February 13, 2025 • 37 mins
Today, Doug Pike interviews Elizabeth Leass about consent.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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All right, Thursday edition of the program starts right now.
Let's get into it, shall we will? Are you ready?
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Man?
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Are you ready to go? Are you ready to get
this hour taken care of here? I am in a
professional manner.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Sure. You can't make the clockwork though, and that's not
on you. I know that. I just don't know the
clock is gonna work. I just haven't pulled it up yet.
Oh so, at least you finally got loaded in. It's
recognized your presence finally. Look at you just making screens
pop over there on the wall. That's a big screen,
by the way, Do you have a TV that big
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at home? Yeah? Do you really, yeah, I don't. Mine's small.
I bought mine a long time ago, well a very
long time ago, and it was state of the art technology.
Then that's why I bought it. I didn't mind investing
a lot more money than for what I paid for
the TV I have now, which still has a beautiful picture.
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But for what I paid for that TV, I could
get one probably the size of that whole wall right there.
And I don't know. I just haven't changed yet. I'm
not really quick to change if it's not broke, I'm
not one to rush out to fix it. Not supposed
to rain. But let's yeah, 't just get straight to
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cloudy today and cool with a high of only fifty one,
which is a twenty degree departure twenty five degrees, maybe
almost thirty really from not what may maybe a week
ago when it was in the low eighties. Then there's
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a slight chance of rain for tomorrow, a little bit
better chance on Saturday, and then nice but chilly on
Sunday and Monday, when I'm supposed to play golf with
my buddy Jason from over at Primo Doors. And then
after that we get back into the seventies without rain
toward the end of the month. Won't be bad at all.
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A little bit of chili, a little bit of wet,
a little bit of this, a little bit of that.
As I said yesterday, we are we're calling this sub
season we're in right now wing part winter, part spring,
but not committed to either one for more than about
what will seventy two hours. It'll it'll kind of ride
the same train for seventy two then it just totally
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flips on its back. I hope it sees this temperature
forever fifty one. That's a little too cool, that's too
cool for school. I don't think so, you like kind
of I think it's nice. It hinders my golf game,
will and that bothers me. I'm hooed, Doug, Well, so
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what is it you're so fond of about fifty one?
It just for me a chance to say, boohoo, it
feels good, so I love it. It feels good on
my skin. Would you not rather it be about seventy? No, really, seventy?
I think seventy to seventy five even I'm okay there.
I would rather seventy to seventy five than sixty five
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to seventy even. Wow, there I've said it out loud. Yeah,
I think sixty five to seventy would be way better.
Gets warm. It gets warm at seventy five, but not intolerably,
so anyway we're getting we're diving off into the weather
weeds again. There's no reason for that. Moving of the markets,
which have been equally volatile as the weather for the
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past couple of weeks. Things turn for the better though,
this morning, after yesterday's RedFest across the board, Houston Gooldexchange
dot Com ought to be happy. I'm sure Brad's in
a good mood seeing us. How Gold up another eighteen
dollars early and was around two thousand, nine hundred and
forty six dollars an ounce, and when it hits three thousand,
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and it's probably not going to take long to get there.
When it gets there, it will be at ten times
the value I paid the last time I bought anything
for myself that was gold. And I actually sold some
of that stuff to Brad a while back when it
was about twenty four twenty five hundred dollars. And you
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know what, more power to him. He's made some money
off that stuff, and good for him. I'm sure it's
been melted down and turned into whatever he turns it into.
But nonetheless, that's twenty nine forty six is one heck
of a price for gold. Oil slipped a little bit early,
then regained almost all of that loss, still down, but
at nine point thirty this morning it was only down
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by thirteen cents a barrel. Are we are getting closer
and closer to opening the production here to unprecedented levels,
to where we can regain energy independence and just start
selling oil all over the world to anybody who is
willing to pay our price, whatever price that might be.
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That'll be a nice time. I guarantee you, it really will.
It'll be good for this country. President Trump talking about
tariffs again on Monday. He placed a twenty five percent
tariff on all steel and aluminum imports. Resident also dropped
some tariffs on China this week as well, so of
course their president drops some tariffs on us. It's quid
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pro quo. The two presidents are supposed to have a
good conversation soon about coming up with a compromise to
put an end to all this. And I have a hunch,
I have a good, strong hunch that the two of
them will meet each other as and see each other
as forces with whom to be reckoned, and will will
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strike some sort of an equitable deal among two people
who know darn well that they are power brokers in
the world, no question about it. If you weren't weren't
early enough out of bed to hear Jimmy Barrett talking
about it on kt r H this morning, allow me
to share that so won all the way over in China,
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in Shanghai, China, won a million bucks after buying a
Texas lottery ticket online. This guy man or a woman,
I don't know whether it's a he or a she,
or a him or her or what all the way
over in Shanghai, and remains anonymous to this day. There
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are a lot of coincidences surrounding this winter, and in
actually another recent case in which back to back fifty
thousand dollars winning tickets were printed at the same time.
Might be a good idea for somebody to take a
little more close look at the way the lottery's being run.
It wouldn't be the first time that someone has tinkered
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with the Texas Lottery and helped someone else to win it.
And they still they don't know who won. In Shanghai,
they just they just wired the money over there to
some unknown person with an unknown well that I guess
they know the bank account. They had to send it somewhere.
They didn't just send a sack of Nichols. Oh well,
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Speaker 1 (09:52):
Aged to Perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
All right, welcome back to fifty plus. Thanks for listening.
Certainly do appreciate it. Trying to find something on the
online and it's not showing me what I'm looking for
for some reason, I have no idea why that's so bizarre.
All right, we're back. Welcome to fifty plus as always
in thanks again for opening your ears to Will and me.
In this segment, we're going to talk about something that's
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more often I think a topic of conversation among maybe
parents and teenagers, and that is consent as it applies
to intimate settings. And yes, even seniors need to be
aware of what does and does not constitute consent, even
before before the car windows start to steam up. And
on that note, more familiar to some of us than others,
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I suppose I'll welcome Elizabeth Lee's PhD candidate at UT
Health Science Center and majoring in behavioral science and health
promotion and expert. In other words, in this welcome.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
Elizabeth, Hi, thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
You bet my pleasure. So let's just cut straight to
the chase here and start. If you would just offer
up a definition of consent as it applies to really
to dating at any age.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
Consent is a mutual, volunteery and clear agreement between everyone involved.
It should be given prior to any situation, and it
must be freely given, reversible, informed, enthusiastic, and specific. And
that's an acronym fories by principles, it's fries.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Yeah, the the enthusiastic, and just straightforward. I think it's
important too, because somebody goes, If somebody goes, oh, I guess,
so that's not really what you're looking for, is it exactly?
Speaker 5 (11:56):
That means they don't want to do it.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Yeah, you want to.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
Make sure it's not just so, but they're enthusiastic, that
they're willing and wanting, like.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Come on, let's go. That would be more enthusiastic. So
what are some of the misconceptions about consent that might
come up before or during a romantic situation among maybe
a couple of people in this audience.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
Yes, so sometimes when people are lukewarm and they're not
saying no, people sometimes take that as a yes. And
like you were just saying, enthusiasm means everything. So instead
of waiting for someone to say, oh, don't do that,
it's better to be proactive and asked before engaging any activity.
It could be a hug, even it's like, may please
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give you a hug instead of just going to hug someone.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
That's a good point. Yeah, I thought about that well,
so and let's talk about boundaries too, So at what
point do we establish these boundaries before the second glass
of wine, before the little blue pill win? And how
do we do that?
Speaker 5 (12:57):
We all have boundaries, think about limit, Yeah, and the
best way to figure out what your limits are to
know yourself, what is important to you, what your values,
what do you want and what you don't want. So
really you establish your boundaries through self reflection well before
any conversation takes part. And then when you do talk,
you want to make sure that you use clear, honest
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and direct communications, talking about what you specifically want by
using eye statements like I'm not comfortable with that, for example,
and specific.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
How do we do this? In the midst of it
seems like the day's going really well, we're sitting on
the couch watching a movie, and and do we just
kind of shut down and go totally formal and say, okay,
these are my boundaries, here's where I'm setting. How do
you do it without it becoming awkward and kind of
off putting.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
Well, when you're with someone else, it's all about connecting.
You want to connect, and for me, there's lots of
different levels of how to connect beyond just physical. There's emotional, psychological, intellectual.
So part of the fun is asking what do you like,
what don't you like, and what do you feel comfortable?
And by talking well before any spycial activity happens, then
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you are on the same page the same wavelengths as
your person. And also, I think it's really sexy if
someone actually says I want to kiss you and you
act and the non verbal and verbal response will tell
you everything.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
That's a good point and just kind of take it
one step at a time in that way, and that way,
you're not asking too much too soon, either, are you.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
Exactly? You want to check in with your partner too,
and to say is this okay?
Speaker 4 (14:38):
Do you know?
Speaker 5 (14:39):
Just having clear communication along the way, because consent to
be rescinded at any moment, and you want to make
sure what was okay with them previously or in the
prior moment is still okay with them, because people can
change their minds.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Yeah, that's a good point as well. Somebody gets started
and things start to move forward, and yes, it's just
really not working for me. I got a shut it down,
and that has to be okay, doesn't it.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
I have learned that no is a complete sentence. Yeah,
you don't have to explain yourself.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
You don't have to.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
Do anything that I simply say me no. And hopefully
you're with someone who will respect you, and if you
need to, then you can emphasize again in a more
firm way what you're not comfortable with, and then you
could be flirty and say this is what I am
comfortable with, and you could guide them.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Very good point, and I'm presuming like you were talking about,
it's a good idea to be very detailed really and
what you like and dislike, what you want and don't want,
because otherwise somebody might be confused and think you said
almost yes, and in fact you were trying to say
absolute no.
Speaker 5 (15:47):
Yes. There's two philosophies that I've heard. One is people
think it's okay until someone tells me what I can't do.
Another philosophy is not okay unless people tell me what
I can do. So it's how full to discuss that
before you do anything with the person's what camp you're on.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Elizabeth les On fifty plus. Here we're talking about consent
in relationships, especially for those of us who maybe haven't
had a lot of practice in a while. If one
person or another at some point feels like things have
gotten just a little out of hand and may or
may not go a little farther than one of them
really wanted it to go. Is there a way to
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introduce that pause button? What's the proper way? And again,
I'm trying to understand what you just.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
Said, just saying pause, and you should be learning the
way you say it. I just need to pause right now.
Let's take a break and let's talk.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Yeah, let's actually try to watch a little bit of
the movie.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
It's all about communication.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
It really is. So it's when you break it down,
that's exactly all it is is communication. And the line
of communication has to be two way, and it has
to remain open throughout the entire evening, otherwise it never
really was open.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
It was it.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
You want everyone to have a good time, sure, and
to be an effective communicator. You want to show how
you care about the other person. You're being considerate and respectful.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
In your research, Elizabeth, have you determined any, say, percentages
of men or women who who don't set boundaries before
a first kiss or maybe trying to push for more
than somebody's comfortable with early in a relationship. Are there
clear indications.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
That were one to the numbers. It's really unfortunate. Eighteen
year old plus if you are a woman, then you
probably had your consent violated at least one and four
people have reported that. If you're male, at least one
in eight. But that's related to sexual assault specifically. We've
all had our consent violated and how you deal with
it to any situation. Are we resilient? Are we learning
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from the experience? And are we doing better in our
own lives when we are making sure that we're making
sure everyone has consent, I'll ho they interact with us.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
It's all about It's all about respect and two things, respect,
I think, and patience. If you're truly if you truly
want to have a relationship with somebody, first respect and
second patience because you have to be willing to take
your time.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
Right. Yeah, I think what you're saying is really important
because it's about your common goal. What do you want
from this experience? So you want a healthy and healthy relationship,
and you want to be sustainable. So if you really
think about that and know yourself, then the best way
for anyone is to develop that empathy to think about
being in the other person's shoes and what they want
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if you were there.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
That's wonderful, good, good information across the board. Elizabeth LEAs,
thank you so very much. Believe it or not, we're
already out of time.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
It was great talking with you.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Thank you for having me go have your consent to
go to a commercial break.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
Absolutely, I'm enthusiastic.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Thank you so very much. Really, this was very good.
Thank you. All right, we got to take a little
break here all the way out. Ut House Institute on
Aging is where you can go online the website uth
dot edu slash aging. I'll tell you again in a minute,
and there you will find innumerable resources that are of
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value to seniors. That's what this whole Institute on Aging
is about, is special attention to seniors. Everybody who's involved,
everybody from from nurses to nurse practitioners all the way
up to neurosurgeons. Everybody who's involved in the Institute on
Aging has taken it upon themselves. They've taken time out
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of their days to get more training, additional training in
how they can apply their area of expertise specifically to seniors.
And when you're one of them, one of us, that's important.
That's important that the person you're seeing and asking for
medical opinions and medical treatment knows what makes our bodies tick,
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knows what makes us different from younger people, and we
are quite different. You start by looking in the mirror
and see that uth dot edu slash aging. Most of
these most of these people work in the medical center,
but they also most of them have days or two
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that they work in outlying clinics and hospitals. So that
anybody who needs to see someone who knows about seniors
can do that regardless of where they are in this
greater metropolitan area of ours Metropolitan Houston, uth dot edu
slash aging, uth dot edu slash aging.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Now, they sure don't make them like they used to.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
That's why every few months we wash them, check us
fluids and spring on a fresh cod o wax.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
This is fifty plus with Dougpike.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Here we go.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Segment starting up right now. Where is all my tablework
that I had? Where? Oh, where did it go? Thanks
to Elizabeth Lease by the way for her contributions. And
this is something that I think you'd be surprised if
I dug into it to find out how much dating
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there is still in the senior community, especially at places
where seniors gather, in assisted living facilities, in senior neighborhoods
and communities where only seniors live. There's a lot going on.
There's a lot going on, a lot more than you
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would think, according to all of my sources, and I
have a few. I have a few who have shared
what they've learned and seen in their time in the
field and in these buildings and whatnot, the stories that
are told by employees there and whatnot. The fire still burns,
the flame is still alive, and good power, good good
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for these people. I have no problem with that at all.
I hope I'm still sparky when I get super super old.
And I don't know whether I think, yeah, I'll probably
go before my wife does. Certainly she's considerably my junior,
and takes good care of herself. She really does. She
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works very hard to take care of herself, and I
applaud her for that. The Venezuelan gang trend to o'ragua
that they were being tipped off to upcoming raids by
ice shouldn't be surprising to anybody who understands the politics
and the just the agenda of a lot of people
in our country. But what bothers me, what concerns me,
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really is that the sol course of those communications, it's
becoming clearer and clearer, more clear than ever. Really, it
probably came from within the FBI. I've waited a long
time to and just maintain faith in that piece of
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our national security puzzle, wanting to believe that it couldn't be,
couldn't be involved in something like this, really, But it's
looking increasingly like I was wrong. I still don't think
the whole department is nothing but rotten apples, and most
of the men and women who work for the FBI
probably are dedicated to upholding the law, to tracking down
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the worst of the bad guys in this country. But
I am glad that it's the whole department has come
under the Bureau has come under closer scrutiny. Borders are
Tom Holmans said this week that the leaker, the person
who gave these people that chance to get away, these horrible,
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very violent people, is quite likely someone within the FBI,
and that there is at least a person, if not more,
currently under investigation for just that, just that situation. It's horrible. Uh.
Further revealing their devotion to former President Biden, mainstream media
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outlets lay and blame for January's inflation numbers on President Trump,
the guy who didn't take office till the twentieth, by
the way, or whatever day it was. And they are
really quick to note that the incoming president said he'd
address inflation from day one. Well, he did say that.
And here's the way I look at it. If I
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told you I was going to paint my entire neighborhood,
got a lot going on. I want to paint my
entire neighborhood. And I'm gonna clean out all the underbrush
at the park down the street, and I'm gonna what
else am I go gonna do. I'm gonna build some
more houses on some vacant property down the way, and
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I'm gonna start on all of that stuff on day one?
Would you expect me to finish that project? On day two?
President Trump inherited one of the worst economies in American history.
That the product of the Biden printing trillions of dollars
we didn't have to cover the cost of thousands of
programs and agencies we didn't need and still don't that
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and all the other messes the Biden crew left in
their wake, and the hurdles that were put up deliberately
to slow him down just in case he won. Well,
he did win, and he's having to deal with all
of that, and he's tackling every one of them one
by one, and he's gonna need a few minutes. He's
gonna need a few minutes to get this country back
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on a favorable course. There's just so much has already
been done, more than any president in history has done
in less than a month. Just doesn't I don't have
time to read all the things that have already been done,
all the executive orders that have been put in place,
and hopefully we'll we'll continue to move forward with this,
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all right, will I'm coming to you, Potna, let me
get to this piece of paper that I can turn
over because for some reason it printed both sides on me. Oh,
by the way, you know what today is? Well, let
me see what it says up here.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
No, you don't have it.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
What is today? Will National Blank Day? National Valentine's Eve?
No no, no, no, no, no no no, far more,
far more tied to us than to red hearts and
chocolate candy to us. What do you mean?
Speaker 4 (26:40):
Well?
Speaker 1 (26:41):
You and me?
Speaker 2 (26:42):
You and you and me and Kenny and Eddie and Brian.
It's tied to a Dana Michael old National Radio People's Day,
Leave the people out National Radio Day?
Speaker 1 (26:59):
It is it is?
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Who knew?
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (27:02):
I don't think the office even new. Doesn't it just
make you tingle all over?
Speaker 4 (27:06):
No?
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Doesn't it just not make you tingle at all?
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Zero percent does nothing on the tingleometer here at zero.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
Unless I step out of this studio and I see
some big spread, I would say all of our normals.
I want al Tempo, I want Rudies, I want everything
out there one.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Soon, very soon. Will you know what we're gonna have
in here for a little bit? What berry Hill? Have
you ever eaten at berry Hill? Is that the fish
Taco place? It is now a long time ago, but
there's only one location left. Wow, there's only one, and
it's out in sugar Lin and it's right by me.
And my wife happened to be fans of the place
and eat there, I would say at least once every
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couple of weeks, and possibly it depends on our mood
and whatnot, but yeah, she a big fan of the
Baja chicken taco and I a big fan of the
seafood and shiladas with the cream sauce, not the red sauce.
The red sauce. It and I don't get along real
well if I eat it too late at night, so
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I just don't do it mine. Is there only one?
I remember there being a few locations there were, and
one by one I don't know there was. There was
some internal stuff that I've been privy to. That share
shed a little bit of light on that situation. But
it doesn't matter because the one store that's still there
is run by the the the wife of the man
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who founded the whole deal when there were lots of locations.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
He's the son.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
We're gonna have that today, No, not today. I'm working
on that deal. I've got it mostly done in fact, you,
Why are you telling me this right now? I thought
there was gonna be fish talks to make your mouth water.
That's yeah, that's not it's not what I want. I
gotta work after this. Ah right, we gotta get a
break in here. You're just making me late again, will
I know you're gonna blame it on me? The Fishing Show.
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Comma where I'm going right after this show, Comma with
my buddy Joe Doggett, with whom I worked at the
newspaper here for well, I was there twenty three years.
He was there, I want to say thirty two, thirty
four or something like that, and man, oh man, did
we do our share of fishing back Then we are
gonna go to the Fishing Show. We're gonna walk all
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over the place, see how many people we could say hello,
to learn about the new stuff, which is always fun,
and then hopefully run into some of you. Maybe if
you can catch me walking between I've got on the
blue Kobe Stevens shirt that has the iHeart logo on it,
and I'm gonna have some passes in my back pocket
(29:44):
that will get you into that show free today. If
you happen to be out there and you happen to
see me walking up and you come over and ask
me for an entry or two they're yours, okay, and
don Martindale. If you hear me talk talking about this
and giving away free tickets, I apologize, but that's what
they're for. That's why you gave them to me. It's
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just more money that those people will spend on fishing
gear once they get in there. Once you get in,
if you're a fisherman at all, you're not going to
be able to leave empty handed. You're going to find
something you just have to have, like all of us do.
And if you are new to fishing, be sure to
take advantage of all the guides in there, all the
factory reps, all the people who can help you learn
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more about fishing, so that when you do get a
chance to go, your odds are better of catching more fish.
There are seminars going on all day long, all the
way through Sunday afternoon when they start shutting down. There's
kids clinics over the weekend. There are dozens of fully
rigged boats, more than one hundred kayaks in the building,
(30:49):
and it's all this is the unofficial beginning of spring
of real Spring of Fishing dedicated fishing season here and
it's the fiftieth Annual Fishing Show right over there in
the George ar Brown Convention Center. Started yesterday, runs through Sunday.
If you want to check out that schedule first to
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see us find a seminar you like. I'm gonna try
to get their Saturday for Chester Moore's seminar on great
white sharks. That's gonna be a go in the Gulf
of Mexico. By the way, great whites in the gulf,
and there are more of them than you think, and
they'll come closer to the shore than you think as well.
Houston Fishingshow dot Com, Houston Fishingshow dot Com.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Old guys rule, and of course women never get old.
If you want to avoid sleeping on the couch.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Oh, I think that sounds like a good plan. Fifty
plus continues. Here's more with Doug.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
All right, welcome back. Final segment of the program starts
right now. Let's talk about trucks. Let's do that will
because I found out today that where did it go?
I want? I want to go right straight to it.
Where Where did it go? Is this one? Yes? This
one over here?
Speaker 4 (32:15):
Here?
Speaker 2 (32:15):
It is after forty two years. Forty two years the
F one fifty built by Ford. I've owned two of
those in my life. The F one fifty was the
best selling vehicle for forty two years and it was
dethroned in twenty twenty four by the Toyota RAV four.
(32:38):
Will says, that's cause for rejoice. Make your case, will,
I think less people on the road driving big, old
trucks that they don't need, and go into something smaller,
maybe a little bit more economical, something that get you
(33:00):
from a to B safely. I mean, I'm so tiredsafe
about a pickup truck. There's nothing there's nothing unsafe about
a pickup truck.
Speaker 4 (33:10):
Sy.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
But you also don't need that big of a car
A lot, I will. I will concede that a lot
of people who drive pickup trucks, especially well, any pickup truck,
but including F one fifties, a lot of them don't
need it. They will never put anything bigger than a
(33:31):
picnic basket in their vehicle, and they really don't need it.
They just want it for the cool factor, and it's
not cool. It is no, it's not trucks are cool
trucks or zero percent anything that has truck nuts on it.
Excuse me, truck nuts? Have you seen those? Yes, I
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have seen those little attachments?
Speaker 4 (33:58):
No?
Speaker 2 (33:58):
No, yeah, cool dude, Well that's not that's cool.
Speaker 5 (34:03):
I will.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
I will tell you though, that in the times that
I've owned trucks, I've been glad to have them more
often than not. For one truck's life was spent on
the prairie west of town, riding through muddy fields and
delivering hunters to the middle, just all over the place,
and it was used as a truck. My more recent
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truck was a little more gussied up, but it still
functioned for me because I was driving all over ranches.
I was driving all over farms, and I'm not a
rancher or a farmer, but I had access to those places,
and it allowed me to go into areas on those
properties that I could not have gotten to in anything
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but a truck and carry stuff that I couldn't have
carried in anything but a truck. So I used my
truck as a truck. Now I'm in an suv, a
full size suv, and I'm perfectly happy with that. I
haven't had to cancel any plans because I don't have
a pickup truck, and this thing allows me to carry
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all that stuff a little more comfortably. Comfortably, frankly, everything
but surfboard. Surfboards are awkward with pickup trucks because they
really don't fit inside the cab. In my suv, I
can carry a nine and a half foot surfboard. I
know that already front to back, and it is a
little bit cumbersome if there's more than one other person
in the vehicle with me. But nonetheless, the suv is
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now serving me in my seniority. And if I need
a truck, I can just call my son because he's
got one. He's sixteen. Yeah, I know, he's seventeen now,
good heavens, he's seventeen years old. He's got a still
relatively new truck, and if I need something hauled, I'm
gonna call him. It's not a full sized truck. I
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didn't want to start him in his first vehicle as
that and have him bouncing off of light poles and
curves and stuff. Oh he's learning, and he's doing a
great job too. By the way. He's a good kid,
he really is. He's a little hard headed, but seventeen
year olds tend to be that way sometimes depends on
the seat. Won't be long now or no more do
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it yourself dresses? No more, do it yourself dresses? Thanks
for asking. Joanne Fabrics closing more than half of its
eight hundred stores as it navigates bankruptcy. That place was
super popular when I was very young, and even into adulthood.
(36:39):
I knew if I if my mother called me and said, hey,
I need something from joe Anne's, will you go get
it for me? I could say yes, and in all
confidence know exactly where it was and how to go
buy that for her. Now people are they're so fancy
in a lot of places that they just buy store
bought clothes, and yet Joeann's is struggling, and it just
(37:02):
it's a sign of the times unfortunately. Oh man, thirty seconds,
I will yep, let me see if I can find one.
Oh this I like. Victims of a home invasion. Just
remember this if you ever are in this situation. Victims
of a home invasion outsmarted the thieves by going outside
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and stealing their getaway car, which was still on and
running in the driveway.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
So if you're a home invasion guy, remember to take
your keys with you before you go in. That's it
for today. We'll see it tomorrow. Thanks for listening. I'll
see at the Fishing Show. Audios
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Man?
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this hour taken care of here? I am in a
professional manner.
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Yes.
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Sure. You can't make the clockwork though, and that's not
on you. I know that. I just don't know the
clock is gonna work. I just haven't pulled it up yet.
Oh so, at least you finally got loaded in. It's
recognized your presence finally. Look at you just making screens
pop over there on the wall. That's a big screen,
by the way, Do you have a TV that big
(01:20):
at home? Yeah? Do you really, yeah, I don't. Mine's small.
I bought mine a long time ago, well a very
long time ago, and it was state of the art technology.
Then that's why I bought it. I didn't mind investing
a lot more money than for what I paid for
the TV I have now, which still has a beautiful picture.
(01:42):
But for what I paid for that TV, I could
get one probably the size of that whole wall right there.
And I don't know. I just haven't changed yet. I'm
not really quick to change if it's not broke, I'm
not one to rush out to fix it. Not supposed
to rain. But let's yeah, 't just get straight to
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Texas iaq dot net go check them out. So officially
cloudy today and cool with a high of only fifty one,
which is a twenty degree departure twenty five degrees, maybe
almost thirty really from not what may maybe a week
ago when it was in the low eighties. Then there's
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a slight chance of rain for tomorrow, a little bit
better chance on Saturday, and then nice but chilly on
Sunday and Monday, when I'm supposed to play golf with
my buddy Jason from over at Primo Doors. And then
after that we get back into the seventies without rain
toward the end of the month. Won't be bad at all.
(03:05):
A little bit of chili, a little bit of wet,
a little bit of this, a little bit of that.
As I said yesterday, we are we're calling this sub
season we're in right now wing part winter, part spring,
but not committed to either one for more than about
what will seventy two hours. It'll it'll kind of ride
the same train for seventy two then it just totally
(03:25):
flips on its back. I hope it sees this temperature
forever fifty one. That's a little too cool, that's too
cool for school. I don't think so, you like kind
of I think it's nice. It hinders my golf game,
will and that bothers me. I'm hooed, Doug, Well, so
(03:46):
what is it you're so fond of about fifty one?
It just for me a chance to say, boohoo, it
feels good, so I love it. It feels good on
my skin. Would you not rather it be about seventy? No, really, seventy?
I think seventy to seventy five even I'm okay there.
I would rather seventy to seventy five than sixty five
(04:06):
to seventy even. Wow, there I've said it out loud. Yeah,
I think sixty five to seventy would be way better.
Gets warm. It gets warm at seventy five, but not intolerably,
so anyway we're getting we're diving off into the weather
weeds again. There's no reason for that. Moving of the markets,
which have been equally volatile as the weather for the
(04:26):
past couple of weeks. Things turn for the better though,
this morning, after yesterday's RedFest across the board, Houston Gooldexchange
dot Com ought to be happy. I'm sure Brad's in
a good mood seeing us. How Gold up another eighteen
dollars early and was around two thousand, nine hundred and
forty six dollars an ounce, and when it hits three thousand,
(04:50):
and it's probably not going to take long to get there.
When it gets there, it will be at ten times
the value I paid the last time I bought anything
for myself that was gold. And I actually sold some
of that stuff to Brad a while back when it
was about twenty four twenty five hundred dollars. And you
(05:11):
know what, more power to him. He's made some money
off that stuff, and good for him. I'm sure it's
been melted down and turned into whatever he turns it into.
But nonetheless, that's twenty nine forty six is one heck
of a price for gold. Oil slipped a little bit early,
then regained almost all of that loss, still down, but
at nine point thirty this morning it was only down
(05:32):
by thirteen cents a barrel. Are we are getting closer
and closer to opening the production here to unprecedented levels,
to where we can regain energy independence and just start
selling oil all over the world to anybody who is
willing to pay our price, whatever price that might be.
(05:53):
That'll be a nice time. I guarantee you, it really will.
It'll be good for this country. President Trump talking about
tariffs again on Monday. He placed a twenty five percent
tariff on all steel and aluminum imports. Resident also dropped
some tariffs on China this week as well, so of
course their president drops some tariffs on us. It's quid
(06:15):
pro quo. The two presidents are supposed to have a
good conversation soon about coming up with a compromise to
put an end to all this. And I have a hunch,
I have a good, strong hunch that the two of
them will meet each other as and see each other
as forces with whom to be reckoned, and will will
(06:40):
strike some sort of an equitable deal among two people
who know darn well that they are power brokers in
the world, no question about it. If you weren't weren't
early enough out of bed to hear Jimmy Barrett talking
about it on kt r H this morning, allow me
to share that so won all the way over in China,
(07:03):
in Shanghai, China, won a million bucks after buying a
Texas lottery ticket online. This guy man or a woman,
I don't know whether it's a he or a she,
or a him or her or what all the way
over in Shanghai, and remains anonymous to this day. There
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are a lot of coincidences surrounding this winter, and in
actually another recent case in which back to back fifty
thousand dollars winning tickets were printed at the same time.
Might be a good idea for somebody to take a
little more close look at the way the lottery's being run.
It wouldn't be the first time that someone has tinkered
(07:45):
with the Texas Lottery and helped someone else to win it.
And they still they don't know who won. In Shanghai,
they just they just wired the money over there to
some unknown person with an unknown well that I guess
they know the bank account. They had to send it somewhere.
They didn't just send a sack of Nichols. Oh well,
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we got to take a little break here. On the
way out, I will tell you about a late health
and all the wonderful things it does for people like
you and me and really any age, but primarily what
they work on as seniors, because it's mostly we who
end up with issues that can be treated with vascular procedures.
They go in and either open up or plug up
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arteries and veins and all these things that happen in
our bodies. For example, that the most common procedure they
do over. There is called prostate artery embolization for senior
men who wind up with issues going to the bathroom
two or three times an hour, not finishing, not emptying completely,
starting and stopping, and problems in the bedroom and just
(08:49):
all kinds of things up and down all night going
to the bathroom. None of that's pleasant, but all of
that can be alleviated with prostate embolization. And they do
everything right in their clinics around town. There's more than one,
so there's always going to be somebody close to you
who can help you with this. They also do fibroids
in women. They take care of that issue. They take
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care of ugly veins, they take care of even in
some cases head pains, which can be alleviated with vascular procedures.
It's all done right there in the office too, no
trip to the hospital. Most of what they do is
covered by Medicare and Medicaid as well, and regenerative medicine.
I'm neglected to mention that until just now too, which
is proving extremely beneficial to those who suffer chronic pain.
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Aged to Perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
All right, welcome back to fifty plus. Thanks for listening.
Certainly do appreciate it. Trying to find something on the
online and it's not showing me what I'm looking for
for some reason, I have no idea why that's so bizarre.
All right, we're back. Welcome to fifty plus as always
in thanks again for opening your ears to Will and me.
In this segment, we're going to talk about something that's
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more often I think a topic of conversation among maybe
parents and teenagers, and that is consent as it applies
to intimate settings. And yes, even seniors need to be
aware of what does and does not constitute consent, even
before before the car windows start to steam up. And
on that note, more familiar to some of us than others,
(10:57):
I suppose I'll welcome Elizabeth Lee's PhD candidate at UT
Health Science Center and majoring in behavioral science and health
promotion and expert. In other words, in this welcome.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
Elizabeth, Hi, thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
You bet my pleasure. So let's just cut straight to
the chase here and start. If you would just offer
up a definition of consent as it applies to really
to dating at any age.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
Consent is a mutual, volunteery and clear agreement between everyone involved.
It should be given prior to any situation, and it
must be freely given, reversible, informed, enthusiastic, and specific. And
that's an acronym fories by principles, it's fries.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Yeah, the the enthusiastic, and just straightforward. I think it's
important too, because somebody goes, If somebody goes, oh, I guess,
so that's not really what you're looking for, is it exactly?
Speaker 5 (11:56):
That means they don't want to do it.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Yeah, you want to.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
Make sure it's not just so, but they're enthusiastic, that
they're willing and wanting, like.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Come on, let's go. That would be more enthusiastic. So
what are some of the misconceptions about consent that might
come up before or during a romantic situation among maybe
a couple of people in this audience.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
Yes, so sometimes when people are lukewarm and they're not
saying no, people sometimes take that as a yes. And
like you were just saying, enthusiasm means everything. So instead
of waiting for someone to say, oh, don't do that,
it's better to be proactive and asked before engaging any activity.
It could be a hug, even it's like, may please
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give you a hug instead of just going to hug someone.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
That's a good point. Yeah, I thought about that well,
so and let's talk about boundaries too, So at what
point do we establish these boundaries before the second glass
of wine, before the little blue pill win? And how
do we do that?
Speaker 5 (12:57):
We all have boundaries, think about limit, Yeah, and the
best way to figure out what your limits are to
know yourself, what is important to you, what your values,
what do you want and what you don't want. So
really you establish your boundaries through self reflection well before
any conversation takes part. And then when you do talk,
you want to make sure that you use clear, honest
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and direct communications, talking about what you specifically want by
using eye statements like I'm not comfortable with that, for example,
and specific.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
How do we do this? In the midst of it
seems like the day's going really well, we're sitting on
the couch watching a movie, and and do we just
kind of shut down and go totally formal and say, okay,
these are my boundaries, here's where I'm setting. How do
you do it without it becoming awkward and kind of
off putting.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
Well, when you're with someone else, it's all about connecting.
You want to connect, and for me, there's lots of
different levels of how to connect beyond just physical. There's emotional, psychological, intellectual.
So part of the fun is asking what do you like,
what don't you like, and what do you feel comfortable?
And by talking well before any spycial activity happens, then
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you are on the same page the same wavelengths as
your person. And also, I think it's really sexy if
someone actually says I want to kiss you and you
act and the non verbal and verbal response will tell
you everything.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
That's a good point and just kind of take it
one step at a time in that way, and that way,
you're not asking too much too soon, either, are you.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
Exactly? You want to check in with your partner too,
and to say is this okay?
Speaker 4 (14:38):
Do you know?
Speaker 5 (14:39):
Just having clear communication along the way, because consent to
be rescinded at any moment, and you want to make
sure what was okay with them previously or in the
prior moment is still okay with them, because people can
change their minds.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Yeah, that's a good point as well. Somebody gets started
and things start to move forward, and yes, it's just
really not working for me. I got a shut it down,
and that has to be okay, doesn't it.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
I have learned that no is a complete sentence. Yeah,
you don't have to explain yourself.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
You don't have to.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
Do anything that I simply say me no. And hopefully
you're with someone who will respect you, and if you
need to, then you can emphasize again in a more
firm way what you're not comfortable with, and then you
could be flirty and say this is what I am
comfortable with, and you could guide them.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Very good point, and I'm presuming like you were talking about,
it's a good idea to be very detailed really and
what you like and dislike, what you want and don't want,
because otherwise somebody might be confused and think you said
almost yes, and in fact you were trying to say
absolute no.
Speaker 5 (15:47):
Yes. There's two philosophies that I've heard. One is people
think it's okay until someone tells me what I can't do.
Another philosophy is not okay unless people tell me what
I can do. So it's how full to discuss that
before you do anything with the person's what camp you're on.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Elizabeth les On fifty plus. Here we're talking about consent
in relationships, especially for those of us who maybe haven't
had a lot of practice in a while. If one
person or another at some point feels like things have
gotten just a little out of hand and may or
may not go a little farther than one of them
really wanted it to go. Is there a way to
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introduce that pause button? What's the proper way? And again,
I'm trying to understand what you just.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
Said, just saying pause, and you should be learning the
way you say it. I just need to pause right now.
Let's take a break and let's talk.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Yeah, let's actually try to watch a little bit of
the movie.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
It's all about communication.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
It really is. So it's when you break it down,
that's exactly all it is is communication. And the line
of communication has to be two way, and it has
to remain open throughout the entire evening, otherwise it never
really was open.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
It was it.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
You want everyone to have a good time, sure, and
to be an effective communicator. You want to show how
you care about the other person. You're being considerate and respectful.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
In your research, Elizabeth, have you determined any, say, percentages
of men or women who who don't set boundaries before
a first kiss or maybe trying to push for more
than somebody's comfortable with early in a relationship. Are there
clear indications.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
That were one to the numbers. It's really unfortunate. Eighteen
year old plus if you are a woman, then you
probably had your consent violated at least one and four
people have reported that. If you're male, at least one
in eight. But that's related to sexual assault specifically. We've
all had our consent violated and how you deal with
it to any situation. Are we resilient? Are we learning
(17:51):
from the experience? And are we doing better in our
own lives when we are making sure that we're making
sure everyone has consent, I'll ho they interact with us.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
It's all about It's all about respect and two things, respect,
I think, and patience. If you're truly if you truly
want to have a relationship with somebody, first respect and
second patience because you have to be willing to take
your time.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
Right. Yeah, I think what you're saying is really important
because it's about your common goal. What do you want
from this experience? So you want a healthy and healthy relationship,
and you want to be sustainable. So if you really
think about that and know yourself, then the best way
for anyone is to develop that empathy to think about
being in the other person's shoes and what they want
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if you were there.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
That's wonderful, good, good information across the board. Elizabeth LEAs,
thank you so very much. Believe it or not, we're
already out of time.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
It was great talking with you.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Thank you for having me go have your consent to
go to a commercial break.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
Absolutely, I'm enthusiastic.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Thank you so very much. Really, this was very good.
Thank you. All right, we got to take a little
break here all the way out. Ut House Institute on
Aging is where you can go online the website uth
dot edu slash aging. I'll tell you again in a minute,
and there you will find innumerable resources that are of
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value to seniors. That's what this whole Institute on Aging
is about, is special attention to seniors. Everybody who's involved,
everybody from from nurses to nurse practitioners all the way
up to neurosurgeons. Everybody who's involved in the Institute on
Aging has taken it upon themselves. They've taken time out
(19:39):
of their days to get more training, additional training in
how they can apply their area of expertise specifically to seniors.
And when you're one of them, one of us, that's important.
That's important that the person you're seeing and asking for
medical opinions and medical treatment knows what makes our bodies tick,
(20:04):
knows what makes us different from younger people, and we
are quite different. You start by looking in the mirror
and see that uth dot edu slash aging. Most of
these most of these people work in the medical center,
but they also most of them have days or two
(20:24):
that they work in outlying clinics and hospitals. So that
anybody who needs to see someone who knows about seniors
can do that regardless of where they are in this
greater metropolitan area of ours Metropolitan Houston, uth dot edu
slash aging, uth dot edu slash aging.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Now, they sure don't make them like they used to.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
That's why every few months we wash them, check us
fluids and spring on a fresh cod o wax.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
This is fifty plus with Dougpike.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Here we go.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Segment starting up right now. Where is all my tablework
that I had? Where? Oh, where did it go? Thanks
to Elizabeth Lease by the way for her contributions. And
this is something that I think you'd be surprised if
I dug into it to find out how much dating
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there is still in the senior community, especially at places
where seniors gather, in assisted living facilities, in senior neighborhoods
and communities where only seniors live. There's a lot going on.
There's a lot going on, a lot more than you
(21:53):
would think, according to all of my sources, and I
have a few. I have a few who have shared
what they've learned and seen in their time in the
field and in these buildings and whatnot, the stories that
are told by employees there and whatnot. The fire still burns,
the flame is still alive, and good power, good good
(22:16):
for these people. I have no problem with that at all.
I hope I'm still sparky when I get super super old.
And I don't know whether I think, yeah, I'll probably
go before my wife does. Certainly she's considerably my junior,
and takes good care of herself. She really does. She
(22:36):
works very hard to take care of herself, and I
applaud her for that. The Venezuelan gang trend to o'ragua
that they were being tipped off to upcoming raids by
ice shouldn't be surprising to anybody who understands the politics
and the just the agenda of a lot of people
in our country. But what bothers me, what concerns me,
(22:59):
really is that the sol course of those communications, it's
becoming clearer and clearer, more clear than ever. Really, it
probably came from within the FBI. I've waited a long
time to and just maintain faith in that piece of
(23:19):
our national security puzzle, wanting to believe that it couldn't be,
couldn't be involved in something like this, really, But it's
looking increasingly like I was wrong. I still don't think
the whole department is nothing but rotten apples, and most
of the men and women who work for the FBI
probably are dedicated to upholding the law, to tracking down
(23:42):
the worst of the bad guys in this country. But
I am glad that it's the whole department has come
under the Bureau has come under closer scrutiny. Borders are
Tom Holmans said this week that the leaker, the person
who gave these people that chance to get away, these horrible,
(24:02):
very violent people, is quite likely someone within the FBI,
and that there is at least a person, if not more,
currently under investigation for just that, just that situation. It's horrible. Uh.
Further revealing their devotion to former President Biden, mainstream media
(24:25):
outlets lay and blame for January's inflation numbers on President Trump,
the guy who didn't take office till the twentieth, by
the way, or whatever day it was. And they are
really quick to note that the incoming president said he'd
address inflation from day one. Well, he did say that.
And here's the way I look at it. If I
(24:45):
told you I was going to paint my entire neighborhood,
got a lot going on. I want to paint my
entire neighborhood. And I'm gonna clean out all the underbrush
at the park down the street, and I'm gonna what
else am I go gonna do. I'm gonna build some
more houses on some vacant property down the way, and
(25:05):
I'm gonna start on all of that stuff on day one?
Would you expect me to finish that project? On day two?
President Trump inherited one of the worst economies in American history.
That the product of the Biden printing trillions of dollars
we didn't have to cover the cost of thousands of
programs and agencies we didn't need and still don't that
(25:27):
and all the other messes the Biden crew left in
their wake, and the hurdles that were put up deliberately
to slow him down just in case he won. Well,
he did win, and he's having to deal with all
of that, and he's tackling every one of them one
by one, and he's gonna need a few minutes. He's
gonna need a few minutes to get this country back
(25:47):
on a favorable course. There's just so much has already
been done, more than any president in history has done
in less than a month. Just doesn't I don't have
time to read all the things that have already been done,
all the executive orders that have been put in place,
and hopefully we'll we'll continue to move forward with this,
(26:10):
all right, will I'm coming to you, Potna, let me
get to this piece of paper that I can turn
over because for some reason it printed both sides on me. Oh,
by the way, you know what today is? Well, let
me see what it says up here.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
No, you don't have it.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
What is today? Will National Blank Day? National Valentine's Eve?
No no, no, no, no, no no no, far more,
far more tied to us than to red hearts and
chocolate candy to us. What do you mean?
Speaker 4 (26:40):
Well?
Speaker 1 (26:41):
You and me?
Speaker 2 (26:42):
You and you and me and Kenny and Eddie and Brian.
It's tied to a Dana Michael old National Radio People's Day,
Leave the people out National Radio Day?
Speaker 1 (26:59):
It is it is?
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Who knew?
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (27:02):
I don't think the office even new. Doesn't it just
make you tingle all over?
Speaker 4 (27:06):
No?
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Doesn't it just not make you tingle at all?
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Zero percent does nothing on the tingleometer here at zero.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
Unless I step out of this studio and I see
some big spread, I would say all of our normals.
I want al Tempo, I want Rudies, I want everything
out there one.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Soon, very soon. Will you know what we're gonna have
in here for a little bit? What berry Hill? Have
you ever eaten at berry Hill? Is that the fish
Taco place? It is now a long time ago, but
there's only one location left. Wow, there's only one, and
it's out in sugar Lin and it's right by me.
And my wife happened to be fans of the place
and eat there, I would say at least once every
(27:50):
couple of weeks, and possibly it depends on our mood
and whatnot, but yeah, she a big fan of the
Baja chicken taco and I a big fan of the
seafood and shiladas with the cream sauce, not the red sauce.
The red sauce. It and I don't get along real
well if I eat it too late at night, so
(28:11):
I just don't do it mine. Is there only one?
I remember there being a few locations there were, and
one by one I don't know there was. There was
some internal stuff that I've been privy to. That share
shed a little bit of light on that situation. But
it doesn't matter because the one store that's still there
is run by the the the wife of the man
(28:32):
who founded the whole deal when there were lots of locations.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
He's the son.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
We're gonna have that today, No, not today. I'm working
on that deal. I've got it mostly done in fact, you,
Why are you telling me this right now? I thought
there was gonna be fish talks to make your mouth water.
That's yeah, that's not it's not what I want. I
gotta work after this. Ah right, we gotta get a
break in here. You're just making me late again, will
I know you're gonna blame it on me? The Fishing Show.
(29:01):
Comma where I'm going right after this show, Comma with
my buddy Joe Doggett, with whom I worked at the
newspaper here for well, I was there twenty three years.
He was there, I want to say thirty two, thirty
four or something like that, and man, oh man, did
we do our share of fishing back Then we are
gonna go to the Fishing Show. We're gonna walk all
(29:22):
over the place, see how many people we could say hello,
to learn about the new stuff, which is always fun,
and then hopefully run into some of you. Maybe if
you can catch me walking between I've got on the
blue Kobe Stevens shirt that has the iHeart logo on it,
and I'm gonna have some passes in my back pocket
(29:44):
that will get you into that show free today. If
you happen to be out there and you happen to
see me walking up and you come over and ask
me for an entry or two they're yours, okay, and
don Martindale. If you hear me talk talking about this
and giving away free tickets, I apologize, but that's what
they're for. That's why you gave them to me. It's
(30:06):
just more money that those people will spend on fishing
gear once they get in there. Once you get in,
if you're a fisherman at all, you're not going to
be able to leave empty handed. You're going to find
something you just have to have, like all of us do.
And if you are new to fishing, be sure to
take advantage of all the guides in there, all the
factory reps, all the people who can help you learn
(30:28):
more about fishing, so that when you do get a
chance to go, your odds are better of catching more fish.
There are seminars going on all day long, all the
way through Sunday afternoon when they start shutting down. There's
kids clinics over the weekend. There are dozens of fully
rigged boats, more than one hundred kayaks in the building,
(30:49):
and it's all this is the unofficial beginning of spring
of real Spring of Fishing dedicated fishing season here and
it's the fiftieth Annual Fishing Show right over there in
the George ar Brown Convention Center. Started yesterday, runs through Sunday.
If you want to check out that schedule first to
(31:09):
see us find a seminar you like. I'm gonna try
to get their Saturday for Chester Moore's seminar on great
white sharks. That's gonna be a go in the Gulf
of Mexico. By the way, great whites in the gulf,
and there are more of them than you think, and
they'll come closer to the shore than you think as well.
Houston Fishingshow dot Com, Houston Fishingshow dot Com.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Old guys rule, and of course women never get old.
If you want to avoid sleeping on the couch.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Oh, I think that sounds like a good plan. Fifty
plus continues. Here's more with Doug.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
All right, welcome back. Final segment of the program starts
right now. Let's talk about trucks. Let's do that will
because I found out today that where did it go?
I want? I want to go right straight to it.
Where Where did it go? Is this one? Yes? This
one over here?
Speaker 4 (32:15):
Here?
Speaker 2 (32:15):
It is after forty two years. Forty two years the
F one fifty built by Ford. I've owned two of
those in my life. The F one fifty was the
best selling vehicle for forty two years and it was
dethroned in twenty twenty four by the Toyota RAV four.
(32:38):
Will says, that's cause for rejoice. Make your case, will,
I think less people on the road driving big, old
trucks that they don't need, and go into something smaller,
maybe a little bit more economical, something that get you
(33:00):
from a to B safely. I mean, I'm so tiredsafe
about a pickup truck. There's nothing there's nothing unsafe about
a pickup truck.
Speaker 4 (33:10):
Sy.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
But you also don't need that big of a car
A lot, I will. I will concede that a lot
of people who drive pickup trucks, especially well, any pickup truck,
but including F one fifties, a lot of them don't
need it. They will never put anything bigger than a
(33:31):
picnic basket in their vehicle, and they really don't need it.
They just want it for the cool factor, and it's
not cool. It is no, it's not trucks are cool
trucks or zero percent anything that has truck nuts on it.
Excuse me, truck nuts? Have you seen those? Yes, I
(33:54):
have seen those little attachments?
Speaker 4 (33:58):
No?
Speaker 2 (33:58):
No, yeah, cool dude, Well that's not that's cool.
Speaker 5 (34:03):
I will.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
I will tell you though, that in the times that
I've owned trucks, I've been glad to have them more
often than not. For one truck's life was spent on
the prairie west of town, riding through muddy fields and
delivering hunters to the middle, just all over the place,
and it was used as a truck. My more recent
(34:26):
truck was a little more gussied up, but it still
functioned for me because I was driving all over ranches.
I was driving all over farms, and I'm not a
rancher or a farmer, but I had access to those places,
and it allowed me to go into areas on those
properties that I could not have gotten to in anything
(34:48):
but a truck and carry stuff that I couldn't have
carried in anything but a truck. So I used my
truck as a truck. Now I'm in an suv, a
full size suv, and I'm perfectly happy with that. I
haven't had to cancel any plans because I don't have
a pickup truck, and this thing allows me to carry
(35:11):
all that stuff a little more comfortably. Comfortably, frankly, everything
but surfboard. Surfboards are awkward with pickup trucks because they
really don't fit inside the cab. In my suv, I
can carry a nine and a half foot surfboard. I
know that already front to back, and it is a
little bit cumbersome if there's more than one other person
in the vehicle with me. But nonetheless, the suv is
(35:35):
now serving me in my seniority. And if I need
a truck, I can just call my son because he's
got one. He's sixteen. Yeah, I know, he's seventeen now,
good heavens, he's seventeen years old. He's got a still
relatively new truck, and if I need something hauled, I'm
gonna call him. It's not a full sized truck. I
(35:56):
didn't want to start him in his first vehicle as
that and have him bouncing off of light poles and
curves and stuff. Oh he's learning, and he's doing a
great job too. By the way. He's a good kid,
he really is. He's a little hard headed, but seventeen
year olds tend to be that way sometimes depends on
the seat. Won't be long now or no more do
(36:17):
it yourself dresses? No more, do it yourself dresses? Thanks
for asking. Joanne Fabrics closing more than half of its
eight hundred stores as it navigates bankruptcy. That place was
super popular when I was very young, and even into adulthood.
(36:39):
I knew if I if my mother called me and said, hey,
I need something from joe Anne's, will you go get
it for me? I could say yes, and in all
confidence know exactly where it was and how to go
buy that for her. Now people are they're so fancy
in a lot of places that they just buy store
bought clothes, and yet Joeann's is struggling, and it just
(37:02):
it's a sign of the times unfortunately. Oh man, thirty seconds,
I will yep, let me see if I can find one.
Oh this I like. Victims of a home invasion. Just
remember this if you ever are in this situation. Victims
of a home invasion outsmarted the thieves by going outside
(37:22):
and stealing their getaway car, which was still on and
running in the driveway.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
So if you're a home invasion guy, remember to take
your keys with you before you go in. That's it
for today. We'll see it tomorrow. Thanks for listening. I'll
see at the Fishing Show. Audios
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