October 24, 2024 • 36 mins
Today, Doug Pike interviews Dr. David D. Clarke about how adverse childhood experiences can manifest later in life.
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Welcome to fifty plus on this Thursday, Thankful Thursday, thoughtful Thursday,
any others we could use?
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Well, we talked about that yesterday.
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And we decided on thankful, and then I thought of
thoughtful whatever this morning, so I threw it in there.
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Anything else and not thorough Thursday, that's just that's just
dryst I thought that was good, you did, really?
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Yes. Anyway, barely two weeks before the election may be
a good time to take pause and just ask yourself
how you want America to treat Americans and how this
country could possibly foot the bills of another ten or
twelve million people expected to come here over the next
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four years. If the election doesn't.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Doesn't go one way or the other.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
The path we've been on for four years now is
just it's unsustainable already, and it just impossible to continue
without turning the United States of America into a big
fat socialist country.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
And I don't want that.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Before we get to my usual glimpse of you know what, No,
I was gonna I was gonna wait to do the
news or the gold and the oil and the weather
and all that. But I'll go ahead and bring it
back up to the top where it's always been, just
so we can make sure to get to it, because
today I have got so much on the plate already.
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If I left it where it was, there would be
no way to get to it. So to the weather, well,
it's more the same for at least several more days
rain and maybe snow and the rockies, but not much
any closer for now, not not closer to here anyway.
So without further ADO will hi's and Love's and haikup
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This is a topical, a topical, haiku, will are you ready?
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I am.
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I think you'll appreciate this. Rain or shine?
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Go vote Trump or Harris still, go vote we are
the people.
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like that. M come on, hold on, let me write
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All right, write down your number? Okay, I got it,
all right.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
That one didn't really have anything to do with the weather,
said rain or Shine. Yeah, but it's kind of a
throw away.
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But it's topic.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
It's not a throwaway. It's a topical. It's a very
current event. Yeah, it's a current event, but it's not
the weather. There's nothing going on. It's the same for
the last two weeks, and we got four or five
more days there.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I'm sorry, but that's what the theme is.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
And you've strained. Oh man, Doug, I know you. You
felt good on into this one.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Did I felt pretty good about it. I thought you
would have some patriotism to share. Man, this is this
is m This might be a two Doug too sorry
to end this week's N show two.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
Well, wow, that's just I mean, you just missed the
prom don't care about America? Do you?
Speaker 4 (04:23):
I don't know if it's that I don't care about America?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
I think could it possibly?
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Do you think I just care about the theme, which
is the weather?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
What is more important than America? Will not the weather.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
The Weather's gonna be whatever it is, no matter what
we do. But all right, move on, move you in
your two?
Speaker 2 (04:46):
What did you write down? Take a hike too. I'm
not even gonna tell you.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Come on, what did you What did you think it was?
I had five point four five point four twice.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
What you gave it? And then song two? Sorry Doug. Okay,
here's the deal.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Anytime you score one lower than a five, henceforth you
have to come up during the hour with something better.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Fair enough?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
All right, Okay, So henceforth, audience of mine, thank you
all for joining us. I truly do appreciate that. Henceforth,
you can pretty much count on every one of these
haikups getting a five or more, because Will's not gonna
want to have to go under the gun and write
one himself, even when he's got an hour to do it,
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and I usually only invest I don't know, three four minutes.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Whoa, whoa.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
I'm doing things before this show.
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What could be more important on this show?
Speaker 5 (05:46):
During this show, I'm setting up all of KPRC during
this show and before well then I'll keep on the
station afloat right now?
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Are you yeah? You got water wings on it?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Do you?
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Oh?
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Yeah? We need to move quick. Market Watch. The Dow
was down three hundred and change a few minutes ago
and was the only or and the only green indicator
certainly wasn't the dial. It was a Nasdaq opened red,
but was up about two tenths of a point a
little while ago. Oil dipped below seventy dollars a barrel again. Wooo,
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but I'm not sure how long that's gonna last.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
Last.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
It'll stay down pretty good right up to election day.
And you might even see a couple of commercials about
how happy days are here again because we can finally
drive across town without having to take out a loan.
Gold up twelve bucks today after dropping what was it
twenty five thirty bucks yesterday something like that. Anyways, still
at two thousand, seven hundred and forty dollars in change
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per ounce. I heard somebody say in a report this morning.
I don't remember where I heard it. Somebody said something like,
experts say that gold could go to three thousand dollars
an ounce by the end of the year. Well, it
could go to ten dollars an ounce too, or five
thousand dollars an ounce. Those kind of hypotheticals unless they
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back them up with some reason that that might happen.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Anytime you hear something like.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
That, somebody you don't know says that something might happen,
that's just you might as well start flipping coins to
see what goes on. That's about all we can do, uh,
moving forward. That's that that that that there was a
guy I'll share what CNN commentator, Okay, I don't. I
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don't quote many of these people because I'm not really
in tune with what they what they present as news.
But this guy, Scott Jennings responded to former aide to
President Trump John Kelly's assertion that Trump has spoken so
favorably about Adolf Hitler, and he opened Kelly what Jennings.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Jennings opened correctly.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
I have to say by noting that everybody's entitled to
his or her own opinion, and thus far the First
Amendment still guarantees that to us all. But then he said,
Jennings said, of that statement that Kelly had made, quote,
I would humbly submit to mister Kelly that if he's
worried about Hitler and he's worried about fascism, he ought
to pick up the newspaper end quote. He said that
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in reference to anti Israel protests at colleges and in
major cities around our entire country, and then noted also,
and I'll quote again, there's thousands of Hitler's running around
this country right now, running around college campuses, running around
New York City, chasing Jewish people around, blocking their access
on college campuses. If you're worried about Hitler and you're
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talking about Donald Trump, maybe open your eyes and taking
what's happening on the American left in this country.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
End quote. That's pretty telling.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
And it bothered me since early on that protests against
Jewish students in this country were made.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
These Jewish students.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Were made to feel very unsafe and very uncomfortable, often
being denied access or worse, there were some pretty nasty
things happened to these kids. They're just trying to go
to school. They're just trying to be where they need
to be, where they paid to be to get educated.
And the amount of hatred and loud, vile hatred that
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went unchallenged, frankly by the White House was pretty disturbing
and somewhat telling, which brings me back to the same
quote I've mentioned throughout this election cycle. If you want
to confuse people and turn them against you and your
opponent without tipping your own hand, accuse the opposition of
doing exactly what you're doing. Uh Kamala Harris, I think
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she is you? She in town today?
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Hello, welcome back to fifty plus.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Thank you for listening on Doug Pike's will Melbourne, and
we are winding our way to the end of my
work week. Anyway, It's kind of an odd schedule. Friday
is my only day off. I'll be in here all
weekend doing outdoor stuff, which I truly love and frankly
would rather talk about than the election. But the election
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this time around carries so much weight and is so
important to this country's future that I can't I can't
ignore it, I really can't.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Let's see where I want to go here that I'm
not going to talk about.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Yet at least here was a story, and because it
involves editors and op ed pieces and whatnot, it really
got my attention. The Atlantics editor in chief guy named
Jeffrey Goldberg catching heat from a woman named Natalie Cowom,
who is attorney for the family of twenty year old
(13:23):
Vanessa Gillen, you might recall as the young soldier who
was murdered by another soldier back in April of twenty twenty.
She would have well, she would have been twenty four.
Goldberg wrote a piece recently in which he accused President
Trump of things Kawam says are straight up false in
regard to how Trump interacted with the Gillen family after
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their daughter's murder, And frankly, I read most of what
he wrote, and it's pretty disturbing that he went the
way he did. There's a quote from Kawam not only well,
and I quote, not only did he misrepresent our conversation,
he outright lied in his sensational story end quote. A story,
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by the way, about something that happened or didn't happen
in twenty twenty, and it's just now being released less
than two weeks before the election. That's a little sus
that's a little sitting on it, sitting on it until
we think.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
We need it.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
That's kind of It's horrifying that this guy, as in
the position he holds, would use his journalistic license to
do what he did. These are signs of desperation, really,
hell Mary passes in hopes that the people who read
them won't read the backlash they bring afterward and aren't
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smart enough to realize they're four years old but weren't
worthy of publication until right now. Even Gillen's sister, Myra
challenged goldberg story. And here's a quote from her. This
is the woman, the murdered woman's sister, and I quote,
wo wow, I don't appreciate how you're exploiting my sister's
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death for politics. Hurtful and disrespectful to the important changes
she made for service members. President Donald Trump did nothing
but sure respect to my family and Vanessa. In fact,
I voted for President Trump today. That's what Myra said, Oh, mercy,
where do I want to go from here? Let's just
(15:24):
lighten it up real quick, will Did you see the
class action suit against Jewel No, there was a class
action suit back in twenty twenty two, and it just
recently got well, it was settled back then in twenty
twenty two, and most of the people who signed up
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for it are signed up for as as being involved
in this class action suit. Forgot all about it until
this week when their little Venmo accounts. Suddenly we're getting
money put in them.
Speaker 6 (16:01):
Now.
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Most people only got like forty to fifty one hundred
bucks something like that, but some of these people got
payments of thousands of dollars. It all depended on how
long you use their products, how often you use their products,
what you spent, depends on how many pods you bought,
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and whether you still had receipts. The highest one take
a guess, will and it's not crazy money, but just
in a class action lawsuit. The total that was out there,
and a lot of it still hadn't been distributed, but
the total was about three hundred million bucks.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
The highest fifty thousand.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
No, no, not even that nine thousand change, but spread
across three hundred million dollars, that's a pretty good chunk
of it. And I don't know how many people signed up,
but everybody who did sign up it looks like is
going to get something out of the deal. Even if
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for most pickup trucks with that pick one of these
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And what I want from my audience is for people
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No?
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Okay, you're gonna work on it. I'll think about it.
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Ah, there's a limerick I'm reminded of, but it's not
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Back to Dougpike as fifty plus continues. Welcome back to
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I guess we'll talk in this segment about something quite
interesting ground that's not been covered before today on fifty plus,
which is that's some pretty thin air up there.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Where this comes in.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Has to do with chronic pain and heavy stress illnesses
and such it that seem to have no clear ties
to organ disease or structural damage.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
And the connection, according.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
To my guest, doctor David Clark, who is president of
the Psychophysiologic Disorders Association and board certified in internal medicine
and gastro intrology, well that connection in many cases is
adverse childhood experiences. Welcome to fifty plus.
Speaker 6 (20:52):
Doctor Clark, great to be with you, Thank.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
You, thanks for your time today.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
So how prevalent are our high levels of stress in
Americans overall?
Speaker 6 (21:03):
Well, you know it was shocking to me as a
young doctor when I first learned about this, but that
your brain can cause symptoms anywhere in your body of
any level of severity. How they can go on for
years or decades. And it's forty percent of people that
come in to see their regular doctor. It's twenty percent
of the general population, probably fifty million adults in the
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United States alone. The good news is we can diagnose
and treat this at least as successful as anything else
if you know what to look for.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Sure, I bet all this high stress we're dealing with
kind of spiking during the past couple of months and
won't go away until after the election.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
We'll deal with that at another time.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
What you've studied is this connection at least some high
stress patients, people whose doctors can't seem to pinpoint what's
wrong with them and why they're struggling. You found a
connection all the way back to childhood what falls under
the adverse childhood experience.
Speaker 6 (22:03):
Yeah, that was another surprise for me, you know, just
getting conventionally trained as I was. Nobody really brought this up,
but a majority of my patients, and I've seen seven
thousand people with this over the decades, had something happen
when they were kids that they would never want for
a child of their own. Now, it might be something,
you know, more obvious, like you know your dad was
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an alcoholic, or you got abused in some way, but
it can also be more subtle. It can be any
kind of environment that makes you feel second rate or worthless,
and people carry that into their adult years and it
can be very stressful. You can be having low self esteem,
you can be a perfectionist, you can have trouble setting
boundaries for people. You can be triggered by events or
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situations or people in your life that remind you of
the past. And you can also have some buried emotions
that you might not even recognize or there, but they're
manifesting powerfully in your body.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Well, and since these experiences are harbored in the brain,
and I'm guessing they must be suppressed by their hosts
or just they're choosing not to deal with it.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
It's just no wonder. Traditional examinations don't uncover the source,
is it.
Speaker 6 (23:16):
Yeah, the body is actually okay. And that's one of
the reasons that we have for going to look for
these things is that the doctor does their thing make
sure that you don't have structural damage or an organ disease,
and then they're often throwing up their hands about you know,
what do we do next? We can't find anything wrong.
That's actually the title of my first book. But there's
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a lot you can do. We look for stress in
your present day life. We look for anything you went
through as a kid that you would never want for
a child of your own. And we make sure you're
not carrying depression or anxiety that's just been missed up
to that point.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
How one shore and one more thing.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
One more thing is have you been through a trauma?
I don't want to neglect that some people have been
through some kind of terrifying or horrifying event and they
don't connect it with their symptoms until we ask about.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
It, and in patients you eventually identify as dealing with this.
What are the most common symptoms, Well you kind of
mentioned most of them. Anything that we should look for
in our own lives, as this audience can relate, What
are we looking for that buy you know some drome? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (24:24):
Absolutely, anytime you've got it can be symptoms from head
to toe, I mean, migraines, dizziness, visual problems, difficulties swallowing
any kind of gastro intestinal problem like diarrhea or constipation,
bladder spasms. Pain in the back is a big one.
Brain fog. A lot of people who believe they have
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long COVID actually are suffering from this chronic fatigue. You know.
The list is huge, joint pains, something like a recent
study showed eighty eight percent of people with pain and
the spine it's actually brain generated. It's no less.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Real for all of that.
Speaker 6 (25:03):
This is absolutely as real as any other symptom. I
deal with. Two thirds of my patients they had organ
diseases or structural damage, you know, just the way we'd
expect when we go to a doctor. But the other
third they were suffering just as much.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Wow, that's just incredible, very important because we're getting close
to the end of this, so I want to find
out where this audience should turn to find out more
about what we've talked about here.
Speaker 6 (25:31):
Yeah, we're just updating our website. We're going to launch
a new one on Monday, but you can find it
at end chronicpain dot org. Time We've got lots of
resources there, including a very simple twelve question quiz takes
less than three minutes give you a lot of information
about whether this might be something that applies to you.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Do any other doctors really address this at all.
Speaker 6 (25:55):
Well, I'm actually up in San Antonio talking to a
big conference up here. There's there's a lot of doctors
that are interested in learning about this wonderful One of
them took me aside at a conference and said that
now that she knew how to do this, it puts
the joy back into her work.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
And it seems like, yeah, that gives you another tool.
It's another tool in your medicine kit. Right, that's fantastic.
Speaker 6 (26:16):
Yeah, it's huge for doctors because it's two out of
every five patients that comes to see a primary care physician.
Now they know what to do, They know how to
diagnose and treat it as successfully as any other kind
of illness, and they love it.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Fantastic and Chronicpain dot Org thank you very much, doctor
David Clark.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
I appreciate your time.
Speaker 6 (26:36):
Sir, Thank you, benefleasure.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Thank you, Bobby. All Right, we got to take a
little break here.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
I did find it interesting as a quick side note,
some somewhat in a.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
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Speaker 3 (29:00):
Hi, welcome back, Thanks for listening on this Thursday afternoon,
the end of my work day or work week anyway,
not so bad.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
You want to go to New York, will or stay
right here in Texas.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
I mean, I'd love to go to New York. Well,
but I guess we'll stay.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
Here then here we know, I don't know. You can't
be so wishy? Was you just make it? Just pick
a horse and ride will or Tennessee. I'll throw in
Tennessee as well. So does that change your answer? You
want to stay here in Texas?
Speaker 4 (29:39):
Oh, we'll just stay in Texas.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Tennessee, by the way, is the state that every time
I have to scroll down and put my address in somewhere,
I spin the wheel upward to get all the way
to Texas, and it always stops like right at Tennessee,
and I have to go in there and touch it
again for one more state.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
But I digress.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Right here in Texas from the accountability desk, come forward
that on November one, our state will begin keeping track
of what's being spent on the hospital care of illegal immigrants.
They won't be denied care. We're not barbarians, they won't
be denied care. We're just gonna find out, finally, how
many tax dollars are being spent on caring for people who.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Aren't here lawfully.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Meanwhile, one in six Texans don't have health insurance, and
I bet they have a harder time getting cared for.
Governor Abbitt, by executive order, wants to know what kind
of tab we're running up to care for people allowed
to walk right into state by current administration. And we
got plenty of them up in New York City, where
(30:48):
Will would rather be than here, Thanks Will. A Democratic
politician was yelled at, imagine your neighborhood. Well, I can't
imagine any of our neighborhoods being this so far off base.
This is a neighborhood well known for sex trafficking and
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everything that comes and goes with that. And this guy
was yelled at for supporting a sweep through that area
of law enforcement to make it better, a place where
some of the residents who have been there a long
time li liken it to a Third World cesspool. The
(31:32):
activists were shouting in support of allowing open air prostitution
and just anything goes in that little neighborhood. It's in
AOC's district, by the way. One city official noted that
there are brothels next to schools, prostitutes walking the streets
day and night. And these folks were yelling at the
(31:55):
politicians for trying to clean up the place. Why an
AOC out there, Why isn't she getting involved in that?
That's what I'd like to know. Back to Tennessee, this
was interesting in the form of ice documents gathered by
a Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Scrimetti. Those documents showed that
the agency, the IC was poised to release thousands of
(32:20):
detained migrants into that state, including non convicted criminals, and
that was that plan I believe was changed once some
of that got to light. In a related story, the
Department of Homeland Security has identified more than one hundred
members of that trend de Arragua, that violent Venezuelan gang.
More than one hundred of them in the country that
(32:43):
DHS says need to be on the FBI's watch list.
Oh great, only one hundred. I'd take that bet. I'd
take that bet. What troubles me is that nobody in
charge of our safety as Americans.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Nobody.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
They're not saying anything about deporting known memory members of
a gang that's heavily involved in drugs, in human trafficking,
and sexual expectation of kids.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
None of that.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
They're just saying, Hey, we got to put them on
a list. How about you put them on an airplane.
Maybe that would be a little bit better for this
country than just putting them on a list and waiting
until they do something horrible again before we move them out.
That bothers me from the salad bar desk. Guess what
this is going to be. Kamala Harris's answer to a
(33:30):
question from ceeing NX Anderson Cooper about why, after four
years in office, she hasn't done the things she said
need doing. Her answer, go look it up if you
want to hear it. If you haven't heard enough of
that yet, it was just absolute hogwash. It was evasive,
It didn't have a lick of substance to it. Seriously,
(33:52):
if you don't believe me, just.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Go look it up. It's frustrating. Back to the fun stuff,
will because we've only got a couple of minutes and
I want to lighten the load here.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
Big loss, but still not so lucky, or education.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
Apparently dying a slow death.
Speaker 4 (34:11):
Not so lucky.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Major League Baseball got lucky this year, the Yankees and
the Dodgers facing off of the World Series, and New
York and LA are ranked as the two top baseball cities.
Houston not so lucky this time. I wish that we
had made it through. I think that injury plagued us
for much longer than we could overcome. We just had
(34:37):
so many people out so long and still managed to
win the division by the way, there's no shame in
that there are only a handful of teams can claim
winning their division. We did that despite digging ourselves a
huge hole early in the season. Now we've got the
Rockets starting up. They show good promise, and we have
(34:57):
got the Texans playing great football. Had a little issue
last week, but that that's something they can overcome. Okay,
well I'm going back to it. Big loss, but still
or probably want a cracker.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Big loss, but still so.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
This guy loses at I don't know how you do this,
but he lost two hundred and thirty million dollars in
crypto after falling for a scam. The thieves have been caught,
that's the good news, But there's about one hundred million
unaccounted for, so truthfully, hey, he's lost one hundred and
(35:41):
thirty No, he's lost a hundred million, but he's still
got one hundred and thirty million, So.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Life's not all bad for the guy. Right. This one
I'm gonna do on the way out. I got it.
What a minute will?
Speaker 6 (35:52):
Is that?
Speaker 5 (35:52):
Right?
Speaker 2 (35:52):
Yep? Pepperidge Farm And I usually.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
Don't do these food things because it's all kind of
gimmicky to go get you get you to go buy
their their Pepperidge Farms is rebranding goldfish crackers to make
adults think of them as something grown ups eat.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
You know what they're calling them, what.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
Chileyan sea bass crackers, chiley In sea bass crackers, And
that's supposed to get adults to buy them. I think
that sounds far less palatable than what we already know
and love as the goldfish. They're available online if you
(36:35):
can find them, and I am there's no way I'm
gonna tell you where to go find them. I Am
not gonna participate in this foolishness. Go get you some
Chilean sea bass crackers. Tell me what they taste like.
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Welcome to fifty plus on this Thursday, Thankful Thursday, thoughtful Thursday,
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Well, we talked about that yesterday.
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And we decided on thankful, and then I thought of
thoughtful whatever this morning, so I threw it in there.
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Anything else and not thorough Thursday, that's just that's just
dryst I thought that was good, you did, really?
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Yes. Anyway, barely two weeks before the election may be
a good time to take pause and just ask yourself
how you want America to treat Americans and how this
country could possibly foot the bills of another ten or
twelve million people expected to come here over the next
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four years. If the election doesn't.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Doesn't go one way or the other.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
The path we've been on for four years now is
just it's unsustainable already, and it just impossible to continue
without turning the United States of America into a big
fat socialist country.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
And I don't want that.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Before we get to my usual glimpse of you know what, No,
I was gonna I was gonna wait to do the
news or the gold and the oil and the weather
and all that. But I'll go ahead and bring it
back up to the top where it's always been, just
so we can make sure to get to it, because
today I have got so much on the plate already.
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If I left it where it was, there would be
no way to get to it. So to the weather, well,
it's more the same for at least several more days
rain and maybe snow and the rockies, but not much
any closer for now, not not closer to here anyway.
So without further ADO will hi's and Love's and haikup
from Texas. I AQ specialists. I'll pound two fifty and
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say healthy air to learn more about getting your duck
work cleans up, so you don't you don't have itchy
eyes and a scratchy throat when you're sitting around the house.
This is a topical, a topical, haiku, will are you ready?
Speaker 4 (02:59):
I am.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I think you'll appreciate this. Rain or shine?
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Go vote Trump or Harris still, go vote we are
the people.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
You got to like that. I know you. You've got to
like that. M come on, hold on, let me write
down a number.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
All right, write down your number? Okay, I got it,
all right.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
That one didn't really have anything to do with the weather,
said rain or Shine. Yeah, but it's kind of a
throw away.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
But it's topic.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
It's not a throwaway. It's a topical. It's a very
current event. Yeah, it's a current event, but it's not
the weather. There's nothing going on. It's the same for
the last two weeks, and we got four or five
more days there.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I'm sorry, but that's what the theme is.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
And you've strained. Oh man, Doug, I know you. You
felt good on into this one.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Did I felt pretty good about it. I thought you
would have some patriotism to share. Man, this is this
is m This might be a two Doug too sorry
to end this week's N show two.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
Well, wow, that's just I mean, you just missed the
prom don't care about America? Do you?
Speaker 4 (04:23):
I don't know if it's that I don't care about America?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
I think could it possibly?
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Do you think I just care about the theme, which
is the weather?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
What is more important than America? Will not the weather.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
The Weather's gonna be whatever it is, no matter what
we do. But all right, move on, move you in
your two?
Speaker 2 (04:46):
What did you write down? Take a hike too. I'm
not even gonna tell you.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Come on, what did you What did you think it was?
I had five point four five point four twice.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
What you gave it? And then song two? Sorry Doug. Okay,
here's the deal.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Anytime you score one lower than a five, henceforth you
have to come up during the hour with something better.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Fair enough?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
All right, Okay, So henceforth, audience of mine, thank you
all for joining us. I truly do appreciate that. Henceforth,
you can pretty much count on every one of these
haikups getting a five or more, because Will's not gonna
want to have to go under the gun and write
one himself, even when he's got an hour to do it,
(05:36):
and I usually only invest I don't know, three four minutes.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Whoa, whoa.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
I'm doing things before this show.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
What could be more important on this show?
Speaker 5 (05:46):
During this show, I'm setting up all of KPRC during
this show and before well then I'll keep on the
station afloat right now?
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Are you yeah? You got water wings on it?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Do you?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Yeah? We need to move quick. Market Watch. The Dow
was down three hundred and change a few minutes ago
and was the only or and the only green indicator
certainly wasn't the dial. It was a Nasdaq opened red,
but was up about two tenths of a point a
little while ago. Oil dipped below seventy dollars a barrel again. Wooo,
(06:23):
but I'm not sure how long that's gonna last.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
Last.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
It'll stay down pretty good right up to election day.
And you might even see a couple of commercials about
how happy days are here again because we can finally
drive across town without having to take out a loan.
Gold up twelve bucks today after dropping what was it
twenty five thirty bucks yesterday something like that. Anyways, still
at two thousand, seven hundred and forty dollars in change
(06:49):
per ounce. I heard somebody say in a report this morning.
I don't remember where I heard it. Somebody said something like,
experts say that gold could go to three thousand dollars
an ounce by the end of the year. Well, it
could go to ten dollars an ounce too, or five
thousand dollars an ounce. Those kind of hypotheticals unless they
(07:11):
back them up with some reason that that might happen.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Anytime you hear something like.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
That, somebody you don't know says that something might happen,
that's just you might as well start flipping coins to
see what goes on. That's about all we can do, uh,
moving forward. That's that that that that there was a
guy I'll share what CNN commentator, Okay, I don't. I
(07:39):
don't quote many of these people because I'm not really
in tune with what they what they present as news.
But this guy, Scott Jennings responded to former aide to
President Trump John Kelly's assertion that Trump has spoken so
favorably about Adolf Hitler, and he opened Kelly what Jennings.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Jennings opened correctly.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
I have to say by noting that everybody's entitled to
his or her own opinion, and thus far the First
Amendment still guarantees that to us all. But then he said,
Jennings said, of that statement that Kelly had made, quote,
I would humbly submit to mister Kelly that if he's
worried about Hitler and he's worried about fascism, he ought
to pick up the newspaper end quote. He said that
(08:28):
in reference to anti Israel protests at colleges and in
major cities around our entire country, and then noted also,
and I'll quote again, there's thousands of Hitler's running around
this country right now, running around college campuses, running around
New York City, chasing Jewish people around, blocking their access
on college campuses. If you're worried about Hitler and you're
(08:50):
talking about Donald Trump, maybe open your eyes and taking
what's happening on the American left in this country.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
End quote. That's pretty telling.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
And it bothered me since early on that protests against
Jewish students in this country were made.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
These Jewish students.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Were made to feel very unsafe and very uncomfortable, often
being denied access or worse, there were some pretty nasty
things happened to these kids. They're just trying to go
to school. They're just trying to be where they need
to be, where they paid to be to get educated.
And the amount of hatred and loud, vile hatred that
(09:34):
went unchallenged, frankly by the White House was pretty disturbing
and somewhat telling, which brings me back to the same
quote I've mentioned throughout this election cycle. If you want
to confuse people and turn them against you and your
opponent without tipping your own hand, accuse the opposition of
doing exactly what you're doing. Uh Kamala Harris, I think
(09:57):
she is you? She in town today?
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Will or do you know? Gotta go? We're two minutes?
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Oh my, oh my, oh my, you were You were
busy running the whole station and didn't realize the show
had Oh no, I was making the signals.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
You weren't looking.
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I'm gonna need audible signals at that point. You're gonna
have to open up your mic. You got a giant clock.
You need to take some accountability, all right, don't let
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It's called prostate artery embolization. They they go in, they
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must say.
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They just turn off the blood supply to it by
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Same with headaches. In some cases they can be alleviated
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That's why every few months we wash them, check us words,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Hello, welcome back to fifty plus.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Thank you for listening on Doug Pike's will Melbourne, and
we are winding our way to the end of my
work week. Anyway, It's kind of an odd schedule. Friday
is my only day off. I'll be in here all
weekend doing outdoor stuff, which I truly love and frankly
would rather talk about than the election. But the election
(12:46):
this time around carries so much weight and is so
important to this country's future that I can't I can't
ignore it, I really can't.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Let's see where I want to go here that I'm
not going to talk about.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Yet at least here was a story, and because it
involves editors and op ed pieces and whatnot, it really
got my attention. The Atlantics editor in chief guy named
Jeffrey Goldberg catching heat from a woman named Natalie Cowom,
who is attorney for the family of twenty year old
(13:23):
Vanessa Gillen, you might recall as the young soldier who
was murdered by another soldier back in April of twenty twenty.
She would have well, she would have been twenty four.
Goldberg wrote a piece recently in which he accused President
Trump of things Kawam says are straight up false in
regard to how Trump interacted with the Gillen family after
(13:46):
their daughter's murder, And frankly, I read most of what
he wrote, and it's pretty disturbing that he went the
way he did. There's a quote from Kawam not only well,
and I quote, not only did he misrepresent our conversation,
he outright lied in his sensational story end quote. A story,
(14:06):
by the way, about something that happened or didn't happen
in twenty twenty, and it's just now being released less
than two weeks before the election. That's a little sus
that's a little sitting on it, sitting on it until
we think.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
We need it.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
That's kind of It's horrifying that this guy, as in
the position he holds, would use his journalistic license to
do what he did. These are signs of desperation, really,
hell Mary passes in hopes that the people who read
them won't read the backlash they bring afterward and aren't
(14:42):
smart enough to realize they're four years old but weren't
worthy of publication until right now. Even Gillen's sister, Myra
challenged goldberg story. And here's a quote from her. This
is the woman, the murdered woman's sister, and I quote,
wo wow, I don't appreciate how you're exploiting my sister's
(15:03):
death for politics. Hurtful and disrespectful to the important changes
she made for service members. President Donald Trump did nothing
but sure respect to my family and Vanessa. In fact,
I voted for President Trump today. That's what Myra said, Oh, mercy,
where do I want to go from here? Let's just
(15:24):
lighten it up real quick, will Did you see the
class action suit against Jewel No, there was a class
action suit back in twenty twenty two, and it just
recently got well, it was settled back then in twenty
twenty two, and most of the people who signed up
(15:45):
for it are signed up for as as being involved
in this class action suit. Forgot all about it until
this week when their little Venmo accounts. Suddenly we're getting
money put in them.
Speaker 6 (16:01):
Now.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Most people only got like forty to fifty one hundred
bucks something like that, but some of these people got
payments of thousands of dollars. It all depended on how
long you use their products, how often you use their products,
what you spent, depends on how many pods you bought,
(16:24):
and whether you still had receipts. The highest one take
a guess, will and it's not crazy money, but just
in a class action lawsuit. The total that was out there,
and a lot of it still hadn't been distributed, but
the total was about three hundred million bucks.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
The highest fifty thousand.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
No, no, not even that nine thousand change, but spread
across three hundred million dollars, that's a pretty good chunk
of it. And I don't know how many people signed up,
but everybody who did sign up it looks like is
going to get something out of the deal. Even if
it's a hundred bucks, still get a tank of gas
for most pickup trucks with that pick one of these
(17:06):
will And this, by the way, this is gonna be
a new This is something new I'm gonna do. You
don't even have to pick. I'm gonna do this one
on my own. And it's gonna be if I can remember.
Next week, we're gonna call this write your own punchline.
And what I want from my audience is for people
who hear this line that I'm about to give you,
(17:27):
I want you to write a funny punchline and then
send it to me by email at Dougpike at iHeartMedia
dot com. And will you can play along if you'd like,
so the write your own punchline for today. Posthumous marriage
is legal in France. Posthumous marriage is legal in France.
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You got anything yet, will?
Speaker 6 (17:54):
No?
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Okay, you're gonna work on it. I'll think about it.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Ah, there's a limerick I'm reminded of, but it's not
really I'm not gonna share it on air. Uh okay,
Well how much time? Oh we're out of time again yet?
Oh my gosh, uta health. I will remind you about
and In fact, I sent something to a friend of
mine whose mother is having issues health issues, and I
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let him know that if there's anything at all that
this man needs to help his mom, I have access,
and so do you. Frankly, to all of these providers
with ut Health Institute on Aging, each of whom, regardless
of their primary area of expertise, has gone back and
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that knowledge to seniors that'd be us, that'd be his mom.
They can apply their knowledge, their better knowledge of how
their heart or lung or leg or whatever knowledge is,
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apply it to us. Go to the website, if you would,
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take a look at all the resources that are available there.
It's gonna take you a while too. You grab something
to drink, sit back in your comfortable chair, and just
start scrolling through the Institute on Aging's website and then
(19:28):
start looking for providers and looking at all the different
things they can do and offer to help you and
me and everybody else in our group get a little older,
stay a little happier. U t H dot edu slash aging,
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Once life without a NET. I suggest you go to bed,
sleep it off, just wait until the show's over. Sleepy.
Back to Dougpike as fifty plus continues. Welcome back to
fifty plus.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Thanks for listening, Thanks for letting us join your lunch
hour wherever you are, whatever you're doing, maybe if you're
taking a nap.
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When you wake up listen to the podcast. Well you
won't hear that.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
I guess we'll talk in this segment about something quite
interesting ground that's not been covered before today on fifty plus,
which is that's some pretty thin air up there.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Where this comes in.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Has to do with chronic pain and heavy stress illnesses
and such it that seem to have no clear ties
to organ disease or structural damage.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
And the connection, according.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
To my guest, doctor David Clark, who is president of
the Psychophysiologic Disorders Association and board certified in internal medicine
and gastro intrology, well that connection in many cases is
adverse childhood experiences. Welcome to fifty plus.
Speaker 6 (20:52):
Doctor Clark, great to be with you, Thank.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
You, thanks for your time today.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
So how prevalent are our high levels of stress in
Americans overall?
Speaker 6 (21:03):
Well, you know it was shocking to me as a
young doctor when I first learned about this, but that
your brain can cause symptoms anywhere in your body of
any level of severity. How they can go on for
years or decades. And it's forty percent of people that
come in to see their regular doctor. It's twenty percent
of the general population, probably fifty million adults in the
(21:27):
United States alone. The good news is we can diagnose
and treat this at least as successful as anything else
if you know what to look for.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Sure, I bet all this high stress we're dealing with
kind of spiking during the past couple of months and
won't go away until after the election.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
We'll deal with that at another time.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
What you've studied is this connection at least some high
stress patients, people whose doctors can't seem to pinpoint what's
wrong with them and why they're struggling. You found a
connection all the way back to childhood what falls under
the adverse childhood experience.
Speaker 6 (22:03):
Yeah, that was another surprise for me, you know, just
getting conventionally trained as I was. Nobody really brought this up,
but a majority of my patients, and I've seen seven
thousand people with this over the decades, had something happen
when they were kids that they would never want for
a child of their own. Now, it might be something,
you know, more obvious, like you know your dad was
(22:24):
an alcoholic, or you got abused in some way, but
it can also be more subtle. It can be any
kind of environment that makes you feel second rate or worthless,
and people carry that into their adult years and it
can be very stressful. You can be having low self esteem,
you can be a perfectionist, you can have trouble setting
boundaries for people. You can be triggered by events or
(22:48):
situations or people in your life that remind you of
the past. And you can also have some buried emotions
that you might not even recognize or there, but they're
manifesting powerfully in your body.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Well, and since these experiences are harbored in the brain,
and I'm guessing they must be suppressed by their hosts
or just they're choosing not to deal with it.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
It's just no wonder. Traditional examinations don't uncover the source,
is it.
Speaker 6 (23:16):
Yeah, the body is actually okay. And that's one of
the reasons that we have for going to look for
these things is that the doctor does their thing make
sure that you don't have structural damage or an organ disease,
and then they're often throwing up their hands about you know,
what do we do next? We can't find anything wrong.
That's actually the title of my first book. But there's
(23:37):
a lot you can do. We look for stress in
your present day life. We look for anything you went
through as a kid that you would never want for
a child of your own. And we make sure you're
not carrying depression or anxiety that's just been missed up
to that point.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
How one shore and one more thing.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
One more thing is have you been through a trauma?
I don't want to neglect that some people have been
through some kind of terrifying or horrifying event and they
don't connect it with their symptoms until we ask about.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
It, and in patients you eventually identify as dealing with this.
What are the most common symptoms, Well you kind of
mentioned most of them. Anything that we should look for
in our own lives, as this audience can relate, What
are we looking for that buy you know some drome? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (24:24):
Absolutely, anytime you've got it can be symptoms from head
to toe, I mean, migraines, dizziness, visual problems, difficulties swallowing
any kind of gastro intestinal problem like diarrhea or constipation,
bladder spasms. Pain in the back is a big one.
Brain fog. A lot of people who believe they have
(24:45):
long COVID actually are suffering from this chronic fatigue. You know.
The list is huge, joint pains, something like a recent
study showed eighty eight percent of people with pain and
the spine it's actually brain generated. It's no less.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Real for all of that.
Speaker 6 (25:03):
This is absolutely as real as any other symptom. I
deal with. Two thirds of my patients they had organ
diseases or structural damage, you know, just the way we'd
expect when we go to a doctor. But the other
third they were suffering just as much.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Wow, that's just incredible, very important because we're getting close
to the end of this, so I want to find
out where this audience should turn to find out more
about what we've talked about here.
Speaker 6 (25:31):
Yeah, we're just updating our website. We're going to launch
a new one on Monday, but you can find it
at end chronicpain dot org. Time We've got lots of
resources there, including a very simple twelve question quiz takes
less than three minutes give you a lot of information
about whether this might be something that applies to you.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Do any other doctors really address this at all.
Speaker 6 (25:55):
Well, I'm actually up in San Antonio talking to a
big conference up here. There's there's a lot of doctors
that are interested in learning about this wonderful One of
them took me aside at a conference and said that
now that she knew how to do this, it puts
the joy back into her work.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
And it seems like, yeah, that gives you another tool.
It's another tool in your medicine kit. Right, that's fantastic.
Speaker 6 (26:16):
Yeah, it's huge for doctors because it's two out of
every five patients that comes to see a primary care physician.
Now they know what to do, They know how to
diagnose and treat it as successfully as any other kind
of illness, and they love it.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Fantastic and Chronicpain dot Org thank you very much, doctor
David Clark.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
I appreciate your time.
Speaker 6 (26:36):
Sir, Thank you, benefleasure.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Thank you, Bobby. All Right, we got to take a
little break here.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
I did find it interesting as a quick side note,
some somewhat in a.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Weird amusing way.
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Speaker 3 (29:00):
Hi, welcome back, Thanks for listening on this Thursday afternoon,
the end of my work day or work week anyway,
not so bad.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
You want to go to New York, will or stay
right here in Texas.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
I mean, I'd love to go to New York. Well,
but I guess we'll stay.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
Here then here we know, I don't know. You can't
be so wishy? Was you just make it? Just pick
a horse and ride will or Tennessee. I'll throw in
Tennessee as well. So does that change your answer? You
want to stay here in Texas?
Speaker 4 (29:39):
Oh, we'll just stay in Texas.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Tennessee, by the way, is the state that every time
I have to scroll down and put my address in somewhere,
I spin the wheel upward to get all the way
to Texas, and it always stops like right at Tennessee,
and I have to go in there and touch it
again for one more state.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
But I digress.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Right here in Texas from the accountability desk, come forward
that on November one, our state will begin keeping track
of what's being spent on the hospital care of illegal immigrants.
They won't be denied care. We're not barbarians, they won't
be denied care. We're just gonna find out, finally, how
many tax dollars are being spent on caring for people who.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Aren't here lawfully.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Meanwhile, one in six Texans don't have health insurance, and
I bet they have a harder time getting cared for.
Governor Abbitt, by executive order, wants to know what kind
of tab we're running up to care for people allowed
to walk right into state by current administration. And we
got plenty of them up in New York City, where
(30:48):
Will would rather be than here, Thanks Will. A Democratic
politician was yelled at, imagine your neighborhood. Well, I can't
imagine any of our neighborhoods being this so far off base.
This is a neighborhood well known for sex trafficking and
(31:11):
everything that comes and goes with that. And this guy
was yelled at for supporting a sweep through that area
of law enforcement to make it better, a place where
some of the residents who have been there a long
time li liken it to a Third World cesspool. The
(31:32):
activists were shouting in support of allowing open air prostitution
and just anything goes in that little neighborhood. It's in
AOC's district, by the way. One city official noted that
there are brothels next to schools, prostitutes walking the streets
day and night. And these folks were yelling at the
(31:55):
politicians for trying to clean up the place. Why an
AOC out there, Why isn't she getting involved in that?
That's what I'd like to know. Back to Tennessee, this
was interesting in the form of ice documents gathered by
a Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Scrimetti. Those documents showed that
the agency, the IC was poised to release thousands of
(32:20):
detained migrants into that state, including non convicted criminals, and
that was that plan I believe was changed once some
of that got to light. In a related story, the
Department of Homeland Security has identified more than one hundred
members of that trend de Arragua, that violent Venezuelan gang.
More than one hundred of them in the country that
(32:43):
DHS says need to be on the FBI's watch list.
Oh great, only one hundred. I'd take that bet. I'd
take that bet. What troubles me is that nobody in
charge of our safety as Americans.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Nobody.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
They're not saying anything about deporting known memory members of
a gang that's heavily involved in drugs, in human trafficking,
and sexual expectation of kids.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
None of that.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
They're just saying, Hey, we got to put them on
a list. How about you put them on an airplane.
Maybe that would be a little bit better for this
country than just putting them on a list and waiting
until they do something horrible again before we move them out.
That bothers me from the salad bar desk. Guess what
this is going to be. Kamala Harris's answer to a
(33:30):
question from ceeing NX Anderson Cooper about why, after four
years in office, she hasn't done the things she said
need doing. Her answer, go look it up if you
want to hear it. If you haven't heard enough of
that yet, it was just absolute hogwash. It was evasive,
It didn't have a lick of substance to it. Seriously,
(33:52):
if you don't believe me, just.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Go look it up. It's frustrating. Back to the fun stuff,
will because we've only got a couple of minutes and
I want to lighten the load here.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
Big loss, but still not so lucky, or education.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
Apparently dying a slow death.
Speaker 4 (34:11):
Not so lucky.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Major League Baseball got lucky this year, the Yankees and
the Dodgers facing off of the World Series, and New
York and LA are ranked as the two top baseball cities.
Houston not so lucky this time. I wish that we
had made it through. I think that injury plagued us
for much longer than we could overcome. We just had
(34:37):
so many people out so long and still managed to
win the division by the way, there's no shame in
that there are only a handful of teams can claim
winning their division. We did that despite digging ourselves a
huge hole early in the season. Now we've got the
Rockets starting up. They show good promise, and we have
(34:57):
got the Texans playing great football. Had a little issue
last week, but that that's something they can overcome. Okay,
well I'm going back to it. Big loss, but still
or probably want a cracker.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Big loss, but still so.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
This guy loses at I don't know how you do this,
but he lost two hundred and thirty million dollars in
crypto after falling for a scam. The thieves have been caught,
that's the good news, But there's about one hundred million
unaccounted for, so truthfully, hey, he's lost one hundred and
(35:41):
thirty No, he's lost a hundred million, but he's still
got one hundred and thirty million, So.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Life's not all bad for the guy. Right. This one
I'm gonna do on the way out. I got it.
What a minute will?
Speaker 6 (35:52):
Is that?
Speaker 5 (35:52):
Right?
Speaker 2 (35:52):
Yep? Pepperidge Farm And I usually.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
Don't do these food things because it's all kind of
gimmicky to go get you get you to go buy
their their Pepperidge Farms is rebranding goldfish crackers to make
adults think of them as something grown ups eat.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
You know what they're calling them, what.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
Chileyan sea bass crackers, chiley In sea bass crackers, And
that's supposed to get adults to buy them. I think
that sounds far less palatable than what we already know
and love as the goldfish. They're available online if you
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can find them, and I am there's no way I'm
gonna tell you where to go find them. I Am
not gonna participate in this foolishness. Go get you some
Chilean sea bass crackers. Tell me what they taste like.
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