January 9, 2026 • 37 mins
Today, Doug Pike discusses the 30 somethings of 50+. (Show from 1/8/2026)
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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happier life.
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And now fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, let's go.
Thursday edition starts now. Welcome again to fifty plus. The
gift that keeps on Get one now, we can't use
that when that's already been taken. The beer that made
Milwaukee famous? Same issue. How about just the show that
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tries to share information relevant to seniors and they're interested
adult children? How's that? And it is really interesting to
me to when I look at the numbers, and I
don't looked at them, I really don't look at them
that often. But when I look at the numbers and
see how many people there are in that thirty five
to forty five window who are listening, clearly not fifty plus.
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It's very comforting to me. It is, it really is.
It shows me that they're probably here for the same reasons.
I launched this show more than ten years ago. Now.
It's when my mother's health was going bad. I've talked
about it enough times here. I won't dwell, but I
had all these questions and couldn't find good, comprehensive sources
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for answers. And I hope you'd agree that if you
search deeply enough into our podcast bucket on the iHeartRadio app,
you can probably find an interview or four or five
of them on just about anything you can imagine that
is of importance to us. Some of the information there
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has changed. It's ten years. Things do change, but for
the most part, a lot of almost all of what
we talk about here, with the exception of medical breakthroughs,
I think they're kind of the asterisk and the thumbs
up really of how fifty plus has evolved we've talked about.
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I can remember early on there were a lot of
things we talked about where there just weren't any real
solutions to medical situations. You just kind of had to
deal with it. There were band aids you could put
on these conditions to mask the symptoms or whatever, but
you couldn't really do anything to change your path. And
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that's fortunately in the last ten years I've heard I
don't know how many docs and other types of caregivers
now tell me yes, and now we have this on
the horizon. A lot of this good stuff isn't here yet,
and it probably won't benefit the people in the audience
who are my age and older because it takes a
while to get miracle cures through the system. After trial
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after trial has to be done. They have to evaluate
all the side effects and ask whoever it is who
makes the decisions. They have to ask themselves whether what
was the movie? Oh, what was the name of that dog?
One movie? I had it in my head? Now I
just lost it. Now Ferris Bueller's Day Off? Isn't that
where the term the juice isn't worth the squeeze came from?
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Will you don't know? I'm not sure. I'm not one
hundred percent sure, but it's out there. But yeah, they
have to make sure that the protocol, the treatment, the medication,
whatever it is it's going to be introduced, is gonna
work as performed, and most times they do. I think
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some things in the last six or seven years have
been rushed and we are. The good news is we
can find side effects just as much more quickly. Just
like we can develop new cures and protocols to treat
certain conditions more quickly, now we also can can figure
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out what the side effects of these things are. Not
you can't. You can't change what long term means. You
can't change what short term means. Long term still means
years of study and going back to the same people
who were among the first to get something, and then
following them throughout their lives to see if there are
any any commonalities. But by and large, we're in pretty
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good shape, and I'm happy for that. I'm happy for
everybody who's gonna come behind us. That'll help them get
through it. It certainly will. Certainly will if you can't
if you can't find what you're looking for. By the way,
in that list of nine hundred and something podcasts, and
Will does a good job of kind of letting you
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know what's in there. I'm surprised you haven't titled one yet.
Will Doug just talks and talks and talks, or have
you Okay, yeah, Doug talks for an hour that's the headline.
Just jump in. There'll be something of interest. I promise,
I promise there will be. And if you don't find
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what you're looking for, just take the brief time it
takes you to send an email to me and let
me know what you'd like me to cover. I'll find
us an expert in whatever field it is, and i'll
get him or her on the air on the show,
and we'll get to the bottom of whatever it is
that you're curious about that you need to learn about
because it's impacting you, or even if it's impacting somebody
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two or three different connections down the road, that's fine.
If you want to know about it. We probably all
want to know about it, and I'm happy to do that.
So I'll be brief about the weather. High's in the
high seventies today, although I still don't believe we're gonna
hit the record, which I think was eighty. I'm guessing
we're gonna peak at about seventy seven, seventy eight somewhere
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in there. And other than that, it's pretty boring until
I think tomorrow night, maybe when the temperatures start to
fall and slide into that cool range. I'm gonna get
some rain too as this front comes down here, sometimes
Friday afternoon or evening maybe, But my favorite forecast calls
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for no more than a quarter inch of rain across
the region. So don't think that you're gonna have to
be sure your cars on the driveway so that it
doesn't get flooded in the street. That should not be
an issue, And I haven't even heard any of the
major network guys here talk about that being a possibility.
It's just gonna be a kind of a milder one
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as weather weather goes, but it is going to drop
the temperatures pretty significantly. I'll be down into the I
think I saw one night where it goes into the thirties,
like thirty nine, So that'll probably end up being a
forty two and then highs in the fifties for a
few days, and then we'll be back to normal again,
I'm sure. Bouncing to business real quick. The dal fell
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blow forty nine thousand early already had rebounded. At ten
o'clock anyway, was up one hundred and eighty four points
to forty nine one pint eighty Nasdak went the other
way had shed one hundred and fifty points around the
same time. Gold basically flat oil up almost a dollar.
Not much excitement there at all. And so off we
will go after this break into the newsy stuff. And
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I've got I believe I have enough in front of
me again because I'm forcing myself to find it good
and bad, equal numbers of not bad stories but newsworthy
hot top stuff, and not necessarily good stories but uplifting
or somehow motivational whatever. We'll get through them as we go.
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Cedar Cove RV Resort down there on the Bay on
Galveston Bay at the end of Tri City Beach Road,
near Thompson's Bay Camp. All the amenities you could possibly want.
It's got WiFi all throughout the property. It's free, don't
have to pay for that, concrete roads and slabs, you
don't have to contribute to any fun to get on that.
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And they also have a convenience store. They've got a
bathhouse with hot water showers and pretty much every even
that convenience store has fish bait. Al Kibby told me
he carries frozen bait, but if you just just walk
across the street, you can go over to Thompson's and
get live bait. If you want to throw that, and
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there are some there's some pretty good red fish moving
up and down that shoreline this time of year, and
I think this little front here is not going to
be horrible enough to run them off. Take a chance
and rent the RV that Alan his wife Nancy have
available to you. If you've never experienced living in that
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sort of condition where you just get to hear the
breeze moving through the palm fronds, and you get to
hear the water lapping up onto the shoreline, and there's
people out grilling in the evening. And then because of
the rules there the noise stops that they got music playing,
they can play it up till ten o'clock. Then they
got to shut her down until six am. So you
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got a nice full eight hours to just immerse yourself
in that waterfront lifestyle without having to buy an RV
or or a house or whatever else you might like.
Now bear in mind if you do that, if you
rent that RV from them down there, you're gonna fall
in love with the lifestyle. So just be prepared. Just
be prepared. Cedar Cove Rvresort dot com is website. Cedarcovervresort
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dot com what's life without a net? I suggest you
go to bed, sleep it off.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Just wait until the show's over, Sleepy. Back to Doug
Pike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
All right, welcome back to fifty plus. Thanks for listening.
Certainly do appreciate it. Off into the news we trod,
and I'll do my best again to blend the the
hot stories, the hobanaro peppers. What are those super hot peppers?
I don't know, just those the ones that'll just make
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your eyes roll back in your head. I don't know
what they are, but some of these stories go toward that,
and some just kind of hang back with like a
little a little holapeno, which is not a terribly hot pepper.
I'll concede that I'm still not gonna I used to
be able to just eat them like cotton candy or
or M and M's or something like that, but now
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I have to there's a stopping point for me. If
I'm eating Halopeno's on something like Nacho's or a hamburger
or whatever, I just have to kind of cool majets
A little bit doesn't work all that time in any event,
will start from an update from Minnesota and boy has
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that been in the news a little bit up to
nine billion dollars nine billion dollars to talk about this
a little bit yesterday, and I'm at it again today
because it certainly hasn't gone away, used for the personal
gain of some very bad people, many of them from
Somalia and more than a few from our own country.
Money makes people do really stupid things, which in a
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weird way explains perhaps why some people think I'm smart
because I don't have a ton of money. I don't
have a ton of money. What I have is integrity
and honesty, so I'm not and I put those above money.
I've turned down a lot of things, and I've heard
a lot about things that some people do to make money,
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and I'm just not interested. I'm just not interested. I'm
plodding along over here and feel very comfortable. I'm taking
care of my family, taking care of my house, so
I'm okay with that. Which this is not about me
though it's not smart. It's honesty, like I said, for me,
But the bad guys they take the money, and in
Minneapolis and all over Minnesota, what they've used it for
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is not for food programs, not for mental health programs,
not for day care programs, not adult care programs. They
just feathered their own nests with it. And it's been
going on for years, and one by one the dominoes
are beginning to fall, and there's an exodus from that
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state kind of being teed up, and it's almost like
people running away from California and New York. I've got
some more New York stuff too, which is it's insane
what's going on up there in that city. I hate
it for the Big app as it's been called for
so many years, because it's rotten to the core. Now
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it's rotten to the core. Got a worn running it
related to the the Minnesota deal TSA agents, well, actually
in Minnesota steal TSA agents are finding millions of dollars
in cash in luggage moving through Minnesota airports, through and
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out of Minnesota is where they're going. And I'm guessing
that's not those that it's not the airports that are
the only funnels being used to liquidate, liquidate, spit it out.
Just slow down a little bit and just breathe. Liquidate
ill gotten assets by these people, and I'll go back
to them in in a minute. But I got to
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balance the scale, so I'll throw in this one. Found
a story from Montana. I don't know if you've ever
been to Montana. I actually have not physically. I don't
believe I've physically been in Montana. Maybe once in hindsight,
but for sure and Wyoming and their neighbors, and they
do look quite similar geographically. In any event, I found
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a story from up there about a court system that
orders juvenile crooks and criminals. And I don't know how
many they have, but whatever the number it is, they
can be forced to have face to face conversations with
their victims and essentially here from each other why and
how these young offenders' actions impacted those victims. And guess
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what it's actually working to slow down. Certainly it's pretty
much turned recidivism inside out. There's almost that rate has plummeted,
and so have out of school suspensions and just overall
problems in school. These kids are becoming better people because
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they're being forced to realize how much they scared some
little old lady who's first got snatched, how much trouble
they caused, and just disruption of the time they caused
by stealing a car, or the pain and suffering that
went because they decided to beat somebody up for no reason.
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And it's working. Kids are responding to being held accountable
basically and being forced to meet the people whose lives
they impacted. Maybe Houston could initiate such a plan. If
we don't have one, I don't think we do, But
maybe Houston could do that and teach some of these
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young people who have many of them have nobody at
home teaching them right from wrong. They're learning it from
the streets, and the people on the streets aren't good
people to emulate. Nobody at home helping them out, and
that's that's a sad situation in and of itself, and
that's but that's not something that I are anybody else
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can rectify. We just have to hopefully turn the tables
and get these younger kids to understand what is right
and what is wrong, and then maybe they will ultimately
when they grow up and have families of their own,
maybe they'll be better people for it. And only hope,
only hope. Right now, though, kids that are what is
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it called jugging? I think when you follow somebody home
from the bank and take their money, or purse snatching
or just straight up assault, armed robberies, all these things.
Those are the textbook definitions of wrong, and these kids, unfortunately,
aren't getting enough right and aren't seeing the long term
benefit of right. Sure, if you want quit money and
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you don't feel like working for it, you might do
something stupid and you might get caught, and then it
might derail your entire life. All right, we got to
take a little break here on the way out. I'm
gonna remind everybody that the ut Health Institute on Aging
is one of the best things that ever happened to
this region. It is a collaborative effort that was formed
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long ago by a woman named doctor Carmel Dyer. I
met her, I got to know her, and she and
I ultimately believed that this show and that Institute on
Aging were just a perfect fit, a perfect marriage. I
lead you there, and when you get there, and it's
not a building, it's not brick and mortar. When you
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get to the website, you start to learn about what
it's like to be dealt with and helped medically by
people who understand seniors. Everybody who's part of the Institute
on Aging, and they're in every facet of medicine. Every
one of these people, no matter what their rank, no
matter what their title, have gotten additional training to what
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got them the diploma on the wall about how to
apply their knowledge specifically to us. It's an advantage that's
only available in a handful of cities anywhere in the country.
And our version of that was the leader was the start,
and they're all trying to catch up with us at
this point. Thousands of people involved with this. The Institute
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on Aging's website is incredible. They have so much information there.
It doesn't cost you a dime to go through there
and find out all these amazing things about your health
and your ability if you take advantage of being seen
and cured one seen and treated, let's call it. Sometimes
you get cured, sometimes you don't. But the bottom line is,
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these are the people who can help you best. Ut
dot edu slash aging. That's what I think anyway, And
I talked to dozens of them, hundreds of them over
the course of the years I've been doing this show,
and they all you can tell when you talk to them,
they truly believe in doing the best they can for us.
Ut dot edu slash aging. Now they sure don't make
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them like they used to.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
That's why every few months we wash him, check his words,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
This is fifty plus with Doug Pike. Welcome back to
fifty plus. Thank you very much for listening. Certainly do
appreciate it. I want to. I don't know what this
guy is trying to prove by what he did, but
Mayor Jacob Frye, I believe it's fry said the reporters
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in the world. This is the Minneapolis mayor. By the way,
he got in front of a microphone. He couldn't help
himself and he just got all worked up, and he
said that Ice should just get the blank out of Minneapolis.
Big tough guy, he was staying. He doesn't look very tough, honestly,
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and I don't know what tough looks like in Minnesota,
in Minneapolis, but in any event, he's the mayor, and
he's just incensed that they're up there. Ice is up
there with a couple of thousand officers rounding up people
who aren't supposed to be here for various reasons, and
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the support that all these left leaning people and I
mean not average left, but I'm talking about the far
left who have gotten a little bit deeper in than
we thought they would. I don't know what they think
they're going to prove. With all of that, pretty good
chance it's not going to turn out well for him.
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After saying that he's kind of unhinged and maybe he's
reading Jasmine Crockett's book on How to Win Nothing and
Influence Nobody. The uptick. This is something else that bothers me,
the upticking acceptance of vulgarity and everyday speech, which I
consider to be nothing but a sign that people dropping
all these bombs just don't have any better words to choose.
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They don't really know anything more. There are lots of
words you can use to to express displeasure, but they
don't all have to to be vulgarity. And it's just
no matter how here's the other thing, No matter how
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valid a point you're trying to make, lacing it with
vile language just makes the speaker look all the less
articulate and way less intelligent. So he hats off to
him for having at least he's passionate enough about the
issue to say what he wants to say. But if
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he wants to be listened to, he might want to
He might want to rethink some of what he's saying,
because when people get that mad and start cursing. You
see it on social media all the time. In fast
food restaurants and car washes and grocery stores. These people
just go go off and every other word in these
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rants is either depending on what site you're on, it's
either bleeped out or the horn blows, or they just
leave them in on some sites, and you think, you know,
there would have been a better way to express yourself
and a better way to express your displeasure that might
have gotten you. You might have had a chance to get
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some resolution to your issue if you've just chosen better words.
And they don't have to be big words, they just
have to be better words anyway. So back to the
softer side from all the way up in Ontario, and
I found this very interesting as a young man eighteen
years old, and he has developed he's an engineering student
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at eighteen, which leads me to believe that either he's
super smart and already in college, or they have good,
solid engineer programs in their high schools, which I don't
believe we have certainly not available at every public school
in the country. I wouldn't think in any event, this
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guy has developed a sort of a modular tiny home.
They make them from fiber they're being made, not mass
produced yet, but he's onto something here and they're made
from fiberglass, very precisely molded fiberglass. And what it does
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when you unfold the thing and release all of its dimension,
it becomes kind of a private space, very well insulated,
like really important in Canada, and this private space it
can be varying sizes. He's already experimenting with different configurations
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and to put his mind where his mouth is and
put his backside where his mouth is. He plans to
live in one of these things for a year beginning
this May. I don't know where he's going to put it,
maybe in mom and Dad's backyard or on some potential
future manufacturer of these things front lawn. If there's a
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big wherever he's having these things made. I don't know
how many he's got yet, maybe there's just the one.
But wherever they're being fabricated, that company ought to put
him and his little tiny home, modular tiny home, right
there on display for all to see. If he would
be okay with that, and if they paid him enough money.
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I bet he would be. He is doing this to
help the homeless, which I think as little as these
things would cost, that might be a potential, not a
solution to homelessness, because there are actually some people who
just flat don't want their own little place. They don't
want to have the responsibility for that. And that's just them.
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And if that's who they are and they're not bugging anybody,
I wouldn't force someone to go into one of these things. Anyway.
Let's move on from there. I wonder if his will
have Wi Fi. I got a hunch his will have
Wi Fi. I don't know about cable. I don't know
how much TV you might want to watch. But if
he has WiFi, though he can watch just about anything,
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bring a couple of gadgets in there, he'd be okay. Meanwhile,
back on the mean streets, Zora and mom Donnie up
there in New York City and his socialist sidekick see
a weaver, just doubling down on their missions to destroy
New York City, and they're their first big promise didn't
come true. They said transportation was gonna be free, and
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just since I don't think in the last couple of weeks,
the New York City Transit Authority raised the fares for
buses and subway rides. So oops, he's gonna have to
flex his muscles again and maybe pass some kind of
order to fix that before his people see through him.
Oh and by the way, the real he is, he's
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straight up set. He wants to impoverish the white middle class.
And the reason he didn't go after wealthy people is
because by the time he starts putting some of this together,
they're gonna be gone. They're gonna before he can get
their hands on their money, which I bet is leaving
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even before those penthouse New Yorkers pack up and fly out.
They're bailing. They don't want to be there anymore than
people want to be in California anymore. And this seal Weaver,
the woman who wants private property converted to part of
the collective, which basically means she wants to seize it
and then redistribute it somehow to people who wouldn't or
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couldn't mostly the former probably wouldn't work for what they own.
Only she's got a little egg on her socialist face
right now, because it was revealed in a story this
morning or maybe yesterday late I'm not sure. Her mother
is a professor at an upscale small university, lives at
a one point six million dollar, three bedroom, two bath
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home which in sidebar looks like it would be worth
about two hundred and seventy five grand in full sure
of pair land. I wonder if she's asked her mother
if she'd mind setting the example being the and just
hand over the deed to that house and have it
converted into a place for a half a dozen homeless
drug addicts. All right, we gotta take a little breaker.
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I will be back in what will three four minutes. Yeah,
go find yourself a little maybe run to the powder room,
grab yourself something, Drake, We'll be right back. More fifty
plus on AM nine to fifty kprc.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Old Guy's rule, and of course women never get old
if you want to avoid sleeping on the couch. Ok.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
I think that sounds like a good plan.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug. Welcome back to
fifty plus. Fourth and final segment starts.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Now. I'm kind of feel like I'm I'm kind of
getting into a little bit of a not a groove.
It's too early to be a groove, but just kind
of a I want to make it a habit to
where I try to blend equal numbers of interesting and
lighthearted stories with all this glum stuff that it's almost
impossible not to talk about it. I would feel I
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would feel like I wasn't giving you enough of what's
going on out there. If you can't be watching the
news all day, every day. I want to make sure
that you know a little bit about all of these
things that are happening, just enough again to inspire you
to go ahead and look for more if that particular
story is of interest to you. And then between those,
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of course, it's going to be these little softies. Back
to Montana too, by the way, for some more good news,
although it might confuse a lot of Texans because our state,
while we have plenty of land, lots of land, lots
and lots and lots of land, the largest private land
conservation project in our country up there in Montana just
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surpassed a very significant milestone in order to rewild some
of Montana's most beautiful land. And Montana is actually almost
all beautiful, except for the developed parts. Anyway. The nonprofit
up there is called American Prairie now has successfully removed
a full one hundred miles of derelict barbed wire fencing
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fences that weren't that were built maybe one hundred, one
hundred and fifty years ago and just never taken down
after the land changed hands two or three times. It
was just who would want to go out and remove
barbed wire? Not a lot of people. I know, it's
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hard enough to put in a fence. I can't imagine
getting excited about taking one down, even in the beautiful
backdrop of Montana. But they have about a half a
million pounds of scrap metal so far, and then thousands
of old fence posts. They probably will wind up in
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antique stores in the northeast somewhere. One by one, American
Prairie has been buying up smaller parcels of land between
two really large ones, so kind of to make it
a contiguous effort of and we're talking well here, right here,
it says, in twenty years, what is it called? Where
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did it go? American Prairie? I have to circle it
so I can find it again, because it was buried
up in the text. Twenty years American Prairies bought one
hundred and sixty seven thousand deeded acres. That's kind of
like what the Katie Prairie Conservacy has done on the
west side of town. They're trying to not to such
scale because there's not that much land available, but nonetheless
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they're doing a simy got a similar effort underway. So
twenty years American Praise bought one hundred and sixty seven
thousand deeded acres and then picked up another four hundred
and thirty six thousand in least public areas, and their
goal is actually to rewild about two point three million acres.
So basically where they've completed this work, where that one
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hundred miles of barbari our fences gone. Now wildlife that's
moving through there is moving through there just as freely,
and just as if you just bring out a lawn
chair or sit on the tailgate and from a hillside
and just watch what's going on during a migration of
antelope or of mule deer or whatever else is running
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through there. They're moving as freely as they did ten
thousand years ago. And that's to their credit, to the
Montana's credit, that's a pretty big deal. Texas is so
much privately owned. I think it's ninety three to ninety
four percent privately owned. We have we're big enough, thank goodness,
we have a lot of public land available for recreation.
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But what they're doing in Montana is really special and
going and just taking out all that fencing. It would
be interesting to see. I wonder where in Montana you
could walk the farthest start here and finish over there
and never come across a bar bar our fence. Because
around here most of us who spend any time in
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the outdoors know that if you can find a fence
and then just follow it, you'll probably end up at
some point back somewhere where maybe it'll come to a road,
maybe it'll come to a creek or something like that.
But that fence can help you find your way back
if you feel like you're lost, not up there, not anymore?
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How much time go have? Will three? Is that a
good guess?
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Or no?
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Or more? Four and a half? Perfect? So back to
the crazy USA Today Today ran a story that's basically
about how to protest law enforcement attions without interfering so
far and so much as to get arrested. They don't,
And honestly, it's it's a pretty good bit of information
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for anybody who thinks there's just no limit to what
you can do to keep the law from being enforced,
which seldom works out. Well, we found that out this week,
that situation that unfolded up there. The story leans left
as you would expect from USA today, but what it
did and pretty well, actually I read the whole thing.
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It does explain kind of the dos and don'ts of
protesting to people who might want to do some protesting
against ice operations this weekend or any other cause d
jure in the in the future, just to keep from
getting hurt or keep from hurting someone else and really
making a hot mess of things. It's it's perfectly legal
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to protest in this country. It's perfectly legal to video.
They use the word about ten or fifteen times in
that thing. That just makes me cringe every time you
can video law enforcement doing their work outside. But there
are some things you can't do as well, and so
maybe pick it up and look at it. Well, you
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don't have to pick it up, you just click it
and look at it. Not to be out done by Minnesotans,
by the way, where the high Saturday will be twenty
four and the low nineteen teenage woman in Georgia has
been charged with theft by deception after she is alleged
and I'll wrap that in quotes. They pretty much got
her red handed. She's alleged to have scammed. That word
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comes up a lot these days. Scam thousands of dollars
in child support from her ex boyfriend for a child
that wasn't his. This guy, after a while, he thought,
you know, this kid don't looked like me, and I don't.
I don't think the timeline's right. Something's fishy about this,
so he goes to the authority. It's sus for you,
younger listeners. He goes to the authorities and finds out
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that while there actually was a baby, it was not
genetically related to him. And the punchline is, or to
the woman who was getting paid for having that baby
that she said was this guy's, it wasn't even hers.
So the big question is who gave her the baby
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or was it just like a rent of baby, And
you have to wonder if that's not going on. She
can't be the first she does. Her mugshot doesn't make
her look like the mastermind of a criminal enterprise that
could make people rich in the long term. Somebody told
her how to do that, and I bet it's gone on.
That's not the first time that's happened, and it's sad.
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Here's a little shorty good news story. It was kind
of cool. Came from courtesy of ABC thirteen and it
actually starts a while back. But here's what it is.
A woman found out somehow relatively recently that the woman
who had delivered both of her chin children. And this
happened in Pennsylvania too, it wasn't around here, but anyway,
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this woman in Pennsylvania growing up is pen pals with
the person who the woman who ended up delivering her
two babies as an obgyn. Way after they were just
communicating in the nineteen nineties, back in grammar school or
maybe maybe high school, I don't know. Anyway, she was
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back in Pennsylvania going through old scrap books when she
came across some of those letters and she sat down
at the computer, searched the pen pal's name, and an
obgyn pops up. Wasn't the same last night doctor got married.
That's no surprise. But anyway, they've kind of reconnected and
what do you know, that's kind of cute, huh. Will
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kind of cute. I'm gonna save my dog story because
it's even cuter and cooler than that. And I'm gonna
stay off of the fraud story that another one from
another place. Imagine that this whole country of ours, we're
finding out very quickly in the last several years as
probably I don't know how many billions of dollars it's
going to be in the long run, but if you
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add them all up, it's getting close to forty fifty
sixty billion dollars. We're done. I'll see it tomorrow. Audios.
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Thursday edition starts now. Welcome again to fifty plus. The
gift that keeps on Get one now, we can't use
that when that's already been taken. The beer that made
Milwaukee famous? Same issue. How about just the show that
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tries to share information relevant to seniors and they're interested
adult children? How's that? And it is really interesting to
me to when I look at the numbers, and I
don't looked at them, I really don't look at them
that often. But when I look at the numbers and
see how many people there are in that thirty five
to forty five window who are listening, clearly not fifty plus.
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It's very comforting to me. It is, it really is.
It shows me that they're probably here for the same reasons.
I launched this show more than ten years ago. Now.
It's when my mother's health was going bad. I've talked
about it enough times here. I won't dwell, but I
had all these questions and couldn't find good, comprehensive sources
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for answers. And I hope you'd agree that if you
search deeply enough into our podcast bucket on the iHeartRadio app,
you can probably find an interview or four or five
of them on just about anything you can imagine that
is of importance to us. Some of the information there
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has changed. It's ten years. Things do change, but for
the most part, a lot of almost all of what
we talk about here, with the exception of medical breakthroughs,
I think they're kind of the asterisk and the thumbs
up really of how fifty plus has evolved we've talked about.
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I can remember early on there were a lot of
things we talked about where there just weren't any real
solutions to medical situations. You just kind of had to
deal with it. There were band aids you could put
on these conditions to mask the symptoms or whatever, but
you couldn't really do anything to change your path. And
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that's fortunately in the last ten years I've heard I
don't know how many docs and other types of caregivers
now tell me yes, and now we have this on
the horizon. A lot of this good stuff isn't here yet,
and it probably won't benefit the people in the audience
who are my age and older because it takes a
while to get miracle cures through the system. After trial
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after trial has to be done. They have to evaluate
all the side effects and ask whoever it is who
makes the decisions. They have to ask themselves whether what
was the movie? Oh, what was the name of that dog?
One movie? I had it in my head? Now I
just lost it. Now Ferris Bueller's Day Off? Isn't that
where the term the juice isn't worth the squeeze came from?
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Will you don't know? I'm not sure. I'm not one
hundred percent sure, but it's out there. But yeah, they
have to make sure that the protocol, the treatment, the medication,
whatever it is it's going to be introduced, is gonna
work as performed, and most times they do. I think
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some things in the last six or seven years have
been rushed and we are. The good news is we
can find side effects just as much more quickly. Just
like we can develop new cures and protocols to treat
certain conditions more quickly, now we also can can figure
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out what the side effects of these things are. Not
you can't. You can't change what long term means. You
can't change what short term means. Long term still means
years of study and going back to the same people
who were among the first to get something, and then
following them throughout their lives to see if there are
any any commonalities. But by and large, we're in pretty
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good shape, and I'm happy for that. I'm happy for
everybody who's gonna come behind us. That'll help them get
through it. It certainly will. Certainly will if you can't
if you can't find what you're looking for. By the way,
in that list of nine hundred and something podcasts, and
Will does a good job of kind of letting you
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know what's in there. I'm surprised you haven't titled one yet.
Will Doug just talks and talks and talks, or have
you Okay, yeah, Doug talks for an hour that's the headline.
Just jump in. There'll be something of interest. I promise,
I promise there will be. And if you don't find
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what you're looking for, just take the brief time it
takes you to send an email to me and let
me know what you'd like me to cover. I'll find
us an expert in whatever field it is, and i'll
get him or her on the air on the show,
and we'll get to the bottom of whatever it is
that you're curious about that you need to learn about
because it's impacting you, or even if it's impacting somebody
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two or three different connections down the road, that's fine.
If you want to know about it. We probably all
want to know about it, and I'm happy to do that.
So I'll be brief about the weather. High's in the
high seventies today, although I still don't believe we're gonna
hit the record, which I think was eighty. I'm guessing
we're gonna peak at about seventy seven, seventy eight somewhere
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in there. And other than that, it's pretty boring until
I think tomorrow night, maybe when the temperatures start to
fall and slide into that cool range. I'm gonna get
some rain too as this front comes down here, sometimes
Friday afternoon or evening maybe, But my favorite forecast calls
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for no more than a quarter inch of rain across
the region. So don't think that you're gonna have to
be sure your cars on the driveway so that it
doesn't get flooded in the street. That should not be
an issue, And I haven't even heard any of the
major network guys here talk about that being a possibility.
It's just gonna be a kind of a milder one
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as weather weather goes, but it is going to drop
the temperatures pretty significantly. I'll be down into the I
think I saw one night where it goes into the thirties,
like thirty nine, So that'll probably end up being a
forty two and then highs in the fifties for a
few days, and then we'll be back to normal again,
I'm sure. Bouncing to business real quick. The dal fell
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blow forty nine thousand early already had rebounded. At ten
o'clock anyway, was up one hundred and eighty four points
to forty nine one pint eighty Nasdak went the other
way had shed one hundred and fifty points around the
same time. Gold basically flat oil up almost a dollar.
Not much excitement there at all. And so off we
will go after this break into the newsy stuff. And
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I've got I believe I have enough in front of
me again because I'm forcing myself to find it good
and bad, equal numbers of not bad stories but newsworthy
hot top stuff, and not necessarily good stories but uplifting
or somehow motivational whatever. We'll get through them as we go.
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Cedar Cove RV Resort down there on the Bay on
Galveston Bay at the end of Tri City Beach Road,
near Thompson's Bay Camp. All the amenities you could possibly want.
It's got WiFi all throughout the property. It's free, don't
have to pay for that, concrete roads and slabs, you
don't have to contribute to any fun to get on that.
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And they also have a convenience store. They've got a
bathhouse with hot water showers and pretty much every even
that convenience store has fish bait. Al Kibby told me
he carries frozen bait, but if you just just walk
across the street, you can go over to Thompson's and
get live bait. If you want to throw that, and
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there are some there's some pretty good red fish moving
up and down that shoreline this time of year, and
I think this little front here is not going to
be horrible enough to run them off. Take a chance
and rent the RV that Alan his wife Nancy have
available to you. If you've never experienced living in that
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sort of condition where you just get to hear the
breeze moving through the palm fronds, and you get to
hear the water lapping up onto the shoreline, and there's
people out grilling in the evening. And then because of
the rules there the noise stops that they got music playing,
they can play it up till ten o'clock. Then they
got to shut her down until six am. So you
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got a nice full eight hours to just immerse yourself
in that waterfront lifestyle without having to buy an RV
or or a house or whatever else you might like.
Now bear in mind if you do that, if you
rent that RV from them down there, you're gonna fall
in love with the lifestyle. So just be prepared. Just
be prepared. Cedar Cove Rvresort dot com is website. Cedarcovervresort
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dot com what's life without a net? I suggest you
go to bed, sleep it off.
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Just wait until the show's over, Sleepy. Back to Doug
Pike as fifty plus continues.
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All right, welcome back to fifty plus. Thanks for listening.
Certainly do appreciate it. Off into the news we trod,
and I'll do my best again to blend the the
hot stories, the hobanaro peppers. What are those super hot peppers?
I don't know, just those the ones that'll just make
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your eyes roll back in your head. I don't know
what they are, but some of these stories go toward that,
and some just kind of hang back with like a
little a little holapeno, which is not a terribly hot pepper.
I'll concede that I'm still not gonna I used to
be able to just eat them like cotton candy or
or M and M's or something like that, but now
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I have to there's a stopping point for me. If
I'm eating Halopeno's on something like Nacho's or a hamburger
or whatever, I just have to kind of cool majets
A little bit doesn't work all that time in any event,
will start from an update from Minnesota and boy has
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that been in the news a little bit up to
nine billion dollars nine billion dollars to talk about this
a little bit yesterday, and I'm at it again today
because it certainly hasn't gone away, used for the personal
gain of some very bad people, many of them from
Somalia and more than a few from our own country.
Money makes people do really stupid things, which in a
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weird way explains perhaps why some people think I'm smart
because I don't have a ton of money. I don't
have a ton of money. What I have is integrity
and honesty, so I'm not and I put those above money.
I've turned down a lot of things, and I've heard
a lot about things that some people do to make money,
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and I'm just not interested. I'm just not interested. I'm
plodding along over here and feel very comfortable. I'm taking
care of my family, taking care of my house, so
I'm okay with that. Which this is not about me
though it's not smart. It's honesty, like I said, for me,
But the bad guys they take the money, and in
Minneapolis and all over Minnesota, what they've used it for
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is not for food programs, not for mental health programs,
not for day care programs, not adult care programs. They
just feathered their own nests with it. And it's been
going on for years, and one by one the dominoes
are beginning to fall, and there's an exodus from that
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state kind of being teed up, and it's almost like
people running away from California and New York. I've got
some more New York stuff too, which is it's insane
what's going on up there in that city. I hate
it for the Big app as it's been called for
so many years, because it's rotten to the core. Now
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it's rotten to the core. Got a worn running it
related to the the Minnesota deal TSA agents, well, actually
in Minnesota steal TSA agents are finding millions of dollars
in cash in luggage moving through Minnesota airports, through and
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out of Minnesota is where they're going. And I'm guessing
that's not those that it's not the airports that are
the only funnels being used to liquidate, liquidate, spit it out.
Just slow down a little bit and just breathe. Liquidate
ill gotten assets by these people, and I'll go back
to them in in a minute. But I got to
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balance the scale, so I'll throw in this one. Found
a story from Montana. I don't know if you've ever
been to Montana. I actually have not physically. I don't
believe I've physically been in Montana. Maybe once in hindsight,
but for sure and Wyoming and their neighbors, and they
do look quite similar geographically. In any event, I found
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a story from up there about a court system that
orders juvenile crooks and criminals. And I don't know how
many they have, but whatever the number it is, they
can be forced to have face to face conversations with
their victims and essentially here from each other why and
how these young offenders' actions impacted those victims. And guess
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what it's actually working to slow down. Certainly it's pretty
much turned recidivism inside out. There's almost that rate has plummeted,
and so have out of school suspensions and just overall
problems in school. These kids are becoming better people because
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they're being forced to realize how much they scared some
little old lady who's first got snatched, how much trouble
they caused, and just disruption of the time they caused
by stealing a car, or the pain and suffering that
went because they decided to beat somebody up for no reason.
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And it's working. Kids are responding to being held accountable
basically and being forced to meet the people whose lives
they impacted. Maybe Houston could initiate such a plan. If
we don't have one, I don't think we do, But
maybe Houston could do that and teach some of these
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young people who have many of them have nobody at
home teaching them right from wrong. They're learning it from
the streets, and the people on the streets aren't good
people to emulate. Nobody at home helping them out, and
that's that's a sad situation in and of itself, and
that's but that's not something that I are anybody else
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can rectify. We just have to hopefully turn the tables
and get these younger kids to understand what is right
and what is wrong, and then maybe they will ultimately
when they grow up and have families of their own,
maybe they'll be better people for it. And only hope,
only hope. Right now, though, kids that are what is
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it called jugging? I think when you follow somebody home
from the bank and take their money, or purse snatching
or just straight up assault, armed robberies, all these things.
Those are the textbook definitions of wrong, and these kids, unfortunately,
aren't getting enough right and aren't seeing the long term
benefit of right. Sure, if you want quit money and
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you don't feel like working for it, you might do
something stupid and you might get caught, and then it
might derail your entire life. All right, we got to
take a little break here on the way out. I'm
gonna remind everybody that the ut Health Institute on Aging
is one of the best things that ever happened to
this region. It is a collaborative effort that was formed
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long ago by a woman named doctor Carmel Dyer. I
met her, I got to know her, and she and
I ultimately believed that this show and that Institute on
Aging were just a perfect fit, a perfect marriage. I
lead you there, and when you get there, and it's
not a building, it's not brick and mortar. When you
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get to the website, you start to learn about what
it's like to be dealt with and helped medically by
people who understand seniors. Everybody who's part of the Institute
on Aging, and they're in every facet of medicine. Every
one of these people, no matter what their rank, no
matter what their title, have gotten additional training to what
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got them the diploma on the wall about how to
apply their knowledge specifically to us. It's an advantage that's
only available in a handful of cities anywhere in the country.
And our version of that was the leader was the start,
and they're all trying to catch up with us at
this point. Thousands of people involved with this. The Institute
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on Aging's website is incredible. They have so much information there.
It doesn't cost you a dime to go through there
and find out all these amazing things about your health
and your ability if you take advantage of being seen
and cured one seen and treated, let's call it. Sometimes
you get cured, sometimes you don't. But the bottom line is,
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these are the people who can help you best. Ut
dot edu slash aging. That's what I think anyway, And
I talked to dozens of them, hundreds of them over
the course of the years I've been doing this show,
and they all you can tell when you talk to them,
they truly believe in doing the best they can for us.
Ut dot edu slash aging. Now they sure don't make
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them like they used to.
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That's why every few months we wash him, check his words,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax.
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This is fifty plus with Doug Pike. Welcome back to
fifty plus. Thank you very much for listening. Certainly do
appreciate it. I want to. I don't know what this
guy is trying to prove by what he did, but
Mayor Jacob Frye, I believe it's fry said the reporters
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in the world. This is the Minneapolis mayor. By the way,
he got in front of a microphone. He couldn't help
himself and he just got all worked up, and he
said that Ice should just get the blank out of Minneapolis.
Big tough guy, he was staying. He doesn't look very tough, honestly,
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and I don't know what tough looks like in Minnesota,
in Minneapolis, but in any event, he's the mayor, and
he's just incensed that they're up there. Ice is up
there with a couple of thousand officers rounding up people
who aren't supposed to be here for various reasons, and
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the support that all these left leaning people and I
mean not average left, but I'm talking about the far
left who have gotten a little bit deeper in than
we thought they would. I don't know what they think
they're going to prove. With all of that, pretty good
chance it's not going to turn out well for him.
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After saying that he's kind of unhinged and maybe he's
reading Jasmine Crockett's book on How to Win Nothing and
Influence Nobody. The uptick. This is something else that bothers me,
the upticking acceptance of vulgarity and everyday speech, which I
consider to be nothing but a sign that people dropping
all these bombs just don't have any better words to choose.
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They don't really know anything more. There are lots of
words you can use to to express displeasure, but they
don't all have to to be vulgarity. And it's just
no matter how here's the other thing, No matter how
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valid a point you're trying to make, lacing it with
vile language just makes the speaker look all the less
articulate and way less intelligent. So he hats off to
him for having at least he's passionate enough about the
issue to say what he wants to say. But if
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he wants to be listened to, he might want to
He might want to rethink some of what he's saying,
because when people get that mad and start cursing. You
see it on social media all the time. In fast
food restaurants and car washes and grocery stores. These people
just go go off and every other word in these
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rants is either depending on what site you're on, it's
either bleeped out or the horn blows, or they just
leave them in on some sites, and you think, you know,
there would have been a better way to express yourself
and a better way to express your displeasure that might
have gotten you. You might have had a chance to get
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some resolution to your issue if you've just chosen better words.
And they don't have to be big words, they just
have to be better words anyway. So back to the
softer side from all the way up in Ontario, and
I found this very interesting as a young man eighteen
years old, and he has developed he's an engineering student
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at eighteen, which leads me to believe that either he's
super smart and already in college, or they have good,
solid engineer programs in their high schools, which I don't
believe we have certainly not available at every public school
in the country. I wouldn't think in any event, this
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guy has developed a sort of a modular tiny home.
They make them from fiber they're being made, not mass
produced yet, but he's onto something here and they're made
from fiberglass, very precisely molded fiberglass. And what it does
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when you unfold the thing and release all of its dimension,
it becomes kind of a private space, very well insulated,
like really important in Canada, and this private space it
can be varying sizes. He's already experimenting with different configurations
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and to put his mind where his mouth is and
put his backside where his mouth is. He plans to
live in one of these things for a year beginning
this May. I don't know where he's going to put it,
maybe in mom and Dad's backyard or on some potential
future manufacturer of these things front lawn. If there's a
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big wherever he's having these things made. I don't know
how many he's got yet, maybe there's just the one.
But wherever they're being fabricated, that company ought to put
him and his little tiny home, modular tiny home, right
there on display for all to see. If he would
be okay with that, and if they paid him enough money.
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I bet he would be. He is doing this to
help the homeless, which I think as little as these
things would cost, that might be a potential, not a
solution to homelessness, because there are actually some people who
just flat don't want their own little place. They don't
want to have the responsibility for that. And that's just them.
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And if that's who they are and they're not bugging anybody,
I wouldn't force someone to go into one of these things. Anyway.
Let's move on from there. I wonder if his will
have Wi Fi. I got a hunch his will have
Wi Fi. I don't know about cable. I don't know
how much TV you might want to watch. But if
he has WiFi, though he can watch just about anything,
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bring a couple of gadgets in there, he'd be okay. Meanwhile,
back on the mean streets, Zora and mom Donnie up
there in New York City and his socialist sidekick see
a weaver, just doubling down on their missions to destroy
New York City, and they're their first big promise didn't
come true. They said transportation was gonna be free, and
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just since I don't think in the last couple of weeks,
the New York City Transit Authority raised the fares for
buses and subway rides. So oops, he's gonna have to
flex his muscles again and maybe pass some kind of
order to fix that before his people see through him.
Oh and by the way, the real he is, he's
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straight up set. He wants to impoverish the white middle class.
And the reason he didn't go after wealthy people is
because by the time he starts putting some of this together,
they're gonna be gone. They're gonna before he can get
their hands on their money, which I bet is leaving
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even before those penthouse New Yorkers pack up and fly out.
They're bailing. They don't want to be there anymore than
people want to be in California anymore. And this seal Weaver,
the woman who wants private property converted to part of
the collective, which basically means she wants to seize it
and then redistribute it somehow to people who wouldn't or
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couldn't mostly the former probably wouldn't work for what they own.
Only she's got a little egg on her socialist face
right now, because it was revealed in a story this
morning or maybe yesterday late I'm not sure. Her mother
is a professor at an upscale small university, lives at
a one point six million dollar, three bedroom, two bath
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home which in sidebar looks like it would be worth
about two hundred and seventy five grand in full sure
of pair land. I wonder if she's asked her mother
if she'd mind setting the example being the and just
hand over the deed to that house and have it
converted into a place for a half a dozen homeless
drug addicts. All right, we gotta take a little breaker.
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I will be back in what will three four minutes. Yeah,
go find yourself a little maybe run to the powder room,
grab yourself something, Drake, We'll be right back. More fifty
plus on AM nine to fifty kprc.
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Old Guy's rule, and of course women never get old
if you want to avoid sleeping on the couch. Ok.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
I think that sounds like a good plan.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug. Welcome back to
fifty plus. Fourth and final segment starts.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Now. I'm kind of feel like I'm I'm kind of
getting into a little bit of a not a groove.
It's too early to be a groove, but just kind
of a I want to make it a habit to
where I try to blend equal numbers of interesting and
lighthearted stories with all this glum stuff that it's almost
impossible not to talk about it. I would feel I
(28:20):
would feel like I wasn't giving you enough of what's
going on out there. If you can't be watching the
news all day, every day. I want to make sure
that you know a little bit about all of these
things that are happening, just enough again to inspire you
to go ahead and look for more if that particular
story is of interest to you. And then between those,
(28:42):
of course, it's going to be these little softies. Back
to Montana too, by the way, for some more good news,
although it might confuse a lot of Texans because our state,
while we have plenty of land, lots of land, lots
and lots and lots of land, the largest private land
conservation project in our country up there in Montana just
(29:04):
surpassed a very significant milestone in order to rewild some
of Montana's most beautiful land. And Montana is actually almost
all beautiful, except for the developed parts. Anyway. The nonprofit
up there is called American Prairie now has successfully removed
a full one hundred miles of derelict barbed wire fencing
(29:30):
fences that weren't that were built maybe one hundred, one
hundred and fifty years ago and just never taken down
after the land changed hands two or three times. It
was just who would want to go out and remove
barbed wire? Not a lot of people. I know, it's
(29:50):
hard enough to put in a fence. I can't imagine
getting excited about taking one down, even in the beautiful
backdrop of Montana. But they have about a half a
million pounds of scrap metal so far, and then thousands
of old fence posts. They probably will wind up in
(30:11):
antique stores in the northeast somewhere. One by one, American
Prairie has been buying up smaller parcels of land between
two really large ones, so kind of to make it
a contiguous effort of and we're talking well here, right here,
it says, in twenty years, what is it called? Where
(30:32):
did it go? American Prairie? I have to circle it
so I can find it again, because it was buried
up in the text. Twenty years American Prairies bought one
hundred and sixty seven thousand deeded acres. That's kind of
like what the Katie Prairie Conservacy has done on the
west side of town. They're trying to not to such
scale because there's not that much land available, but nonetheless
(30:56):
they're doing a simy got a similar effort underway. So
twenty years American Praise bought one hundred and sixty seven
thousand deeded acres and then picked up another four hundred
and thirty six thousand in least public areas, and their
goal is actually to rewild about two point three million acres.
So basically where they've completed this work, where that one
(31:19):
hundred miles of barbari our fences gone. Now wildlife that's
moving through there is moving through there just as freely,
and just as if you just bring out a lawn
chair or sit on the tailgate and from a hillside
and just watch what's going on during a migration of
antelope or of mule deer or whatever else is running
(31:42):
through there. They're moving as freely as they did ten
thousand years ago. And that's to their credit, to the
Montana's credit, that's a pretty big deal. Texas is so
much privately owned. I think it's ninety three to ninety
four percent privately owned. We have we're big enough, thank goodness,
we have a lot of public land available for recreation.
(32:05):
But what they're doing in Montana is really special and
going and just taking out all that fencing. It would
be interesting to see. I wonder where in Montana you
could walk the farthest start here and finish over there
and never come across a bar bar our fence. Because
around here most of us who spend any time in
(32:26):
the outdoors know that if you can find a fence
and then just follow it, you'll probably end up at
some point back somewhere where maybe it'll come to a road,
maybe it'll come to a creek or something like that.
But that fence can help you find your way back
if you feel like you're lost, not up there, not anymore?
(32:46):
How much time go have? Will three? Is that a
good guess?
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Or no?
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Or more? Four and a half? Perfect? So back to
the crazy USA Today Today ran a story that's basically
about how to protest law enforcement attions without interfering so
far and so much as to get arrested. They don't,
And honestly, it's it's a pretty good bit of information
(33:10):
for anybody who thinks there's just no limit to what
you can do to keep the law from being enforced,
which seldom works out. Well, we found that out this week,
that situation that unfolded up there. The story leans left
as you would expect from USA today, but what it
did and pretty well, actually I read the whole thing.
(33:32):
It does explain kind of the dos and don'ts of
protesting to people who might want to do some protesting
against ice operations this weekend or any other cause d
jure in the in the future, just to keep from
getting hurt or keep from hurting someone else and really
making a hot mess of things. It's it's perfectly legal
(33:55):
to protest in this country. It's perfectly legal to video.
They use the word about ten or fifteen times in
that thing. That just makes me cringe every time you
can video law enforcement doing their work outside. But there
are some things you can't do as well, and so
maybe pick it up and look at it. Well, you
(34:15):
don't have to pick it up, you just click it
and look at it. Not to be out done by Minnesotans,
by the way, where the high Saturday will be twenty
four and the low nineteen teenage woman in Georgia has
been charged with theft by deception after she is alleged
and I'll wrap that in quotes. They pretty much got
her red handed. She's alleged to have scammed. That word
(34:36):
comes up a lot these days. Scam thousands of dollars
in child support from her ex boyfriend for a child
that wasn't his. This guy, after a while, he thought,
you know, this kid don't looked like me, and I don't.
I don't think the timeline's right. Something's fishy about this,
so he goes to the authority. It's sus for you,
younger listeners. He goes to the authorities and finds out
(35:00):
that while there actually was a baby, it was not
genetically related to him. And the punchline is, or to
the woman who was getting paid for having that baby
that she said was this guy's, it wasn't even hers.
So the big question is who gave her the baby
(35:21):
or was it just like a rent of baby, And
you have to wonder if that's not going on. She
can't be the first she does. Her mugshot doesn't make
her look like the mastermind of a criminal enterprise that
could make people rich in the long term. Somebody told
her how to do that, and I bet it's gone on.
That's not the first time that's happened, and it's sad.
(35:44):
Here's a little shorty good news story. It was kind
of cool. Came from courtesy of ABC thirteen and it
actually starts a while back. But here's what it is.
A woman found out somehow relatively recently that the woman
who had delivered both of her chin children. And this
happened in Pennsylvania too, it wasn't around here, but anyway,
(36:04):
this woman in Pennsylvania growing up is pen pals with
the person who the woman who ended up delivering her
two babies as an obgyn. Way after they were just
communicating in the nineteen nineties, back in grammar school or
maybe maybe high school, I don't know. Anyway, she was
(36:25):
back in Pennsylvania going through old scrap books when she
came across some of those letters and she sat down
at the computer, searched the pen pal's name, and an
obgyn pops up. Wasn't the same last night doctor got married.
That's no surprise. But anyway, they've kind of reconnected and
what do you know, that's kind of cute, huh. Will
(36:46):
kind of cute. I'm gonna save my dog story because
it's even cuter and cooler than that. And I'm gonna
stay off of the fraud story that another one from
another place. Imagine that this whole country of ours, we're
finding out very quickly in the last several years as
probably I don't know how many billions of dollars it's
going to be in the long run, but if you
(37:09):
add them all up, it's getting close to forty fifty
sixty billion dollars. We're done. I'll see it tomorrow. Audios.
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