November 18, 2024 • 37 mins
Today, Doug Pike discusses a new schedule change, banana art, and mice.
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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, don, 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
you by the UT Health Houston Institute on Aging, Informed
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Speaker 2 (00:51):
By Welcome to Monday, and by the way, moving forward
starting next week, Monday will be the day that we'll
gets to choose from four fantastic editions of this show
the Tuesdays through Fridays, and he will be picking will
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you do a whole Do you typically pull a whole show? Yes?
Oh that makes it easy on you, doesn't it? Well?
Of course it all flows, they said shortcut will speaking
of and I'm not saying you're doing any of this,
don't worry about it. But I saw a story this morning.
It just reminds me of work and how it works
for some people of your generation, not all of them.
(01:34):
It's certainly not including you. I know you work hard,
I really do. But somebody from your generation sent an
email to his or her I don't know, boss, saying
that he or she had worked late on a proposal,
a project and gotten it done, and so they wouldn't
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be in the next morning very early. They're going to
take some time off in the morning because they worked
a little late. Do you agree with that? Will or
disagree with it? I agree with it.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Why would you come in if you had to pull
up maybe an all nighter?
Speaker 2 (02:12):
It didn't say anything about an all night or just
a little bit late in the how late six o'clock hour,
hour and a half, two hours, maybe seven tops?
Speaker 3 (02:20):
That's confirmed. So you're gonna come in at no I'm
just guessing.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Okay, Well, if it's there was what if it was
what if they stayed until ten o'clock? We're already in
the weeds now. I'm just saying, if you stay a
little bit longer, do you come in a little bit later?
What about one hour? One hour? Well, yeah, stay till
six instead of five? Are you gonna come in at
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nine instead of eight? The next morning, probably not but
about two hour where's your threshold? That's what we're deciding now.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
I mean, if I end up having to stay for,
you know, three or four hours after my shift has.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Ended, what if the boss said, well, you've had that
project on your desk for three weeks, why did you
wait until now to do it? Well?
Speaker 3 (03:11):
What if you had other things to do? What if
you had other projects to work on, things that might
have been more time sinsitive.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
We've just totally descended into an abyss here from which
we will never extract ourselves. So let's move forward, shall we.
Pretty good chunk of south east Texas for us anyway
around here, gonna be rainy this afternoon, and potential maybe
a little bit of thunder here and there, maybe a
little bit of lightning, hopefully not too much. At least
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the worst of this thing is going to pass well
to our north, but still some potentially heavy showers probably
starting depending on where you are in this listening area,
either within the next hour or two and rocking on
and off for maybe an hour or two more before
it all passes west to east and out of here.
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And after that, Holy cow, still by the way, tomorrow
is still a little warmer than we might like. Then
we get a really nice stretch of the kind of
weather that just makes you feel alive, about five or
six days of it. It's gonna be good. The worst
of this thing, this is that big front that's been
threatening to get here sooner or later, and sooner comes
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tomorrow night. At least it's gonna feel good, it really is.
And the worst of the thunderstorms and potential serious weather
way up north of us, like North Texas and north
of that. It's a big system, it really is, but
it's not gonna bother us that badly, and probably nobody
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south of about Victoria will even though it's passed through
until they wake up a couple of days from now,
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That's a good part about that ready will Hitney? Is
this the big one sweet taste of winter ahead?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Then?
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Who knows what's next?
Speaker 3 (05:30):
M You know, last week I was expecting a lot
more cooler weather.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Here it comes. Well, that's where you were saying last week.
I'm I'm a little less inclined to believe you this, yech. Oh, Okay,
you want to take some bets on the high temperature
on Thursday, I want to take a couple of points off.
That is what I want to do.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
I'm gonna I'm gonna start you off. What I'm gonna
start you off right in the middle, down on the
line A five.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Five point zero, and that's where you're staying, or you
that's where I'm staying. But I came close.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Then if you if you come through what tomorrow, I
don't know if it's gonna be tomorrow. I'm gonna actually,
i'm gonna wait until Thursday. I'll wait until Thursday, Okay,
and maybe we can revise the Monday score that.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
I see you go. So you're gonna give me a
chance to like a makeup test? Yes, okay, all right?
Well the well, actually I guess Tuesday and Wednesday will
be extra credit, right.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Yeah, you'll go you if it starts to get cold
starting tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
No, it is I specifically, what did I just say,
will if you then starting I said this tomorrow start
a little warmer than we might starting Wednesday. Oh, you're
gonna love Wednesday. If it starts to get cooler, it'll
be cooler when you wake up on Wednesday. Well, how cool?
I'm not sure on Wednesday morning when exactly it's going
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to come through by Wednesday afternoon? Sixties? Okay, Wednesday night,
Wednesday night forties?
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Okay, if I when I come in on Thursday and
when I leave on Wednesday and around five.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
You're so suspicious?
Speaker 3 (07:20):
What I'll give you an extra point for each day
and when?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
And how much does that translate to at the bank?
That could come up to a seven? So what's the
real benefit to that?
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (07:39):
The tangible benefit.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
The tangible benefit is that you will not be a
liar to us and the audience.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
I'll never lie to this audience, not once in my life.
I will never lie to this audience, any audience. No,
it's just not in my DNA. Man, I can't do that.
Why would I do that?
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Well, let's just hope you Let hope it comes through okay.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
By the way, Sarah, that little thing that was down
there on the Yucatan Peninsula just got beat up going
over the mountains, I guess. And it's supposed to. It
is supposed to get into the golf and take a
rite being shoved that way. By the way, by this front,
it's gonna move through here, probably fall apart. Today. The
National Hurricane Center doesn't even show it on the map anymore.
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Very quickly, before we break to the markets, we go
thanks to Houston gooldexchange dot com, Everything green early, Everything
green now. At least twenty minutes ago, oil jumped up
about two bucks a barrel, but was kind of coming
back just shortly ago, and gold up forty four bucks,
an ounce back north of twenty six hundred dollars the
last time I looked. And now we go to the
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ut Health Institute on aging, that collaborative of more than
a thousand providers. I'm pretty confident with that number. I
still when Monica gets back, I'm gonna ask her. She's
on vacation, and when she returns, that's one of the
questions I'm going to ask her. Mostly in the mediciner,
where you would imagine that the best providers in the
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entire state and possibly the country would be but many
of them also work in outlying communities, the pair Lands,
the Kingwoods, the sugar Lands, the kds, all of these
outlying areas where there are great medical facilities where those
people can bring their extra knowledge. And by extra knowledge,
I mean they have gone back and learned additionally to
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what got them the diploma on the wall, how their
specific area of expertise and knowledge can be applied to seniors.
That's us, and we are different than juniors and medium
ers whatever. They might be, far different in the way
our bodies work, in the way our bodies respond to things.
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That's why we need help from people who can do that.
Go to this website uth dot edu slash aging. First
of all, look at all Well, you don't have time
to look at all the resources that are available there,
but just browse them briefly and then go back every
day for a couple of weeks and you eventually might
get through all the information there. You'll also find out
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how to get in contact with these providers who know
us as well or better than we know ourselves. Uth
dot edu slash aging, ut h dot edu slash aging
what's life without a net? I suggest you go to bed,
sleep it off, just wait until the show's over. Sleepy.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Welcome back Kit the Plus. Thanks for listening. Certain to
do appreciate. At twelve twenty in the afternoon on a Monday,
this will be the last Monday I'm in here life
for a little while. We've changed our schedule again, our
staff meeting schedule to accommodate me shifting back to taking
Mondays off with which have actually works better for me workwise.
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I have so much I want to get done on
Thursday and Friday to prepare for my weekend shows and
to make sure I have good shows in here, and
so we're just gonna flip it around and hopefully it
will be a seamless transition. Moving on to some good
news before I get into some weird political garbage, which
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is that's almost totally redundant these days. Starting the week
with some good news. A woman who donated a piece
of her liver to a one year old boy who
was critically ill in desperate need of same, was able
to meet that child in a tearfield. Well, of course,
it was a tear field reunion. Recently, little Boy, in
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continuation of the good news there, has already caught up.
He just a year old, He's just a tiny He's
a little bitty guy, already caught up developmentally to his peers,
and is expected to live pretty much a healthy life
moving forward, which I think is fantastic for Astros fans.
And I don't know if you've heard this yet or not,
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it's relatively new news. The Astros will soon be playing
not in Minute Made Park, but in Daykin Park. Made
apparently not willing to continue its agreement for naming rights,
and Daykin was. And if you're curious, if you're not
familiar with the name or the brand, as I was not. Honestly,
(12:37):
Daycin makes and installs through independent AC contractors ductless air
conditioning and heating units. They've got a big old website.
I perused it for enough time to figure out what
they do and how it works. It didn't take fans
long to come up with a new, well tied name
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for the ball art. Do you hear that? Will? No,
We're gonna shift from the juice box to the ice box.
Okay about that? That's pretty good that's pretty good somebody.
I don't know how fast somebody came up with that,
but seeing as how we're doing air conditioning and for
the winter time. Of course, if we get into November
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again and play in the World Series, it can be
the what I've got. It will Okay, hit me hot box. Okay,
of course that's what it'll be. It's the hot box.
I heard Jimmy Barrett talking over on kt r H
this morning about how some federal employees are threatening I
can't help but laugh when I hear this threatening to
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quit their jobs after President Trump was reelected elected to
run the country. They're gonna quit their federal jobs from
which it's almost impossible to be fired unless you burn
down the building, and they're just gonna quit in protest.
They took mental health days after the election. Some of
them are still called and our incoming president Hitler, which
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will make it pretty easy to figure out who's really
on board to repair our broken country and who needs
to be shown the door. It's I'll post on x
about how convenient it is. And I found this kind
of funny based on everything that happened up leading up
right up to the election. How convenient it is that
the trash is taking itself out. Moving on from there,
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the next four years going to be a crushing blow,
I think, to every failed social experiment we've had shoved
down our throats, and already, already I'm hearing enthusiasm lots
of small business owners from for whom I speak and
have done so so proudly on my shows for many years,
everything from knives to doors, houses, golf courses, shooting ranges,
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golf shirts, roofing companies, healthcare, windshield repair, all kinds of things.
And they're all upbeat. They're all excited, even all the
way out to tiny little Alpine Texas, they're all pumped
up too, And why wouldn't you be. It may take
a little while for this movement to gain momentum, and
we've got to wait until late January really for this
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administration to get in place and become fully operational. But
I do think our country's going to emerge stronger and
better and safer, which is critical right now, safer in
the long run. I just pray nothing happens between now
and the changing of the guard, because our enemies around
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the world, no darned well, it's going to be different
when President Trump retakes the oval office, and hopefully just
like that guy they arrested here in Houston a few
days ago. I think it was he'd They've been watching
him for years, and I do have confidence that they
would have reacted sooner had there been reason to do
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so sooner. I think they have good psychological profiles on
these potential terrorists and monitor their activities closely enough to
avoid a major catastrophe. But boy, if he's out there,
you know there are more of them out there after
we've let him what eight ten eleven million people about.
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I don't know what percentage of them are terrorists, but
even if it's one percent of eleven million people, that's
a whole lot of people, even if it's a half
of a percent. So we'll just have to watch that
on a very close to home note for what will
and I do. I saw a study this morning except
Americans trust radio more than any other medium for their news.
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Nobody trusts national television news casts anymore, and even local
news a lot of times just kind of leans pretty
far left. I'll be curious to see if George Soros,
who recently bought controlling interest in a major radio company
in this country. I'm wondering when, not if, but when
he'll try to lean all those stations to the left
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and take advantage of radios perceived middle of the road
strategy and in some mean in many instances conservative strategies.
We'll see how it goes. That's all we can do.
What have we got left? Will? One minute? Real quick?
Will where to? Or nothing to do? Nothing to do?
(17:26):
Even with all the entertainment options we have now, a
study found that we are more bored than ever. Do
you consider yourself bored overall? Yeah? Do you really? Really? Seriously?
Will I'm bored right now? Can hug? I can never
tell with you, will, I can never tell. I see
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you throw that curveball at me right at the end.
So now I don't know whether you're really bored or not.
I don't think you are. I think you're paying attention
to your work as you should be. And if you
work a little late, if you work till one fifteen,
you can come in at twelve fifteen tomorrow, Okay, make
you happy. I hope I'm not here till one fifteen.
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You hope you're not here till twelve or one oh one?
Do you course? Yeah? Okay, I figured anyway, let's talk
about late Health, shall we. You're not ready for that,
will You're not old enough yet. But for those of
the guys in the audience who are about fifty five
and older, one in four of you probably has or
is about to have an enlarged, non cancerous prostate. Now,
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the good news is it's non cancerous. The bad news
is it brings along symptoms that are that are not comfortable.
Let's just politely say that, and at all. They manifest
themselves in many different ways, But the bottom line is
at late Health, one of its clinics around town where
they do vascular surgeries and procedures, Late Health can make
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that pesky growing prostate go away by shutting off the
blood supply to it, and as it shrivels up and dies,
so do the symptoms that come with it. Same for
fibroids and women, Same for ugly veins and anybody who's
got them. Same for even in some instances head pains,
which can be alleviated vascularly if they are the right
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Speaker 1 (19:58):
Now they sure don't make it like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash him, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh code O wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Here we go, third and well, third and third segment.
I guess it is not the fourth, not the final,
not the second, not the first. The third segment of
the program starts right now. Thanks for listening. I really
do appreciate it. Uh, Where do I go?
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Will?
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Let's go to oh, by the way, A quick announcement,
and then I'm gonna go to Banana News Right now.
I'm gonna remind you all that the eleventh annual golf
tournament we're going to host here is coming up soon
benefits Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, where the
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cur rate for pediatric cancers has almost tripled since the
hospital opened back in the nineteen sixties. I found out
this morning from my good friend Rebecca at Saint Jude
that there are only I think ten or eleven teams
still available for what I consider one of the best
and biggest charity events in the state. You can buy
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a team, or you can buy a sponsorship that includes
a team, but one way or the other, you'll be
helping to save the lives of children who show up
at that hospital critically critically ill. And the best news,
as has always been the case at Saint Jude, they're families.
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The families of children who are accepted into that system
never pay a dime for transportation, for housing, for meals,
for the treatment. There's not even a patient billing department
at Saint Jude. I got to go over there years ago,
and I was forever changed, and I have not stopped
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being strongly supportive of that hospital and the work that
it does now for more than sixty years. If you
want in, you need to jump now. The event is
December ninth. We will fill up both courses at Golf
Club of Houston, which is a lot of fun to play. Anyway,
you can email me if you want and I'll help
you get hooked up. Just email me say I want in,
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I want to know about sponsorships, whatever you want, whatever
information you want, I will get to it immediately after
the show. I promise you. I'll put everything else on
the side. If there are any any emails about this, I'll
address them first. Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. It's
is about as easy it's gonna get as it's gonna get.
Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot Com. From the Banana Desk as promised.
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Have you heard about this will from the banana Desk? No, seriously,
I haven't heard anything from the banana desk. Piece of art?
Does that ringingy bells yet? Twenty nineteen? Take yourself back
to twenty nineteen when you were just six twenty nineteen. Yeah,
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Italian artist. What did he do? He painted a banana?
No even dumber, He duct taped a banana to a
wall and his art as they called it actually sold
actually three pieces of the same art they did, because
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the banana is withering and look god awful after not
a very long time, duct taped to a wall. Three
iterations of this stupidity and silliness were sold at around
one hundred twenty to one hundred and fifty thousand dollars
at a Miami Beach aution back then. Well, apparently there
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are still some rich fools in the world because the
l this iteration of banana taped to wall. It's the
auction block at sotha piece on November twentieth, and guess
what the estimated sale price is gonna be for? Uh,
for a banana will duct taped to a wall? How
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much do they think it's gonna go for?
Speaker 3 (24:20):
They think it's gonna go for one point four.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
You're right there, a million to a million five US dollars,
not pennies US dollars. And for that, what you get,
because it's such a fragile piece of art, you get
a certificate of authenticity that allows you to buy your
own bananas in your own royal duct tape and recreate
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the piece just as often as you like. Only you're
a million and a quarter lighter. You know what this
thing ought to come, that certificate of authenticity, all to
come with gift cards from HB and Home Depot. This
is proof positive that there's just there's one born every minute.
A sucker, that is. There's a guy named David Galprin
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from Southeby's and he this is what he said, And
this is a quote what Katsalan. He's the artist that
I can't remember his first name. Let me see if
I wrote it down or not. I didn't bother. That's fine.
What Ketalan is really doing, this is the quote from
the guy at Sotheby's, is turning a mirror to the
contemporary art world and asking questions, provoking thought about how
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we ascribe value to artworks, what we define as artwork.
That's what Galprid said. What I say is a guy
taped a banana on the wall and he bet his
friends that somebody would buy it for more than one
hundred grand and he won. He won the one hundred
and ten hundred and twenty thirty thousand dollars in Miami,
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and he won whatever his friends put up. And he's
smiling all the way to the bank. Somebody is gonna
pay a million dollars for a banana tape to a
wall that's gonna just start stinking up the house in
about a week's nuts. Man, would you, ever, what would
you pay for if I were to come over to
your apartment? Will or your house? I come over, I
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show up with not just one banana, but like fifty
bananas in a whole roll of duct tape and tape
them all over your dining room wall, fifty of them.
Would it be worth fifty million dollars to I think
I'd call the police. I ain't know either that or
or the hospital to send over somebody who could carry
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me away for evaluation. That that just no, I'm sorry,
but that that doesn't qualify in my mind as art.
And if that makes me unartistic, I'm even gonna call
bluff on that. That's not That doesn't make me unable
to appreciate real art. I just don't think a banana
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tape to a wall is real art. I think it's
I think this guy almost did this as a joke,
and there's evidence that kind of shows that, and then
all of a sudden it caught fire and somebody did
just this stream of less and less art appreciative. People
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kept paying more and more money for these things. I
can't do that. I can't go for that. All right, will,
I'm gonna let you jump back in. Let's go with nice.
Try too close to home or rodents run them up.
Rodents run them up. This is a two parter. Actually
there's a follow up to the first one. A plane
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in Portugal was grounded for five days after one hundred
and thirty one hundred and thirty hamsters escaped from their
cages on the plane. My question is, I wonder how
many they found before they just quit looking five days.
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It's things on the ground. This plane's grounded five days,
one hundred and thirty hamsters missing. How many you think
we're still missing when they just blew it off? Does it?
Or two at least? And I don't know how you
even catch them. The follow up more roadent news. Animal
shelter in New Hampshire overwhelmed after a guy dropped off
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nearly a thousand mice at the shelter. You know how
many have been adopted so far, have been rehomed whatever
they call it?
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Depends how many snakes do they have at the shelter.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
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Speaker 1 (30:31):
Aged to perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Now we're here, fourth and final segment of the Monday
edition of fifty plus here on KPRC starts now, Will
I have so? I prepped so much this morning. There
was just so much going on and so many different
things I wanted to get to. This is important. I'll
get to the important stuff and then I'll deal with
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lingering election weird stuff if fairs time. But this is
way more important. In breast cancer news, a vaccine trial
using therapy designed by a team from Washington University School
of Medicine. It's actually in Saint Louis patients with an
aggressive form of breast cancer showed very favorable response in
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fourteen of eighteen patients. And I'm not exactly sure how
the math works, but I'll read what the story said
and after actually, after I read it all, it did
make sense. Sixteen of the eighteen patients in the study
were still cancer free after three years. And the only
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thing they have to go by historically to compare that
to something is the longevity of patients who didn't get
this particular therapy, this particular treatment, but had gotten traditional
treatment for that same cancer, and only half of them
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were cancer free at three years after the traditional way
of treating this very very aggressive cancer, breast cancer. So
that is really good news moving forward, there's still a
long ways to go. At least they're already into human
patient trials. That's good. That means they've gone past they've
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checked a lot of boxes already, and hopefully there will
be bigger studies done. There are probably something going on
right now, but it'll take a while. It takes a while,
like three years to get three years of data, so
we'll see how it comes up. We'll see how it
comes up, and more good news. Will, what happened to
my clock? Well, my computer is frozen, so it cut
(33:05):
out of that. Well probably because that person looking at
the screen is probably looking at something inappropriate. Oh yeah, yeah,
you think so. Maybe that's why it's all blurred out.
Oh h isn't it though? Correct me if I'm wrong.
It's blurred out. So I don't know what that is.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
It's not blurred out, it's just on the connection guide.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Will I think you need to get your eyes hut, Will,
I ain't grabbing some eye problems?
Speaker 2 (33:33):
So from where was I? Oh? More good news at
least for a father and son all the way over
in Poland. They were out searching for remains of a
Roman road as part of a geological project archaeological project
they were part of. And what they turned up instead,
(33:54):
well it or maybe in addition to I don't know,
I would imagine that they totally blew off looking for
the road when they found seventeen ancient coins estimated to
be worth about one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. You
ever found money on the side of the road, will
on the side of the road, in the road next
(34:15):
to the road, usually now walking in the roads. Well
check this out. Well, only on the sidewalk I and
my sister walking home from school one day, years and
years and years and years ago, found I looked down,
I saw it like a nickel or a dime or
a quarter. Then I saw another coin, and another one
and another one, and my sister and I suddenly we're
picking up coins on the side of the street, and
(34:37):
they were scattered down about a good thirty or forty
feet of curb along actually a fairly busy street, like
somebody maybe had had tossed it out of the car
for some reason, or maybe there'd been a piggy bank
up on top of the car and it fell off.
I don't know. We ended up picking up coins for
a long time, then wound up, I think, if memory serves,
(34:59):
we wound up with a total of about thirty or
forty bucks for the effort. My parents, actually teaching us
to do the right thing, made us call the police
explain what we'd found and where we'd found it and
all of that, and just to be totally honest in
case somebody was looking for their piggy bank or whatever.
But the police actually didn't seem terribly interested in thirty
(35:20):
bucks worth of change. Anyway, I don't recall, but I
would guess that I either bought one of two things
with the money that was my share. What would you
guess they were knowing me? Will I didn't play golf.
Then you probably bought some bubble gum. Oh no, no, no, no,
it would have either been I got twenty twenty five
(35:42):
bucks to spend. Yeah, you probably bought a lot of
bubble gum. Sure could No. I would either have either
bought a new baseball glove or maybe a rodden reel
or a bunch of lures. Could have bought a lot
of lures for twenty five thirty bucks back then, same
lures that cost about ten or fifteen now the new
lures have. But that's for a different show. That's for
(36:03):
Saturday and Sunday mornings up on KBUM seven ninety, where
I do my outdoors shows from the butt. Wait, there's
more desk. We go to California, the liberal gift that
just keeps giving, apparently, according to an election official there,
who takes pride in not being rushed her own admission.
Almost two weeks after the election, State Secretary Shirley Weber
(36:26):
said she's yeah, she still got one point seven million
votes to count, not seventeen hundred or seventeen thousand, one
point seven million, And there's a direct quote from her.
We make sure every person who is eligible to vote
gets a chance to vote, end quote. So does every
other state. Only every other state count some faster once
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the election's finished, which it was two weeks ago. How
much time do I have? Well? Yeah, one minute, beautiful,
here we goes. We got our rodents out of the way.
Good question, sweet irony? Or who cares? Who cares a
government official in Sweden? I've actually been there Will on
a fishing trip. It was awesome, stayed in a cabin
(37:12):
owned by the King and Queen of Sweden, I'll have
you know. But anyway, this email comes out about a
government official in Sweden who is deathly afraid of something. Will,
And what do you think it might have been? Danes?
It's attached to something in this show today. Oh it's ramsters, Nope, mice, Nope.
(37:37):
She's definitely afraid of Dougpike bananas. She's scared of bananas.
I bet she's not gonna be bidding at Sotheby's on
that banana tape to a wall see tom on Audios
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Speaker 1 (00:20):
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Speaker 2 (00:51):
By Welcome to Monday, and by the way, moving forward
starting next week, Monday will be the day that we'll
gets to choose from four fantastic editions of this show
the Tuesdays through Fridays, and he will be picking will
(01:11):
you do a whole Do you typically pull a whole show? Yes?
Oh that makes it easy on you, doesn't it? Well?
Of course it all flows, they said shortcut will speaking
of and I'm not saying you're doing any of this,
don't worry about it. But I saw a story this morning.
It just reminds me of work and how it works
for some people of your generation, not all of them.
(01:34):
It's certainly not including you. I know you work hard,
I really do. But somebody from your generation sent an
email to his or her I don't know, boss, saying
that he or she had worked late on a proposal,
a project and gotten it done, and so they wouldn't
(01:56):
be in the next morning very early. They're going to
take some time off in the morning because they worked
a little late. Do you agree with that? Will or
disagree with it? I agree with it.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Why would you come in if you had to pull
up maybe an all nighter?
Speaker 2 (02:12):
It didn't say anything about an all night or just
a little bit late in the how late six o'clock hour,
hour and a half, two hours, maybe seven tops?
Speaker 3 (02:20):
That's confirmed. So you're gonna come in at no I'm
just guessing.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Okay, Well, if it's there was what if it was
what if they stayed until ten o'clock? We're already in
the weeds now. I'm just saying, if you stay a
little bit longer, do you come in a little bit later?
What about one hour? One hour? Well, yeah, stay till
six instead of five? Are you gonna come in at
(02:43):
nine instead of eight? The next morning, probably not but
about two hour where's your threshold? That's what we're deciding now.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
I mean, if I end up having to stay for,
you know, three or four hours after my shift has.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Ended, what if the boss said, well, you've had that
project on your desk for three weeks, why did you
wait until now to do it? Well?
Speaker 3 (03:11):
What if you had other things to do? What if
you had other projects to work on, things that might
have been more time sinsitive.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
We've just totally descended into an abyss here from which
we will never extract ourselves. So let's move forward, shall we.
Pretty good chunk of south east Texas for us anyway
around here, gonna be rainy this afternoon, and potential maybe
a little bit of thunder here and there, maybe a
little bit of lightning, hopefully not too much. At least
(03:42):
the worst of this thing is going to pass well
to our north, but still some potentially heavy showers probably
starting depending on where you are in this listening area,
either within the next hour or two and rocking on
and off for maybe an hour or two more before
it all passes west to east and out of here.
(04:06):
And after that, Holy cow, still by the way, tomorrow
is still a little warmer than we might like. Then
we get a really nice stretch of the kind of
weather that just makes you feel alive, about five or
six days of it. It's gonna be good. The worst
of this thing, this is that big front that's been
threatening to get here sooner or later, and sooner comes
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tomorrow night. At least it's gonna feel good, it really is.
And the worst of the thunderstorms and potential serious weather
way up north of us, like North Texas and north
of that. It's a big system, it really is, but
it's not gonna bother us that badly, and probably nobody
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south of about Victoria will even though it's passed through
until they wake up a couple of days from now,
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That's a good part about that ready will Hitney? Is
this the big one sweet taste of winter ahead?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Then?
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Who knows what's next?
Speaker 3 (05:30):
M You know, last week I was expecting a lot
more cooler weather.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Here it comes. Well, that's where you were saying last week.
I'm I'm a little less inclined to believe you this, yech. Oh, Okay,
you want to take some bets on the high temperature
on Thursday, I want to take a couple of points off.
That is what I want to do.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
I'm gonna I'm gonna start you off. What I'm gonna
start you off right in the middle, down on the
line A five.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Five point zero, and that's where you're staying, or you
that's where I'm staying. But I came close.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Then if you if you come through what tomorrow, I
don't know if it's gonna be tomorrow. I'm gonna actually,
i'm gonna wait until Thursday. I'll wait until Thursday, Okay,
and maybe we can revise the Monday score that.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
I see you go. So you're gonna give me a
chance to like a makeup test? Yes, okay, all right?
Well the well, actually I guess Tuesday and Wednesday will
be extra credit, right.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Yeah, you'll go you if it starts to get cold
starting tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
No, it is I specifically, what did I just say,
will if you then starting I said this tomorrow start
a little warmer than we might starting Wednesday. Oh, you're
gonna love Wednesday. If it starts to get cooler, it'll
be cooler when you wake up on Wednesday. Well, how cool?
I'm not sure on Wednesday morning when exactly it's going
(07:04):
to come through by Wednesday afternoon? Sixties? Okay, Wednesday night,
Wednesday night forties?
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Okay, if I when I come in on Thursday and
when I leave on Wednesday and around five.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
You're so suspicious?
Speaker 3 (07:20):
What I'll give you an extra point for each day
and when?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
And how much does that translate to at the bank?
That could come up to a seven? So what's the
real benefit to that?
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (07:39):
The tangible benefit.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
The tangible benefit is that you will not be a
liar to us and the audience.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
I'll never lie to this audience, not once in my life.
I will never lie to this audience, any audience. No,
it's just not in my DNA. Man, I can't do that.
Why would I do that?
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Well, let's just hope you Let hope it comes through okay.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
By the way, Sarah, that little thing that was down
there on the Yucatan Peninsula just got beat up going
over the mountains, I guess. And it's supposed to. It
is supposed to get into the golf and take a
rite being shoved that way. By the way, by this front,
it's gonna move through here, probably fall apart. Today. The
National Hurricane Center doesn't even show it on the map anymore.
(08:25):
Very quickly, before we break to the markets, we go
thanks to Houston gooldexchange dot com, Everything green early, Everything
green now. At least twenty minutes ago, oil jumped up
about two bucks a barrel, but was kind of coming
back just shortly ago, and gold up forty four bucks,
an ounce back north of twenty six hundred dollars the
last time I looked. And now we go to the
(08:46):
ut Health Institute on aging, that collaborative of more than
a thousand providers. I'm pretty confident with that number. I
still when Monica gets back, I'm gonna ask her. She's
on vacation, and when she returns, that's one of the
questions I'm going to ask her. Mostly in the mediciner,
where you would imagine that the best providers in the
(09:06):
entire state and possibly the country would be but many
of them also work in outlying communities, the pair Lands,
the Kingwoods, the sugar Lands, the kds, all of these
outlying areas where there are great medical facilities where those
people can bring their extra knowledge. And by extra knowledge,
I mean they have gone back and learned additionally to
(09:29):
what got them the diploma on the wall, how their
specific area of expertise and knowledge can be applied to seniors.
That's us, and we are different than juniors and medium
ers whatever. They might be, far different in the way
our bodies work, in the way our bodies respond to things.
(09:50):
That's why we need help from people who can do that.
Go to this website uth dot edu slash aging. First
of all, look at all Well, you don't have time
to look at all the resources that are available there,
but just browse them briefly and then go back every
day for a couple of weeks and you eventually might
get through all the information there. You'll also find out
(10:12):
how to get in contact with these providers who know
us as well or better than we know ourselves. Uth
dot edu slash aging, ut h dot edu slash aging
what's life without a net? I suggest you go to bed,
sleep it off, just wait until the show's over. Sleepy.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Welcome back Kit the Plus. Thanks for listening. Certain to
do appreciate. At twelve twenty in the afternoon on a Monday,
this will be the last Monday I'm in here life
for a little while. We've changed our schedule again, our
staff meeting schedule to accommodate me shifting back to taking
Mondays off with which have actually works better for me workwise.
(11:04):
I have so much I want to get done on
Thursday and Friday to prepare for my weekend shows and
to make sure I have good shows in here, and
so we're just gonna flip it around and hopefully it
will be a seamless transition. Moving on to some good
news before I get into some weird political garbage, which
(11:25):
is that's almost totally redundant these days. Starting the week
with some good news. A woman who donated a piece
of her liver to a one year old boy who
was critically ill in desperate need of same, was able
to meet that child in a tearfield. Well, of course,
it was a tear field reunion. Recently, little Boy, in
(11:51):
continuation of the good news there, has already caught up.
He just a year old, He's just a tiny He's
a little bitty guy, already caught up developmentally to his peers,
and is expected to live pretty much a healthy life
moving forward, which I think is fantastic for Astros fans.
And I don't know if you've heard this yet or not,
(12:13):
it's relatively new news. The Astros will soon be playing
not in Minute Made Park, but in Daykin Park. Made
apparently not willing to continue its agreement for naming rights,
and Daykin was. And if you're curious, if you're not
familiar with the name or the brand, as I was not. Honestly,
(12:37):
Daycin makes and installs through independent AC contractors ductless air
conditioning and heating units. They've got a big old website.
I perused it for enough time to figure out what
they do and how it works. It didn't take fans
long to come up with a new, well tied name
(12:59):
for the ball art. Do you hear that? Will? No,
We're gonna shift from the juice box to the ice box.
Okay about that? That's pretty good that's pretty good somebody.
I don't know how fast somebody came up with that,
but seeing as how we're doing air conditioning and for
the winter time. Of course, if we get into November
(13:21):
again and play in the World Series, it can be
the what I've got. It will Okay, hit me hot box. Okay,
of course that's what it'll be. It's the hot box.
I heard Jimmy Barrett talking over on kt r H
this morning about how some federal employees are threatening I
can't help but laugh when I hear this threatening to
(13:42):
quit their jobs after President Trump was reelected elected to
run the country. They're gonna quit their federal jobs from
which it's almost impossible to be fired unless you burn
down the building, and they're just gonna quit in protest.
They took mental health days after the election. Some of
them are still called and our incoming president Hitler, which
(14:02):
will make it pretty easy to figure out who's really
on board to repair our broken country and who needs
to be shown the door. It's I'll post on x
about how convenient it is. And I found this kind
of funny based on everything that happened up leading up
right up to the election. How convenient it is that
the trash is taking itself out. Moving on from there,
(14:25):
the next four years going to be a crushing blow,
I think, to every failed social experiment we've had shoved
down our throats, and already, already I'm hearing enthusiasm lots
of small business owners from for whom I speak and
have done so so proudly on my shows for many years,
everything from knives to doors, houses, golf courses, shooting ranges,
(14:49):
golf shirts, roofing companies, healthcare, windshield repair, all kinds of things.
And they're all upbeat. They're all excited, even all the
way out to tiny little Alpine Texas, they're all pumped
up too, And why wouldn't you be. It may take
a little while for this movement to gain momentum, and
we've got to wait until late January really for this
(15:12):
administration to get in place and become fully operational. But
I do think our country's going to emerge stronger and
better and safer, which is critical right now, safer in
the long run. I just pray nothing happens between now
and the changing of the guard, because our enemies around
(15:34):
the world, no darned well, it's going to be different
when President Trump retakes the oval office, and hopefully just
like that guy they arrested here in Houston a few
days ago. I think it was he'd They've been watching
him for years, and I do have confidence that they
would have reacted sooner had there been reason to do
(15:58):
so sooner. I think they have good psychological profiles on
these potential terrorists and monitor their activities closely enough to
avoid a major catastrophe. But boy, if he's out there,
you know there are more of them out there after
we've let him what eight ten eleven million people about.
(16:22):
I don't know what percentage of them are terrorists, but
even if it's one percent of eleven million people, that's
a whole lot of people, even if it's a half
of a percent. So we'll just have to watch that
on a very close to home note for what will
and I do. I saw a study this morning except
Americans trust radio more than any other medium for their news.
(16:42):
Nobody trusts national television news casts anymore, and even local
news a lot of times just kind of leans pretty
far left. I'll be curious to see if George Soros,
who recently bought controlling interest in a major radio company
in this country. I'm wondering when, not if, but when
he'll try to lean all those stations to the left
(17:03):
and take advantage of radios perceived middle of the road
strategy and in some mean in many instances conservative strategies.
We'll see how it goes. That's all we can do.
What have we got left? Will? One minute? Real quick?
Will where to? Or nothing to do? Nothing to do?
(17:26):
Even with all the entertainment options we have now, a
study found that we are more bored than ever. Do
you consider yourself bored overall? Yeah? Do you really? Really? Seriously?
Will I'm bored right now? Can hug? I can never
tell with you, will, I can never tell. I see
(17:48):
you throw that curveball at me right at the end.
So now I don't know whether you're really bored or not.
I don't think you are. I think you're paying attention
to your work as you should be. And if you
work a little late, if you work till one fifteen,
you can come in at twelve fifteen tomorrow, Okay, make
you happy. I hope I'm not here till one fifteen.
(18:09):
You hope you're not here till twelve or one oh one?
Do you course? Yeah? Okay, I figured anyway, let's talk
about late Health, shall we. You're not ready for that,
will You're not old enough yet. But for those of
the guys in the audience who are about fifty five
and older, one in four of you probably has or
is about to have an enlarged, non cancerous prostate. Now,
(18:33):
the good news is it's non cancerous. The bad news
is it brings along symptoms that are that are not comfortable.
Let's just politely say that, and at all. They manifest
themselves in many different ways, But the bottom line is
at late Health, one of its clinics around town where
they do vascular surgeries and procedures, Late Health can make
(18:56):
that pesky growing prostate go away by shutting off the
blood supply to it, and as it shrivels up and dies,
so do the symptoms that come with it. Same for
fibroids and women, Same for ugly veins and anybody who's
got them. Same for even in some instances head pains,
which can be alleviated vascularly if they are the right
(19:18):
type of head pain, make it go away. Seven one, three, five, eight,
eight thirty eight. Most of what they do is covered
by Medicare, and medicaid. They do regenerative medicine as well,
and they do everything they do in their clinics. You
don't have to go to the hospital even for a minute,
and you just get in there and usually when a
couple of hours you are out, some trusted friend or
(19:40):
family member is driving you home, where you will recuperate
more quickly and more comfortably than in any hospital bed.
Seven one three, five eight eight thirty eight eighty eight.
Call them, make a consultation, and go see what they
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thirty eight eighty eight.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Now they sure don't make it like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash him, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh code O wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Here we go, third and well, third and third segment.
I guess it is not the fourth, not the final,
not the second, not the first. The third segment of
the program starts right now. Thanks for listening. I really
do appreciate it. Uh, Where do I go?
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Will?
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Let's go to oh, by the way, A quick announcement,
and then I'm gonna go to Banana News Right now.
I'm gonna remind you all that the eleventh annual golf
tournament we're going to host here is coming up soon
benefits Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, where the
(20:59):
cur rate for pediatric cancers has almost tripled since the
hospital opened back in the nineteen sixties. I found out
this morning from my good friend Rebecca at Saint Jude
that there are only I think ten or eleven teams
still available for what I consider one of the best
and biggest charity events in the state. You can buy
(21:20):
a team, or you can buy a sponsorship that includes
a team, but one way or the other, you'll be
helping to save the lives of children who show up
at that hospital critically critically ill. And the best news,
as has always been the case at Saint Jude, they're families.
(21:40):
The families of children who are accepted into that system
never pay a dime for transportation, for housing, for meals,
for the treatment. There's not even a patient billing department
at Saint Jude. I got to go over there years ago,
and I was forever changed, and I have not stopped
(22:04):
being strongly supportive of that hospital and the work that
it does now for more than sixty years. If you
want in, you need to jump now. The event is
December ninth. We will fill up both courses at Golf
Club of Houston, which is a lot of fun to play. Anyway,
you can email me if you want and I'll help
you get hooked up. Just email me say I want in,
(22:26):
I want to know about sponsorships, whatever you want, whatever
information you want, I will get to it immediately after
the show. I promise you. I'll put everything else on
the side. If there are any any emails about this, I'll
address them first. Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. It's
is about as easy it's gonna get as it's gonna get.
Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot Com. From the Banana Desk as promised.
(22:50):
Have you heard about this will from the banana Desk? No, seriously,
I haven't heard anything from the banana desk. Piece of art?
Does that ringingy bells yet? Twenty nineteen? Take yourself back
to twenty nineteen when you were just six twenty nineteen. Yeah,
(23:11):
Italian artist. What did he do? He painted a banana?
No even dumber, He duct taped a banana to a
wall and his art as they called it actually sold
actually three pieces of the same art they did, because
(23:35):
the banana is withering and look god awful after not
a very long time, duct taped to a wall. Three
iterations of this stupidity and silliness were sold at around
one hundred twenty to one hundred and fifty thousand dollars
at a Miami Beach aution back then. Well, apparently there
(23:56):
are still some rich fools in the world because the
l this iteration of banana taped to wall. It's the
auction block at sotha piece on November twentieth, and guess
what the estimated sale price is gonna be for? Uh,
for a banana will duct taped to a wall? How
(24:17):
much do they think it's gonna go for?
Speaker 3 (24:20):
They think it's gonna go for one point four.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
You're right there, a million to a million five US dollars,
not pennies US dollars. And for that, what you get,
because it's such a fragile piece of art, you get
a certificate of authenticity that allows you to buy your
own bananas in your own royal duct tape and recreate
(24:48):
the piece just as often as you like. Only you're
a million and a quarter lighter. You know what this
thing ought to come, that certificate of authenticity, all to
come with gift cards from HB and Home Depot. This
is proof positive that there's just there's one born every minute.
A sucker, that is. There's a guy named David Galprin
(25:11):
from Southeby's and he this is what he said, And
this is a quote what Katsalan. He's the artist that
I can't remember his first name. Let me see if
I wrote it down or not. I didn't bother. That's fine.
What Ketalan is really doing, this is the quote from
the guy at Sotheby's, is turning a mirror to the
contemporary art world and asking questions, provoking thought about how
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we ascribe value to artworks, what we define as artwork.
That's what Galprid said. What I say is a guy
taped a banana on the wall and he bet his
friends that somebody would buy it for more than one
hundred grand and he won. He won the one hundred
and ten hundred and twenty thirty thousand dollars in Miami,
(25:56):
and he won whatever his friends put up. And he's
smiling all the way to the bank. Somebody is gonna
pay a million dollars for a banana tape to a
wall that's gonna just start stinking up the house in
about a week's nuts. Man, would you, ever, what would
you pay for if I were to come over to
your apartment? Will or your house? I come over, I
(26:19):
show up with not just one banana, but like fifty
bananas in a whole roll of duct tape and tape
them all over your dining room wall, fifty of them.
Would it be worth fifty million dollars to I think
I'd call the police. I ain't know either that or
or the hospital to send over somebody who could carry
(26:42):
me away for evaluation. That that just no, I'm sorry,
but that that doesn't qualify in my mind as art.
And if that makes me unartistic, I'm even gonna call
bluff on that. That's not That doesn't make me unable
to appreciate real art. I just don't think a banana
(27:06):
tape to a wall is real art. I think it's
I think this guy almost did this as a joke,
and there's evidence that kind of shows that, and then
all of a sudden it caught fire and somebody did
just this stream of less and less art appreciative. People
(27:26):
kept paying more and more money for these things. I
can't do that. I can't go for that. All right, will,
I'm gonna let you jump back in. Let's go with nice.
Try too close to home or rodents run them up.
Rodents run them up. This is a two parter. Actually
there's a follow up to the first one. A plane
(27:49):
in Portugal was grounded for five days after one hundred
and thirty one hundred and thirty hamsters escaped from their
cages on the plane. My question is, I wonder how
many they found before they just quit looking five days.
(28:10):
It's things on the ground. This plane's grounded five days,
one hundred and thirty hamsters missing. How many you think
we're still missing when they just blew it off? Does it?
Or two at least? And I don't know how you
even catch them. The follow up more roadent news. Animal
shelter in New Hampshire overwhelmed after a guy dropped off
(28:31):
nearly a thousand mice at the shelter. You know how
many have been adopted so far, have been rehomed whatever
they call it?
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Depends how many snakes do they have at the shelter.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
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Speaker 1 (30:31):
Aged to perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Now we're here, fourth and final segment of the Monday
edition of fifty plus here on KPRC starts now, Will
I have so? I prepped so much this morning. There
was just so much going on and so many different
things I wanted to get to. This is important. I'll
get to the important stuff and then I'll deal with
(31:14):
lingering election weird stuff if fairs time. But this is
way more important. In breast cancer news, a vaccine trial
using therapy designed by a team from Washington University School
of Medicine. It's actually in Saint Louis patients with an
aggressive form of breast cancer showed very favorable response in
(31:35):
fourteen of eighteen patients. And I'm not exactly sure how
the math works, but I'll read what the story said
and after actually, after I read it all, it did
make sense. Sixteen of the eighteen patients in the study
were still cancer free after three years. And the only
(31:58):
thing they have to go by historically to compare that
to something is the longevity of patients who didn't get
this particular therapy, this particular treatment, but had gotten traditional
treatment for that same cancer, and only half of them
(32:19):
were cancer free at three years after the traditional way
of treating this very very aggressive cancer, breast cancer. So
that is really good news moving forward, there's still a
long ways to go. At least they're already into human
patient trials. That's good. That means they've gone past they've
(32:39):
checked a lot of boxes already, and hopefully there will
be bigger studies done. There are probably something going on
right now, but it'll take a while. It takes a while,
like three years to get three years of data, so
we'll see how it comes up. We'll see how it
comes up, and more good news. Will, what happened to
my clock? Well, my computer is frozen, so it cut
(33:05):
out of that. Well probably because that person looking at
the screen is probably looking at something inappropriate. Oh yeah, yeah,
you think so. Maybe that's why it's all blurred out.
Oh h isn't it though? Correct me if I'm wrong.
It's blurred out. So I don't know what that is.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
It's not blurred out, it's just on the connection guide.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Will I think you need to get your eyes hut, Will,
I ain't grabbing some eye problems?
Speaker 2 (33:33):
So from where was I? Oh? More good news at
least for a father and son all the way over
in Poland. They were out searching for remains of a
Roman road as part of a geological project archaeological project
they were part of. And what they turned up instead,
(33:54):
well it or maybe in addition to I don't know,
I would imagine that they totally blew off looking for
the road when they found seventeen ancient coins estimated to
be worth about one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. You
ever found money on the side of the road, will
on the side of the road, in the road next
(34:15):
to the road, usually now walking in the roads. Well
check this out. Well, only on the sidewalk I and
my sister walking home from school one day, years and
years and years and years ago, found I looked down,
I saw it like a nickel or a dime or
a quarter. Then I saw another coin, and another one
and another one, and my sister and I suddenly we're
picking up coins on the side of the street, and
(34:37):
they were scattered down about a good thirty or forty
feet of curb along actually a fairly busy street, like
somebody maybe had had tossed it out of the car
for some reason, or maybe there'd been a piggy bank
up on top of the car and it fell off.
I don't know. We ended up picking up coins for
a long time, then wound up, I think, if memory serves,
(34:59):
we wound up with a total of about thirty or
forty bucks for the effort. My parents, actually teaching us
to do the right thing, made us call the police
explain what we'd found and where we'd found it and
all of that, and just to be totally honest in
case somebody was looking for their piggy bank or whatever.
But the police actually didn't seem terribly interested in thirty
(35:20):
bucks worth of change. Anyway, I don't recall, but I
would guess that I either bought one of two things
with the money that was my share. What would you
guess they were knowing me? Will I didn't play golf.
Then you probably bought some bubble gum. Oh no, no, no, no,
it would have either been I got twenty twenty five
(35:42):
bucks to spend. Yeah, you probably bought a lot of
bubble gum. Sure could No. I would either have either
bought a new baseball glove or maybe a rodden reel
or a bunch of lures. Could have bought a lot
of lures for twenty five thirty bucks back then, same
lures that cost about ten or fifteen now the new
lures have. But that's for a different show. That's for
(36:03):
Saturday and Sunday mornings up on KBUM seven ninety, where
I do my outdoors shows from the butt. Wait, there's
more desk. We go to California, the liberal gift that
just keeps giving, apparently, according to an election official there,
who takes pride in not being rushed her own admission.
Almost two weeks after the election, State Secretary Shirley Weber
(36:26):
said she's yeah, she still got one point seven million
votes to count, not seventeen hundred or seventeen thousand, one
point seven million, And there's a direct quote from her.
We make sure every person who is eligible to vote
gets a chance to vote, end quote. So does every
other state. Only every other state count some faster once
(36:50):
the election's finished, which it was two weeks ago. How
much time do I have? Well? Yeah, one minute, beautiful,
here we goes. We got our rodents out of the way.
Good question, sweet irony? Or who cares? Who cares a
government official in Sweden? I've actually been there Will on
a fishing trip. It was awesome, stayed in a cabin
(37:12):
owned by the King and Queen of Sweden, I'll have
you know. But anyway, this email comes out about a
government official in Sweden who is deathly afraid of something. Will,
And what do you think it might have been? Danes?
It's attached to something in this show today. Oh it's ramsters, Nope, mice, Nope.
(37:37):
She's definitely afraid of Dougpike bananas. She's scared of bananas.
I bet she's not gonna be bidding at Sotheby's on
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