50+ Expo Round 2

Today, Doug Pike goes live from the 50+ Expo in Stafford.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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And now fifty plus with Doug Pike.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
All right, here we go broadcasting live today, believe it
or not, which I don't get to do very oftome,
but I'm trying to do it as much as I can.
I'm ready to go more places. And the place I'm
in right now is the Stafford Center in Stafford, as
it probably should be. I promised to be out here today.
I kept my promises a very I'll tell you a
lot about this show. I just put a video up

(01:06):
by the way on Facebook and on Instagram that kind
of shows what's going on in here in just a
quick sweep of the crowd. It had a nice crowd.
They got off to a little story. I got John
Sasma sitting here the guy who put this thing on
and sold it out, by the way, with what is
it almost seventy.

Speaker 4 (01:24):
Vendors, seventy vendors, Yes, seventy vendors. We did an expo
in October, same location. We had fifty three vendors. This
went to seventy. It sold out and I actually had
a small waiting list, you know well at the last moment.
So very excited by it. Very happy that Doug Pike

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with iHeartRadio.

Speaker 5 (01:45):
I'm going to do a plug for.

Speaker 4 (01:46):
Him, because you know what, he plugs mine. And we
all collaborate to help people. And the purpose of this
expo was called fifty plus people that are fifty and older.

Speaker 5 (01:55):
Hey, if they're forty nine. I had him in the door.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
I don't card him.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:58):
I saw a couple of people not qualify walking around here,
but they're doing stuff for their parents.

Speaker 5 (02:03):
Probably exactly.

Speaker 4 (02:04):
And that's exactly what a fifty plus expo. It's about yourself.
You know, I'm sixty seven and might not be able
to tell my age over the radio, but when I
turned fifteen, I didn't realize the next year I'd be
sixty five. Yeah, And so that's the purpose of the
expo is to help people understand financial, medical, home services,

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home improvement, whatever it may be, and just have a better,
longer life.

Speaker 5 (02:31):
And that's what I'm doing.

Speaker 4 (02:32):
That's what Doug helped me with here up Close Magazine,
four Pen independent newspaper.

Speaker 5 (02:36):
We've all come.

Speaker 4 (02:37):
Together to collaborate to get the word out to the public.
And hey, my next expo is October fourteenth.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
And tell you what, I got a pocket full of
business cards and I've learned more this time. Last time
I came out and did the show was in October, right,
I did it from here. Yeah, and I didn't really
didn't really know how to work the room and all that,
and I kind of figured it out a little bit.
And I've got literally a pocket full of business cards
now of people who I'm probably going to use their

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service at some point.

Speaker 4 (03:06):
Say, and I appreciate that it is a very diverse
expo that it is, and it's very spacey. I want
the public to come out. I know people sometimes have
walkers or wheelchairs or whatever it may be, and they
go to an event and they just feel like they're cramped.

Speaker 5 (03:20):
I have so much space here.

Speaker 4 (03:22):
I want people to feel comfortable, warm, inviting the best
vendors you can think of is what I invite. I
want the best of the best representing us here in
Fort Pink County.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
When I talked to what's the man out front with
those scooters that fold up moving Hood is his last
name Hood.

Speaker 5 (03:40):
I didn't catch his personal name now, I didn't think
it is.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
I can't remember. I've talked to him on the phone before.
And when I got when I saw it, I saw
his name come through from you, and I just got
in touch with him and we talked a couple of times.
He also does some medicare stuff. By the way, maybe
Pat Hood, I think Patrick Could. That's exactly who it is.
Patrick Could, and and Pat and I talked and he
told me about these scooters that he's got, and I, yeah,

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I saw him online. It looked kind of cute and all,
but when I got here, it actually got to physically
see how easy that thing is. Holy cow, there's going
to come a time when I'm gonna need one of those,
And if he can make one with big old beach
tires on it, I'll be first in line for that.

Speaker 5 (04:18):
I'll have one or just right along the beach.

Speaker 3 (04:22):
Oh mercy sakes well, I'm glad you did this. I'm
glad you enjoyed and invited me. I really am. I'll
keep coming as long as you'll have me out here.
It's kind of fun. It really is.

Speaker 4 (04:31):
Another fifty years, when I'm one hundred and seventeen, I'm
going to retire. So people come to October fourteenth, same location.

Speaker 5 (04:40):
It's gonna be a blast.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
Yeah it is. Thank you, John, Thank you, dopreciate it.
You bet all right? Got that, got that? Got that? Yeah,
we're good man. Thanks a lot. Appreciate you stopping by.
He's been He has been running in circles all morning long.
And the the crisis does you there's always one when
anybody puts on one of these. You can ask Don

(05:03):
Martindale from the Fishing Show. You can ask the Houston
Automotive Show people about this. No matter how much you prepare,
something always goes wonky when you put on an event
as big as this is. Now, this isn't as big
as either of the shows. I was just mentioning. But
John's doing it all by himself, and hats off that.

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The only complaint I heard this morning from all of
these vendors was that the coffee was a little late.
That's not bad. If that's the worst that he heard,
then he is in a really really good shape. Quick
look at the weather. It looks pretty darn good. I've
been outside, I've said, inside a little bit, talking to people,

(05:44):
talking to a ton of people in here. I've been
outside a good bit to go back to my car
to get two or three things that I forgot, which
is something I always do. I don't have a quick
update on the market because I had to put my
laptop away. I had access to the Wi Fi in here,
but I couldn't get it to work. So that's I'm

(06:05):
not going to bother John with that. It's it's not
that big a deal. I've got my phone here, and
I might even during this first break, I might shift
gears and go check that out on my phone and
give you an update or well, now, I bet you
guys don't really worry about that so much. So anyway,
so all of us can update our records with the

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war on with on the war with Iran, there's so
many countries now have been dragged into this conflict by
the extreme radical leadership over there. Top two, of course,
that would be US at Israel, and then one by one,
Iran started lobbing missiles into other nearby countries, and it's
got lots of missiles capable of flying significant distances. We

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don't have about one minute left, will is that right minute?
And ten? Okay a brief overview. So there's the UAE
United Arab Emirates, which has been hit by around eight
hundred Iran and missiles or drones since Saturday, and maybe
more by now. Iran chose to send drones to blow
up a luxury hotel there, which wasn't very good, then

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sent a few more into the Jebel Ali Port airport,
major hub in that region. And with one minute left,
I'm gonna have to scoodle on because there are more
countries than most of us realize that are involved. Cutter
is in there, tiny nation friendly with both the US
and Iran until Iran blew up two of its energy facilities.
Kuwait got dragged in from day one. Bahrain, where Iran

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sent drones to destroy residential buildings in its capital, and
also in Metemal, where the US Navy's fifth lead is headquartered.
Oman got hit the second day. Saudi Arabia got wrapped
up in it when Iran attacked the US embassy in
Rhage and later flew drones into the Ros Tanuur refinery.
Jordan's in it, Lebanon's in it. Iraq was hit in

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the Kurdish region where Iranian sympathizers tried to store from
the embassy in Baghdad by the way our embassy and Cyprus,
and finally the latest entries France and Germany, both of
which we're hoping and the UK both hoping, Oh, we
got to get out of here. Will says, well, that's
the end of the that's the end of all of that.
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is fifty plus with Doug Pike.

Speaker 3 (10:06):
All right, welcome back to thisss plus. Thanks for listening.
I certainly do appreciate it. On this what I believe
to be a pretty dog one nice afternoon. There's a
lot of daylight pouring into this room from outside. And no,
those aren't skylights up in the roof. I thought they
might be as bright as they are. In this segment,
we are gosh, we're going to talk to doctor Nia Mattel,

(10:29):
who is a board certified and fellowship trained medical oncologist
whose specialization is genito urinary cancers. Welcome to fifty plus, doctor.

Speaker 6 (10:39):
MATEL fine, thank you for having me.

Speaker 3 (10:42):
Oh, I'm glad to have you here because I know
nothing about this. It's the only way I can do these.
So what are the some of the simplest lifestyle changes
that we're going to talk generally about cancer here? Simple
lifestyle changes that we can make that actually will lower
our risk of developing any cancer?

Speaker 6 (11:01):
Yeah, I mean some of the things we kind of
know about, right, tobacco, smoking, but also excessive body rate,
alcohol consumption, physical inactivity. They actually make up about forty
to forty four percent of cancer cases and so they
are definitely modifiable lifestyle risk factors that we can all
work on.

Speaker 3 (11:22):
Is it safe to say that smoking is probably the
worst thing that we've intentionally done to our bodies over history.

Speaker 6 (11:30):
Yeah, I mean, it is one of the most important
modifiable risk factor. It counts for about twenty percent of
cancer cases and thirty percent of cancer that's now. The
most common cancer we associate tobacco smoking with is lung cancer. However,
bladder cancer is also their soopageal cancer. There are many
other types of cancers that are affected by smoking.

Speaker 3 (11:53):
Yeah, it's just it's not just lungs. That's I think
is a misconception with a lot of people. They think, oh, yeah,
I quit smoking, so I don't have to worry about
my lungs anymore. But you may have done damage to
something else.

Speaker 6 (12:04):
Along the way, right, That's right, that's right.

Speaker 3 (12:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (12:07):
I mean, while stopping smoking definitely helps, it helps, you know,
prevent further can service from happening, you know, the damage
may have already been done.

Speaker 3 (12:18):
Yeah, I hope not, because I smoked for a pretty
long time. It's been at least twenty years since I quit, though,
so I feel like I'm hopefully you will be.

Speaker 6 (12:30):
You definitely will be. I mean, twenty years non smoking
is amazing, and so congratulations on that. But that definitely
has helped helped you prevent to lung cancer. Hopefully.

Speaker 3 (12:41):
I'd love to tell you it all just willpower on
my part, but my wife bribed me by offering me
outdoors toys. I got two kyacks, I got there.

Speaker 1 (12:51):
You go.

Speaker 3 (12:52):
You know, well, whatever it takes, though, it took care
of it.

Speaker 6 (12:55):
That's right. She saved your life there.

Speaker 3 (12:58):
I know heavy drinking can just wreck your liver, but
is there any connection between alcohol and cancer?

Speaker 6 (13:06):
Definitely? So alcohol consumption is again one of the third
major modifiable risk factor that's about oh it's okay, it's
about three to six percent of our cancer cases, and
it can cause anything from colorectal cancer to breast cancer
to liver cancer. And so it's not just a lot
of people think, you know, drinking alcohol or heavy alcohol

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consumption can cause sorrhrosis or liver cancer, but breast cancer
is actually really up there as well for alcohol consumption.

Speaker 3 (13:35):
Oh my goodness, doctor naamytel On fifty plus here, the
more you learn, the more you learn with cancer, right,
all these things that you couldn't you couldn't relate A
to B in any way, shape or form. But now
you guys really understand all this, don't you.

Speaker 6 (13:53):
Yeah, I mean I think as we're going through this,
we're doing a lot more cancer research and we're trying
to figure out, you know, what is the real cause,
how do we prevent some of this cancer from happening?
And you know a lot of people want to know
what is in my control? How can I prevent cancer
from hans So some of these things are in our control,
some or not, unfortunately.

Speaker 3 (14:15):
Right, And let's go to a little tie to your specialization.
Should seniors who lead shall we say, active lives, should
they consider getting an HPV vaccination or is that too
late for the seniors.

Speaker 6 (14:31):
So HPV vaccine and the data behind HPV vaccine is amazing.
It's one of the best clinical trials and efficacy data
that we have for a vaccine to prevent cancer. Now, ideally,
so the HPV vaccine is made of it protects you
against nine different types of HPVs and that accounts for

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ninety percent of cervical cancer and ninety percent of anal cancer,
ninety percent of genital worth. It even prevents oral phar
angel cancer. Now, ideally, we want to give this vaccine
before you're exposed to one of these HPV viruses. And
so that's why the recommended age is around eight eight
or sorry, eleven through twelve. However, you can do a

(15:14):
catchup vaccine up to the age of twenty eight and then,
depending on on you talk to your doctor, ages twenty
seven to forty five can also consider getting HPV vaccine
as well.

Speaker 3 (15:24):
After that, it's just a waste of time.

Speaker 6 (15:25):
Huh. Well, you may have already been exposed to the
HPV virus, so at that point the vaccine may not
be as helpful, or you want to try to prevent
it before you get exposed to.

Speaker 3 (15:37):
Each bb Yeah, and what about the sun. Let's talk
skin cancer. We've got just a couple of minutes left.
How are skin cancer is more common or less common?

Speaker 1 (15:45):
Now?

Speaker 6 (15:46):
Oh, it's very much common. However, I think we're doing
a little bit better with you know, sun protection and
things of that nature. So, I mean, the guidelines say
that we should try to avoid sun exposure, especially between
the hours of ten am and four pm, wear protective clothing,
wide brimmed hats, UV blocking, you know, UV sunscreens such

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as SPV over thirty. Those things definitely help reduce the
risk of melanoma. So ninety three percent of melanoma cases
are actually caused by UV radiation and then sun tanning
beds or another big risk factor as well.

Speaker 3 (16:21):
Wow, there are myths around any and everything in the world.
What's the most common myth you hear regarding cancer prevention? So?

Speaker 6 (16:29):
Yeah, I mean the most common thing I hear in
my practice is about sugar. So if I cut out
all the sugar in my diet, will that, you know,
make the cancer cells die? And I think that's a
big myth. First of all, right, sugar is needed for
all cells in our body, healthy cells as well as
cancer cells. So by taking eliminating all the sugar does

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not starve just the cancer cells, it would starve all cells.
And so it's not that the sugar is related to
cancer risk. It's really the obesity and the metabolic effects
from that that relate to cancer.

Speaker 3 (17:03):
That makes really good sense. It does. So yeah, you
know what, Actually, we're out of time. I'm so sorry,
doctor Neiam I tell I greatly appreciate this, and I
hope we can do it again sometime.

Speaker 6 (17:13):
Of course, thank you so much for having me.

Speaker 3 (17:15):
Thank you. All right, we got to take a little
break here on the way out. Let me tell you
all about UT Health Institute on Aging, that collaborative among
thousands of providers in this region and truly nationwide if
you want to get right down to it. There's a
lot of collaboration by telecalls and phone calls and whatnot.
UT Health Institute on Aging is this collab of mostly

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providers in the med center, which you might imagine would
be the case, that's where the best medicine in the
country is. But a lot of those providers also go
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you name it. I'm in Sugarland. They come down there sometimes.
And that gives you an advantage over pretty much almost

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everybody in the because we don't have to go out
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All you gotta do is go to the website and
take a look around at all the resources and then
start your search for somebody who can help you with
what you need help with uth dot edu slash aging,
uth dot edu slash aging Aged to Perfection.

Speaker 2 (18:23):
This is fifty plus with Doug.

Speaker 3 (18:25):
Pike flyve out here. As I mentioned early early in
the program from the Stafford Center for this senior expo
put on by John Sasma, and it's been very good.
I ran into somebody whom what we've maybe a couple
of emails one did I talk to you before? I
don't remember. Oh, hold on, we'll bring I got I
gotta do that. Okay, now talk Mary.

Speaker 7 (18:48):
We didn't get to talk in person, but we did
want to change a couple of emails.

Speaker 3 (18:52):
Yeahah, So this is Mary Schlegel. She is from Three
Oaks Hospice, and hospice is one of the It's kind
of one of my hot buttons for getting somebody in
the show. And maybe we will maybe we won't with her,
but I have somebody to talk to right a net
right now, Right away, start with explaining this audience. Who
qualifies for hospice.

Speaker 7 (19:11):
So there's a lot of different qualifiers for hospice. Traditionally
it's somebody who's got a terminal diagnosis of six months.
But I do have patients that once you start getting
that extra care, it improves not only your quality of life,
but your longevity. I've had patients on hospice for years.
No wow, we have some that actually get so much care,
they do better and they graduate from hospice, meaning that
their condition has changed, they've improved, and they no longer

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qualify for hospice.

Speaker 3 (19:35):
They're kind of the lucky ones, aren't they.

Speaker 7 (19:37):
Well, it's about ten to fifteen percent, so it's not
as bad as you would think. It's kind of the
goal the sooner we get somebody on the better care,
we get them sooner. So point you have a lot
of options.

Speaker 3 (19:46):
Yeah, and once that clock starts ticking, explain this is
the thing that I get asked a lot when I
don't get that many questions about hospice, but when I do,
it's kind of like that beer commercial or whatever it is.
When I get that question, it's how much the it cost?

Speaker 7 (20:01):
So Medicare Medicaid cover it one hundred percent. Wow, some
private insurance as well as well. But I do have
some situations where you end up with younger people on
hospice in their forties, so obviously Medicare Medicaid is not
really going to be an option for them, but they
do have partial coverage through their private insurance. So we
always run financials beforehand just to make sure you're approved,
and we can find out within minutes. So you have

(20:22):
an out of network You're usually covered anywhere from twenty
to forty percent depending on your insurance.

Speaker 3 (20:26):
Okay, now you told me some sneaky new stuff. But
before you get to the good stuff that's new, talk
about what traditional hospice look like.

Speaker 7 (20:35):
So traditional hospice gets you a nurse to visit the
patient minimum of once a week. For our facility, Medicare
standards are every two weeks, but we do at least
once a week. We have hha's, which is a home
health aid. Ours are CNA's, so they come out. They
assist with grooming, bathing, and lighthouse duty depending on where
you're at. We also offer medication coverage for most medications.

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We offer supplies, so if you have somebody experiencing incontinence issues,
we cover briefs, wipes, that sort of thing. We also
cover equipment if somebody needs a hospital bed, walking, wheelchairs,
those sort of things. We also have oxygen machines or
oxygen tanks. I know in some areas out here, a
stiff breeze will take out the electricity, so an oxygen

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machine isn't going to really help you, but so we
will make sure we take that into account and make
sure you have a tank standing by and that they're
changed out as needed. Okay, so it's about having all
that like a full team working with you for your
comfort and your support based off of what your goals are.

Speaker 3 (21:35):
Mary Schlegel from Three Oaks Hospice. So now unveil, I'll
pull back the veil and I'll talk about the new
stuff that hospice can do that wasn't available years ago.

Speaker 7 (21:45):
So before hospice was originally for people who had cancer
and it was a support for them, and everybody realized, hey,
people do a lot better when they get all this
extra care. So now we offer not just traditional hospice,
which for our company, we offer massage, therapy, music therapies.
In certain cases we can get exemptions to do physical
therapy evaluations. But we also have palliative care, which is

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somebody gets a diagnosis of cancer, they're not ready to
give up, they want to fight the fight.

Speaker 2 (22:13):
Sure, we are going to.

Speaker 7 (22:14):
Be a support system for that, so you keep working
doing your treatments. You have your doctor system that you
work with, but then you'll also have access to our
nurse practitioner who will visit you once a month. We
also have coverage for all pain management medications and then
now we offer home health as well. We're partnered with
a great company that's going to be able to take
care of your in house medical needs. So if you

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have surgery or you have a wound, you don't need hospice,
but you need additional medical treatment, we can be there
daily offering that support.

Speaker 3 (22:43):
You talk about the collaboration you do with other hospice
groups and just whatever it takes, you're going to get
it for that patient.

Speaker 7 (22:49):
Right We do have situations where people don't have any insurance,
but they are transitioning into that next phase, and so
what do we do for that? Well, in some cases
we can do a charity, which is we take on
the cost for that. If we can only do so
many a month, but I have somebody who needs it,
I will work with other hospices to reach out and say, hey,
are you able to take a charity right now? And

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we coordinate as best we can to give what we
can for this patient to make sure that they are
not alone and they're not suffering.

Speaker 3 (23:15):
Mary Schlegel, thank you so very much for a few
minutes of your time. I really appreciate you coming down.
I didn't mean to take you away from where you
were supposed to be. All right, you go help some
people who need more help than me right now, and
hopefully we'll meet on great circumstances, not when I'm piled
up in a bed somewhere.

Speaker 7 (23:30):
Yeah, yeah, thanks Mary here.

Speaker 3 (23:33):
All right, Mary Schlegel, three Oaks? What's your what's your website?
Real quick? Uh?

Speaker 7 (23:40):
Three oakshospice dot com. Okay, and we'll have all our
information on palliots in the podcast quiz.

Speaker 3 (23:45):
You did very well too, three oakshospice dot com. Thank
you very much. Mary. All right, Well, how much time
do I have left here? It can't be much. Okay,
I'm gonna be kind of quiet because right now there's
singing the national anthem, and I can't you know, I
can stand up and still talk. I can do that, certainly.

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This is one thing that John Sasma does in this
expo here in Stafford Center that I really appreciate. And
every single person in here is up and at attention
and overheart. So I take that back. I see one
person typing, and I see one person eating. I don't
know what they're thinking. All right, let me get back

(24:28):
to some of my little softer stuff. I can't talk
about hospice too long without having to lighten it up. Oh,
this is this I found very interesting. Humans have visually
documented one one thousandth of one percent of the seafloor
around the world. That doesn't tell you how much water

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we have. I don't know what will. And by the way,
the webcam, this is something I was just a little
quickie before we have to go to break webcam invent
was invented so that computer science, Yes, thank them for
doing that. Somebody computer science researchers wanted to see if
there was coffee in the break room, and that is
why they can they invent at a webcam. All right,

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Speaker 3 (26:27):
Doug fifty plus live from the Stafford Center where the
show's wrapping up. Everybody's kind of taking everything down, and
I am looking all the way across this place trying
to find John Sasma, the host of the show, who
said I got lunch and I don't see it. Everybody's
walking around with their sandwiches, and I bet they're in
the far corner of the room. I may not get one.

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That's okay, though. All right, let's move on, shall we.
I've got lots of things I can cover here, Believe me,
I do. I got that. I got that. I want
to go to some of the news stuff that I
have have and I'm trying to find where I put
those pages down. Oh, here they are, I think, yeah,
I can do this from where that's at that. Yeah,

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I want to go back to this Austin, the guy
in Austin, the guy who who shot up that nightclub
and killed a bunch of people, wounded a bunch more.
I really don't understand how anybody can not go ahead
and just say this guy was retaliating for us blowing
up his country and killing many of its top leaders

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in That list continues to grow, by the way, And
the bigger question for me really is how many more
of those people are in this country right now may
be thinking the same way he does. It's a hard
way for us to kind of go through whatever this
period is going to be, But we've got to be aware,
we've got to be careful. By the way. Speaking of

(27:55):
being careful, I was talking to a guy earlier, a
man who's from I'm in La. He's out here now
in the movie business. Actually, believe it or not. I
don't know what he's doing now, but he was in
the movie business out there, and we had a really
good conversation about some of the screenplays I've got started.
And one thing he told me that we all need
to be careful of. I don't know how many of

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you go to the gym, but there is just this
new thing to be scared of. And I don't know
any other way to say it than that. So he
explained to me that he has heard that some people
are going into gyms and talking to people who look
pretty fit and they're like, wow, man, you must work
out a lot, huh. And they'll say, well, yeah, I'll

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work out five times a week. I don't drink, I
don't smoke, I don't do anything to hurt my body.
And guess what has happened. In a few cases, when
that conversation's gone on, that person leaves the gym. That
person gets either taken it right there or followed home
and taken from there. And these people are organ harvesters.

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They're looking for people who are super fit, who are
going to have super strong hearts and lungs and livers
and everything else, and they will flat take you out
because they know they can make a ton of money,
a ton of money on that. That scares of the
jeepers out of me, especially. It would scare me more
if I went to the gym regularly. I don't. I
actually do work out around the house a little bit.

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But nobody's ever asked me if I'm that fit. Might
have to look at my wife a little crazy. She
ever asked me, just how fit are you? You think, Doug?
You know, times are tough. Times are tough for everybody. Oh, mercy, Uh,
let me go. I want to go. I got rid
of that. I took care of that. Oh. By the way,
let me go back to New York City for a minute.

(29:47):
Moron Zomdani. That's how it is the way I'm going
to address him anymore. He'd been raked over social media
coles for condemning the war with Iran and actually mourning
the death of Iran's supreme leader, who happened to be,
in case you didn't know, one of the absolute worst
sponsors of terrorism on the planet. That act alone should
raise concerns over Tom Doni's long term vision for New

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York City. There's long, like five years long been talk
of the enemy within and what Mom Donnie said, and
since since, since he got into office, how he got
into office, and especially since and especially since Saturday shines
a really troubling light on him. And now that he's
been elected mayor, the people in New York City who

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put him in there are just going to have to
suck it up and try to get through that. And
I'm not so sure how they're going to do it.
I stumbled over an MSN web post in which convicted
criminals are shown reacting to their life sentences for committing
horrible crimes. The differences in their reactions caught me a

(30:53):
little bit off guard. To be frank, most notable among them, though,
was there just collective life lack of remorse. They couldn't
believe they were getting these sentences, multiple life sentences, some
get one hundred years, one hundred and fifty years, and
for the crimes they committed, those were just sentences, but

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only one of them, only one of them, a woman
convicted of repeatedly dropping an infant on its head while
she was babysitting. She's the only one who seemed to
realize and regret what she'd done on that horrible day
in her life and the life of that family. It
didn't kill that infant, thank god, but the baby suffered

(31:39):
severe brain damage and that nobody's going to get around that.
It really bothered me, It truly did, to watch these
people just act so shocked and awestruck by the severity
of the penalties they were given, when in fact that
if I'd been on that jury, I might have given
them five hundred years if that was possible. Some of

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the acts that they committed warranted. Just go to jail
and never come out from the gap. About Gavin File,
comes word that he stuck his foot in his mouth
when he blamed President Trump and the war were the
run for rising oil and gas prices. I did a
little reading on that, and here's what I found out.
A group on X wrote, and I quote, holy, you

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know what, where to start. California's oil and gas resources
are massive but underutilized. In fact, California's productions dropped by
half since two thousand and five. And that comes after
news and bragg that gas price is there. This is
what he's bragging about. He bragged that gas prices have

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stayed lower than five dollars a gallon for two years,
five bucks a gallon lower for only two years. I'm
not sure we ever got to five dollars a gallon here,
And if it's stuck around for more than two weeks,
we'd be up in arms trying to figure out what's
wrong with our great state. But we don't have that

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problem in a state that actually has oil but won't
pump it or refine it. California continues to I don't know.
It's like bragging about owning a grocery store where eggs
have only been below nine dollars for two years. Nine
dollars a dozen used to be ten or twelve dollars,
Now it's been only nine. That's great, isn't. No, it's not.

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They got billions of barrels of oil and trillions of
cubic feet of natural gas under their feet out there
on the West coast, but it's all stuck in the
ground thanks to just absolutely ridiculous policies and a nearly
impossible permitting process. They need to get Gavin out of there,
and the only I think their best shot is for

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him to make a run at president, which I don't
think he can win, especially not under current circumstances. From
this is something else, speaking of keeping an eye out
for yourself and for each other. Click to Houston had
a story of an app called I Watch Texas that
enables anyone who has it to report suspicious activity that
might be related to crime or terrorism or school safety

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related threats, stuff like that. It's a good read at
the station's website. It really isn't. It includes a long
list of reasons to use that app to make a
report online or just pick up the phone and dial
it and say, hey, I see something. I'm gonna say something.
It's really important that we all be very vigilant in
the coming year or two, or maybe even three. From

(34:37):
TV Line, I don't know how many of you watch
the Discovery Channel's Deadliest Catch, but I have sad news
from that show. While shooting it's twenty second season, a
twenty five year old deckhand on the Illusion Lady, a
guy named Todd Meadows, died during work on that season's
King Crab catches a board. I don't know how many
vessels they have out there doing all that and being

(34:59):
filmed for those guys make pretty money, pretty good money
off that stuff too, In case you didn't know it, Todd.
The story goes on. The captain, actually Rick Shelford, captain
of the illusion Lady said, and I quote the most
tragic day in the history of the illusioned Lady. Todd's
love for his children, his family, and his life was

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evident in everything he did. Right now, our hearts are
broken in a way that words can't fully express. That's
got to be hard. When you're out there in that
rough water doing that hard work for so long, you
become very close to the people you work with. I'm sure.
By the way, from the Moral Standards Desk, how much
time do I have? Will? Three minutes from the Moral

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Standards Desk comes word that NBA Center for the San
Antonio Spurs Luke Cornett has asked the Atlanta Hawks to
step away from a collaboration they did with a place
called Magic City, which is an adult entertained mcclub on Monday.
Who's calling me in the middle of the show. Oh,
Spam Risk I know him. He calls me all the time.

(36:08):
Put that down. So he's calling for them to just
shut it down. He wants the Hawks game against the
Orlando Magic to not be done in collaboration with Magic City,
saying that it would quote reflect poorly on us as
an NBA community, specifically in being complicit in the potential
objectification and mistreatment of women in our society. Well put, Luke,

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very well put. He went on to say that no
matter how a woman lands in one of those clubs,
they still deserve respect, and he is absolutely one hundred
percent right. Moving on to where do I want to
go in here? I'm going to go to Columbia University.
I have two stories from there. Let me see if

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I can find the first one, then it would all
make more sense. Doesn't matter, really, I'm just going to
go to the one I've got right in front of
me here after a brief stop there. Well, actually, yesterday
is when I talked about that the word that a
New York Supreme Court Judge, Justice Gerald Lebowitz has overturned
the disciplinary sanctions imposed on twenty two former and current

(37:15):
students who during twenty twenty four anti Israel protests overtook
a building and held staff members hostage and scared the
bejeepers out of them. I am sure, And this judge said,
you know what, yeah, let them go. Just let them
go from the New York Posts. Also the story of

(37:36):
a coalition of left wing groups intends to squash any
attempt to enforce voter ID LA in California, despite by
the way, in California a petition garnering one point three
million signatures and headed to the ballot that would say, yeah,
we're gonna do this. Of course, the left claims that
any ID required. And Jasmin Crockett was first. She had

(37:58):
that speech about she had that little line or two
about how all this suppression of the vote just because
she lost. I'm sure she wrote that a month ago.
And the problem with that is it doesn't Voter ID
makes it secure, It doesn't keep anyone from voting. Any
legal US citizen can get an official ID. Just show

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proof you're an American and you can vote. Otherwise, kindly
step out of the line. The left can't stand voter
ID rules because it gets in the way. I'm out
of here. Stafford Center's closing up. I'm closing up. Thank
you all for listening. We'll see you. Audios