December 12, 2024 • 39 mins
Today, Doug Pike interviews Chile from the Rod Ryan Show about immigration.
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All right, first segment of the program starts right now
on this sunny Thursday. Look Chili last night again?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
By the way, speaking of chili, Chili from The Ryan
Show is going to join me at the bottom of
the hour. He and I are going to talk about
something that he shared a while back, and we celebrated
it here in the office. The whole, the whole of
iHeart came out to champion his long journey to US citizenship,
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which he made a while back. Now I can't remember
exactly how long ago it was, It's at least a
year wouldn't you say, will do you know? Yeah, I'm
not sure he's just he's in a studio next door.
But I'm going to bring him in at the bottom
because I saw a story this morning about how many
unauthorized immigrants, a precedent setting number of people who shouldn't
(01:40):
be here are here, the most ever recorded in US history.
And that's from the New York Times, not from me.
It's we're going to talk about that with Chilean and
how he feels about having gone through such an effort
to become a US citizen, how proud he is of that,
and then these other people are just waltzing across the border. Anyway,
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sunny and cool again, like I said, start warming up
again going into the weekend. And there's also a little
bit of a chance for rain, hopefully not a lot
of rain, but just enough to keep the soil moist,
keep the houses from moving, all that stuff that we
deal with in the winter summer. Anytime it gets super dry,
the soil shifts. There's just an annual event. At my house.
(02:29):
There's one door in the house, just a door to
it upstairs bathroom that in the winter time tends to
wanna just ease open if you just let it go.
And in the summer, it's never done it. And this
house is thirty years old, thirty one, I think, and
it's done that every winter and every summer. I could
tell you what season it is if I were just
(02:49):
dropped into that house on a random day, I could
at least tell you whether it's winter or summer. Maybe
not fall or spring. We don't really get much of
that anyway. I had an early appointment for some dental
work this morning. Nothing really, nothing really major, to be honest, Uh,
just it's something I just wanted him to kind of
(03:10):
tinker with. And that little bit of tinkering turned into
about an hour in the chair. And I don't know he.
I mean, the guy's thorough. He's a good dentist, and
I've been going to him for probably twenty something years,
a very good dentist. But he is just man. He
wants everything to be just perfect, and he won't let
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you out of that room until it is, So hats
off to him for that. But I was watching the
clock because of prep time for the show, and I
feel like I got it done, although and I already
told Will this, and he's already holding it against me.
I don't apparently, I don't get a day off from
highs and lows in high coup. Is that correct? That
is correct. I have a medical I've got a note
(03:55):
from the dentist. Oh, let me see it. Well, I
left it my car. Yeah, like the dog. Yeah, I'll
tell you. What I can show you is the receipt
for what I paid that hour in the chair. See it.
I'll go get it after the show. But you have
to trust me enough to believe that it exists. And
(04:15):
when I tell you how much I paid you, you'll
probably give me another day off to recuperate. Really, I felt, Yeah,
I felt like I was like I was in an
orthopedis office because it cost me an arm and a
leg to get out of there. Wow, they like that
line a lot of that. Just like two minutes ago.
It's fine, it's not bad. Can you give me some
points for that? Nope? Okay, okay, I'll there'll be a
(04:39):
revenge high coup tomorrow. You just wait. Yeah. So anyway,
the market's right across the board. Market Watch, by the way,
thankfully from Houston gooldexchange dot com, all four of the
big indicators for the very first time in a long
time since I can remember in recent memory. I know
it's happened throughout history, but all four pretty deep in
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the red. Except for oil, of course. Let's go to oil,
which climbed above seventy dollars a barrel for the first
time in a long while. Gold Converse League dropped about
fifty bucks, but was still at twenty seven O nine,
So I don't think that's a big deal. Yeah, I
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that President Biden, who we already know is cognitatively a
pair impaired, not uphaired he's won up the pardon he
(06:08):
gave his son Hunter, which he vowed for so long,
so many times not to do. By the way, Hey, no,
I'm not gonna pardon my son. That wouldn't be right.
I'm not gonna pardon my son. That wouldn't be right.
This morning I pardoned my son. It wasn't this morning,
but a while back. And then somebody, I guess, dared him,
and President Biden took the there and said, you know what,
(06:29):
looked up from his ice cream and said, hol my beer.
This morning, the White House let it be known that
he has offered up commuted jail terms for some fifteen
hundred people and granted pardons to thirty nine more. And
the cherry on the pardon Sunday, you know, he's got
(06:53):
plans to dole out plenty more of these before he
leaves office. I bet on that there are a whole
lot of people in Washington, and White House didn't release
any of the names by the way of who he
cut loose today, but the statement did imply that he's
not done. And I bet everything I had that before
he cleans out his desk, he's going to pardon some
of the most high profile politicians in American history, people
(07:17):
who have quietly up until now betrayed this country of
ours and on multiple levels. And he knows that if
he doesn't give them that get out of jail free pass,
that's likely where they're going to end up once the
truth is set free. And he also knows that they
know a lot about him. So like Oprah at Christmas
(07:40):
time when she was doing those talk shows a while back,
everybody look under your chair. You get a pardon, and
you get a pardon, and you get a pardon. And
every time one of those high profile people gets pardoned,
we're going to learn more and more about who knows
what up there in Washington. All right, we got to
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let's move forward with some some lighter things. And I've
got enough here to get us through next week. But
I want to get to some of these for sure.
I haven't named some of these because I was on
(11:13):
a short string when I got here. Buzzword, I just
made that one up on this thing, and it's it's
solid buzzword tempting or why is my skin falling off? Dad? Uh? Tempting?
He didn't take it, did you? You know you wanted
(11:34):
to ask about the other one?
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (11:36):
The perfect gift for someone who wants to be surprised,
just may be this. This does tempt me. Unclaimed packages,
these mystery boxes of random unclaimed packages still still sealed.
You're not guaranteed to get anything of value, but then again,
(11:56):
you might get something really cool kind of a yeah,
would you do that? How much money would you be
willing to bet that you might get a good package
out of the deal. I don't know. I don't think
any of those services really interest me to begin with. Yeah,
there's a store somewhere, I think it's over in Georgia.
(12:18):
That is the repository for all things unclaimed in airports,
and they they oh and and confiscated unclaimed and confiscated stuff,
and they just sell stuff all the time like hotcakes
at ridiculous prices. And if I lived in that town,
I'd probably go by there once a week just to
(12:40):
see if anybody left fishing rods or something, hunting apparel,
hunting gear, just in case I saw some outdoor stuff
I couldn't live without. But I don't know if i'd
do my clothes shopping there. You know. They sometimes they
just unload a whole suitcase unopened, and this kind of
the same thing as these unclean packages. People leave their
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stuff for whatever reasons. I don't know why. I can't
imagine not ever wanting to get my stuff something that
I took the time to pack. Wouldn't you want to
get it returned? Depends on how much of a hurry,
I mean, depends on what. Depends on the value of
what's in it, really, and that's either monetary or sentimental value.
(13:26):
It could be either one. Okay, I'm gonna go back
to the buzz And why is my skin falling off? Dad?
And just let you pick one of those. The bus. Ah,
you're dodging it like a like the plague. It's not.
It's a good one, will And I'm just gonna do
it anyway. After I tell you about this, you know
what buzz light Year's original name was going to be?
What was his original name? First of all, buzz light
(13:48):
Year is light years ahead of this other, this other choice,
the original choice. You're ready, it's so cornball. Lunar Larry,
Luner Larry. That's a toys name, no man, no buzz
light Year. Yeah, buzz late Year is better, but Lunar Larry,
(14:11):
it's way better. Lunar Larry is something like a two
year old would play with. Yeah, it's a toy. Yeah.
But the buzz light Year thing carries on even into
young adults. I think who were fans of the movie.
I bet a lot of people your age went out
and bought Buzz light Year figures Waction figures, well when
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they were your age, my age twenty seven? Yeah, A
why not? Big fan of the movie. I can't remember
toy story I saw speaking of. I saw a Nativity
scene a little just a small kind of a I
would say, maybe bigger than shoebox size but not poster
board size nativity scene, and it just says when you
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see it, you'll see it. And amongst all the different
figure in there, these little things that are most of
them are about like say, four to five inches tall,
and then down to about two inches tall, and there's sheep,
and there's mules, and there are people and just all
these things that you expect, the baby in the manger
and all of that, and then the little crib and stuff,
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and in amongst them. If you look at it long
enough and you know what you're looking for is a
very small Yoda reaction. Will you're grinning, you know you are.
It's almost horrible, But then again, it is just just
like in a family setting. If you did that and
(15:40):
just left it there for an hour until somebody noticed
it and then took it out, it'd be Okay, You're
not gonna go to hell for that. It's pretty funny. Okay,
I'm gonna read the other one will because I have
time and because I wanted to get to it. One
of the most dangerous toys of all time. Speaking of toys,
sold recently at auction for thirteen thousand dollars. This is
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a toy that was introduced in nineteen fifty, okay, a
long time ago, seventy four years ago, nineteen fifty by
the people who made Erector sets. And it was a
science kit called the Gilbert U two thirty eight Atomic
Energy Laboratory. And guess what it had in it in
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the box for everybody who buys one to get some
what uranium? Wow? Real uranium? Oh wow, that's kind of like, no,
you can't do that. You we know better now, but
back then there wasn't even a regulatory agency to tell
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them they couldn't do that at the Erector set factory
whatever that was. Whatever that is, all right, I've got
what a minute and a half will Southwest Houston yesterday.
This got my attention this morning in Southwest Houston yesterday Truder.
It says here this was a from a clique to
Houston story. Thank you click to you Houston Truder shot.
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Intruder shot and killed after he broke into the home
of a man and his adult daughter. When the guy
entered the house, she was asleep but woke up. It
doesn't say why, but there's a guy in the house
and I'm reckoning. Dad's looking up from reruns of family
Feud and said, hey, what are you doing in here?
She wakes up and she shoots the guy and he
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dies right right then and there. The story also said
it was the only description they gave of the man
was that he was a male, And it also said
it wasn't known whether the intruder was armed, And I
really hope that statement doesn't doesn't carry in the window
that the woman should have somehow determined whether he was
armed before she reacted in self defense to make sure
(17:55):
that this guy didn't didn't do her or her dad
any harm. A lot hesitation, hesitation get you killed, or
get you or get you hurt, at least in a
lot of cases, if somebody's in my house, my primary
focus at that point is protecting my family and myself,
and we're not gonna sit down and have a discussion
(18:18):
about what's gonna happen, because I've had far too many
people in law enforcement tell me that if somebody's in
your house, you better make sure that they don't get
an opportunity even to hurt you, because they probably will.
They're already they've already exhibited that they don't care about
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you or anybody else. Get kicked down your door or
break a window and crawl in or any of that
stuff that's just messed up and wrong, just straight up wrong.
All right, we got to take another little break here.
Chili's gonna come in a minute. I'll knock walk next
door and knock on the door and get him in here,
and we're gonna discuss immigration, because that's something that's he
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Then they sure don't make them like they used to.
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fifty plus with Doug Pike. Make you feel at home, chilly,
listen to some music. Okay, my bad hand, I sopped
(20:54):
my bad first time. Yeah, I don't know my way
around the studio.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
I got chilli in here from the Rod Ryan Show
over on the buzz in case you're wondering who that
voice is.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
We talked, and we're gonna talk about immigration because he
how long has it been now since you got since
you got your citizenship? Maybe two years? Is it two? Yeah,
it stood a long time. Yeah, And I had you
in then because I was I was thrilled for you,
and I wanted to talk about the process. Let's briefly
talk about what it took you to do it the
right way and and just kind of how proud you
(21:28):
are that.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Uh, well, you know I came into the United States
where a passport ana visa blew in then uh, you know,
I had to go through the process of applying for
a residency.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
I did it through marriage though.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Okay, so you know my wife was My wife's a
US citizen, So you know we were like, all right,
I think it's time for me to start looking into
it because she kept pressuring me to fix everything, and
I was like, let's give it another year.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Okay, so went through that.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
You know, it took about about a year just for
that paperwork, just to go through the whole process, and
then they gave me a work permit. And then they
told me, all right, we'll give you a one year
work permit and then we'll call you for your interview
to say if you're going to get a residence an
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it's what they called the green card. So then they
went and then within six months they were like, okay,
you're you know, here's your interview day. I hired an
attorney that she did all the paperwork and everything, and
then they gave me like a probational or a green
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card because they said, all right, says you haven't been
married that long. We want to make sure that the
marriage lege. Yeah, it's legit. It is not a scam
to just to get your green card. So they gave
me one for three years and I had to renew
it after three years, and then if I was still
married with her, I could apply for a US citizenship.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
It took a long time, didn't.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
It took about close to ten yearsly because I kept
putting it off.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Well, yeah, some of that's your fault. Yeah, some of
them it's just lazy nas.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
And you're like, Okay, I already got the Green card,
so I'm not Yeah, I'm not.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
You're not gonna get in trouble.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Yeah, and you know, as long as I keep renewing
it and I'll be good. And then then I started
looking at the prizes and you're like, well, it's cheaper
to become a US citizen then renew the Green card.
I mean it was about one hundred dollars difference. But
I was like, hunder bucks is a hundred bucks.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Yeah. But I was like, Okay, let me think about it.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
If I just become a citizen, I don't have to
pay the one hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
I mean, I don't have to pay to keep renewing
it anymore.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
So, and just the way the things were going with
politics and stuff, I was like, you know what, I
was like, maybe I need.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
To go and just become a citizen.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
Because then they were saying that even if you had
a residence and car the green cart, you weren't even safe.
They could take that away. So I was like, let
me just get her done. Yeah yeah, yeah, and you did,
and I'm glad you did, man, I really am. So
how after all that you went through, all the different
things you had to do to get this citizenship. How
does it make you feel when I showed you that
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chart this morning that shows eleven point two million unauthorized
migrants running around getting free food, free medical care, free housing,
free transportation, all of that on your diamond mind. I mean,
it was shocking to see that the numbers just on
the four years. You know that when Biden was in
I was like, what I was like, that is shocking
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high numbers.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Now, I know that there's some people that really need
to help and everything. I agree that there clearly there
are some who need to be in here, belonging here.
But out of eleven that's eleven two that we know
about that are unauthorized. That doesn't include the people who
are okay to be here. It doesn't include the people
we don't know even came in. So it's a dead people.
(24:57):
That's a big number. Man, I'm not gonna lie. It's
a number most in American history.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Yeah, and any time. I mean, it's shocking the more
you think about it. So it's kind of I'm kind
of in between. Yeah, just with the fact that I'm
what you call a dreamer, kid, because I was brought here. Well,
I had no choice, Like my mom brought me over here.
So it was it was not like, nah, Mom, I'm
just gonna stay over here. No, it was like and
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over here was where you're to my life? What to
my life? Central America? So it was I had no
choice and they brought us here for a better life,
and you know, that's what it was and been here
and that's why I'm like, man, you know I didn't.
I don't know what my future would have been, my
life would be over there.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
So you know, well, and you you know a lot
of people who are who are in the system. Now
you do some of your friends and stuff, talk about
what what you told me? Some of these people, how
they're getting here, why they're being shipped over here. But
because they don't not a whole lot of people who
are coming in here can afford plane tickets from anywhere
to get even to Mexico. So what what's going on there? Chile?
Speaker 3 (26:09):
I mean there's I mean, if you anything usually on
TV is kind of looking like it's you know, when
they do the caravans and when you have like thousands
of people come in, it's just all those different countries,
but some of it is being financed by terrorism because
they want to kind of sneak their their terrorists in,
so they just mix them in with the caravan and everything.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
They're just kind of hiding, hiding in a bunch of bananas. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
So you know when when uh, when President Donald Trump
was saying, hey, they're not sending their best, he was right.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
He was right. I know, I'm I know a lot
of people got offended, but he wasn't wrong. No, And
that's I think what's gonna come out when when we
change presidents and we start looking a little more closely
at a lot of individual cases, and we're going to
find a whole lot of people, yeah, who are absolutely
bad actors. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
I mean there's I mean there's people that need, you know,
there their last records is like, hey, you know what,
I got one hundred and fifty dollars to my name.
I'm gonna try to go to the US for a
better life. And then you have those that are like, hey,
we want you to help us play something bad.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Yeah, go with you. So it's just like and we'll
pay you to go over there. We'll get you over there,
we'll get you into the land of plenty. Yeah, you're
they're gonna take take care of you from there. They'll
have a place to live, phone, all that good stuff.
And I mean so scary, man. Some people don't have
nothing going on in their lives in their country. So
it's a very good point. So you're just.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Sitting there going like, wait, you mean to tell me
you're gonna pay for me to live over there? You
pay for me to go over there? All right, let's go,
you know, and their dream is made.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
They're just living in a mud hut somewhere and now
suddenly they got an apartment, they got friends, they got everything.
It's frustrating. The number that concerns me and you you
pointed to it as well, is the number of people
two hundred and forty one thousand of these undocumented. We
don't know who they are, what they are, where they
are from China, and most of the ones that came
in already. Will you want to hang around for a
(28:12):
few more minutes. Yeah, we're gonna take a break and
we're gonna keep chilly in here. We're gonna talk a
little bit more about this from his perspective as someone
who actually worked hard to get his American Citizenship. Ut
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get additional training beyond what it took them to get
the diploma on the wall, so that they can use
their expertise and apply it specifically to us, to seniors.
I'm the only senior in this room. You two couldn't
add your ages and be qualified for this man in
any event, All of these providers are all over town.
(28:54):
Most of them are in the med Center, but they
also come out and work in outlying clinics pair Land, Kingwood,
sugar Land, and then all everywhere. All of these places, Katie,
anywhere you are, you can be in touch with one
of these people and be seen by them and get
patched up by someone who understands seniors and what makes
us tick and what keeps us ticking. Go to the website.
(29:15):
You'll find plenty of resources there that will actually more
than you'll imagine you're gonna find, and you'll probably end
up scrolling for a long time and looking ut H
dot edu slash aging. Start there, ut H dot ed
U slash aging what's life without a net? I suggest
to go to bed, leave it off, just wait until
the show's over. Sleepy.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Hi, welcome back to fifty plus. I managed to keep
chilly in here for this last segment. I'm gonna take
advantage of that.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
You.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
You and I were just talking. You just talked about
how how involved the cartels are and all this stuff too,
and how they'll send decoys and it makes perfect sense.
They'll send some SAP with a little bittyload of drugs in.
Oh yeah, and then while the border patrol people are
dealing with that person, the big load rolls by. Honey, Yeah,
that's what they're hoping. They're hoping that they'll fall for it.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
And then they said, well, you know what, we might
have lost one hundred pounds, but we got two tons in.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
You know, you have to laugh. And it's just so
sad that that's where we are now with all this
stuff too, very frustrating. So back to the immigration part though,
what do you think about the plan to change it,
about the plan to get out the people who are
not supposed to be here, and starting with the criminal
we already know, a whole lot of these people, oh
(30:44):
caught red handed. They've killed people, they've raped women, they've
done everything imaginable that they shouldn't have done here and
in a lot of jurisdictions, the local police weren't even
allowed to tell the federal people what was going on.
You think need to go ahead and clean house?
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Yeah, I believe there's gonna be some clean some house
cleaning going on. And you know, like I told you, man,
there's people that really need to help.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
I think those people should be giving a chance, an opportunity,
you know, for them to prove themselves that they could
be a productive person and help this country be better.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
The ones that are just not doing anything good, you know,
send them back. Yeah. And I've heard actually that a
lot of people who who know that their past is
maybe gonna get them in trouble if they hang around,
they've already packed up and gone. They've gone back.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Yeah, And you know a lot of people that's why
they were, you know, they're scared now now they know
because you know, when when President Trump, you know, he
got elected again, they were like, Okay, now it's time
for us to just kind of just make another plan, you.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Know, somewhere else, maybe a good Canada.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
And you know what, maybe you never know. Some of
them might not like the cool weather. I wouldn't a
lot of people come from tropical weathers.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
So you look at this chart and it's an overwhelming
majority of people who come from the middle from the
equator up to the two tropics, And yeah, they don't.
I don't think they'd want to live there. I don't
see any any country on here that's really set for
the cold. Yeah, well except for this one. China. Well, China, Yeah,
(32:26):
they get chili over there, no doubt, Yeah, no pun intended. Yeah,
they can reach you on our heart. I wonder if
they are allowed to listen to iHeart Radio on the app.
Who knows?
Speaker 3 (32:38):
And China probably not, nah, because they're not even allowed
to use What is it that TikTok I saw?
Speaker 2 (32:44):
I saw a piece yesterday. You may have seen it
at that same prep work we use about a woman
in China who earned what was it will fourteen and
thirty dollars? Is that right? I don't know. It was
around that number, okay, and she earned that as part
of a social experiment they were doing to see who
could do without their phone the longest. Okay, how long
(33:04):
you think she did without her phone to earn fourteen
hundred bucks? M probably, I want to say maybe four hours.
Well she made it to eight eight, she made it
to eight hours. I could do it for fourteen hundred bucks.
I'll turn this thing off right now. You know what.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
It sounds easy, but for some reason, we've kind of
been trained to like, yeah, we're gonna check our emails.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
We want you got your messages, emails, you're probably TikTok
and x and all that. Well.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
I got kicked out of Facebook and Insta. Yeah, oh man,
it was just I posted a story and that he
liked it. Somebody might have reported it.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
They bounce you. Yeah, they kicked me out. So I'm
such a man. I don't. I haven't. I haven't even
gotten any kind of a warning from him for anything.
Oh I get I'm not trying. I guess.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Well, A lot of it that I get is just
from like, you know, hey, your posts goes agains or
community standards, it's talking about sexual content or whatever it's
or it's uh, you don't have the rights to use this.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Mute. I said, what song? It's like, oh you hear
a song in the background. Yeah, nobody's walking by and
they're listening to their phone. That's a nuts man, we are.
I just don't know where this is all going to
take us, honestly, but I do like the direction we're taking.
Do you agree with the outcome of the election. Yeah,
(34:28):
you don't have to talk, Paul, No, no, no, no.
I mean you know, it's I'm happy.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
That it's over. Yeah, well, amen to that. That's the
only thing that I'm happy that it's over. I hate
election seasons just because how everybody gets so divided, you know,
I agree with that. You it's like it's the only
place where they encourage you to vote, but then they
make you they shame you for it.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
Yeah. Well yeah, and if we want you to vote,
and your vote counts, but if you vote that way,
you're you're gonna be destroyed.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
And that's the only thing that I was like, Man,
I was like, I put someone's strength on us, and
you know, but I'm happy that, you know, the economy
is starting to look up, because, I mean, believe it
or not, I don't care if you voted for the
right or the left. Your pockets are hurting. Yeah, that
(35:22):
inflation is no joke.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Inflation, absolutely no joke. The border no joke. And hopefully
we'll get this ship righted man, I'll cut you loose,
do Yeah, I just gotta go to the gym, and
just looking for the gym. Yeah, got how often do
you get in there? You're still young, so you have
extra time. I don't know where young people get this
extra time. Mann.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
You know, I try to make it at least four
days out of the out of the week. Okay, Yeah,
I just well I recently started. I mean, because you know,
I just you know, I'm forty six now, so I
gotta start.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
I gotta start thinking.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
I was like, if I if I want to live
at least to fifty five, got cut back on the cheeseburgers.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Well, I gotta cut back five.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
Yeah, I mean, well, that's my mentality that I'm saying,
if I want to I mean, hopefully, I'm like seventy.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
But I'm going to tell you you're you're starting at
the right time. Honestly and in fairness to me, I say,
I don't have time for the gym, but somehow miraculously
I find time for golf, you.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
Know, but that's still some exercise. Oh yeah, I was
not doing any of that. I was just getting out
of here, out of work, going home, snacking and watching
just binge, watching TV s.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
Walking back and forth from the TV and the refrigerator.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
Not even And I was just ask my wife, you know,
send her to texts like hey, are you hungry?
Speaker 2 (36:44):
Like yeah, hey, if well, if you're in the refrigerator,
bring us something to Yeah.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
I mean, come on, man, I mean and you know,
so I those aches, aches and pains started, you know,
so I just said, you know what, I try Like
a former a DJ that worked at the other station
as a friend of mine, he lost a lot of
weight during COVID, and I was like, what did you do?
And then he was just like, dude, I used a
five minute rule. And I was like, what do you mean.
(37:11):
I try to make it five day every day to
the gym, just five minutes. If I'm there for five
minutes every day, then it becomes like nothing. And then
you add him in it and whatever. But you have
to make it five minutes and that's how you start
just move.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
Yeah. I've been doing this show for eight years now,
almost nine, and every doctor I talked to about every
condition almost known. Demand says exercise, Yeah, eat well, exercise
and eat well. And even there was a guy's god,
what is his name, I can't remember right now. Man,
he's one of my favorite guests. I've had him on
a bunch of times. The bottom line is, he said,
(37:49):
even if you can't walk five miles, walk a half
a mile. If you can't walk a half a mile,
walk around the block. And if you can't do that,
walk up and down the driveway.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
Well it was surprising that when I would go to
a Texans game, walking up the ramp, yeah was hard. Yeah,
it's hard, and you're just like, man, the next morning,
why is my lower back?
Speaker 1 (38:08):
So?
Speaker 2 (38:09):
Why is my cat sword? You know? So it's just
I just made it, you know, I made that decision.
That's a fantastic promise. You made your pleas I wanted.
I wanted to.
Speaker 3 (38:20):
I wanted to start that New Year's resolution before New
Year's too.
Speaker 2 (38:25):
That's another good idea.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
Yeah, you know, so that way people don't you know.
And I want to keep doing it just for healthy now.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
So I'm going to start walking on the golf course more.
And I bags pushing the bag and pulling the bag
and all that stuff. It's even so easy now that
they've got these little remote control golfs and you just
put a little thing on your belt. But at least
I'll be walking.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
Yeah, I mean there's some exercise involved in that, no doubt.
So that's all you have to do. Is this why
you don't need to take up golf?
Speaker 2 (38:54):
How much time? Forty seconds? So here's the deal. I
read years ago and I I wrote about this that
a full swing of golf burns three calories. Okay, yeah,
the driving range, man, and.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
Beat two hundred balls, you burned six hundred calories. I'm
just gonna be in the backyard swinging.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
All right, Chillie, Well man, I appreciate you coming in.
Happy holiday's, Merry Christmas, all that good stuff to you.
Speaker 3 (39:22):
You traveling or no, No, I'm staying in. Just ten seconds,
just ready for Tomali's, that's all.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
Oh man, I hope I get an invitation. I'll eat
those Tomali's. That's gonna do it for us today. Thanks
for listening, Thanks for chili coming in here. Audios
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Uh.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
By the way, speaking of chili, Chili from The Ryan
Show is going to join me at the bottom of
the hour. He and I are going to talk about
something that he shared a while back, and we celebrated
it here in the office. The whole, the whole of
iHeart came out to champion his long journey to US citizenship,
(01:18):
which he made a while back. Now I can't remember
exactly how long ago it was, It's at least a
year wouldn't you say, will do you know? Yeah, I'm
not sure he's just he's in a studio next door.
But I'm going to bring him in at the bottom
because I saw a story this morning about how many
unauthorized immigrants, a precedent setting number of people who shouldn't
(01:40):
be here are here, the most ever recorded in US history.
And that's from the New York Times, not from me.
It's we're going to talk about that with Chilean and
how he feels about having gone through such an effort
to become a US citizen, how proud he is of that,
and then these other people are just waltzing across the border. Anyway,
(02:03):
sunny and cool again, like I said, start warming up
again going into the weekend. And there's also a little
bit of a chance for rain, hopefully not a lot
of rain, but just enough to keep the soil moist,
keep the houses from moving, all that stuff that we
deal with in the winter summer. Anytime it gets super dry,
the soil shifts. There's just an annual event. At my house.
(02:29):
There's one door in the house, just a door to
it upstairs bathroom that in the winter time tends to
wanna just ease open if you just let it go.
And in the summer, it's never done it. And this
house is thirty years old, thirty one, I think, and
it's done that every winter and every summer. I could
tell you what season it is if I were just
(02:49):
dropped into that house on a random day, I could
at least tell you whether it's winter or summer. Maybe
not fall or spring. We don't really get much of
that anyway. I had an early appointment for some dental
work this morning. Nothing really, nothing really major, to be honest, Uh,
just it's something I just wanted him to kind of
(03:10):
tinker with. And that little bit of tinkering turned into
about an hour in the chair. And I don't know he.
I mean, the guy's thorough. He's a good dentist, and
I've been going to him for probably twenty something years,
a very good dentist. But he is just man. He
wants everything to be just perfect, and he won't let
(03:32):
you out of that room until it is, So hats
off to him for that. But I was watching the
clock because of prep time for the show, and I
feel like I got it done, although and I already
told Will this, and he's already holding it against me.
I don't apparently, I don't get a day off from
highs and lows in high coup. Is that correct? That
is correct. I have a medical I've got a note
(03:55):
from the dentist. Oh, let me see it. Well, I
left it my car. Yeah, like the dog. Yeah, I'll
tell you. What I can show you is the receipt
for what I paid that hour in the chair. See it.
I'll go get it after the show. But you have
to trust me enough to believe that it exists. And
(04:15):
when I tell you how much I paid you, you'll
probably give me another day off to recuperate. Really, I felt, Yeah,
I felt like I was like I was in an
orthopedis office because it cost me an arm and a
leg to get out of there. Wow, they like that
line a lot of that. Just like two minutes ago.
It's fine, it's not bad. Can you give me some
points for that? Nope? Okay, okay, I'll there'll be a
(04:39):
revenge high coup tomorrow. You just wait. Yeah. So anyway,
the market's right across the board. Market Watch, by the way,
thankfully from Houston gooldexchange dot com, all four of the
big indicators for the very first time in a long
time since I can remember in recent memory. I know
it's happened throughout history, but all four pretty deep in
(05:02):
the red. Except for oil, of course. Let's go to oil,
which climbed above seventy dollars a barrel for the first
time in a long while. Gold Converse League dropped about
fifty bucks, but was still at twenty seven O nine,
So I don't think that's a big deal. Yeah, I
wish I could give you a better weather forecast. Oh
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about that from the comes as no surprise desk word
that President Biden, who we already know is cognitatively a
pair impaired, not uphaired he's won up the pardon he
(06:08):
gave his son Hunter, which he vowed for so long,
so many times not to do. By the way, Hey, no,
I'm not gonna pardon my son. That wouldn't be right.
I'm not gonna pardon my son. That wouldn't be right.
This morning I pardoned my son. It wasn't this morning,
but a while back. And then somebody, I guess, dared him,
and President Biden took the there and said, you know what,
(06:29):
looked up from his ice cream and said, hol my beer.
This morning, the White House let it be known that
he has offered up commuted jail terms for some fifteen
hundred people and granted pardons to thirty nine more. And
the cherry on the pardon Sunday, you know, he's got
(06:53):
plans to dole out plenty more of these before he
leaves office. I bet on that there are a whole
lot of people in Washington, and White House didn't release
any of the names by the way of who he
cut loose today, but the statement did imply that he's
not done. And I bet everything I had that before
he cleans out his desk, he's going to pardon some
of the most high profile politicians in American history, people
(07:17):
who have quietly up until now betrayed this country of
ours and on multiple levels. And he knows that if
he doesn't give them that get out of jail free pass,
that's likely where they're going to end up once the
truth is set free. And he also knows that they
know a lot about him. So like Oprah at Christmas
(07:40):
time when she was doing those talk shows a while back,
everybody look under your chair. You get a pardon, and
you get a pardon, and you get a pardon. And
every time one of those high profile people gets pardoned,
we're going to learn more and more about who knows
what up there in Washington. All right, we got to
take a little break here on the way out, I'll
(08:00):
tell you about a late health the vascular clinics around
this city of ours. I believe they're three now and
maybe another one. There'll probably be some more coming next year.
They're doing very well with what they do, and rightfully so,
Doctor Doe works very hard to keep things moving over there.
The procedure they do most often is prostate artery embolization.
That's where they go in and identify an enlarged non
(08:22):
cancerous prostate and one that's causing unpleasant, uncomfortable symptoms for
whoever's carrying it around. And they go in and they
plug up that artery that provides that prostate with oxygenated blood,
which is it has to have that to keep going
and keep getting worse. Right, Well, once that thing's plugged up,
(08:43):
the prostate begins to shrink and with it go these
symptoms that you don't like, fibroids in women, head pain
in many cases, ugly veins, and many many more procedures
that they do right there in the office, usually within
a couple of hours. You never have to go to
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last place you want to do. You might end up
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bringing something home that you didn't have when you got there.
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twenty four, and happy New year from iHeart. All right, well,
let's move forward with some some lighter things. And I've
got enough here to get us through next week. But
I want to get to some of these for sure.
I haven't named some of these because I was on
(11:13):
a short string when I got here. Buzzword, I just
made that one up on this thing, and it's it's
solid buzzword tempting or why is my skin falling off? Dad? Uh? Tempting?
He didn't take it, did you? You know you wanted
(11:34):
to ask about the other one?
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (11:36):
The perfect gift for someone who wants to be surprised,
just may be this. This does tempt me. Unclaimed packages,
these mystery boxes of random unclaimed packages still still sealed.
You're not guaranteed to get anything of value, but then again,
(11:56):
you might get something really cool kind of a yeah,
would you do that? How much money would you be
willing to bet that you might get a good package
out of the deal. I don't know. I don't think
any of those services really interest me to begin with. Yeah,
there's a store somewhere, I think it's over in Georgia.
(12:18):
That is the repository for all things unclaimed in airports,
and they they oh and and confiscated unclaimed and confiscated stuff,
and they just sell stuff all the time like hotcakes
at ridiculous prices. And if I lived in that town,
I'd probably go by there once a week just to
(12:40):
see if anybody left fishing rods or something, hunting apparel,
hunting gear, just in case I saw some outdoor stuff
I couldn't live without. But I don't know if i'd
do my clothes shopping there. You know. They sometimes they
just unload a whole suitcase unopened, and this kind of
the same thing as these unclean packages. People leave their
(13:02):
stuff for whatever reasons. I don't know why. I can't
imagine not ever wanting to get my stuff something that
I took the time to pack. Wouldn't you want to
get it returned? Depends on how much of a hurry,
I mean, depends on what. Depends on the value of
what's in it, really, and that's either monetary or sentimental value.
(13:26):
It could be either one. Okay, I'm gonna go back
to the buzz And why is my skin falling off? Dad?
And just let you pick one of those. The bus. Ah,
you're dodging it like a like the plague. It's not.
It's a good one, will And I'm just gonna do
it anyway. After I tell you about this, you know
what buzz light Year's original name was going to be?
What was his original name? First of all, buzz light
(13:48):
Year is light years ahead of this other, this other choice,
the original choice. You're ready, it's so cornball. Lunar Larry,
Luner Larry. That's a toys name, no man, no buzz
light Year. Yeah, buzz late Year is better, but Lunar Larry,
(14:11):
it's way better. Lunar Larry is something like a two
year old would play with. Yeah, it's a toy. Yeah.
But the buzz light Year thing carries on even into
young adults. I think who were fans of the movie.
I bet a lot of people your age went out
and bought Buzz light Year figures Waction figures, well when
(14:33):
they were your age, my age twenty seven? Yeah, A
why not? Big fan of the movie. I can't remember
toy story I saw speaking of. I saw a Nativity
scene a little just a small kind of a I
would say, maybe bigger than shoebox size but not poster
board size nativity scene, and it just says when you
(14:56):
see it, you'll see it. And amongst all the different
figure in there, these little things that are most of
them are about like say, four to five inches tall,
and then down to about two inches tall, and there's sheep,
and there's mules, and there are people and just all
these things that you expect, the baby in the manger
and all of that, and then the little crib and stuff,
(15:19):
and in amongst them. If you look at it long
enough and you know what you're looking for is a
very small Yoda reaction. Will you're grinning, you know you are.
It's almost horrible, But then again, it is just just
like in a family setting. If you did that and
(15:40):
just left it there for an hour until somebody noticed
it and then took it out, it'd be Okay, You're
not gonna go to hell for that. It's pretty funny. Okay,
I'm gonna read the other one will because I have
time and because I wanted to get to it. One
of the most dangerous toys of all time. Speaking of toys,
sold recently at auction for thirteen thousand dollars. This is
(16:03):
a toy that was introduced in nineteen fifty, okay, a
long time ago, seventy four years ago, nineteen fifty by
the people who made Erector sets. And it was a
science kit called the Gilbert U two thirty eight Atomic
Energy Laboratory. And guess what it had in it in
(16:24):
the box for everybody who buys one to get some
what uranium? Wow? Real uranium? Oh wow, that's kind of like, no,
you can't do that. You we know better now, but
back then there wasn't even a regulatory agency to tell
(16:44):
them they couldn't do that at the Erector set factory
whatever that was. Whatever that is, all right, I've got
what a minute and a half will Southwest Houston yesterday.
This got my attention this morning in Southwest Houston yesterday Truder.
It says here this was a from a clique to
Houston story. Thank you click to you Houston Truder shot.
(17:06):
Intruder shot and killed after he broke into the home
of a man and his adult daughter. When the guy
entered the house, she was asleep but woke up. It
doesn't say why, but there's a guy in the house
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(17:30):
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it was the only description they gave of the man
was that he was a male, And it also said
it wasn't known whether the intruder was armed, And I
really hope that statement doesn't doesn't carry in the window
that the woman should have somehow determined whether he was
armed before she reacted in self defense to make sure
(17:55):
that this guy didn't didn't do her or her dad
any harm. A lot hesitation, hesitation get you killed, or
get you or get you hurt, at least in a
lot of cases, if somebody's in my house, my primary
focus at that point is protecting my family and myself,
and we're not gonna sit down and have a discussion
(18:18):
about what's gonna happen, because I've had far too many
people in law enforcement tell me that if somebody's in
your house, you better make sure that they don't get
an opportunity even to hurt you, because they probably will.
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(18:41):
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break a window and crawl in or any of that
stuff that's just messed up and wrong, just straight up wrong.
All right, we got to take another little break here.
Chili's gonna come in a minute. I'll knock walk next
door and knock on the door and get him in here,
and we're gonna discuss immigration, because that's something that's he
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Then they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash him, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike. Make you feel at home, chilly,
listen to some music. Okay, my bad hand, I sopped
(20:54):
my bad first time. Yeah, I don't know my way
around the studio.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
I got chilli in here from the Rod Ryan Show
over on the buzz in case you're wondering who that
voice is.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
We talked, and we're gonna talk about immigration because he
how long has it been now since you got since
you got your citizenship? Maybe two years? Is it two? Yeah,
it stood a long time. Yeah, And I had you
in then because I was I was thrilled for you,
and I wanted to talk about the process. Let's briefly
talk about what it took you to do it the
right way and and just kind of how proud you
(21:28):
are that.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Uh, well, you know I came into the United States
where a passport ana visa blew in then uh, you know,
I had to go through the process of applying for
a residency.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
I did it through marriage though.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Okay, so you know my wife was My wife's a
US citizen, So you know we were like, all right,
I think it's time for me to start looking into
it because she kept pressuring me to fix everything, and
I was like, let's give it another year.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Okay, so went through that.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
You know, it took about about a year just for
that paperwork, just to go through the whole process, and
then they gave me a work permit. And then they
told me, all right, we'll give you a one year
work permit and then we'll call you for your interview
to say if you're going to get a residence an
(22:22):
it's what they called the green card. So then they
went and then within six months they were like, okay,
you're you know, here's your interview day. I hired an
attorney that she did all the paperwork and everything, and
then they gave me like a probational or a green
(22:42):
card because they said, all right, says you haven't been
married that long. We want to make sure that the
marriage lege. Yeah, it's legit. It is not a scam
to just to get your green card. So they gave
me one for three years and I had to renew
it after three years, and then if I was still
married with her, I could apply for a US citizenship.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
It took a long time, didn't.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
It took about close to ten yearsly because I kept
putting it off.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Well, yeah, some of that's your fault. Yeah, some of
them it's just lazy nas.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
And you're like, Okay, I already got the Green card,
so I'm not Yeah, I'm not.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
You're not gonna get in trouble.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Yeah, and you know, as long as I keep renewing
it and I'll be good. And then then I started
looking at the prizes and you're like, well, it's cheaper
to become a US citizen then renew the Green card.
I mean it was about one hundred dollars difference. But
I was like, hunder bucks is a hundred bucks.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Yeah. But I was like, Okay, let me think about it.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
If I just become a citizen, I don't have to
pay the one hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
I mean, I don't have to pay to keep renewing
it anymore.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
So, and just the way the things were going with
politics and stuff, I was like, you know what, I
was like, maybe I need.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
To go and just become a citizen.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
Because then they were saying that even if you had
a residence and car the green cart, you weren't even safe.
They could take that away. So I was like, let
me just get her done. Yeah yeah, yeah, and you did,
and I'm glad you did, man, I really am. So
how after all that you went through, all the different
things you had to do to get this citizenship. How
does it make you feel when I showed you that
(24:13):
chart this morning that shows eleven point two million unauthorized
migrants running around getting free food, free medical care, free housing,
free transportation, all of that on your diamond mind. I mean,
it was shocking to see that the numbers just on
the four years. You know that when Biden was in
I was like, what I was like, that is shocking
(24:34):
high numbers.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Now, I know that there's some people that really need
to help and everything. I agree that there clearly there
are some who need to be in here, belonging here.
But out of eleven that's eleven two that we know
about that are unauthorized. That doesn't include the people who
are okay to be here. It doesn't include the people
we don't know even came in. So it's a dead people.
(24:57):
That's a big number. Man, I'm not gonna lie. It's
a number most in American history.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Yeah, and any time. I mean, it's shocking the more
you think about it. So it's kind of I'm kind
of in between. Yeah, just with the fact that I'm
what you call a dreamer, kid, because I was brought here. Well,
I had no choice, Like my mom brought me over here.
So it was it was not like, nah, Mom, I'm
just gonna stay over here. No, it was like and
(25:25):
over here was where you're to my life? What to
my life? Central America? So it was I had no
choice and they brought us here for a better life,
and you know, that's what it was and been here
and that's why I'm like, man, you know I didn't.
I don't know what my future would have been, my
life would be over there.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
So you know, well, and you you know a lot
of people who are who are in the system. Now
you do some of your friends and stuff, talk about
what what you told me? Some of these people, how
they're getting here, why they're being shipped over here. But
because they don't not a whole lot of people who
are coming in here can afford plane tickets from anywhere
to get even to Mexico. So what what's going on there? Chile?
Speaker 3 (26:09):
I mean there's I mean, if you anything usually on
TV is kind of looking like it's you know, when
they do the caravans and when you have like thousands
of people come in, it's just all those different countries,
but some of it is being financed by terrorism because
they want to kind of sneak their their terrorists in,
so they just mix them in with the caravan and everything.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
They're just kind of hiding, hiding in a bunch of bananas. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
So you know when when uh, when President Donald Trump
was saying, hey, they're not sending their best, he was right.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
He was right. I know, I'm I know a lot
of people got offended, but he wasn't wrong. No, And
that's I think what's gonna come out when when we
change presidents and we start looking a little more closely
at a lot of individual cases, and we're going to
find a whole lot of people, yeah, who are absolutely
bad actors. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
I mean there's I mean there's people that need, you know,
there their last records is like, hey, you know what,
I got one hundred and fifty dollars to my name.
I'm gonna try to go to the US for a
better life. And then you have those that are like, hey,
we want you to help us play something bad.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Yeah, go with you. So it's just like and we'll
pay you to go over there. We'll get you over there,
we'll get you into the land of plenty. Yeah, you're
they're gonna take take care of you from there. They'll
have a place to live, phone, all that good stuff.
And I mean so scary, man. Some people don't have
nothing going on in their lives in their country. So
it's a very good point. So you're just.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Sitting there going like, wait, you mean to tell me
you're gonna pay for me to live over there? You
pay for me to go over there? All right, let's go,
you know, and their dream is made.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
They're just living in a mud hut somewhere and now
suddenly they got an apartment, they got friends, they got everything.
It's frustrating. The number that concerns me and you you
pointed to it as well, is the number of people
two hundred and forty one thousand of these undocumented. We
don't know who they are, what they are, where they
are from China, and most of the ones that came
in already. Will you want to hang around for a
(28:12):
few more minutes. Yeah, we're gonna take a break and
we're gonna keep chilly in here. We're gonna talk a
little bit more about this from his perspective as someone
who actually worked hard to get his American Citizenship. Ut
Health Institute on Aging is a collaborative of providers, probably
more than a thousand of them by now, I'm sure,
who go back and be They get additional education. They
(28:33):
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I'm the only senior in this room. You two couldn't
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any event, All of these providers are all over town.
(28:54):
Most of them are in the med Center, but they
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(29:15):
You'll find plenty of resources there that will actually more
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U slash aging what's life without a net? I suggest
to go to bed, leave it off, just wait until
the show's over. Sleepy.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Hi, welcome back to fifty plus. I managed to keep
chilly in here for this last segment. I'm gonna take
advantage of that.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
You.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
You and I were just talking. You just talked about
how how involved the cartels are and all this stuff too,
and how they'll send decoys and it makes perfect sense.
They'll send some SAP with a little bittyload of drugs in.
Oh yeah, and then while the border patrol people are
dealing with that person, the big load rolls by. Honey, Yeah,
that's what they're hoping. They're hoping that they'll fall for it.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
And then they said, well, you know what, we might
have lost one hundred pounds, but we got two tons in.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
You know, you have to laugh. And it's just so
sad that that's where we are now with all this
stuff too, very frustrating. So back to the immigration part though,
what do you think about the plan to change it,
about the plan to get out the people who are
not supposed to be here, and starting with the criminal
we already know, a whole lot of these people, oh
(30:44):
caught red handed. They've killed people, they've raped women, they've
done everything imaginable that they shouldn't have done here and
in a lot of jurisdictions, the local police weren't even
allowed to tell the federal people what was going on.
You think need to go ahead and clean house?
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Yeah, I believe there's gonna be some clean some house
cleaning going on. And you know, like I told you, man,
there's people that really need to help.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
I think those people should be giving a chance, an opportunity,
you know, for them to prove themselves that they could
be a productive person and help this country be better.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
The ones that are just not doing anything good, you know,
send them back. Yeah. And I've heard actually that a
lot of people who who know that their past is
maybe gonna get them in trouble if they hang around,
they've already packed up and gone. They've gone back.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Yeah, And you know a lot of people that's why
they were, you know, they're scared now now they know
because you know, when when President Trump, you know, he
got elected again, they were like, Okay, now it's time
for us to just kind of just make another plan, you.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Know, somewhere else, maybe a good Canada.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
And you know what, maybe you never know. Some of
them might not like the cool weather. I wouldn't a
lot of people come from tropical weathers.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
So you look at this chart and it's an overwhelming
majority of people who come from the middle from the
equator up to the two tropics, And yeah, they don't.
I don't think they'd want to live there. I don't
see any any country on here that's really set for
the cold. Yeah, well except for this one. China. Well, China, Yeah,
(32:26):
they get chili over there, no doubt, Yeah, no pun intended. Yeah,
they can reach you on our heart. I wonder if
they are allowed to listen to iHeart Radio on the app.
Who knows?
Speaker 3 (32:38):
And China probably not, nah, because they're not even allowed
to use What is it that TikTok I saw?
Speaker 2 (32:44):
I saw a piece yesterday. You may have seen it
at that same prep work we use about a woman
in China who earned what was it will fourteen and
thirty dollars? Is that right? I don't know. It was
around that number, okay, and she earned that as part
of a social experiment they were doing to see who
could do without their phone the longest. Okay, how long
(33:04):
you think she did without her phone to earn fourteen
hundred bucks? M probably, I want to say maybe four hours.
Well she made it to eight eight, she made it
to eight hours. I could do it for fourteen hundred bucks.
I'll turn this thing off right now. You know what.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
It sounds easy, but for some reason, we've kind of
been trained to like, yeah, we're gonna check our emails.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
We want you got your messages, emails, you're probably TikTok
and x and all that. Well.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
I got kicked out of Facebook and Insta. Yeah, oh man,
it was just I posted a story and that he
liked it. Somebody might have reported it.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
They bounce you. Yeah, they kicked me out. So I'm
such a man. I don't. I haven't. I haven't even
gotten any kind of a warning from him for anything.
Oh I get I'm not trying. I guess.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Well, A lot of it that I get is just
from like, you know, hey, your posts goes agains or
community standards, it's talking about sexual content or whatever it's
or it's uh, you don't have the rights to use this.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Mute. I said, what song? It's like, oh you hear
a song in the background. Yeah, nobody's walking by and
they're listening to their phone. That's a nuts man, we are.
I just don't know where this is all going to
take us, honestly, but I do like the direction we're taking.
Do you agree with the outcome of the election. Yeah,
(34:28):
you don't have to talk, Paul, No, no, no, no.
I mean you know, it's I'm happy.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
That it's over. Yeah, well, amen to that. That's the
only thing that I'm happy that it's over. I hate
election seasons just because how everybody gets so divided, you know,
I agree with that. You it's like it's the only
place where they encourage you to vote, but then they
make you they shame you for it.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
Yeah. Well yeah, and if we want you to vote,
and your vote counts, but if you vote that way,
you're you're gonna be destroyed.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
And that's the only thing that I was like, Man,
I was like, I put someone's strength on us, and
you know, but I'm happy that, you know, the economy
is starting to look up, because, I mean, believe it
or not, I don't care if you voted for the
right or the left. Your pockets are hurting. Yeah, that
(35:22):
inflation is no joke.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Inflation, absolutely no joke. The border no joke. And hopefully
we'll get this ship righted man, I'll cut you loose,
do Yeah, I just gotta go to the gym, and
just looking for the gym. Yeah, got how often do
you get in there? You're still young, so you have
extra time. I don't know where young people get this
extra time. Mann.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
You know, I try to make it at least four
days out of the out of the week. Okay, Yeah,
I just well I recently started. I mean, because you know,
I just you know, I'm forty six now, so I
gotta start.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
I gotta start thinking.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
I was like, if I if I want to live
at least to fifty five, got cut back on the cheeseburgers.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Well, I gotta cut back five.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
Yeah, I mean, well, that's my mentality that I'm saying,
if I want to I mean, hopefully, I'm like seventy.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
But I'm going to tell you you're you're starting at
the right time. Honestly and in fairness to me, I say,
I don't have time for the gym, but somehow miraculously
I find time for golf, you.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
Know, but that's still some exercise. Oh yeah, I was
not doing any of that. I was just getting out
of here, out of work, going home, snacking and watching
just binge, watching TV s.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
Walking back and forth from the TV and the refrigerator.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
Not even And I was just ask my wife, you know,
send her to texts like hey, are you hungry?
Speaker 2 (36:44):
Like yeah, hey, if well, if you're in the refrigerator,
bring us something to Yeah.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
I mean, come on, man, I mean and you know,
so I those aches, aches and pains started, you know,
so I just said, you know what, I try Like
a former a DJ that worked at the other station
as a friend of mine, he lost a lot of
weight during COVID, and I was like, what did you do?
And then he was just like, dude, I used a
five minute rule. And I was like, what do you mean.
(37:11):
I try to make it five day every day to
the gym, just five minutes. If I'm there for five
minutes every day, then it becomes like nothing. And then
you add him in it and whatever. But you have
to make it five minutes and that's how you start
just move.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
Yeah. I've been doing this show for eight years now,
almost nine, and every doctor I talked to about every
condition almost known. Demand says exercise, Yeah, eat well, exercise
and eat well. And even there was a guy's god,
what is his name, I can't remember right now. Man,
he's one of my favorite guests. I've had him on
a bunch of times. The bottom line is, he said,
(37:49):
even if you can't walk five miles, walk a half
a mile. If you can't walk a half a mile,
walk around the block. And if you can't do that,
walk up and down the driveway.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
Well it was surprising that when I would go to
a Texans game, walking up the ramp, yeah was hard. Yeah,
it's hard, and you're just like, man, the next morning,
why is my lower back?
Speaker 1 (38:08):
So?
Speaker 2 (38:09):
Why is my cat sword? You know? So it's just
I just made it, you know, I made that decision.
That's a fantastic promise. You made your pleas I wanted.
I wanted to.
Speaker 3 (38:20):
I wanted to start that New Year's resolution before New
Year's too.
Speaker 2 (38:25):
That's another good idea.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
Yeah, you know, so that way people don't you know.
And I want to keep doing it just for healthy now.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
So I'm going to start walking on the golf course more.
And I bags pushing the bag and pulling the bag
and all that stuff. It's even so easy now that
they've got these little remote control golfs and you just
put a little thing on your belt. But at least
I'll be walking.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
Yeah, I mean there's some exercise involved in that, no doubt.
So that's all you have to do. Is this why
you don't need to take up golf?
Speaker 2 (38:54):
How much time? Forty seconds? So here's the deal. I
read years ago and I I wrote about this that
a full swing of golf burns three calories. Okay, yeah,
the driving range, man, and.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
Beat two hundred balls, you burned six hundred calories. I'm
just gonna be in the backyard swinging.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
All right, Chillie, Well man, I appreciate you coming in.
Happy holiday's, Merry Christmas, all that good stuff to you.
Speaker 3 (39:22):
You traveling or no, No, I'm staying in. Just ten seconds,
just ready for Tomali's, that's all.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
Oh man, I hope I get an invitation. I'll eat
those Tomali's. That's gonna do it for us today. Thanks
for listening, Thanks for chili coming in here. Audios
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