Do you like Peeps?

Today, Doug Pike discusses Peeps, squids, and marlin fishing.

Episode Transcript

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Speaker 2 (00:42):
And now fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, off
we go yet another edition of fifty plus. Thank you
all for listening. I certainly do you appreciate it, and
I greatly hope that all of us who will celebrate Easter,
our Easter celebration actually is going to go well. I

(01:03):
hope it all goes well for everybody. My family has plans,
and we will execute those plans throughout the weekend as
everybody else will, and then we'll all kind of get
back to it on Monday. This is a very special
time in the Christian religion. It's just so much more
than Easter eggs and chocolate bunnies and debating whether Reese's

(01:25):
peanut butter eggs are better than peeps, which they are.
Everybody knows that I saw will I saw it one
of those annual Easter time surveys of people and what
the favorite candy is for Easter, and Reese is dominated,
of course, and peeps. Peeps had fallen to only six

(01:48):
percent of people thinking they're the best. Would you be in?
I think it should actually should be lower than that
when we're talking about the best. Yeah, are not my favorite? No,
speaking of I actually have a peep's story. Will hold on,
let me find it here. I wasn't gonna go here,

(02:09):
but I am now. Yeah, if I can find it here,
we go. TikTok, TikTok. Where did it go here? It
is right here? Would you or would you not? Will
Melbourne try a hot dog with peeps as a bun? No?
Not no, but hell no. There's a place in Massachusetts

(02:31):
called Lexi's Road Dogs and it is going viral. Not
because Lexi, I presume is the owner, or maybe that's
the dog's name. I don't know, Because there's actually there
was a club in here. I'm going to flashback to
the late seventies early eighties. There was a club in
Houston that was named for the owner's dog, not for

(02:52):
the owner. And I knew some of those guys and
who worked there, and they used to all laugh because
people would say it. Come in and say, yeah, I'm
a friend of I can't even remember the name of
the place, I'm a friend of his, and yeah, okay,
go away, No you're not, so back to Lexi's. Lexi's,

(03:12):
if indeed that's the owner. Father actually posted something online
just kind of a as a joke to see if
anybody would be interested in a hot dog, an Easter
dog special, he called it, put a picture up there
and joked about it. But it's not really on the menu,

(03:33):
and I don't think it should be to you. No,
I think we should just walk away from that as
fast as we can. We should run walk Nay, we
should run from that. So, by the way, once again,
I'm back to the Easter holiday, Easter weekend, very special time.
And for the non Christians in this audience, I would

(03:54):
I have no problem with you being a member of
any relig and you might find interesting to you, whichever
one speaks most loudly to you or none at all.
That is something we have the opportunity to do in
this country, and while Christians are celebrating Easter, just let

(04:17):
us do that, and we'll let you do what you do,
because that's what this country gives us the opportunity to do.
A lot of times, Americans forget the sacrifices made for
them over the past two hundred and fifty or so
years so that we can go where we want, do
what we want, whenever we want. American's citizenship is a
precious thing. It's something worthy of protection at all costs,

(04:39):
and places like Arlington Cemetery and our own Veteran Cemetery
here are pretty humbling reminders of the sacrifices made so
that we can, within the scope of this nation's laws,
do pretty much whatever we want, even if that comes
down to eating a hot dog with peeps as a bun.

(05:01):
What time is it? Will? You've got this? Got this
professional tag being played? Which is that's almost oxymoronic. Well,
it's moronic, for sure, and it's almost oxymuronic to even
try to call this a sport. Why it's not, Will,
it's it's I told you earlier. It's grown men acting

(05:23):
like children. And they are, well they're mostly grown men.
They look to be early twenties mid twenties, and you
would have to be that. And like I said, also,
you would probably have to have some gymnastics background, maybe
some parkour background. But mostly what I just want to
know is what time it is so I don't run over.
Well it's twelve, tag got a minute? Or two? Oh good,

(05:46):
you got two minutes, real estate, I might take three.
I don't know. Uh So, moving forward from the HISD
desk by way of the chronicle, comes news that HISD
thus far in the current school year has seen a
twenty percent drop in disciplinary issues on its all of

(06:07):
its campuses. That number includes things like fights, threats, drug
related stuff, cursing, bullying, and other things that might require
teacher or faculty intervention. In high schools, where most of
this stuff happens, the actual decline is twenty six percent.
And the reason the overall number was just about twenty

(06:30):
is because in elementary school and middle school there just
aren't that many incidents anyway, so they don't move the
needle that much. But the decline in high schools is
twenty six percent, which I think is great no matter
how you look at it. On the flip side, though,
HISD also has noted a one hundred and thirty three percent,

(06:53):
And don't be alarmed when I tell you what this is,
because I can kind of rationalize it and make it
sounds so scary as it will when I say it.
One hundred and thirty three percent rise in possession of
a firearm incidence. If you consider all the schools in
HISD all the students who attend those schools, the lift

(07:16):
from eighteen guns found in the prior school year to
forty two this year, it's not okay by any measure.
It's not and the district is going to add more
detection systems to reverse that trend. But I think that
finding forty two over eighteen from the prior year is

(07:39):
probably more of a reaction from the eighteen to be
looking at, be more observant, and be proactive with any
kind of mention of anything like that, more so than
they have in the past. I actually feel like they're
doing a good job, but can do better. Clearly, if
forty two kids will caught with guns, that means few

(08:02):
weren't caught, and hopefully these new detection systems are going
to put in will help to shut that down. Student
suspensions back to the good stuff for HISD. Also in decline.
Depending on the specific stat you look at, that decline
can fall within a range of about twenty five to

(08:24):
fifty percent. Credit where it's due, HISD. We have got
to take a little break here, the first of this program,
first of this edition of fifty plus. We'll do that
right now. We'll be right back, am nine P fifty
kp RC. Now. They sure don't make them like they
used to.

Speaker 1 (08:40):
That's why every few months we wash him, check his words,
and spring on a fresh code of wax.

Speaker 2 (08:47):
This is fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, welcome
back to fifty plus. Thanks for listening this afternoon. I
greatly do appreciate, as does Will. I'm sure without even asking,
I know he appreciates you all for life listening to
what we're doing here. Would you agree with that? Will
or disagree? Be careful?

Speaker 4 (09:06):
You know you say that every single time you say
be careful before I'm about to speak, And it just
there's that little odd in my mind that just wants
to be contrarian, but I won't.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
I'll bite my tongue.

Speaker 3 (09:26):
Okay, I appreciate the listeners.

Speaker 2 (09:32):
Shall be done, Well done, Will, well done? Guess what
scientists found. Will. This is some this is a fauna news.
I guess you could call it. This is animal news.
It's a discovery. Will. And they discovered it underneath the

(09:53):
the ice cap of Antarctica. What do you think they
found down there? They found giant penguins, you know, giant.
I gave you you had a shot if you'd have
just set a giant animal out of given you partial
credit because that's exactly what they found. There is video evidence. Now,

(10:14):
this is the kind of thing that fascinates me. We
do a lot of exploration of space thanks to the
Hubble and the web space telescopes, and I'm fascinated by
that a lot. But then we come to learn that
we don't know nearly as much about our own planet,
this little teeny tiny thing in the galaxy. We don't

(10:37):
know near as much as we think we do. Because
every time you turn around, it seems like if you're
looking for these stories, you find them where the scientists
have discovered something else. And this isn't like they discovered
some teeny tiny little organism. Oh no, Will, what they
have documented now on video the thing just kind of

(10:58):
swam by, kept swimming by and kept swimming by and
kept swimming by. What is being what has been called?
And it was a mystery up until now the colossal squid?
Just how big these colossal squid can grow? Will oo?
Do you have it in feet? Have it in feet?

(11:19):
All right?

Speaker 4 (11:20):
It's not miles, I will say they can grow up to.

Speaker 2 (11:25):
Forty five feet. Well, no, that would be a super
deluxe colossal squid party pooper. Nonetheless, that was a fair guess,
it really was. I would have, honestly, if I hadn't
or read this story and seen how big this squid
on the video is, I would have probably gone between
somewhere between thirty five and maybe fifty feet, So we

(11:46):
were on the same track. However, maybe this is a baby.
It might be because it's only twenty five or so
feet long, and they says here they can weigh up
to twelve hundred pounds, which, hey, I know a lot
of people right now who are thinking that's a bunch

(12:06):
of calamari. We're gonna need more cocktail sauce. Do you
agree with that? Could you eat? Do you like calamary?
I do like cal do you really? How do you
just eat it raw or not raw? But just eat it?
I don't know. I guess they boil it. Whatever they
do with it, well, I mean they boil it, though
they'll fry fry. It's not bad. Fried calamari is not bad.

(12:28):
The boiled It's just like chewing a rubber band.

Speaker 3 (12:30):
To me, I like it when I get the ones
that are like the tiny little ones. You know, that's
the's got the tentacles.

Speaker 2 (12:37):
The traditional squid, you know, the one that you hold
in your hand. Yeah, do you know how to catch squid?
There actually are squid rigs among fishermen who use them
for bait. I don't know how. It's interesting. Really. It's
this thing that kind of looks like a squid, and
you drop it down and it has sharp wires protruding
upward at about a forty five degree angle off of

(12:59):
that lure, and they go all the way around it.
And so the squid comes over to attack that thing.
It's in its territory after all. And then when you
feel that bump, you lift up and if you feel
more weight than you felt last time, you reel it
up and you got a squid hanging off one of those.

Speaker 3 (13:17):
And where are squid hanging out bars?

Speaker 2 (13:22):
Barnacles? Barnacles. Yeah. Oh god, only I had come up
with that that quickly. That was very good will. Uh yeah,
they they're in the ocean. I mean I know that,
But are they are? Are people that are fishing for squid?
Are they going off the pierfore? Mostly? Yeah, you gotta
go off shore every now and then you'll see them

(13:43):
in the bay or something like that. Somebody will snag
one or whatever. But commercial squidding is done pretty much offshore. Okay,
have you ever caught a squid? Uh? Yeah, I actually have.
We were tune efficient way way offshore and was trying
to catch some squid for bait. The guy said, and sure,
I'm game for catching any It's fun to catch the bait.

(14:05):
And so we did it, and we managed to do it. It
was at night and it worked out really well. And
what do you use to squid for to catch tuna?
Just most of the bigger pelagics offshore. Bigger the bait
to bigger the fish. Yeah. Yeah, So imagine putting a
twenty foot squid on a hook that you'd catch a whale.

(14:30):
Probably even whales have limits. Will whales don't eat twenty feet?
I know, just Josh, Well, to get mired in fishing
for a minute. I did a story years ago, and
I haven't told it on this show, but I was
studying the blue marlin feeding habits in the Atlantic and

(14:51):
the Pacific, and there was a blue marlin caught off
the Bahamas years ago, about a six hundred pound fish.
Not a giant, but a big one, and it had
in it stomach hole it had just eaten and chose
to eat a lure afterward. A five foot long white marlin,
a five foot long fish, and it had eaten that,
and then it decided, you know, I could use a snack,

(15:13):
so it ate the lure behind the boat and off
of Kona, I think it was down in Hawaii, there
was a Pacific blue marlin about the same size that
had eaten it was it, I can't remember exactly, but
it was either a seventy or a ninety pound tuna.
A seventy or ninety pound tuna hole in its belly decides,

(15:37):
you know what I could go for a lure about. Now. Wow,
I guess I never really think about just how big
marlin are. Yeah, they're very big, ten eleven twelve feet long. Wow,
the tail of a big blue marlin would be probably
from top to bottom five feet. And so when you're

(15:57):
going fishing for something like that bit, how long does
it take to reel it in? Is this you know?
Is this minute and a half? No?

Speaker 4 (16:06):
No?

Speaker 2 (16:06):
No, the last? Interestingly you asked that the last, the
first blue marlin I ever caught. It took me three
and a half hours, wow, three and a half hours.
And it wasn't big. It was a teenager. It weighed
about maybe three hundred pounds three fifty, but they're very
rambunctious at that age, the really big ones. I had
a friend in off Kona who actually fought during a tournament,

(16:29):
fought the same blue marlin. This thing. They saw it
two or three times. It had it up pretty close
and it just went back down and kept going. It
would have possibly it would have contended for a world
record at least it was big. It was. It was
well in excess of one thousand pounds, and some people
were saying fourteen to sixteen and that would have put
it in the record class. But anyway, the bottom line

(16:51):
is this guy fought his fish for something like fourteen
hours and got it up close to the boat again
and this book hook fell out of his mouth all
of that, and when you're fighting fishing tournaments and whatnot
or for records, you can't. Nobody else can touch the rod.
They can feed you, they can pour water over your back.
What did he do to go to the bathroom? You

(17:13):
just don't or you do, it doesn't matter. You just can't.
You can't just get up and walk away. So are
a competitive fishermen? Are they diapering it up? No, They're
just tough enough to sit there and take care of business.
It's all. Will you just don't eat a lot when
you sit down. Yeah. If you ever get invited to
go marlin fishing and somebody says, do you want to
be the guy who gets to reel it in? Just

(17:35):
say now, I'll watch, so I'll work the chair. I'll
tell you what that means during the break on the
way out, I'll tell you about ut Health Institute on Aging.
I'm actually hosting some people from there tonight and our
Street Sweet at the Astros game, and I look forward
to that. It's gonna be a lot of fun. They're
working hard over there at the Institute on Aging, just
like I am now, to make sure that you and

(17:56):
every other scene you're in the Greater Houston metroplex. I
think it's more than a million of us now, maybe
a million two something like that. Bottom line is we
work differently than younger people and the people who are
involved with the Institute on Aging, no matter what their
medical discipline is that got them the diploma on the
wall in their office or their clinic or wherever it is,

(18:20):
they've gone back and got an additional training so that
they can apply their knowledge specifically to us. I've been
talking about them for the better part of ten years now,
and I'm very proud to be able to do that,
and I'm very glad that they provide us with so
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who are part and Parcel, they're members, they are card

(18:43):
carrying members. I think they carry cards. I'll have to
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(19:07):
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No matter where you are. It's a great resource to have,
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(19:31):
ed U slash aging aged to perfection. This is fifty
plus with Dougpike. All right, welcome back to fifty plus.
Thanks for listening. Certainly to appreciate it. We got to
the bottom of the c in the previous segment and
talked about that big old squid. I'd be one of those,
would feed an entire nation of squid eaters, of kalamari eaters,

(19:55):
I think for quite some time. That'd be a pretty
big animal from the entertainment entertainment ask locally actually comes word,
according to results of a survey conducted by the Hobby
School of Public Affairs at the University of Houston, that
Houstonians want more entertainment options. Will are you just bored
with what Houston has to offer? And by the way,

(20:16):
as a sidebar, here. Did you come up with any
activities for the week end or did you just blow
it off? Oh? I just kind of blowed it off
this week. Easter is just enough. Yeah, that's a good point.
You know what. I'll give you a pass this week,
but I do expect, not hope, I expect that you
will do this for us next week and find someplace

(20:39):
fun to go, something fun to do for all of
the seniors in my audience and perhaps members of their families.
Fair enough, Yeah, all right, So back to the survey
done by U of h's Hobby School of Public AFFAIRSONI.
This is a poll of randomly chosen registered voters, and

(21:00):
they said mostly that they would like for Houston to
have another theme park, a contemporary version of Astro World,
if you will, which was so popular when most of
us in this audience grew up. Roughly six and ten
said they want to see a w NBA team here
again after one failed, if I'm not mistaken, and about

(21:24):
the same number would support an NHL team that's hockey,
will I know? I wasn't sure. Only half the people
polled had any interest whatsoever in a major arena soccer team,
which is that's kind of what goes on over in
Great Britain and all over Europe. Really what we have

(21:46):
here in American soccer with what's the name of that
league MLS? Yeah, yeah, Major League Soccer is smaller teams
of a very good I was good friends with Brad
Davis and Eddie Robinson. I can't recall the goalie then,

(22:07):
but he actually gave my son, when my son was
about five years old or so, gave my son up
here a pair of his gloves and he just thought
that was the coolest thing ever. There is even less interest,
by the way, in a Major League cricket team. So
there you have it. The theme park idea is great,

(22:27):
but probably right up until the time the people who
would vote for it find out how much it's going
to cost the city to invest in at least some
or possibly all of the construction of the thing, and
how low the taxes would be on it, because after all,
it would be such a big draw and they'd make

(22:48):
their money elsewhere. Lots of people said they visit such
a park at least once a year, and maybe more often,
maybe two three times. Would you do that, Will Yeah,
I would definitely, he would definitely do it. Yeah, no
matter what the ticket costs. I think initially, yeah, I
think I would. I would pay whatever it costs to
get in and then and then then try it out. Well,

(23:10):
I think I would just want to see how cool
it is. Yeah. Have you seen the cost to get
into the theme parks around the country now lately?

Speaker 3 (23:19):
Like six Flags six Flags Disney World I went to
last year. I went to Schlitterbond in Galveston. Well, no,
that's not the same. Well that's not a theme park.
Well it's it's a water it's a water park. Ticket
go to a true theme.

Speaker 2 (23:38):
Park is like a water park on steroids. Fine, so
you're looking at hundreds of dollars per ticket. Hundreds of
dollars per ticket. I just I don't know. That's call
me crazy, but that's a lot of money. Also noteworthy,
thirty or thirty seven percent of the people pulled get

(24:00):
their news from local TV and twenty nine percent that's
the scary one. Twenty nine percent get most of their
news from social media, you know, because it's always so accurate.
And that's sarcasm from the shame on the media desk comes.
What time do I have left? Now? Will you have

(24:23):
two and a half minutes. Stuff. That's time for this
from the shame on the media desk comes the White
House's reaction and that of millions of Americans to CNN
and MSNBC not airing the live White House meeting yesterday
before the press of President Trump and Patty Morin, whose
daughter Rachel, a mother of five, was killed by an

(24:47):
illegal immigrant while back. CNN did air a clip of
that heart wrenching video later in the afternoon, but MSNBC
just avoided it all together even this morning, just acted
like it never happened, acted like that woman had nothing
to say of importance to the American people. Rachel was jogging,

(25:08):
just jogging out on a morning jog when this illegal
immigrant now convicted by the way, on every count against him,
including first degree murder and many others, a guy grabbed her,
He beat her up, he raped her, and he strangled her,
and two members of this country's mainstream media totally ignored
her death and her mother's sad testimony to what how

(25:35):
that's affected her life. Stephen Miller, White House Deputy Chief Staff,
Chief of Staff and Homeland Security Advisor, said this end.
I quote CNN and MSNBC's contempt for the victims of
migrant crime is reprehensible. End quote. Stephen Miller is right.
We'll take a little break here, we will regroup, We'll

(25:59):
come to some lighter things, because there's there's just I
get tired of doing this dark stuff. I really do.
I don't like to do it. I don't want to
do it, but it keeps popping up and merits at
least mentioned so that, as I've said so many times,
so that you will go in and look into it
more deeply than I can. In a minute or two,
you will form your own opinion about it. And that's

(26:21):
all I'm trying to do is give you enough information
to prime the pump and generate your interest in it.
And if it doesn't appeal to you, if you don't
care about anything, I say, that's fine as well. You
don't have to go look it up, because at some
point in the show, I'm gonna give you something you
want to go check into. All right, we'll take this
little break here, we'll come right back. You're listening to
fifty plus on AM nine to fifty KPRC. What's life

(26:45):
without a nap? I suggest you go to bed, sleep
it off.

Speaker 1 (26:48):
Just wait until the show's over. Sleepy Back to Doug
Pike as fifty plus continues.

Speaker 2 (26:55):
Welcome back. Final segment of fifty plus celebrating Easter. And
I'm glad to do that every year. I really am
speaking up. Let's go, let's light it up a little
bit for a minute. Well, and if we have time
in a minute or two, I will go back to it.
So where's my basket? Good or bad? Or fly me

(27:19):
to the moon? Fly me to the moon? I thought
you might go there. So here's a just a pop quiz. Will.
If money were no object, it doesn't matter, it's not
going to cost you a dime. Would you go to
space like Katy Perry did this week? No? You and
my son. I think if it was on the house,

(27:41):
if my trip was comped and I could fly in
first class, Oh yeah, why not? Why not experience that?
Why would you not want to see the Earth from
that perspective? Will me? Yeah, Well, you're the only Will
in the room. Why would I not? I just don't

(28:02):
want to do it. I don't trust it. Well, you
are in the majority. Actually, fifty five percent said no way,
I'd be you know, I don't know that I would
be a thirty one percenter and say yes, but fourteen
percent said maybe that's probably where i'd fall. That's yeah,
I think that would be more me there. We do

(28:23):
have a pot story for four twenty if you want
to hear it, let's do it. A broken flower pot
not what you were waiting for. Is it a broken
flower pot in someone's yard? It doesn't even say where,
and it doesn't matter. But it ended up being a
lost work of art that even broken. Apparently this guy

(28:46):
cashed in on sixty six thousand dollars for this old
pot that was sitting out in the yard. Some art
lover probably drove by and said, maybe that's one of
his or her some famous potter throughout history, Maybe that's
one of that person's works. And they went and checked

(29:09):
it out, and sure enough it was. And one thing
led to another, and the thing sold for sixty six
thousand dollars, or maybe it hasn't sold yet. I didn't
check the details on the story, you know how I'm
about that rounding up will overreaction or did you hear
about did you hear about, oh you want to know huh?

(29:31):
An expert? And that's all the credentials that are given
to this person says that gossiping can be good for you,
and here's where I totally disagree. Said because it can
quote be a helpful way to protect us from harmful situations,
additionally providing emotional release and be a way of showing people,

(29:54):
showing the people around us what we don't want for ourselves.
Or in my line of thinking, it can be really
petty and unproductive, unproductive and mean. Would you agree with
me on gossiping? Will just come on? Sometimes? Gossiping's kind
of fun sometimes, does it give? Is it a release

(30:17):
for you? Yes? You've been holding it back? Yes, you
got I love talking smack about who careful again? Will oh,
don't worry about it? Yeah? I never reveal my sous.
I'm not gonna worry about it. That's just fine. Will
you can you can hold your counsel and keep your

(30:38):
cards closer to your chest than necessary. You know that
I don't. I don't worry about that. From the grasping
at Straw's desk. By way of Breitbart, comes word that
Hillary Clinton is going all in to protect the illegal
immigrant who was arrested and is in He was arrested

(30:59):
while in the company of MS thirteen members. He was
carrying rolls of cash marked in a way that MS
thirteen members mark US currency, and who he has been
twice accused of horrible domestic violence. But she's all in
saying that Americans of conscience, She said, they need to

(31:22):
stand against President Trump's deportation of this guy, and we
actually returned him to his home country. And just true
to liberal fear mongering, she's telling Americans that if this man,
who by the way, entered our country illegally, was arrested
with two other members of that violent gang, two judges
agreed he's a member of that gang, telling us that

(31:44):
if he can be arrested and deported, then anyone can, well,
anyone with his rap sheet can probably, but not you,
not me, unless we somehow manage to get ourselves into
that same situation. It appears that the Democrats are betting
the farm on finding a way to get the vote

(32:04):
for the ten or twelve men million illegals they led
into this country in the past four years. They've abandoned
every good thing their party once represented. They really have,
and it's just it's frightening, and they're riding the wrong
horse and they still don't realize it. Oh, mercy, all right,
back to you Will, Back to you, Will Mulborne. Where's

(32:26):
my basket? Good or bad? Where's my baskets? What percentage
will of adults? Do you? What are you watching over there? Will?

Speaker 3 (32:37):
My goodness, I'm watching rockets highlights now I'm in on
the tv.

Speaker 2 (32:43):
Fifty seven percent of adults. I'm not going to wait
around for you to guess, because you take so long
to guess, say they wish they could get in on
an Easter egg hunt, and sixty two percent would like
to get their own basket of treats from the Easter bunny.
We're we're what level of adults are we raising? Will

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that they want to get their treats from the Easter bunny?
You know what I'm I'm not gonna say what I
was about to say. Here's the greedy part. You know
what they want to find in their Easter basket. Not
eggs full of candy, but eggs filled with what? Eggs
filled with yolk? No, they want eggs filled with gift

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cards and money. Yeah, that'd be gift card, wouldn't it though?
Just some mythical creature hops into your den and leaves
a basket of plastic eggs with money inside. Now that
doing things for kids, that's that's okay. But as an adult,

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come on, you want a basket full of gift cards,
just say it. You don't want to work hard for
your money. You just want people to take care of
you and and and pay for everything you have. I
would love that. Well, hard work is its own reward.
Will that in the paycheck you get for it? Good

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or bad?

Speaker 1 (34:12):
Or no?

Speaker 2 (34:13):
We already did fly me to the moon. I'll kick
that one off, good or bad? Or parking place, Oh,
parking place, not what you thought. National Park Week kicks
off tomorrow on Saturday, and there are sixty three national
parks in this United States of ours, and according to
the National Park Service, the most popular ones are If

(34:36):
you can name more than one of these top three
national parks, I'll I'll be impressed. Yellow Stone Nope, yellow
Stones not not top three, not top three. No, Acadia nope,
Big Ben Nope.

Speaker 4 (35:00):
At a time, are you trying to milk this for
the whole show? The White Sands is that national park?

Speaker 2 (35:07):
Nope? Somewhere in Montana. Somewhere in Montana, I don't recall
the name of that part. That's that park being named uh,
you got great smoky Mountains, Zion and the Grand Canyon.
And I think a lot of the reason that some
of these parks in the like in the in the north,

(35:27):
in the middle of the country, some of these beautiful,
beautiful places don't get the popularity grade that the others do,
is because they're not near big population centers. If you
live down the street from Grant from the Grand Canyon,
you're probably gonna go to it at least once a year,

(35:48):
maybe eight or ten times for a quick weekend trip
out there to just keep looking at it, because there's
always something new to see. But two minutes, okay, I
can deal with that. I want to go to yeah, no, no,

(36:08):
in a pickle will or Where's doze when you need it?
In a pickll A group of pickleballers in Texas. Did
we talk about this yesterday? I don't know. I can't remember.
This was here is from Here played a thirty six
hour pickleball marathon that raised eighteen eighteen thousand dollars for charity,

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most of which went to medical bills for their injuries
after playing pickleball so long. I made that part up
though we did not talk about that yesterday. That's pretty Yeah.
I mean pickleball, and I've talked about it before. I'm
if you're a pickleball player, more power to you. But
just know that pickleball is now the leading cause of
orthopedic injuries among seniors. It's pickleball. It's not jogging, it's

(37:00):
not walking, it's not golf, it's not fishing, it's not shopping,
it's not going to the movies. It's pickleball that gets
more of us hurt than anything else. Knees, Your knees
aren't supposed to do that. I was talking to some
people up in Lufkin actually on Tuesday, and the subject
of pickleball came up, and there there was a man

(37:24):
who was a great pickleball player, but he decided to,
as a single pickleball player, take on two other younger
men and he ended up blowing out, completely blowing out
a knee because pickle guy whooped. Huh, well, yeah, he
got sent to the ground, basically because pickleball is not

(37:46):
supposed to be a singles sport. It's a double sport.
Otherwise you're gonna blow something out, probably a knee likee,
possibly an ankle, I don't know. If there's anything such
as pickleball L yet, I don't know that it's been
around long enough for that to develop, but rest assured
if it isn't, it will be soon because so many

(38:08):
people are playing the game and they get so into it.
I just I tried it and it just didn't appeal
to me. It's it's like an overglown ping pong. We
gotta go, Really what and you tell me? Thanks a lot,
We'll we'll be back next week. Thank you all so
very much for listening. Audios