70 is the new 60

Today, Doug Pike discusses the 70 being the new 60, the Astros, and football.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:51):
All right, here we go for Tuesday. Thank you all
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of time. Several days of that. There's a slight dip
later this week. I have sixty one. Allegedly this is
all way out there. It's not going to be exactly that,
but around sixty one I guess on Saturday. But then
a week from Saturday. And this is what I like
about Southeast Texas. It's just it's I'm not gonna use

(02:01):
the Forest Gump reference and say it's like a box
of chocolates, but it's different every time. High of sixty
one this Saturday, one week later, high of eighty two.
If they're right, eighty two degrees in the first week
of February, which is not what anybody would have guessed.
You could have probably put a whole lot of well,

(02:22):
if it was people who live in Southeast Texas and
have for many years, somebody out of one hundred people
would have guessed it would be higher than eighty on
February the whatever that is. But not a lot of people.
In other words, just business as usual. Nothing to see
here onto the markets thanks to Houston gooldexchange dot Com

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three of the four big indicators in the green earlier,
with the NASDAC leading the way, it was up more
than a full point around eleven o'clock. Gold pushed upward
as well, again, almost twenty five dollars worth on the day,
and trading last I looked at two seven hundred and
sixty three dollars for just one little ounce of gold,

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just one. Oil moved up early as well, then down briefly,
and then most recently, not that long ago, just minutes ago,
it was back up eight cents a barrel to seventy
three and a quarter somewhere around there, Oh mercy. Plodding
into the news, I saw several people wondering. By people,

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I mean people in the media, television people. There was
one television account that I saw about this, some stuff
in print, some stuff online, wondering whether it's right to
change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the
Gulf of America. And the argument is that we shouldn't
be calling things by something other than the name that's

(03:51):
been correct forever and ever and ever, not that it's
not what we've been calling it something something. I'm trying
to think of some examples of maybe us being forced
to call things other than what they really are. I
just found it interesting that changing the name of something

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that's held that name forever somehow wrong in the case
of the Gulf of Mexico, talking about a body of water,
a body of waters, all that is, it seems like
that would be well, if you're going to change things,
I guess you can change anything you want anyway. Onward.
Borders are Tom Holman, Oh good, I have time for this.

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I want to stay here for a minute. Borders are
Tom Holman called out Selena Gomez. Have you seen what
she did?

Speaker 3 (04:42):
Well?

Speaker 2 (04:43):
Her a little video that she did, just tears in
her eyes, boohooing over President Trump's deportation of illegal immigrants,
and Holman kind of called her out on that, and
I quote from Tom Homan, borders are of this United
States of ours. I met with hundreds of angel moms

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and dads who are separated from their children because they
buried them, because they were killed by illegal aliens. We
got half a million who were sex trafficked into this country,
separated from their families, put in the hands of criminal
cartels to be smuggled into the country. Where's the tears

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for them? End quote? He makes a valid point. There
are a lot of people who are ignoring the plight
of so many innocent people, so many people who have
gotten caught up in sex trafficking and human trafficking, so

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many people who have die, young people in this country
who have died from fentanyl overdoses that made it across
border because the border had no security, little or no security,
and an administration formerly that was challenging anything that Texas

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and Arizona and New Mexico did to try to stop
the influx of all these people. Maybe maybe let's think
about what happened to those people. Maybe let's take a
little more time to really pause and wonder just exactly

(06:34):
what direction we were headed in and where we're headed now.
There's way more going on too at that border. I'm
gonna get into some of that again a little bit later.
I've got another couple of things that I wanted to
talk about there. Especially, here's the deal. I've got what
I got a minute, that's enough. I think the deal

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is that we already have so many ill legal immigrants
in this country, and among them are tens of thousands,
if not one hundred thousand, potentially really bad actors, gang members,
enemies to our country from all around the world, are

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already here, already in place, and they've been here for years.
They've been here for years now, assimilating, trying to act
like there's nothing wrong, trying to act like they're not
plotting anything against us. But they're here, and they know
that their time is numbered here too. It's limited here.
They're going to be sought and I truly truly hope

(07:39):
that we can get the worst of them out of
here before they decide to do something crazy on their
way out and try and make a statement, become martyrs somehow.
They're in here, and we've got to be very careful
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Speaker 1 (09:40):
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Speaker 2 (10:04):
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(11:30):
All right? Moving forward? If you like conspiracy theory, well
do you like conspiracy theories?

Speaker 4 (11:38):
No?

Speaker 2 (11:38):
Not at all? Yes you do? Really you don't care, No,
not even super Bowl conspiracy theories.

Speaker 4 (11:45):
Definitely not super Bowl conspiracy.

Speaker 3 (11:48):
That would be I could barely care about football in general.

Speaker 2 (11:52):
Okay, So anyway, if you do care about football generally
or otherwise, here's the deal. This year's Super Bowl logo,
which was revealed even before last year's Super Bowl, features
red and green. Red and green, which happened to be

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the primary colors of the two teams we'll see on
the field in what a week and a half or so,
That would be the Chiefs and the Eagles. Coincidence. Some
people say no, some people say the league just kind
of what do you know, It just kind of carefully
manipulated the season to put specific teams into that prestigious

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position and very lucrative position. If they get the right
two teams there at the right time and the right year,
the boy everybody's gonna want to watch. Fueling the fire,
of course, is what sure looks like special consideration being
given Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes. That seems like every time

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a defensive player so much as fingertips the guy yellow
laundry goes flying onto the field from all directions, it
might be time. I was thinking about that earlier. It
just might be time in the NFL for a special
red penalty flag for roughing the Patrick. Roughing the Patrick.
Texas got burned not once but twice in their recent

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meeting with the Chiefs back on the eighteenth over alleged
just horrible behavior toward Patrick Mahomes. NFL even fined Will
Anderson Junior Texan for beefing about the calls in that game.
NFL's never had a Super Bowl three peat, but I

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got a hunch we're about to see one. The question
is this, though, will football fans be drawn to the
game more or repelled in droves? If the Chiefs, after
having so many calls go Patrick Mahomes way, and if
you go, I can look that there's some pretty blatant

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examples of non infractions that kept Chiefs drives alive. It's
just I'm not a football referee. I don't know a
whole lot, but when I watch it, I don't see
what they saw, and most of the announcers, most of
the analysts on TV kind of agree. I don't know

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whether they're gonna bring fans to the game to watch
next year's attempt to go four times or maybe if
Philadelphia wins. I think actually they would draw more fans
if the underdog were finally to set the Chiefs down.
But if they make it across that threshold, it's it's

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anybody's guess which way football is gonna go. And will
doesn't carry either way? Right, Well, nope, not a boy,
not a boy, be true, you're true to yourself. And
I like that about you. Will. You don't make up stuff,
You'll you'll tell it like it is, Greg Abbott, our governor,
there's a night and day difference at the border. Just

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in the short time that President Trump's gotten into the
White House and started running the show. Abbot said he
couldn't recall any swifter change in government operations. And here
here's a quote from him, from Greg Abbott, and I quote,
suddenly we now have a commander in chief who cares
about national security, who cares about securing the border. End quote.

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And he's right. President Trump's also putting effort into removing
gang members from the country and keeping new ones from
getting in. Just like I said, this fight's just begun too.
These people aren't gonna go willingly. They're not just gonna
walk into the police station and say, hey, okay, I'm
ready to go home. Some of these four nationals that
are here already had been sliding in, just like I

(15:50):
talked about a little while ago, into our society for
years now. And I just hope we get him out
before they act. Ah, you want more sports news, Willer,
would you like to jump in and pick from one
of so many many good things to talk about this morning.

Speaker 3 (16:05):
What sport does the sport news. Now you're getting to
tell baseball baseball? All right, let's get baseball. Let's do baseball.

Speaker 2 (16:17):
I cannot help liking baseball as much as I do.
I grew up as a little kid playing it. I
played it into college, and I played for an amazing
team of guys who just it. It was so much
fun and I learned so much about the game inside
and out. So the bottom line is, here's where we are.

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The Astros and Alex Bregman, our superstar defensive third baseman,
have yet to come to a decision on where he's
going to play next year. Well it's his decision ultimately,
but it's all it's all playing out about to be
about money, which all these contracts are. And I don't
blame these guys for trying to get as much as

(16:59):
they can. But Alex Bregman went shopping for about thirty
million a year, and the Astros have no interest in
paying him thirty million dollars a year. But as of now,
when we've got pitchers and catchers reporting in what a
week or two, nobody else is interested in paying in

(17:20):
that kind of money either. My gut. My gut says
that he's going to be in an Astros uniform again
this season, which clearly clearly helps the team defensively. We've
we've patched up places in the infield, and even even

(17:42):
jose Al Tuveys started taking some fly balls in left
field just to see if he could maybe fill in
there sometimes when there's a shift that needs to be
made for one reason or another in the infield. We've
got a loaded infield right now, absolutely loaded with talent,
with or without Alex Bregman, by the way, but if
Bregman comes along, he'll be there as many days as

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he's healthy to be there, and the others will be
put wherever they can make the best contributions to the team.
But what Bregman's got to do is ramp up his
offensive productivity. He's top notch on with his glove, there's
no question about it, but his numbers at the plate
can and almost just have to be better. They have

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to be better this coming year otherwise it's gonna look
really bad. I got a hunch he's gonna end up here,
I really do. His agent. I think this Boris is
his name. I think I can't remember exactly. But that
guy has a habit of going after monstrous contracts and
then having them rejected by the league. That's gonna have

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to pay those big numbers. And I don't blame the
guy for going after big money. He gets a chunk
of it. You got to remember that he's not doing
this for fun, and he gets a big chunk of
money every time one of these athletes signs for a
bigger chunk of money. So more power to ing pound
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Speaker 1 (20:54):
This is fifty plus with Dougpike.

Speaker 2 (21:10):
I want to catch a tune. I feel like I've
heard it before. Will all right this one? Yeah? Of course?
This one? No, I don't think so, some other one
twelve thirty five on a nine fifty KPRC. Thanks for
listening to fifty plus as always, Will, and I are
grateful that you have allowed us to join you for lunch.

(21:31):
Or maybe you're using us as a sedative to put
you asleep. I hope not. What do you think, Will,
is that possibility? I think so wake up, Will. It's
hard to keep my eyes just dragging over there, aren't you?
Just like a lullabi? Kind of like a lullabie. I

(21:52):
ran back over to my desk to check on something
during the break, and I saw a headline on a
story that really caught my attention, frankly, and this is
It's been talked about for a better part of I
don't know, ten, fifteen, twenty years by various politicians and
non politicians. But the headline said, and I'll paraphrase because

(22:16):
I didn't write it down exactly. I didn't snapshot it
onto my phone or picture on my phone or anything.
The bottom line is there's talk that President Trump is
going to make a run at swapping out income tax
for some other means of generating revenue for the country,

(22:38):
such as perhaps just a permanent, one size fits all
sales tax, something like that, A flat tax. But in
any event, whichever way that goes, I think that I
think that it could be done far more fairly than

(23:00):
is being done now. And if you make it just
a flat tax, that means if you choose not to
spend your money, then you're not going to be you're
not going to have to pay tax, and if you
if there's no income tax. I don't know how it's
all going to work out. I really don't. It's I
could sit here and kind of go go down all

(23:21):
kinds of crazy roads on it. But a flat tax
has has made sense to me for a long time.
People who don't have as much money don't spend as
much money, and therefore wouldn't be accountable. People who have
nice things and buy nice things and have lots of
income and can afford those things would pay proportionately more. Obviously,

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So I don't I don't have a real problem with that,
but i'd love to. I'd love to see just how
it's going to be laid out and put together, and
hopefully maybe someday that'll be the case. I saw another
headline while I was over there, Tom Holman. Back to him.
We were talking about him a minute ago. Our new

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borders are is demanding an apology from the governor of
Illinois because the governor of Illinois said that ICE was
targeting schools in that state in its roundup of illegal immigrants,
and Holman said, net, that's not what's going on over here.
So that guy owes us an apology, and we'll see

(24:26):
how that turns out. There's so much, so much political
angst in this country still, even the the elections over,
the inauguration's over, we have a new president in the
White House. And just like the left wanted the right

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to fall into step and become part of the solution
and not remain part of the problem in their minds. Anyway,
now that the left wants to wants to be problematic
with elimination of illegal immigrants in this country. And there
I saw another headline over there, I said something like

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three dozen businesses in Pittsburgh had closed temporarily to avoid
what they figured were imminent raids to take illegal immigrants
out of their workforce. Well, if they've got illegal immigrants
working for them, that's a problem right right from the top,

(25:31):
I think. And some of this is gonna it's not
gonna be easy, and it's not gonna be painless to
this country, but to make sure that we can first
purge the really bad people, the violent criminals even that
are in this country still, whether they were convicted of

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something in their home country, whether they're still wanted for
something horrific in their home country, or whether they perpetrated
those acts right here on American soil, like many of
them have. They gotta go. They gotta go. I have
no intention of keeping and even incarceration and paying for

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them to be incarcerated here when they're not supposed to
be here anyway. They have a country of origin, and
the country of origin should welcome them back, well not
maybe not welcome them, but at least take them back.
We didn't ask for them to be sent over here.
And in a lot of cases, those foreign countries gathered

(26:35):
up some pretty bad actors and put them on planes
and got them in a position to get into this country,
which they did. And hopefully we'll get this squared away
all right, will I'm bringing you in? Are you ready? Yes?
Attention hogs? Exactly how did they determine that? And what's

(26:57):
for brunch? What's for brunch? I knew I could get
you with something food related sixty one percent of gen
zeers will cannot make what remember the title? You can
probably make you so you can figure it out if
you remember what I just told you was the title
of that. They can't make a bobosa. No, it's not liquid,

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it's solid.

Speaker 4 (27:23):
They can't make a say it, oh you almost said it?
A napkin?

Speaker 2 (27:29):
Oh god? An omelet?

Speaker 4 (27:32):
Will?

Speaker 2 (27:33):
Can you make an omelet?

Speaker 4 (27:34):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (27:35):
So?

Speaker 2 (27:36):
Milk or no milk with the eggs? No milk, okay,
a little fluffier.

Speaker 4 (27:41):
In that way you put milk in your eggs?

Speaker 2 (27:44):
Have you ever not? Have you never done that? A
little bit like maybe a tablespoon of milk with two
eggs you need, but it's a little frothier. You put
butter in your eggs before.

Speaker 4 (27:56):
You know, as you're as on the pay.

Speaker 2 (28:01):
Well, yeah, on the pan you have to put a
little bit yeah yeah, to keep it all well not well,
the non stick pans, now they're not bad. Most of
them kind of work mostly.

Speaker 4 (28:10):
But you cook it in butter and a little olive oil.

Speaker 2 (28:14):
She's spray and we're done and nothing sticks. Man, I
don't mind. You know, the thought of dropping a pad
of butter in there, though, sounds more appealing to me. Yeah,
of col like that, you know, I can just yeah,
why why is that late? Why? Why?

Speaker 4 (28:34):
Why not just get a little little pat you know.

Speaker 2 (28:37):
Well, thank you, chef, thanks for that.

Speaker 4 (28:40):
What's wrong with that?

Speaker 1 (28:41):
What's that?

Speaker 2 (28:41):
Obnoxious? Mean chef's name? I can't think of heart and hum?
Oh gosh what Gordon Ramsey? Yeah he can, boy, he
can mix it up with people if he doesn't like
what they're cooking candy and just throw it on the floor,
throw it across the kitchen. Sure, get this out of here.

Speaker 4 (28:59):
It's bad.

Speaker 2 (29:00):
This is horrible. I'm not a bad cook. You know
who's a good cook in my family? The best cook
in my family, honestly, my son. Oh yeah, he makes oh,
eggs benedict. He can make an egg benedict. Oh yeah.
It makes his own holiday sauce too. Wow, not kidding.
He took he took cooking lessons. Lessons will for the
better part of I want to say, six summers. He

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and he learned to cook a lot of cool stuff. Man,
he really did. And he remembers how to do all
that too. He'll get in the kitchen and just randomly
whip up something and it's like, hey, man, make something
for me that sounds good and it looks good and
it tastes good. Oh I want. Oh we're out of time,
aren't we.

Speaker 3 (29:38):
Yah?

Speaker 4 (29:39):
Dang it.

Speaker 2 (29:40):
I've got more for you when we get back, and
uh more interesting stuff from all the way out in
California to the gift that just boy, if you thought
Florida was full of weirdos, wait till you hear what
the California government has in mind. Now we'll take a
little break. We'll be right back. You're listening to fifty
plus and we certainly do appreciate it. On AM nine

(30:01):
fifty KPRC. What's life without a net? I suggest you
go to bed, sleep it off.

Speaker 1 (30:07):
Just wait until the show's over, sleepy. Back to Doug
Pike as fifty plus continues.

Speaker 2 (30:20):
All right, welcome back to fifty plus. Thanks for listening.
Certainly to appreciate it. Well. I saw something yesterday on
Facebook that was kind of funny. You'll want to hear it?
Do I want to hear it? You're gonna hearing be
enthusiastic about it? Will You will? Pretty clear? It's pretty funny,
and it's it's self deprecating. It pokes fun at men,

(30:41):
So brace yourself. It said, if you're worried about Alexa
listening to all of your conversations and whatnot in the house,
know that there's they're they're introducing a new male version
because it doesn't listen to anything. Pretty funny, isn't it.

(31:01):
I think that's funny. Yeah, it's fetist. You just you
just dried up, didn't you? Your sense of humor just
dried up. I don't think my sense of humor one
to What would you give that one? You know why?
Because you haven't been married or married long enough even
to appreciate revalidity of that. Yeah, I mean I've been

(31:25):
in a relationship for six years, four of which i've
lived with the person I got thirty five Will, so
that's a longer time.

Speaker 4 (31:34):
I think it's just an old, done joke.

Speaker 2 (31:39):
How about that? And it's just not okay? Okay, well
well we'll just run with that. Okay, let me find
my pen so I can scratch out the one. Someone
has taken the pen out of here again. Will git
over there, don't worry about it, Doug, get over there.
I'll have to use my memory exactly. How did they

(32:01):
determine that? Awkwardly? Ironic or pranksters. Get ready, pranksters, get ready,
it's gonna happen. Starbucks is making changes, it says here,
to bring back the cozy coffee house vibe. They're gonna
go back to handwriting customers' names on their cups with sharpies,
and then also bringing back the condiment bars. So you

(32:21):
know they're gonna be yelling the name. They see that
name on there and they call it out right. And
I've already seen so many, so many pranks where someone
has given them a name and gotten them to shout
it out and it was something inappropriate. So if you're
one of those guys who are people who who think

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that's funny, go ahead, but just don't embarrass people. Don't
make it any worse than you have to. It's just
it's just Starbucks. They're just trying to make a living.

Speaker 1 (32:49):
All right.

Speaker 2 (32:49):
Out in California, I saw this just a little while ago,
and I can't I can't finish up without talking about it.
That state is the government there anyway, Sacramento is doubling
down on pretty much the destruction of its own state.
I think, in trying to take down the nation with
as far as I'm concerned, California actually is considering the
notion that oil companies could be sued for damage caused

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by natural disasters, not utilities. The utilities they are the
electric company. I just heard a story on Fox News
a minute ago about how there's a light pole or
some sort of some sort of equipment that was sparking
and whatnot and could have triggered those fires out there,
at least one of them. And that I think is

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a legit deal. But if this notion goes through, the upside,
I guess. The upside I guess is that the plaintiffs
would be forced to produce factual scientific evidence to that
end that the oil companies standing over here sometime somehow

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caused something that has and over there. And like I said, already,
the utility companies are are held out and can be
held responsible for stuff like wallfires. But if this goes through,
anybody and everybody who loses anything is gonna sue every
oil company in America. And just I think that blaming

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the oil companies is a bit of a stretch, I
really do. But again, it's got to be proven in
a court of law too, and that's not gonna be easy.
That would not be easy at all somehow, though California
says it's the fault of the oil companies because you know,
global warming and all. That's touchy. That's very touchy. Tell

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us something we don't already know is the headline I
put on this and this I like a lot makes
me feel pretty good. Actually, age related decline has slowed
now to the point that, to borrow a very tired phrase,
but it's apropos, seventy is the new sixty. A study

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out of England showed that people in their seventies today
have the same cognitive, locomotive, psychological, and sensory abilities as
people in their sixties did not terribly many years ago.
Also worth noting, and I think it's very relevant here,
was that fewer seventy year olds are coming down with

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serious diseases now, which I actually think is the driving
force for most of those other positive findings. If you're
not getting sick, you're staying well. If you're staying well,
you're eating well, you remain healthy, you feel good enough
to exercise, and that's that's a nice little treadmill if
you can get on it and stay on it. Okay,

(35:48):
will I'm gonna give you one more show maybe two hmm.
I'll tell you what I'll do Pompeii news and then
we'll finish with you. Is that okay with you?

Speaker 4 (35:57):
Will?

Speaker 1 (35:57):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (35:58):
Fine? So Over in Pompey, I think this is pretty cool.
Over in Pompeii, from about two thousand years ago, archaeologists
unearthed an elaborate spa that still had it's remarkably detailed
and preserved. They can really see what it was like
to hang out at one of these spas. And this
was in a private house too. This wasn't in some castle,

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while they didn't have castles over there. But whatever it was,
it wasn't owned by royalty of any sort. It was
just somebody's house and had this awesome spa in it.
The spa it was large enough to accommodate as many
as thirty people, had a cold pool, had a steam room,
and very elaborate means of keeping the water warm or cool,

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far far ahead of what you might think. The bottom
line is, I can only imagine the parties that went
on in those houses, in that house, especially if those
walls could talk. Man, there's probably a modern day equivalent
to wild body parties conducted by private homeowners I can't

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think of any names, can you will?

Speaker 3 (37:09):
Ye?

Speaker 2 (37:10):
I can't. No, don't know. Don't go there, don't go there.
We don't know, We can't judge. We don't know anything
about it. Well, we know parties happened, Yeah, we do,
we do know that. All right, awkwardly ironic prank No
already did pranksters? It all counts? And exactly how did

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they determine that those are the only three left? How
did they determine that? I don't even a British navy
vessel thought that it censors. The crew aboard that British
Navy vessel thought its censors had recorded underwater Russian drones

(37:51):
dropping devices to track the UK's nuclear subs now though
they think that in instead of drones trying to track submarines,
it was actually just a gassy whale. How do they?
How do they determine that?

Speaker 4 (38:12):
Will you guttonhead is open the hatch and take a sniff.

Speaker 2 (38:17):
You're horrible. That's so bad. I'm gonna skip the attention
hogs saying that's that's not my favorite. Here's here's one
to end on. Okay, we've got what a minute? Will yes?
So this is this falls back into that story about
the that seventy is the new sixty. And almost every

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interview I do of a medical topic of something that
we can do better at if we make improvements in
our lives, includes exercise of some sort. Even a little
can go a long way. You gotta start somewhere. And
if you can't walk around the block, walk down to
the mailbox. If you can't walk to the mailbox, walk
halfway down the driveway. And everyday activities count as exercise

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as long as they get your heart rate up. Taking
the stairs instead of taking the elevator every time in
your office building or wherever you are, carry your own
shopping bags into the house instead of having delivered right
to the countertop. Take them one at a time if
you have to. That gives you more steps, and it
gets your heart rate up. Doing laundry gets your heart
rate up. Even just getting up and sitting down a

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lot helps. Do it all, and you're gonna be healthier
and we're all gonna live longer, better lives. That's it
for now, thank you for listening. We'll be back tomorrow.
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