April 30, 2025 • 40 mins
Today, Doug Pike discusses the Louisiana Purchase, mowing lawns, and Houston sports.
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And now fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, here
we go. Welcome to the Hump. I guess I hosted
from some friends by the Way last night at the
at our suite at dyke In Park and had a
great time. They were from Golf Club Houston and black
Hawk Country Club, and fortunately the Astros treated us to
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a second win in a row over the Detroit Tigers,
who are managed, by the way, if you don't know it,
by former Astros manager A. J. Hinch. Okay, I've got
that taken care of there. Anyway, I wanted to bring
up that I almost I almost had to run a
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guy out of the suite last night. We're three or
four innings into the game, down two to nothing. And
this guy who is the husband of one of the
women from Golf Club of Houston, who I'll be doing
business with, probably for the Saint Jude golf tournament we
host every year in quick Sidebar that comes up in December,
and we weren't sure whether she would be involved in
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that one or not, but as big as it is,
I bet she will be and I'll be glad to
have her on the team. Anyway. The long and the
short of it is almost had to run her husband
out of the suite. Will why well, I'll tell you,
And I'm smiling when I say this. He's a great guy.
He really was. But we're sitting there and we're talking
about baseball, and he's a big duck hunter, so we're
talking about that, he likes to fish, We're talking about that,
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We're talking about all kinds of things. And then almost
out of the blue, I'd said something about had he
ever been able to come up to the suitet level
and watch a game from up there? And he said, yeah,
I've been up a couple of times and probably been
to about a dozen or so Astros games. And then
he says, and every time I've come to an Astros
game they've lost, and I was like, I'm looking around
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for security, get him out, just joking. He was super
nice guy, though, and I told him, I said, stick around.
This is gonna be the day when you change your
luck at Astros games, and indeed it was. We ended
up whooping him pretty good. We finally won the game
six to four, and I was right on the verge
when we scored those three runs in the bottom of
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the sixth and took the lead and just never looked back.
We picked up three more to go with it, got
out of their six to four win. Team gets one
more shot at the Tigers this afternoon. Actually the game
time is right after fifty plus. This is a big
day in Houston sports, and not just for the Astros.
We've got them in about an hour and then this
evening the Rockets are going to try for all their
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worth to keep themselves at the playoff table. They're down
three games to one, and hopefully the Golden State Warriors
when they come back into our building will be a
little more vulnerable than they were up in their own building.
They ran off three straight on us up there. It's
kind of or no that take that back. I think
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they won the first. We won the second here and
then they picked up two more. So all they need
is one more win between now and the end of
the road and hopefully, hopefully, our youngsters. It's not like
they don't know whether they can beat the Warriors or not,
because they've already done it once. They've already done it
once in playoff basketball. They just have to repeat the process. Yeah,
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three more times. It won't be easy.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
It's a tall order. They got to hit their free throws.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Look at you, mister statmaster. They have to How did
they shoot in the last game free throw wise? I'm
just curious, not well, not well, you don't want to
go anything.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Well and Jalen Green, I love them, but I mean
I also do wonder if because it's there. This is
a young team. It's their first time in the playoffs.
And yes the Warriors they're a little older now, but
they are seasoned. They are a four championship dynasty. Yeah,
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they've been running the game.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
You know, it is different it and you know, I've
never played at that level any sport, but it is
very different when you go from regular season to playoffs.
I've experienced this as a as a coach of younger players.
I experienced it in in and younger baseball of my own,
and it's different. The playoffs are just different. And unless
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you can get over that hump and get comfortable with it,
that's gonna give them problems tonight. I hope they can
make it. I really do. If any team can do it,
I think the Rockets can.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
I mean, I think we have had one of the
greatest rebuilds in recent memory.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Yeah, and we're working on one with the Astros too.
They've got this brand new guy coming up. He signed
a one day contract. Well, I think the guy we
sent down blue Ball is his name blub a U
g H. I believe it's his last name. I don't
remember his first name, but he's gonna get the start
tonight and then probably roll back down to sugar Land.
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And I can't remember. I don't remember who it was
we sent down for a one day one day pass.
Have you been to a Space Cowboys game more than one?
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
I have credentials for those games, and you know, I
honestly I don't take advantage as often as I'd liked.
It's right there. It's only about fifteen minutes for my house.
Maybe twenty twenty tops, and I would like to go
to more games, but I just life intervene. It just
does unfortunately. I'm a fan of baseball anywhere it's played.
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I'll go up to the little league fields and just
sit out there in the parking lot and watch these
little kids running around and play. And remember when my
son was out there, I was coaching the other guys
who coached alongside me, and we had a blast with
that stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Are you ever think in a pre like in a
different timeline, you could have been like a scount or
something for baseball?
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Oh, no question, no question. I understand the game, and
I learned most of what I learned, not in high school,
but actually over in South at South Alabama and Mobile
from a man named Eddie Stanky. You look him up,
see if he's anybody s t A n K Y,
you'll see. And that's what I played baseball for. When
I went over there. I learned more in the first
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six weeks I was there. Probably then I had learned
up to that point about the game, and I was
just rabbing us for information about it, for the the
the subtle little things that can be done to win
or loose games. Eddie Stanky. We didn't have lights on
that field. This was a long time ago, okay, and
that field did not have lights. And toward the ends
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of games, when the when the light was getting a
little bit lower and whatnot, when the other team was
up to bat, we just couldn't seem to find any
brand new, shiny white baseballs anywhere. But then when we
came up, look at here, here's a box now and
now we'd be swinging at pearls and they were swinging
it at mud mud clods. You see who he is now? Yes,
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pretty special guy, he read.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
He's thinking. I had a great record with the University
of South Allimsam did four hundred and ninety wins and
one hundred and ninety five loss yees. The first month
I was of spring training.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
My first year there, we played thirty three games, okay,
just just spring games, ramming down doubleheaders and all just
to get reps. And out of those thirty three games,
how many you think we lost? Will ten one one?
We lost one game, And the reason we lost that
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game was because he put in all freshmen, wow, to
play that game against older, better college kids.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
And it seems like the ballpark at the University of
South Alabama is named after it.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Yeah it is. Well, yeah, and that's not the one
I played in. That's a that's a real stadium. We
were just out kind of in a in a pasture,
behind the behind the gym and all that stuff. They
had a decent basketball team, no football team then, but yeah,
we were just out there and had little like slightly
better than high school baseball facility, slightly better and not
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near what the new high schools are, but yeah, it was.
It was borderline pony league or little league stands. We
didn't have that many people watch the games or anything,
but we were out there just absolutely ripping it up.
And I got to that first year. I got to
watch some really good players. There were I want to
say six guys drafted off that team who went on
to the majors, three or four others. Yes, I know
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we're late, will It's okay. I'll take this one on
the fly. We'll take a little break here. We'll be
right back. More of fifty plus on AM nine to
fifty coming right up now. They sure don't make them
like they used to.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
That's why every few months we wash them, check his
fluids and spring on a fresh coat of wax.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
This is fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, welcome back,
greatly appreciate you listing on this. What is it kind
of cloudy, a little bit a little sprinkly rain. I
haven't seen or heard anything significant. Well, can you take
a quick pass through the weather channel or some weather
app to look at some radar and see what's up? Yeah?
(09:53):
Do that for us Crackerjack production in here. There's just
no nothing that will won't do for me. I appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
It's like it's mostly cloudy outside eighty.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
One degrees currently. Thank you that you you know, just
one one or two more phrases in that right there,
and you could be you two could be a meteorologist,
make a big career out of that.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
You think.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
So down there in front of that green screen and
just point and try to look at the monitor and
look at the camera at the same time. It's not easy, dude. Honestly,
I don't have any quarrel with weather people except when
they're sensational and just trying to to grab and and
fearmonger their audience. There's no reason for that. Just tell us,
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tell us what is most likely to happen. Don't give
us doomsday scenarios, because doomsday scenarios are the same every day.
This just in from the weather desk. The world could
end in about an hour, and we have it on.
You know, it could happen, right, will could it not?
I guess of course it could, but it's probably not
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gonna happen. And that's what bothers me. And in their
defense a little bit, they're reporting they're standing there in
front of a TV camera and the images that are
going out are being seen by people as far away
as Huntsville and Victoria and whatever is sixty miles west
of here out iten Columbus maybe somewhere in there, and
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all these stations are seen across that hugely broad area.
And you know, if you say it's probably gonna rain,
somewhere within that couple of thousand square miles there might
be a cloud with some water in it. Who knows.
So anyway, back to reality, back to the stuff I
want to get to today, and there's a lot of it.
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From the no Parking Desk. I saw this just a
little while ago, a click to Houston word that someone
is placing fake parking tickets on cars parked downtown you
heard of this will No, Yeah, they're putting fake parking
tickets on these things, and there's a they instruct you
on the ticket that you see under your windshield wiper
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to pay by going to this little using this QR
code and then just you can just pay through that
and get it over with instead of having to come
to court and all that stuff. But they're totally fake,
totally fake the real ones, they say. And of course
the difference, uh is that first of all, they're printed
on pink and CR paper national cash register paper, and
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they never have any kind of a QR code for payment.
So guess what the bad guys are gonna do.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Now, take off that QR code and get pink paper.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Yep, So they're gonna they're gonna amend their little dirty work.
And I guess the best thing you could do if
you do get a parking ticket downtown is make a
phone call and see if you can get a person
to answer. And I really hope that our city he
can afford people to answer the phones when people are
trying to find out whether or not they've got a
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real ticket, because that's just that's such a low hanging
fruit scam on people. Who don't want to be bothered
with having to go to court to fight a parking ticket. That, ah,
I just pay the forty bucks or fifty or one hundred,
whatever it is. And so so long as we're parking
talking about parking around downtown, it's dreadful, it really is.
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I've been fortunate enough to have parking provided when I
hosted people at our Astros games, But for most fans
of these games down there, unless you want to walk
a quarter mile to Dakon Park, dyking Park, excuse me,
and then another quarter mile back to your car in
the dark, you might wind up paying thirty forty fifty
bucks for a spot close to the stadium. That just
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doesn't seem right to me. What would you think would
be a reasonable amount to pay for a parking place
to go to an Astros game?
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Well, oh, I mean ten dollars?
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Yeah, ten bucks. You're goly going to be there for
about three hours. You're You're not the people who are
letting you park on that lot take no responsibility for
what happens to your car, your valuables, and so what's there?
Why does it have to be that much? I guess
it's just you know, whatever, the market will bear. But
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there's and there's no. You can't fight it, there's nowhere
else to park. I want to say we ended up.
Joe Doggett and I went to the fishing show down
there at the George R. Brown a couple of months ago,
and I told him that I would drive if he
would pay the park and he says, sure, We're just
park in the garage down there. What can that cost us?
Forty bucks? Forty bucks to park a car for about
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two and a half hours. Mom, Yeah, that's what I said.
From the come sail Away desk will comes the story
of a brawl a melee, I say, okay, about two
dozen people involved that broke out in the debarcation area
of Galveston's cruise ship terminals when people who'd had an
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altercation during a pickup basketball game on the ship met
up again near customs and in the end one guy arrested,
ten more detained, and two dozen people. This is so funny.
I didn't know there was such a thing, but I
guess they needed like the airlines do that would be
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on Carnival cruise lines. No sale list. Sorry, you don't
get to ever come back ever, ever, ever, ever, again
over a basketball game on a cruise ship.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Was what was the onset of this? There was that
happened in the game that.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
They just said, there was a disagreement, which means a
lot of screaming, a lot of cursing, probably some shoving,
a little of that. And then apparently on board the
ship they managed to settle it out and make everybody
go in different directions. But then when one of the
guys who felt like he'd been wronged apparently saw some
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of the other guys or the other he said, the
other guys came over to him and it just big
pile of guys came over and started beating him up.
And then he changed his story to, well, yeah, I
did punch this one old guy and something like that.
I don't know. This is just a big hullabaloo. It's
it's in the news. You can find the story if
you want to see it. Everybody the one person who
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was arrested. Of course, he's innocent until proven guilty of
his his all the allegations against him. From the what
have I got a couple of minutes here from the
cool Nature story desk, Well, you know how I am
about wildlife? Comes word that in a place where bobcats
are downright scarce a trail cam in upstate New York.
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I've actually been up there. That's the only place I've
ever seen a bear in the wild, and I've been
in bear territory. But anyway, the long and the short
of it is, I've seen dozens of bobcats over the years,
maybe more than that. I don't know. They're beautiful animals,
but they get this bad reputation among some people because
they do feed routinely on game birds and especially quail.
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They can sneak up on quails standing in the middle
of a road eating corn or eating seeds or eating
grasshoppers or whatever they're doing, and then just just dash
in there and as the quails start to fly away,
and they're very fast birds, but the bobcats just a
little faster and typically can grab himself a quail or herself.
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So anyway, quite a few states have really big populations.
I looked it up to just kind of see what
the distribution was. They're even plentiful according to the stats
as far north as Illinois. It was from an MSN
story Microsoft News story, bobcats make it a strong come
back from periods of low populations in a lot of places,
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and I'm kind of glad to see that they're very
cool animals. I'm not a big fan of shooting cats.
I know a lot of guys who do just because
they they don't like that these that the bobcats take
quail and doves and whatever else they can catch trying
to get a drink out of a little stock pond.
But that's just not me. It's just not me, And
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I'm not faulting these people. As long as it's okay
with the Parks and Wilfe Department, then it's okay with me.
You be you, and I'll be me, and I'll leave
more for you if that's the way you want to
look at it. It doesn't bother me. It's just it's
all part of the cycle of life. And some predators
tend to get over populated, and at that point wolves
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in elk populations where wolves have been reintroduced, sometimes they
just absolutely wipe out an elk population within a very
few short years, and that I don't like seeing. Without
more research. The environmental people really went hard. They just
went all in on getting wolves introduced into a lot
of places. There was one study, I saw where eleven
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thousand LK had been turned into about eleven hundred in
just a few years. I know, will I know. I
just had to get that sentence out. Ut Heals Institute
on Aging is a collaborative effort among more than a
thousand providers. That's the number I'm going with until somebody
tells me it's not. I think it's higher actually. But
what they do is agree to become a member of
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this great Institute on Aging. What they do is agree
to go back and get additional training, additional help and
reading and research and all this stuff, and how to
apply their specific knowledge of whatever it is they do
in medicine, how to apply that to seniors because we
are different. We're very different from juniors and middle agers
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and all those other people, and we, especially our parts
are wearing out, okay, and we need somebody who can
make sure they're gonna run at full speed for as
long as they can, and then close to full speed
for as long as they can after that, and that
will typically provide us with a whole lot more happier,
healthier fun years to live and enjoy our lives. Ut
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dot edu. Slash Aging is the website go there. Look
at all the resources they offer, Look at all the
opportunities you can find to see these providers all over town,
mostly the medical center, but all over town. They practice
at least a couple of days a week to make
sure anybody who needs their help can get it. Ut
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dot edu slash aging, ut H dot edu slash aging.
What's life without a net? I suggest you go to bed,
leave it off.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Just wait until the show's over. Sleepy back that Dougpike
as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
All right, welcome back, thanks for listening to fifty plus,
certainly to appreciate it. Twelve thirty four, it is holy
cown the middle of the pack. One hour from now,
I presume, I predict will one hour from now, I
predict that the Astros will be leading by a score
of thread to one, three to one. Yeah, by twelve
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thirty four forty pm, or by one thirty four forty
that would be like it. Within the first two innings,
they're gonna come out swinging the baths. They all hit
better yesterday. Hopefully Joe Spottle will change the lineup a
little bit from yesterday's. I didn't like that one at all, really,
it did I don't know what he was thinking. Maybe
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he just drew numbers out of a bucket or something,
because that one just didn't really jive. Let's go, shall
we will? To the timeline the time? Yeah, I'm gonna
tell you something. You're gonna have to guess what it was.
This involves pop quiz. What happened will on this day
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in history? Two hundred and twenty two years ago? What
happened in Mexican? Think back to It's a real estate deal,
a real estate huge. Oh is it? The Louisiana purchase?
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Is?
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Indeed? Will we basically bought everything from the Mississippi River
to the Rocky Mountains cost US fifteen million dollars back
then two hundred and twenty two years ago, which would
probably be.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
It.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Certainly it wouldn't be more than a couple of billion,
would you think to even two hundred twenty years ago?
Or maybe it would I don't know.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Maybe I can look it.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Up, you could. Why don't you do that? You know
what it ended up being? Per acre? Well you're still researching,
aren't you. Yeah, so you're you're putting in fifteen million
and two hundred and twenty two years ago, all right,
so eighteen hundred.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
It would cost around three hundred and ten million dollars
in today.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
That's all. Yeah, Oh boy, did we steal that?
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Then?
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Holy cow? That that converts back in two hundred and
twenty years ago dollars in eighteen oh three.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
How much per acre? Will I don't know how much
per acre? But well just ask me then, okay, how
much prey four cents or centinnacre for.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Cents an acre? Thank you, France, Thank you very much.
That was probably one of the better. Even anybody in
real estate Keller Williams, what are some of the big
real estate people around here? Who else? Mmmm? Isn't Trump
owns a lot of property? Even he would say, you know, France,
you got that one right? Or no, thank you, just
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say thank you, you got it wrong, France, you missed,
missed the boat. They'd have just held onto that. I
don't know what we would have done. That would have
been an interesting deal. All right, let's move on from there.
That that's I milk there. Oh wow.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Hey. Also, though I'm looking at this article from the
shreepport time well, and it says taking inflation and today's
monetary value into account, the Louisiana purchase would costs between
an estimated three hundred and forty to three hundred and
seventy one million. However, yeah, here we estimated value of
the land within the Louisiana purchase is said to be
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worth over one point two trillion.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Yeah, that's the number I was thinking it might be worth.
Is a solid trillion. But you know the scary part
about that is if we sold it and got a
trillion dollars for it, we'd still be thirty something trillion
in debt, like selling your car, but you still owe
more than five times the value of your house eighty
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six years ago. We'll just go back to baseball for
a minute. In nineteen thirty nine, Lou Garritt played his
two thousand, one hundred and thirtieth consecutive game. Wow, it
was his last game too, unfortunately, his nickname the Iron Horse.
He didn't miss a day of work for almost fourteen
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straight years, and the only reason he couldn't keep going
was because of what was it? You don't know the story?
Was it the disease? It was Lou Garrick's disease. Als
I had a good friend and business relation. Good friend
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died from that not that long ago. It's very sad.
It's a very just cruel disease. It's kind of like
Alzheimer's in that way. It just it just tears a
person apart from the inside out. It's horrible. Okay, pick
one of these, will family affair, couldn't wait? Or just chilling,
just chilling?
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Listen.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
I actually should have put this in the good news
pile instead of just in these random little things to
talk about. Three teenagers in India have invented a salt
powered refrigerator that works and can be used pretty much
anywhere you can get a bag of salt.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
I think that's pretty cool. I really do. That's a
game changer. That's a potential lifesaver in some parts of
the world. Wouldn't you think, how does it say?
Speaker 3 (26:30):
How it works? What is it?
Speaker 2 (26:32):
I'm sure after full story it probably said. If I'd
have clicked on that it who would have probably explained
it a little bit. I'd be cool to know. Well,
no pun intended. Huh, it's still so go look it up. See.
What I try to do is encourage this audience to
look it up for themselves. That it worked on you
and certainly it would work on my audience, go find
out how you can turn salt into air conditioning, into refrigeration.
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I think that's fantastic. Have the guy come around like
they used to do in the old, old old day,
some guy in a horse drawn wagon loading up your
salt for your refrigerator. They used to deliver ice blocks.
Do you know that, will? Did you realize that? Uh?
Was that part of the milkman's job. Kind, Well, no,
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it wasn't his job. It was the iceman's job. And
the iceman, yeah, they would come around in these big
refrigerated well they weren't refrigerating carts. They would just load
these giant blocks of ice into a thickly insulated wagon
and roll up to your house, get the tongs out,
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grab a big block of ice, come inside, take the little,
almost completely melted block out, and then drop that new
one in up at the top of the lay it
in there up at the top where the cold air
would come on down, and that would last year. I
don't know how long they lasted. I didn't live through
that era, but my parents I think might have been
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probably are early on in that I'm not sure. There
may have been still in some parts of the country
ice wagons running around. I'm not so sure when they
when they fizzled out? Did you find it? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (28:13):
And well it's not a refrigerator where you know, you
keep all your no for medications and stuff of vaccines
and organs and but I don't really understand it. So
you play the organ. I do not play the organ.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Now. I dabbled in keyboards for a while.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
I could play chopsticks, can you you know?
Speaker 2 (28:38):
No, that's not what it sounds like. Well, dun dun
dun dun dun dun dun dun du du dun dun
d there we go, Yeah, all that all right? We
got half of what we got one minute. Okay, I'm
gonna go back to you. Then family affair couldn't wait
or full bushes couldn't wait. Man was caught escaping from
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jail in Colorado last week after being on the loose
for thirty five minutes. You know why that's even dumber,
will my? He was two days from being released altogether.
He was going to be set free in two days
and just couldn't wait. What would have what would have
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motivated him? Do you think his girlfriend called him? Get
back here? The dryer's broken difference I had to fix
a part of our dryer. I'm very proud that I
got that done. I got a light switch changed a
while back. Just little miscellaneous, little jobs that keep you
from having to hire an electrician or an appliance repair person.
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Just it's simple. We're getting a brand new washer and
dryer though very soon. It's just time. They they've served
us well. All right, speaking of time, it's time to
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Okay, well, I think that sounds like a good plan.
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Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug. This one went fast?
Will it really did? Holy cow?
Speaker 2 (32:22):
And the good news is I've got lots of stuff
that I'm gonna have available, not just today but tomorrow
and even possibly Friday. I did a lot of prep
this morning, and I'm very comfortable. I'll give you a
choice of a couple of newsy stories, Okay, will all right?
(32:43):
From the investment desk, from the knock knock, who's their desk?
Or from the inexcusably bad decision.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Desk the investment desk.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Okay, let's go there. The investment in America doesk comes
word Fox News that President Trump's strategies are paying off
in huge investments being made by some of the world's
biggest companies that are bringing their manufacturing and technology to America.
These are investments, according to the story, of hundreds of
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billions of dollars, and the total of the commitments thus
far is approaching five trillion dollars, which is way more
than the one trillion we would have made if we
tried to sell off the Louisiana purchase, which we probably
shouldn't do. Anyway, if history repeats itself, as it so
often does, those investments by the world's biggest companies are
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going to trigger an avalanche of smaller companies investing because
they want to emulate the strategies of the bigger companies
so they can get bigger themselves. And every time they
invest in America, we win. Basically, it's very simple. It
doesn't seem that simple, but it really is. When people
are bringing money here that works out. It creates jobs,
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it creates income, it creates a lot of stuff for
a tax revenue, all that good stuff. Hum, let's go
back to the soft stuff for a second, will I'm
gonna go back to full bushes keep the change or
smoke signals.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Mmm, smoke signals.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
A pilot And I want your opinion on this. Will
a pilot threatened to turn the plane around somewhere in
the middle of the flight because some woman was caught
vaping in the bathroom. She said she was stressed out.
My response is, who's not? What do you think, will?
(34:47):
Should she have been booted? They just throw out of
the plane?
Speaker 3 (34:50):
That's horrible, No, not thrower out of the plane. Was
it a plane in the air?
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, they weren't lying.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
I mean, you just tell they throw her out. But
it had taken nap down.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
Yeah, sit down, and we'll have you removed by the
right people when we land, because what you did is illegal,
and everybody knows you can't smoke on planes anymore.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
You think they'll ever bring that back?
Speaker 2 (35:15):
No, no, no, no, I don't.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
Well, what if they have like a specific You know,
they have smoking rooms at hotels and non smoking rooms,
But if they have smoking planes and non smoking planes.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
It's a whole, it's the whole. I don't think you
could fill up a plane these days with smokers. I
really don't. I really don't.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
You don't think so?
Speaker 2 (35:33):
No? I really don't. There are so few.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
I think people would do it at the very beginning
just to say that they've done it, and they would
dress up in suits like back in the fifties, you know.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Go ahead and get the all gusts live up there.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
They're mad men, fantasies.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
No smoking on a plane, yeah, well it was. It
was when I first started flying for work that you
could smoke anywhere on the plane, okay, And then it
became like the last five rows or something like that,
and then they just said no more smoking on the plane.
But we've got this little place you can go in
the terminal where you can go smoke, or you can
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walk outside it. And I was a cigarette smoker for
quite some time. And the worst airport for it ever
was Atlanta. You had to walk like from here to
the galleria to get out of the terminal to have
a cigarette, and it was almost not worth it unless
you had a layover that was really long. I just
I just blew it off. And I was so glad
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that my wife talked me into not just quitting smoking once.
Once I had that monkey off my back, I didn't
care what airport I was going to. I was just
gonna sit in chill somewhere and maybe do a little reading,
maybe look at email or whatever. But it really, it
really changed everything, you know, it really did. The rental
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car companies, they don't want you smoking in their car,
so I would have to I would have to not
do it. I didn't even try to fake it by
just rolling down all the windows. I would just have
to stop somewhere get out. And if I just had
to have one that badly, I would stop the car
and get out and go eat something or drink something
and have a cigarette. But it just once she convinced
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me to take that burden off of my life, I'll
never forget it, and I'm grateful to her for the
rest of my life. And quite yeah, I mean without
her it made the same thing might have happened to
me that happened to my dad. He had a massive
heart attack at about five o'clock in the morning and
just he was out. He was done very quickly. Unfortunately.
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That's I don't know, do you want to go faster slow?
Will when you go dum?
Speaker 3 (37:45):
I think I'd like to go fast.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
Yeah I do too. But for your family, it's hard
because the family never gets to say goodbye. I've been
around both sides of that story. My mom passed very slowly,
just like that. It was just he was here yesterday
and he was gone today. It was it was that quick.
It was very disturbing too. And it was hard, it
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really was. I had to go over there and and
and come in and see all that when he was
still there, and it was it was tough, It really was. Man.
I hope it whatever you have to go through in
your life, I hope it's all something you can deal
with pretty easily. And it doesn't doesn't stick.
Speaker 3 (38:30):
Hmm.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
Family affair, full bushes or keep the change mm, family affair.
You just will not do the one I want you
to do. Husband and wife in Northern California. This is
so boring. Well, I don't believe you picked the Well, yeah,
I do pick for the same jury.
Speaker 3 (38:45):
Woo.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
There are about one hundred and six This is the
kind of the fun statistical part. One hundred and six
thousand adults in the area. Okay, so the odds of
them getting picked for the same jury. How what percent? Will? Oh?
Speaker 3 (39:03):
I mean, it's gotta be it's gotta be low.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
Yeah, I got it. Let me just do it because
we're almost out of time point zero zero zero zero
zero one percent? Wow, like one what is that? One
hundred thousandth one million? Oh when they go home? Are
they allowed to talk about it technically? No?
Speaker 3 (39:22):
Do they find No, No, there's no way.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
You're just stop at that all they're talking about the
whole day. Yeah, so it probably wasn't a big case,
or they would have they would have made one of
them go home. Got forty seconds yep, fool bushes. Have
you really let your lawn go?
Speaker 3 (39:42):
Well?
Speaker 2 (39:43):
You don't have to mow, do you.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
I don't, but our lawn did. Our management company stop
mowing it for about six months. It was you know
what you're in there man?
Speaker 2 (39:53):
Because there's a trend for meadow scaping, okay, which is
embracing unmanicure native plants, just letting it go wild. I
kind of liked it. Just let the bush go wild.
It was cool, was it? Yeah? You like that? Did
you people do it all the time? I think we're
talking about the same thing. We'll be back tomorrow. Thanks
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for listening, See you then. Audios.
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And now fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, here
we go. Welcome to the Hump. I guess I hosted
from some friends by the Way last night at the
at our suite at dyke In Park and had a
great time. They were from Golf Club Houston and black
Hawk Country Club, and fortunately the Astros treated us to
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a second win in a row over the Detroit Tigers,
who are managed, by the way, if you don't know it,
by former Astros manager A. J. Hinch. Okay, I've got
that taken care of there. Anyway, I wanted to bring
up that I almost I almost had to run a
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guy out of the suite last night. We're three or
four innings into the game, down two to nothing. And
this guy who is the husband of one of the
women from Golf Club of Houston, who I'll be doing
business with, probably for the Saint Jude golf tournament we
host every year in quick Sidebar that comes up in December,
and we weren't sure whether she would be involved in
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that one or not, but as big as it is,
I bet she will be and I'll be glad to
have her on the team. Anyway. The long and the
short of it is almost had to run her husband
out of the suite. Will why well, I'll tell you,
And I'm smiling when I say this. He's a great guy.
He really was. But we're sitting there and we're talking
about baseball, and he's a big duck hunter, so we're
talking about that, he likes to fish, We're talking about that,
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We're talking about all kinds of things. And then almost
out of the blue, I'd said something about had he
ever been able to come up to the suitet level
and watch a game from up there? And he said, yeah,
I've been up a couple of times and probably been
to about a dozen or so Astros games. And then
he says, and every time I've come to an Astros
game they've lost, and I was like, I'm looking around
(02:34):
for security, get him out, just joking. He was super
nice guy, though, and I told him, I said, stick around.
This is gonna be the day when you change your
luck at Astros games, and indeed it was. We ended
up whooping him pretty good. We finally won the game
six to four, and I was right on the verge
when we scored those three runs in the bottom of
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the sixth and took the lead and just never looked back.
We picked up three more to go with it, got
out of their six to four win. Team gets one
more shot at the Tigers this afternoon. Actually the game
time is right after fifty plus. This is a big
day in Houston sports, and not just for the Astros.
We've got them in about an hour and then this
evening the Rockets are going to try for all their
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worth to keep themselves at the playoff table. They're down
three games to one, and hopefully the Golden State Warriors
when they come back into our building will be a
little more vulnerable than they were up in their own building.
They ran off three straight on us up there. It's
kind of or no that take that back. I think
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they won the first. We won the second here and
then they picked up two more. So all they need
is one more win between now and the end of
the road and hopefully, hopefully, our youngsters. It's not like
they don't know whether they can beat the Warriors or not,
because they've already done it once. They've already done it
once in playoff basketball. They just have to repeat the process. Yeah,
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three more times. It won't be easy.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
It's a tall order. They got to hit their free throws.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Look at you, mister statmaster. They have to How did
they shoot in the last game free throw wise? I'm
just curious, not well, not well, you don't want to
go anything.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Well and Jalen Green, I love them, but I mean
I also do wonder if because it's there. This is
a young team. It's their first time in the playoffs.
And yes the Warriors they're a little older now, but
they are seasoned. They are a four championship dynasty. Yeah,
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they've been running the game.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
You know, it is different it and you know, I've
never played at that level any sport, but it is
very different when you go from regular season to playoffs.
I've experienced this as a as a coach of younger players.
I experienced it in in and younger baseball of my own,
and it's different. The playoffs are just different. And unless
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you can get over that hump and get comfortable with it,
that's gonna give them problems tonight. I hope they can
make it. I really do. If any team can do it,
I think the Rockets can.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
I mean, I think we have had one of the
greatest rebuilds in recent memory.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Yeah, and we're working on one with the Astros too.
They've got this brand new guy coming up. He signed
a one day contract. Well, I think the guy we
sent down blue Ball is his name blub a U
g H. I believe it's his last name. I don't
remember his first name, but he's gonna get the start
tonight and then probably roll back down to sugar Land.
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And I can't remember. I don't remember who it was
we sent down for a one day one day pass.
Have you been to a Space Cowboys game more than one?
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
I have credentials for those games, and you know, I
honestly I don't take advantage as often as I'd liked.
It's right there. It's only about fifteen minutes for my house.
Maybe twenty twenty tops, and I would like to go
to more games, but I just life intervene. It just
does unfortunately. I'm a fan of baseball anywhere it's played.
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I'll go up to the little league fields and just
sit out there in the parking lot and watch these
little kids running around and play. And remember when my
son was out there, I was coaching the other guys
who coached alongside me, and we had a blast with
that stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Are you ever think in a pre like in a
different timeline, you could have been like a scount or
something for baseball?
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Oh, no question, no question. I understand the game, and
I learned most of what I learned, not in high school,
but actually over in South at South Alabama and Mobile
from a man named Eddie Stanky. You look him up,
see if he's anybody s t A n K Y,
you'll see. And that's what I played baseball for. When
I went over there. I learned more in the first
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six weeks I was there. Probably then I had learned
up to that point about the game, and I was
just rabbing us for information about it, for the the
the subtle little things that can be done to win
or loose games. Eddie Stanky. We didn't have lights on
that field. This was a long time ago, okay, and
that field did not have lights. And toward the ends
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of games, when the when the light was getting a
little bit lower and whatnot, when the other team was
up to bat, we just couldn't seem to find any
brand new, shiny white baseballs anywhere. But then when we
came up, look at here, here's a box now and
now we'd be swinging at pearls and they were swinging
it at mud mud clods. You see who he is now? Yes,
(07:43):
pretty special guy, he read.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
He's thinking. I had a great record with the University
of South Allimsam did four hundred and ninety wins and
one hundred and ninety five loss yees. The first month
I was of spring training.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
My first year there, we played thirty three games, okay,
just just spring games, ramming down doubleheaders and all just
to get reps. And out of those thirty three games,
how many you think we lost? Will ten one one?
We lost one game, And the reason we lost that
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game was because he put in all freshmen, wow, to
play that game against older, better college kids.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
And it seems like the ballpark at the University of
South Alabama is named after it.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Yeah it is. Well, yeah, and that's not the one
I played in. That's a that's a real stadium. We
were just out kind of in a in a pasture,
behind the behind the gym and all that stuff. They
had a decent basketball team, no football team then, but yeah,
we were just out there and had little like slightly
better than high school baseball facility, slightly better and not
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near what the new high schools are, but yeah, it was.
It was borderline pony league or little league stands. We
didn't have that many people watch the games or anything,
but we were out there just absolutely ripping it up.
And I got to that first year. I got to
watch some really good players. There were I want to
say six guys drafted off that team who went on
to the majors, three or four others. Yes, I know
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we're late, will It's okay. I'll take this one on
the fly. We'll take a little break here. We'll be
right back. More of fifty plus on AM nine to
fifty coming right up now. They sure don't make them
like they used to.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
That's why every few months we wash them, check his
fluids and spring on a fresh coat of wax.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
This is fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, welcome back,
greatly appreciate you listing on this. What is it kind
of cloudy, a little bit a little sprinkly rain. I
haven't seen or heard anything significant. Well, can you take
a quick pass through the weather channel or some weather
app to look at some radar and see what's up? Yeah?
(09:53):
Do that for us Crackerjack production in here. There's just
no nothing that will won't do for me. I appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
It's like it's mostly cloudy outside eighty.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
One degrees currently. Thank you that you you know, just
one one or two more phrases in that right there,
and you could be you two could be a meteorologist,
make a big career out of that.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
You think.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
So down there in front of that green screen and
just point and try to look at the monitor and
look at the camera at the same time. It's not easy, dude. Honestly,
I don't have any quarrel with weather people except when
they're sensational and just trying to to grab and and
fearmonger their audience. There's no reason for that. Just tell us,
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tell us what is most likely to happen. Don't give
us doomsday scenarios, because doomsday scenarios are the same every day.
This just in from the weather desk. The world could
end in about an hour, and we have it on.
You know, it could happen, right, will could it not?
I guess of course it could, but it's probably not
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gonna happen. And that's what bothers me. And in their
defense a little bit, they're reporting they're standing there in
front of a TV camera and the images that are
going out are being seen by people as far away
as Huntsville and Victoria and whatever is sixty miles west
of here out iten Columbus maybe somewhere in there, and
(11:28):
all these stations are seen across that hugely broad area.
And you know, if you say it's probably gonna rain,
somewhere within that couple of thousand square miles there might
be a cloud with some water in it. Who knows.
So anyway, back to reality, back to the stuff I
want to get to today, and there's a lot of it.
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From the no Parking Desk. I saw this just a
little while ago, a click to Houston word that someone
is placing fake parking tickets on cars parked downtown you
heard of this will No, Yeah, they're putting fake parking
tickets on these things, and there's a they instruct you
on the ticket that you see under your windshield wiper
(12:11):
to pay by going to this little using this QR
code and then just you can just pay through that
and get it over with instead of having to come
to court and all that stuff. But they're totally fake,
totally fake the real ones, they say. And of course
the difference, uh is that first of all, they're printed
on pink and CR paper national cash register paper, and
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they never have any kind of a QR code for payment.
So guess what the bad guys are gonna do.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Now, take off that QR code and get pink paper.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Yep, So they're gonna they're gonna amend their little dirty work.
And I guess the best thing you could do if
you do get a parking ticket downtown is make a
phone call and see if you can get a person
to answer. And I really hope that our city he
can afford people to answer the phones when people are
trying to find out whether or not they've got a
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real ticket, because that's just that's such a low hanging
fruit scam on people. Who don't want to be bothered
with having to go to court to fight a parking ticket. That, ah,
I just pay the forty bucks or fifty or one hundred,
whatever it is. And so so long as we're parking
talking about parking around downtown, it's dreadful, it really is.
(13:27):
I've been fortunate enough to have parking provided when I
hosted people at our Astros games, But for most fans
of these games down there, unless you want to walk
a quarter mile to Dakon Park, dyking Park, excuse me,
and then another quarter mile back to your car in
the dark, you might wind up paying thirty forty fifty
bucks for a spot close to the stadium. That just
(13:49):
doesn't seem right to me. What would you think would
be a reasonable amount to pay for a parking place
to go to an Astros game?
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Well, oh, I mean ten dollars?
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Yeah, ten bucks. You're goly going to be there for
about three hours. You're You're not the people who are
letting you park on that lot take no responsibility for
what happens to your car, your valuables, and so what's there?
Why does it have to be that much? I guess
it's just you know, whatever, the market will bear. But
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there's and there's no. You can't fight it, there's nowhere
else to park. I want to say we ended up.
Joe Doggett and I went to the fishing show down
there at the George R. Brown a couple of months ago,
and I told him that I would drive if he
would pay the park and he says, sure, We're just
park in the garage down there. What can that cost us?
Forty bucks? Forty bucks to park a car for about
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two and a half hours. Mom, Yeah, that's what I said.
From the come sail Away desk will comes the story
of a brawl a melee, I say, okay, about two
dozen people involved that broke out in the debarcation area
of Galveston's cruise ship terminals when people who'd had an
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altercation during a pickup basketball game on the ship met
up again near customs and in the end one guy arrested,
ten more detained, and two dozen people. This is so funny.
I didn't know there was such a thing, but I
guess they needed like the airlines do that would be
(15:28):
on Carnival cruise lines. No sale list. Sorry, you don't
get to ever come back ever, ever, ever, ever, again
over a basketball game on a cruise ship.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Was what was the onset of this? There was that
happened in the game that.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
They just said, there was a disagreement, which means a
lot of screaming, a lot of cursing, probably some shoving,
a little of that. And then apparently on board the
ship they managed to settle it out and make everybody
go in different directions. But then when one of the
guys who felt like he'd been wronged apparently saw some
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of the other guys or the other he said, the
other guys came over to him and it just big
pile of guys came over and started beating him up.
And then he changed his story to, well, yeah, I
did punch this one old guy and something like that.
I don't know. This is just a big hullabaloo. It's
it's in the news. You can find the story if
you want to see it. Everybody the one person who
(16:33):
was arrested. Of course, he's innocent until proven guilty of
his his all the allegations against him. From the what
have I got a couple of minutes here from the
cool Nature story desk, Well, you know how I am
about wildlife? Comes word that in a place where bobcats
are downright scarce a trail cam in upstate New York.
(16:57):
I've actually been up there. That's the only place I've
ever seen a bear in the wild, and I've been
in bear territory. But anyway, the long and the short
of it is, I've seen dozens of bobcats over the years,
maybe more than that. I don't know. They're beautiful animals,
but they get this bad reputation among some people because
they do feed routinely on game birds and especially quail.
(17:20):
They can sneak up on quails standing in the middle
of a road eating corn or eating seeds or eating
grasshoppers or whatever they're doing, and then just just dash
in there and as the quails start to fly away,
and they're very fast birds, but the bobcats just a
little faster and typically can grab himself a quail or herself.
(17:41):
So anyway, quite a few states have really big populations.
I looked it up to just kind of see what
the distribution was. They're even plentiful according to the stats
as far north as Illinois. It was from an MSN
story Microsoft News story, bobcats make it a strong come
back from periods of low populations in a lot of places,
(18:04):
and I'm kind of glad to see that they're very
cool animals. I'm not a big fan of shooting cats.
I know a lot of guys who do just because
they they don't like that these that the bobcats take
quail and doves and whatever else they can catch trying
to get a drink out of a little stock pond.
But that's just not me. It's just not me, And
(18:25):
I'm not faulting these people. As long as it's okay
with the Parks and Wilfe Department, then it's okay with me.
You be you, and I'll be me, and I'll leave
more for you if that's the way you want to
look at it. It doesn't bother me. It's just it's
all part of the cycle of life. And some predators
tend to get over populated, and at that point wolves
(18:49):
in elk populations where wolves have been reintroduced, sometimes they
just absolutely wipe out an elk population within a very
few short years, and that I don't like seeing. Without
more research. The environmental people really went hard. They just
went all in on getting wolves introduced into a lot
of places. There was one study, I saw where eleven
(19:11):
thousand LK had been turned into about eleven hundred in
just a few years. I know, will I know. I
just had to get that sentence out. Ut Heals Institute
on Aging is a collaborative effort among more than a
thousand providers. That's the number I'm going with until somebody
tells me it's not. I think it's higher actually. But
what they do is agree to become a member of
(19:34):
this great Institute on Aging. What they do is agree
to go back and get additional training, additional help and
reading and research and all this stuff, and how to
apply their specific knowledge of whatever it is they do
in medicine, how to apply that to seniors because we
are different. We're very different from juniors and middle agers
(19:56):
and all those other people, and we, especially our parts
are wearing out, okay, and we need somebody who can
make sure they're gonna run at full speed for as
long as they can, and then close to full speed
for as long as they can after that, and that
will typically provide us with a whole lot more happier,
healthier fun years to live and enjoy our lives. Ut
(20:21):
dot edu. Slash Aging is the website go there. Look
at all the resources they offer, Look at all the
opportunities you can find to see these providers all over town,
mostly the medical center, but all over town. They practice
at least a couple of days a week to make
sure anybody who needs their help can get it. Ut
(20:42):
dot edu slash aging, ut H dot edu slash aging.
What's life without a net? I suggest you go to bed,
leave it off.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Just wait until the show's over. Sleepy back that Dougpike
as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
All right, welcome back, thanks for listening to fifty plus,
certainly to appreciate it. Twelve thirty four, it is holy
cown the middle of the pack. One hour from now,
I presume, I predict will one hour from now, I
predict that the Astros will be leading by a score
of thread to one, three to one. Yeah, by twelve
(21:20):
thirty four forty pm, or by one thirty four forty
that would be like it. Within the first two innings,
they're gonna come out swinging the baths. They all hit
better yesterday. Hopefully Joe Spottle will change the lineup a
little bit from yesterday's. I didn't like that one at all, really,
it did I don't know what he was thinking. Maybe
(21:42):
he just drew numbers out of a bucket or something,
because that one just didn't really jive. Let's go, shall
we will? To the timeline the time? Yeah, I'm gonna
tell you something. You're gonna have to guess what it was.
This involves pop quiz. What happened will on this day
(22:03):
in history? Two hundred and twenty two years ago? What
happened in Mexican? Think back to It's a real estate deal,
a real estate huge. Oh is it? The Louisiana purchase?
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Is?
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Indeed? Will we basically bought everything from the Mississippi River
to the Rocky Mountains cost US fifteen million dollars back
then two hundred and twenty two years ago, which would
probably be.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
It.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Certainly it wouldn't be more than a couple of billion,
would you think to even two hundred twenty years ago?
Or maybe it would I don't know.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Maybe I can look it.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Up, you could. Why don't you do that? You know
what it ended up being? Per acre? Well you're still researching,
aren't you. Yeah, so you're you're putting in fifteen million
and two hundred and twenty two years ago, all right,
so eighteen hundred.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
It would cost around three hundred and ten million dollars
in today.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
That's all. Yeah, Oh boy, did we steal that?
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Then?
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Holy cow? That that converts back in two hundred and
twenty years ago dollars in eighteen oh three.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
How much per acre? Will I don't know how much
per acre? But well just ask me then, okay, how
much prey four cents or centinnacre for.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Cents an acre? Thank you, France, Thank you very much.
That was probably one of the better. Even anybody in
real estate Keller Williams, what are some of the big
real estate people around here? Who else? Mmmm? Isn't Trump
owns a lot of property? Even he would say, you know, France,
you got that one right? Or no, thank you, just
(23:59):
say thank you, you got it wrong, France, you missed,
missed the boat. They'd have just held onto that. I
don't know what we would have done. That would have
been an interesting deal. All right, let's move on from there.
That that's I milk there. Oh wow.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Hey. Also, though I'm looking at this article from the
shreepport time well, and it says taking inflation and today's
monetary value into account, the Louisiana purchase would costs between
an estimated three hundred and forty to three hundred and
seventy one million. However, yeah, here we estimated value of
the land within the Louisiana purchase is said to be
(24:35):
worth over one point two trillion.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Yeah, that's the number I was thinking it might be worth.
Is a solid trillion. But you know the scary part
about that is if we sold it and got a
trillion dollars for it, we'd still be thirty something trillion
in debt, like selling your car, but you still owe
more than five times the value of your house eighty
(24:59):
six years ago. We'll just go back to baseball for
a minute. In nineteen thirty nine, Lou Garritt played his
two thousand, one hundred and thirtieth consecutive game. Wow, it
was his last game too, unfortunately, his nickname the Iron Horse.
He didn't miss a day of work for almost fourteen
(25:21):
straight years, and the only reason he couldn't keep going
was because of what was it? You don't know the story?
Was it the disease? It was Lou Garrick's disease. Als
I had a good friend and business relation. Good friend
(25:43):
died from that not that long ago. It's very sad.
It's a very just cruel disease. It's kind of like
Alzheimer's in that way. It just it just tears a
person apart from the inside out. It's horrible. Okay, pick
one of these, will family affair, couldn't wait? Or just chilling,
just chilling?
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Listen.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
I actually should have put this in the good news
pile instead of just in these random little things to
talk about. Three teenagers in India have invented a salt
powered refrigerator that works and can be used pretty much
anywhere you can get a bag of salt.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
I think that's pretty cool. I really do. That's a
game changer. That's a potential lifesaver in some parts of
the world. Wouldn't you think, how does it say?
Speaker 3 (26:30):
How it works? What is it?
Speaker 2 (26:32):
I'm sure after full story it probably said. If I'd
have clicked on that it who would have probably explained
it a little bit. I'd be cool to know. Well,
no pun intended. Huh, it's still so go look it up. See.
What I try to do is encourage this audience to
look it up for themselves. That it worked on you
and certainly it would work on my audience, go find
out how you can turn salt into air conditioning, into refrigeration.
(26:58):
I think that's fantastic. Have the guy come around like
they used to do in the old, old old day,
some guy in a horse drawn wagon loading up your
salt for your refrigerator. They used to deliver ice blocks.
Do you know that, will? Did you realize that? Uh?
Was that part of the milkman's job. Kind, Well, no,
(27:18):
it wasn't his job. It was the iceman's job. And
the iceman, yeah, they would come around in these big
refrigerated well they weren't refrigerating carts. They would just load
these giant blocks of ice into a thickly insulated wagon
and roll up to your house, get the tongs out,
(27:38):
grab a big block of ice, come inside, take the little,
almost completely melted block out, and then drop that new
one in up at the top of the lay it
in there up at the top where the cold air
would come on down, and that would last year. I
don't know how long they lasted. I didn't live through
that era, but my parents I think might have been
(27:58):
probably are early on in that I'm not sure. There
may have been still in some parts of the country
ice wagons running around. I'm not so sure when they
when they fizzled out? Did you find it? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (28:13):
And well it's not a refrigerator where you know, you
keep all your no for medications and stuff of vaccines
and organs and but I don't really understand it. So
you play the organ. I do not play the organ.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Now. I dabbled in keyboards for a while.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
I could play chopsticks, can you you know?
Speaker 2 (28:38):
No, that's not what it sounds like. Well, dun dun
dun dun dun dun dun dun du du dun dun
d there we go, Yeah, all that all right? We
got half of what we got one minute. Okay, I'm
gonna go back to you. Then family affair couldn't wait
or full bushes couldn't wait. Man was caught escaping from
(28:58):
jail in Colorado last week after being on the loose
for thirty five minutes. You know why that's even dumber,
will my? He was two days from being released altogether.
He was going to be set free in two days
and just couldn't wait. What would have what would have
(29:19):
motivated him? Do you think his girlfriend called him? Get
back here? The dryer's broken difference I had to fix
a part of our dryer. I'm very proud that I
got that done. I got a light switch changed a
while back. Just little miscellaneous, little jobs that keep you
from having to hire an electrician or an appliance repair person.
(29:42):
Just it's simple. We're getting a brand new washer and
dryer though very soon. It's just time. They they've served
us well. All right, speaking of time, it's time to
take this little break here and on the way out,
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could just listen for a minute. What they help you
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What they do is they go in and they plug
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they plug that artery that supplies the prostate with blood,
and that shuts it off and that makes it shrivel up.
And die and then all the bad symptoms of that
enlarge noncatris prostate kind of go away with the with
the old shriveled up prostate. They do the same for
fibroids and women. They do the same in some cases
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with head pain, believe it or not. And then I
was looking at their website earlier today and drafting some
questions for doctor for Andrew Doe, who's gonna be gonna
be with us in another interview very soon, about exactly
all the things they do. And the list is extensive,
it really is. I some of those things I had
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no idea what they meant, so I'm gonna ask him
when I get to interview him. But the bottom line is,
if you go there and you see something that you
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Everything they do they do in their own clinics. They
don't ship you to the hospital where you're going to
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Most of what they do is covered by Medicare and
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by the way, they also do regenerative medicine, which is
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Speaker 1 (32:04):
Old guy's rule. And of course women never get old.
If you want to avoid sleeping on the couch.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Okay, well, I think that sounds like a good plan.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug. This one went fast?
Will it really did? Holy cow?
Speaker 2 (32:22):
And the good news is I've got lots of stuff
that I'm gonna have available, not just today but tomorrow
and even possibly Friday. I did a lot of prep
this morning, and I'm very comfortable. I'll give you a
choice of a couple of newsy stories, Okay, will all right?
(32:43):
From the investment desk, from the knock knock, who's their desk?
Or from the inexcusably bad decision.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Desk the investment desk.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Okay, let's go there. The investment in America doesk comes
word Fox News that President Trump's strategies are paying off
in huge investments being made by some of the world's
biggest companies that are bringing their manufacturing and technology to America.
These are investments, according to the story, of hundreds of
(33:21):
billions of dollars, and the total of the commitments thus
far is approaching five trillion dollars, which is way more
than the one trillion we would have made if we
tried to sell off the Louisiana purchase, which we probably
shouldn't do. Anyway, if history repeats itself, as it so
often does, those investments by the world's biggest companies are
(33:43):
going to trigger an avalanche of smaller companies investing because
they want to emulate the strategies of the bigger companies
so they can get bigger themselves. And every time they
invest in America, we win. Basically, it's very simple. It
doesn't seem that simple, but it really is. When people
are bringing money here that works out. It creates jobs,
(34:06):
it creates income, it creates a lot of stuff for
a tax revenue, all that good stuff. Hum, let's go
back to the soft stuff for a second, will I'm
gonna go back to full bushes keep the change or
smoke signals.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Mmm, smoke signals.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
A pilot And I want your opinion on this. Will
a pilot threatened to turn the plane around somewhere in
the middle of the flight because some woman was caught
vaping in the bathroom. She said she was stressed out.
My response is, who's not? What do you think, will?
(34:47):
Should she have been booted? They just throw out of
the plane?
Speaker 3 (34:50):
That's horrible, No, not thrower out of the plane. Was
it a plane in the air?
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, they weren't lying.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
I mean, you just tell they throw her out. But
it had taken nap down.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
Yeah, sit down, and we'll have you removed by the
right people when we land, because what you did is illegal,
and everybody knows you can't smoke on planes anymore.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
You think they'll ever bring that back?
Speaker 2 (35:15):
No, no, no, no, I don't.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
Well, what if they have like a specific You know,
they have smoking rooms at hotels and non smoking rooms,
But if they have smoking planes and non smoking planes.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
It's a whole, it's the whole. I don't think you
could fill up a plane these days with smokers. I
really don't. I really don't.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
You don't think so?
Speaker 2 (35:33):
No? I really don't. There are so few.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
I think people would do it at the very beginning
just to say that they've done it, and they would
dress up in suits like back in the fifties, you know.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Go ahead and get the all gusts live up there.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
They're mad men, fantasies.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
No smoking on a plane, yeah, well it was. It
was when I first started flying for work that you
could smoke anywhere on the plane, okay, And then it
became like the last five rows or something like that,
and then they just said no more smoking on the plane.
But we've got this little place you can go in
the terminal where you can go smoke, or you can
(36:10):
walk outside it. And I was a cigarette smoker for
quite some time. And the worst airport for it ever
was Atlanta. You had to walk like from here to
the galleria to get out of the terminal to have
a cigarette, and it was almost not worth it unless
you had a layover that was really long. I just
I just blew it off. And I was so glad
(36:33):
that my wife talked me into not just quitting smoking once.
Once I had that monkey off my back, I didn't
care what airport I was going to. I was just
gonna sit in chill somewhere and maybe do a little reading,
maybe look at email or whatever. But it really, it
really changed everything, you know, it really did. The rental
(36:54):
car companies, they don't want you smoking in their car,
so I would have to I would have to not
do it. I didn't even try to fake it by
just rolling down all the windows. I would just have
to stop somewhere get out. And if I just had
to have one that badly, I would stop the car
and get out and go eat something or drink something
and have a cigarette. But it just once she convinced
(37:16):
me to take that burden off of my life, I'll
never forget it, and I'm grateful to her for the
rest of my life. And quite yeah, I mean without
her it made the same thing might have happened to
me that happened to my dad. He had a massive
heart attack at about five o'clock in the morning and
just he was out. He was done very quickly. Unfortunately.
(37:39):
That's I don't know, do you want to go faster slow?
Will when you go dum?
Speaker 3 (37:45):
I think I'd like to go fast.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
Yeah I do too. But for your family, it's hard
because the family never gets to say goodbye. I've been
around both sides of that story. My mom passed very slowly,
just like that. It was just he was here yesterday
and he was gone today. It was it was that quick.
It was very disturbing too. And it was hard, it
(38:10):
really was. I had to go over there and and
and come in and see all that when he was
still there, and it was it was tough, It really was. Man.
I hope it whatever you have to go through in
your life, I hope it's all something you can deal
with pretty easily. And it doesn't doesn't stick.
Speaker 3 (38:30):
Hmm.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
Family affair, full bushes or keep the change mm, family affair.
You just will not do the one I want you
to do. Husband and wife in Northern California. This is
so boring. Well, I don't believe you picked the Well, yeah,
I do pick for the same jury.
Speaker 3 (38:45):
Woo.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
There are about one hundred and six This is the
kind of the fun statistical part. One hundred and six
thousand adults in the area. Okay, so the odds of
them getting picked for the same jury. How what percent? Will? Oh?
Speaker 3 (39:03):
I mean, it's gotta be it's gotta be low.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
Yeah, I got it. Let me just do it because
we're almost out of time point zero zero zero zero
zero one percent? Wow, like one what is that? One
hundred thousandth one million? Oh when they go home? Are
they allowed to talk about it technically? No?
Speaker 3 (39:22):
Do they find No, No, there's no way.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
You're just stop at that all they're talking about the
whole day. Yeah, so it probably wasn't a big case,
or they would have they would have made one of
them go home. Got forty seconds yep, fool bushes. Have
you really let your lawn go?
Speaker 3 (39:42):
Well?
Speaker 2 (39:43):
You don't have to mow, do you.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
I don't, but our lawn did. Our management company stop
mowing it for about six months. It was you know
what you're in there man?
Speaker 2 (39:53):
Because there's a trend for meadow scaping, okay, which is
embracing unmanicure native plants, just letting it go wild. I
kind of liked it. Just let the bush go wild.
It was cool, was it? Yeah? You like that? Did
you people do it all the time? I think we're
talking about the same thing. We'll be back tomorrow. Thanks
(40:14):
for listening, See you then. Audios.
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