August 13, 2024 • 36 mins
Today, Doug Pike discusses a new way to get your oil changed, fishing, and being left-handed.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Remember when it was impossible to misplace the TV remote
because you were the TV remote. Remember when music sounded
like this, Remember when social media was truly social?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hey John, how's it going today?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Well, this show is all about you. This is fifty
plus with Doug Pike. Helpful information on your finances, good health,
and what to do for fun. Fifty plus brought to
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plus with Doug Pike. All right, welcome board.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Thanks for listening on this Tuesday afternoon, another generously warm day.
Thank you, mister sunshine. Thank you so much for the
warm do you bring. But do you think maybe you
could tone it down just a little for maybe a
few days on behalf of my entire audience. I respectfully
ask that you, mister Sunshine, throw us a bone, Maybe
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throw us a little shade, maybe a little sky water,
some of that stuff, not a lot, not like last time,
or the time a week before that, or the time
about two weeks before that, maybe three, just enough where
we could maybe turn off the sprinklers for a day
or two. I think that would be nice. Well, you
don't have to worry about watering a yard at all,
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do you?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
No?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Do you? I forget? So you have a yard, but
it's just not your problem to water it. Correct, That
is true. That's just your problem to clean up after
your dog. And that's all you have to do out there. Now.
Does it have a sprinkler system? It does not, Okay,
so you don't have to worry about walking out in
the yard and getting suddenly sprinkled. Now except by the dog,
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I guess. So anyway, I would I would like to
get some rain. I would, And I know wishing for
it can be dangerous this time of year, so I'm
not going to really get after it too aggressively. But hey,
just maybe one of these little afternoons we could get
a pop up and not have to run, not have
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to run the sprinkler again. Okay. I'm wondering how to
express these feelings in hiku too, which I need to
do today after yesterday's bungled departure that earned me a
three from Will that was the best. You can't you
don't even want to reconsider your your grade from yesterday. No,
so so back to Haiku then still from Texas into
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wear quality specialists, because after all, clean air is healthy
air and that's what they do every day. Texas IAQ
specialists very easy to find. Just call pound two fifty
and say healthy air and they'll it'll how you right
into them. So here we go, will you ready? Yes?
Clouds form afternoon forecast teases chance of rain. It evaporates. Oh,
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it evaporates. Big word. I like that big word. That's
worth an extra one point. Yeah, that's a.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
That's a that's a that's a.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Six point seven. That's pretty good. You couldn't get to
seven point zero? No, okay, And when did you buy
the When did you start adding tenths of points? Probably? So, yeah,
they do that in the Olympics. Oh, there's a story
up on the TV right here about the rules for
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when a particular protest or a challenge was filed by
the Olympic. People said they missed by four seconds and
like sorry, And I think that in the spirit of
the Games. I think when you sign on and you
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go with the ruling bodies decisions, you have to go
with them, good or bad. It's kind of like baseball
players have to deal with umpires on balls and strikes.
They can't challenge those just shit. And that's just the
way it's gotta be. If you're gonna play the game,
you gotta play by the rules, and you have to
accept the rule the judges decisions. Otherwise you end up
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with just bookoo decisions that you don't agree with. And
everybody stop what they're doing and go back and check
the tape. And I get it with replay. I like replay,
but it needs to be done in real time. And
this whole notion that her challenge to that rule was
filed four seconds too late, and now there our side
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is coming back and saying no, it was on time.
So now they're ref is has to be done in
fifty five seconds, it says here forty seven seconds. I
don't know. I don't I can't worry about all that.
Let's go back to where we were off to the
market we tried now courtesy of Houston gooldexchange dot com,
where today would be a good day again, as if
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there have been any bad ones in the last year,
but a better day than yesterday to sell off any
gold you got lying around since the price of gold
is up north of twenty five hundred dollars an ounce,
much of what I intend to take over to Brad
if I can ever get loose and do it. I bought,
he reminded me when gold was about three hundred dollars
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an ounce. And so the little bits and pieces that
I have now that I've never worn, never used, never
even looked at, probably in the last ten or fifteen years,
except to move them in the in where they're being
kept from one side to the other to make room
for something else. It's not a big not a big deal,
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not that much of it. But I got a hunch
that I might have a couple of bucks worth of
gold up in there, and so I'm gonna do I
keep saying I'm gonna do it. I will oil. Also,
on the good news side, shed a buck of barrel
since yesterday. It was still closer to eighty than the
seventy dollars, though when it should have never even gotten
much north of about sixty five or sixty eight. Ever. Ever, again,
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all four market indicators in the green for a welcome
change after they all jumped out of the plane together
last week, and not a one of them wearing their parachutes.
Holy cow, what a free fall that was. Hundreds and
hundreds of points shed, many of which already have been recouped.
We got a statement to the mail yesterday. My wife said,
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don't even open it. It's gonna be horrible. It's gonna
be horrible. And to the credit of the people with
whom I invest they actually actually turned a little profit
over the last quarter, which which I expected kind of,
I wouldn't worried it was going to be too terribly bad,
a quick dip of a toe into the shallow end
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of the political pool. By the way, very briefly, i'd
remind all of you that when you hear or read
somewhere today that inflation is cooling, just remember that cooling
only means it's not rising as fast as it was
for the past three years. It doesn't mean that prices
are going to come falling down. Cooling just means that
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they're not going to rise as fast as they have been.
So just keep that, keep that in mind. Okay, I'll
tell you what, Well, let's go ahead and kind of
get to this break right here, right now, and that
way I'll have a little bit more time to go
into some very I find very interesting stories. I don't
think any of them really political. They kind of halfway
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might be. But we'll figure it out and we'll be
We'll be back in a few minutes. On the way out,
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Speaker 1 (09:16):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash them, check us
fluids and spring on a fresh code o wax. This
is fifty plus with Dougpike.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
All Right, welcome back Tuesday edition of fifty plus. Thanks
for listening. If you haven't noticed, I've stepped back from
politics in the past. What we can have for so
will a week maybe one week into the fresh new
approach a little bit lighter because there is so much
political talk, so much now, and I'm trying to be
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a little bit more of a distraction. If I see
something I really want to share with you in that arena,
I'm going to share it because and if you hear
me talking about politics, it'll be because that particular subject
is in scendiary, almost in nature. It could sway things
one way or the other. And I want to make
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sure that we're all on the right side of what's
going to push this country forward in news that and
that's see, that's as close as I want to get
to that I do. I trust all of you to
do your own research and form your own opinions. I
did see something interesting though, It said, how on earth
can the least popular vice president we've ever had in
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two weeks become the front runner and a presidential candidate?
And well, I'll never mind, I see, I'm doing it
to myself, all right. In news that impacts our veterans,
a story from The Western Journal yesterday shared that a
law that's kind of moved, mostly unnoticed, really potentially is
forcing tens of thousands of our veterans, our US military veterans,
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to repay the government, in many cases some pretty big
chunks of money. There's one guy's story that was shared
in that piece. He's been ordered to repay about thirty
thousand dollars that he received more than thirty years ago.
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His life's gone on, he's moved on, and from thirty
years ago, they're trying to collect a debt from one
of our veterans. While in the meantime, there's another I'll
tell you another guy too. Where'd he go to d
D du? That was that?
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Oh? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Another guy said, didn't say exactly how much he's been
been told, he owes, but he he conceded that it's
gonna take him about fifteen years to pay it back.
That while our or former well he's still our president,
but he's not the acting president. But the person who's
in there now and supposedly acting in his stead isn't
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doing anything about anything. But there I go again. Bottom
line is they're asking tens of thousands of veterans to
hand over money they have worked hard to own since
they serve this country. And meanwhile they are offering to
pay off the debts of students who made some pretty
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bad loan choices on the way to whatever education they've gotten.
And let's not forget a few million, give or take eight, ten, twelve,
whatever it is, million people who've been ushered into this
country and handed, without any obligation to repay a dime
of it, handed resources that those veterans not only do
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those veterans not get everything that those illegal immigrants get,
Only immigrants get it all free. Veterans aren't getting much
of what those immigrants get. I guarantee you that. Now,
two questions I have, Why isn't the mainstream media covering this?
And why is it Congress absolutely just scrambling scrambling to
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do something about this. I just I don't see how
that can fly under the radar. Now to some more
palatable news and information. In Long Beach, California, the latest
of only five will this is a pop quiz. There
are only five of these in the world now, and
a few weeks ago there were only four. It is
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called watch me. What is it? There were five of
them now, there used to be four. Now there are five.
They've gained one in the entire world, and the one
in Long Beach is called watch me. Oh is it
one of.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
The the It's like the teleprompt or not a teleprompter,
but you know, like a television where.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
You can see through to another country. I knew I shouldn't.
I knew I shouldn't. Well, you know I didn't give
you I didn't know. I'm not blaming you. I'm blaming
myself because I can't give you enough information without giving
it away. It's a sports bar. What kind of sports
bar is it, will?
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Oh, Well, it's a sports bar where you can watch sports.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Yeah, it technically is, but that's only half the story.
It's a sports bar that is dedicated exclusively to women's sports.
Oh okay, so you go in there. You don't see
the NFL, you don't see major League Baseball. You don't
see men's anything. You just see women competing in sports,
which I think is great. That's fine. And when they opened,
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the day they open, they had a big long line
all the way around the block. Great concept, great place
where people who enjoy women's sports. You don't have to
be a woman to go in there. You just have
to like women's sports because that's all you're going to
see on TV. In there. Go in there and watch,
go cheer your favorite women players. All they got to
do now is define the term right, And I honestly
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I believe that Houston would support something like that wholeheartedly.
We have women's professional sports here. We watch women's professional sports.
I'll turn on and watch the TV sometimes. And no,
not just for beach volleyball either. No, I've watched all
kinds of women's sports. I appreciate the sport. I appreciate
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the level of play that the women put on display
in the professional arena. Women's basketball not so much. That's
different for me anyway. Also in women's news, this is
something I actually sent this to a woman who used
to work here. Were you here will? When TK was here?
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Tam or casp do you recognize that name, No Tamera,
a really bright young woman who also knew one heck
of a lot about automobiles and motorcycles and could could
tear one down to its last nut and bolt and
then put the whole thing back together and fix anything
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that was wrong with it. She's really bright. She's been teaching.
I don't know what exactly she's doing now, but for
the longest time she had her own garage and was
teaching women to repair their do simple repairs on their
own cars and whatnot. So I found this story out
of Pennsylvania and I sent it to her about a
woman who ditched a six figure engineering job to launch
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what's called Girls Auto Clinic. It's a car care place
and there's going to be a bunch of them around
the country. You watch and see that caters to women
not only as customers but also as workers. She and
other women who are trained in the same skills and
work that she's already figured out, offer a full service
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auto shop. It's women customers also get to come in
there and drop the car off for an oil change
and then walk a few steps and get a manny
petty while they're there. Would you do that? Would you
go get a manicure and a pedicure while you were
getting an oil change. Sure you would, wouldn't you. No,
I mean when was the last time you had a manicure?
Will never same here. I've never had a manicure, but
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I would. Would you if you could get your toes
done at the same time. Just sit back there in
that big old chair, take your shoes off, take your
socks off, drop your You know what would be cool
if they did that with the fish that eat the
dead skin off your toes. Have you seen that?
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Yeah, that I would. I'd do that just to watch
it done. I would pay money not to watch somebody
else get their toes trimmed by a fish, but I'd
let them do that. We got to take a break.
Says well, either that or he's showing me how fish
eat dead skin off toes. A bronze roofing. Uh, yeah,
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that's exactly right. That's what it looks like in the video.
Will sure, whatever thirty years in business, bronze roofing has
been and will be there probably another thirty forty. I
don't know how many. I don't know how many more
people are coming up through the bronze hierarchy. Quality work
at a fair price. That's how they started, that's how
they'll finish, if they ever do finish, because who doesn't
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want quality work at a fair price. That's what you
get from Bronze. First of all, you get a free
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They don't just look at it from the ground say yeah,
it looks fine, or no, you gotta fix something that's
gonna cost you a lot of money. No, they get
up on the roof, they walk it end to end,
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and when they come down fingers crossed, they're gonna come
down and say, oh, your roof's fine. See in a
couple of years, if they have found something wrong, they
will show you pictures of what it is. They will
explain probably how it happened. They will explain how they
can fix it, how long it will take, what parts
and equipment and uh tools they'll use, and how much
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it's gonna cost. And when they come back down from
that roof the second time, that's how much it's gonna cost.
Not no hidden surprises. They don't do anything without letting
you know exactly what's going on on that roof for years,
free inspections, usually within twenty four hours. It's good to
put a whole new roof on my house a while back.
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Speaker 1 (19:50):
Aged to perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
We turned the corner at the bottom of the hour
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whether it's medical or entertainment or travel or anything that
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but we're not all so different that we don't have
common likes and dislikes, common interests and disinterests. So just
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let me know, and who knows you. You may pick
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but they just haven't gotten around letting me know. I'm
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And once you set up an email, you can send
as many words as you like, as you like, and
I will sit there and read them all. I've had
some good exchanges recently with people who listen to my
outdoor show. I found two men, grown men closer to
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my age than Will's age, two grown men who have
never in their lives caught a fish, but who are
intent on doing so. And I have sent both of
them emails, sending each of them to a different destination,
both charged with the task of using a cane pole
to catch a small sunfish. And unless they trip over
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their shoelaces and fall in the water where there they're
going and how I recommended they fish, we'll get them
that first fish within gosh, I would say, within ten minutes.
If they do it, do what I'm telling them to do.
It's not that hard. One of those places. My son
and I when he was young, each of us with
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a cane pole in hand, managed within about an hour
or maybe an hour and fifteen minutes to catch more
than one hundred fish. That not a one of them
as big as my hand even, and I'm convinced that
they were those fish once they figured out what was
going on, were in a line like a conga line
underwater and just coming every time we would drop a
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bait into the water. We were using little pieces of
balooney that day, and mostly we changed over toward the end.
It's a long story, but the little pieces of balogney,
they're very good at snapping off the hook, and once
they either got caught or got the piece of bait,
they had to go to the end of the line.
If they got caught, they knew we were going to
throw them back, and if they didn't get caught, they
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just got to the end of the line and waited
till it was their next turn to get a piece
of bait from us. All the way out in long beach, California. Oh,
I already told you about that one. There's another. There's
another California story here. Hold on, where did it go?
This one's very interesting too. That's not her here. It
is from San Diego. Let's go to San Diego. Way
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down Southern California could have come from a lot of places, though,
just about any place there is a beach in an
ocean and moving tide and moving current. The sand on
which you walk on the beach. Now Here, our sand
is pretty compact. It really is that in most places
along the Texas coastline, you can drive up and down
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the beach and pretty much any kind of car you
want to. You don't need four wheel drive, you don't
need big balloon tires. The beaches are hard enough and
strong enough and have been packed down so long that
they can support the way to vehicles, even big trucks.
In San Diego, sixteen year old girl just enjoying the
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day at the beach with her friends, suddenly finds herself
buried to the neck in sand after a sand hole
opened up and collapsed around her, pulls her down, and
when she finally stopped going down, all that was visible
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still were her head and her arms when the hole
seemed to be growing as men with shovels worked frantically
to save her, which they did, by the way. Her
friends tried to get her out. At first, they were
digging with their hands and didn't think it'd be that
big a deal. But there's so much sand falling in
around her, and so it's so heavy and so compact
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that they couldn't do it that way. So they got
a couple of lifeguards involved, and more and more people,
more and more shovels actually got her out. The greatest
danger with these sand holes, if someone's trapped in one
like that, is the pressure that all that weight places
on your torso, because in some cases it can be
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enough to prevent you, kind of like the way a
boa constrictor or any of the constrictors really kind of
like the way those big snakes squeeze and squeeze and
squeeze you and put that pressure on you where you
can't get any air back into your lungs and you
eventually suffocate. She didn't all of that, no reason to
worry about her. She was fine and didn't do any
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permanent damage. But that's still a scary concept and if
you're ever in a situation where that happens, which you
can absolutely positively call immediately for professional assistants to get
that person out of there and something. How much time
do I have We'll like four or five minutes?
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Huh, you have.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Two minutes? Stuff? Oh okay, wow, and I'm gonna have
so much leftover. Once again in religious history, I found
this story yesterday. I wanted to share it with you.
A discovery of an altar originally unveiled in the year
eleven forty nine and presumed lost basically after a big fire.
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This was in a church, and there was this big
fire in eighteen oh eight that destroyed most of that
church where the altar had stood. In Jerusalem, by the way,
on the site where Jesus was crucified and buried, and
in the back of what was left of that church,
people recently found this large stone slab leaning against a
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wall and ignored for centuries, more contemporarily seen by one hundreds,
if not thousands of tourists almost every day, but not
quite recognized for what it actually was, to the point
that there was even graffiti all over this then and
suddenly the somebody moved it somebody took a second look,
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somebody who knew what they were looking at recognized it
as coming from that very coming from that very place,
very special place in Christianity. Pretty cool stories like that,
and in any any religion, any stuff that old. I
find fascinating the history of it all. And to see
a place that's been that's mentioned in a book as
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powerful as the Bible, and then see that it's it's real,
it's it's there, it's it's an actual accounting of an
actual event, of an actual place. That just kind of
locks it all down. It's National left Hander's Day, Will
did you know that?
Speaker 3 (27:43):
What'd you get? What'd you get me? I'm left handed?
By oh you're left handed as well. I didn't know
that it was National left handed Day? So well, now
you know I didn't know you were left handed either.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
And by the way, there is no National right handers Day.
You know what they build specifically for writing's credit card machines,
measuring cups, zippers on jeans, that's how they open. Think
about that that little flat there opens to the left
so you can pull it up with your right hand.
I've kind of learned to deal with it playing cards
the same way when you fan them out. If I
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fan them out in my left hand, they don't look right.
If I fan them out in my right hand, I
can see the suits at all. Makes sense? Probably not
even serrated knives are made for right handers because your
natural tendency is to roll your wrist clockwise as you
slice as a right hander. It's just an average person.
It's an average right hander, not a special left hander,
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which is what Why are you just noding your head
like you don't care? It's a big deal to be
left handed, will you? But you wouldn't know. No, I
wouldn't know. You have no idea what you're missing.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
I'm an ambidextrous.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
No you're not. Yes, no, you're not ambidexter. Okay, What
I want you to do during the breakdown is I
want you to flip a pen in your left hand
and your right hand and not look awkward doing it
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Once life without a net, I suggest you to go
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Sleepy.
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Back to Doug Pike, as fifty plus continues, Welcome back on.
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This Tuesday afternoon at about I don't know, eight nine
minutes before the hour will what do you see? Officially
over there?
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We are at twelve fifty two twenty fonds.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Set your clocks. Boys and girls, mature boys and girls,
mostly most of us. There are young people listening. I
get emails from them letting me know that they are
listening on behalf of their parents. Those are the really
good kids. They're really really good ones taking care of
mom and dad. Listen to fifty plus, learning about something
that will help their parents, and hopefully sharing that information
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as quickly as possible over dinner perhaps, or maybe just
a cup of coffee or a movie. You're just take
your parents somewhere if your parents are still with you.
Take it from someone whose parents have passed away. If
your parents are still alive, still can get out and
go somewhere. Get them out, Take them somewhere, even if
it's just for a ride around, a ride around town.
(31:53):
If they're pretty much housebound and don't get out very often,
load them up in the car and take them for
If they make it to fall, take them out and
let them ride around with the windows down in the car.
That's how they came up. That's how I came up.
If you wanted to get cooler in the wintertime riding
in the car, you rolled down the window, and by
(32:15):
rolled down, I don't mean pushed a button and watched
it go down. This audience knows what I'm talking about.
Have you ever ridden in a car will where you
had to physically roll the windows down with a crank? Yeah,
a handle? No, mechanically no that Yeah, that's that's something
(32:37):
that Hey, I'm glad you don't ever have to do that.
The downside for you, though, is that if you get
if your car goes in the water, you can't get
those windows down once that electricity goes out unless you
have one of those special hammers. And I don't want
you to ever have to need that. Let's just get
off of that very quickly to champion a hero should
(33:01):
a woman who should be a hero amongst us, listen
to this woman named Virginia Hislop. Okay, finally, and by
that I mean finally earned her masters from Stanford after
her studies were interrupted just as she began. She was
like on the tail end of all this, started writing
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her thesis, and a little thing called World War II
got in the way. Her fiance and she were quickly
married before he deployed, and then she he went off
to war, and she stayed back here and helped the
war effort as best she could from home. Full career.
Many years later she learned that the thesis requirement had
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been removed from that program, and she resumed her studies
and stuck with it, and stuck with it and stuck
with it. And in the twenty twenty four graduating class
at Stanford Hislop, who, by the way, is now how
old is she? Will for a pop quiz? She was?
(34:05):
She is.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
She hadn't died, Okay, she just got her But I
was saying was in reference to the past, alive during World.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Like yester, Yeah, she was alive during World War two.
That's out.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
It's right, and so in World War two and it is.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Don't burn the whole segment trying to figure this out
in your head. Just take a stab. She's ninety three,
missed it by twelve. She's one hundred and five. She's
great now. It took her eighty three years to get
her masters, but she got it. So hats off, Hats
(34:44):
off to Virginia Hyslop and her masters. Now they admit it,
no surprise at all, or it's lost its luster, kind
of like COVID.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Oh are you asking me?
Speaker 2 (35:01):
Yeah, yeah, this is Will's participation.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Would you read them off again?
Speaker 2 (35:05):
Your lord? Now they admit it, no surprise at all,
it's lost its luster. Coast surprise at all. Americans are
showing more interest in owning many a toure, cow's, goats, donkeys,
and other diminutive farm animals. Really, you wonder why you
can guess this? You know why they get you? Now?
(35:27):
Beyond cute? What else are they? They're little? Will? They
can't eat much, so it makes them affordable. I don't
know if that's even true. It is true, but you
don't think they'll grow. No, there's still miniatures I have
a horse, but it's only three feet tall. It doesn't
much with the pigs. You know, they say these are pig. Yeah,
(35:51):
it's a mini pig, just a short legged donkey. Four
hundred pounds. Yeah about that? How much time? None?
Speaker 3 (35:59):
We have forty seconds.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
M A study has linked this is for the grandkids
link childhood tablet use And I'm not talking about bear
aspirin tablets. We're talking about electronics. They've linked these electronics
in their use amongst little kids to anger outbursts, get
out of your mom and playing a game. Well that
would be a teenager voice, get out of your mom.
(36:24):
We're playing a game that's more like a that's more
like the little kid one uh message to sell phone
repairman got in trouble in Oklahoma. I don't even have
time to get to this. We might do it tomorrow.
That's it for today. Thank you all for listening. Bring
some friends tomorrow. Audios
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Speaker 2 (00:51):
Thanks for listening on this Tuesday afternoon, another generously warm day.
Thank you, mister sunshine. Thank you so much for the
warm do you bring. But do you think maybe you
could tone it down just a little for maybe a
few days on behalf of my entire audience. I respectfully
ask that you, mister Sunshine, throw us a bone, Maybe
(01:14):
throw us a little shade, maybe a little sky water,
some of that stuff, not a lot, not like last time,
or the time a week before that, or the time
about two weeks before that, maybe three, just enough where
we could maybe turn off the sprinklers for a day
or two. I think that would be nice. Well, you
don't have to worry about watering a yard at all,
(01:35):
do you?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
No?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Do you? I forget? So you have a yard, but
it's just not your problem to water it. Correct, That
is true. That's just your problem to clean up after
your dog. And that's all you have to do out there. Now.
Does it have a sprinkler system? It does not, Okay,
so you don't have to worry about walking out in
the yard and getting suddenly sprinkled. Now except by the dog,
(01:59):
I guess. So anyway, I would I would like to
get some rain. I would, And I know wishing for
it can be dangerous this time of year, so I'm
not going to really get after it too aggressively. But hey,
just maybe one of these little afternoons we could get
a pop up and not have to run, not have
(02:22):
to run the sprinkler again. Okay. I'm wondering how to
express these feelings in hiku too, which I need to
do today after yesterday's bungled departure that earned me a
three from Will that was the best. You can't you
don't even want to reconsider your your grade from yesterday. No,
so so back to Haiku then still from Texas into
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wear quality specialists, because after all, clean air is healthy
air and that's what they do every day. Texas IAQ
specialists very easy to find. Just call pound two fifty
and say healthy air and they'll it'll how you right
into them. So here we go, will you ready? Yes?
Clouds form afternoon forecast teases chance of rain. It evaporates. Oh,
(03:13):
it evaporates. Big word. I like that big word. That's
worth an extra one point. Yeah, that's a.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
That's a that's a that's a.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Six point seven. That's pretty good. You couldn't get to
seven point zero? No, okay, And when did you buy
the When did you start adding tenths of points? Probably? So, yeah,
they do that in the Olympics. Oh, there's a story
up on the TV right here about the rules for
(03:45):
when a particular protest or a challenge was filed by
the Olympic. People said they missed by four seconds and
like sorry, And I think that in the spirit of
the Games. I think when you sign on and you
(04:05):
go with the ruling bodies decisions, you have to go
with them, good or bad. It's kind of like baseball
players have to deal with umpires on balls and strikes.
They can't challenge those just shit. And that's just the
way it's gotta be. If you're gonna play the game,
you gotta play by the rules, and you have to
accept the rule the judges decisions. Otherwise you end up
(04:32):
with just bookoo decisions that you don't agree with. And
everybody stop what they're doing and go back and check
the tape. And I get it with replay. I like replay,
but it needs to be done in real time. And
this whole notion that her challenge to that rule was
filed four seconds too late, and now there our side
(04:56):
is coming back and saying no, it was on time.
So now they're ref is has to be done in
fifty five seconds, it says here forty seven seconds. I
don't know. I don't I can't worry about all that.
Let's go back to where we were off to the
market we tried now courtesy of Houston gooldexchange dot com,
where today would be a good day again, as if
(05:17):
there have been any bad ones in the last year,
but a better day than yesterday to sell off any
gold you got lying around since the price of gold
is up north of twenty five hundred dollars an ounce,
much of what I intend to take over to Brad
if I can ever get loose and do it. I bought,
he reminded me when gold was about three hundred dollars
(05:38):
an ounce. And so the little bits and pieces that
I have now that I've never worn, never used, never
even looked at, probably in the last ten or fifteen years,
except to move them in the in where they're being
kept from one side to the other to make room
for something else. It's not a big not a big deal,
(05:59):
not that much of it. But I got a hunch
that I might have a couple of bucks worth of
gold up in there, and so I'm gonna do I
keep saying I'm gonna do it. I will oil. Also,
on the good news side, shed a buck of barrel
since yesterday. It was still closer to eighty than the
seventy dollars, though when it should have never even gotten
much north of about sixty five or sixty eight. Ever. Ever, again,
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all four market indicators in the green for a welcome
change after they all jumped out of the plane together
last week, and not a one of them wearing their parachutes.
Holy cow, what a free fall that was. Hundreds and
hundreds of points shed, many of which already have been recouped.
We got a statement to the mail yesterday. My wife said,
(06:46):
don't even open it. It's gonna be horrible. It's gonna
be horrible. And to the credit of the people with
whom I invest they actually actually turned a little profit
over the last quarter, which which I expected kind of,
I wouldn't worried it was going to be too terribly bad,
a quick dip of a toe into the shallow end
(07:07):
of the political pool. By the way, very briefly, i'd
remind all of you that when you hear or read
somewhere today that inflation is cooling, just remember that cooling
only means it's not rising as fast as it was
for the past three years. It doesn't mean that prices
are going to come falling down. Cooling just means that
(07:31):
they're not going to rise as fast as they have been.
So just keep that, keep that in mind. Okay, I'll
tell you what, Well, let's go ahead and kind of
get to this break right here, right now, and that
way I'll have a little bit more time to go
into some very I find very interesting stories. I don't
think any of them really political. They kind of halfway
(07:54):
might be. But we'll figure it out and we'll be
We'll be back in a few minutes. On the way out,
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Speaker 1 (09:16):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash them, check us
fluids and spring on a fresh code o wax. This
is fifty plus with Dougpike.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
All Right, welcome back Tuesday edition of fifty plus. Thanks
for listening. If you haven't noticed, I've stepped back from
politics in the past. What we can have for so
will a week maybe one week into the fresh new
approach a little bit lighter because there is so much
political talk, so much now, and I'm trying to be
(10:01):
a little bit more of a distraction. If I see
something I really want to share with you in that arena,
I'm going to share it because and if you hear
me talking about politics, it'll be because that particular subject
is in scendiary, almost in nature. It could sway things
one way or the other. And I want to make
(10:22):
sure that we're all on the right side of what's
going to push this country forward in news that and
that's see, that's as close as I want to get
to that I do. I trust all of you to
do your own research and form your own opinions. I
did see something interesting though, It said, how on earth
can the least popular vice president we've ever had in
(10:44):
two weeks become the front runner and a presidential candidate?
And well, I'll never mind, I see, I'm doing it
to myself, all right. In news that impacts our veterans,
a story from The Western Journal yesterday shared that a
law that's kind of moved, mostly unnoticed, really potentially is
forcing tens of thousands of our veterans, our US military veterans,
(11:10):
to repay the government, in many cases some pretty big
chunks of money. There's one guy's story that was shared
in that piece. He's been ordered to repay about thirty
thousand dollars that he received more than thirty years ago.
(11:31):
His life's gone on, he's moved on, and from thirty
years ago, they're trying to collect a debt from one
of our veterans. While in the meantime, there's another I'll
tell you another guy too. Where'd he go to d
D du? That was that?
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Oh? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Another guy said, didn't say exactly how much he's been
been told, he owes, but he he conceded that it's
gonna take him about fifteen years to pay it back.
That while our or former well he's still our president,
but he's not the acting president. But the person who's
in there now and supposedly acting in his stead isn't
(12:10):
doing anything about anything. But there I go again. Bottom
line is they're asking tens of thousands of veterans to
hand over money they have worked hard to own since
they serve this country. And meanwhile they are offering to
pay off the debts of students who made some pretty
(12:30):
bad loan choices on the way to whatever education they've gotten.
And let's not forget a few million, give or take eight, ten, twelve,
whatever it is, million people who've been ushered into this
country and handed, without any obligation to repay a dime
of it, handed resources that those veterans not only do
(12:53):
those veterans not get everything that those illegal immigrants get,
Only immigrants get it all free. Veterans aren't getting much
of what those immigrants get. I guarantee you that. Now,
two questions I have, Why isn't the mainstream media covering this?
And why is it Congress absolutely just scrambling scrambling to
(13:16):
do something about this. I just I don't see how
that can fly under the radar. Now to some more
palatable news and information. In Long Beach, California, the latest
of only five will this is a pop quiz. There
are only five of these in the world now, and
a few weeks ago there were only four. It is
(13:40):
called watch me. What is it? There were five of
them now, there used to be four. Now there are five.
They've gained one in the entire world, and the one
in Long Beach is called watch me. Oh is it
one of.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
The the It's like the teleprompt or not a teleprompter,
but you know, like a television where.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
You can see through to another country. I knew I shouldn't.
I knew I shouldn't. Well, you know I didn't give
you I didn't know. I'm not blaming you. I'm blaming
myself because I can't give you enough information without giving
it away. It's a sports bar. What kind of sports
bar is it, will?
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Oh, Well, it's a sports bar where you can watch sports.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Yeah, it technically is, but that's only half the story.
It's a sports bar that is dedicated exclusively to women's sports.
Oh okay, so you go in there. You don't see
the NFL, you don't see major League Baseball. You don't
see men's anything. You just see women competing in sports,
which I think is great. That's fine. And when they opened,
(14:52):
the day they open, they had a big long line
all the way around the block. Great concept, great place
where people who enjoy women's sports. You don't have to
be a woman to go in there. You just have
to like women's sports because that's all you're going to
see on TV. In there. Go in there and watch,
go cheer your favorite women players. All they got to
do now is define the term right, And I honestly
(15:15):
I believe that Houston would support something like that wholeheartedly.
We have women's professional sports here. We watch women's professional sports.
I'll turn on and watch the TV sometimes. And no,
not just for beach volleyball either. No, I've watched all
kinds of women's sports. I appreciate the sport. I appreciate
(15:38):
the level of play that the women put on display
in the professional arena. Women's basketball not so much. That's
different for me anyway. Also in women's news, this is
something I actually sent this to a woman who used
to work here. Were you here will? When TK was here?
(15:59):
Tam or casp do you recognize that name, No Tamera,
a really bright young woman who also knew one heck
of a lot about automobiles and motorcycles and could could
tear one down to its last nut and bolt and
then put the whole thing back together and fix anything
(16:20):
that was wrong with it. She's really bright. She's been teaching.
I don't know what exactly she's doing now, but for
the longest time she had her own garage and was
teaching women to repair their do simple repairs on their
own cars and whatnot. So I found this story out
of Pennsylvania and I sent it to her about a
woman who ditched a six figure engineering job to launch
(16:43):
what's called Girls Auto Clinic. It's a car care place
and there's going to be a bunch of them around
the country. You watch and see that caters to women
not only as customers but also as workers. She and
other women who are trained in the same skills and
work that she's already figured out, offer a full service
(17:06):
auto shop. It's women customers also get to come in
there and drop the car off for an oil change
and then walk a few steps and get a manny
petty while they're there. Would you do that? Would you
go get a manicure and a pedicure while you were
getting an oil change. Sure you would, wouldn't you. No,
I mean when was the last time you had a manicure?
Will never same here. I've never had a manicure, but
(17:29):
I would. Would you if you could get your toes
done at the same time. Just sit back there in
that big old chair, take your shoes off, take your
socks off, drop your You know what would be cool
if they did that with the fish that eat the
dead skin off your toes. Have you seen that?
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Yeah, that I would. I'd do that just to watch
it done. I would pay money not to watch somebody
else get their toes trimmed by a fish, but I'd
let them do that. We got to take a break.
Says well, either that or he's showing me how fish
eat dead skin off toes. A bronze roofing. Uh, yeah,
(18:05):
that's exactly right. That's what it looks like in the video.
Will sure, whatever thirty years in business, bronze roofing has
been and will be there probably another thirty forty. I
don't know how many. I don't know how many more
people are coming up through the bronze hierarchy. Quality work
at a fair price. That's how they started, that's how
they'll finish, if they ever do finish, because who doesn't
(18:28):
want quality work at a fair price. That's what you
get from Bronze. First of all, you get a free
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evaluation of your roof. And it's a thorough inspection too.
They don't just look at it from the ground say yeah,
it looks fine, or no, you gotta fix something that's
gonna cost you a lot of money. No, they get
up on the roof, they walk it end to end,
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and when they come down fingers crossed, they're gonna come
down and say, oh, your roof's fine. See in a
couple of years, if they have found something wrong, they
will show you pictures of what it is. They will
explain probably how it happened. They will explain how they
can fix it, how long it will take, what parts
and equipment and uh tools they'll use, and how much
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it's gonna cost. And when they come back down from
that roof the second time, that's how much it's gonna cost.
Not no hidden surprises. They don't do anything without letting
you know exactly what's going on on that roof for years,
free inspections, usually within twenty four hours. It's good to
put a whole new roof on my house a while back.
We're in good shape now for a long long time
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Aged to perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike.
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We turned the corner at the bottom of the hour
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whether it's medical or entertainment or travel or anything that
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but we're not all so different that we don't have
common likes and dislikes, common interests and disinterests. So just
(20:51):
let me know, and who knows you. You may pick
a topic that it's been on many other people's minds
but they just haven't gotten around letting me know. I'm
easy to find too. It's very simple. You can do
two things. You can dial pound two fifty and say
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(21:12):
about a fifteen second voicemail, or you can email me.
And once you set up an email, you can send
as many words as you like, as you like, and
I will sit there and read them all. I've had
some good exchanges recently with people who listen to my
outdoor show. I found two men, grown men closer to
(21:33):
my age than Will's age, two grown men who have
never in their lives caught a fish, but who are
intent on doing so. And I have sent both of
them emails, sending each of them to a different destination,
both charged with the task of using a cane pole
to catch a small sunfish. And unless they trip over
(21:57):
their shoelaces and fall in the water where there they're
going and how I recommended they fish, we'll get them
that first fish within gosh, I would say, within ten minutes.
If they do it, do what I'm telling them to do.
It's not that hard. One of those places. My son
and I when he was young, each of us with
(22:18):
a cane pole in hand, managed within about an hour
or maybe an hour and fifteen minutes to catch more
than one hundred fish. That not a one of them
as big as my hand even, and I'm convinced that
they were those fish once they figured out what was
going on, were in a line like a conga line
underwater and just coming every time we would drop a
(22:40):
bait into the water. We were using little pieces of
balooney that day, and mostly we changed over toward the end.
It's a long story, but the little pieces of balogney,
they're very good at snapping off the hook, and once
they either got caught or got the piece of bait,
they had to go to the end of the line.
If they got caught, they knew we were going to
throw them back, and if they didn't get caught, they
(23:01):
just got to the end of the line and waited
till it was their next turn to get a piece
of bait from us. All the way out in long beach, California. Oh,
I already told you about that one. There's another. There's
another California story here. Hold on, where did it go?
This one's very interesting too. That's not her here. It
is from San Diego. Let's go to San Diego. Way
(23:23):
down Southern California could have come from a lot of places, though,
just about any place there is a beach in an
ocean and moving tide and moving current. The sand on
which you walk on the beach. Now Here, our sand
is pretty compact. It really is that in most places
along the Texas coastline, you can drive up and down
(23:46):
the beach and pretty much any kind of car you
want to. You don't need four wheel drive, you don't
need big balloon tires. The beaches are hard enough and
strong enough and have been packed down so long that
they can support the way to vehicles, even big trucks.
In San Diego, sixteen year old girl just enjoying the
(24:06):
day at the beach with her friends, suddenly finds herself
buried to the neck in sand after a sand hole
opened up and collapsed around her, pulls her down, and
when she finally stopped going down, all that was visible
(24:28):
still were her head and her arms when the hole
seemed to be growing as men with shovels worked frantically
to save her, which they did, by the way. Her
friends tried to get her out. At first, they were
digging with their hands and didn't think it'd be that
big a deal. But there's so much sand falling in
around her, and so it's so heavy and so compact
(24:52):
that they couldn't do it that way. So they got
a couple of lifeguards involved, and more and more people,
more and more shovels actually got her out. The greatest
danger with these sand holes, if someone's trapped in one
like that, is the pressure that all that weight places
on your torso, because in some cases it can be
(25:15):
enough to prevent you, kind of like the way a
boa constrictor or any of the constrictors really kind of
like the way those big snakes squeeze and squeeze and
squeeze you and put that pressure on you where you
can't get any air back into your lungs and you
eventually suffocate. She didn't all of that, no reason to
worry about her. She was fine and didn't do any
(25:38):
permanent damage. But that's still a scary concept and if
you're ever in a situation where that happens, which you
can absolutely positively call immediately for professional assistants to get
that person out of there and something. How much time
do I have We'll like four or five minutes?
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Huh, you have.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Two minutes? Stuff? Oh okay, wow, and I'm gonna have
so much leftover. Once again in religious history, I found
this story yesterday. I wanted to share it with you.
A discovery of an altar originally unveiled in the year
eleven forty nine and presumed lost basically after a big fire.
(26:21):
This was in a church, and there was this big
fire in eighteen oh eight that destroyed most of that
church where the altar had stood. In Jerusalem, by the way,
on the site where Jesus was crucified and buried, and
in the back of what was left of that church,
people recently found this large stone slab leaning against a
(26:44):
wall and ignored for centuries, more contemporarily seen by one hundreds,
if not thousands of tourists almost every day, but not
quite recognized for what it actually was, to the point
that there was even graffiti all over this then and
suddenly the somebody moved it somebody took a second look,
(27:06):
somebody who knew what they were looking at recognized it
as coming from that very coming from that very place,
very special place in Christianity. Pretty cool stories like that,
and in any any religion, any stuff that old. I
find fascinating the history of it all. And to see
a place that's been that's mentioned in a book as
(27:29):
powerful as the Bible, and then see that it's it's real,
it's it's there, it's it's an actual accounting of an
actual event, of an actual place. That just kind of
locks it all down. It's National left Hander's Day, Will
did you know that?
Speaker 3 (27:43):
What'd you get? What'd you get me? I'm left handed?
By oh you're left handed as well. I didn't know
that it was National left handed Day? So well, now
you know I didn't know you were left handed either.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
And by the way, there is no National right handers Day.
You know what they build specifically for writing's credit card machines,
measuring cups, zippers on jeans, that's how they open. Think
about that that little flat there opens to the left
so you can pull it up with your right hand.
I've kind of learned to deal with it playing cards
the same way when you fan them out. If I
(28:16):
fan them out in my left hand, they don't look right.
If I fan them out in my right hand, I
can see the suits at all. Makes sense? Probably not
even serrated knives are made for right handers because your
natural tendency is to roll your wrist clockwise as you
slice as a right hander. It's just an average person.
It's an average right hander, not a special left hander,
(28:41):
which is what Why are you just noding your head
like you don't care? It's a big deal to be
left handed, will you? But you wouldn't know. No, I
wouldn't know. You have no idea what you're missing.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
I'm an ambidextrous.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
No you're not. Yes, no, you're not ambidexter. Okay, What
I want you to do during the breakdown is I
want you to flip a pen in your left hand
and your right hand and not look awkward doing it
with your left hand. Can you do that? We'll see,
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Speaker 1 (30:37):
Once life without a net, I suggest you to go
to bed, sleep it off. Just wait until the show's over.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Sleepy.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Back to Doug Pike, as fifty plus continues, Welcome back on.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
This Tuesday afternoon at about I don't know, eight nine
minutes before the hour will what do you see? Officially
over there?
Speaker 3 (31:03):
We are at twelve fifty two twenty fonds.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Set your clocks. Boys and girls, mature boys and girls,
mostly most of us. There are young people listening. I
get emails from them letting me know that they are
listening on behalf of their parents. Those are the really
good kids. They're really really good ones taking care of
mom and dad. Listen to fifty plus, learning about something
that will help their parents, and hopefully sharing that information
(31:31):
as quickly as possible over dinner perhaps, or maybe just
a cup of coffee or a movie. You're just take
your parents somewhere if your parents are still with you.
Take it from someone whose parents have passed away. If
your parents are still alive, still can get out and
go somewhere. Get them out, Take them somewhere, even if
it's just for a ride around, a ride around town.
(31:53):
If they're pretty much housebound and don't get out very often,
load them up in the car and take them for
If they make it to fall, take them out and
let them ride around with the windows down in the car.
That's how they came up. That's how I came up.
If you wanted to get cooler in the wintertime riding
in the car, you rolled down the window, and by
(32:15):
rolled down, I don't mean pushed a button and watched
it go down. This audience knows what I'm talking about.
Have you ever ridden in a car will where you
had to physically roll the windows down with a crank? Yeah,
a handle? No, mechanically no that Yeah, that's that's something
(32:37):
that Hey, I'm glad you don't ever have to do that.
The downside for you, though, is that if you get
if your car goes in the water, you can't get
those windows down once that electricity goes out unless you
have one of those special hammers. And I don't want
you to ever have to need that. Let's just get
off of that very quickly to champion a hero should
(33:01):
a woman who should be a hero amongst us, listen
to this woman named Virginia Hislop. Okay, finally, and by
that I mean finally earned her masters from Stanford after
her studies were interrupted just as she began. She was
like on the tail end of all this, started writing
(33:23):
her thesis, and a little thing called World War II
got in the way. Her fiance and she were quickly
married before he deployed, and then she he went off
to war, and she stayed back here and helped the
war effort as best she could from home. Full career.
Many years later she learned that the thesis requirement had
(33:44):
been removed from that program, and she resumed her studies
and stuck with it, and stuck with it and stuck
with it. And in the twenty twenty four graduating class
at Stanford Hislop, who, by the way, is now how
old is she? Will for a pop quiz? She was?
(34:05):
She is.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
She hadn't died, Okay, she just got her But I
was saying was in reference to the past, alive during World.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Like yester, Yeah, she was alive during World War two.
That's out.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
It's right, and so in World War two and it is.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Don't burn the whole segment trying to figure this out
in your head. Just take a stab. She's ninety three,
missed it by twelve. She's one hundred and five. She's
great now. It took her eighty three years to get
her masters, but she got it. So hats off, Hats
(34:44):
off to Virginia Hyslop and her masters. Now they admit it,
no surprise at all, or it's lost its luster, kind
of like COVID.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Oh are you asking me?
Speaker 2 (35:01):
Yeah, yeah, this is Will's participation.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Would you read them off again?
Speaker 2 (35:05):
Your lord? Now they admit it, no surprise at all,
it's lost its luster. Coast surprise at all. Americans are
showing more interest in owning many a toure, cow's, goats, donkeys,
and other diminutive farm animals. Really, you wonder why you
can guess this? You know why they get you? Now?
(35:27):
Beyond cute? What else are they? They're little? Will? They
can't eat much, so it makes them affordable. I don't
know if that's even true. It is true, but you
don't think they'll grow. No, there's still miniatures I have
a horse, but it's only three feet tall. It doesn't
much with the pigs. You know, they say these are pig. Yeah,
(35:51):
it's a mini pig, just a short legged donkey. Four
hundred pounds. Yeah about that? How much time? None?
Speaker 3 (35:59):
We have forty seconds.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
M A study has linked this is for the grandkids
link childhood tablet use And I'm not talking about bear
aspirin tablets. We're talking about electronics. They've linked these electronics
in their use amongst little kids to anger outbursts, get
out of your mom and playing a game. Well that
would be a teenager voice, get out of your mom.
(36:24):
We're playing a game that's more like a that's more
like the little kid one uh message to sell phone
repairman got in trouble in Oklahoma. I don't even have
time to get to this. We might do it tomorrow.
That's it for today. Thank you all for listening. Bring
some friends tomorrow. Audios
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