October 30, 2025 • 38 mins
Today, Doug Pike discusses candy corn, a lost child, and entitlement.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 1 (00:24):
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Speaker 3 (00:45):
All Right, it starts now. Welcome aboard. In case you
missed it. At my Facebook post, I was going to
interview Brad Schwice from Houston Gold Exchange today a little
later in the program, but he had to cancel. He
got some client he needs to deal with and talk
to that superseded our interview and a more power to him.
(01:10):
He's trying to do business and I don't have a
problem with that. I'm trying to reschedule him for tomorrow.
I think we're gonna get that done. And when I
tried to amend my post at Facebook, when I clicked
do it basically the little button there, it just gave
me one of those little.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Round and round and round and round and round and round.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
And still round and round, and it's probably still going
around over on the screen that I've got tucked away,
the little app that I've got open but tucked away.
So if it's not posted yet, I'll tell you straight up,
it'll be tomorrow when we try to decipher what in
the world is going on with gold prices when they
keep rising up and down thirty forty points a day
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or not thirty forty points thirty forty dollars. You have
to remember at four one thousand dollars forty dollars, movement
is one percent, that's all, so it's not that big
a deal, but it's still Actually it's tenth of a percent, right, yeah,
four four hundred and forty, Yeah, forty one percent. I'm sorry,
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I got jumbled up in my head for a minute there.
Welcome though, to the coolest day since past winter, right,
holy count. It couldn't have come at a better time,
I guess unless they had gotten here yesterday, that would
have been nice. The wind has settled, the sun is shining,
and I can say with confidence now that beyond a
thirty percent chance of rain on Saturday, we're pretty much
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looking at a week of highs in the seventies, lows
in the fifties, and just a double boat load of sunshine.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
That's gonna be nice.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
And that to borrow from our past is groovy rad
and I dare say awesome. I heard Jimmy and sky
Mike talk about words and phrases from the past this morning.
I guess we could call it what generational vernacular, if
you will, and it got me thinking about some of
the words from my high school days back in the
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Stone Ages of the nineteen and seventies. The list is
way too long of the stuff we used to say
back then, but if that's your wheelhouse, or maybe you're
a youngster from the eighties, you'll remember some of those terms.
And for young people, by the way, I believe that
the new word for awesome is fire. I've heard my
son say it, his teammates say it, kids on social
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media say that about something that's really cool, which is
another It's kind of an oxymoron. How that came to be,
I'm not really sure, but neither am I sure like
that something so potentially destructive could be interchangeable somehow with
words like awesome and amazing and great. Language evolves, though,
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and we either change with it or we get declared dinosaurs.
I remember the first time I find out I found out,
what was it, probably twenty years ago, maybe that the
word bad had suddenly become synonymous with the word good,
and that was really confusing. Bad meant good, but good
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didn't mean bad. So it was either bad or good
or just bad.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
But not good.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
So in summery, I guess today's weather is all at
once awesome, good, bad, amazing, dope. Can't forget that one
and fire. I'm not sure how that's possible, but it is.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
And depending on how.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
You ask, who you ask, you might get one or
more of those answers. By the way, Melissa, that horrific hurricane,
hurricane that's ripping through the eastern Caribbean, and finally take
it off and move it out the way, just beat
the tar out of every land mass that's hit so far,
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and especially Jamaica. They got hammered, just absolutely hammered. And
there's gonna be there's gonna be more loss of life,
I think than has already been reported.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
The devastation.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
I was looking at some of the videos from down there,
and it's just the people are just walking around like zombies.
They can't believe what's happened to what used to be
their neighborhood, their city, their street, their house. It's just
it's horrible, it really is. And I feel for those people.
I absolutely do. That too will pass though, and I
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truly believe that Americans, because this is just who we are,
we'll throw a ton of money down there to help
those people get back on their feet. In market news,
the Dow fell early, but had rebounded a little while
ago to more than a two hundred point movement into
the green, which is half a percentage point, so don't
plant a parade or anything, but still up at least
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as was the Russell, whereas the Nasdaq and S and
P were both down a bit, as was Oil, which
was a little below sixty dollars a barrel.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
That's kind of.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
That's getting down there where it becomes more difficult for
the oil companies to make a profit off of their
exploration and drilling and production of petroleum products. But I
think that one will work itself out. Gold and I'll
pause on that because we we were gonna be talking
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to bread. I think it was I want to say
it was down maybe four or five dollars an ounce,
which is insignificant. Really might have even even been a
little bit more than that, but it wasn't enough to
what enough to make a difference. Saw a story yesterday
about yesterday about how some of the cartels are threatening
our military now and just insisting that they stopped blowing
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up drug boats and otherwise getting in the way of
cartel business. You know, I'm no military strategists, but I
would bet that those threats aren't going to generate the
results that the cartels intended. It's yeah, I don't think
they realize who they're dealing with, and I'm pretty sure
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that our intelligence community community has has.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
A pretty good idea of who those people are.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Where they are, and how we're going to deal with them.
We don't need any more fentanyl in our country. We
don't need any more drugs at all being brought into
our country. We don't need any guns going out of
our country. And I'm hoping they can shut down a
lot of that stuff now that the borders are tightened up.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Country boys are roofing. Wait all this wind, all the
little limbs I found in my yard today.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Fortunately, there wasn't anything really big, nothing that probably would
have damaged the roof. But nonetheless, there was a lot
of change in the past forty eight hours around here,
and if your house took any kind of a beating
at all, you probably need to get that lid checked out.
Send Country Boys roofing up to your rooftop and let
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them work their way down all the way to the
gutters and then down the ladder and back into your
yard to tell you what they found or did not find.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Best news is nothing to see. We'll be back in
a year or so.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
It goes downward from there to hey, we found a
small problem, but we've got what we need on the
truck to go ahead and fix it.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Here's what it's going to cost.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
And you're welcome to call around if you want us
to leave and maybe come back sometime, but we'll get
this done for you. We'll get it done right and
you won't have to worry about it ever again. That's
good news. Also good news is that if you do
need a full replacement roof, if your roof, current roof
is just has taken a beating and it's just done,
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then Country Boys, well John Aikman, the man who owns
the company is doing this on his own. He's offering
you a fifteen hundred dollars discount on that complete roof.
If you are a first responder, past or present military,
or an educator. If you land in one of those
three three categories, should get fifteen hundred bucks off a
full roof. If you land in none of those three categories,
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drop my name. Guess what's going to happen. You get
one thousand dollars off your roof. And that's that's not
fancy math, that's just straight up math. Get all the
way to the to the end of it and say, Okay,
by the way, Doug sent me in whatever number he's
got on a paper, he'll take it down by one
thousand dollars. Country boys roofing, Country Boys roofing country with
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a K, Boys with a Z, as many young people
might spell it these days, or just go back to
your roots. If you're my age, spell it the way
you've always spelled it. Countryboysroofing dot com.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Aged to perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Welcome back to fifty plus. Thanks for listening. I certainly
do appreciate that, really do boy. Those people who took
Hurricane Melissa just right between the eyes. There's so much
clean up. And I remember it from Ike, I remember
it from every hurricane we've had through here, but that
one in particular, and to hit one of the Caribbean islands. Now,
to their credit, people who live in Caribbean on Caribbean
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islands know how to build a house that can withstand
a powerful hurricane. But this was the most powerful hurricane
ever to hit that place, and even some of the
best construction down there I think would have had trouble
withstanding the force of the wind and the debris slamming
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into everything.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
And I'm just all we can do is just be
thankful for those who made it through there. That's so tough.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
In shutdown news, even CNN now has conceded that it's
the Democrats who are keeping our government shut down, and
the the agreement that the left is and Democrats are
doing a great job in this country is at its
lowest point in I think in history, if I'd read
correctly this morning. People aren't really happy because they're realizing
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that the hardship that's been forced on our nation is
coming from one side and one side only, and by
the way while they're still getting paid. There was a
Republican senator I believe it was yesterday I saw interviewed
and he noted that he's introduced a bill that basically says,
if we're not doing our job and you're gonna not
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and you're gonna miss a check, we're gonna miss a
check too. In other words, that there's another shutdown for
as long as that shutdown goes, they're not getting paid.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Now.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
They won't feel it like the person from the TSA
or like somebody in our armed forces, but at least
it would symbolically show that they understand what's going on
a little, certainly a little better than they do now.
They don't have a clue what it's like to have
to decide between paying your rent, or paying your gas bill,
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or paying your food bill, buying some new clothes for
the kids. They'll never know that anymore in their lives.
Once they've been in Congress for a few years. Seems
like every one of them ends up worth a whole
lot more than even if they had saved every penny
of their salaries. I just don't know how that happens anyway.
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The left continues and Shumer and his bunch to tell
look right in the camera and tell people who aren't
understanding what they're doing that this suffering they're gonna endure
here beginning, it's just gonna kind of start tipping over
like dominoes tomorrow and Saturday and.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Sunday and on and on and on.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
That's what they have to do to to get the right,
to get the Conservatives to put through all this garbage
that just absolute outrageous waste that they want to spend
around the world, some trillion plus dollars on nothing of
value to any American and.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
You, the people are cold. You have to suffer for that.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
And come Saturday, by the way, if at least a
handful of Democrats don't vote in favor of the CR,
the can Continuing Resolution I believe it's called. And by
the way, that would just all it would do is
extend a Biden near a budget. Mind you, some of
the recipients of this snap benefit say they're going to
start looting stores and just take what they want for food.
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If you don't give us our money, it's actually my
money and your money. If you don't give us those
taxpayer dollars, we're just going to go take it.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
We're going to take what we want.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
And that's kind of the attitude of people who are
super entitled and think that you and I owe them
a living somehow. That SNAP program, by the way, has
been found to have upward of a million illegal immigrants
receiving benefits that are supposed to go to Americans. And
among the other forty million or so SNAP in other
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food program recipients, my gut says, a whole lot of
them are just scamming a system designed to provide temporary
help while folks without jobs looked for jobs and then
took those jobs when they found them. There are a
lot of jobs opening in our country right now that
don't require a whole lot of skill or training either
or education. There are jobs for people who want to work,
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but a lot of them don't want to work. I
saw something very telling. Okay, we've created a culture of
entitlement unlike ever before. Saw this story yesterday about a
middle school girl somewhere up north who who when asked
in class what she wanted to do when she grew up,
she said she wanted to have three children.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
That was about it.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
And I'm paraphrasing here. I don't have it in front
of me, but that's what she said. And when the
teacher said something about, oh, you want to get married
and raise a family, huh, the girl said, oh no, no, no, no, no,
I don't want a husband because then I can't get
food stamps. Let that seek in an entire generation of
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kids thinking that the way to get ahead in this
world is to have a lot of babies, but no
baby daddy's around, and that way they get a lot
of free stuff, and some of the money might go
to the kids. I suppose they'll put something on the
table for them, but I bet you there's a lot
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of long fingernails and big lashes and anything else to
beautify themselves. I guess maybe so they can have another
child who can who can get them money. It's very
frustrating to watch all that happen, it really is, and
it's to learn that forty million people are in that
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realm as really frightening. That's about one in eight I think,
or maybe one in nine Americans.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
That's pretty scary.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
This just in to go scary again, and then we're
gonna we're gonna get to some good stuff. There was another,
yet another story this morning aboutn illegal immigrant allegedly killing
two Americans while driving. He hasn't been convicted yet, but
he's been charged while driving under the influence. Should have
never happened, but it did. Thirty four year old guy
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allegedly killed a couple from Illinois in the car he
was driving. DHS found am an extended magazine, drugs, and alcohol.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
And here's the kicker.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Apartment of Homeland Security said an ICE detainer was put
in place after this guy and an eighteen year old
man who was with him in the car were taken
to jail. However, officials there and in that Illinois jail
didn't cooperate with ICE since Illinois, you know, has sanctuary policies.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
That's just great.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
My guess, My guess is that this guy's probably already
back on the street. Now, that's just a guess, but
it sure wouldn't It sure wouldn't surprise me. Uh you
know what, I'm gonna go ahead and go to the
break early. I've got a couple of more really kind
of good things to talk about, and I will get
to them before the end of this program. I promised
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to I promise. And there's one just an idiot of
a young entitled young man, or an entitled young man
taking a woman to court.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
You will not believe this story. I'll tell you in
a minute.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Cedar Cove RV Resort is, now that the weather's changed
to what it is right now, probably one of the
most comfortable places where you could just lean back in
the afternoon sunshine.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Just bathe in it.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
It's gonna be in the seventies and you get that
sun maybe on the back of your neck, even kind
of like sitting in a deer stand on Saturday morning,
when the sun hits the back of your neck, you're
gonna want to just take a nap, But you won't
if you're in the deer stand. You shouldn't anyway, and
you won't probably if you're down at Cedar Cove RV Resort,
where you could instead be fishing and maybe catch yourself
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a redfish to carve up and put on the grill
for the evening meal. Get some sides, bring some stuff
with you. Every pad at Cedar Cove is on concrete,
all the roads, all the slabs. They've got electric water
and sewer hookups at every single side. They've got Wi
Fi for freeze. Not gonna cost you and a bathhouse
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with showers if you needed to take care of some
of that. And they also have a convenience store, because
who travels for more than a day or so and
doesn't forget something. My latest was just a little simple
USB port that I could plug into the wall to
charge to my phone. Had to buy one of those
last time I was out. Finally getting into this beautiful,
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beautiful weather. The fishing's gonna improve. The view from Cedar
Cove is already as good as it gets. It's right
down there at the end of Tricity Beach Road, near
Thompson's Bake Camp, right on the bay, absolutely beautiful.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
If you don't own an.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
RV, guess what Al Kibby will rent you one, put
it on a slab for you, get it all tricked
out and cleaned up, and you can go down with
the whole family and see what you think of that lifestyle,
and you're gonna love it. You're gonna end up down
there again in your own brand new motor home. Probably
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Speaker 1 (19:41):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash them, check us
fluids and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This
is fifty plus with Doug Pike Barrel. Welcome back to
fifty plus. Thanks for listening. I certainly do appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
I know, Will does. I think that makes it unanimous.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
I suppose in here, thanks a lot, and you know well,
I don't think there's any better audience in the entire city.
I'm just saying than ours. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
I don't know how it could be.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Only although my outdoor audience on Saturday and Sunday mornings
might run a close. I think it's neck and neck.
There's no way I'm picking one over the other. Absolutely,
no way. I'm smarter than that. All Right, I'm gonna
give you some good news, then some just hmm. I
saw it coming, you saw it coming, everybody saw it coming.
News and then that entitlement story. If I can get
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to all of it in this segment, and I think
I can so the good news up in New Hampshire recently.
I think it was recently. I'm pretty sure by the
way that where the story was and how it popped up.
Toddler goes missing from her home in a little bitty
town they have two dogs. The people who own the
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home from whence this child went missing have two dogs.
And in the backyard they noticed that the fence was
kind of torn back and there was a hole there,
and that's probably where the dogs got out, And the
dogs probably looked back at the kid, and the little
toddler thought, what the heck, I'll go with the dogs.
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They must know where they're going, probably someplace fun. Maybe
I can get a sippy cup, So the kid runs
out with the dogs. This is all presumption at this point,
because all anybody really knows is that the dogs and
the child are missing. They've got thick woods behind the house,
which it seems like almost every kid who runs away
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runs into thick woods for some reason.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
I don't know why.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
In any event, everybody in that little town, all of
their emergency personnel are volunteers. So you can bet there's
no chopper they can call. You can bet there's no
heat seeking forward looking technology available. They're just going to
be boots on the ground looking for a little kid
in the woods. Oh, by the way, that I mentioned
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that the temperatures were expected to drop into the twenties
that night, and the sun's kind of starting to go down.
It's afternoon. Well, a fellow from about forty miles from
town gets word, because in small town news spreads really
quickly finds out that this little kid is missing. And
he shows up, and the reason he found out is
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going to be pretty obvious.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
In a second. He shows up with his tracking.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Dog that he's had for a long time, an old,
fairly old anyway German shepherd that's got a good record
for finding lost people, whether bad guys, whatever.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
But now the job is to find this little toddler.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
And about the time they're getting on out into the woods,
the two dogs that live at the home show up,
but no toddler. Well, the man and his tracking dog,
his big old German shepherd stayed at it, and stayed
at it and stayed at it, and finally, about eight
o'clock in the evening, the little girl.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Was found safe and sound.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
And I can't remember exactly what she said, but it
was one of those things that a kid would say
when he or she didn't have any idea. There's a
comedian who has a pretty good line about that. I
don't know if you remember the show, it was called
a Lot of People. Well, my audience will my weekend
audience would be maybe ten percent, would re mention would
remember maybe twenty percent. But this audience, probably more than
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half will remember a show called Kids Say the Darnedest Things.
I believe it was hosted by Art link Letter.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
You ever heard of him? Will not a chance. He
was an old game show host.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
He hosted several of them, but Kids Say the Darnedest
Things was one of them. And this comedian's line is,
kids Say the Darnedest Things. I wish I could remember
the guy's name.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
But so would you if you had no education. He's
so right.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Really, it's setting these kids up to be laughed at
for the funny things they say, but it's only because
they don't know what not to say or what to
say in the stead of that stuff. Okay, so I've
taken care of the little dog. I have taken care
of Oh no, I'll go to the middle one. This
was a little longer, do I have four minutes or so?
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Well?
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Perfect, So it was inevitable this was gonna happen. And
as prices rose. In fact, I think a lot of
this was the final straw was probably the pandemic when
everything became more and more and more expensive. And now
it's happened. The US Mint has officially stopped making pennies.
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There will be no new pennies to put into your
little coin collecting books. Everything you have now is everything
that can be. Retailers who still accept cash are rounding
totals up or down now, so the lost inevitably becomes
a zero or a five at the end. And I
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got a hunch, and nickels gonna be next on the
chopping block because there aren't a whole lot of things. Yeah,
it's just coming up to that, and eventually it'll be
all whole dollars, and and after that the conversion. Even
before that, probably about the time that maybe somebody starts
talking about getting dimes out of circulation, they're going to
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talk about going ahead and going to all digital finances.
And once we cross that line, and it's coming, it is, well,
we'll no longer control our own money at all, like
it or not. Same as what's happening already in parts
of China. Government is going to replace money which we
earn by working for it. That's simple. You earn something
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of value by providing a service or a product or whatever.
So here's the deal though. What they call them over
there in these test areas they're using this stuff is
social credits. Social credits will buy you groceries, They'll buy
you food, entertainment, clothes. Everything you used to buy with
money now you buy with social credits, which you earn
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by doing things well and doing good, but which you
also can have taken away from you if you don't
play by the rules. And the rules that get social
credits taken away.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Are pretty pretty fluid anyway.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
If the Fedes here pass higher taxes and we're under
such a system, what they'll do is just call your
bank and say, hey, we've raised taxes. Actually, this would
all be done electronically. They wouldn't have to call anybody
because they would have access to every account we have
and every dime in whatever the currency is at the time,
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and they would just say, oh, take about three percent
off everybody's money because we got to pay for more
stuff to give away to people around the world. That's
what it would become, and I pray it never comes
to that in my lifetime. We'd have to convert our
cash to digital funds. Digital funds. Really, that would end
up what it ended up doing at some point would
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be Let's say you you you want to put a
pool in your backyard, and you've had the house for
a couple of years, but it's been known by three
or four people. And the guy putting in the pool says, hey, man,
we just found this big old ten can out here,
a five gallon bucket, a big metal bucket, and we
don't know what's in it, but it's in your yard,
so you can have it. Here it is, and you
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open it, you pry the lid off, and it's full
of cash, and it's worthless. Cash no longer has value.
Same if you tear out a wall you're going to
do some remodeling in your house, you found a you
find a little lock box at the bottom of the floor,
right there between the two studs, full of money. Doesn't
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not worth a dime. Very frustrating the way this is going,
and I just really don't want it to go that way,
but I don't think I have a choice.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Let's take just break.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
I want to stay ahead and stay and focus here
ut House Institute on Aging.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
By the way, I'm going to lead.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
The final segment of the program with that entitlement news.
The Institute on Aging is a collaborative effort among more
than a thousand providers all over town, all over the
region really who have come on board and agreed to
go back and get additional education and information that they
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can use within their own area of expertise so that
they can do a better job of taking care of seniors.
Now that's a it's not unique in the entire country,
but it is one of only I bet I could
count them on one hand, one of only about that
many programs in this country that offer similar service to seniors.
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It's a great asset, and we've got the best, one
of the best right here in Houston.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Ut h's Institute on Aging.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Mostly in the med Center, as you might imagine, but
they work all over town and you can find somebody
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Fourth and final segment starts now as promised. Entitlement news.
Imagine this.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Imagine this.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Teenager and that I told Will during the break this guy.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
I watched the video and this guy looks like he's older.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Than he is, certainly old enough to know better than
to do what he did and find himself in court.
But get this, so this teenager tried to blame his
neighbor for injuries he suffered after he stole her motor scooter.
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This guy steals a motor scooter, he crashes it, and
he's hurt, and he thinks that she should have to
pay his bills. And by the way, he didn't suffer
any permanent injuries. But according to him, he racked up
something like fifteen seventeen thousand dollars in medical bills, and
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what they would have been for, I'm not sure doesn't matter.
The bottom line, is he is asking the victim of
his criminal act to pay for it, and his rationale
was that all he had to do or all she
had to do.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
The woman who owned.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
The scooter, all she had to do is just file
it with her insurance and they'd pay it all.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
She wouldn't be out anything.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
Just file acclaim with your insurance and pay for all
my injuries that I sustained after I stole your scooter. No, no, no, no,
this guy, he's an idiot and totally unclear on a
concept that you and I and everybody else of our generation,
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and I'm sure most people in Will's generation understand perfectly.
You play stupid games, you win stupid prizes, and that's
exactly what this guy did. And you know, I didn't
even have to watch to the to the end of
the little cliff there, because I'm one hundred percent certain
of the outcome. I just don't know how the judge
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let this guy know that he was He was in
the wrong place to be asking for something like that.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
So today, if you didn't know.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
It is National candy corn Day.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Up or down on candy corn?
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Will?
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (32:25):
I likewise, I know one woman and this woman could
buy anything her heart desired. She's from a very successful family.
And I knew them as clients a few years ago
and have nothing but wonderful things to say about them.
But this, this woman, the wife of the man who
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between the two of them, I got to know, she
loves candy corn.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
She loves it.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
And if I get some, if I have some ever again,
I may just send it to her. I'll send it
up there with a note that says, I know you
still like this stuff. I'd bet money on it, and
here's some for you now. I don't know how they
figured this out. I guess there was a poll taking
or something. But apparently candy corn is pretty much mocked
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in most of the country, but it happens to be
a big hit this time of year in Nebraska and Alabama. Nebraska,
I get, okay, hey, it's corn country, real corn, candy corn,
it's corn. But Alabama, I'm not sure where that would
come from.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
No, No, I have nothing. I have nothing. Maybe you do.
If you do, send me an email Doug Pike at
iHeartMedia dot.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
Com, and if it's really good, I'll mention it on
the air tomorrow. Why do people This is the question
I'm asking and you can send me the answer with
that simple email. Why do people in Alabama like candy corn? Uh?
From something I teld just monkeying around, a pet monkey
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got loose from its owner at a Spirit Halloween store
somewhere in Texas and spent more than a half an
hour swinging from the rafters.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Don't you know?
Speaker 3 (34:15):
That monkey was just having a ball swinging from the
rafters in the store. The owner eventually coaxed it down
with a cookie, and according to the story, the monkey
wasn't hurt. But I would be willing to bet you
that half the customers in that store were injured because
from cramps in their sides from laughing so hard watching
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a monkey swing from rafter to rafter up in the
top of a Halloween store that I liked a lot,
going back to Let's go to China. No, no, no,
Let's go to sea World, shall we. A woman is
demanding demanding fifty thous thousand dollars from SeaWorld because a
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duck hit her in the face while she was riding
a roller coaster and knocked her unconscious. Clearly she's been injured,
But I don't believe that a flighted bird is something
for which SeaWorld should be responsible. She's saying that SeaWorld
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should have warned her about the danger. There's danger in
everything we do, and I'm sure there are there are
cautions and warning signs everywhere about making sure you're buckled
in right. They have personnel out there to make sure
everybody's in the car right. But if a duck flies by,
or a pigeon, or a chicken, or a condor or
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anything anything else, I'm not laying that on on the park.
That's that's out of their control. And if they list,
what they would have to do, according to her, to
be not accountable would be to list every flying animal
on the planet, because even the ones that are only
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native to South America or Africa, somebody might have brought
one over as a pet and it might have flown
out the window. That's how those collared Eurasian doves got here.
By the way, they are from Eurasia, and they were
brought into pet stores in the Bahamas by somebody fifty
sixty seventy five years ago whatever. And what happens is
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the pet store owners don't tell the people who are
buying them that when these doves are separated from their mates.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
When they're separated and are alone in their.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
Cage, all they do every day is this, all day,
all night. They coup loudly, trying to find somebody to
come share that space. And what happened in the Bahamas
is probably what would have happened here. A few people
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opened the cage, they opened the windows, and the doves
flew out, and they finally got the opportunity to, let's
call it, quit cooing, and they quickly overcame their accommodations
in the Bahamas, and apparently one or two of them
flew up high enough to see the mainland of the US,
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and off they went, and the rest is history. There
are tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of those
things in the country now, and a lot of them
around here. They're very easy to tell from Mourning doves
are the smallest. The white winged doves are a little
bit bigger than that, and then that Eurasian collar dove
is almost as big as a pigeon. The first time
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I saw one, I couldn't It was during dub season,
but I couldn't pull myself or get myself to pull
the trigger.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
I didn't know what it was very quickly.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
Team of researchers in China have claimed that they've created
an artificial tongue that can be used to detect spice.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
Levels in food. And why we would need something like that.
I'm really not sure. I've got a couple more. I
think I may save them to tomorrow. Are we out
of time?
Speaker 3 (38:17):
Will?
Speaker 1 (38:18):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (38:19):
Here's a good one for ten seconds. Fifty three percent
of Americans don't like asking for help, and my gut,
my gut tells me that about ninety percent of that
fifty three percent of people who don't want to ask
for help other men.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
I don't like asking for help either. See tomorrow audios
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Speaker 3 (00:45):
All Right, it starts now. Welcome aboard. In case you
missed it. At my Facebook post, I was going to
interview Brad Schwice from Houston Gold Exchange today a little
later in the program, but he had to cancel. He
got some client he needs to deal with and talk
to that superseded our interview and a more power to him.
(01:10):
He's trying to do business and I don't have a
problem with that. I'm trying to reschedule him for tomorrow.
I think we're gonna get that done. And when I
tried to amend my post at Facebook, when I clicked
do it basically the little button there, it just gave
me one of those little.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Round and round and round and round and round and round.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
And still round and round, and it's probably still going
around over on the screen that I've got tucked away,
the little app that I've got open but tucked away.
So if it's not posted yet, I'll tell you straight up,
it'll be tomorrow when we try to decipher what in
the world is going on with gold prices when they
keep rising up and down thirty forty points a day
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or not thirty forty points thirty forty dollars. You have
to remember at four one thousand dollars forty dollars, movement
is one percent, that's all, so it's not that big
a deal, but it's still Actually it's tenth of a percent, right, yeah,
four four hundred and forty, Yeah, forty one percent. I'm sorry,
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I got jumbled up in my head for a minute there.
Welcome though, to the coolest day since past winter, right,
holy count. It couldn't have come at a better time,
I guess unless they had gotten here yesterday, that would
have been nice. The wind has settled, the sun is shining,
and I can say with confidence now that beyond a
thirty percent chance of rain on Saturday, we're pretty much
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looking at a week of highs in the seventies, lows
in the fifties, and just a double boat load of sunshine.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
That's gonna be nice.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
And that to borrow from our past is groovy rad
and I dare say awesome. I heard Jimmy and sky
Mike talk about words and phrases from the past this morning.
I guess we could call it what generational vernacular, if
you will, and it got me thinking about some of
the words from my high school days back in the
(03:12):
Stone Ages of the nineteen and seventies. The list is
way too long of the stuff we used to say
back then, but if that's your wheelhouse, or maybe you're
a youngster from the eighties, you'll remember some of those terms.
And for young people, by the way, I believe that
the new word for awesome is fire. I've heard my
son say it, his teammates say it, kids on social
(03:36):
media say that about something that's really cool, which is
another It's kind of an oxymoron. How that came to be,
I'm not really sure, but neither am I sure like
that something so potentially destructive could be interchangeable somehow with
words like awesome and amazing and great. Language evolves, though,
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and we either change with it or we get declared dinosaurs.
I remember the first time I find out I found out,
what was it, probably twenty years ago, maybe that the
word bad had suddenly become synonymous with the word good,
and that was really confusing. Bad meant good, but good
(04:21):
didn't mean bad. So it was either bad or good
or just bad.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
But not good.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
So in summery, I guess today's weather is all at
once awesome, good, bad, amazing, dope. Can't forget that one
and fire. I'm not sure how that's possible, but it is.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
And depending on how.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
You ask, who you ask, you might get one or
more of those answers. By the way, Melissa, that horrific hurricane,
hurricane that's ripping through the eastern Caribbean, and finally take
it off and move it out the way, just beat
the tar out of every land mass that's hit so far,
(05:05):
and especially Jamaica. They got hammered, just absolutely hammered. And
there's gonna be there's gonna be more loss of life,
I think than has already been reported.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
The devastation.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
I was looking at some of the videos from down there,
and it's just the people are just walking around like zombies.
They can't believe what's happened to what used to be
their neighborhood, their city, their street, their house. It's just
it's horrible, it really is. And I feel for those people.
I absolutely do. That too will pass though, and I
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truly believe that Americans, because this is just who we are,
we'll throw a ton of money down there to help
those people get back on their feet. In market news,
the Dow fell early, but had rebounded a little while
ago to more than a two hundred point movement into
the green, which is half a percentage point, so don't
plant a parade or anything, but still up at least
(06:03):
as was the Russell, whereas the Nasdaq and S and
P were both down a bit, as was Oil, which
was a little below sixty dollars a barrel.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
That's kind of.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
That's getting down there where it becomes more difficult for
the oil companies to make a profit off of their
exploration and drilling and production of petroleum products. But I
think that one will work itself out. Gold and I'll
pause on that because we we were gonna be talking
(06:36):
to bread. I think it was I want to say
it was down maybe four or five dollars an ounce,
which is insignificant. Really might have even even been a
little bit more than that, but it wasn't enough to
what enough to make a difference. Saw a story yesterday
about yesterday about how some of the cartels are threatening
our military now and just insisting that they stopped blowing
(06:58):
up drug boats and otherwise getting in the way of
cartel business. You know, I'm no military strategists, but I
would bet that those threats aren't going to generate the
results that the cartels intended. It's yeah, I don't think
they realize who they're dealing with, and I'm pretty sure
(07:20):
that our intelligence community community has has.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
A pretty good idea of who those people are.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Where they are, and how we're going to deal with them.
We don't need any more fentanyl in our country. We
don't need any more drugs at all being brought into
our country. We don't need any guns going out of
our country. And I'm hoping they can shut down a
lot of that stuff now that the borders are tightened up.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Country boys are roofing. Wait all this wind, all the
little limbs I found in my yard today.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Fortunately, there wasn't anything really big, nothing that probably would
have damaged the roof. But nonetheless, there was a lot
of change in the past forty eight hours around here,
and if your house took any kind of a beating
at all, you probably need to get that lid checked out.
Send Country Boys roofing up to your rooftop and let
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them work their way down all the way to the
gutters and then down the ladder and back into your
yard to tell you what they found or did not find.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Best news is nothing to see. We'll be back in
a year or so.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
It goes downward from there to hey, we found a
small problem, but we've got what we need on the
truck to go ahead and fix it.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Here's what it's going to cost.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
And you're welcome to call around if you want us
to leave and maybe come back sometime, but we'll get
this done for you. We'll get it done right and
you won't have to worry about it ever again. That's
good news. Also good news is that if you do
need a full replacement roof, if your roof, current roof
is just has taken a beating and it's just done,
(08:50):
then Country Boys, well John Aikman, the man who owns
the company is doing this on his own. He's offering
you a fifteen hundred dollars discount on that complete roof.
If you are a first responder, past or present military,
or an educator. If you land in one of those
three three categories, should get fifteen hundred bucks off a
full roof. If you land in none of those three categories,
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drop my name. Guess what's going to happen. You get
one thousand dollars off your roof. And that's that's not
fancy math, that's just straight up math. Get all the
way to the to the end of it and say, Okay,
by the way, Doug sent me in whatever number he's
got on a paper, he'll take it down by one
thousand dollars. Country boys roofing, Country Boys roofing country with
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a K, Boys with a Z, as many young people
might spell it these days, or just go back to
your roots. If you're my age, spell it the way
you've always spelled it. Countryboysroofing dot com.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Aged to perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Welcome back to fifty plus. Thanks for listening. I certainly
do appreciate that, really do boy. Those people who took
Hurricane Melissa just right between the eyes. There's so much
clean up. And I remember it from Ike, I remember
it from every hurricane we've had through here, but that
one in particular, and to hit one of the Caribbean islands. Now,
to their credit, people who live in Caribbean on Caribbean
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islands know how to build a house that can withstand
a powerful hurricane. But this was the most powerful hurricane
ever to hit that place, and even some of the
best construction down there I think would have had trouble
withstanding the force of the wind and the debris slamming
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into everything.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
And I'm just all we can do is just be
thankful for those who made it through there. That's so tough.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
In shutdown news, even CNN now has conceded that it's
the Democrats who are keeping our government shut down, and
the the agreement that the left is and Democrats are
doing a great job in this country is at its
lowest point in I think in history, if I'd read
correctly this morning. People aren't really happy because they're realizing
(11:16):
that the hardship that's been forced on our nation is
coming from one side and one side only, and by
the way while they're still getting paid. There was a
Republican senator I believe it was yesterday I saw interviewed
and he noted that he's introduced a bill that basically says,
if we're not doing our job and you're gonna not
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and you're gonna miss a check, we're gonna miss a
check too. In other words, that there's another shutdown for
as long as that shutdown goes, they're not getting paid.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Now.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
They won't feel it like the person from the TSA
or like somebody in our armed forces, but at least
it would symbolically show that they understand what's going on
a little, certainly a little better than they do now.
They don't have a clue what it's like to have
to decide between paying your rent, or paying your gas bill,
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or paying your food bill, buying some new clothes for
the kids. They'll never know that anymore in their lives.
Once they've been in Congress for a few years. Seems
like every one of them ends up worth a whole
lot more than even if they had saved every penny
of their salaries. I just don't know how that happens anyway.
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The left continues and Shumer and his bunch to tell
look right in the camera and tell people who aren't
understanding what they're doing that this suffering they're gonna endure
here beginning, it's just gonna kind of start tipping over
like dominoes tomorrow and Saturday and.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Sunday and on and on and on.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
That's what they have to do to to get the right,
to get the Conservatives to put through all this garbage
that just absolute outrageous waste that they want to spend
around the world, some trillion plus dollars on nothing of
value to any American and.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
You, the people are cold. You have to suffer for that.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
And come Saturday, by the way, if at least a
handful of Democrats don't vote in favor of the CR,
the can Continuing Resolution I believe it's called. And by
the way, that would just all it would do is
extend a Biden near a budget. Mind you, some of
the recipients of this snap benefit say they're going to
start looting stores and just take what they want for food.
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If you don't give us our money, it's actually my
money and your money. If you don't give us those
taxpayer dollars, we're just going to go take it.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
We're going to take what we want.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
And that's kind of the attitude of people who are
super entitled and think that you and I owe them
a living somehow. That SNAP program, by the way, has
been found to have upward of a million illegal immigrants
receiving benefits that are supposed to go to Americans. And
among the other forty million or so SNAP in other
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food program recipients, my gut says, a whole lot of
them are just scamming a system designed to provide temporary
help while folks without jobs looked for jobs and then
took those jobs when they found them. There are a
lot of jobs opening in our country right now that
don't require a whole lot of skill or training either
or education. There are jobs for people who want to work,
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but a lot of them don't want to work. I
saw something very telling. Okay, we've created a culture of
entitlement unlike ever before. Saw this story yesterday about a
middle school girl somewhere up north who who when asked
in class what she wanted to do when she grew up,
she said she wanted to have three children.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
That was about it.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
And I'm paraphrasing here. I don't have it in front
of me, but that's what she said. And when the
teacher said something about, oh, you want to get married
and raise a family, huh, the girl said, oh no, no, no, no, no,
I don't want a husband because then I can't get
food stamps. Let that seek in an entire generation of
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kids thinking that the way to get ahead in this
world is to have a lot of babies, but no
baby daddy's around, and that way they get a lot
of free stuff, and some of the money might go
to the kids. I suppose they'll put something on the
table for them, but I bet you there's a lot
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of long fingernails and big lashes and anything else to
beautify themselves. I guess maybe so they can have another
child who can who can get them money. It's very
frustrating to watch all that happen, it really is, and
it's to learn that forty million people are in that
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realm as really frightening. That's about one in eight I think,
or maybe one in nine Americans.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
That's pretty scary.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
This just in to go scary again, and then we're
gonna we're gonna get to some good stuff. There was another,
yet another story this morning aboutn illegal immigrant allegedly killing
two Americans while driving. He hasn't been convicted yet, but
he's been charged while driving under the influence. Should have
never happened, but it did. Thirty four year old guy
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allegedly killed a couple from Illinois in the car he
was driving. DHS found am an extended magazine, drugs, and alcohol.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
And here's the kicker.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Apartment of Homeland Security said an ICE detainer was put
in place after this guy and an eighteen year old
man who was with him in the car were taken
to jail. However, officials there and in that Illinois jail
didn't cooperate with ICE since Illinois, you know, has sanctuary policies.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
That's just great.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
My guess, My guess is that this guy's probably already
back on the street. Now, that's just a guess, but
it sure wouldn't It sure wouldn't surprise me. Uh you
know what, I'm gonna go ahead and go to the
break early. I've got a couple of more really kind
of good things to talk about, and I will get
to them before the end of this program. I promised
(17:38):
to I promise. And there's one just an idiot of
a young entitled young man, or an entitled young man
taking a woman to court.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
You will not believe this story. I'll tell you in
a minute.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Cedar Cove RV Resort is, now that the weather's changed
to what it is right now, probably one of the
most comfortable places where you could just lean back in
the afternoon sunshine.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Just bathe in it.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
It's gonna be in the seventies and you get that
sun maybe on the back of your neck, even kind
of like sitting in a deer stand on Saturday morning,
when the sun hits the back of your neck, you're
gonna want to just take a nap, But you won't
if you're in the deer stand. You shouldn't anyway, and
you won't probably if you're down at Cedar Cove RV Resort,
where you could instead be fishing and maybe catch yourself
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a redfish to carve up and put on the grill
for the evening meal. Get some sides, bring some stuff
with you. Every pad at Cedar Cove is on concrete,
all the roads, all the slabs. They've got electric water
and sewer hookups at every single side. They've got Wi
Fi for freeze. Not gonna cost you and a bathhouse
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with showers if you needed to take care of some
of that. And they also have a convenience store, because
who travels for more than a day or so and
doesn't forget something. My latest was just a little simple
USB port that I could plug into the wall to
charge to my phone. Had to buy one of those
last time I was out. Finally getting into this beautiful,
(19:05):
beautiful weather. The fishing's gonna improve. The view from Cedar
Cove is already as good as it gets. It's right
down there at the end of Tricity Beach Road, near
Thompson's Bake Camp, right on the bay, absolutely beautiful.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
If you don't own an.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
RV, guess what Al Kibby will rent you one, put
it on a slab for you, get it all tricked
out and cleaned up, and you can go down with
the whole family and see what you think of that lifestyle,
and you're gonna love it. You're gonna end up down
there again in your own brand new motor home. Probably
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Speaker 1 (19:41):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash them, check us
fluids and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This
is fifty plus with Doug Pike Barrel. Welcome back to
fifty plus. Thanks for listening. I certainly do appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
I know, Will does. I think that makes it unanimous.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
I suppose in here, thanks a lot, and you know well,
I don't think there's any better audience in the entire city.
I'm just saying than ours. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
I don't know how it could be.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Only although my outdoor audience on Saturday and Sunday mornings
might run a close. I think it's neck and neck.
There's no way I'm picking one over the other. Absolutely,
no way. I'm smarter than that. All Right, I'm gonna
give you some good news, then some just hmm. I
saw it coming, you saw it coming, everybody saw it coming.
News and then that entitlement story. If I can get
(20:38):
to all of it in this segment, and I think
I can so the good news up in New Hampshire recently.
I think it was recently. I'm pretty sure by the
way that where the story was and how it popped up.
Toddler goes missing from her home in a little bitty
town they have two dogs. The people who own the
(20:58):
home from whence this child went missing have two dogs.
And in the backyard they noticed that the fence was
kind of torn back and there was a hole there,
and that's probably where the dogs got out, And the
dogs probably looked back at the kid, and the little
toddler thought, what the heck, I'll go with the dogs.
(21:19):
They must know where they're going, probably someplace fun. Maybe
I can get a sippy cup, So the kid runs
out with the dogs. This is all presumption at this point,
because all anybody really knows is that the dogs and
the child are missing. They've got thick woods behind the house,
which it seems like almost every kid who runs away
(21:40):
runs into thick woods for some reason.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
I don't know why.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
In any event, everybody in that little town, all of
their emergency personnel are volunteers. So you can bet there's
no chopper they can call. You can bet there's no
heat seeking forward looking technology available. They're just going to
be boots on the ground looking for a little kid
in the woods. Oh, by the way, that I mentioned
(22:05):
that the temperatures were expected to drop into the twenties
that night, and the sun's kind of starting to go down.
It's afternoon. Well, a fellow from about forty miles from
town gets word, because in small town news spreads really
quickly finds out that this little kid is missing. And
he shows up, and the reason he found out is
(22:28):
going to be pretty obvious.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
In a second. He shows up with his tracking.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Dog that he's had for a long time, an old,
fairly old anyway German shepherd that's got a good record
for finding lost people, whether bad guys, whatever.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
But now the job is to find this little toddler.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
And about the time they're getting on out into the woods,
the two dogs that live at the home show up,
but no toddler. Well, the man and his tracking dog,
his big old German shepherd stayed at it, and stayed
at it and stayed at it, and finally, about eight
o'clock in the evening, the little girl.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Was found safe and sound.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
And I can't remember exactly what she said, but it
was one of those things that a kid would say
when he or she didn't have any idea. There's a
comedian who has a pretty good line about that. I
don't know if you remember the show, it was called
a Lot of People. Well, my audience will my weekend
audience would be maybe ten percent, would re mention would
remember maybe twenty percent. But this audience, probably more than
(23:34):
half will remember a show called Kids Say the Darnedest Things.
I believe it was hosted by Art link Letter.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
You ever heard of him? Will not a chance. He
was an old game show host.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
He hosted several of them, but Kids Say the Darnedest
Things was one of them. And this comedian's line is,
kids Say the Darnedest Things. I wish I could remember
the guy's name.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
But so would you if you had no education. He's
so right.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Really, it's setting these kids up to be laughed at
for the funny things they say, but it's only because
they don't know what not to say or what to
say in the stead of that stuff. Okay, so I've
taken care of the little dog. I have taken care
of Oh no, I'll go to the middle one. This
was a little longer, do I have four minutes or so?
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Well?
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Perfect, So it was inevitable this was gonna happen. And
as prices rose. In fact, I think a lot of
this was the final straw was probably the pandemic when
everything became more and more and more expensive. And now
it's happened. The US Mint has officially stopped making pennies.
(24:45):
There will be no new pennies to put into your
little coin collecting books. Everything you have now is everything
that can be. Retailers who still accept cash are rounding
totals up or down now, so the lost inevitably becomes
a zero or a five at the end. And I
(25:07):
got a hunch, and nickels gonna be next on the
chopping block because there aren't a whole lot of things. Yeah,
it's just coming up to that, and eventually it'll be
all whole dollars, and and after that the conversion. Even
before that, probably about the time that maybe somebody starts
talking about getting dimes out of circulation, they're going to
(25:28):
talk about going ahead and going to all digital finances.
And once we cross that line, and it's coming, it is, well,
we'll no longer control our own money at all, like
it or not. Same as what's happening already in parts
of China. Government is going to replace money which we
earn by working for it. That's simple. You earn something
(25:48):
of value by providing a service or a product or whatever.
So here's the deal though. What they call them over
there in these test areas they're using this stuff is
social credits. Social credits will buy you groceries, They'll buy
you food, entertainment, clothes. Everything you used to buy with
money now you buy with social credits, which you earn
(26:11):
by doing things well and doing good, but which you
also can have taken away from you if you don't
play by the rules. And the rules that get social
credits taken away.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Are pretty pretty fluid anyway.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
If the Fedes here pass higher taxes and we're under
such a system, what they'll do is just call your
bank and say, hey, we've raised taxes. Actually, this would
all be done electronically. They wouldn't have to call anybody
because they would have access to every account we have
and every dime in whatever the currency is at the time,
(26:47):
and they would just say, oh, take about three percent
off everybody's money because we got to pay for more
stuff to give away to people around the world. That's
what it would become, and I pray it never comes
to that in my lifetime. We'd have to convert our
cash to digital funds. Digital funds. Really, that would end
up what it ended up doing at some point would
(27:10):
be Let's say you you you want to put a
pool in your backyard, and you've had the house for
a couple of years, but it's been known by three
or four people. And the guy putting in the pool says, hey, man,
we just found this big old ten can out here,
a five gallon bucket, a big metal bucket, and we
don't know what's in it, but it's in your yard,
so you can have it. Here it is, and you
(27:30):
open it, you pry the lid off, and it's full
of cash, and it's worthless. Cash no longer has value.
Same if you tear out a wall you're going to
do some remodeling in your house, you found a you
find a little lock box at the bottom of the floor,
right there between the two studs, full of money. Doesn't
(27:51):
not worth a dime. Very frustrating the way this is going,
and I just really don't want it to go that way,
but I don't think I have a choice.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Let's take just break.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
I want to stay ahead and stay and focus here
ut House Institute on Aging.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
By the way, I'm going to lead.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
The final segment of the program with that entitlement news.
The Institute on Aging is a collaborative effort among more
than a thousand providers all over town, all over the
region really who have come on board and agreed to
go back and get additional education and information that they
(28:31):
can use within their own area of expertise so that
they can do a better job of taking care of seniors.
Now that's a it's not unique in the entire country,
but it is one of only I bet I could
count them on one hand, one of only about that
many programs in this country that offer similar service to seniors.
(28:55):
It's a great asset, and we've got the best, one
of the best right here in Houston.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Ut h's Institute on Aging.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Mostly in the med Center, as you might imagine, but
they work all over town and you can find somebody
from that group who will help you with anything that's
bothering you, anything health wise, anything with your mental health,
anything with your physical health, anything you need medically.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
They can get you.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
On a better track faster ut H dot edu slash aging.
When you go there, you're going to spend a ton
of time just browsing all the services and opportunities they
offer that don't cost you a dime.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
And then when you get right down to it. Start
making your way to.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
One of those providers I'm talking about ut H dot
EEDU slash aging, ut H dot edu slash aging.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
What's life without a net? I suggest you go to bed,
sleep it off. Just wait until the show's over. Sleepy.
Back to Dougpike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Fourth and final segment starts now as promised. Entitlement news.
Imagine this.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Imagine this.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Teenager and that I told Will during the break this guy.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
I watched the video and this guy looks like he's older.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Than he is, certainly old enough to know better than
to do what he did and find himself in court.
But get this, so this teenager tried to blame his
neighbor for injuries he suffered after he stole her motor scooter.
(30:38):
This guy steals a motor scooter, he crashes it, and
he's hurt, and he thinks that she should have to
pay his bills. And by the way, he didn't suffer
any permanent injuries. But according to him, he racked up
something like fifteen seventeen thousand dollars in medical bills, and
(31:01):
what they would have been for, I'm not sure doesn't matter.
The bottom line, is he is asking the victim of
his criminal act to pay for it, and his rationale
was that all he had to do or all she
had to do.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
The woman who owned.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
The scooter, all she had to do is just file
it with her insurance and they'd pay it all.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
She wouldn't be out anything.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
Just file acclaim with your insurance and pay for all
my injuries that I sustained after I stole your scooter. No, no, no, no,
this guy, he's an idiot and totally unclear on a
concept that you and I and everybody else of our generation,
(31:46):
and I'm sure most people in Will's generation understand perfectly.
You play stupid games, you win stupid prizes, and that's
exactly what this guy did. And you know, I didn't
even have to watch to the to the end of
the little cliff there, because I'm one hundred percent certain
of the outcome. I just don't know how the judge
(32:09):
let this guy know that he was He was in
the wrong place to be asking for something like that.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
So today, if you didn't know.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
It is National candy corn Day.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Up or down on candy corn?
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Will?
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (32:25):
I likewise, I know one woman and this woman could
buy anything her heart desired. She's from a very successful family.
And I knew them as clients a few years ago
and have nothing but wonderful things to say about them.
But this, this woman, the wife of the man who
(32:45):
between the two of them, I got to know, she
loves candy corn.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
She loves it.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
And if I get some, if I have some ever again,
I may just send it to her. I'll send it
up there with a note that says, I know you
still like this stuff. I'd bet money on it, and
here's some for you now. I don't know how they
figured this out. I guess there was a poll taking
or something. But apparently candy corn is pretty much mocked
(33:15):
in most of the country, but it happens to be
a big hit this time of year in Nebraska and Alabama. Nebraska,
I get, okay, hey, it's corn country, real corn, candy corn,
it's corn. But Alabama, I'm not sure where that would
come from.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
No, No, I have nothing. I have nothing. Maybe you do.
If you do, send me an email Doug Pike at
iHeartMedia dot.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
Com, and if it's really good, I'll mention it on
the air tomorrow. Why do people This is the question
I'm asking and you can send me the answer with
that simple email. Why do people in Alabama like candy corn? Uh?
From something I teld just monkeying around, a pet monkey
(34:04):
got loose from its owner at a Spirit Halloween store
somewhere in Texas and spent more than a half an
hour swinging from the rafters.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Don't you know?
Speaker 3 (34:15):
That monkey was just having a ball swinging from the
rafters in the store. The owner eventually coaxed it down
with a cookie, and according to the story, the monkey
wasn't hurt. But I would be willing to bet you
that half the customers in that store were injured because
from cramps in their sides from laughing so hard watching
(34:37):
a monkey swing from rafter to rafter up in the
top of a Halloween store that I liked a lot,
going back to Let's go to China. No, no, no,
Let's go to sea World, shall we. A woman is
demanding demanding fifty thous thousand dollars from SeaWorld because a
(35:02):
duck hit her in the face while she was riding
a roller coaster and knocked her unconscious. Clearly she's been injured,
But I don't believe that a flighted bird is something
for which SeaWorld should be responsible. She's saying that SeaWorld
(35:25):
should have warned her about the danger. There's danger in
everything we do, and I'm sure there are there are
cautions and warning signs everywhere about making sure you're buckled
in right. They have personnel out there to make sure
everybody's in the car right. But if a duck flies by,
or a pigeon, or a chicken, or a condor or
(35:47):
anything anything else, I'm not laying that on on the park.
That's that's out of their control. And if they list,
what they would have to do, according to her, to
be not accountable would be to list every flying animal
on the planet, because even the ones that are only
(36:08):
native to South America or Africa, somebody might have brought
one over as a pet and it might have flown
out the window. That's how those collared Eurasian doves got here.
By the way, they are from Eurasia, and they were
brought into pet stores in the Bahamas by somebody fifty
sixty seventy five years ago whatever. And what happens is
(36:34):
the pet store owners don't tell the people who are
buying them that when these doves are separated from their mates.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
When they're separated and are alone in their.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
Cage, all they do every day is this, all day,
all night. They coup loudly, trying to find somebody to
come share that space. And what happened in the Bahamas
is probably what would have happened here. A few people
(37:08):
opened the cage, they opened the windows, and the doves
flew out, and they finally got the opportunity to, let's
call it, quit cooing, and they quickly overcame their accommodations
in the Bahamas, and apparently one or two of them
flew up high enough to see the mainland of the US,
(37:30):
and off they went, and the rest is history. There
are tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of those
things in the country now, and a lot of them
around here. They're very easy to tell from Mourning doves
are the smallest. The white winged doves are a little
bit bigger than that, and then that Eurasian collar dove
is almost as big as a pigeon. The first time
(37:50):
I saw one, I couldn't It was during dub season,
but I couldn't pull myself or get myself to pull
the trigger.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
I didn't know what it was very quickly.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
Team of researchers in China have claimed that they've created
an artificial tongue that can be used to detect spice.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
Levels in food. And why we would need something like that.
I'm really not sure. I've got a couple more. I
think I may save them to tomorrow. Are we out
of time?
Speaker 3 (38:17):
Will?
Speaker 1 (38:18):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (38:19):
Here's a good one for ten seconds. Fifty three percent
of Americans don't like asking for help, and my gut,
my gut tells me that about ninety percent of that
fifty three percent of people who don't want to ask
for help other men.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
I don't like asking for help either. See tomorrow audios
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