Eating Healthier

Today, Doug Pike discusses healthy food options, sticker shock, and wrapping paper.

Episode Transcript

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? Don't remember when social media was truly social?

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hey John, how's it going today?

Speaker 1 (00:20):
Well, this show is all about you. This is fifty
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(00:44):
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plus with Doug Pike.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
All right, welcome to Wednesday, be the middle of the
week for most of us.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
I suppose glad to be here.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
Glad the weather's gonna settle out a lot of fog
this morning. In case you missed it, In case you
missed it, I yeah, gosh, we're pushing what is it,
seven hundred and fifty episodes almost now.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
Will something like that? Yeah, it's a lot.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
And I'm a little later in the program, I'm gonna
bring up something that's going on with the iHeartRadio app.
I don't want to I don't want to leave with
that I'll get to it somewhere in the middle. That's
all right with you, uh now seven fifty By the way,
if you're looking for something to binge, listen to now
that Yellowstone is done.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
Have you ever watched Yellowstone? Will I've never seen Yellowstone.
I haven't either. I never watched it, but my wife
did it.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
And when we would go for a walk or just
when I'm I'm thinking about going to sleep, and she'll say, hey,
I need to let me tell you about what happened
on Yellowstone, And honestly, not as interested as she she watches,
but she'll give me a summary.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
And it's over now, by the way, at least that's
what she told me.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
I think they're probably gonna be a be a spinoff,
but they killed off the Kevin Coster character, the main dude,
and that's at least the end of this bit of it.
And she, boy, she was gonna give me a summary
of whatever was the most recent episode too, in great
detail of my dad.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
And that's fine because.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
What she was doing is sharing something she liked, and
I feel compelled, I feel obligated to listen, because, after all,
she has heard her share of phishing story she's heard
recollections almost shot by shop of some or shot anyway,

(02:47):
shot by shot of some good rounds of golf. I
played so quid pro quote, don't you know? Loss to
unpack today? So let's get straight to today's highs and
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(03:07):
they can do to put cleaner air in your home
for years to come. You're ready, will I'm always ready, Doug.
Sun behind cold front, nice stretch of shopping weather pack
your sleigh Sanna. Oh see how I moved it right

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along all the way through next Wednesday at least, I guess.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
Just rolled it right out. You know, Sun, some cold front,
That's what I said. Are you having a cold front soon? Oh?
Are we ever? Yes?

Speaker 3 (03:50):
When tonight and the rest of the week and for
the next five days. Yeah, it's gonna get nice and breezy,
and well I don't know about breezy how breezy, but
it's gonna get I'm quite chilly, not cold. I reserve
that for thirty two and below, but it will be
quite chilly.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
Well, I'm feeling generous. Today is the season.

Speaker 4 (04:13):
It is the season. I'll give that one a seven
point two.

Speaker 3 (04:18):
Oh my gosh, that's a no Holy cow now. But
I feel obligated now to finish strong. So I'm gonna
have to do even better tomorrow and Friday.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
And it won't be easy.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
I've got a couple of pretty good scores on the board,
So off to market we go.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
Curtesy of Houston Gold Exchange.

Speaker 3 (04:35):
The Russell took a dive this morning, but the other
three of the big four were fairly quiet, so really
nothing to see there. I haven't looked since this morning either,
and I just I don't want to dwell on all
of this. I did see that oil had pushed back
north of seventy dollars a barrel, unfortunately, and gold still
higher than twenty six hundred dollars an ounce, which is good.

(04:59):
It's not moving down. That's always good. It could be worse,
but should be better for both that and oil. So
the big story this week has been that horrific school
shooting in Wisconsin, a rare one in that it was
committed by a young girl who killed a teacher and
a student at her school and then left two more

(05:20):
people in critical condition before she opted to take her
own life. And that comes on the heels that Mangioni
guy who's been charged with killing United Healthcare CEO Brian
Thompson in New York City. One thing I found particularly
shocking this morning was that more than half of this

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nation's young people. And I forgot where the exact cutoff was.
I want to say it was at thirty half of
this nation's young adults found the murder of Thompson acceptable
to some degree or another. Some of them said hooray
that some of them were thrilled, they celebrated it. But

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the bottom line is more than half of their of
the young people in this country, it's okay.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
At least it's okay.

Speaker 3 (06:12):
It's one thing to disagree, and I don't care how
strongly you want to disagree, You go ahead. It's your
right in this country to disagree with the policies and
practices of a company. It's another to celebrate the execution.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
In the street of anyone.

Speaker 3 (06:29):
And that so many young people can somehow justify Thompson's
murder because they didn't like our healthcare system. It's disturbing.
It best I agree that the healthcare system is flawed.
It's seriously flawed, and I pay a ton of money
every year on that and on auto insurance and homeowner's insurance.

Speaker 2 (06:49):
But I don't want anybody hurt.

Speaker 3 (06:50):
I don't even want anybody to take a punch in
the nose over these checks that I have to write.
If I'm concerned about it, I can go shop my
business elsewhere. Can I have a lot of other options
that fall well short of murder. Over the past fifteen
twenty years, we've allowed our young people to become entirely desensitized,

(07:14):
I think, to really extreme violence. It's been allowed to
happen right in front of them without consequence. Social media
has brought all of this stuff to like burning businesses
down in cities down over over political issues comes to mind.
The media justifies that every chance it gets. Social media
has had it's run. Remember what was it ten fifteen

(07:36):
years ago? Will those videos of people just sucker punching
random strangers on the.

Speaker 2 (07:42):
Street, You remember that, you don't know where were you?
Holy cow? I saw some of those. It's just disgusting.

Speaker 3 (07:51):
People just walking down the street and one person starts
to video and the other person sneaks up behind them
and just absolutely just hit them, smacking the head some
sort of twisted joke.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
And the anti.

Speaker 3 (08:08):
The outcry against all that was absolutely overwhelmed by the
just this fever for more and more and up the end,
he make it, make it worse, until we started seeing
groups of young people beating up old people, just beating
them senses, leaving them on the sidewalk. There were two
young teenage girls who actually beat an old man to

(08:30):
death a while back and said they did it just
to see what it would feel like, just to see.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
Well, yeah, we were just curious.

Speaker 3 (08:40):
We wanted to know what it was like to beat
the tar out of somebody and leave him there, and
eventually the person died. I truly pray that we can
bring back some sense of compassion and respect for everybody
and quit letting small radical groups influence our young people
through idiotic, violent outbursts on social media in the name

(09:02):
of sensationalivism and getting likes that nobody should like anything
like that.

Speaker 2 (09:09):
We got to take a break, don't we will? YEP.

Speaker 3 (09:14):
I may come back to this when we get back
on the way out. Ut Health Institute on Aging is
a collaborative effort among more than a thousand providers around here,
all aspects of the medical field, medical profession. Everybody from
A to Z who is involved with the Institute on
Aging has taken what they already knew and then gone

(09:34):
back and got an additional training and education and how
to apply that knowledge specifically to us that would be seniors.

Speaker 2 (09:42):
We are.

Speaker 3 (09:44):
We're different, and I've talked about this numerous times. We're
very different actually from younger people. And just because they
know how to work on a young person's heart doesn't
mean they know how to work on an old person's heart.
Not as well anyway, and not as specifically as they
can when they earn that credential from the Institute on Aging.
Go to the website. Look at all the different resources

(10:05):
that are available. It's not just a long list of
names of providers. It is all kinds of information about
how you and I and anybody else in our age
group can live a longer, happier, healthy, more productive, more
enjoyable life, whether we play pickleball or not. Uth dot
edu slash Aging is the website ut dot edu slash Aging.

Speaker 1 (10:30):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months, we wash them, check us fluids,
and spring on a fresh code of wax. This is
fifty plus with Dougpike.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
Welcome back to Wednesday fifty plus. Thanks for listening. Certainly
do appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (10:59):
Want to go back back to this desensitization of our
young people, our young adults, to the point that more
than half of them said it was okay for a man,
a father, a husband, a CEO of a big corporation.
Granted not a whole lot of fans of big giant

(11:22):
healthcare corporations and insurance companies, because it does seem tough
sometimes to deal with them. They're in the they're in
the business of trying not to pay claims, and we
need our claims covered because without insurance it's outrageously expensive

(11:42):
to get anything, which which just begs for a total
overhaul of the system.

Speaker 2 (11:50):
Of course it does.

Speaker 3 (11:52):
But nothing, nothing justifies cold blooded murder in the middle
of the sidewalk. Nothing. I just can't see that. And
yet we allowed social media to make it more and
more acceptable to ramp up the violence against people we
don't like. And in the cases I mentioned earlier about

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that sucker punching stuff, and these these young girls who
beat a man so badly he died just to see
what it was like. They they just don't care. It's
they're numb to it. They're numb to it, and there's
just no reason for it. The past four years in

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this country, young Americans have been led down a very
dangerous path. We saw that demonstrated on campuses all over
the country when Jewish students were threatened with serious bodily
harm and had to go hide in many cases just
for trying to attend their classes. It's division. It's all

(12:57):
about division. You either think, but I think and believe
what I believe are by gosh, I'll hurt you. That's
what they're telling us. And that's not America. And we're
a long way from getting back to where we can disagree,
have a good conversation about what we both think is
the right path, and then agree as we walk away
and shake hands, to keep working toward compromise that's going

(13:20):
to be beneficial to the country overall. It's not going
to be all one way, it's not going to be
all the other way. It's got to work for both sides.
Just this morning, and here's another example of this division
that's going on. Just this morning, I see a story
about a new real estate platform that, among other things,
will allow users to identify the political leanings of people

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in neighborhoods and communities where where people visiting the site
are thinking about moving. Divide and conquer is what that
brings about. You're going to convince people that they're better
off living in these little time any enclaves of people
who think just like they do, rather than among people

(14:05):
who might have common goals, but just see the path
to those goals a little differently, And suddenly now you've
got Hatfield McCoy situation again. I don't care who my
neighbors vote for. I really truly don't my neighbors. That's
their business. Who they vote for, right, doesn't matter, so
long as we're both watching out for each other's homes,

(14:25):
if somebody's away, we're both keeping an eye out for
strangers walking up and down the sidewalks, we keep our
yards mode, we watch for porch pirates because.

Speaker 2 (14:36):
We're on the same team.

Speaker 3 (14:39):
But we're being undermined by a handful of people who've
all been told all their lives. Now, these younger, younger
people how great they are and how entitled. They are
to have whatever they want, and all they have to
do is just scream the loudest and gripe the most
and they'll.

Speaker 2 (14:54):
Get it, which is not true, not in the real world.

Speaker 3 (14:58):
It's like they're trying to be as an athlete.

Speaker 2 (15:02):
I'll use this analogy.

Speaker 3 (15:03):
They're trying to be baseball players, okay, but they're not
actually the most talented players. And they still can't understand
why they only got a participation trophy last year and
this year they got cut and they.

Speaker 2 (15:17):
Don't know how to handle that. They don't know what
to do about it.

Speaker 3 (15:21):
They don't know how to go back and do the
work to get better and maybe get on the team
next year. Anybody and everybody's welcome to vote in this country.
Who's You've got to be the right age, and you've
got to be a citizen in the United States.

Speaker 2 (15:34):
I get that.

Speaker 3 (15:35):
But once you get past that and you can prove
it at the poll, then more power to you vote
for whomever you think is going to make the best
leader in this country. We did that four years ago,
we did it eight years ago, we did it twelve
years ago, and we've been.

Speaker 2 (15:50):
Doing it since this country started.

Speaker 3 (15:53):
And we'll do it again in another four years, and
we'll we'll find the path we want. Then once that
choice is made, for the four years that president's in office,
we have to work together, not a part, to make
it move the country forward. Past four years, I don't

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think we made much forward progress, if any be perfectly blunt,
but I think we're going to be well. We're still
going to keep moving forward now, and then four years
from now, somebody else will take the reins and try
to move us even farther forward. President Biden, by the way,
on his way out, as being taken to task by

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both Republicans and Democrats over his choices for pardons and commutations,
especially those granted to people who were convicted of stealing
from taxpayers. Lawmakers on both sides said Biden essentially legitimized
the notion, as comes from a Fox News story today,

(16:55):
He legitimized the thought that public officials are somehow above
the law.

Speaker 2 (17:00):
List. This is just so typical, and I know exactly
why he's doing it.

Speaker 3 (17:05):
His list includes multiple elected officials who profited to the
tune sometimes of tens of millions of dollars, and we're
convicted of doing so, and sentenced justly for what they did,
and then he came along said, oh, no, you're good.

Speaker 2 (17:23):
Yeah, wipe it away.

Speaker 3 (17:24):
Erace you race, race, and you can bet everything you've
got that he's starting at the bottom of his list
and going to work his way to the top. On
the way out, there are still some really high profile
people who I guarantee are lobbying.

Speaker 2 (17:39):
They are lobbery, lobbery. They are lobbying.

Speaker 3 (17:42):
For either pardons kind of like he gave his son
for pretty much anything you did in the last ten years.
You're good. We're covering it all. And that's that's dangerous.
I think that's dangerous.

Speaker 2 (17:57):
I have to I.

Speaker 3 (17:58):
Really have to wonder at this point whether he understands
what he's doing and for whom he's doing it. At
this point, it seems to me like he's being guided,
like he's being said okay, now, he's being told, okay, yeah,
you need to sign this right here, because there's some
really good people who were wrongly convicted and we need
to get them out of trouble. I wouldn't be surprised

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at all if somebody's saying that to him and he's
just say.

Speaker 2 (18:23):
Okay, okay.

Speaker 3 (18:27):
I feel badly for the man, but not for his politics.
And that's I've been saying that for a long time.
I hate that he's impaired as he is, but his
politics pretty bad. Kirk Holmes, if you are in the
market for a beautiful new custom home, if you are
enthusiastic about the future at this point, now'd be the

(18:51):
time for you to go ahead and get in touch
with kirk Holmbs and get them started on this project.
I had lunch with Chris McGinley, the president of KIRKCOLMBS,
this pastor, and he and I talked about a lot
of different things, and one of them kind of jokingly,
I said, how long does it take for you to
build a custom home for somebody? And he said, honestly,
it takes quite some time. It can take ten months,

(19:14):
it can take a year. Depending on the house of
the home, it can take even longer than that. And
because the reason for that is because, as he reminded me, a.

Speaker 2 (19:23):
Custom home is a one of a kind.

Speaker 3 (19:27):
Every time they start a contract for a new client,
it's a one of a kind build because every home
they build is as unique as the owner's fingerprints. They're
not just saying okay, we're gonna build the same house
for you that we built for Will. And Will's house
is the same as Doug's house and all of that. No,
that's what you find somewhere else. Kirk Holmes has been

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building custom homes on the northwest side all the way
out through the hill country for more than thirty years,
and they continue to be until the end of the year.
And I'm going to with it until they win another award,
which won't take long, probably to let you know that
they are the twenty twenty four Southern Living Builder of
the Year. That's a really big deal in their industry.

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They offer a twenty year structural warranty that's twice the standard,
and they use two by six exterior walls. I asked
him about that too, I said, do other builders do that?
And said no, not really, not unless you ask for it.
That's not something they just do as a matter of
course because it costs them more money. Kirk HOOLMBS has
done that every home they've built. Kirkholmes dot Com is

(20:33):
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Speaker 1 (20:50):
This is fifty plus with Dougpike. All right, welcome back
to fifty Polus.

Speaker 2 (21:08):
Thanks for listening.

Speaker 3 (21:09):
Certainly do appreciate that on this Wednesday sky should be
clearing outside.

Speaker 2 (21:13):
Can we see outside at all?

Speaker 3 (21:15):
Will?

Speaker 2 (21:15):
Do you have a Can you put a camera view
up there? Can you do that?

Speaker 3 (21:19):
Can you split screen it and put some kind of
an outdoor camera view? Yeah? I could definitely do that
from the Galleria area somehow. Maybe today is International Migrants Day?

Speaker 2 (21:32):
Is that what I just read? I don't know.

Speaker 3 (21:35):
Yeah, I think I saw that just right as you,
right before you changed it and pulled it off of
there shows a little bit.

Speaker 2 (21:41):
Of rain in the middle of town. I didn't know that. See,
I can't see outside. Have no idea. Those are not cameras. Will?
That's Las Vegas? Or is that the gallery? Okay, that's
the galleria there. The lighting and all the.

Speaker 3 (21:53):
The imagery looks like something you'd see in Las Vegas.

Speaker 2 (21:57):
But it's only the galleria. Oh my goodness, all right.

Speaker 3 (22:03):
While you're doing that, I will I see I talked
about that already talked about that. Oh from the food
recalled desk free to La has recalled bags of classic
potato chips. But if you're from around here, you don't
have to worry too much about it, because those chips
were only sold in Washington and Oregon, and the reason

(22:26):
for the recall is that they have an undeclared ingredient.
Will what do you think that might be that commanded
a recall of all these potato chips that they were
sold over several months I think, or a couple of months. Anyway,
what do you think that ingredient might be? I think

(22:46):
that ingredient could be what arsenic?

Speaker 4 (22:53):
You know, that's a.

Speaker 2 (22:53):
Little extreme, not in potato chips.

Speaker 1 (22:56):
You know what it is.

Speaker 2 (22:57):
It's milk, milk. It's milk in the potato.

Speaker 3 (23:00):
Somehow, someway, a little bit a spoonful of cowjuice got
in the milk or got in the potato chips, and
so they've had to recall them all because in truth,
it could cause problems for people who are allergic to
milk or have lactose intolerance. And nothing to see in Texas,

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Like I said, but if you're traveling to the Northwest
and for the holidays, and you just happen to love
lace potato chips, and you and your gut don't get
along with lactose, and just pick something else and you'll
be all right.

Speaker 2 (23:39):
The food recalls are great.

Speaker 3 (23:40):
I really I'm happy to know that we have that
system in place, because as as broad spread as some
of this food distribution is in this country, if something
bad gets in there, like salmonella or lysteria or whatever.

Speaker 2 (23:58):
E coli in.

Speaker 3 (23:59):
The salads, remember all that when there was E coli
in the spinach?

Speaker 4 (24:02):
Will eat coli? And the big mac or the quarter
pounder a few weeks.

Speaker 2 (24:08):
Ago, I forgot about that. Yeah, where was that? I
don't recall that was everywhere, even at my McDonald's. Probably
I don't eat there anymore. I've I.

Speaker 3 (24:19):
Can't say I've permanently given up fast food, because at
some point I'm probably gonna drive through a drive through
just for the convenience of it.

Speaker 2 (24:28):
But it's it's been it's been a while.

Speaker 3 (24:31):
I'd bet it's been at least thirty or forty five
days since I've eaten a hamburger.

Speaker 2 (24:37):
Wow, Yeah, I mean just a well a fast food
own any hamburger. Actually, I haven't. I just I've.

Speaker 3 (24:43):
Chosen to eat better. I have, And people, have you
been eating? Well, I've been eating. I shop a lot
of grocery stuff at AGIB and I'm sure I could
get the exact same thing at at Kroger or Randall's
or anywhere else or cost Co. But I'd probably have
to get a bushel basket. But I get salads, okay,
I get the ranch salad. I get the caesar I

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bought I think it was a Mediterranean salad the other day,
but I didn't get.

Speaker 2 (25:10):
Around to eating it until it expired, so we tossed it.

Speaker 3 (25:14):
But what I'll do with those fur the either with
the the cob that's not a cob salad. I guess
it is kind of the ranch salad. That's what they
call it. It's a ranch and then the other the caesar.
What I'll do is I'll go back to the deli
and I'll buy one slice of turkey honey baked turkey,

(25:36):
honey roasted turkey on a ten slice.

Speaker 2 (25:39):
Okay, it's pretty.

Speaker 3 (25:40):
Thick, and then I'll cut that into cubes, about one
inch cubes, throw that in the bowl with the salad,
and then I take an avocado and slice it into
little cubes and throw that in the bowl, and it
turns out to be a pretty filling meal that's way
more healthy than any kind of big bacon double whack

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them ole burger.

Speaker 2 (26:07):
Would you agree? You have to?

Speaker 3 (26:09):
Yeah, of course, it's It's way more and I've kind
of developed a taste for them, not to I'm not
quite to the point where I'm sick and tired of
eating the salads, but I have been eating a lot
of them lately, and then I'll go I'll go to
a restaurant maybe and get a real meal and and
some something fresh and cooked. I'm just staying away from

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all the processed stuff and.

Speaker 2 (26:34):
Just to to junk. How are you? Are you a
good eater? You healthy eater? When I want to take
that is enough? Do you ever want to be? Sometimes?
I had a caesar salad with grilled.

Speaker 3 (26:48):
Chicken last night. Okay, well that's yeah, that was good.
Close to what I've been having.

Speaker 2 (26:53):
It is good. I don't I don't have a problem
with that at all. And I'm saving money.

Speaker 3 (26:56):
You know, I used to to go to a fast
food play for me. Now if I ate everything I
wanted to eat would probably cost me twelve.

Speaker 2 (27:04):
Or fourteen dollars to get out of there.

Speaker 3 (27:06):
My son, my son eats a lot, and when he
goes through the drive through, if I give him a
twenty dollars bill, I'm not gonna get much change back
when he comes home because he.

Speaker 2 (27:15):
He loads up.

Speaker 3 (27:16):
And unfortunately, he still doesn't understand the economy of scale.
In these three dollars and fifty cent soft drinks, big
giant bucket, O coke or whatever. I know that the
whole the cup costs more than what they're putting in it.
So yeah, I'm trying to help him understand some of
that from a financial standpoint, because it's not going to

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be many years before he's going to be on his own,
and the sticker shock of trying to buy stuff that
we've been buying for him all his life is going
to hit him like a ton of bricks. It did
me when I first have my own place. I thought, oh,
this is great, man, I'm making pretty good money. I
can handle this. I have my rent figured out. I
don't think I had to pay for utilities back then,
because I didn't use them much, and that was just

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not something you paid for.

Speaker 2 (28:03):
It was included in your rent.

Speaker 3 (28:06):
There were no cable TV bills, there were no cell
phone bills.

Speaker 2 (28:10):
There was none of that.

Speaker 3 (28:11):
It was just home and away and you had electricity
and you had a phone and that was about it.

Speaker 2 (28:19):
But it still was like holy cow. At the end
of the month, you're going, wait a minute, where'd all
my money go?

Speaker 3 (28:25):
And you go, look at the refrigerator. Surely I must
be spending it on food. You look at the refrigerator. Nothing,
there couldn't be that. I don't know where it went.
But first, the first few years I was on my own,
it was. It was an eye opening experience. And I
hope I can teach him before too long how to
make the best of it and not have to come

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grubbing back home look over dough.

Speaker 4 (28:50):
At least, you know when he goes off to college collage, yeah,
you know that first year it's usually just straight cafeteria.

Speaker 2 (28:59):
Meal, playing baby Yeah. Oh yeah. So I mean he'll
be able to load up all he wants. That's good.
Let him, that's good for you. Do you think he'll
go through that freshman fifteen? Ah, he's gonna he wants
to be playing baseball.

Speaker 3 (29:11):
If he's playing baseball, he probably will have Like I
did when I played a hard time gaining weight. I'm
cured from that now, but I had a very hard
time gaining weight when I was in college. I would
I would go eat with the team after school or
after practice, and then before bed. There were a couple

(29:31):
of us who were in the same situation where the
coaches and training staff wanted us to gain weight. I'd
go to McDonald's and get a big mac quarter pounder
with cheese, large fries, two apple pies, and a large coke,
knock it all down after dinner, and still never gain announce,
just could not.

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Speaker 1 (31:55):
Just wait until the show's over. Sleepy Back to Dougpike
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Speaker 2 (32:16):
Final segment starts right now.

Speaker 3 (32:17):
We've got about what six minutes will somewhere in there
almost six minutes now, TikTok. Let's see if we're gonna
go to Virginia or maybe from the sore Loser desk.
I think that's where we'll go, and then we'll lighten
it up a little bit. Comes news this morning that
at least a dozen Democrats have opted to show their

(32:40):
support for our country's return to a different leadership. They're
gonna do that by not attending the inauguration of President
Trump in January. This bunch still just they can't understand
why they lost, and if they can't now, they probably
never will. And one of the things that I think

(33:03):
is worth noting is that the people who were so
supportive of Kamala Harris, the people who were so certain
that she should win and that if Trump were elected
it would just be the second coming of Adolph Hitler.
They all talked about that how he was going to

(33:24):
be a tyrant and a horrible person in the United States,
was just going to go to hell in a handbasket
if he were elected. Worth noting that Michelle Obama didn't
interview recently in which her team's rules for the interviewer
disallowed any political questions whatsoever. This is on the heels
of the most important presidential election probably in this country's history.

(33:48):
It has to be regarded as that, and there would
have to be. If they were so dead set that
he was such a horrible person and was going to
ruin this country, they would be in front of the
whole side, that whole side of politics, would be in
front of any and every microphone they can find, talking
about how horrible it's going to be when he's back

(34:10):
in office. Instead, though instead from a Fox News story
I saw this morning, the only things she would talk
about in this interview were going to be her new book,
her Netflix show, and her new fruit juice brand, none
of which I even realized existed. All this, all this,
after all their doom and gloom talk, and all they

(34:33):
want to talk about is out of fatten their stack
of money. It's not about the future of America. It's
about growing their bankroll with product pitches. They become pitchmen,
if you will, and all that talk about how.

Speaker 2 (34:47):
He was going to destroy the country. Just a pitch,
just a sales ploy that they try.

Speaker 3 (34:53):
They tossed that one out there to see if they
could sell it, but they couldn't close it for obviously reasons.

Speaker 2 (35:00):
Let's soften it up, will What do you say?

Speaker 1 (35:03):
What?

Speaker 2 (35:03):
Why are you ready?

Speaker 3 (35:05):
These are all fresh too, By the way, I have
some from yesterday. If I get desperate, I might call
on one of them, but probably not making a list.
Put a bow on it, or stay in your lane,
put a bow on it. A Poul asked people, how
good or bad are you at wrapping gifts?

Speaker 2 (35:29):
What would you say?

Speaker 3 (35:29):
Would you say you're good, very good, bad, very bad.

Speaker 2 (35:34):
I'd put it in a bag. I'd say it's relative.
What hell, you know, it depends on who you're rapping with.
Somebody might be a better rapper than you, but that
doesn't mean they what bad. I would say, I'm an
all right rapper. But on one to ten, would you

(35:55):
look a five? Yeah, I'll give myself a five.

Speaker 3 (35:58):
Or they're a little like fragments of paper and ribbon
that kind of hang off.

Speaker 2 (36:03):
No, no, but you know tight corners, tases, yeah, very tight. Yeah.
Sometimes I'm not cutting enough out, you know, it kills me.

Speaker 3 (36:13):
I get these weird things on my Facebook feed all
the time, and there was one and I've seen probably
a hundred of them since Facebook started. On these really
cool little ways that you can wrap a gift to
make it look very.

Speaker 2 (36:26):
Unique, and they're simple.

Speaker 3 (36:27):
There's just nothing to them, and man, it makes you
look like you you've been wrapping gifts professionally all your life.

Speaker 2 (36:37):
And I don't save them and I can't remember how
to do them that. Have you ever had that happen?

Speaker 4 (36:43):
No, I'm not really getting those videos, you know.

Speaker 2 (36:47):
Yeah, you're not that old yet, are you?

Speaker 4 (36:49):
But yeah, would I prefer to just kind of put
it in a bag and put some tissue paper out.

Speaker 3 (36:56):
Oh yeah, rolling up in a piece of tissue, drop
it in the bag, crumple up two or three different
colored sheets and throw them in the bag, and you're good.

Speaker 4 (37:06):
You know what I love is whenever I go to
a store and I'm picking something up and they ask
if they would like.

Speaker 2 (37:13):
Wrap it? Yeah? Do you tell them yes, yes, and
I'll pay if it's at extra five bucks? Would you
pay five bucks to get yes? Really? Would you pay
five bucks? You get a ten dollars gift wrapped? Well,
if it's a ten dollars gift, it's not gonna be
that big.

Speaker 3 (37:30):
You know, it doesn't matter. I just said five bucks wrap.
We'll wrap whatever you want. Five bucks.

Speaker 2 (37:36):
All right. Well I'll go buy a bicycle, Yeah, something.

Speaker 3 (37:42):
TV?

Speaker 2 (37:43):
Yeah, I put a bowl on that pal all right.
We got twenty five seconds. That's it. We wasted this
entire second.

Speaker 3 (37:49):
Okay, it's not a ways. Oh the stay in your
lane when I'll give you that one. Taco Bell is
gonna be selling crispy chicken nuggets. I don't know how
that's Mexican food, except that they coated and crushed up
tortilla chips. I guess next if they're gonna stay in
that lane, maybe next week we can get some Taco
Bell egg rolls will Doesn't that sound delish?

Speaker 2 (38:11):
We'll be back tomorrow. Thanks for listening. Audios