January 8, 2025 • 40 mins
Today, Doug Pike interviews Joseph Carr of Josh Cellars about Dry January.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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plus with Doug Pike. Here we go Wednesday. Let's get
straight to the weather. Shall wait?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Courtesy Still I guess a Texas into our quality specialist.
Still Chili go there Texas I AQ dot net. They actually,
like I said yesterday, they're coming to my house either
this week or early next week to evaluate something that
needs to be done up in the attic. While it's
still fairly comfortable to be in an attic, which is
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any time from about maybe late November through let's say
through April, it'll be okay, and then after that it
just becomes a little easy bake oven up there still
chilly around here, but no longer cold, at least by
if you've heard by Outdoor Show or this show, I
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reserve the word cold for temperatures of freezing or below.
It's not going to be that for quite some time,
but neither is it going to be warm. The weather
folks also show a one hundred percent chance of rain
tomorrow when another cold front moves through here. They call
them cold fronts. I'm not going to call the cool front.
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That's kind of petty. Hi tomorrow of only forty four
degrees with wind gusting and rain, the wind gust to
about twenty six miles an hour, averaging they say six
to fifteen. But that's that's a pretty broad range. It's
gonna be gusty, it's gonna be cold. It's gonna be
a horrible day to think about playing golf, for doing
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much of anything outside except trying to get back inside,
depending where you are, maybe even Friday morning, still some rain,
then clearing as we get into Friday afternoon, lots of
sunshine on Saturday, and still not sixty degrees officially anywhere
around here. Maybe along the coast it might tap sixty.
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The first official prediction of a high temperature in Houston
of sixty or more degrees, and it's it's so far
out I don't trust it at all. Take a guess,
will pop quiz what is today? The eighth is right?
Ninth eighth ninth yes, eighth, yes, the eighth. So what
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day is the first according to the long range forecast,
on which the temperature is supposedly going to be sixty
or more degrees? The sixteenth, No, the twenty first, fifty
two weeks from now and one more day. It might
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hit sixty on the button too. It's not a high
of sixty five or three or four, eight or nine
or whatever. Sixty that's their best shot. Uh, fat chance. Really,
it might be fifty, it might be seventy. Who knows,
there's no way to know it's Houston. Okay, it's Southeast Texas.
We might be in shorts and flip flops that day
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heading to the pool. In the market Saintsy Houston Gooldexchange
dot com indicators showed a mix of red and green
this morning. Nothing dramatic either way, except I guess you
could count the Russell as moving significantly. It was down
a full point a percentage point, not just one tick.
Gold's up to twenty six point eighty and change now,
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which is pretty good. And oil finally down a tad
but still north of seventy three dollars a barrel. When
it gets back below seventy dollars, I'll pay attention a
little bit more, and when it's back to around sixty seven,
sixty six, maybe sixty five, then we'll be where we
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need to be and where we should be into the
headlines of the day, since I've got a little time here,
just in case you missed it on KTRH this morning,
there is solid evidence that China has hacked its way
into some of our some pretty serious areas of our
nation's infrastructure. There's also evidence that some of those drones
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belonged to China. There's been one man arrested, a Chinese national,
for flying a drone over one of our space bases,
our Space Force base. Uh, that's just it, it's just two.
There's there's no coincidence. This, This is all strategically planned out.
China's been buying up land around our military bases for
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the last four or five years or maybe even more.
I'm not sure how far back all this goes. And
we've just let it happen, just no big deal. And
now we have the evidence that China has, like I said,
hacked into some pretty serious stuff. There's concern over the
power grids, there's concern over our ports, there is concern
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about our communication systems. All of this is has been done.
They know that the the the Chinese communist government has
penetrated our firewalls and if they chose to do so,
they could. Guy. Hopefully there's some really smart Americans somewhere
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working to plug these leaks before the damn breaks. I
don't know. The reason this has happened too is because
for the last last four years, all these intrusions into
our cyber networks by China and other bad guys around
the world have just gone mostly unchallenged and unpunished. Nobody
near any of our cybergates locked them up when they
left for left work that day, and not entirely unlike
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our southern border, enemies of this country walked right in
and installed their own software. And it's designed to potentially,
if all the switches were pulled at once, they potentially
could throw this whole country backward as technology goes a
century or more, and I, for one don't want to
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go back a century for more in technology and try
to survive. This morning story on kt r AH pointed
out that we'll probably need to discourage any action against
us by enemy nations that have picked our locks. We'll
do it with tariffs at first, because and it makes
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very good sense to consider fighting fire with fire to
show what we know about their infrastructure and about their
operations would would reveal more than we want to reveal
just now. We want to keep that card face down
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on the table until there's good reason to to flip
it over and play it. We'll take a little break.
Let's do that. Take a little break. On the way out,
I'll tell you about the autobotive Show. The Houston Automotive
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new stuff, some antique stuff, some older stuff, stuff, accessories
for all of those vehicles and boats, and just everything
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Speaker 1 (08:35):
This is fifty plus with Dougpike.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
All Right, welcome back, Thanks for listening to fifty plus
on this Chili Wednesday down here in well wherever you are.
I have listeners all over the place. I keep forgetting
that will, and I'm trying not to restrict my my
geographical references to just where we sit, because that's not right.
We're gonna talk in this segment about a trend among
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adults of all ages to hit the pause button on
alcohol consumption in January. I'm calling it dry January, which
I bet good money's based on how a whole lot
of people feel when they wake up on New Year's Day.
And in recognition of dry January for those of us
who don't mind ditching the alcohol but like the taste
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of fine wine, I will bring in Joe Carr founder
of Josh Sellers.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Welcome aboard, Joe Hey, thank you so much for having
me on today.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Oh it's my pell.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
You know. I started Josh Seller's almost twenty years ago.
There was a tribute to my dad, Josh. He wasn't
a winemaker. He was a lumberjack No. Number LT. And
he was a hardworking guy who put his family first.
And I learned a lot of great values from him,
and the value of hard work.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
And when I started Josh Sellers, my dad as he
passed away when I was younger, my wife and I
decide we'd name a wine after him. Nice and uh
tribute to him. Become his kind of culture favorite, and
now it's America's number one.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Premium wine outstanding. Good for you. I read that you
guys have got production facilities in California, Oregon, and Italy.
That's a big footprint. How do you manage all of that?
Speaker 6 (10:32):
A lot of a.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Lot of airlines. And I live in New England, I
live in.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Just got back from from Italy. We've built beautiful Josh
Seller's wineymaking and uh, it was it was an amazing project.
We made prosecco and prosecco rose and they and we
decided to make a non non alcoholic wine, a non
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alcohol sparkling wine.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
I saw that mentioned in the information I got. That's
fascinating to me. Honestly, whose idea was it to do that?
And what give me an idea of what goes into
making a non alcoholic wine?
Speaker 4 (11:22):
You know, during January has been this this thing among
millennials and older.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
People, lots of people for that matter. You know, my
late mom diabetic and she couldn't drink alcohol, and she
kept saying, Joe.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
It was like alone with anything, be cheap. Talk about that. Anyways,
she wanted something non alcoholic. And I'm like, hey, mom,
you know you. Mom wanted to be at the party.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Again, Joe, Joe, there's somebody else contributing on unknowingly to
this conversation. I don't know who it is, but there's
some sort of a problem with the connection. Do you
have any idea what it might be?
Speaker 4 (12:19):
That's the broadcaster if you guys are listening to me,
because you sign off, yes, I know that technology today.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Yeah, okay, so let's get back to wine. Let's get
back to non alcoholic wine. How do you make that?
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Well, you know, we make it like we make a
normal wah, okay, we're gonna use We use grapes, the
traditional grapes that go in pro secto. But part of
the fermentation process is heat. You know, the grapes and
the and the water get warm and that causes fermentation
or alcohol. So we chill grapes and that's what we
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call arrest fermentation, no fermentation. It's exactly the same process
as making wine. We just keep it cool. We had
a little bit of sugar to it, and then we
add a gripe called mouscott, which is this beautiful grape
grown in the northern region of Italy that it's like
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peach and pair and all these really tropical aromas and flavors,
and really it's a very balanced, beautiful uh an a wine.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
I only I only wish that my palette were so
sophisticated that I could pick up on all that I
really do. Joe, Well, you mentioned that with so much
emphasis these days on pairing wines with foods and such.
How how does your non alcoholic sparkling wine Does it
have that same versatility?
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Well, you know, you could take it next to our prosecco,
And there are some people that say Wow, which one's
n A and which one isn't? Characteristics of the traditional prosecco,
and you know that being set up in Italy, you know,
I would I would match the wines with Italian traditional
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Italian dishes like aposta and pizza and things like that.
But one of the other things come out of this
trend are these mixologists, Oh yeah, creating creating mocktails. So
we thought, hey, that sounds like a good idea. So
we created a Josh Bellini. You know that famous drink
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that was made at Harry's Bar in Venice.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
I was just.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
There in October and it it's this non alcoholic sparkling
wine with raspberry and peach juice, and it's delicious. It's
the great summer drink. It's a great everyday drink. And
it also you know, allows people who want to come
to the party and you know, not have any judgment,
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you know, be socially accepted by having a mocktail and
nobody judges and it's great. We're all here at the
party and that's what we want, that's what we really want.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Well, and along that same line, the people who come
to the party have to get home from the party
and they don't have to worry about getting in trouble
driving home.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Either, exactly.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
I like that aspect out as well. Yeah, that's my.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Mom didn't drink it. I've got a twin sister who
doesn't drink, so sure she's always.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Happened she feel left out for a little while, did she?
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Yeah, I went to the website. Speaking of left out,
you don't leave barely anybody out. I wouldn't think. I
punched in a few local zip codes around here and
found out I can go get your stuff in a
lot of places around Houston and even out in sugar
Land where I live. If somebody went looking for that
non alcoholic wine or anything from your collection really in
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their zip code and couldn't find it, they can still
buy it on the website. Right.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
I don't know if you can get it right from
the website just yet because they came in, but you'll, oh,
well yeah Josh Sellers dot com, uh and look it up.
And then if you really have some time you want
to see something interesting, go on YouTube and look up
Josh Seller's commercials. You know, we we did some spot
I've got one hundred and fifty million views on YouTube
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and it's the story of my dad and my late
wife and myself and the journey we've been on. And
it's really an American dream story. You know. We're the
number one premium brand in America right now and it
started with myself and my wife's selling it out of
the back of our truck.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Holy, that's a pretty big deal. Good for you, man,
Good for you. It's all based on the values of
your father.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Huh correct.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
I wish you could convince my son to listen to
me like you listen to your dad.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
I didn't say I listened to Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Fair enough. That's that's Oh man. I really do like
this concept of dry January too. You can't take credit
for that, can you.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Oh no, that's that wasn't my idea. I tried to
give up pork chops, but tily lasted a week.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Well either way, Dry January still, I guess, a really
good idea. It gives our minds and bodies kind of
a chance to flush the holidays out of our systems.
Thank you so much for your time, Joe Carr, I
really do appreciate it. Josh Sellers dot Com, go look
it up, Go punch in your zip code. You'll find
someplace you can go find a lot of their products,
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and if you're looking for that in a sparkling one,
you can go straight to the website. Right correct, perfect, correct, Yeah, Joe,
thanks a ton man. I really appreciate your time today.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
I'm great new year.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Likewise. Likewise, I'll go check out some of your stuff.
Thank you. All right, we got to take a little
break here on the way out. I will remind you
that ut Heals Institute on Aging is an amazing collaborative
truly of thousands of providers around here, all of whom
have devoted extra time and effort to learn how their expertise,
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their knowledge in whatever field of medicine they're in, can
be applied specifically to seniors. That's us and we need
that special attention. We really do. It's the opposite end
of pediatrician. Geriatricians know more about older people, and then
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anybody who has also gone in and gotten this training
knows more about older people than most providers do. That's
a big benefit for us. Go to the website, look around,
explore the opportunities and resources that are made available there
that you may not even be to find in a
lot of other places. The website's been up for many
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many years now, as has the Institute on Aging, and
it's its information is truly a blessing for all of
us who live in this region and know about it
and have access to these providers ut dot ed u
slash aging. Go there, take a look around uth dot
ed u slash aging.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
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 coat of wax. This
is fifty plus with Doug Pike non alcoholic wine. That's interesting,
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very interesting, And there.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Y'alls you there are different grade I look this up
will and around the world to be na, there are
different levels of because the way that Joe explained it,
when they when they crushed the grapes and make the wine,
the warmer it gets, the more alcohol content. I guess
that's a simple way to explain it. But it was
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very interesting to hear what he was talking about. There's
is super low and in the in the United States
to have that designation, it's it's no more alcohol than
what you would find in in what the FDA explanation
and all that. There's some something I found on Ai. Anyway,
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it's about the same as an over ripe banana, which
makes me wonder how many overripe bananas you'd have to
eat to get a buzz. Not that I'm gonna try it.
You want to take a swing at that, I'll go
buy some old bananas for you. Now, why not? Will
never want it? It'd be a you could be a trendsetter. No,
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can't afford alcohol, Go buy some bananas and wait, I'm
all right, I did. That's interesting, and it's it's kind
of cool. I don't have a sophisticated enough palette to
greatly appreciate it, but I do. My next glass of
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wine won't be my first. It's been a while, but
my next glass of wine won't be my first. And
I greatly appreciate people who do get into that, because
it's it's as they are as into the wines and
the champagnes and all of those things as I am
into fishing and hunting and golf, and it's a passion
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for them. And you can you can hear it in
Joe's voice. He is so passionate about that, and to
have that familial tie as well is pretty pretty special
for them. So hats off to Josh Sellers, it's pretty cool.
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety Email
me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. Oh no, it's
not five seven ninety, it's five ninety five. Oh I
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just rolled into outdoor show mode. Seven one three two
one two five nine five zero. Will is just eager
to take a call and see what's going on in
your world. If you've got something you want to share,
something you want me to find out and turn into
a segment, I'll listen. I'll certainly listen. I would much
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prefer those. Actually. If you want me to just look
at a topic for you and get a good expert
on here to talk about it, shoot me an email
so I can maybe respond and get a little more
information and not take up showtime doing that. To nobody's surprise,
back to political news for about maybe forty five seconds,
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comes news that all the Shenanigans being played by President
Biden now, and that what's happening is that increasing numbers
of Democrats are either declaring themselves free agents free from
that party, or going ahead and just signing new deals
with the Republican They're they're jumping ship and going all
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the way over to the other side. Enough of them
already have done that to get President Trump elected. We
saw that in November. And when the rest of them
realize what Biden and company are doing to the country
on his way out out of pure bitterness, even more Americans,
i'd be willing to bet, will change sides and just
say enough's enough, enough's enough. There was something else I
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had here from yesterday that I wanted to get into
a little bit to kind of show how the pendulum
is already swinging. Oh there's that. No, this is from today,
and I'm gonna I'm gonna go with this first and
then maybe maybe swing back around to that other thing
I had in mind. If you're wondering just how disconnected
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Democratic representatives in the US House are from common sense,
consider this the Lake and Riley Act. If you don't
remember Lake and Riley, look it up. She is the
young woman who was out on a jog, a nursing student,
if I recall correctly, out on a jog at night,
and was murdered by an illegal immigrant, brutally murdered by
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this guy. And the Lake and Riley Act would require
federal immigration offices to detain illegal migrants who commit crimes
in the country, theft, all the way up to all
the bad stuff, the really bad stuff, and allow states
to actually soothe the Department of Homeland Security for harm
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cause to their residence by illegal immigration. That act went
to a House vote yesterday and one hundred and fifty
nine Democrats voted against it. Voted against it. That's one
hundred and fifty nine people who bear in mind, Lincoln Riley.
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She wasn't killed under former President Trump's or incoming President
Trump's watch. She was killed on the watches of Biden
and Harris collectively. And shame on both of them for
letting that just keep going until more and more of
this happened. So what they've done essentially has said, now
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you know what, We're gonna put illegal immigrants who commit
crimes in our country, even in unimaginable violent crimes, all
of that. They're just gonna put them ahead of Americans
because that's the way we feel about our country. I
really don't get that. I really don't understand that. Back
in southern California, wildfires raging again. I was gonna ask
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Joe about that, but I thought, yah, wrong time, wrong place,
making sure that he and his family weren't being weren't
in harm's way at least. But what's going on over there?
The Palisades fire that started just yesterday, as of early
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this morning already had burned almost three thousand acres, and
by now I'm sure it has because also early this
morning it was zero percent controlled. All they've been able
to do is rush in law enforcement and firefighters and
everybody else to try to get the people out one
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by one. Homes are burning, automobiles are burning, everything that's
left behind is burning. And it's just tragic, it really is.
If there's ever a time when when there's not a
wildfire burning in California, maybe I'll talk about how maybe
that could have been remediated long before, long before some
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of these fires started and spread so fast. They've got
high wind, they've got extremely dry conditions and plenty of
fuel on the ground. Unfortunately, because it's so dry. That's
just it's horrible, it really is. It's horrible. I feel
very badly for him. Uh will, let's let's soften it
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up a little bit for this next minute, and I
will let you choose from the following mint condition testing
our stupidity or jammed up mint condition. It's officially Girl
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Scout cookie season again, Will and all the classics will
be returning You a thin mint guy.
Speaker 6 (27:35):
I don't think I really eat Girl Scout cookies that much,
to be honest, Why not?
Speaker 2 (27:41):
I just don't want to buy it from them inconvenient
you don't want to support that group. Nope, you know
my wife and I are will get roped into buying
a couple of boxes. I'm all over the thin min's.
I like those peanut butter ones with the chocolate around them.
I don't know what they're called. They're finally get This
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is gonna be the final run though for some'mores and
toast jays whatever those are, which means I don't know.
Maybe they're just pulling it out, the ones that were
in the freezer from last year. Gonna thaw them out
and set them on the curb. I don't know, but
count on seeing Girl Scouts at grocery stores. It's home.
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You have to run the gauntlet between them now and
where I shot for groceries. There is almost always somebody
out there with a little six foot folding table and
a drape over it, trying to sell you. I think
the latest ones are selling like home home internet maybe
or phones or I don't know what it is, phone service.
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I'm not sure, but I just I wish them well.
And I said, look, I recognize that how hard your
job is, and I appreciate you being here, but I
got frozen stuff in a bag and I need to
get it home. Oh we're almost out of time for this.
Wee Yeah, let's go so we can get out on
Ton Braun's roofing. Let's go there, I said, I had
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communication with Skeeter Braun this morning as a matter of fact,
about something that's coming up for him, and I'm hoping
to get him out to your house. Everybody else's house
who hasn't had their roof inspected since last summer. To
get it inspected, it's not going to cost you a dime.
All you got to do is call him or go
to the website, set up an appointment. They'll come out there,
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usually within twenty four hours, and look your roof over.
If they find something wrong, they'll show you pictures, they
will explain what it would take to fix it. They'll
tell you how much it'll cost, how long it'll take,
and they'll probably if it's something small. They'll probably have
what they need on the truck and can go ahead
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and knock it out. Then I strongly recommend that because
you will not find better work at a lower price.
Quality work at a fair price is the premise on
which Skeeter Braun built this whole business, and he's stuck
with it for more than thirty years. Now, whatever kind
of roof you have, residential or commercial, tile, asphalt, steel, shingles,
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whatever it is, I love this line. Bronze has you covered?
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it in your phone so when something happens to your roof,
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up roofs around you. Two eight one four eight zero
ninety nine hundred. What's life without a net? I suggest
you go to bed and sleep it off. Just wait
until the show's over. Sleepy.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Back to Dougpike as fifty plus continues, do no here
we go?
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Welcome back fifty plus final segment. Got about what nine minutes?
Will Yeah? Nine minutes? I can do that with standing
on one foot well, yeah, we do. We have nine minutes.
Well that's what I just said. Uh, if you've been
concerned about the direction that the nation took for the
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past four years, Uh, you you might find some peace
and and and enthusiasm and knowing that there's a trend
to to turn back the clock, if you will, to
the period before all the diversity strategies and DEI and
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all of that. It's it's been that long since McDonald's
initiated sweeping diversity strategies about four years ago.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
But McDonald's has cited our Supreme Court ruling against affirmative
action in college admissions as part of why it's changing
course and step in away from all of that this
past year. According to stories I saw yesterday morning, Walmart
John Deere, Lowe's Tractor Supply, Harley Davidson, Brown Foreman, the
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makers of Jack Daniels, and other large corporations are taking
similar steps to set aside DEI initiatives in that same vein. Actually,
the Washington Post recently pulled a piece written by its
gender columnist and intends to scrap that column altogether. The
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good news for the person who is writing the column. Apparently,
the Washington Post thinks that woman can write, and more
power to her. I'm sure she can. She wouldn't have
been a columnist otherwise, so's she's not going to lose
her job. She's just going to be reassigned according again
to what I read yesterday about that, and hopefully we
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can just get back to a merit based based society
in which everybody who who makes the effort as an
equal shot. I've always thought that it would be interesting
and beneficial if job interviews were conducted kind of like
the blind auditions on the voice. Just the people who
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are hiring can't see you, and they could even generate
an AI voice, so they couldn't know anything about you
except your answers to their questions, and the person who
had the best answers to the questions would get the job.
The person who had the best qualifications would get the job.
Based on nothing but qualifications and answers to questions. Then
(33:44):
things should work better for all of us. Let's get
off of all that. Well, let's lighten it up a
little bit. I'm gonna take you back. Oh, by the way,
do you know what today is. It's the eighth We
talked about this earlier. No no, no, no, no, no no.
The national day hmmm, I don't know. It has something
(34:04):
to do with flights. Will something to do with flights.
It's a national take outside the box, it's.
Speaker 6 (34:14):
National Air air Gliding Day.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
No, it's National Take the stairs day? Will get the
reference flight? Yes, say get the reference. I'm sure you do.
So here's the deal, though, you and I both know
that if you I thought that there would the staircase
right outside the back door here in our offices goes
nowhere that you open that door. It says exit, but
it goes nowhere, literally nowhere except up and in a fire.
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I don't really want to be going higher in the
building unless I can hear the helicopter on the roof
already down the hall though, at the other end of
the hall is a stairwell that you can go down
a couple of steps, and then there's a door. I
have no idea where it opens to, and I'm not
gonna open it because it'll set off an alarm and
I don't want to be that guy, Like there was
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a congressman who did that. Remember he set off a
fire alarm just to do for some ridiculous reason. All right,
let's get off of all that. I'm gonna go back
to my list of brief conversation starters and we're gonna
go with this time foreign food, interesting idea or lucky number.
(35:32):
Lucky number. You know, I've found a way to make
you pick just the one I want you to pick,
or at least make you pick one that. Yeah, but
I'm not going to tell you what it is, because
then you would know, and then you would stop do
stop falling for what I'm doing. Lucky number guy in
Maryland gets cut off in traffic will which happens what
(35:55):
every five minutes around here on the freeway? You get
on the freeway much at all? Yeah, all the time?
Where what where are you going that you have to
get on the freeway. I gotta get onto fifty nine.
We got to get on sometimes. I got to get
onto two eighty eight. You gotta get out five.
Speaker 4 (36:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
You gotta get outside the loop to feel alive, don't you.
Speaker 6 (36:16):
I don't even consider it. It's almost like, you know,
I imagine literally once you leave the loop, it's almost like
a scary do you. Yeah, I think it is, and
it is because it's just it's just too rural, it's
too boring.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
How did you get outside the rent? Get outside the loop?
All you see is horses and gobble.
Speaker 6 (36:38):
All you see is just a highway fodder, as I
call that wave fodder.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
Yeah, fighter doing about one hundred miles an hour. Don't
get me started on that. So back to where we were.
This guy gets cut off in traffic and he used
that person's license plate number to play the lottery. And
guess what happened?
Speaker 5 (37:00):
What?
Speaker 2 (37:02):
Guess how much he won? Let's just leave it at that. Yeah,
I'm not gonna leave it at that. I'm just gonna
take it down to the essentials here. Guess how much
that guy's personal or that guy's license plate number won him.
It won him one of the guy who got caught off,
cut off? Just hurry up, man, we're running out of
time here.
Speaker 6 (37:22):
Yeah, I'm thinking any number doesn't mean there's so many
numbers to aren't there. I'm gonna say thirty million dollars?
Speaker 2 (37:33):
Good lord, No, it's just a little just a little
one five hundred thousand, though, which wouldn't be little to
mir or you certainly, now if you had thirty million,
five hundred thousand, wouldn't seem like a lot. That's how
some of these It's amazing how these NFL quarterbacks buy
their offensive line gifts.
Speaker 4 (37:51):
Now.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
I don't know that c. J. Stroud's gonna buy his
line much of anything that might buy him dinner at
McDonald's or something off the value. You that's new, But
right now they need they need to take care of
him this weekend or something's got to give. A cut above,
will I feel pretty? Oh so pretty? Or foreign food?
(38:15):
I'm going back to that one. A cut above? Okay,
this is interesting here. You got your beard back. Do
you shave it all? Or do you is that the
whole beard? I'm just letting it, letting her go. Well,
the some guy doesn't say where he was. Forty eight
year old guy cut himself shaving, okay, and actually found
(38:41):
an attorney who would represent him in a civil suit
against the razor company. And this guy got sixty two
hundred and fifty dollars out of the out of the deal.
It seems if you're forty eight and you can't shave
without cutting yourself, just buy some band aids. Get an
(39:04):
electric razor. Yeah, get an electric razor. Can't cut he
can afforded one. Now, he can afford an electric razor.
Now he can afford a bunch of me by a
really nice one. He could just hire somebody to shave
him once every couple of days for a couple of
years if he wanted to really go big. Ah, man,
I got so many of these, and they're all pretty
(39:25):
good ulterior motive, hidden costs or that's all. Oh no
scratch hitting costs. We did that yesterday. That's all twenty
five seconds. Oh my gosh, hm, I don't like that one.
Testing our stupidity. Will glitter pickles glickles, they call them
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straight to the weather. Shall wait?
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Courtesy Still I guess a Texas into our quality specialist.
Still Chili go there Texas I AQ dot net. They actually,
like I said yesterday, they're coming to my house either
this week or early next week to evaluate something that
needs to be done up in the attic. While it's
still fairly comfortable to be in an attic, which is
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any time from about maybe late November through let's say
through April, it'll be okay, and then after that it
just becomes a little easy bake oven up there still
chilly around here, but no longer cold, at least by
if you've heard by Outdoor Show or this show, I
(01:38):
reserve the word cold for temperatures of freezing or below.
It's not going to be that for quite some time,
but neither is it going to be warm. The weather
folks also show a one hundred percent chance of rain
tomorrow when another cold front moves through here. They call
them cold fronts. I'm not going to call the cool front.
(01:59):
That's kind of petty. Hi tomorrow of only forty four
degrees with wind gusting and rain, the wind gust to
about twenty six miles an hour, averaging they say six
to fifteen. But that's that's a pretty broad range. It's
gonna be gusty, it's gonna be cold. It's gonna be
a horrible day to think about playing golf, for doing
(02:21):
much of anything outside except trying to get back inside,
depending where you are, maybe even Friday morning, still some rain,
then clearing as we get into Friday afternoon, lots of
sunshine on Saturday, and still not sixty degrees officially anywhere
around here. Maybe along the coast it might tap sixty.
(02:43):
The first official prediction of a high temperature in Houston
of sixty or more degrees, and it's it's so far
out I don't trust it at all. Take a guess,
will pop quiz what is today? The eighth is right?
Ninth eighth ninth yes, eighth, yes, the eighth. So what
(03:06):
day is the first according to the long range forecast,
on which the temperature is supposedly going to be sixty
or more degrees? The sixteenth, No, the twenty first, fifty
two weeks from now and one more day. It might
(03:27):
hit sixty on the button too. It's not a high
of sixty five or three or four, eight or nine
or whatever. Sixty that's their best shot. Uh, fat chance. Really,
it might be fifty, it might be seventy. Who knows,
there's no way to know it's Houston. Okay, it's Southeast Texas.
We might be in shorts and flip flops that day
(03:47):
heading to the pool. In the market Saintsy Houston Gooldexchange
dot com indicators showed a mix of red and green
this morning. Nothing dramatic either way, except I guess you
could count the Russell as moving significantly. It was down
a full point a percentage point, not just one tick.
Gold's up to twenty six point eighty and change now,
(04:09):
which is pretty good. And oil finally down a tad
but still north of seventy three dollars a barrel. When
it gets back below seventy dollars, I'll pay attention a
little bit more, and when it's back to around sixty seven,
sixty six, maybe sixty five, then we'll be where we
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need to be and where we should be into the
headlines of the day, since I've got a little time here,
just in case you missed it on KTRH this morning,
there is solid evidence that China has hacked its way
into some of our some pretty serious areas of our
nation's infrastructure. There's also evidence that some of those drones
(04:50):
belonged to China. There's been one man arrested, a Chinese national,
for flying a drone over one of our space bases,
our Space Force base. Uh, that's just it, it's just two.
There's there's no coincidence. This, This is all strategically planned out.
China's been buying up land around our military bases for
(05:11):
the last four or five years or maybe even more.
I'm not sure how far back all this goes. And
we've just let it happen, just no big deal. And
now we have the evidence that China has, like I said,
hacked into some pretty serious stuff. There's concern over the
power grids, there's concern over our ports, there is concern
(05:34):
about our communication systems. All of this is has been done.
They know that the the the Chinese communist government has
penetrated our firewalls and if they chose to do so,
they could. Guy. Hopefully there's some really smart Americans somewhere
(05:55):
working to plug these leaks before the damn breaks. I
don't know. The reason this has happened too is because
for the last last four years, all these intrusions into
our cyber networks by China and other bad guys around
the world have just gone mostly unchallenged and unpunished. Nobody
near any of our cybergates locked them up when they
left for left work that day, and not entirely unlike
(06:18):
our southern border, enemies of this country walked right in
and installed their own software. And it's designed to potentially,
if all the switches were pulled at once, they potentially
could throw this whole country backward as technology goes a
century or more, and I, for one don't want to
(06:38):
go back a century for more in technology and try
to survive. This morning story on kt r AH pointed
out that we'll probably need to discourage any action against
us by enemy nations that have picked our locks. We'll
do it with tariffs at first, because and it makes
(07:00):
very good sense to consider fighting fire with fire to
show what we know about their infrastructure and about their
operations would would reveal more than we want to reveal
just now. We want to keep that card face down
(07:22):
on the table until there's good reason to to flip
it over and play it. We'll take a little break.
Let's do that. Take a little break. On the way out,
I'll tell you about the autobotive Show. The Houston Automotive
Show coming up January twenty ninth through February tewod at
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game this weekend. As a matter of fact, what you
will find once the Autobotive Show moves in is a
tremendous selection of both of cars, of boats, all the
new stuff, some antique stuff, some older stuff, stuff, accessories
for all of those vehicles and boats, and just everything
(08:06):
you can imagine related to anything having to do with
fine automobiles and boating and voting is a pretty big
deal around here, Houston. Autobotiveshow dot com actually just Autobotive
show dot com. Excuse me. There are discounts available to
discounted tickets available beforehand, so you might want to tap
(08:27):
into that site and take a look. Autobotiveshow dot com
aged to perfection.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
This is fifty plus with Dougpike.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
All Right, welcome back, Thanks for listening to fifty plus
on this Chili Wednesday down here in well wherever you are.
I have listeners all over the place. I keep forgetting
that will, and I'm trying not to restrict my my
geographical references to just where we sit, because that's not right.
We're gonna talk in this segment about a trend among
(09:13):
adults of all ages to hit the pause button on
alcohol consumption in January. I'm calling it dry January, which
I bet good money's based on how a whole lot
of people feel when they wake up on New Year's Day.
And in recognition of dry January for those of us
who don't mind ditching the alcohol but like the taste
(09:34):
of fine wine, I will bring in Joe Carr founder
of Josh Sellers.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Welcome aboard, Joe Hey, thank you so much for having
me on today.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Oh it's my pell.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
You know. I started Josh Seller's almost twenty years ago.
There was a tribute to my dad, Josh. He wasn't
a winemaker. He was a lumberjack No. Number LT. And
he was a hardworking guy who put his family first.
And I learned a lot of great values from him,
and the value of hard work.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
And when I started Josh Sellers, my dad as he
passed away when I was younger, my wife and I
decide we'd name a wine after him. Nice and uh
tribute to him. Become his kind of culture favorite, and
now it's America's number one.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Premium wine outstanding. Good for you. I read that you
guys have got production facilities in California, Oregon, and Italy.
That's a big footprint. How do you manage all of that?
Speaker 6 (10:32):
A lot of a.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Lot of airlines. And I live in New England, I
live in.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Just got back from from Italy. We've built beautiful Josh
Seller's wineymaking and uh, it was it was an amazing project.
We made prosecco and prosecco rose and they and we
decided to make a non non alcoholic wine, a non
(11:04):
alcohol sparkling wine.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
I saw that mentioned in the information I got. That's
fascinating to me. Honestly, whose idea was it to do that?
And what give me an idea of what goes into
making a non alcoholic wine?
Speaker 4 (11:22):
You know, during January has been this this thing among
millennials and older.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
People, lots of people for that matter. You know, my
late mom diabetic and she couldn't drink alcohol, and she
kept saying, Joe.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
It was like alone with anything, be cheap. Talk about that. Anyways,
she wanted something non alcoholic. And I'm like, hey, mom,
you know you. Mom wanted to be at the party.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Again, Joe, Joe, there's somebody else contributing on unknowingly to
this conversation. I don't know who it is, but there's
some sort of a problem with the connection. Do you
have any idea what it might be?
Speaker 4 (12:19):
That's the broadcaster if you guys are listening to me,
because you sign off, yes, I know that technology today.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Yeah, okay, so let's get back to wine. Let's get
back to non alcoholic wine. How do you make that?
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Well, you know, we make it like we make a
normal wah, okay, we're gonna use We use grapes, the
traditional grapes that go in pro secto. But part of
the fermentation process is heat. You know, the grapes and
the and the water get warm and that causes fermentation
or alcohol. So we chill grapes and that's what we
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call arrest fermentation, no fermentation. It's exactly the same process
as making wine. We just keep it cool. We had
a little bit of sugar to it, and then we
add a gripe called mouscott, which is this beautiful grape
grown in the northern region of Italy that it's like
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peach and pair and all these really tropical aromas and flavors,
and really it's a very balanced, beautiful uh an a wine.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
I only I only wish that my palette were so
sophisticated that I could pick up on all that I
really do. Joe, Well, you mentioned that with so much
emphasis these days on pairing wines with foods and such.
How how does your non alcoholic sparkling wine Does it
have that same versatility?
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Well, you know, you could take it next to our prosecco,
And there are some people that say Wow, which one's
n A and which one isn't? Characteristics of the traditional prosecco,
and you know that being set up in Italy, you know,
I would I would match the wines with Italian traditional
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Italian dishes like aposta and pizza and things like that.
But one of the other things come out of this
trend are these mixologists, Oh yeah, creating creating mocktails. So
we thought, hey, that sounds like a good idea. So
we created a Josh Bellini. You know that famous drink
(14:34):
that was made at Harry's Bar in Venice.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
I was just.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
There in October and it it's this non alcoholic sparkling
wine with raspberry and peach juice, and it's delicious. It's
the great summer drink. It's a great everyday drink. And
it also you know, allows people who want to come
to the party and you know, not have any judgment,
(14:59):
you know, be socially accepted by having a mocktail and
nobody judges and it's great. We're all here at the
party and that's what we want, that's what we really want.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Well, and along that same line, the people who come
to the party have to get home from the party
and they don't have to worry about getting in trouble
driving home.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Either, exactly.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
I like that aspect out as well. Yeah, that's my.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Mom didn't drink it. I've got a twin sister who
doesn't drink, so sure she's always.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Happened she feel left out for a little while, did she?
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Yeah, I went to the website. Speaking of left out,
you don't leave barely anybody out. I wouldn't think. I
punched in a few local zip codes around here and
found out I can go get your stuff in a
lot of places around Houston and even out in sugar
Land where I live. If somebody went looking for that
non alcoholic wine or anything from your collection really in
(15:57):
their zip code and couldn't find it, they can still
buy it on the website. Right.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
I don't know if you can get it right from
the website just yet because they came in, but you'll, oh,
well yeah Josh Sellers dot com, uh and look it up.
And then if you really have some time you want
to see something interesting, go on YouTube and look up
Josh Seller's commercials. You know, we we did some spot
I've got one hundred and fifty million views on YouTube
(16:26):
and it's the story of my dad and my late
wife and myself and the journey we've been on. And
it's really an American dream story. You know. We're the
number one premium brand in America right now and it
started with myself and my wife's selling it out of
the back of our truck.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Holy, that's a pretty big deal. Good for you, man,
Good for you. It's all based on the values of
your father.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Huh correct.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
I wish you could convince my son to listen to
me like you listen to your dad.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
I didn't say I listened to Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Fair enough. That's that's Oh man. I really do like
this concept of dry January too. You can't take credit
for that, can you.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Oh no, that's that wasn't my idea. I tried to
give up pork chops, but tily lasted a week.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Well either way, Dry January still, I guess, a really
good idea. It gives our minds and bodies kind of
a chance to flush the holidays out of our systems.
Thank you so much for your time, Joe Carr, I
really do appreciate it. Josh Sellers dot Com, go look
it up, Go punch in your zip code. You'll find
someplace you can go find a lot of their products,
(17:42):
and if you're looking for that in a sparkling one,
you can go straight to the website. Right correct, perfect, correct, Yeah, Joe,
thanks a ton man. I really appreciate your time today.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
I'm great new year.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Likewise. Likewise, I'll go check out some of your stuff.
Thank you. All right, we got to take a little
break here on the way out. I will remind you
that ut Heals Institute on Aging is an amazing collaborative
truly of thousands of providers around here, all of whom
have devoted extra time and effort to learn how their expertise,
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their knowledge in whatever field of medicine they're in, can
be applied specifically to seniors. That's us and we need
that special attention. We really do. It's the opposite end
of pediatrician. Geriatricians know more about older people, and then
(18:40):
anybody who has also gone in and gotten this training
knows more about older people than most providers do. That's
a big benefit for us. Go to the website, look around,
explore the opportunities and resources that are made available there
that you may not even be to find in a
lot of other places. The website's been up for many
(19:04):
many years now, as has the Institute on Aging, and
it's its information is truly a blessing for all of
us who live in this region and know about it
and have access to these providers ut dot ed u
slash aging. Go there, take a look around uth dot
ed u slash aging.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
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 coat of wax. This
is fifty plus with Doug Pike non alcoholic wine. That's interesting,
(19:49):
very interesting, And there.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Y'alls you there are different grade I look this up
will and around the world to be na, there are
different levels of because the way that Joe explained it,
when they when they crushed the grapes and make the wine,
the warmer it gets, the more alcohol content. I guess
that's a simple way to explain it. But it was
(20:10):
very interesting to hear what he was talking about. There's
is super low and in the in the United States
to have that designation, it's it's no more alcohol than
what you would find in in what the FDA explanation
and all that. There's some something I found on Ai. Anyway,
(20:31):
it's about the same as an over ripe banana, which
makes me wonder how many overripe bananas you'd have to
eat to get a buzz. Not that I'm gonna try it.
You want to take a swing at that, I'll go
buy some old bananas for you. Now, why not? Will
never want it? It'd be a you could be a trendsetter. No,
(20:52):
can't afford alcohol, Go buy some bananas and wait, I'm
all right, I did. That's interesting, and it's it's kind
of cool. I don't have a sophisticated enough palette to
greatly appreciate it, but I do. My next glass of
(21:16):
wine won't be my first. It's been a while, but
my next glass of wine won't be my first. And
I greatly appreciate people who do get into that, because
it's it's as they are as into the wines and
the champagnes and all of those things as I am
into fishing and hunting and golf, and it's a passion
(21:37):
for them. And you can you can hear it in
Joe's voice. He is so passionate about that, and to
have that familial tie as well is pretty pretty special
for them. So hats off to Josh Sellers, it's pretty cool.
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety Email
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just rolled into outdoor show mode. Seven one three two
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something you want me to find out and turn into
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(22:20):
prefer those. Actually. If you want me to just look
at a topic for you and get a good expert
on here to talk about it, shoot me an email
so I can maybe respond and get a little more
information and not take up showtime doing that. To nobody's surprise,
back to political news for about maybe forty five seconds,
(22:42):
comes news that all the Shenanigans being played by President
Biden now, and that what's happening is that increasing numbers
of Democrats are either declaring themselves free agents free from
that party, or going ahead and just signing new deals
with the Republican They're they're jumping ship and going all
(23:03):
the way over to the other side. Enough of them
already have done that to get President Trump elected. We
saw that in November. And when the rest of them
realize what Biden and company are doing to the country
on his way out out of pure bitterness, even more Americans,
i'd be willing to bet, will change sides and just
say enough's enough, enough's enough. There was something else I
(23:26):
had here from yesterday that I wanted to get into
a little bit to kind of show how the pendulum
is already swinging. Oh there's that. No, this is from today,
and I'm gonna I'm gonna go with this first and
then maybe maybe swing back around to that other thing
I had in mind. If you're wondering just how disconnected
(23:49):
Democratic representatives in the US House are from common sense,
consider this the Lake and Riley Act. If you don't
remember Lake and Riley, look it up. She is the
young woman who was out on a jog, a nursing student,
if I recall correctly, out on a jog at night,
and was murdered by an illegal immigrant, brutally murdered by
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this guy. And the Lake and Riley Act would require
federal immigration offices to detain illegal migrants who commit crimes
in the country, theft, all the way up to all
the bad stuff, the really bad stuff, and allow states
to actually soothe the Department of Homeland Security for harm
(24:35):
cause to their residence by illegal immigration. That act went
to a House vote yesterday and one hundred and fifty
nine Democrats voted against it. Voted against it. That's one
hundred and fifty nine people who bear in mind, Lincoln Riley.
(24:56):
She wasn't killed under former President Trump's or incoming President
Trump's watch. She was killed on the watches of Biden
and Harris collectively. And shame on both of them for
letting that just keep going until more and more of
this happened. So what they've done essentially has said, now
(25:19):
you know what, We're gonna put illegal immigrants who commit
crimes in our country, even in unimaginable violent crimes, all
of that. They're just gonna put them ahead of Americans
because that's the way we feel about our country. I
really don't get that. I really don't understand that. Back
in southern California, wildfires raging again. I was gonna ask
(25:41):
Joe about that, but I thought, yah, wrong time, wrong place,
making sure that he and his family weren't being weren't
in harm's way at least. But what's going on over there?
The Palisades fire that started just yesterday, as of early
(26:02):
this morning already had burned almost three thousand acres, and
by now I'm sure it has because also early this
morning it was zero percent controlled. All they've been able
to do is rush in law enforcement and firefighters and
everybody else to try to get the people out one
(26:23):
by one. Homes are burning, automobiles are burning, everything that's
left behind is burning. And it's just tragic, it really is.
If there's ever a time when when there's not a
wildfire burning in California, maybe I'll talk about how maybe
that could have been remediated long before, long before some
(26:45):
of these fires started and spread so fast. They've got
high wind, they've got extremely dry conditions and plenty of
fuel on the ground. Unfortunately, because it's so dry. That's
just it's horrible, it really is. It's horrible. I feel
very badly for him. Uh will, let's let's soften it
(27:07):
up a little bit for this next minute, and I
will let you choose from the following mint condition testing
our stupidity or jammed up mint condition. It's officially Girl
(27:28):
Scout cookie season again, Will and all the classics will
be returning You a thin mint guy.
Speaker 6 (27:35):
I don't think I really eat Girl Scout cookies that much,
to be honest, Why not?
Speaker 2 (27:41):
I just don't want to buy it from them inconvenient
you don't want to support that group. Nope, you know
my wife and I are will get roped into buying
a couple of boxes. I'm all over the thin min's.
I like those peanut butter ones with the chocolate around them.
I don't know what they're called. They're finally get This
(28:02):
is gonna be the final run though for some'mores and
toast jays whatever those are, which means I don't know.
Maybe they're just pulling it out, the ones that were
in the freezer from last year. Gonna thaw them out
and set them on the curb. I don't know, but
count on seeing Girl Scouts at grocery stores. It's home.
(28:23):
You have to run the gauntlet between them now and
where I shot for groceries. There is almost always somebody
out there with a little six foot folding table and
a drape over it, trying to sell you. I think
the latest ones are selling like home home internet maybe
or phones or I don't know what it is, phone service.
(28:44):
I'm not sure, but I just I wish them well.
And I said, look, I recognize that how hard your
job is, and I appreciate you being here, but I
got frozen stuff in a bag and I need to
get it home. Oh we're almost out of time for this.
Wee Yeah, let's go so we can get out on
Ton Braun's roofing. Let's go there, I said, I had
(29:06):
communication with Skeeter Braun this morning as a matter of fact,
about something that's coming up for him, and I'm hoping
to get him out to your house. Everybody else's house
who hasn't had their roof inspected since last summer. To
get it inspected, it's not going to cost you a dime.
All you got to do is call him or go
to the website, set up an appointment. They'll come out there,
(29:26):
usually within twenty four hours, and look your roof over.
If they find something wrong, they'll show you pictures, they
will explain what it would take to fix it. They'll
tell you how much it'll cost, how long it'll take,
and they'll probably if it's something small. They'll probably have
what they need on the truck and can go ahead
(29:47):
and knock it out. Then I strongly recommend that because
you will not find better work at a lower price.
Quality work at a fair price is the premise on
which Skeeter Braun built this whole business, and he's stuck
with it for more than thirty years. Now, whatever kind
of roof you have, residential or commercial, tile, asphalt, steel, shingles,
(30:10):
whatever it is, I love this line. Bronze has you covered?
Two eight one four eight zero ninety nine hundred. Put
it in your phone so when something happens to your roof,
God forbid, but if it does, you can just grab
your phone and make a phone call and be one
of the first in line after whatever disaster started tearing
(30:30):
up roofs around you. Two eight one four eight zero
ninety nine hundred. What's life without a net? I suggest
you go to bed and sleep it off. Just wait
until the show's over. Sleepy.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Back to Dougpike as fifty plus continues, do no here
we go?
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Welcome back fifty plus final segment. Got about what nine minutes?
Will Yeah? Nine minutes? I can do that with standing
on one foot well, yeah, we do. We have nine minutes.
Well that's what I just said. Uh, if you've been
concerned about the direction that the nation took for the
(31:17):
past four years, Uh, you you might find some peace
and and and enthusiasm and knowing that there's a trend
to to turn back the clock, if you will, to
the period before all the diversity strategies and DEI and
(31:37):
all of that. It's it's been that long since McDonald's
initiated sweeping diversity strategies about four years ago.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
But McDonald's has cited our Supreme Court ruling against affirmative
action in college admissions as part of why it's changing
course and step in away from all of that this
past year. According to stories I saw yesterday morning, Walmart
John Deere, Lowe's Tractor Supply, Harley Davidson, Brown Foreman, the
(32:13):
makers of Jack Daniels, and other large corporations are taking
similar steps to set aside DEI initiatives in that same vein. Actually,
the Washington Post recently pulled a piece written by its
gender columnist and intends to scrap that column altogether. The
(32:35):
good news for the person who is writing the column. Apparently,
the Washington Post thinks that woman can write, and more
power to her. I'm sure she can. She wouldn't have
been a columnist otherwise, so's she's not going to lose
her job. She's just going to be reassigned according again
to what I read yesterday about that, and hopefully we
(32:55):
can just get back to a merit based based society
in which everybody who who makes the effort as an
equal shot. I've always thought that it would be interesting
and beneficial if job interviews were conducted kind of like
the blind auditions on the voice. Just the people who
(33:19):
are hiring can't see you, and they could even generate
an AI voice, so they couldn't know anything about you
except your answers to their questions, and the person who
had the best answers to the questions would get the job.
The person who had the best qualifications would get the job.
Based on nothing but qualifications and answers to questions. Then
(33:44):
things should work better for all of us. Let's get
off of all that. Well, let's lighten it up a
little bit. I'm gonna take you back. Oh, by the way,
do you know what today is. It's the eighth We
talked about this earlier. No no, no, no, no, no no.
The national day hmmm, I don't know. It has something
(34:04):
to do with flights. Will something to do with flights.
It's a national take outside the box, it's.
Speaker 6 (34:14):
National Air air Gliding Day.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
No, it's National Take the stairs day? Will get the
reference flight? Yes, say get the reference. I'm sure you do.
So here's the deal, though, you and I both know
that if you I thought that there would the staircase
right outside the back door here in our offices goes
nowhere that you open that door. It says exit, but
it goes nowhere, literally nowhere except up and in a fire.
(34:45):
I don't really want to be going higher in the
building unless I can hear the helicopter on the roof
already down the hall though, at the other end of
the hall is a stairwell that you can go down
a couple of steps, and then there's a door. I
have no idea where it opens to, and I'm not
gonna open it because it'll set off an alarm and
I don't want to be that guy, Like there was
(35:06):
a congressman who did that. Remember he set off a
fire alarm just to do for some ridiculous reason. All right,
let's get off of all that. I'm gonna go back
to my list of brief conversation starters and we're gonna
go with this time foreign food, interesting idea or lucky number.
(35:32):
Lucky number. You know, I've found a way to make
you pick just the one I want you to pick,
or at least make you pick one that. Yeah, but
I'm not going to tell you what it is, because
then you would know, and then you would stop do
stop falling for what I'm doing. Lucky number guy in
Maryland gets cut off in traffic will which happens what
(35:55):
every five minutes around here on the freeway? You get
on the freeway much at all? Yeah, all the time?
Where what where are you going that you have to
get on the freeway. I gotta get onto fifty nine.
We got to get on sometimes. I got to get
onto two eighty eight. You gotta get out five.
Speaker 4 (36:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
You gotta get outside the loop to feel alive, don't you.
Speaker 6 (36:16):
I don't even consider it. It's almost like, you know,
I imagine literally once you leave the loop, it's almost like
a scary do you. Yeah, I think it is, and
it is because it's just it's just too rural, it's
too boring.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
How did you get outside the rent? Get outside the loop?
All you see is horses and gobble.
Speaker 6 (36:38):
All you see is just a highway fodder, as I
call that wave fodder.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
Yeah, fighter doing about one hundred miles an hour. Don't
get me started on that. So back to where we were.
This guy gets cut off in traffic and he used
that person's license plate number to play the lottery. And
guess what happened?
Speaker 5 (37:00):
What?
Speaker 2 (37:02):
Guess how much he won? Let's just leave it at that. Yeah,
I'm not gonna leave it at that. I'm just gonna
take it down to the essentials here. Guess how much
that guy's personal or that guy's license plate number won him.
It won him one of the guy who got caught off,
cut off? Just hurry up, man, we're running out of
time here.
Speaker 6 (37:22):
Yeah, I'm thinking any number doesn't mean there's so many
numbers to aren't there. I'm gonna say thirty million dollars?
Speaker 2 (37:33):
Good lord, No, it's just a little just a little
one five hundred thousand, though, which wouldn't be little to
mir or you certainly, now if you had thirty million,
five hundred thousand, wouldn't seem like a lot. That's how
some of these It's amazing how these NFL quarterbacks buy
their offensive line gifts.
Speaker 4 (37:51):
Now.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
I don't know that c. J. Stroud's gonna buy his
line much of anything that might buy him dinner at
McDonald's or something off the value. You that's new, But
right now they need they need to take care of
him this weekend or something's got to give. A cut above,
will I feel pretty? Oh so pretty? Or foreign food?
(38:15):
I'm going back to that one. A cut above? Okay,
this is interesting here. You got your beard back. Do
you shave it all? Or do you is that the
whole beard? I'm just letting it, letting her go. Well,
the some guy doesn't say where he was. Forty eight
year old guy cut himself shaving, okay, and actually found
(38:41):
an attorney who would represent him in a civil suit
against the razor company. And this guy got sixty two
hundred and fifty dollars out of the out of the deal.
It seems if you're forty eight and you can't shave
without cutting yourself, just buy some band aids. Get an
(39:04):
electric razor. Yeah, get an electric razor. Can't cut he
can afforded one. Now, he can afford an electric razor.
Now he can afford a bunch of me by a
really nice one. He could just hire somebody to shave
him once every couple of days for a couple of
years if he wanted to really go big. Ah, man,
I got so many of these, and they're all pretty
(39:25):
good ulterior motive, hidden costs or that's all. Oh no
scratch hitting costs. We did that yesterday. That's all twenty
five seconds. Oh my gosh, hm, I don't like that one.
Testing our stupidity. Will glitter pickles glickles, they call them
(39:48):
all the rage on TikTok, just a bunch all. What
you do is you dump edible glitter in a pickle jar,
shake it up and enjoy a fancy pickle. And we're
eating that up because we're not all. That's smart audios
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