Back from Labor Day

Today, Doug Pike interviews Robyn Cade of the Katy Home and Garden Show.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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And now fifty plus with Doug Pike.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
All right, tuesdayish of the program starts right now.

Speaker 4 (00:53):
And I just realized when I went over to the
printer then it had in printed one of the pieces
of paper. Need But that's okay. We'll get through this
first segment. That will not be a problem at all,
although I will have to temporarily and I know this
is gonna break a lot of hearts.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
Well, I hate to even tell them.

Speaker 4 (01:13):
We're gonna have to wait till segment three. Probably unless
you want to go over there and print it out
for me. I think they can wait. The high Coup
is highs and low's and haiku is very important, will yeah,
but not important enough for you to go print it
out for me. It would be so easy too, that
like maybe forty five seconds, you could be back. Nothing

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is gonna happen in that amount of time that could
derail anything.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
You never know. You never know. You could make a
lot of friends if you would go ahead and make
that happen. I'm just saying a lot of friends. Go
over there and just go to my word docs. You can.

Speaker 4 (01:50):
You can see at the bottom of the bottom of
my screen over there, just push the little w find
the one that's got all of the stuff for the
first segment, and printed out.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
That's all you would have to do.

Speaker 4 (02:03):
But you are steadfastly refusing. Let the record reflect, let
the record show. Okay, okay, I'll take that into account
as we get nearer the holidays. Speaking of holidays, how
is your labor Day? My labor day was much like

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well labor Day actually not yesterday, but Sunday opened dove
season across most of this state of out in fact,
really across all of the state, depending on what the
limits were and what you could what you could aim
at and fire at. But yeah, by and large, very
good the dove population, thanks for asking right about record levels,

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so there's plenty of them, and our state because they
are such tasty little birds. Our state takes about thirty
percent of all the doves taken in the US of A,
mostly because we have the most. We have ideal, ideal
nesting habitat, We have ideal climate for these birds, and

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they just they thrive here, and so it's it's good
if you like to eat them.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
They're very tasty. You go out, and no, I did not.
I was in here working.

Speaker 4 (03:22):
You're working well, And where I would want to go,
I would have to drive probably thirty or forty minutes
at least, at the very least in some direction just
to get out of the city limits far enough where
I could load and fire without repercussion. But I just
didn't and I had. It's not like I got cheated

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over the weekend. I work mornings on Saturday and Sunday,
as most of this audience knows, and the afternoons are
available but also available in the afternoons on a lot
of these Saturdays and Sundays, about the time the last
little bit of caffeine leaves my system after doing those
morning shows, the eyelids get a little heavy.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
Nap time retreat.

Speaker 4 (04:09):
I can tell you this from what's on that paperwork
still on my laptop that will won't go get. I
can tell you this the Dow Jones Industrial Average and
the other three major indicators. I typically wash all four
of them deep red.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
Dare I say scarlet will?

Speaker 3 (04:30):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (04:30):
Yeah? They just in the tank.

Speaker 4 (04:34):
Some of them, two of them more than one percent,
and two of them, at last look, which was only
about maybe forty five minutes ago, were more than two
points two percentage points down, and that's that's significant on
the On the plus side, the other two things I
see at a glance on the page I watch are

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oil and gold and oil ill. While we were having
our fun over the Labor Day weekend, oil kind of
took a significant downward tumble and was I want to say,
it was about seventy dollars and sixty or seventy cents
last time I looked, and trending trending like it might have.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
It's it's fluctuated already during the day and we're halfway
through it barely. But I want to say, I'm going
to guess that at the end of the day. It's
going to be slightly up, but not much. It was
down more than well, it won't. I don't think it'll
get back to where it was yesterday.

Speaker 4 (05:39):
Oil is a thing that moves all year or every day,
and I think what it'll end up being is not
down as far as it was this morning, which was
like three dollars and fifty cents, three eighty cents a
barrel something like that. A lot, a lot, and that
would have been nice if it could continue. But I
think it'll start kind of creeping back upward at some point.

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The market is just it's with so much going on
in the Middle East. I don't think it can withstand
a little more pressure.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
But we'll get there.

Speaker 4 (06:12):
Gold actually was it was bouncing up and down like
a rubber ball if you really open it up to
the little micro movements, generally down a few bucks, but
recovering those bucks on the way to the.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
Start of this program, So we'll be okay. In the tropics.

Speaker 4 (06:30):
By the way, I'm looking at this weather guy on
the TV right now. We have three areas to watch,
all of which are in the mid Atlantic and generally
moving westward, which they all do, which they all do
the one that is nearest to us right now. And
bear in mind, it's still a couple of thousand miles away.

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It's not like it's on the doorstep. It's not even
anywhere near the just barely around the carre being right now.
It's coming around toward the Dominican Republic. It is supposed
to eventually turn away from us. The other two are
so far out there there's no telling which way they'll go.
And this guy who's pointing at them is he looks

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like he's doing some sort of dance with his hands,
and he has no idea where they're gonna go. We'll
just have to watch the water vapor. Yeah, they're doing
all kinds of stuff here. Oh, he's circling things. Now.
Now we're gonna just disappear from that, all right, will
coming up next segment. By the way, how much time
do I have? Just seconds?

Speaker 2 (07:35):
We have twenty seconds? Beautiful.

Speaker 4 (07:37):
Coming up next, we're gonna talk to a woman named No,
we're not, We're gonna wait till the bottom of the hoar.

Speaker 2 (07:41):
Correct.

Speaker 4 (07:42):
Yes, I'm gonna go ahead and print out what I
had for this segment so that I can deliver it
in the next segment, and then at the bottom of
the hour we will talk to a woman named Robin
Caid who is for the She's the woman who has
produced for nineteen years the Katie Home and Guard Show.
That's in the springtime. She's added the Katie Home Improvement Expo,

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which goes off this weekend out there in Katie. I'll
tell you more about that when we get to her
at the bottom of the hour. On the way out here,
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Speaker 2 (09:38):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.

Speaker 1 (09:40):
That's why every few months we wash him, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh cod o wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike.

Speaker 4 (09:53):
All right, welcome back fifty plus, Thanks for listening. Certainly
do appreciate it. On this Tuesday morning, here Land of
the Free, Home of common sense, I would hope, which
seems dreadfully lacking among a couple of younger generations. Not
you will, probably though, about the same as what our

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parents thought of us as we entered the journey into maturity.
My son showed a sign of maturity justice yesterday evening,
as a matter of fact, and I was glad it
came along. I hope you all enjoyed the holiday weekend.
I was talking about that Labor Day weekend, and to
celebrate I did some labor around the house and some

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fun stuff as well. And true to the forecast, that
record rainfall dump on parts of Galveston Island, Holy count
My son was down there with friends at a beach
house about halfway down to San Luis Pass and got
out because he had to come back and go to
work as at his lifeguard post. He got out before

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sixty first Street was basically turned into a shallow estuary,
if you will, yesterday morning. I think I heard somebody
talking early this morning about it being one of the
may be the most significant rainfall over an hour or
something like that ever down there, speaking of weather, thanks

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Forecast time still highs and lows in haighkup one segment
late but nonetheless here will are you ready? Yes, rain
chants through midweek, then cool with highs in eighties audio

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summer audio summer.

Speaker 2 (11:45):
I like that because it's how you end every show,
you say, audios but not summer. I know, but a nod.
It's a tie in. Yeah, it's an homage.

Speaker 3 (11:55):
You know what.

Speaker 2 (11:57):
You know what, Doug, I'll give you a seven point
seven today.

Speaker 4 (12:03):
Wow, I'm taking aback. I just my gratitude is just
overflowing over here.

Speaker 1 (12:12):
Man.

Speaker 2 (12:12):
Yeah, that's pretty good. Is that the highest score ever?

Speaker 3 (12:14):
Is it? Huh?

Speaker 2 (12:15):
No, you've gotten an eight before, have I really?

Speaker 3 (12:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (12:18):
I forget so quickly. All right, So, now, as I
mentioned earlier, now I won't hover here.

Speaker 4 (12:24):
The markets just fell into the toilet this morning, down significantly.
If you think that's gonna matter to you, go take
a look the problem stories I read this morning. It's
kind of like our chickens are coming home to Roosh
finally after four years of just disastrous decisions and fabrications

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out of Washington the inaccurate monthly job counts that we've
been getting for pretty much the same amount of time. Now,
the yeah what else, false claims about inflation. All of
this stuff's finally coming home, finally taking full effect, and
I'm not sure. Well, there is a way to get

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around it and get away from it, and that'll come
in November. Moving forward, a disturbing story that I saw
all the way from Turkey this morning, where two US
Marines were just on leave and enjoying their afternoon in
town and got attacked. And there's video of this. It

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really kind of ticks me off. A group of young
Turkish nationalists attacked these two Marines, and the Marines actually
they appeared to be kind of holding their own, but
nonetheless other Marines came in and helped bust all this up,
and to their credit, the Turkish government and law enforcement

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came in and arrested all fifteen men who had participated
in that, because they know better.

Speaker 2 (13:57):
My concern with this really is just how weak our.

Speaker 4 (14:00):
Country must appear to the rest of the world's fanatical
little fringe groups that they would do something like that.

Speaker 2 (14:07):
It truly bothers me.

Speaker 4 (14:10):
The bunch responsible for attacking those marines said their action
was quote deserved and also quoting every time you step
foot in these lands, we will meet you the way
you deserve. So they feel like I think they feel
kind of immune from repercussion, which this administration would probably

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lead them to belief.

Speaker 2 (14:37):
In good news.

Speaker 4 (14:38):
I'm going to try to balance bad good, bad, good,
bad good all the way through and see how that
works with a pause in the middle at the bottom.
Here for Robin Cade's interview about the Katie Home improvement expo.
In good News, a toddler went missing in a ten
foot high corn field.

Speaker 2 (14:58):
First of all, will this the pop quiz? You ready? Well?
Are you ready? Just say so and say so.

Speaker 4 (15:09):
This is some this is audio, will not. Your nod
has no meaning whatsoever to the audience. So in any event,
where in what state would you find this ten foot
high cornfield?

Speaker 2 (15:21):
Nebraska?

Speaker 4 (15:22):
No, No, no, Iowa. Quit Quit while you're quit before
you get farther behind. Anyway, So this three year old
kid runs into ten foot high corn telling his parents,
who were close by, he was going to run in
there and catch this little presume a stray cat, little
kitty that he saw dart into the stalks. Okay, and

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in no time this kid has vanished from the view
of his parents, and they go looking for him and
calling and looking and calling, and finally had to call
in the police from Fond de Lac, Wisconsin. How many
states would you have gone through before you got to
Wisconsin for ten foot high corn?

Speaker 2 (16:05):
Will?

Speaker 4 (16:05):
Yeah, I think I would have gone through a couple more,
most of them more in the midwest. Kansas was Nackt
Kansas Isowa, Nebraska. That's the corn belt, I would think,
But I don't know. I mean, we have corn growing
down here. It's a great, great food for wintering waterfowl here.
In any event, they called in the police, who brought

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in their heat sensing drone and as just as it
was getting I mean it was dark actually when they
found this kid, but his little heat signature in there.
Once it kind of cooled off, the heat gave the
little kid away and they ran in there and got
him and got him out and he's back with his
parents again.

Speaker 2 (16:49):
Who ray one minute, yes, cow, Okay, let's some then
let's do this.

Speaker 4 (16:55):
Will we need one of those chug a lug or
beat it, chug a lug chug a lug a Michigan
man chugged how many ounces of ranch dressing in ten
seconds to win a competition? First of all? Three would

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be too many. I'm gonna go with something crazy. I'll
say he did thirty ounces of ranch.

Speaker 2 (17:27):
Not quite, but if you'd have given him five more seconds,
he may have done it.

Speaker 4 (17:31):
Twenty four ounces of ranch dressing in ten seconds.

Speaker 2 (17:38):
Did he immediately vomit afterwards? It would have been hard
to tell. Now you know.

Speaker 4 (17:43):
It's probably a bunch of it all over his cheeks
and his chin and just nasty, that's all r Yeah
it is. I so seldom do things like that, but
I couldn't pass that one up.

Speaker 2 (17:55):
All right.

Speaker 4 (17:56):
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Why does this make.

Speaker 4 (19:38):
Me feel like I'm, I don't know, driving down some
two lane blacktop with the painted stripes down the middle
kind of faded because they haven't been repainted.

Speaker 2 (19:49):
In about twenty five years.

Speaker 4 (19:50):
Welcome back to fifty plus on this partly cloudy Tuesday.
There's a chance of rain. Who cares that there's always
a chanceer ring. We'll talk in this segment about the
all new Katie Home Improvement Expo set for the coming
weekend out at Merrill Center in Katie, Man, absolutely loaded
with the latest and greatest and cool stuff for the
inside and outside.

Speaker 2 (20:10):
Of your home. And with that, I'm going to bring
in Robin Cade.

Speaker 4 (20:14):
Who also, by the way, as producer of the Springtime
Katie Home and Garden Show from Boy from its inception
some nineteen years ago.

Speaker 2 (20:22):
Welcome back, Robin.

Speaker 3 (20:25):
Hi, it's so great to be here. Thanks for having me.

Speaker 4 (20:28):
Kind of like the show so nice, you're gonna have
to do it twice, huh. But these are different shows,
aren't they.

Speaker 3 (20:34):
They're a little bit different, you know. In the fall
season fall, which is kind of now, there seems to
be a little bit more focus on the interior of
your home, you know, getting some projects done before the holidays.
But also we do have a lot of focus still
on the exterior, which I think the times are changing,

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where it used to be a lot more of the
guard and now it's hardscapes and pergolas and really making
for an outdoor living space. One thing for your entertaining space, right.

Speaker 2 (21:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (21:09):
One thing I like about this date for this show
is that if you do have a project you're fired
up about outside as you develop that project after seeing
whatever it is and getting your ideas at the show
this weekend, then the weather's not going to be a
thousand degrees when you go outside and try to do
whatever it is you want to do.

Speaker 3 (21:30):
That's true. And also you have time if you're hiring
a contractor to get it done and enjoy like a
time when the weather's actually going to be nice in
the Houston area.

Speaker 2 (21:40):
Right Amen to that. Holy caw. I'm not sure where
to start. I guess with this show.

Speaker 4 (21:44):
Maybe trends you mentioned some new trends go go from
room to room in a house, maybe for two or
three of the biggest thing what's the latest, greatest, hottest
new thing indoors?

Speaker 2 (21:57):
Wow?

Speaker 3 (21:57):
I will have to say that I would leave that
to the experts at the show mostly, Bye, I have
heard you know, if you come out and talk to them,
they're going to be able to tell you a lot
better than I can. Bye. I know, because I'm actually
building a house right now. Trends are changing in the
kitchen and going back to more gold kind of fixtures

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and knobs, oh wow, and lighting statement pieces. Those are
big these days, there is supposed to be the new color.
Even for twenty twenty five. They've been hinting and it's
going to be some crazy red color. Oh, I do
know that people are really going to be painting red

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so much.

Speaker 2 (22:42):
I don't know if I could paint.

Speaker 4 (22:43):
My wife and I are in the It's going to
be a long drawn out process for several different reasons.
But we're in the process of repainting the entire inside
of the house and we're two rooms down and many
more to go. But nonetheless, no read I promise not,
We're not doing red.

Speaker 3 (22:58):
That sounds like you could use. One of the seminars
at our show, we have Jason from color World Paintings
speaking about how to brush up on your home style,
and he's talking about how you can discover how you
can achieve a flawless painting project and learn tips to
ensure a smooth, trouble free experience.

Speaker 4 (23:18):
Well, the only the only brush I'm going to be
wielding for this project is it looks like a little
pin and I just write numbers with you.

Speaker 2 (23:26):
That's it.

Speaker 4 (23:30):
No one, it's a great it's a great chance though, really,
like I said earlier, for do it yourselfers to get
out there and get tips on the inside and the
outside of the house.

Speaker 2 (23:39):
Talk about some of the other seminars and whatnot that
you've got.

Speaker 3 (23:45):
My favorite thing that I think I want to attend
this show because you would think that I would be
really good with decorating and gardening and that kind of
thing that no, I'm an organizer. I am terrible with
my own house. We have gardening seminars that are going on,
actually gardening classes, wow, and they are There's one in

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particular that is for beginning gardeners like just to have
the brownest thumb ever come to this seminar. That's a class. Sorry,
she's going to teach you what you need to start
right now for getting a fall container garden going. And
then there is another one for a little bit people
that have a little bit more experience that is again

(24:26):
about fall and what you should be doing now to
get your garden beds ready. I love that and I
want to attend that. But another thing that I think
is fun. We have the Sartaine from Belleville, Kelly and Jason,
and they're going to be talking about their experience how
they have survived renovating a nineteen twelve house surviving a

(24:48):
renovation with a spouse and six children. Six children, dougs,
that's a lot.

Speaker 2 (24:57):
Of extra hands to help.

Speaker 4 (24:58):
But it's also a lot of opinions to deal with, huh, and.

Speaker 3 (25:03):
A lot of schedules to deal with, you know, sports
and all the things with school, and try to set
that in while you're still getting your home projects done
and running a business. I think it's going to be
a lot of fun to watch them on stage.

Speaker 4 (25:15):
I would love to see. I wish they had been
taking video that the whole way through. That would have
been that would have made a pretty good television series.

Speaker 2 (25:22):
I would think, talk about it.

Speaker 3 (25:24):
It might, It just might.

Speaker 4 (25:26):
So Robin Kate here from the Katie Home Improvement Expo
this weekend out there at Merrill Center. And Katie, who's
Charlie Fisher.

Speaker 3 (25:35):
Charlie Fisher is the person who is doing those.

Speaker 2 (25:38):
Gardening colors now, good good, good good.

Speaker 3 (25:40):
Is with urban garden plants. Yes, she is amazing. And
also let's talk about the charcuterie boarding.

Speaker 2 (25:46):
Oh yeah, well that was seminar stage go ahead.

Speaker 3 (25:49):
Yes, So another one that I feel like a lot
of these are are for me this time when you
have unexpected holiday company.

Speaker 4 (25:58):
It is your show, is your expo. After all, I
don't imagine any influence was in that schedule that you
got fingerprints all over this and rightfully, so tell me.

Speaker 3 (26:10):
About maybe I need to get someone to go video
for me because I never seem to have a chance
to make it to them. But I really want to
learn about how to make the cheese balls for the
for the football season, but also how to pull stuff
from the staples in your pantry when you have unexpected
guests coming. So those are two different seminars. She's going
to speak, Yeah, and I'm like, if you looked to

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my pantry, because I don't know if you could really
find the staples there. I want to see what staples
she has that I probably don't have.

Speaker 4 (26:38):
Yep, Well that that's a good Yeah, everybody's kitchen is
a little bit different and the pantry is a little
bit different. Those charcooni reboards that they've just kind of
evolved into edible art, really haven't they?

Speaker 3 (26:48):
Oh my gosh, they really haven't. There's so many different
variations of them. Now have you seen the ones for
they do the sweetboards or a barbecue board or a
breakfast board. There's so many different ways you can go
with it. It's amazing.

Speaker 2 (26:59):
I'll go with all of the those ways.

Speaker 4 (27:01):
What is Robin the latest in smart technology for our homes?

Speaker 3 (27:08):
It seems like everything can be operated now. You're a refrigerator,
your oven, your lights, your security system, your pool. I mean,
it's just I don't know when it's gonna stop.

Speaker 4 (27:22):
Well, the phones that we have now have so much
capacity and so much there's so many apps available, And
you're right about the appliance. Is almost every appliance you
looks at you look at now says that it can
be operated from your phone. So if you want to
bake cookies, at some point, they're going to have a
mixing bowl and a mixer that you can start with
that and then the little robot you have in the

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house is going to take it over to the oven.

Speaker 2 (27:45):
And you'll have cookies when you get home. How convenient, huh.

Speaker 3 (27:48):
I'm so. I'm very curious how the one for the
fridge works where it's supposed to be able to tell
you what your your grocery list should be like, how.

Speaker 2 (27:55):
Do they know?

Speaker 3 (27:56):
Is there like a little person in there checking out
what I really have left?

Speaker 4 (27:59):
It's kind of in a way very quickly, because I'm
almost out of time. Tell me about that youth entrepreneur market.

Speaker 3 (28:06):
This is the third time now I believe that we
have had the youth entrepreneur market in our show, and
I am so happy to support the next generation of entrepreneurs.
There are kids ages six through seventeen who are are
have an idea for their business. They make a lot
of their own product and they are bringing it to

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market and Wi'll have it for sale at the show.
I think this is such a great program teaching them
what it really takes when you have an idea to
actually bring it to where you can sell it to
the public.

Speaker 4 (28:40):
And as a follow up, real quick, because I do
have to go, but I think it's important to anybody
who's going to visit that show, because admission is free
after all, bring the money you might have spent on
a ticket to go see a movie or something like
that and invest in one of those products to keep
those kids who are truly interested in innovation motivated and
excited to see what they can do.

Speaker 3 (29:03):
That that is so sweet. I have to I have
to say that parking.

Speaker 2 (29:06):
Is for you to at this no excuses, none, that's
right there you go.

Speaker 4 (29:15):
You beat me to it, Katie home Improvement Expo dot com.

Speaker 2 (29:19):
Thank you, Robin, Thank.

Speaker 3 (29:22):
You so much.

Speaker 4 (29:22):
Dog.

Speaker 3 (29:23):
Have a good rest of your day.

Speaker 2 (29:24):
Me too, here you too, by bye. All right, we
got to take a little break here on the way out.

Speaker 4 (29:28):
Speaking of homes, boy, you talk about if you don't
want to do any of it yourself, and you want
to watch your dream home come true, and a lot.

Speaker 2 (29:37):
Of people do. It's time.

Speaker 4 (29:39):
It's it's always time for somebody, and maybe this is
your time, or maybe it's coming soon that you're gonna.

Speaker 2 (29:44):
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Speaker 1 (31:04):
Old guys rule and of course women never get old.
If you want to avoid sleeping on the couch.

Speaker 2 (31:11):
Okay, I think that sounds like a good plan. Fifty
plus continues Here's more with Doug. All right, welcome back,
fifty plus. Thanks for listening. Certainly do appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (31:29):
I'm looking at this one story where did it go?
It said, I want to say, let me see if
I can get the number right? Oh, go away, whatever
you are.

Speaker 2 (31:40):
I'm not sure in any event.

Speaker 4 (31:42):
In a nutshell, it's said that about forty or fifty
thousand public school kids are being pulled out and put
in homeschooling each year. And then I also saw a
story this morning about how I believe no, it's I
don't think it's in Houston. I think it's across the board.

(32:02):
Maybe about thirty percent of kids in K through twelve
education right now are behind their grade level, which is
exactly what happens.

Speaker 2 (32:18):
It's exactly what happens.

Speaker 4 (32:20):
Yeah, third of kindergarten through twelfth grade students in the
United States, I just found the story again are performing
below their grade level, because that's what happens when you
haul kids out of school, throw them at the house
because they might catch something that really didn't do a
whole lot to little kids, had minimal effect the pandemic.

(32:42):
There were a lot of people in adulthood and all
the way into seniority. The older you got, the worse
it was in the early stages of COVID. But we're
learning an awful lot about how that was, how that
was presented, what its origins were, and one by one

(33:05):
the facts are coming out, and a lot of things
are gonna come out a lot about a lot of stuff,
depending on which way November goes. Okay, well, you're back
words and their meanings. Enough already, or love me tender,
love me tender, love.

Speaker 2 (33:26):
To me tender you want it? Really? Sure?

Speaker 4 (33:29):
Company in Thailand offering an interesting benefit to its employees.
They call it tender leave, or well, they're getting paid,
take a little time off, go out on a date.

Speaker 2 (33:43):
How about that? All right? Not happening around here.

Speaker 4 (33:46):
It wouldn't It wouldn't affect either of us. Frankly, it shouldn't.
Not me, you will, No, Okay, I'm gonna do one
more of these I am.

Speaker 2 (33:59):
I'm gonna let you pick as well. Meaningless statistic? Shall
I continue? Or is that enough? I mean it kind
of defends if the other ones.

Speaker 4 (34:08):
Are enticing under the sun or do you hear what
I hear? Hmm, yeah, let's go with the meaningless statistic. Boy,
it is if this doesn't epitomize that a pole asked
when you are sleeping, do you more often feel too

(34:28):
hot or too cold? And it doesn't matter what your
answer as well. I'm not gonna pull you into a
pop quiz on this, but it says here that the
demographic most likely to say that they were too hot
was gen X women in the Midwest.

Speaker 2 (34:44):
Who cares? Now? Who cares? Am I right? Yeah, that's useless.

Speaker 4 (34:50):
It's beyond the useless, meaningless, A waste of breath, I think,
not a waste of breath, I think. I'm sure you're
just on and needles to know what the new baby
name for girls is. And it's part of an ongoing
trend with this particular word. But now people are naming
their children this. You had any idea, no, demure, How

(35:16):
would you like to go through life as demure?

Speaker 2 (35:18):
Wilborne?

Speaker 3 (35:21):
Bad?

Speaker 2 (35:22):
It would be pretty bad for you, probably aing it'd
be okay, No, no, it would not be teased for
the rest of your life. Will you think so?

Speaker 3 (35:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (35:32):
Probably? Back to Washington, d C.

Speaker 4 (35:36):
And Vice President Harriser teams let it be known that
she and President Biden might make a few appearances together
leading up to the election. But they will use him,
they said, they will use our president carefully. This according
to a New York Times story and in a quote
targeted way and quote in other words, they're gonna send

(35:57):
him to the swing states up north to try and
shore up issues there, and she's gonna be mostly elsewhere,
I guess, across the South, adopting more fake accents, which
she did again just a few days ago.

Speaker 2 (36:10):
That's how it's coma coma camelleon.

Speaker 4 (36:13):
I've heard a couple of times, and she does tend
to play to the crowd. I saw a hilarious whichever
side you're on, I saw a hilarious thing this morning
about supposedly it was a little parody about her, her
mindful teacher or some guru or whatever, the person who

(36:34):
was teaching her how to be one with the universe.

Speaker 2 (36:38):
And it's it's pretty dog one funny. If you can
go find it somewhere in Canadian news. Will Oh, how
much time do I have? Thirty seconds?

Speaker 4 (36:46):
I'll hold the Canadian stuff for tomorrow. Cardio drumming, will
is supposed to be all the rage is simple. All
you do this is so dumb. You place an exercise
ball in a bucket and you whack it with drumsticks
to beat out a song so that you get stress relief,

(37:08):
You burn calories, and you strengthen your bones, and you
make everybody else in the house really really mad.

Speaker 2 (37:14):
That's it, We're done. I'll see it tomorrow. Audios