Men's Health Month

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Remember when it was impossible to misplace the TV remote? Because you were the TV remote? Remember when music sounded like this?
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**Doug Pike** (0:17)
Hey John, how's it going today?

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**Doug Pike** (0:46)
All right, Thursday edition of the program starts right now. This is Fifty Plus, where I have learned a ton of information about senior stuff in the 10 plus years I've been doing this show. Thinking back to when and how Fifty Plus started and where it is today, too, I truly feel blessed and thankful that I've gotten to interview some of the country's brightest minds about all things medical and financial. We've interviewed entertainers and travel agents, home improvement people, pet people, even a little politics every now and then, everything under the sun, really, at least all that I can fit into a single hour with three chunky breaks in it. And if you listen much at all to Fifty Plus, you know I'm a pretty conservative guy. Someone who believes Americans come first, someone who welcomes immigrants who come into our country legally and swear their allegiance to our country, and somebody who's not so interested in spending billions of dollars pretty much daily pampering people who came here illegally were not the world's homeless shelter. And I do have compassion for the people who are stuck in the middle, the honest migrants who truly slipped under the fence believing they could start a better life here, get a steady job and take care of their families. I've got compassion for them and help, but I draw the line on giving things to illegal migrants that American citizens don't have and can't also get free. That's kind of where the other side loses me. Historically, the Biden administration's open border policy I think either will mark the beginning of the end for us or the beginning of a time when Americans said enough's enough with letting foreigners who have no intention of assimilating whatsoever, no thoughts of becoming American. We've just been allowing them to steal us blind, infiltrate local governments and ultimately force their beliefs on to us. That's not the America I know and it's not the America I want. Europe's already lost. I wouldn't go there if you paid me. Same for New York City, Minneapolis, Chicago to a large degree, and California, a place I once really enjoyed visiting. No thanks anymore. All pretty much invaded by literally millions of strangers now, an entire army, in some cases disguised as a religion. Are all the illegal immigrants bad people? Certainly not. Are there tens of thousands of bad ones, though, including terrorists and murderers and pedophiles and drug smugglers and human traffickers? Absolutely yes. And anyone who doesn't realize that the bad guys are grabbing all the fraudulent dollars they can before things get really ugly is delusional. But enough of that. Settle a bit. More rain and scattered thunderstorms today and tomorrow than a general easing of that rain, but still a pretty good chance all the way through the middle of next week. And on Wall Street earlier today, the Dow was up more than 570 points. I think last time I looked, it was up more than 900 points.
That's creeping up on two full interest points, but the Russell and the Nasdaq both were down early. And I think it was the Nasdaq that had rebounded the last time I looked. Been kind of a weird day the way it started out, but it certainly recovered. I haven't looked lately. Did you happen to hear, Will, what they said about the Dow or any of the markets in the report?
You've got better things to do about then, don't you? I thought so. That's all right.
Got that, got that, got that. Some of the losses early in the Nasdaq, and I don't know how to explain the recovery, but there was a story I saw this morning that said that happened behind Broadcom's revenue miss, which lets some air out of the chip balloon. Anyway, gold back north of $4,500 an ounce, and oil was down a couple of bucks a barrel, and probably going to come down a little bit more, I feel like, by the end of next week. I just have this gut feeling that things are going to straighten out, and I hope they do. Checking in to the news, a couple of stories from townhall.com, both related to politics and this first one leaning into exactly who the left is trying to put into office, essentially to serve as disruptors to common sense politics, I'm beginning to believe. In New Jersey, Democrats have planted their 12th district campaign flag in the camp of one Adam Hammoui, an Egyptian-born combat surgeon, sounds pretty good to me, but who has direct ties to Islamic terrorist groups.