A Broom on the Floor

Today, Doug Pike discusses a hiring tactic, chili, and the ongoing saga of the dad joke.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hey John, how's it going today? Well, this show is
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plus with Doug Pike.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
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Speaker 2 (00:46):
All Right, welcome to Thursday. Thanks for listen. Certainly do
appreciate it. We're just getting started here. We'll go till
one o'clock, after which I'm going to be bolting for
South well beyond South Houston, all the way down to
ten City. I'm gonna go meet a new client I'll have.
I'll have more to tell you about him once I
meet him, Once I vet him. I'm pretty sure we're

(01:08):
gonna get along.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
Though.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
We've had several good phone conversations, we've had a lot
of email and text exchanges, and I can't wait to
see his place and see what he's doing down there.
I got news just well, you heard it just a
second ago, and it only happens very rarely on the
PGA Tour, but down at PGA National over on the

(01:31):
eastern coast of hours, confirm that for me will where
he shot that score. Jake Napp PGA Tour, Remember Jake
Napp put up a fifty nine today. Fifty nine. That's
for eighteen holes for those for those of you who thinking, well,
that's what I shot last week on the front nine.
Now he played all eighteen holes in fifty nine strokes.

(01:53):
And once I'm done here, I'm gonna go back to
my desk and I'm gonna do some deeper research. They
are down in West Palm Is that correct?

Speaker 3 (01:59):
Well is in Palm Beach Gardens floor at that Cognizant class.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
One of my favorite places. Actually, I've actually played down there.
I played for three days down there, once played there
and several other courses on a media trip a while back.
My wife actually accompanied me on that one. Paid her way,
not a problem. I'm happy to have her down there,
and well, there was one incident that she didn't like

(02:26):
that happened down there, and I won't I won't knock
the place because I'm sure whoever, whoever that person was,
is long gone from the employee roles. I've just dropped
my pen. Hang on once, pardon me gets settled in here.
I have so much to talk about today, and yet
so little time to get it done. So welcome to Thursday,
the latest in what's going to be a very long

(02:48):
string of nice days around here, thanks to Texas Indoor
air quality specialists, by the way, the duck cleaners, who
do that so well that it needs doing only once
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to texasiaq dot net and take a look around there.

(03:09):
Two weeks of absolutely beautiful weather. There's lows in the sixties,
highs in the seventies. Next week there's a couple of
highs in the eighties, and we are clearly out of
the winter weather woods, I hope. In market news, thanks
to Houston gooldischange dot com only minor movement really among

(03:32):
the big four indicators. The Dow is up a couple
of hundred but when you're sitting as high as the
Dow is, a couple of hundred points doesn't mean that much.
Oil unfortunately up nearly a buck and a half early
and crept back beyond seventy dollars a barrel. Again. We
had it. We had it for a while down in

(03:55):
the sixty eight dollars and change arena, which is a
great place to corral that rate, but no back up
beyond seventy dollars. That means if you fill up in
the next few days, you'll probably get your gas pretty cheap,
and that what maybe three four five days from now
it'll bottom out and then this ricochet back up beyond

(04:16):
seventy dollars is gonna take it back to about where
it is now. Gold unfortunately for my buddy Brad Schweiss
out there at Houston Gold Exchange dot Com. I don't
think he cares it. He makes he does well either way.
If it's really high, people sell it to him, and
then it's really low people coming in and buy it,

(04:38):
So either way there's there's business for him, certainly. But
gold was down this morning more than forty bucks an ounce,
and for the first time in quite some time, really
underneath the twenty nine hundred dollars mark, sitting at about
twenty eight eighty eight. Last time I look so there
you hope, there you go. There you have that. Oh

(04:58):
I got to check the time on my own because
we have three minutes. Well, thank you will. So I'm
going to coordinate with the little teeny tiny digits that
tell me what time it is on this phone of mind. Oh,
there's a bigger one in the middle, but I think
it may go away after a while. It doesn't matter.
End of the news right here in Houston. From a
story yesterday in The Texan, one of two men accused

(05:20):
of capital murder in the death of Deputy Fernando Esqueta
this past July free on bond. This guy's out. Deputy
Queta was ambushed. Investigators found forty one spent shellcasings at
the scene, and one of the alleged murderers, a known

(05:43):
flight risk. By the way, this is not his first
time is free. The other man accused of murdering Esqueta
remains in custody without bond, which is where both of
them should be. Victim's advocate at Crime Stoppers said he
believes this to be the first time in as long
as anybody in his office can recall or find online

(06:07):
or anywhere else they've looked. First time a defendant charged
with capital murder of a law enforcement officer has been
released on bond, which, by the way, was set at
a million dollars, which is in that case, well clearly
not enough to keep him in jail. He rounded up
one hundred grand somewhere. Harris County Deputies Organization issued a

(06:28):
statement social media statement and pretty much leads off and
follows the theme of and I'll quote we are outraged
end quote. Spokesman for New Harris County DA, Sean Terry,
blamed for former DA Kim Ogg, and why wouldn't they
They don't want it on their hands. In response, by

(06:50):
the way, Ogg told The Texan that her office always
filed motions to ask for hearings in these types of cases,
but that it's up to the judges then to set
the hearings and trials, which didn't happen. They posted or
they set bond for this guy at a million bucks,
and somebody showed up with that much money. State Senator

(07:10):
Joan Huffman, by the way, noted that since twenty twenty one,
there have been one hundred and sixty two homicide cases
filed in which the defendant was out on bond when
those murder cases occurred. That's around here. The defendants were
out on bond when those murder cases were filed. One

(07:35):
hundred and sixty two times that's happened, and that is
not It doesn't bode well for the way Houston would
be perceived by people looking for a safe, comfortable place
to raise their families and children. Wouldn't bode well for

(07:55):
the city. For that to be shared with potential business
owners wanting to move their businesses here. It's very frustrating
to have to see that kind of story. How much
time do I have now? Will? Oh? Who you waving at?
I'm chopping the time up. I'll wait until the next

(08:17):
break to tell you about a late health. This time,
we're going to go out clean. And I will tell you, though,
very quickly, that we are always looking for new members
of the family. And if you would like to join up,
if you think your business could be supported by this
audience and the audience of KPRC, which, by the way,
there's a significant portion of this older audience, if you will.

(08:40):
We're not a rock station, we're not a contemporary station.
We're a news talk station. And the thirty three percent
of this audience I learned yesterday. A third of this
audience earns more than two hundred thousand dollars a year.
If you're in that circle, congratulations to you. If you're not,

(09:00):
that's okay, that's okay. Your day will come. Your day
will come. If your company needs to reach an audience
that has money to spend on your good products, all
you got to do is email me and I'll help
you out. I'm kind of a unicorn around here. I
do a little of both. I actually do a lot
of both. I'm here six days a week, and I
have fun doing what I'm doing. And I would love

(09:22):
to help you become a part of this wherever. Whenever
you want to place your campaign, I'll do it for you.
Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. We'll take a little break.
We'll be right back. Fifty plus on AM nine to
fifty KPRC.

Speaker 1 (09:36):
Now, they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash them, check his
fluids and spring on a fresh code O wax. This
is fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, welcome back
to fifty plus.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
Thanks for listening. Certainly do appreciate it. I'm not feeling
about hell for you guys out if you want, if
you want to take a look at this and see
how it works. It's it's really there's just so much good,
so much good information about not just what iHeart does,
but what's going on with radio, and and our generation
understands radio as well as any so I would love

(10:17):
to explain what we do, how we do it, and why.
It's a pretty good idea anyway. I'm speaking of communication,
which is basically what Will and I are doing with
you Tuesday through Friday Live and then Monday. Will takes
care of it with a nice a nice best of
from the past week. I'm sure just you have so

(10:37):
much material from which to choose, really, Will, don't you? Oh?
So much material, so much great material. So I saw
a story this morning that might keep your phone from
being hacked. And it's a very easy one. Turn it off,
turn it complete, don't just don't just hit the re

(11:00):
start button. Turn the thing off. At least once a week,
that's all you gotta do. I'm gonna do it twice
at least. There are hacks apparently that start with a
missed call. Uh oops, didn't get to that one fast enough.
Then that missed call somehow opens a tiny little door

(11:21):
into your phone, and the hackers start delivering their stuff,
and after a while, it's sort of snowballs with other
minor intrusions that add up to a major intrusion until
the phone is just peeled completely open to the bad guys.
Turning it off, this story said, and it was from
a legitimate source. Turning it off disrupts that sequence and

(11:46):
stops a significant number of those types of hacks from
gaining access to all of your information that's on your phone.
And when you stop and think about how many times
you've typed in credit card numbers to buy something, how
many times you've had to establish new passwords for this, that,
and the other. Not a bad idea, Just go ahead

(12:06):
and turn it off a couple of times you, as
Attorney General Pam Bondi promised today, keep an eye on
the news feed, will will you? For Pam Bondi's promised
reveal of at least part of the list of people
who spent time on Jeffrey Epstein's island, where underage girls

(12:28):
were recruited and taken to do just unthinkable things with
some of the most powerful men and women on the planet.
There's hesitance, really, and I understand it. There's hesitance to
release the information Bondi has on her desk because she
is making absolutely certain that anything and everything that she
releases contain there's nothing there that would or could identify

(12:53):
any of the would have been found out to be
about two hundred and fifty plus victims involved in this case.
Just sickening, honestly, Once their ideas are scrubbed and who's
who list drops, who expects some surprises thinking about it?
You know, I almost I might thinking about it, I
might have a little bit of sympathy, a little bit

(13:15):
of understanding for somebody who only went there once and
then never returned. You see it, you hear it's a
great fun place. You go down there, you see it,
and then you think, oh my god, this is despicable,
this is disgusting. I'm not going back, and you never do.
That might give somebody a pass. I want to know

(13:38):
who went there once, saw what it was about, and
then went back again and again and again. Show me
the frequent flyers, Show show me who was a regular.
That's the list I want to see, And I wonder
if it will come out that way. If they if
they finally go ahead and release the flight logs as well,

(13:59):
we'll know who went back for more. That's who I
want to see. I'm gonna I'm gonna sit on this
story for a minute. I'm not gonna do it yet.
I'm gonna go here from well, from the determined Left
comes yet another sad attempt to smear the Trumps, this
time at an official Democrat Party social media site, where
an AI generated version of Donald Trump Junior is supposed

(14:24):
to be speaking in support. He's supposed to be just
talking about how great Russia is and how we really
should have supported them in that war against Ukraine. And
it's bona fide AI. There's nothing legitimate about it. But
they went ahead and posted it at the media site,
a social media site, and then what do you know,

(14:46):
just a little bit after it goes up very quietly,
it came down, very quietly. It came down. I don't
understand why in the world they want to keep doing this,
other than they just can't let go of the fact
that they're guys out and are guys in. And we're

(15:08):
way past January, we're darn near to the end of February,
and these people are just determined they're not gonna stop.
There's even there's a lot of that from well also,
but wait, there's more I might I might make that
a well, yeah, I can use that a lot, I
think in this show, because there's always something to talk
about out in California, and it's happened in other states,

(15:30):
but this most recent time in California, people are actually
alerting illegal immigrants about the presence and movements of ICE
agents who are trying to apprehend legitimate criminals. Right now,
group of nearly one hundred protesters worked that little magic
of theirs trying to thwart the efforts of law enforcement

(15:53):
recently in Alhambra and in San Fernando and even worse.
And this has to be some sort of criminal act
actually some aiding in a betting somehow. They're sharing not
only the they're riding around with megaphones saying here come
the ICE agents, hunker down, go hide somewhere. If you're wanted,

(16:13):
get out of here quick. They're they're just giving all
this information away and clearly still being tipped off. I
think by there may be more than one person inside
who's doing this, because the person who did it in
Colorado has already been identified according to the reports I've seen.
Don't know who yet, but the bottom line is out
there in California, not only did they alert the illegal

(16:37):
migrants to the presence of ICE or the incoming presence
of ICE, they also are posting these agents faces, their names,
and their phone numbers and essentially putting them and their
families in serious, serious danger.

Speaker 1 (16:57):
And for what.

Speaker 2 (17:00):
For what? What are you doing? Why are you doing this?
Why would you deliberately tell people? The ones the ICE
agents are going after right now? These are legitimately bad people.
They've done more than just sneak across the border. We'll
deal with that bunch later who came here truly to
better themselves. We'll find ways to deal with them later.

(17:24):
But the ones that are being rounded up by ICE
agents right now, in the infancy of this program several
thousands now already, they're bad people, Okay, They're being singled
out because of other things than just coming across the border.
Holy mackerel, Speaking of crossing the border and causing problems.

(17:45):
Just this week, young boy in rural West Texas became
the first unvaccinated person in the whole country to die
from the measles. First, in about ten years, measles were eliminated.
They were gone through years and years of strategic use
of vaccines in children, and then in recent years, I

(18:07):
wonder what's changed. Well, we welcomed in millions of unvaccinated
people courtesy of our former president, and now a family
in West Texas has to bury their young son. When
on earth will the left realize that allowing people to
enter our country an open border, no health check, no
scrubbing their names against terror watch lists, and gang gang membership,

(18:33):
without well, frankly, without concern for Americans. That's how they
were let in. There was no no courtesy given to
any of us who have lived here and worked here
all our lives.

Speaker 1 (18:46):
None.

Speaker 2 (18:46):
We're just going to let all these people in. If
they make you sick, if you die from something they
bring in here, well, it's just it's just the cost
of an open border. I guess open border is a
shortcut to disaster. Playing simple, that's all it is. That's
all it is. Hey Will, Hey will? What you know

(19:07):
what today is?

Speaker 3 (19:08):
It is almost done with the segment day.

Speaker 2 (19:13):
No, it's a national chili day. National chili beans are
no beans? Will, Uh, it doesn't really matter to me.
You know, I'm the same way. Ethan came by here
from k t r H, one of our young news reporters,
and asked me right as I was coming in here,
beans are no beans? Don't really care as long as
the chili's good. Now, I know some of the people

(19:34):
at the cook off are just disgusted by what I
just said. And if your chili has no beans in it,
I'm not gonna walk away from it. You pore me
a or fixed me a bowl of chili, put a
little cheese on there, maybe some onions. I'm in, maybe
a couple of halopenos. If I'm really feeling like a

(19:55):
risk taker for my age, Yeah, I'm one hundred percent in.
If it has some beans in it, I'm not gonna
pour it over your head and tell me you're crazy
or tell you I'm crazy either one. If you, whatever
way you want to cook up some good chili and
offer it to Will, will you agree with that laws
they're giving us chili? Sure, we'll take it. We've never

(20:18):
had food delivered to us, have we? So sad? We
gotta go? Will? What do you now? You're trying to start?
Some of you turning the key to your car. I'm
breaking that, I'm breaking the dime. We gotta break gotta
break me down. Don't let age sneak up on you, fellas.
If you've got an enlarged non cancerous perostate, the late
health can help you with that, and it's it's just

(20:40):
about a two hour procedure in the office. You're gonna
need somebody to drive you home after. We'd just be
aware of that. But once you get through there, when
they're good, when they're done with their prostate artery embolization PAE,
they call it for short, because that's a whole lot easier.
What they do is they go in and shut off
the blood supply to that prostate, which in turn causes
it to shrivel up and die. And as it shrivels up,

(21:03):
the pathway between your bladder and the end of the
road opens up again. You got better flow. You're not
getting up two or three times a night to go
to the bathroom and then go lay back in a
bed and feel like you got to go right back
in there. All of that goes away. All of that
goes away. Same same degree of help with fibroids for women,

(21:25):
same degree of help with well, it's kind of a
slam dunk. The ugly veins. They can make those go
away very quickly and permanently and anybody who's got them.
And there are even some head pains that can be alleviated,
mostly with vascular procedures. They also do regenerative medicine, by
the way, and much of what they do is covered

(21:47):
by Medicare and Medicaid. You'll have to call them to
find out exactly what they can do for you. Maybe
go to the website first, a latehealth dot com, and
then give that phone call to try and see if
you can't get over there to talk to them about
making you feel better, last longer, and just generally enjoy
your life. Seven one three, five eight eight, thirty eight
eighty eight seven one three, five eight.

Speaker 1 (22:08):
Eight thirty eight eighty eight Aged to Perfection. This is
fifty plus with Dougpike.

Speaker 2 (22:31):
All right, welcome back, thanks for listening. Fifty plus this afternoon,
the Thursday edition under partly cloudy skies, which are supposed
to you know, if you can, if you can hold
your nose and ignore the Oh, there's a few days
in the next two weeks that show ten twenty percent

(22:53):
chance of rain. But that's still an eighty percent chance
of rain of not rain, So there's no reason I
wouldn't change I would never change plans based on a
ten percent chance of rain. And if you get the
if you draw the unlucky an unlucky straw, whatever, will
so be it. You get a little bit wet, But nah,

(23:14):
I'm not changing any plans for that. It's so easy
to get caught up in and especially in this region,
to get overly worried about a forecast, and it drives
a golf industry crazy. It absolutely does. The people who
rely on fair weather for their businesses, fishing guides, hunting guides,

(23:39):
golf courses, all the place. Pretty much everything I like
to do is outside. And the threat of rain, the
threat of extreme cold, the threat of thunderstorms and lightning
and all that drive people. All of that stuff drives
people away. So hopefully you won't have to deal with
any of that over the next at least eight or

(24:00):
nine days, and you can go enjoy. I got my
rodeo credentials, by the way, Will did you get yours? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (24:08):
I saw your Rodeo credentials and I thought about snack.

Speaker 2 (24:13):
Changing the picture out yeah, well, you know it's interchangeable.
Just Brad Pitt me, Brad Pitt me. Oh, thanks for
calling me, Brad Pitt. Oh did I? How did I? Oh?
I see what? I see? Where you're going with that? Okay,
all right, let's let's lighten it up because I have
some other kind of weird, weird stuff. I'm gonna scratch

(24:35):
that off there. Let's go back to the fun stuff
for a minute, Will, and then maybe I'll I'll drag
us back into the depths of horrid, weird, crazy things
going on in this country. Verse Still, I told you
today is National Chili Day. We agreed that beans are okay,
So are we getting chili today? Or what? I feel

(24:56):
pretty comfortable in here.

Speaker 3 (24:57):
Really, sometimes I'm just asking. I'm asking a serious question.
You know, that's the first one you've ever asked. I
want to know if they're bringing in chili for us today.

Speaker 2 (25:12):
I would if I had to bet, if I were
a betting man, I would keep my hand on my
wallet and never pull it out. Uh, broken record, So
close and yet such a flop. Or but what about us?
What about us? A new study Will suggests that having

(25:32):
some belly fat, some belly fat they put some in
all caps. Yeah, I wonder why some belly fat may
be beneficial for brain health. Yes, agree, that's the good news. Will,
that's the good news. Here's where it just it just

(25:54):
flips us up like upside down, like a like a
plane coming into Canada and leaves us hanging in younger adults? Yes,
really fat?

Speaker 1 (26:06):
No?

Speaker 2 (26:06):
Well oh yeah, yeah, you're still a younger adult, I
would say, yeah, hanging by a thread though you're in
your late twenties. Man, I was thinking more like twenty
twenty one, twenty five, maybe twenty six. Well, it was
good that I had a little belly then too. It
just makes it smarter, doesn't it. Yes, Yeah, you know,

(26:28):
I had serious trouble trying to gain weight playing baseball
in college. I ate like a horse and couldn't gain
an ounce, and it just I my metabolism was like
a furnace. Fortunately, I've cured myself of that problem and
have had no problem at all putting on putting on

(26:52):
more weight than I wanted to at this age, and
I I do intend. I started on Monday, started walking
the golf course instead of riding, and I'm gonna stick
with that until it's until it's too hot to do it.
And then maybe I'll walk nine and ride nine and
go work out in a gym somewhere. I have access

(27:14):
to several of them, actually, even the one here. Do
you have access to that gym? Yes? Yeah, so we
should go. What we should do is meet up at
about eleven thirty every day, willing to work out for
half an hour. How does that sound? No, I got
things to do at eleven thirty. I know. Well, you're
still a young adult. You could have some belly fat,

(27:36):
it says, And that's all I have is some Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
That's a very vague term, isn't it. Yep, it's a
relative term. A whale has some blubber. Technically, I know.
That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. Will one more?
Couldn't possibly make this up? Alexa, make me a sandwich?

(27:58):
Or tell your kids and grandkids about this? All right,
tell the gen Z kids about this? What do you
gotta tell me? Hiring managers. Hiring managers listed some special
tests they use to secretly judge people in job interviews,

(28:20):
and there's only one example given. They tease it by saying,
these managers listed special tests plural, and then they only
give one example, but it's a good one. Oh, I
can finish this in way less than one minute. Will
a restaurant manager leaves a broom on the floor of
the restaurant before a job interview, and if the interviewee

(28:45):
comes in and picks the broom up, got a chance.
If that interviewee just steps over the broom for any
reason whatsoever, no chance, you're not getting hired. Do you
think that costs that person good employees? Or do you
think it's a pretty good way to weed out the

(29:07):
slackers right from jump?

Speaker 3 (29:09):
I don't think that it's it's a test at all.
Why is the broom on the ground, huh?

Speaker 2 (29:15):
To see if that person will pick it up?

Speaker 3 (29:17):
Well, you know whatever, I'm in a job interview, I'm
also sizing up the place, you know, And if I
see a broom on the ground, I'm not taking the
job anyway.

Speaker 2 (29:31):
Really, Yeah, you're not gonna help him out. I'm not
gonna help him out. Well yeah, and you know what,
if that person told you that's why you didn't get
the job, you know what you should say. So you know,
actually I saw the broom on the floor, and I
realized that maybe the other employees around here aren't really
the kind of up to my caliber of worker, and

(29:51):
I don't know that I really want to work here,
because why should I have to pick up behind them?

Speaker 3 (29:56):
I would say, this is how you treat your your establishment.

Speaker 2 (30:02):
Cool, wait till let's say sty in here is what
I would say until I get back and get a
chance to connect you to couldn't possibly make this up.
I would go oink oink man to the boss. Yeah,
the guy who's about to hire you.

Speaker 3 (30:21):
I'm not taking the job that leaves it like a
he leaves it like a pigsty.

Speaker 2 (30:27):
Aren't you going to pick up that broom? It makes
your place look bad? Yep, I'm not working here. I'm
not punching. Let me go punch in. I'd be like,
that's a lawsuit right there. Somebody trips over that, that's
a lossuit. That's what you would do, Go in and
trip over the broom. Ah, easy money, I need. We
got to take a little break. We'll do that, we'll
come back, wrap it up. Fifty plush almost did it

(30:50):
on AM nine fifty KPRC. What's life without a nap?
If I suggest you go to bed, sleep it off.

Speaker 1 (30:57):
Just wait until the show's over. Sleepy back that Doug
Pike as fifty plus continues.

Speaker 2 (31:23):
All right, welcome back fifty plus on sports goll we will.
I'm taking Saturday off too. I have to some personal
business out of town. I have someplace I have to
take my wife. It's not medical or anything. It's just
one of her best friends mother's past and we're going
to go over to the service over there. It's only right.

(31:46):
They were very close all the way through school, through
a and m Aggie's they are. And yeah, I got
to know. I got to know the woman's mother a
little bit, and I certainly ran into her because my
wife and she were involved in some of the same things.
So we're gonna do that on Saturday, and then I'll

(32:08):
come back and step into that chair on Sports Talk
seven ninety to catch up on everything that's going on
in the outdoors world in the meantime, Will you want
me to just go ahead and throw this one at
you that couldn't possibly make this up? All right, let's
do it. A sixty three year old woman over in well,

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actually she's in New Jersey. Her name is Soon Bang. Okay,
that is her real name, and She was charged recently
with operating a prostitution business from her New Jersey massage parlor.
Isn't that ironic? Will somewhat? Just a teeny bit? You

(32:55):
find it amusing? It's fine. You smiled us a little bit.
It's kind of joke yesterday. No, I didn't like that joke.
I didn't.

Speaker 3 (33:03):
I didn't smile.

Speaker 2 (33:06):
Everybody else. I've told that joke, and there'd been a
couple of people, but not a lot. Who have you
told that joke to? I told that joke to one
of the managers here, two of the sellers here, and
all three of them either giggled or laughed. Yeah, how
old are they? They are in a differing age ranges

(33:28):
from twenty six or seven to about uh, the oldest ones,
I think like forty two, something like that. A broad range.
Will a broad range, A big group of people.

Speaker 3 (33:41):
Three three, And you're not including me in the twenty
six to twenty seven?

Speaker 2 (33:47):
Well, no, you said who how old were they? Now?
Were we? I'm just I'm just clarifying, Doug. Well, you
just just have no sense of humor.

Speaker 3 (33:57):
Will No, really no sense of humor, he says, called
the golf.

Speaker 2 (34:03):
Joke at the the Awards ceremony over at Republic Boot
Company because it was relative to our Saint Jude Children's
Research Hospital Golf tournament, which we'll do again, probably either
the first or second Monday in December, and I as
I as lead. I've taken the lead. Eddie Martini offered

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me the lead on this last year when he got
a big promotion and knew that he wasn't going to
be able to give the tournament the time it deserves,
so he asked me to take the reins. And I
was absolutely thrilled to do that, absolutely thrilled. And I
have a goal. There may or may not be one
hurdle standing in front of that goal, something I got

(34:49):
wind of recently that I can't share, but one way
or the other, we're we're gonna swing for the fence,
for sure. We're absolutely gonna swing for the fence. And
I am I'm going to really go after a goal
that I've set in my own head and that I'm
going to share with the committee next time we meet,

(35:11):
and fingers crossed that we can hit that goal. I
think we will, I really do. I don't know why
we wouldn't, So I think we will, and we'll see
how it works out. Anyway, if you're interested in that,
you can also email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com.
It's a fantastic tournament. Actually, on my outdoor show, I
tried to finish off. We only had a couple of

(35:31):
teams left, and I wanted to see if if I
could get one of one or two of my listeners
to participate. And one guy called and said, I'll put
up half the money for a team. I'll put up
half the money for a team if somebody else will
put up the other half. And within like three minutes,
I get an email from a guy who's been listening
a very long time. Alan Rick was the one who

(35:53):
started it. Alan finished it boom boom like that. So
we ended up doing very well with that tournament, and
for the second I think maybe I believe it was
the second year in a row. That was our eleventh.
Last year. By the way, we raised between the golf
tournament and the radio fund, more than a million dollars
for Saint Jude. So that's pretty good stuff. In the

(36:15):
file of the money category comes a story Doze at
it yet again, finding money at this time right here
in Texas. Millions of dollars being spent to fund a
migrant overflow facility that just happens to be run by
a Biden transition team member. It's called Family Endeavors, Okay,
and Family Endeavors. Back in twenty twenty one, that group

(36:38):
secured a contract for overflow housing for immigrants. Okay. From
twenty twenty to twenty twenty three, that group, where did
it go? Family Endeavors, that's what it's called. I circled
it now so I don't have to go search. Its
investments grew from a point three million dollars to five

(37:03):
hundred and twenty point four million dollars, and since March
of twenty twenty four, that facility, despite sitting empty, has
been paid eighteen dollars per month of our tax dollars.
Eighteen all in all occupant seat nationally nationally for these

(37:29):
licensed overflow facilities now is less than twenty percent. They're
they're unnecessary. You only have to keep one in five
of them open to handle what needs to be handled,
and fewer and fewer people are coming in anyway, I
don't know that any of them are necessary anymore. We're

(37:52):
gonna save I don't know, save American taxpayers. I don't know,
two hundred and ten billion dollars or so, moving forward,
eighteen million dollars a month that place is making while
it was just collecting dust. That that is misuse of
tax dollars. There's no question about it. Uh, we're gonna
go back to Maine. How much time do you have?

Speaker 3 (38:13):
Will?

Speaker 2 (38:13):
I can't see you have a minute? Fifteen? Oh ooh.
I may hold this for tomorrow because I'm gonna I
know that when I start, when I get into the story,
I'm not gonna be able to stop, Okay, and I
don't wanna. I don't want to kind of run out
of time and be halfway through this. So we're gonna
go back. We're gonna go back to the fun List,

(38:35):
and we're gonna talk about broken record so close and
yet such a flop or Alexa make me a sandwich?
Broken record? Oh man, I hate to even talk about this.
Guess whose tour last year broke all the records? Double
the sales of any other concert to wherever? Taylor Swift?

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You're a Swifty, aren't you confess? Will you are? Now?
Can you name any Taylor Swift songs? Yeah? What tear
drops on my guitar. There you are. You're swifty. I
couldn't even have told you that. And I like music.
I do, I like all kinds of music. We got
ten seconds. That's all I need to tend to name

(39:20):
all the Taylor Swift songs I know and still get
out of here on time. Thanks for listening. We'll be
back tomorrow. Audios