February 12, 2025 • 37 mins
Today, Doug Pike discusses National Days, Valentine's Day, and moving.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Remember when it was impossible to misplace the TV remote
because you were the TV remote. Remember when music sounded
like this, Remember when social media was truly social?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hey, Don, how's it going today?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Well, this show is all about you. This is fifty
plus with Doug Pike. Helpful information on your finances, good health,
and what to do for fun. Fifty plus brought to
you by the UT Health Houston Institute on Aging, Informed
decisions for a healthier, happier life.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
And now fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, here
we go. Wednesday edition of the program starts right now.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Thank you very much as always for letting Will and
me join you on this. I guess it's the second
base of the work. Let's speak it to baseball. Sorry,
I can't help it, really, but it looks like Alex
Bregman is going to be He's going to be not
an astro in twenty twenty five. He hasn't inked anything yet,
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at least not to my knowledge, but the contenders apparently
are the astros are not on the list of contenders
for his talents. And honestly, I mean, his shoes won't
be easy to fill, but neither will they be impossible
to fill. Every time somebody leaves, the Astros have a
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habit of finding someone quite capable of filling those shoes.
You can look to positions in the outfield, you can
look to the shortstop position. You'd have to look way
back to talk about second base, but we've had a
revolving door almost at first base for several years. So man,
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I've heard a lot of people talking about how light
the Astros are to stumble this season, but I remain
a little more optimistic than most. I suppose among the
top ten or twelve teams. Major League Baseball comes down
to health. You buy a strong team, they all do,
and what matters more than who they've got on the
team is who can remain healthy through one hundred and
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sixty four games.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
That's a long, long seed. One hundred and sixty two
sixty four. Yeah, long time.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
But enough about baseball on this cloudy day forecast I
heard on the way to bed last night, by the way,
talked about heavy rain this afternoon, and I had some
concerns about whether or not that would be true.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
And as it as I looked at the radar.
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Speaker 3 (03:01):
The bulk of the precipitation that was expected to drop
more than an inch of rain, potentially on Sureland, all
of that looks like it's gonna pass well north of
the city with only light rain and showers. Pretty much
south of I'd say, pretty much south of the top
end of ninety nine, and certainly south of the woodlands
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south of Kingwood. No rain on the books tomorrow than
a better chance Friday and Saturday, and then our next.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Northern sweeps that sky clear.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Thank you very much for several cool, pretty days, including Monday,
when I and a a client of mine might go
tee it up and see if we can still play
golf this season. By the way, will I think we're
gonna call it wing? Do you understand it?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
No?
Speaker 3 (03:51):
This is wait, this is it's kind of a cross
between winter and spring. We're not out of winter, but
we're not into spring, so I'm gonna call it wing.
That's the season now part winter, part springs, so wing
that that's our new word for February weather will wing.
Then you know what's after that by I put thought
into this, so just be ready. After that comes Sprummer.
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You get that one right, and then summer all like
the sportscaster who died in twenty thirteen, and then we're
back around to what would be that last one be.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Will what would it be? Just give up? Just give
up now finter no falter, falter, It's easy. That's about like.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
From the from the middle of nove from early November
to about the middle of December, not quite the Christmas
that's falter part fall. And then every every now and
then you get a pretty good cool snap, especially relative
to the one hundred and five it might be on
de or on November.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
First, enough of that.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Checking the markets, thanks to Houston goold exchange dot Com
pretty much read across the board inflation fears, which I
actually I'm just I'm calling them growing pains until our
new administration gets up to full speed. The market they
were down. The major market pieces I look at were
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down from about a half a point to a little
more than.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
A point and all on that.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Inflation stuff, and then a few more things are going
on anyway, gold lost about thirteen bucks, it was still
north of twenty nine hundred, though, and oil also down
also in the red more than a buck and a half,
and it was down to nearly seventy two dollars a
barrel the last time I looked. In relatively breaking news. Actually,
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President Trump said he has spoken with Vladimir Putin now
about the ending the war in Ukraine and that their
respective teams will begin negotiations right away to put an
end to that. He also said just minutes ago that
he was going to be calling Ukraine President Zelenski to
share the news and see if we can get that
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whole issue put to bed. According to the Kremlin, putting
In Trump spoke for nearly ninety minutes and had agreed
to meet. Actually this comes only hours though, by behind
the story that Russia had launched a major attack on Kiev,
the capital of Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
So still a lot of work to do, But we
ga somebody in the White House now.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Who is willing to do the work and knows how
to get it done, and isn't afraid to get it done,
and is a far more strong leader than we've had
for the last four years the left.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Do I want to get into that yet? No, I don't.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
I'm going to go straight to Outer Space News and
that'll get us to the top or to the break.
And granted this story comes from I'll call it a
good but not an ironclad source.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Astronomers say they have detected a cohe ran radio signal
that originated from a far, far away planet that's about
the same size as Earth and is believed to have
a magnetic field, which they also say is important to
its potential.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
To support life. I'll keep you posting on that one.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
It's just it's just a little one paragraph story that
I saw that I thought was kind of cool, and
then it kind of lost its oomph when it's just
a radio signal, coherent or not. It reminds me of
a joke about astronomers receiving a radio signal and working
very hard and very feverishly to translate it so they
could start communication, and then one guy just finally he
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stands up and says I've got it. I've got it,
and somebody else says play it. Then play it, man,
come on, and so they hit the play button. And
it says we've been trying to reach you about your
car's extended warranty.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Of course it does.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Ut House Institute on Aging is a collective of more
than a thousand providers, now, if I'm not mistaken, all
of whom are dedicated to making sure that seniors get
the attention, get the treatment, get the remedies they deserve.
And to go about doing that, these people all they've
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completed whatever training it took to get them out of
school and get the diploma. Whether it's for neurosurgery or
whether it's for nursing school doesn't matter. They've all completed
all of that work and then gone back and got
additional training in how they can apply their knowledge specifically
to seniors. And that is such a benefit that we
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have right here in Houston. Most of those providers are
right down in the medical center, but a significant number
of them also practice in outlying clinics and hospitals. So
for those of us who aren't really keen on going
to the medical center and trying to navigate all that,
we can be seen by someone from the Institute on
Aging out where we live. Go to their website, look
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at all the resources that are available, and then ask yourself,
if you really would you'd want to I'll tell you
you'd want to be seen by someone who who knows
us really, in most cases better than we know ourselves.
Ut H dot edu slash aging ut H dot ed
U slash aging Aged Perfection.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
This is fifty plus with Dougpike. My segment two begins
right now. Thank you for listening. Will's over there. I'm
over here, and we're gonna make it all the way
to one o'clock no matter what. And then after that,
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I've got to go into a little smaller studio even
than this one and record some things because that's what
we do around here.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
I got that taken care of. I got that taken
care of. This can be folded and put away. The
let's go to the soft stuff for a minute. Well, listen,
I'm gonna bring you into the program here for a second,
and I'm gonna let you choose between Oh.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
By the way, do you know what day today is?
Let me see what not? It's not Abraham Lincoln's. Well,
it is Abraham Lincoln's birthday, but that's not what national
day it is. Oh? Is it Darwin Day? No, it's not. Well,
Red Hand Day. Yeah, that's what it says up here.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
You know, I would like you to do some research
and find out how much it would cost two for
us to get Doug and Will Day, because everybody who
has these national days pays for them.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Well, I don't know if we're we're on the level
of Lincoln.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
If we if we managed to get that on that board,
we would be wouldn't we and Darwin? Yeah, those are
some pretty big names they are, but so would be
Dug and Will if we were there.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Yeah, I'm not willing to pay for it. Find out
how much it is. If it's not a lot, I might,
I might flip the bill. If it's not a whole lot,
we'll start a gofund me for Dug and Will Day.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
That's what we'll do. See how it works out, See
what it costs Will And By the way, you also
have to do this. You have to pick between softest
cheese trending or throw it.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Out soft as cheese.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
A poll on surprising Valentine's Day trends that could have
been on the other one found that sixty three percent
of women on Valentine's Day would prefer to stay home.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
You think that'd work on your girlfriend if you told
her that.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
No, fifty two percent think Valentine's Day proposals are overrated.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
You any plans, I mean anything like that, plans for dinner.
I'm talking about a proposal plan. Oh well not yet,
No ever. I there will be a time, you think so, Yes, Okay,
I think that's great. Will I'm not.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
I'm not trying to pry, and I apologize if I
if I feel like I am. I don't think that's
just wonderful for you guys, and I hope it works
out whatever happens.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Okay, forty one percent of men? Are you in this group? Will?
Forty one percent of men want a male equivalent to
Gallantine's Day? You know what that is? Right? Yeah, that's
where the gals just go out. I think that's it.
That it. Why don't you just go out with your friends? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Why don't we just call it Saturday and go fishing.
We don't have to have it called Gallantine's Day or Palin.
It would be Palatine's Day, wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
It be Ladantine's Day? It'd be weird day, awkward day.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Call it that if it has a name and there's
a hallmark card for it. And it's for guys to
give to other guys. Call it that's I don't know.
I just I just make a phone call. I saw
something pretty funny this These two guys are talking. Did
I talk about this yesterday on the show? I don't
think I did. So this one guy goes, hey, man,
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you want to go fishing? And the other guy goes, oh,
what was his line? He goes, it's a little early
for that, isn't it? And the guy goes early for
fishing and the second guy goes, no, early for stupid questions.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
I love that. As a fisherman, I like that lot.
And I don't think we talked about that yesterday.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Okay, so we're scratching the Valentine's Day one and I have, Oh,
I have good time to spend here. Where do I
want to go? Because there is so much I'd go
to the border. Let's go down on a border, or
at least something about the border. Saw story yesterday that
explained how our country was headed toward something called death
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by empathy, wherein we were really really close, dangerously close
to letting in so many people from so many countries
and giving them so much from the wallets of taxpayers.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
And this is important.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
We let them all in with no expectation that they
adopt the American lifestyle. In fact, we encourage them to
maintain their own cultures while we're paying for all their stuff,
which means they're really not invested in our country, but
instead just create these little enclaves of their own people,
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and they isolate themselves, even to the point that in
some northern states and cities they've set up people from
other countries, have set up areas where they all congregate,
and then they create and enforce their own laws. They
just ignore us and state laws and just do it
themselves their way, which in no way, shape or form
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improves the United States of America. They still take our
money now, and they still keep both hands stretched out,
and even they'll hire attorneys to make sure their rights
are predicted, but they just don't invest in the American
way of life. And at some point, these people who
claim to be chasing the American dream turn out not
only to be chasing the American dollar, but they also
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spend those dollars creating these sanctuaries for themselves and people
who think or look alike like them, or come from
the same place as they do, and what that essentially
amounts to is paying to destroy our own country. And
I'm quite glad that that's over. It's over from the
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I'll take that bet. Desk comes the claim that vast porsa.
Here it comes again. Vast portions of our country will
be uninhabitable within a couple of few decades because of
climate change. New York City, Miami, huge chunks of coastal state,
it's all going to be underwater.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
The front end of this story.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Claims that Miami, well Dade County, the entirety of Dade
County might be as much as sixty percent underwater in
one decade and ten years. I will take that bet.
New York's considering a seawall. They want to spend one
hundred and nineteen billion dollars to protect Lower Manhattan from flooding,
which probably would be more affordable if they hadn't wasted
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more than that on pampering illegal aliens for the last
what three four five years. I challenged the whole notion
of this because we've heard the same song now for
more than fifty years. There's been start at Al Gore
told us we were all gonna drown or all gonna
burn up, and it just kind of went back and forth.
It's global warming, global cooling, global this, global that, and
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none of it happened. It's just it's not happening. It's
not gone. I have the climate warriors have warned us
that all this surefire and pending doom was just on
its way here, but it hadn't happened yet. And the
planets endured changes its climate since it was formed, and
that process is never gonna stop.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Sometimes it warms up, sometimes it cools down.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
And to think that we humans can manipulate global weather,
especially we Americans, because most of the biggest nations of
the world aren't exactly on board with reducing carbon emissions.
They aren't exactly on board with green energy. For anything
on the necessary scale to have something like this even
have a chance, it would have to be a global effort.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
And that's not likely anytime soon, not at all. Let's
take a break. On the way out. I'll tell you
about the Fishing Show.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Which starts to day down there in the George R.
Brown Convention Center and ends on Sunday. You have five
days to go see this show. The fiftieth as Annual
Fishing Show in the George R. Brown Convention Center, where
you will find anything and everything you could possibly imagine
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that might help you to become a fisherman or a
better fisherman, or an expert fisherman, or a semi professional fisherman,
or even a pro someday. Who knows a lot of
young people getting into fishing as a profession these days,
and they're starting in high school clubs, which I think
are fantastic. I guarantee you there's somebody in that fishing
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show that would love to talk about that with you.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
If you go down there.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
You can learn all about all the latest equipment from
people who are actually factory representatives and in many cases
people who actually had hands on they had direct contact
through all the development and research that goes into some
of this new gear.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
There'll be boats and kayaks.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
And rods and reels and lures and lines and terminal
tackle and everything you can imagine to help you enjoy
the fishing sports. Great lineup of clinics that are gonna
be ongoing from now all the way through Sunday afternoon,
whether you and there's kids stuff by the way. On
the weekend Saturday and Sunday, they've got giveaways. They're gonna
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teach these kids cast and that's always fun for them.
They got great volunteers who handle that fiftieth annual annual,
he said correctly Phishing show. Check out the website Houston
Fishingshow dot com Houston Fishingshow dot com.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Months we wash them, check us fluids and spring on
a fresh code O wax.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
This is fifty plus with Doug Pike. Third segment of
the program starts right now. Thank you all for listening.
By the way, if you want to advertise on this show,
or on any other show, then here, especially on one
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of mine, but anybody else's too. I am happy to
help you with that. That's part of what I do
around here. I take care of people who want to
be involved with this show. I take very good care
of people who want to be involved with my shows,
and I take equal care really when push comes to
shove of anybody who wants to be involved at all.
You can just email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com
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and I can take care of that for you, and
you don't have to there's no middleman. There's no middleman.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
It's just me, and there's other people around here who
do the same thing. But I just happen to enjoy
taking care of my peeps, because after all, you are
my peeps, and I do appreciate your support. So the
tax dollars, oh what is that?
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Good? Golly, look at all this good stuff coming in.
Speaking of holy cow, this is great. I'll check those
emails later.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
The left just absolutely lose its mind over having all
its dirty laundry aired to the nation. The Department of
Government Efficiency is exposing all of that wasteful, horrible misuse
of tax dollars that's gone on seemingly forever now and
driven our national debt up north of thirty trillion dollars.
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Thirty something trillion dollars, and for what. One of my
favorite examples of waste is the fifty million dollars we
spent on condoms for delivery to Gaza. There's an old
joke about something like that too, but I.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Won't tell it.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
It's if you want to email me, I'll send it
to you. I'll write it out and send it to you.
It's pretty funny. You could use it, it would it
would be acceptable. I could do it on the air,
I just choose not to. But anyway, the long the shore.
We also paid, by the way, two point four million
dollars as a federal government to a George Soros backed
censorship group. And the little list is nearly endless. Really,
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agencies being funded from more than one bucket for the
same work They had several two or more sources of
income for the same program that should should have been
funded by one. There are programs to enhance tourism in
foreign countries which make no sense to me. And now
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Congress is going to have to pass yet another continuing
resolution before mid March or the government's going to have
to shut down. And that leaves a whole lot of
politicians in a very precarious position because they either passed
the resolution and keep themselves in the entire government afloat
for a little while longer, which we're learning every day
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is loaded with waste and handouts to countries all over
the world, to left leaning media, to organizations that funnel
our money into terrorist groups who are fighting our country.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
All of that.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Waste and no changes, no changes to a continuing resolution,
and will just let all that continue. And that's that's
kind of how they've handled it in the past. They
just let it ride, Let it ride, let it ride.
And so we keep wasting and wasting and wasting the
same amount of money every time we have to do that.
Or maybe maybe it's about time we just hit the
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pause button, close the check book at least temporarily, and
remove what a few thousand line items from the ledger.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Liberals say President Trump's.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Hurting average Americans, when when the truth, as as more
of this abuse is uncovered, the truth is that he's
doing all he can to save us from an impossible
financial situation in this nation.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
There we just we just can't keep doing all this garbage.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
By the way, and I don't want to dwell on
the negative, because I saw something and for the first
time in a long time, that that supports what I
believe is that we should all be, we could and
should be optimistic about the future finely. Finally, small business owners,
there was a survey I read this morning, not a survey,
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but a comprehensive report that included data gathered in a
survey of small business owners, and they were, for the
most part, upbeat on several key factors that impact them
in their businesses. Really, I was really glad to see that.
When I saw it, I kind of held my breath
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and started reading and okay, what's going on with this?
Speaker 2 (24:32):
And sure enough, the farther I read, the more the more.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Upbeat and optimistic. All these small business owners were the
ones who were who were polled and asked a lot
of questions. So that was that was good stuff. All right, Well,
I'm back to you for three minutes. Oh, by the way,
you know what another day?
Speaker 1 (24:54):
This is?
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Which one did I tell you was? Did I ever
tell you which one it was? I can't even remember,
I don't. Did I tell you it's Lost Penny Day? Oh?
Speaker 3 (25:04):
No, No, it's yeah. We were, Yeah, we were going
for Doug and Will Day. That's where I got kind
of I just drove off into the ditch and went there.
But it is actually national Lost Penny Day, which may
not be long before we lose pennies all together, because
at present it costs more than a penny, because copper
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is worth a lot of money these days, it's costing
more than a penny to make a penny, which seems
like you might want to just stop doing that all together.
Until you look at nickels, which cost even more to
make in value than what they're worth than the pennies do.
So where do we stop? Will we just paper money?
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Or is this some some twisted, weird plot to get
rid of paper money and coins all together and go
to e funds, go to everything electronic, which makes me
just shudder, because that way, if the wrong administration gets
back in, if the wrong Congress gets back in in
the future somewhere, and they decide they want to raise taxes,
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they don't even have to ask you. They can just
go ahead, take their little vote and say, okay, we
need more money, we need to raise and then they
can just go push a button. There'll be one big
giant button, and they'll push that button and it will
remove a certain amount of a certain percentage of all
our assets, just just with the touch of a button.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Boop.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
No, we need this money in Washington to pay for
some birthday parties for left handed, blue eyed children halfway
around the world somewhere, and we're gonna need seventy billion
dollars for it.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Boop.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
That comes out of the national purse, Thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
We'll throw it out. Trending or that's not how it works.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
It out.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Eighty two percent of Americans who moved last year say
it was stressful.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Do you I think that's kind of low.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
If you had to go over under on that, would
you believe that the actual number was over or under
eighty two percent of Americans who moved last year being stressed.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
No, I'd say that it's a pretty high number moving.
How many times have you moved a lot of times
yet don't know? Yes. I think the difference will is
at your age. You're younger, so you don't have as
much stuff. You could put it in a little bit
of U haul truck. I've got a ton of do
you yes? Like what? I don't worry? One bed, one
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side table. Now we have we have a lot of
different things. House full of furniture, Yes, and dishes and
all that stuff. Yes. Do you move yourself? I have.
I have a library of books. I do as well.
I need to get rid of some of them. Actually
want to swap a book swap. I like my books.
I like my books too, But I think you would
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enjoy some of them as well, and you'd be surprised.
Bear in mind that my wife was an English major
and has some really, really good books really good. I
have a lot of really good books too. I'm sure
you do well. I have a lot of fishing and
hunting books. D you can keep them, Ballistics, you can Bible,
you can keep all those books, beautiful books. Don't need them,
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golf all right. A late health is there if you
need them. Fellas.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
I'll start with the fellas in our enlarge non cancerous prostates.
You can get that taken care of by going to
a late health and letting them do something called prostate
artery embolization, by which they go in and cut off
the blood supply to that pesky prostate, and that makes
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it shrivel up, and with its shrinking go all the
symptoms that come along with that nasty thing that's been
driving you crazy for years just getting worse. It's not
gonna get better until you do something about it. And
a late health can do that something for you in
just a couple of hours in the office. Same for
ugly veins, same for fibroids and women. Same even in
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some cases for head pains that can be remedied with
vascular treatment. They also do regenerative medicine at a late health,
and that is proving increasingly more and more effective with
chronic pain, and nobody should have.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
To live with that. You don't go to the hospital.
Everything gets done in the clinics.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
You don't have to sit in the hospital for three
or four days to recover. You get to get somebody's
gonna have to drive you home. But do you get
to recover at home? Which I think is quite nice.
Much of what they do is covered by Medicare and Medicaid.
Call them and ask them about the procedures they do,
and see if they can't help you out like they
have so many thousands of other people over the years.
(29:54):
Seven to one, three, five, eight, eight, thirty eight eighty eight,
seven one, three, five.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Eight, eight, eight thirty eight eighty eight. What's life without
a NET? I suggest to go to bed, sleep it off,
just wait until the show's over. Sleepy.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Back to Dougpike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Surrounding third and heading home.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
We are on fifty plus here on KPRC. Thank you
all for listening, but we appreciate that. Well, what are
you gonna have for lunch today?
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Do you know? I have no idea? Are you gonna
get it in the deli? Or did you bring something
or what. I don't even know if I'll have lunch today.
Sometimes I just go with hot drike. I don't know
if I'm intentional or yeah, just intentionally, you know, Yeah,
you know, I'm kind of that way. I've stopped eating
here so much because I'm trying to eat and it's
(30:56):
not that the food's not good. I'm not knocking the
deli here, but I just don't it's hard to justify
the cost, frankly, and it's hard to justify I don't know,
I just I kind.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
Of it kind of ran its course a little bit,
and maybe if I stay away from it for a while,
I'll want to go back every now and then. I
think maybe once a month I'll end up going in
there and grabbing something, because they do have a couple
of items I really like.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Do you have a favorite in there. I haven't been
in a while, but I used to get the chicken Tenders.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
See, I can't eat those really, that's just that would
I think if I ate a whole order of fried
at Chicken Tenders, then it would just it would wreck
my gut. I'd have to drink some pepto bismol. I mean,
that's not my favorite dessert. I can. I can assure you.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
All right, well, let's go back to you and just you.
You you will, It's all about you right now. At
least I'm still gonna go back to trending.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Then I'm going to go to we don't care about that.
Mm that's not how it works, because that's pretty interesting,
I think, and one star review. M hm, oh, we'll
do trending this time.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
Finally, this is this is kind of a weird one,
a little bit spicy too.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Will you ready? A new report this? I just I said,
come on, you gotta be kidding me. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
It's not enough that we have crying rooms in some offices,
right and calming spaces all of that stuff.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Listen to this.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
A new report says that it's possible that some workplaces
may start providing special days for you want to take
a stab at this will special days for It's kind
of like a personal day, you know, but this is
going to be a special day for.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
For the employees. Oh lord, so mundane of you.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
No special days for sexual wellness?
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Why did your eyebrow lift up? Oh? Wow? Yeah, how
about that?
Speaker 3 (33:12):
In a survey, it says here more than three and
five employees that would be sixty percent plus support the
idea and they don't care either way to support the
idea of.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Paid or unpaid sex days.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
Now, you just got to find somebody helse who can
get the same day at the same time and be
in agreement on that. Right, Pretty cool, I guess it.
Do you think so? Hey boss, I'm gonna be out Friday. Really,
are you feeling bad?
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (33:45):
No, not at all. Actually, it's gonna take my day,
you know, myday. I wonder how many of those you
would get in a year. What do you think would
be reasonable? Will one every.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
How many days? One? Every five days? Business days? Yeah?
Once a week you get the whole day off for that, sure, kick,
make it a four day work week.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
You know a lot of people have already done that,
but I don't know that that's that's the reward they
get on their day off. Okay, let's let's just move
on from there. That's a little bit too. That's a
little bit weird for me. Uh sit down, shut up
and watch the game. Or here to mingle, Here to mingle.
This is a quick one. The best states for single people?
(34:36):
Will the best states for single people? Name three of them?
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Wait? See it? Again, is the best states for single
people are. Well, I'm gonna go big. I'm gonna go
with lots of people. So it's the more people the better. Okay,
I'll say California, Texas, and New York all three in
the top five. Yeah. Another one Florida just because it's
(35:04):
a cool place. And Illinois. No clue that. Chicago the
third largest city, so that's the whole It's also one
of the most rat infested cities in the country too.
But that great place for Houston is the most sinful city.
Remember we did that story.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
Yeah, I don't know where they came up with that.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
That's a little weird. Okay.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
On on the con the the other side of the coin,
on the obverse side, will name one of the one, two,
three worst states for single people North Dakota. God, you
are right, yeah, of course this is This is maybe
the easiest one.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
You looked it up. No, it's okay, you're just going
off of population there.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
Will give me an arrow on the people and give
me another one then, because it wouldn't be a population
thing for sure, you don't think so. No, that one
I agree with. That's fine, and it's on the list.
So what's one more real quick?
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Okay, I'll go with Montana.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
Nope, I'll give you the other two real quick so
I can get one more in West Virginia, Arkansas. They
rounded out for the bottom three. Oh a bottom three.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
Olyk.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
There was also something in this thing I was looking
at about healthy foods, but they were all really weird,
so I don't want to talk about that. Oh BuzzFeed, Yeah,
this I can do in one minute will And it
just makes me wonder what they think they're going to
accomplish with this. BuzzFeed's planning a new social media platform too,
(36:39):
and I quote here spread joy end quote. Somebody else
was trying to do that a while back.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
It didn't work out so well. And here's why joy
comes from within.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
You can't create something that creates joy in everybody in
the country. You can't even create something that's going to
create joy for everybody in a room. That has to
come within from within. It really does.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
That's not That's not what corporate advertising says. Who says,
That's not what every single ad that you see on TV.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
I'm gonna make your life better with my with my
endorsements of products and places and things.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
Joy you don't think you don't think that that would
It's just no, it's just vague. That's all that is.
We gotta go, don't we.
Speaker 3 (37:29):
It'll get trolled, it'll be obsolescent, it'll be out of
business within weeks.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
We'll be back tomorrow. Thank you very much for listening.
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And now fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, here
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Speaker 3 (00:48):
Thank you very much as always for letting Will and
me join you on this. I guess it's the second
base of the work. Let's speak it to baseball. Sorry,
I can't help it, really, but it looks like Alex
Bregman is going to be He's going to be not
an astro in twenty twenty five. He hasn't inked anything yet,
(01:12):
at least not to my knowledge, but the contenders apparently
are the astros are not on the list of contenders
for his talents. And honestly, I mean, his shoes won't
be easy to fill, but neither will they be impossible
to fill. Every time somebody leaves, the Astros have a
(01:35):
habit of finding someone quite capable of filling those shoes.
You can look to positions in the outfield, you can
look to the shortstop position. You'd have to look way
back to talk about second base, but we've had a
revolving door almost at first base for several years. So man,
(01:58):
I've heard a lot of people talking about how light
the Astros are to stumble this season, but I remain
a little more optimistic than most. I suppose among the
top ten or twelve teams. Major League Baseball comes down
to health. You buy a strong team, they all do,
and what matters more than who they've got on the
team is who can remain healthy through one hundred and
(02:21):
sixty four games.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
That's a long, long seed. One hundred and sixty two
sixty four. Yeah, long time.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
But enough about baseball on this cloudy day forecast I
heard on the way to bed last night, by the way,
talked about heavy rain this afternoon, and I had some
concerns about whether or not that would be true.
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And as it as I looked at the radar.
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The bulk of the precipitation that was expected to drop
more than an inch of rain, potentially on Sureland, all
of that looks like it's gonna pass well north of
the city with only light rain and showers. Pretty much
south of I'd say, pretty much south of the top
end of ninety nine, and certainly south of the woodlands
(03:22):
south of Kingwood. No rain on the books tomorrow than
a better chance Friday and Saturday, and then our next.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Northern sweeps that sky clear.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Thank you very much for several cool, pretty days, including Monday,
when I and a a client of mine might go
tee it up and see if we can still play
golf this season. By the way, will I think we're
gonna call it wing? Do you understand it?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
No?
Speaker 3 (03:51):
This is wait, this is it's kind of a cross
between winter and spring. We're not out of winter, but
we're not into spring, so I'm gonna call it wing.
That's the season now part winter, part springs, so wing
that that's our new word for February weather will wing.
Then you know what's after that by I put thought
into this, so just be ready. After that comes Sprummer.
(04:13):
You get that one right, and then summer all like
the sportscaster who died in twenty thirteen, and then we're
back around to what would be that last one be.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Will what would it be? Just give up? Just give
up now finter no falter, falter, It's easy. That's about like.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
From the from the middle of nove from early November
to about the middle of December, not quite the Christmas
that's falter part fall. And then every every now and
then you get a pretty good cool snap, especially relative
to the one hundred and five it might be on
de or on November.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
First, enough of that.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Checking the markets, thanks to Houston goold exchange dot Com
pretty much read across the board inflation fears, which I
actually I'm just I'm calling them growing pains until our
new administration gets up to full speed. The market they
were down. The major market pieces I look at were
(05:17):
down from about a half a point to a little
more than.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
A point and all on that.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Inflation stuff, and then a few more things are going
on anyway, gold lost about thirteen bucks, it was still
north of twenty nine hundred, though, and oil also down
also in the red more than a buck and a half,
and it was down to nearly seventy two dollars a
barrel the last time I looked. In relatively breaking news. Actually,
(05:46):
President Trump said he has spoken with Vladimir Putin now
about the ending the war in Ukraine and that their
respective teams will begin negotiations right away to put an
end to that. He also said just minutes ago that
he was going to be calling Ukraine President Zelenski to
share the news and see if we can get that
(06:07):
whole issue put to bed. According to the Kremlin, putting
In Trump spoke for nearly ninety minutes and had agreed
to meet. Actually this comes only hours though, by behind
the story that Russia had launched a major attack on Kiev,
the capital of Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
So still a lot of work to do, But we
ga somebody in the White House now.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Who is willing to do the work and knows how
to get it done, and isn't afraid to get it done,
and is a far more strong leader than we've had
for the last four years the left.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Do I want to get into that yet? No, I don't.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
I'm going to go straight to Outer Space News and
that'll get us to the top or to the break.
And granted this story comes from I'll call it a
good but not an ironclad source.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Astronomers say they have detected a cohe ran radio signal
that originated from a far, far away planet that's about
the same size as Earth and is believed to have
a magnetic field, which they also say is important to
its potential.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
To support life. I'll keep you posting on that one.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
It's just it's just a little one paragraph story that
I saw that I thought was kind of cool, and
then it kind of lost its oomph when it's just
a radio signal, coherent or not. It reminds me of
a joke about astronomers receiving a radio signal and working
very hard and very feverishly to translate it so they
could start communication, and then one guy just finally he
(07:42):
stands up and says I've got it. I've got it,
and somebody else says play it. Then play it, man,
come on, and so they hit the play button. And
it says we've been trying to reach you about your
car's extended warranty.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Of course it does.
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than a thousand providers, now, if I'm not mistaken, all
of whom are dedicated to making sure that seniors get
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(08:22):
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to seniors. And that is such a benefit that we
(08:43):
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Speaker 2 (09:30):
This is fifty plus with Dougpike. My segment two begins
right now. Thank you for listening. Will's over there. I'm
over here, and we're gonna make it all the way
to one o'clock no matter what. And then after that,
(09:52):
I've got to go into a little smaller studio even
than this one and record some things because that's what
we do around here.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
I got that taken care of. I got that taken
care of. This can be folded and put away. The
let's go to the soft stuff for a minute. Well, listen,
I'm gonna bring you into the program here for a second,
and I'm gonna let you choose between Oh.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
By the way, do you know what day today is?
Let me see what not? It's not Abraham Lincoln's. Well,
it is Abraham Lincoln's birthday, but that's not what national
day it is. Oh? Is it Darwin Day? No, it's not. Well,
Red Hand Day. Yeah, that's what it says up here.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
You know, I would like you to do some research
and find out how much it would cost two for
us to get Doug and Will Day, because everybody who
has these national days pays for them.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Well, I don't know if we're we're on the level
of Lincoln.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
If we if we managed to get that on that board,
we would be wouldn't we and Darwin? Yeah, those are
some pretty big names they are, but so would be
Dug and Will if we were there.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Yeah, I'm not willing to pay for it. Find out
how much it is. If it's not a lot, I might,
I might flip the bill. If it's not a whole lot,
we'll start a gofund me for Dug and Will Day.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
That's what we'll do. See how it works out, See
what it costs Will And By the way, you also
have to do this. You have to pick between softest
cheese trending or throw it.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Out soft as cheese.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
A poll on surprising Valentine's Day trends that could have
been on the other one found that sixty three percent
of women on Valentine's Day would prefer to stay home.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
You think that'd work on your girlfriend if you told
her that.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
No, fifty two percent think Valentine's Day proposals are overrated.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
You any plans, I mean anything like that, plans for dinner.
I'm talking about a proposal plan. Oh well not yet,
No ever. I there will be a time, you think so, Yes, Okay,
I think that's great. Will I'm not.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
I'm not trying to pry, and I apologize if I
if I feel like I am. I don't think that's
just wonderful for you guys, and I hope it works
out whatever happens.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Okay, forty one percent of men? Are you in this group? Will?
Forty one percent of men want a male equivalent to
Gallantine's Day? You know what that is? Right? Yeah, that's
where the gals just go out. I think that's it.
That it. Why don't you just go out with your friends? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Why don't we just call it Saturday and go fishing.
We don't have to have it called Gallantine's Day or Palin.
It would be Palatine's Day, wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
It be Ladantine's Day? It'd be weird day, awkward day.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Call it that if it has a name and there's
a hallmark card for it. And it's for guys to
give to other guys. Call it that's I don't know.
I just I just make a phone call. I saw
something pretty funny this These two guys are talking. Did
I talk about this yesterday on the show? I don't
think I did. So this one guy goes, hey, man,
(13:17):
you want to go fishing? And the other guy goes, oh,
what was his line? He goes, it's a little early
for that, isn't it? And the guy goes early for
fishing and the second guy goes, no, early for stupid questions.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
I love that. As a fisherman, I like that lot.
And I don't think we talked about that yesterday.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Okay, so we're scratching the Valentine's Day one and I have, Oh,
I have good time to spend here. Where do I
want to go? Because there is so much I'd go
to the border. Let's go down on a border, or
at least something about the border. Saw story yesterday that
explained how our country was headed toward something called death
(14:05):
by empathy, wherein we were really really close, dangerously close
to letting in so many people from so many countries
and giving them so much from the wallets of taxpayers.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
And this is important.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
We let them all in with no expectation that they
adopt the American lifestyle. In fact, we encourage them to
maintain their own cultures while we're paying for all their stuff,
which means they're really not invested in our country, but
instead just create these little enclaves of their own people,
(14:39):
and they isolate themselves, even to the point that in
some northern states and cities they've set up people from
other countries, have set up areas where they all congregate,
and then they create and enforce their own laws. They
just ignore us and state laws and just do it
themselves their way, which in no way, shape or form
(15:01):
improves the United States of America. They still take our
money now, and they still keep both hands stretched out,
and even they'll hire attorneys to make sure their rights
are predicted, but they just don't invest in the American
way of life. And at some point, these people who
claim to be chasing the American dream turn out not
only to be chasing the American dollar, but they also
(15:25):
spend those dollars creating these sanctuaries for themselves and people
who think or look alike like them, or come from
the same place as they do, and what that essentially
amounts to is paying to destroy our own country. And
I'm quite glad that that's over. It's over from the
(15:47):
I'll take that bet. Desk comes the claim that vast porsa.
Here it comes again. Vast portions of our country will
be uninhabitable within a couple of few decades because of
climate change. New York City, Miami, huge chunks of coastal state,
it's all going to be underwater.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
The front end of this story.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Claims that Miami, well Dade County, the entirety of Dade
County might be as much as sixty percent underwater in
one decade and ten years. I will take that bet.
New York's considering a seawall. They want to spend one
hundred and nineteen billion dollars to protect Lower Manhattan from flooding,
which probably would be more affordable if they hadn't wasted
(16:31):
more than that on pampering illegal aliens for the last
what three four five years. I challenged the whole notion
of this because we've heard the same song now for
more than fifty years. There's been start at Al Gore
told us we were all gonna drown or all gonna
burn up, and it just kind of went back and forth.
It's global warming, global cooling, global this, global that, and
(16:55):
none of it happened. It's just it's not happening. It's
not gone. I have the climate warriors have warned us
that all this surefire and pending doom was just on
its way here, but it hadn't happened yet. And the
planets endured changes its climate since it was formed, and
that process is never gonna stop.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Sometimes it warms up, sometimes it cools down.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
And to think that we humans can manipulate global weather,
especially we Americans, because most of the biggest nations of
the world aren't exactly on board with reducing carbon emissions.
They aren't exactly on board with green energy. For anything
on the necessary scale to have something like this even
have a chance, it would have to be a global effort.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
And that's not likely anytime soon, not at all. Let's
take a break. On the way out. I'll tell you
about the Fishing Show.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Which starts to day down there in the George R.
Brown Convention Center and ends on Sunday. You have five
days to go see this show. The fiftieth as Annual
Fishing Show in the George R. Brown Convention Center, where
you will find anything and everything you could possibly imagine
(18:09):
that might help you to become a fisherman or a
better fisherman, or an expert fisherman, or a semi professional fisherman,
or even a pro someday. Who knows a lot of
young people getting into fishing as a profession these days,
and they're starting in high school clubs, which I think
are fantastic. I guarantee you there's somebody in that fishing
(18:32):
show that would love to talk about that with you.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
If you go down there.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
You can learn all about all the latest equipment from
people who are actually factory representatives and in many cases
people who actually had hands on they had direct contact
through all the development and research that goes into some
of this new gear.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
There'll be boats and kayaks.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
And rods and reels and lures and lines and terminal
tackle and everything you can imagine to help you enjoy
the fishing sports. Great lineup of clinics that are gonna
be ongoing from now all the way through Sunday afternoon,
whether you and there's kids stuff by the way. On
the weekend Saturday and Sunday, they've got giveaways. They're gonna
(19:14):
teach these kids cast and that's always fun for them.
They got great volunteers who handle that fiftieth annual annual,
he said correctly Phishing show. Check out the website Houston
Fishingshow dot com Houston Fishingshow dot com.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Months we wash them, check us fluids and spring on
a fresh code O wax.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
This is fifty plus with Doug Pike. Third segment of
the program starts right now. Thank you all for listening.
By the way, if you want to advertise on this show,
or on any other show, then here, especially on one
(20:01):
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You can just email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com
(20:22):
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It's just me, and there's other people around here who
do the same thing. But I just happen to enjoy
taking care of my peeps, because after all, you are
my peeps, and I do appreciate your support. So the
tax dollars, oh what is that?
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Good? Golly, look at all this good stuff coming in.
Speaking of holy cow, this is great. I'll check those
emails later.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
The left just absolutely lose its mind over having all
its dirty laundry aired to the nation. The Department of
Government Efficiency is exposing all of that wasteful, horrible misuse
of tax dollars that's gone on seemingly forever now and
driven our national debt up north of thirty trillion dollars.
(21:18):
Thirty something trillion dollars, and for what. One of my
favorite examples of waste is the fifty million dollars we
spent on condoms for delivery to Gaza. There's an old
joke about something like that too, but I.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Won't tell it.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
It's if you want to email me, I'll send it
to you. I'll write it out and send it to you.
It's pretty funny. You could use it, it would it
would be acceptable. I could do it on the air,
I just choose not to. But anyway, the long the shore.
We also paid, by the way, two point four million
dollars as a federal government to a George Soros backed
censorship group. And the little list is nearly endless. Really,
(22:00):
agencies being funded from more than one bucket for the
same work They had several two or more sources of
income for the same program that should should have been
funded by one. There are programs to enhance tourism in
foreign countries which make no sense to me. And now
(22:21):
Congress is going to have to pass yet another continuing
resolution before mid March or the government's going to have
to shut down. And that leaves a whole lot of
politicians in a very precarious position because they either passed
the resolution and keep themselves in the entire government afloat
for a little while longer, which we're learning every day
(22:41):
is loaded with waste and handouts to countries all over
the world, to left leaning media, to organizations that funnel
our money into terrorist groups who are fighting our country.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
All of that.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Waste and no changes, no changes to a continuing resolution,
and will just let all that continue. And that's that's
kind of how they've handled it in the past. They
just let it ride, Let it ride, let it ride.
And so we keep wasting and wasting and wasting the
same amount of money every time we have to do that.
Or maybe maybe it's about time we just hit the
(23:18):
pause button, close the check book at least temporarily, and
remove what a few thousand line items from the ledger.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Liberals say President Trump's.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Hurting average Americans, when when the truth, as as more
of this abuse is uncovered, the truth is that he's
doing all he can to save us from an impossible
financial situation in this nation.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
There we just we just can't keep doing all this garbage.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
By the way, and I don't want to dwell on
the negative, because I saw something and for the first
time in a long time, that that supports what I
believe is that we should all be, we could and
should be optimistic about the future finely. Finally, small business owners,
there was a survey I read this morning, not a survey,
(24:07):
but a comprehensive report that included data gathered in a
survey of small business owners, and they were, for the
most part, upbeat on several key factors that impact them
in their businesses. Really, I was really glad to see that.
When I saw it, I kind of held my breath
(24:28):
and started reading and okay, what's going on with this?
Speaker 2 (24:32):
And sure enough, the farther I read, the more the more.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Upbeat and optimistic. All these small business owners were the
ones who were who were polled and asked a lot
of questions. So that was that was good stuff. All right, Well,
I'm back to you for three minutes. Oh, by the way,
you know what another day?
Speaker 1 (24:54):
This is?
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Which one did I tell you was? Did I ever
tell you which one it was? I can't even remember,
I don't. Did I tell you it's Lost Penny Day? Oh?
Speaker 3 (25:04):
No, No, it's yeah. We were, Yeah, we were going
for Doug and Will Day. That's where I got kind
of I just drove off into the ditch and went there.
But it is actually national Lost Penny Day, which may
not be long before we lose pennies all together, because
at present it costs more than a penny, because copper
(25:26):
is worth a lot of money these days, it's costing
more than a penny to make a penny, which seems
like you might want to just stop doing that all together.
Until you look at nickels, which cost even more to
make in value than what they're worth than the pennies do.
So where do we stop? Will we just paper money?
(25:48):
Or is this some some twisted, weird plot to get
rid of paper money and coins all together and go
to e funds, go to everything electronic, which makes me
just shudder, because that way, if the wrong administration gets
back in, if the wrong Congress gets back in in
the future somewhere, and they decide they want to raise taxes,
(26:12):
they don't even have to ask you. They can just
go ahead, take their little vote and say, okay, we
need more money, we need to raise and then they
can just go push a button. There'll be one big
giant button, and they'll push that button and it will
remove a certain amount of a certain percentage of all
our assets, just just with the touch of a button.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Boop.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
No, we need this money in Washington to pay for
some birthday parties for left handed, blue eyed children halfway
around the world somewhere, and we're gonna need seventy billion
dollars for it.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Boop.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
That comes out of the national purse, Thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
We'll throw it out. Trending or that's not how it works.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
It out.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Eighty two percent of Americans who moved last year say
it was stressful.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Do you I think that's kind of low.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
If you had to go over under on that, would
you believe that the actual number was over or under
eighty two percent of Americans who moved last year being stressed.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
No, I'd say that it's a pretty high number moving.
How many times have you moved a lot of times
yet don't know? Yes. I think the difference will is
at your age. You're younger, so you don't have as
much stuff. You could put it in a little bit
of U haul truck. I've got a ton of do
you yes? Like what? I don't worry? One bed, one
(27:41):
side table. Now we have we have a lot of
different things. House full of furniture, Yes, and dishes and
all that stuff. Yes. Do you move yourself? I have.
I have a library of books. I do as well.
I need to get rid of some of them. Actually
want to swap a book swap. I like my books.
I like my books too, But I think you would
(28:03):
enjoy some of them as well, and you'd be surprised.
Bear in mind that my wife was an English major
and has some really, really good books really good. I
have a lot of really good books too. I'm sure
you do well. I have a lot of fishing and
hunting books. D you can keep them, Ballistics, you can Bible,
you can keep all those books, beautiful books. Don't need them,
(28:24):
golf all right. A late health is there if you
need them. Fellas.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
I'll start with the fellas in our enlarge non cancerous prostates.
You can get that taken care of by going to
a late health and letting them do something called prostate
artery embolization, by which they go in and cut off
the blood supply to that pesky prostate, and that makes
(28:51):
it shrivel up, and with its shrinking go all the
symptoms that come along with that nasty thing that's been
driving you crazy for years just getting worse. It's not
gonna get better until you do something about it. And
a late health can do that something for you in
just a couple of hours in the office. Same for
ugly veins, same for fibroids and women. Same even in
(29:11):
some cases for head pains that can be remedied with
vascular treatment. They also do regenerative medicine at a late health,
and that is proving increasingly more and more effective with
chronic pain, and nobody should have.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
To live with that. You don't go to the hospital.
Everything gets done in the clinics.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
You don't have to sit in the hospital for three
or four days to recover. You get to get somebody's
gonna have to drive you home. But do you get
to recover at home? Which I think is quite nice.
Much of what they do is covered by Medicare and Medicaid.
Call them and ask them about the procedures they do,
and see if they can't help you out like they
have so many thousands of other people over the years.
(29:54):
Seven to one, three, five, eight, eight, thirty eight eighty eight,
seven one, three, five.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Eight, eight, eight thirty eight eighty eight. What's life without
a NET? I suggest to go to bed, sleep it off,
just wait until the show's over. Sleepy.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Back to Dougpike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Surrounding third and heading home.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
We are on fifty plus here on KPRC. Thank you
all for listening, but we appreciate that. Well, what are
you gonna have for lunch today?
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Do you know? I have no idea? Are you gonna
get it in the deli? Or did you bring something
or what. I don't even know if I'll have lunch today.
Sometimes I just go with hot drike. I don't know
if I'm intentional or yeah, just intentionally, you know, Yeah,
you know, I'm kind of that way. I've stopped eating
here so much because I'm trying to eat and it's
(30:56):
not that the food's not good. I'm not knocking the
deli here, but I just don't it's hard to justify
the cost, frankly, and it's hard to justify I don't know,
I just I kind.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
Of it kind of ran its course a little bit,
and maybe if I stay away from it for a while,
I'll want to go back every now and then. I
think maybe once a month I'll end up going in
there and grabbing something, because they do have a couple
of items I really like.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Do you have a favorite in there. I haven't been
in a while, but I used to get the chicken Tenders.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
See, I can't eat those really, that's just that would
I think if I ate a whole order of fried
at Chicken Tenders, then it would just it would wreck
my gut. I'd have to drink some pepto bismol. I mean,
that's not my favorite dessert. I can. I can assure you.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
All right, well, let's go back to you and just you.
You you will, It's all about you right now. At
least I'm still gonna go back to trending.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Then I'm going to go to we don't care about that.
Mm that's not how it works, because that's pretty interesting,
I think, and one star review. M hm, oh, we'll
do trending this time.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
Finally, this is this is kind of a weird one,
a little bit spicy too.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Will you ready? A new report this? I just I said,
come on, you gotta be kidding me. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
It's not enough that we have crying rooms in some offices,
right and calming spaces all of that stuff.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Listen to this.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
A new report says that it's possible that some workplaces
may start providing special days for you want to take
a stab at this will special days for It's kind
of like a personal day, you know, but this is
going to be a special day for.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
For the employees. Oh lord, so mundane of you.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
No special days for sexual wellness?
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Why did your eyebrow lift up? Oh? Wow? Yeah, how
about that?
Speaker 3 (33:12):
In a survey, it says here more than three and
five employees that would be sixty percent plus support the
idea and they don't care either way to support the
idea of.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Paid or unpaid sex days.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
Now, you just got to find somebody helse who can
get the same day at the same time and be
in agreement on that. Right, Pretty cool, I guess it.
Do you think so? Hey boss, I'm gonna be out Friday. Really,
are you feeling bad?
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (33:45):
No, not at all. Actually, it's gonna take my day,
you know, myday. I wonder how many of those you
would get in a year. What do you think would
be reasonable? Will one every.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
How many days? One? Every five days? Business days? Yeah?
Once a week you get the whole day off for that, sure, kick,
make it a four day work week.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
You know a lot of people have already done that,
but I don't know that that's that's the reward they
get on their day off. Okay, let's let's just move
on from there. That's a little bit too. That's a
little bit weird for me. Uh sit down, shut up
and watch the game. Or here to mingle, Here to mingle.
This is a quick one. The best states for single people?
(34:36):
Will the best states for single people? Name three of them?
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Wait? See it? Again, is the best states for single
people are. Well, I'm gonna go big. I'm gonna go
with lots of people. So it's the more people the better. Okay,
I'll say California, Texas, and New York all three in
the top five. Yeah. Another one Florida just because it's
(35:04):
a cool place. And Illinois. No clue that. Chicago the
third largest city, so that's the whole It's also one
of the most rat infested cities in the country too.
But that great place for Houston is the most sinful city.
Remember we did that story.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
Yeah, I don't know where they came up with that.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
That's a little weird. Okay.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
On on the con the the other side of the coin,
on the obverse side, will name one of the one, two,
three worst states for single people North Dakota. God, you
are right, yeah, of course this is This is maybe
the easiest one.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
You looked it up. No, it's okay, you're just going
off of population there.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
Will give me an arrow on the people and give
me another one then, because it wouldn't be a population
thing for sure, you don't think so. No, that one
I agree with. That's fine, and it's on the list.
So what's one more real quick?
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Okay, I'll go with Montana.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
Nope, I'll give you the other two real quick so
I can get one more in West Virginia, Arkansas. They
rounded out for the bottom three. Oh a bottom three.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
Olyk.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
There was also something in this thing I was looking
at about healthy foods, but they were all really weird,
so I don't want to talk about that. Oh BuzzFeed, Yeah,
this I can do in one minute will And it
just makes me wonder what they think they're going to
accomplish with this. BuzzFeed's planning a new social media platform too,
(36:39):
and I quote here spread joy end quote. Somebody else
was trying to do that a while back.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
It didn't work out so well. And here's why joy
comes from within.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
You can't create something that creates joy in everybody in
the country. You can't even create something that's going to
create joy for everybody in a room. That has to
come within from within. It really does.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
That's not That's not what corporate advertising says. Who says,
That's not what every single ad that you see on TV.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
I'm gonna make your life better with my with my
endorsements of products and places and things.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
Joy you don't think you don't think that that would
It's just no, it's just vague. That's all that is.
We gotta go, don't we.
Speaker 3 (37:29):
It'll get trolled, it'll be obsolescent, it'll be out of
business within weeks.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
We'll be back tomorrow. Thank you very much for listening.
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