no
mistake about her position on our border either. She has
actually likened homeland security and our Immigrations and Customs Enforcement
Agency ICE. She compared them to the KKK. She also,
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as a senator, urged other senators to gut funding for
the border wall, which she called costly and ineffective, which
is a lie, and to do the same on money
Trump earmarked for new border agents and ICE officers. All
this how she feels about border patrol, at ICE and
national security, and who she chose to represent her morals
and ethics and vision for this country in Atlanta, all
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while the media ignore her true character and continue to
anoint her as the second coming of JFK. Just remember
all this when you're standing in the voting booth in November.
Will who gets first call going out? Oh we have
u T help perfect. That's what I had at the
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Speaker 1 (08:53):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash them, check us words,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, welcome back to
fifty plus.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Thanks for listening. Certainly do appreciate it. Will and I
had our daily. It's not really a competition because wordle
is just there's so much luck involved in wordle really
that I wouldn't consider it a competition. It's fun when
I get it in fewer tries than he, and I'm
sure he's equally excited when he gets it in fewer
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than I. But nonetheless, we got it in four. One
of us got it in four, one of us got
it in five, and it doesn't matter which one. And
it wasn't that hard a word. A lot just depends
on what you do in the beginning. Right, Well, does
that make sense, I'd agree, Yeah, it's not that big
a deal, but it is something we've started doing during breaks.
Spend about a minute working on that, and then another
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little bit of time prepping for the next segment, which
is what I have done. So right here in Harris County,
I found a story that cannot be ignored. Fifteen year
old male arrested and charged with murder and the stabbing
death of a sixty two year old woman. A fifteen
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year old kid has been charged with killing a woman
named Dana Magnuson, who people who knew her say was
very active in her community, loved by everybody who knew her.
And now she's gone, tell me again how big city
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crimes down and how it's going to keep coming down
now that we've escorted millions of young single men into
our country courtesy of Biden and Harris. And make no
mistake they are both fully and equally to blame. If Harris,
in one instant tries to distance herself from the border
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policies of Biden, that will be an opening that everybody
who is against her will seize and work with. Got
all these tens of thousands, potentially maybe hundreds of thousands
of thieves and murderers, and some of them already killing Americans,
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and the Left wants to bring in millions more. It
drives me crazy, just absolutely drives me crazy. Let's shift
gears to something a little lighter. Will one two three?
Here we go? Not what you think. They didn't ask me,
And no takers, no wonder.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
No takers, no wonder.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
A British woman's prized collection of one hundred and sixty
three bedpans went up for auction this month. Will shockingly
not really, I don't know who wrote that word, but
not really, not a single bid on the one hundred
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and six sixty three bedpans.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Are these antique bedpans? What's the oldest bedpan?
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I don't know. I think she was just getting them
out of dumpsters behind hospitals. Not really, I don't know
where she got them. That was her. That's the least
I hope she did with them. Yeah, no, no bids
on her precious. Do we know what the starting number was?
We don't know anything. I didn't bother to look at
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the full story, you know how, these these stories on
that particular page where I'm looking are are are finished
with a full story behind just that little two or
three lines. I had no. I had no interest in
discovering more about the origin or the the paperwork or
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the provenance of those bedpants. It made no difference to
me whatsoever. So I didn't look. Should I have? I
think so? I mean, it seems like we could get
them for a bargain. So okay, so well, here's what
we're gonna do. Then henceforth, what I'm gonna do is
I'm gonna find the ones I like, and then I'm
gonna send them to you and you can click on
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full story and you can give the full story. I'll
just give that tease. I would love that. Really, yes,
you want some of that? It has spleek. Okay, okay,
I'll try to remember. I will, I really will. Uh,
let's do one. How much time do we have? Three?
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (13:26):
And plenty of time. We got four minutes, four minutes. Okay, good,
Let's do one more of the ease and then I'll
go back to the the the juicy headline grabbing bits
that even some of the talking heads might talk about.
Oh wait, I want to move this. I want to
move that up because I don't want to talk about
that again. That's where we'll be. I'm gonna leave one
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in the mix. They didn't ask me, and then I
will add and this is why we're in debt to
our next and Karen's gone wild.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
They didn't ask me.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Yeah, this is something that this really disturbed me. And
it just tells me how how wimpy and feeble so
many many studies and poles and all that are because
they I know better. And a new report says here
Seattle was named the most outdoor friendly metropolitan area in
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the country, the most outdoor friendly of the fifty two
places they considered. Full Story probably has the list. Guess
what was dead last? Houston, Texas? Yes, yeah, why will
you sing like you know? It's the urban sprawl? I
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would say.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Houston is also a city that is the furthest away
from any national park in the entire country.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Did you know that this is why you're not on
the Chamber of Commerce. Will you realize that, right, I'm
just saying, well, but there is so much much outdoor
activity if you just know where to look for it
around here. There are hiking trails, there are biking trails,
there are walking trails. But I would say, are you
from the distance in the real park. It's right in
the mall the city mid I get that. Look, I
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get that I live close to Memorial Park. I can
get there pretty easily. Yeah, I'm near a park. I live.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
I live very near a very nice park. But I
think that some of those cities, it's a lot easier access.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
And I think.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
They've incorporated the cities, They've built the cities in a
way that it doesn't disturb the nature that much.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Well.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Then, so, in some shape or form, somebody came to
the conclusion that New York City, I'm sure that was
one of the fifty two, was more outdoor friendly.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Really, I mean, what are they talking about in terms
of outdoor friendly? It doesn't say that's in the full story.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
You'll be reporting on the need the story you're gonna, Oh,
you're gonna get them.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
I'm telling you because I can. I can see Houston
is not. It's not a walkable city.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
It didn't say walkable here, it says most outdoor friendly.
I enjoy the outdoors around Houston almost every day, almost
every day. Well, oh, by the way, I have an
outdoor store. How much time do I have? We have
a minute? Fifteen? Okay, I'm gonna hold it until we
come back, and then I'm gonna tell the story about
what happened to me yesterday on an outdoors adventure. And well,
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not exactly. I wonder if they're talking about just Houston
proper and not including all the wonderful things just on
the outskirts where the same people live, the same people. Really,
I love living my whole life. And I'm kidding. I
have tons of friends who live in Houston. I'm just joking.
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I didn't that was the wrong word. The word was.
I don't know, but just there's a definite. When I
get outside belt Way eight, okay, and get closer down
to Sugarland where I live, I just feel this weight
come off my shoulders. I don't have as many people
passing me at one hundred down there as I do
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inside belt Way eight on the way to work. I
don't have as many people living under overpasses and those
kind of things. That's a different sort of big city story.
But anyway, I think if you incorporate all the outlying
areas of Houston as well, then there should be absolutely
no reason whatsoever to put it at the bottom of
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Speaker 1 (19:04):
What's life without a nap I suggest you go to bed,
sleep it off, just wait until the show's over.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Sleepy.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Back to Doug Pike, as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
All right, welcome back, Tricky Plus. Thanks for listen. Certainly
do appreciate it during your lunch hour, nothing gross or weird.
I try not to tell stories that are There was
one particular story I saw this morning that I could
have told, but just not during the lunch hour. I'm
not gonna do that to any of you, so don't
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worry about that. Really, as promised in post heavy rain
Outdoors News, a tale of an old fisherman who nearly
got seriously hurt when he let his guard down for
only a few seconds. That old fisherman. If you have
an already guess it's me. Yesterday afternoon, walking down the
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little short I got ten twelve steps to walk through
the grass and walk through a little bit of hillside,
if you will, a very small little rise to a
spillway where the water comes off the lake and then
drains into Oyster Creek, or at least a little arm
of Oyster Creek. I think it might be. I think
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it might be Bullhead Slew, something like that. In any event,
I'm walking down there, and I'm looking back toward where
the water disappears under the little bridge, because yesterday or
day before, yeah, yesterday, No day before yesterday, day before yesterday,
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there was a significant about a seven or eight pound
carp that had been washed out of the lake because
of the fast rise of the water and had got
and kind of pinned in debris there, and I was
kind of looking to see if it was still there.
It wasn't, and I was kind of hoping that maybe
it managed somehow to break free and was living a
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happy life in that slough. Now, anyway, the carp's gone.
I didn't see the carp. What I also didn't see
in that moment until it spoiler alert, until it slithered,
was about two feet of cotton mouth slowly moving away,
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thank god, slowly moving back under the little bridge. Probably
from whence it came to maybe warm itself in the
afternoon sunshine or whatever. I honestly literally had put my
foot down within a foot, no pun intended, and no
more than that of that venomous snake. And I got
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really lucky. If I had stepped another little bit to
the left and maybe caught a piece of its tail
or any part of that animal's body, or if it
had been facing a different direction even and looking at
me coming toward it, rather than pointed toward toward what
it I guess figured with safety, the outcome might have
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been a whole lot different. But I got away with it.
I got away with it that time, and I just
I think my lucky stars, I thank God, and I
just took a deep breath and started paying attention again
really hard. Since all this rain fell recently, all the
more animals, four legged and no legged have been displaced again.
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First it was a hurricane, then that kind of dried up,
and then came all that what week long rain. A
lot of these animals are in very unfamiliar spots, and
if you go into anywhere that one of them might be,
which is almost everywhere when you get outside the Loop,
and certainly outside of Beltway eight, you should be on
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heightened alert so that you don't make the same stupid
mistake I made yesterday. Bite or no bite, stepping where
you haven't looked around around woods or water, whatever, just
not smart. A jogging trail, a creek bank, even these
highly manicured trails that lead through parks where they've got
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say an asphalt jogging or walking trail, and then maybe
ten or twelve feet of shaved grass and manicured and
well closely cut brush that ultimately at the end of
that ten or twelve feet on each side is just
raw land. Again, don't think for a minute there couldn't
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be a snake on that trail. Don't think for a
minute there couldn't be anything on that trail, or even
just right in the edge of the bushes about to
come out and walk. Acros' cross there, not hiding in
wait for you. We don't have a lot of mountain
lions around here, but we do have coyotes. And if
you and your little dog are walking through the woods
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on one of those trails and there are a couple
of hungry coyotes nearby, that could end up being a problem.
There's so much out there, you got to be careful
about so much, Oh mercy, that was scary, will it
really was? Man? Have you ever been that close to
a venomous snake? That close to being bitten by one?
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Never close to being bitten by one? But I have
been near a water moccasin before. It was on the
dock of my aunt and uncle's home, really, and they
live right on Lake Conro, and there's one swimming in
the water. And my uncle went in with the rake
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and the heck and he scooped that bad boy up
and then he got a shovel and he chopped it off.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
You sure it was a venomous snake? Yes, Okay, that's
where I really draw the line. I've actually rescued some
cotton mouse. When the neighborhood I'm in it was young.
There were a lot of people, and there were a
lot of snakes that were just kind of like, what's
all this going on around here? And they were getting
lost and they were getting kind of pinned down. And
I'd drive into the neighborhood in the evening and see
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two guys standing by a sago palm. One of them
got to shovel, one of them got to rake in
his hand, and I'd just roll down the window and
say what kind of snake? And mostly they would say,
we don't know, but it's a snake. And I'd just say,
cool your jets, keep an eye on it, don't let
it go anywhere, don't disturb it, leave it right where
it is, and I'll be right back. And I would
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come back with an ice chest. I would open it
and I would either use their rake or mine and
pick the thing up and put it in the ice chest,
slam the lid, and then take it down to Oyster
Creek and drop it off. Those snakes, mhm. They they
were here first, quite frankly, and they do serve a
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tremendous valuable purpose in the wild. They keep the rodents down.
They do a lot of good. Every every animal on
the earth has has a reason. I'm still trying to
figure out what it is with mosquitoes and gnats, and
I'm not a real fan of either. I don't I
don't let that. I don't give them a pass. They
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get no quarter with me.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
What about that idea for AI Get rid of all
of the mosquitoes and the gnats and the cockroaches, but
replace them with a little tiny AI robots of them
that serve the same function, but don't bother humans.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
That's a pretty monumentous monumental task. Huh you're trying to achieve.
I'm just saying you're asking a lot of AI will
I don't know. I think it could work. You're asking
the lot, all right, from a bright bart store a
one minute. Well, then we're rolling back to the three
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and you're ready. Not what you think.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Karen's gone wild and stay in your lane. Stay in
your lane.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
This is so so true. Chipotlely often in the news,
sometimes not for good stuff, sometimes for good My son
loves that stuff, absolutely loves it. Chipotle is selling its
first beauty product, will Chipotle in the beauty business now?
A burrito proof lipstain that is juacamole green, yum so
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green lipstain that's not coming off for I don't know,
a day or two. How long could that stuff stay
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but they do deal with this by the age of
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At a late health you can be seen by vascular
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what they use. Maybe it's I don't know, whatever it is.
It stops that it plugs up that artery and the
blood just goes by that intersection. Not we can't go
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Well, I think that sounds like a good plant.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
We have rounded third. We are heading home. Unlike the
Astros last night, who lost, who lost the game that
they probably should have and somehow could have found a
way to win. The two eighth inning and ninth inning pictures,
we had both kind of let us down last night.
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They've they've done quite well all season long. It's inevitable
that they are gonna have stumbles, but it was it
was disappointing to stay up that late when I have
to get up so early and wash them blues. The
night before last, though, they took care of the Dodgers,
so that that's kind of a wash, all right. I
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have three Olympics things here will one One is somewhat generic,
one is controversial, and one is just a fun fact
to know and tell. Which one would you like me
to give you first, because I'm gonna hit them all,
all right? Give me a fun fact to know and tell.
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The para in Paralympics is derived from what words will
What do you think? Paraplegic? Nope, not paraplegic, not paralyzed.
It comes from the Greek word para, which means beside
because the Para Olympics stand side by side with the Olympics.
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Fun fact, that's cool. No, and tell so if you're
if you're in a sports bar and the Olympics is on,
just kind of tap the person next to you and say, hey,
did you know and then tell them that I'm probably
not going to do that. Unless they're a big fan
of the show, they probably won't know it. Uh yeah,
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more more Olympics stuff. I gotta go to this because
I'm not going to let a bad decision by some
opening ceremony committee overshadowed the accomplishments of all these athletes
well as of early this morning, and I'm not going
to spoiler alert it by talking about anything that's happened
over there in the last few six hours or ten
(32:49):
hours or so, because they are far ahead of US
and medals have been won and lost since the report
came out this morning. China and Japan at at that
point had the most gold medals. Each country was six,
but the US has the most medals overall with twenty.
What do you think is more important, will overall medals
(33:11):
or gold medals? That's hard. I think what you have
to do in the end is give point values, assigned
point values to gold, silver, and bronze, and then add
up the points. I think bringing home.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
The most medals in total.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
I kind of agree with that because I mean they're
all wonderful achievements, you know, I mean a gold of
silver in a bronze is how about competing in the
Olympics is an incredible achievement, and then place is even
the cherry on top on the podium. That's a special
level of achievement that most Olympic athletes won't attain. So yeah,
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credit where it's due. The good news for the athletes too,
paris finally lifted in the Olympics committee. They when they
all showed up over there, not only did they not
have air conditioners and a lot of the Olympians had
to bring their own little air room air conditioners because
of green you know, but they also had a ban
(34:12):
on how intimacy and that's been lifted now in the
spirit of the Olympics. They want everybody to enjoy that
Olympic experience to the fullest. So now, even if you
don't take home a medal, who knows you might take
home something else? Who knows will in Olympics controversy. I
(34:39):
had a laugh when I wrote that in Olympics controversy.
Will let me scroll this down a little bit. There
were allegations of match fixing after the US fencing team
felt that they were There were significant improprieties in the
judging of US matches that actually resulted after just a
(35:02):
sweep of snubs of what they called improper scoring, two
judges ended up being suspended. An arbiter, though, actually ruled
that there wasn't enough evidence to overturn any of the results,
so they left the losses on the US side right
where they were, and I'm sure those people forever are
(35:22):
gonna feel snubbed and taken advantage of for some reason.
On the plus side, though, also from the Olympics fencing
and whatnot, there's actually I think it's they called it
a saber competition, by the way, which seems far more
threatening and looming than an EPI or a sword or
(35:42):
a yeah anyway, or what do they call it? A foil?
That's what it is. In any event, Lee Keefer beat
Lauren Scruggs in the women's foil final, so that the
US and that particular event won both the goal to
end silver, which I think is fantastic, absolutely fantastic. Follow
(36:06):
me or what is that? Will? What is that? Airports
in Japan are cracking down on something you've probably never
heard of. That is a rideable suitcase. It's a real thing.
You get your suitcase and it's got a little battery,
kind of like a little Tesla suitcase. It's got a
battery and a motor and you can sit on top
of it. You push out a little handle. It's got
(36:26):
an accelerator and a brake, and you can ride through
the airport. No more running like OJ did. You can
just ride through the airport and catch your plane on time.
It's pretty cool. No, they're about seven hundred to one
thousand dollars, so I don't know. All right, that's gonna
wrap it up for today. We'll be back tomorrow riding
suitcases or no audios.
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Speaker 2 (00:50):
All right, here we go, Tuesday edition of fifty plus.
Thank you all for joining us today and giving me
and Will a little piece of your lunch hour. I'm
looking really at a week of minimal rain chances. I'm
so happy to report for a much welcome change. Moving
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quickly into highs and lows and haiku courtesy of Texas
Indoor Air Quality Specialists. Because cleaner air is healthier air.
I'll pound two fifty and say healthier. So here we go.
Will Are you ready? I am? Highs are warm again,
still better than constant rain. Welcome back, summer.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Welcome back summer. That's that's you know what, I'll give
that one. I'll give that one an eate. Oh really,
that one flowed nicely.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Okay, I'm very proud of that. Then, and off to
market we go. I'm stunned, but thank you, yes, thank you.
It took more than thirty seconds to figure out. Off
to the market we go, thanks to Houston gooldexchange dot
com two up and two down among the big four indicators.
This is all at around ten o'clock this morning. I
(02:08):
didn't dare look back. I kind of liked what I
saw overall, so I didn't want to jinx anything. More importantly,
oil was down to less than seventy five dollars a
barrel at the same time, and equally good at least
for the few of us who well of you. I
don't own solid gold any investment category. I'll have a
(02:31):
few pieces I want to sell to bread. But that's
about it. Really. The rest of it is just what
it is. Gold's back up again today, sitting at two thousand,
four hundred and thirty eight dollars an ounce. Around the
same time I checked the markets in the price of
oil before we dive into the shallow end of the
politics pool. By the way, I'm really hesitanting. I want
(02:53):
to just kind of share this. I've been very hesitant lately.
If you've sent me a friend request on Facebook, and
I have a lot of them sitting there right now,
and I apologize for not responding, but and I will
get to them. I'll sort through the backlog soon enough.
I hesitate though, because I've had to reset my password.
I don't know how many times when some hijacker sends
(03:16):
me a request under the name of someone I know
or maybe think I should know, and who appears to
have common interest. And for the record, by the way,
I never accept requests from young single women, and nor
do I answer their messages in Messenger. Those are all
(03:37):
I'm really confident that not on one of those is
legit at my age, so I just brush them off.
So if that's you and you want to be Facebook
friends with me, make the effort to send an email
at least from a legitimate email address, and we'll start
from there and see what happens. I know there's a
lot of women who fish, know a lot of women
(03:58):
who hunt and enjoy the shoe sports. I just find
it almost almost impossible to believe they're looking for me
if you have made a request. By the way, the
more common friends we have, the more names I recognize,
the better. What I'll do then is either contact you
directly if I can, and actually, which I did with
(04:19):
a coworker yesterday, Anthony from over on Sunny, and found
out it was indeed he who sent me a friend request.
Or maybe I'll ask a couple of our mutual friends
to see if they recognize and know you. It's nothing personal.
I just hate when I get hacked, I really really do.
If you're wondering who Kamala Harris really is and who
(04:40):
she represents, now know this for entertainment at the campaign
rally she is doing in Atlanta, either tonight or tomorrow.
I can't believe or I can't recall she has actually
chosen Megan the Stallion, the woman who wrote a song
(05:00):
called my wet you know you.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Know what will Oh? Sorry, I was communicating with Kenny Webster.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Okay, So anyway, if you if you don't, if you
can't fill in the blanks about my wet blank blankie, uh,
more power to you. Congratulations, You've been spared a level
of vulgarity under the guise of creativity that should never
have crossed into mainstream if you haven't look it up
(05:35):
and be stunned, and then just step away from it.
And imagine imagine her State of the Union speeches if
she were elected. Okay, And in speaking about the Supreme
Court's decision on Roe v. Wade a while back, she
said this, and I quote, we pushed to move forward,
(05:55):
that we are guided by what we see that can
be un burdened by what has been. And I know
everyone in this room understands this. Probably nobody in that
room understood it, and not even she because it made
absolutely no sense. Or here's another one. I've got less
than a minute. When she was talking about community banks.
(06:18):
This is her direct quote and I quote, we invested
an additional twelve billion dollars into community banks because we
know community banks are in the community and understand the
needs and desires of that community, as well as the
talent and capacity of community end quote. Those are the
(06:39):
words of the woman high ranking Democrats want to run
our country into the ground, I guess. And make no
mistake about her position on our border either. She has
actually likened homeland security and our Immigrations and Customs Enforcement
Agency ICE. She compared them to the KKK. She also,
(06:59):
as a senator, urged other senators to gut funding for
the border wall, which she called costly and ineffective, which
is a lie, and to do the same on money
Trump earmarked for new border agents and ICE officers. All
this how she feels about border patrol, at ICE and
national security, and who she chose to represent her morals
and ethics and vision for this country in Atlanta, all
(07:22):
while the media ignore her true character and continue to
anoint her as the second coming of JFK. Just remember
all this when you're standing in the voting booth in November.
Will who gets first call going out? Oh we have
u T help perfect. That's what I had at the
top of the list. UT Health Science Centers Consortium excuse me,
(07:43):
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is that it still is. It has always been an
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gone back for additional education as to how they're field
of expertise can be applied to us to seniors. They
(08:05):
have been around now for I believe it's right at
ten years maybe, however long it's been. Throughout that entire time,
the Institute on Aging has continued to provide incalculable services
of immense value to every one of us who need them.
The providers who mostly in the medical center, but also
(08:28):
many of whom work regularly outside the medical center in
all the outlying areas around Houston, so that you can
be seen by them, you can be treated by them,
and know that you're getting care that is targeting you,
especially as a senior in this community. Go to the
website ut dot edu slash aging. See what they can
(08:49):
do for you. Ut dot edu slash aging.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash them, check us words,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, welcome back to
fifty plus.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Thanks for listening. Certainly do appreciate it. Will and I
had our daily. It's not really a competition because wordle
is just there's so much luck involved in wordle really
that I wouldn't consider it a competition. It's fun when
I get it in fewer tries than he, and I'm
sure he's equally excited when he gets it in fewer
(09:31):
than I. But nonetheless, we got it in four. One
of us got it in four, one of us got
it in five, and it doesn't matter which one. And
it wasn't that hard a word. A lot just depends
on what you do in the beginning. Right, Well, does
that make sense, I'd agree, Yeah, it's not that big
a deal, but it is something we've started doing during breaks.
Spend about a minute working on that, and then another
(09:54):
little bit of time prepping for the next segment, which
is what I have done. So right here in Harris County,
I found a story that cannot be ignored. Fifteen year
old male arrested and charged with murder and the stabbing
death of a sixty two year old woman. A fifteen
(10:15):
year old kid has been charged with killing a woman
named Dana Magnuson, who people who knew her say was
very active in her community, loved by everybody who knew her.
And now she's gone, tell me again how big city
(10:37):
crimes down and how it's going to keep coming down
now that we've escorted millions of young single men into
our country courtesy of Biden and Harris. And make no
mistake they are both fully and equally to blame. If Harris,
in one instant tries to distance herself from the border
(10:58):
policies of Biden, that will be an opening that everybody
who is against her will seize and work with. Got
all these tens of thousands, potentially maybe hundreds of thousands
of thieves and murderers, and some of them already killing Americans,
(11:21):
and the Left wants to bring in millions more. It
drives me crazy, just absolutely drives me crazy. Let's shift
gears to something a little lighter. Will one two three?
Here we go? Not what you think. They didn't ask me,
And no takers, no wonder.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
No takers, no wonder.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
A British woman's prized collection of one hundred and sixty
three bedpans went up for auction this month. Will shockingly
not really, I don't know who wrote that word, but
not really, not a single bid on the one hundred
(11:59):
and six sixty three bedpans.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Are these antique bedpans? What's the oldest bedpan?
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I don't know. I think she was just getting them
out of dumpsters behind hospitals. Not really, I don't know
where she got them. That was her. That's the least
I hope she did with them. Yeah, no, no bids
on her precious. Do we know what the starting number was?
We don't know anything. I didn't bother to look at
(12:27):
the full story, you know how, these these stories on
that particular page where I'm looking are are are finished
with a full story behind just that little two or
three lines. I had no. I had no interest in
discovering more about the origin or the the paperwork or
(12:48):
the provenance of those bedpants. It made no difference to
me whatsoever. So I didn't look. Should I have? I
think so? I mean, it seems like we could get
them for a bargain. So okay, so well, here's what
we're gonna do. Then henceforth, what I'm gonna do is
I'm gonna find the ones I like, and then I'm
gonna send them to you and you can click on
(13:10):
full story and you can give the full story. I'll
just give that tease. I would love that. Really, yes,
you want some of that? It has spleek. Okay, okay,
I'll try to remember. I will, I really will. Uh,
let's do one. How much time do we have? Three?
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (13:26):
And plenty of time. We got four minutes, four minutes. Okay, good,
Let's do one more of the ease and then I'll
go back to the the the juicy headline grabbing bits
that even some of the talking heads might talk about.
Oh wait, I want to move this. I want to
move that up because I don't want to talk about
that again. That's where we'll be. I'm gonna leave one
(13:47):
in the mix. They didn't ask me, and then I
will add and this is why we're in debt to
our next and Karen's gone wild.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
They didn't ask me.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Yeah, this is something that this really disturbed me. And
it just tells me how how wimpy and feeble so
many many studies and poles and all that are because
they I know better. And a new report says here
Seattle was named the most outdoor friendly metropolitan area in
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the country, the most outdoor friendly of the fifty two
places they considered. Full Story probably has the list. Guess
what was dead last? Houston, Texas? Yes, yeah, why will
you sing like you know? It's the urban sprawl? I
(14:44):
would say.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Houston is also a city that is the furthest away
from any national park in the entire country.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Did you know that this is why you're not on
the Chamber of Commerce. Will you realize that, right, I'm
just saying, well, but there is so much much outdoor
activity if you just know where to look for it
around here. There are hiking trails, there are biking trails,
there are walking trails. But I would say, are you
from the distance in the real park. It's right in
the mall the city mid I get that. Look, I
(15:15):
get that I live close to Memorial Park. I can
get there pretty easily. Yeah, I'm near a park. I live.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
I live very near a very nice park. But I
think that some of those cities, it's a lot easier access.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
And I think.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
They've incorporated the cities, They've built the cities in a
way that it doesn't disturb the nature that much.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Well.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Then, so, in some shape or form, somebody came to
the conclusion that New York City, I'm sure that was
one of the fifty two, was more outdoor friendly.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Really, I mean, what are they talking about in terms
of outdoor friendly? It doesn't say that's in the full story.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
You'll be reporting on the need the story you're gonna, Oh,
you're gonna get them.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
I'm telling you because I can. I can see Houston
is not. It's not a walkable city.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
It didn't say walkable here, it says most outdoor friendly.
I enjoy the outdoors around Houston almost every day, almost
every day. Well, oh, by the way, I have an
outdoor store. How much time do I have? We have
a minute? Fifteen? Okay, I'm gonna hold it until we
come back, and then I'm gonna tell the story about
what happened to me yesterday on an outdoors adventure. And well,
(16:33):
not exactly. I wonder if they're talking about just Houston
proper and not including all the wonderful things just on
the outskirts where the same people live, the same people. Really,
I love living my whole life. And I'm kidding. I
have tons of friends who live in Houston. I'm just joking.
(16:55):
I didn't that was the wrong word. The word was.
I don't know, but just there's a definite. When I
get outside belt Way eight, okay, and get closer down
to Sugarland where I live, I just feel this weight
come off my shoulders. I don't have as many people
passing me at one hundred down there as I do
(17:16):
inside belt Way eight on the way to work. I
don't have as many people living under overpasses and those
kind of things. That's a different sort of big city story.
But anyway, I think if you incorporate all the outlying
areas of Houston as well, then there should be absolutely
no reason whatsoever to put it at the bottom of
(17:43):
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Speaker 1 (19:04):
What's life without a nap I suggest you go to bed,
sleep it off, just wait until the show's over.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Sleepy.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Back to Doug Pike, as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
All right, welcome back, Tricky Plus. Thanks for listen. Certainly
do appreciate it during your lunch hour, nothing gross or weird.
I try not to tell stories that are There was
one particular story I saw this morning that I could
have told, but just not during the lunch hour. I'm
not gonna do that to any of you, so don't
(19:43):
worry about that. Really, as promised in post heavy rain
Outdoors News, a tale of an old fisherman who nearly
got seriously hurt when he let his guard down for
only a few seconds. That old fisherman. If you have
an already guess it's me. Yesterday afternoon, walking down the
(20:08):
little short I got ten twelve steps to walk through
the grass and walk through a little bit of hillside,
if you will, a very small little rise to a
spillway where the water comes off the lake and then
drains into Oyster Creek, or at least a little arm
of Oyster Creek. I think it might be. I think
(20:30):
it might be Bullhead Slew, something like that. In any event,
I'm walking down there, and I'm looking back toward where
the water disappears under the little bridge, because yesterday or
day before, yeah, yesterday, No day before yesterday, day before yesterday,
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there was a significant about a seven or eight pound
carp that had been washed out of the lake because
of the fast rise of the water and had got
and kind of pinned in debris there, and I was
kind of looking to see if it was still there.
It wasn't, and I was kind of hoping that maybe
it managed somehow to break free and was living a
(21:14):
happy life in that slough. Now, anyway, the carp's gone.
I didn't see the carp. What I also didn't see
in that moment until it spoiler alert, until it slithered,
was about two feet of cotton mouth slowly moving away,
(21:34):
thank god, slowly moving back under the little bridge. Probably
from whence it came to maybe warm itself in the
afternoon sunshine or whatever. I honestly literally had put my
foot down within a foot, no pun intended, and no
more than that of that venomous snake. And I got
(21:56):
really lucky. If I had stepped another little bit to
the left and maybe caught a piece of its tail
or any part of that animal's body, or if it
had been facing a different direction even and looking at
me coming toward it, rather than pointed toward toward what
it I guess figured with safety, the outcome might have
(22:20):
been a whole lot different. But I got away with it.
I got away with it that time, and I just
I think my lucky stars, I thank God, and I
just took a deep breath and started paying attention again
really hard. Since all this rain fell recently, all the
more animals, four legged and no legged have been displaced again.
(22:44):
First it was a hurricane, then that kind of dried up,
and then came all that what week long rain. A
lot of these animals are in very unfamiliar spots, and
if you go into anywhere that one of them might be,
which is almost everywhere when you get outside the Loop,
and certainly outside of Beltway eight, you should be on
(23:05):
heightened alert so that you don't make the same stupid
mistake I made yesterday. Bite or no bite, stepping where
you haven't looked around around woods or water, whatever, just
not smart. A jogging trail, a creek bank, even these
highly manicured trails that lead through parks where they've got
(23:28):
say an asphalt jogging or walking trail, and then maybe
ten or twelve feet of shaved grass and manicured and
well closely cut brush that ultimately at the end of
that ten or twelve feet on each side is just
raw land. Again, don't think for a minute there couldn't
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be a snake on that trail. Don't think for a
minute there couldn't be anything on that trail, or even
just right in the edge of the bushes about to
come out and walk. Acros' cross there, not hiding in
wait for you. We don't have a lot of mountain
lions around here, but we do have coyotes. And if
you and your little dog are walking through the woods
(24:11):
on one of those trails and there are a couple
of hungry coyotes nearby, that could end up being a problem.
There's so much out there, you got to be careful
about so much, Oh mercy, that was scary, will it
really was? Man? Have you ever been that close to
a venomous snake? That close to being bitten by one?
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Never close to being bitten by one? But I have
been near a water moccasin before. It was on the
dock of my aunt and uncle's home, really, and they
live right on Lake Conro, and there's one swimming in
the water. And my uncle went in with the rake
(24:53):
and the heck and he scooped that bad boy up
and then he got a shovel and he chopped it off.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
You sure it was a venomous snake? Yes, Okay, that's
where I really draw the line. I've actually rescued some
cotton mouse. When the neighborhood I'm in it was young.
There were a lot of people, and there were a
lot of snakes that were just kind of like, what's
all this going on around here? And they were getting
lost and they were getting kind of pinned down. And
I'd drive into the neighborhood in the evening and see
(25:23):
two guys standing by a sago palm. One of them
got to shovel, one of them got to rake in
his hand, and I'd just roll down the window and
say what kind of snake? And mostly they would say,
we don't know, but it's a snake. And I'd just say,
cool your jets, keep an eye on it, don't let
it go anywhere, don't disturb it, leave it right where
it is, and I'll be right back. And I would
(25:45):
come back with an ice chest. I would open it
and I would either use their rake or mine and
pick the thing up and put it in the ice chest,
slam the lid, and then take it down to Oyster
Creek and drop it off. Those snakes, mhm. They they
were here first, quite frankly, and they do serve a
(26:06):
tremendous valuable purpose in the wild. They keep the rodents down.
They do a lot of good. Every every animal on
the earth has has a reason. I'm still trying to
figure out what it is with mosquitoes and gnats, and
I'm not a real fan of either. I don't I
don't let that. I don't give them a pass. They
(26:28):
get no quarter with me.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
What about that idea for AI Get rid of all
of the mosquitoes and the gnats and the cockroaches, but
replace them with a little tiny AI robots of them
that serve the same function, but don't bother humans.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
That's a pretty monumentous monumental task. Huh you're trying to achieve.
I'm just saying you're asking a lot of AI will
I don't know. I think it could work. You're asking
the lot, all right, from a bright bart store a
one minute. Well, then we're rolling back to the three
(27:06):
and you're ready. Not what you think.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Karen's gone wild and stay in your lane. Stay in
your lane.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
This is so so true. Chipotlely often in the news,
sometimes not for good stuff, sometimes for good My son
loves that stuff, absolutely loves it. Chipotle is selling its
first beauty product, will Chipotle in the beauty business now?
A burrito proof lipstain that is juacamole green, yum so
(27:42):
green lipstain that's not coming off for I don't know,
a day or two. How long could that stuff stay
on there? I have no idea. Maybe it's made by
Sherwin Williams or something like that. That sounds about right,
could be, who knows. Uh No, I'm not big into
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Don't let it sneak up on you if you've got
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feeling the effects of that, the symptoms that come on
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gets a little harder for you to pee. It gets
you up in the middle of the night thinking you've
gone and emptied your bladder, only to go lie down
(28:26):
and put your head on the pillow and realize that
maybe you got half, but there's still another half trying
to get out. Most about a quarter of men, not most,
but they do deal with this by the age of
fifty five, and the numbers just keep going up from there.
At a late health you can be seen by vascular
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surgeons who are perfectly capable of identifying the artery that
is feeding that prostate clogging it up. I don't know
what they use. Maybe it's I don't know, whatever it is.
It stops that it plugs up that artery and the
blood just goes by that intersection. Not we can't go
down that road anymore, And in relatively short order, that
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prostate starts to shrink and shrink and shrink and shrink
until it's gone, and along with that shrink it go
these symptoms of what all the hard, bad things that
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Com Old guys rule, and of course women never get old.
If you want to avoid sleeping on the couch, okay.
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Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
We have rounded third. We are heading home. Unlike the
Astros last night, who lost, who lost the game that
they probably should have and somehow could have found a
way to win. The two eighth inning and ninth inning pictures,
we had both kind of let us down last night.
(30:58):
They've they've done quite well all season long. It's inevitable
that they are gonna have stumbles, but it was it
was disappointing to stay up that late when I have
to get up so early and wash them blues. The
night before last, though, they took care of the Dodgers,
so that that's kind of a wash, all right. I
(31:21):
have three Olympics things here will one One is somewhat generic,
one is controversial, and one is just a fun fact
to know and tell. Which one would you like me
to give you first, because I'm gonna hit them all,
all right? Give me a fun fact to know and tell.
(31:41):
The para in Paralympics is derived from what words will
What do you think? Paraplegic? Nope, not paraplegic, not paralyzed.
It comes from the Greek word para, which means beside
because the Para Olympics stand side by side with the Olympics.
(32:07):
Fun fact, that's cool. No, and tell so if you're
if you're in a sports bar and the Olympics is on,
just kind of tap the person next to you and say, hey,
did you know and then tell them that I'm probably
not going to do that. Unless they're a big fan
of the show, they probably won't know it. Uh yeah,
(32:27):
more more Olympics stuff. I gotta go to this because
I'm not going to let a bad decision by some
opening ceremony committee overshadowed the accomplishments of all these athletes
well as of early this morning, and I'm not going
to spoiler alert it by talking about anything that's happened
over there in the last few six hours or ten
(32:49):
hours or so, because they are far ahead of US
and medals have been won and lost since the report
came out this morning. China and Japan at at that
point had the most gold medals. Each country was six,
but the US has the most medals overall with twenty.
What do you think is more important, will overall medals
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or gold medals? That's hard. I think what you have
to do in the end is give point values, assigned
point values to gold, silver, and bronze, and then add
up the points. I think bringing home.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
The most medals in total.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
I kind of agree with that because I mean they're
all wonderful achievements, you know, I mean a gold of
silver in a bronze is how about competing in the
Olympics is an incredible achievement, and then place is even
the cherry on top on the podium. That's a special
level of achievement that most Olympic athletes won't attain. So yeah,
(33:52):
credit where it's due. The good news for the athletes too,
paris finally lifted in the Olympics committee. They when they
all showed up over there, not only did they not
have air conditioners and a lot of the Olympians had
to bring their own little air room air conditioners because
of green you know, but they also had a ban
(34:12):
on how intimacy and that's been lifted now in the
spirit of the Olympics. They want everybody to enjoy that
Olympic experience to the fullest. So now, even if you
don't take home a medal, who knows you might take
home something else? Who knows will in Olympics controversy. I
(34:39):
had a laugh when I wrote that in Olympics controversy.
Will let me scroll this down a little bit. There
were allegations of match fixing after the US fencing team
felt that they were There were significant improprieties in the
judging of US matches that actually resulted after just a
(35:02):
sweep of snubs of what they called improper scoring, two
judges ended up being suspended. An arbiter, though, actually ruled
that there wasn't enough evidence to overturn any of the results,
so they left the losses on the US side right
where they were, and I'm sure those people forever are
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gonna feel snubbed and taken advantage of for some reason.
On the plus side, though, also from the Olympics fencing
and whatnot, there's actually I think it's they called it
a saber competition, by the way, which seems far more
threatening and looming than an EPI or a sword or
(35:42):
a yeah anyway, or what do they call it? A foil?
That's what it is. In any event, Lee Keefer beat
Lauren Scruggs in the women's foil final, so that the
US and that particular event won both the goal to
end silver, which I think is fantastic, absolutely fantastic. Follow
(36:06):
me or what is that? Will? What is that? Airports
in Japan are cracking down on something you've probably never
heard of. That is a rideable suitcase. It's a real thing.
You get your suitcase and it's got a little battery,
kind of like a little Tesla suitcase. It's got a
battery and a motor and you can sit on top
of it. You push out a little handle. It's got
(36:26):
an accelerator and a brake, and you can ride through
the airport. No more running like OJ did. You can
just ride through the airport and catch your plane on time.
It's pretty cool. No, they're about seven hundred to one
thousand dollars, so I don't know. All right, that's gonna
wrap it up for today. We'll be back tomorrow riding
suitcases or no audios.
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