March 20, 2025 • 29 mins
Today, Doug Pike interviews Dr. William Yao about allergy season.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 3 (00:45):
All right, here we go.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Thursday edition of the program starts right now, an abbreviated
edition of fifty plus.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Because what time, exactly? Will what's our out time?
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Our out time is twelve forty five called forty five.
We're gonna shift gears and send you all who choose
to go, and I hope most of you do over
to the University of Houston basketball game against what are the.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
It's SIU Edwardsville. What are the s? And the I
will do you? Remember? I have no idea.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
That's all you're gonna give me this. This team made
the tournament. It's Southern Illinois. Southern Illis, thank you. I
couldn't remember Southern Illinois Edwardsville. I you know now that
I say Edwardsville, Illinois, it falls off the tongue very
easily because I've heard of it before. But I don't
know much about them. I know they're in the tournament
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and a lot of before anybody kind of laughs and
snickers about them playing U of H, which is a powerhouse.
Recognize SIU Edwardsville for even making it to Round one
of the official NC Double a March Madness tournament.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
That's not that's a an.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Opportunity that most US universities didn't get this year. A
whole lot of teams don't make it compared to the
ones who do. And now it shouldn't be much of
a task. So long as the fighting Cougars keep their
eyes on their game and their heads in the game.
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They are a thirty two point favorite. Will you want
to take a long shot bet with me?
Speaker 3 (02:29):
No? What if I spot you thirty one points? What
do you mean?
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Yeah, they're a thirty two point favorite, you of HS.
So in other words, at the score was thirty two
to nothing, you of H, then it would just be
a push. But if I were to tell you, I'll
give you thirty two and a half points and they
only win by thirty two, then you win. They would
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have to be better than thirty two points ahead of
SIU Edwardsville. At the end of the game, the Coogs
would for me to lose and for you to win.
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
I'm not I'm not a betting man.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Okay, I'll try and find somebody else who will take
that bet.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
I bet they're you know, spotting you thirty two and
a half.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
That means I'm convinced that the kugs are even better
than the big time gamblers in Vegas.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Thing.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
I guess that's.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Where those odds come from. I have no idea. It
makes no difference. So back to the regular part of
the program. What is this around the eight hundredth or
so episode of fifty plus, the only time primetime radio
show in Houston that's dedicated to the stuff that matters
most to you and me but not so much.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Will because he's less than.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Half my age, keep him around because he knows how
to keep us on the air, and that's kind of important.
I recognize your importance. Well, I do a quick look
at the weather courtesy of Texas iaq dot, and that
deduct cleaning people who do a darned good job of it,
so good, in fact, that it lasts a couple of years.
Go to Texas iaq dot net and you'll see what
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I'm talking about. Mighty nice outside, except for the wind
that's helping wildfire spread up in Montgomery County. Firefighters trying
to bring that one under controlled. It wasn't much under
control this morning. I hope they made some headway before
the wind started to pick up again. They have aircraft
and several, like probably close to a dozen fire departments
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helping out up there trying to bring that thing under control.
I believe it's already burned a couple of thousand acres
if I'm not mistaken, and hopefully they'll they'll get that done.
They're gonna have their hands full all day to day.
No rain in the forecast either through Saturday, which won't
do those men and women any favors. But it is
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supposed to warm up tomorrow. If that's any consolation, I
guess it'll make the firefighting more difficult, but lighter, and
it hopefully that'll get taken care of them. We won't
have to worry about those people so far. Knock on
wood so far, no structural damage and no lives lost
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so far, and even no animals. According to a report
I heard earlier this morning looking at the markets courtesy
of Houston Gooldexchange dot com, Algreen, al green, all green, well,
all green, and looking like they'll stay that way for
the four big ones, roughly green by about half a
point four, all but the rustle, which was good by
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maybe a quarter of a point or so. Oil sadly
up more than a buck and back north of sixty
eight dollars a barrel. It is as long as it
stays up there or lower somewhere between about sixty four
and sixty eight, the oil companies can make a little
bit of profit, and I'm talking about a little bit
off drilling that and getting this stuff out of the ground,
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and we could all enjoy fairly low gas prices. Gold
Gold was up a pretty good chunk early, then came
down briefly into the red. Now back up and comfortably
north of three thousand and forty seven dollars an ounce.
Last time I looked into the hold on, let me
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check the time, because there's no clock visible on the
wall today, it's twelve eleven. Just an oversight on your part.
Are you just not gonna bother since it's a short
program anyway? Yeah, is that what's going on here?
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Of course?
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Taking it's just have already checked out, yep. Okay, well okay,
well I'm gonna I'm gonna force you into action then
for these last two minutes and go to some fun stuff.
Pop quiz, Will, what is the windiest city in America?
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Well, it's not Chicago. No, it's not. Even though it
has the name, Oh yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
They call it the windy city, it's not the windiest
city though. There's a distinct difference betwe between the two.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
And like it's got to be in the north. Okay,
you're not even gonna give me a hint. It's in
corn Country. It's in corn Country. Yeah, the Midwest, really, sir,
I feel I feel like maybe a Nebraska could get windy.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
No, no, I'll give you another clue. There is an
automobile company named in that in that city.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Autumn.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Yeah, an automobile company. And that's all man put it together, Will,
I don't know what is Dodge City, Kansas? Oh, windy
city in America? Roll that out. When the game gets boring,
when the when the coop drew up by about fifty
and everybody's looking kind of bored and going, O, what
are we going to do? Now?
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Say?
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Did you happen to know that the windiest city in
America is not Chicago? And then that'll that'll light and
everything up and everybody will want to know. That's another
one before we go out. Do I have twenty seconds?
You have no seconds?
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Thirds? None?
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Nothing?
Speaker 3 (08:07):
No, you're done? All right, I'll take it true, I'll
take a break.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
I'll take a break.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Will you of Ages Institute on Aging? You of H's
Institute on my Aging?
Speaker 4 (08:17):
I did that, didn't I?
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Oops?
Speaker 5 (08:18):
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Speaker 3 (08:20):
Ut. Not to be confused with the Longhorns.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
No, the University of Texas Institute on Aging down here.
I'm not so sure how many basketball players there are there,
but I can guarantee you there are a lot of
medical providers who would be happy as larks to help
us seniors to feel more healthy, to become more healthy,
to be more vigorous, enjoy life more because they have,
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in addition to getting whatever training it took to get
their diploma, to get their degree, to get their accreditation,
whatever it is, whatever they've got, they've gone back and
gotten more so that they can apply their knowledge to seniors.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Specifically to us.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
That is a huge deal for us, and it's not
available anywhere else that I can find. This is a
group of more than a thousand providers around around the
Greater Houston area, some in the medical center all the time,
some in the medical center some of the time, but
going to outlying clinics and hospitals and offices during the week,
and some who maintain their primary practice outside of the
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medical center, which makes it very convenient for any of
us who need to see somebody about anything medical to
find somebody, go to the website. Look at all the
research resources first, so many many things that can help
us lead better lives, many suggestions, many places to go,
things to see, things.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
To do.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
As regards our health. And then make sure you find
a provider who is within that network of people the
ut UT Institute on a and then get yourself fixed up.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
You eat ut H.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Well, I'm just I'm going too fast, will because I'm
trying to trying to stack twenty pounds of sugar into
a ten pound sack. Because of you, of h baseball God,
I did it again, basketball Utch dot Edu slash aging.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
I'll get it right, and I'll slow it down so
we can all.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Get it uth dot edu slash aging.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Aged to perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
All right, welcome back to fifty plus.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
We are on an abbreviated schedule, so I'm not going
to waste any time. And thanks as always, by the way,
for sharing your lunch. How we're going to talk in
this segment if I can keep from sneezing about allergies,
which is something I didn't even have until my mid fifties,
And to help us all manage our way through these
days of yellow air and scratchy throats, I'll bring in
doctor William Yale, Assistant Professor in the Department of odo
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rhino Laryngology at Mcgovernment Medical School at UT Health.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Welcome aboard, doctor.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
Thank you very much Doug for having me on your show.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Oh it's my pleasure, so believe me, because I want
to learn some stuff for myself.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
So right out the box here.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
How can I get through fifty plus years with no
allergies to anything and then suddenly start sneezing my brains out.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
That's a great question, and that's probably one of the
biggest things it's something called iminosinescence. So basically, as you
get older, your immune system kind of builds up to
kind of simplify stuff, and so over time you kind
of build up the immune, your immune system weakens a
little bit, so then your threshold to reacting to these
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polling say tree pollens, you're more responsive to it, and
so because of that, you've just built it up, and
then that's why you develop these reactions to it.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Now.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
The other thing is that your previous immune response is
now more overactive compared to before.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Oh great, in a nutshell, great, any idea what percentage
of seniors developed these latent life allergies?
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Ah?
Speaker 6 (12:15):
Gosh, that one.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
That's a great question that I don't know, but I
would say probably about fifty percent plus will develop allergy symptoms.
And it is dependent on locations. So it's going to
feel like everybody in your community will have some kind
of allergy symptoms, and then it just all depends on
how significant or severe it is.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
For the for the lucky ones who don't have allergies yet,
what if anything can they do to maybe fight the
development or is there anything they can do?
Speaker 5 (12:45):
There really isn't any fighting of development. You could prevent
exposure though or minimize exposure, meaning that you know, add
a HEPA filter in your in your house, your ac events,
clean it up, don't have anger. Don't dry your laundry
materials outside. So if you hang dry them, that's the
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wind blows all the oat, pollen or any pollen materials
could stick on to it, even dust mites for example.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
And then that if you're sleeping on sheets for example
that was dried outside, you're sleeping on allergy particles.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Not a good idea.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Are these fourth quarter allergies restricted to specific type like
pollen or whatever. Can they manifest as allergies to foods
or something else too?
Speaker 5 (13:31):
It could be anything, to be absolutely honest, Most likely
to the environment is more common than food allergies. It's
very rare for you to develop late onset food allergies
other than idine.
Speaker 6 (13:45):
I would say, so other than the shellfishes.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
A lot of times it's if you have it, you
have it, if you don't, it's really hard to develop
late onset food allergy. But for the environmental allergies like
say dust mites and stuff, it's probably yeah, you could
get at any time.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Oh great, doctor Wigham. Yeah, on fifty plus. So let's
talk about managing this stuff. Start start with over the
counter stuff or go straight to the doctor. What's the
best IDEA.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
Great, great question.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
So allergies could be diagnosed by history alone. You really
don't need that much physical exam and so if you
know the history, I would say start with the over
the counter. Nowadays a lot of medications are over to
counter that was previously under prescription, So anti histamines would
be number one. By anti histamines, I would say the
class of zero tech, Clariton, allegora.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
Those are some simple ones.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
Avoid the d's, So the dash D you want to
avoid because that has decongestionment, which is not good for you.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
With regards to.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
With topical sprays, then it would be topical steroids which
would be flownase and so flow nase, which would be
flutica zone. There's a rhino court as a court. Those
are available over the counter. Other anti histamine nasal sprays
would be ascylin, which would be asked to pro uh.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
Finally, uh the uh.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
There's uh some prescription medications out there now which would
be the next stage, which would be chromolin uh, which
would be UH patinase or pata day, which would be
eye drops, and that would be anti histamine.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
There's always these stronger anti like.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
Nasal sprays and allergy medications available by prescription as well,
and then finally allergy shots.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Yeah, that's that's the last resort. I hope, I hope.
I don't get to that point you mentioned. You mentioned
this minus or dash D the decongestion. Why is that
not preferred?
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Yeah, so the D is not good because it could
actually elevate blood pressure. Oh, because it's the D could
raise the blood pressure and it could actually cause rebound
congestion as well.
Speaker 6 (15:57):
So we always say avoid the D.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Right, well, appreciate that. So allergy meds are going to
help us keep away from that stuff. Can allergies, though,
be signs of bigger health problems or they are those
two things just unrelated.
Speaker 6 (16:11):
Ah, they are generally unrelated. Okay, so they go hand
in hand.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
But usually so, if you have, for example, natal pull
ups and stuff, there's a higher chance that you have allergies, right, Okay,
it doesn't mean that you have other problems. If you
have uncontrolled allergies, let's say that it can't be treated
just by with sprays and stuff. Then I would say
that's when you want to kind of look into it
deeper and see a physician either at allergies and see, like,
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you know, what is it, because it may actually be
something else.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Sure, it's a tale of our time here, doctor William.
You know any easy ways we can self diagnose between
allergies and could or flu.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
Yes, allergies will go well. Cold and flu is more acute, right,
so it goes and goes away. But allergy is mostly repetitive,
meaning that it happens every March. When you go outside
and you see the oak pollen. Again, that's classic. If
you mowd a lawn and then after you come home
you get it, that's classic. If you see your neighbor's
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cat and then you get allergies, that's those are all classic.
But a flu or something would be more aware. It's
constant and it doesn't even wax and weight and.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
A fever probably with the flu or a cold exactly.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Okay, that makes very good sense, doctor William. Y'll thank
you so very much for your time.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
You've kind of told me what i'd you know, I
wish it weren't true that they weren't gonna go away,
but I don't think they are. I'm just living with them.
Thank you so much.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
Great, no problem you, thank you very much for having
me on your show.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
My pleasure. All right, we got to take a little
break here. On the way out, I will tell you
all about a late Health. This is the group that well,
they're clinics around town where you can get vascular procedures done.
Nothing to do with allergies, and that's not that's not
their area of expertise. What they do is take care
of pretty serious problems like arge non cancerous prostate.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
That's the process or the thing they do most often.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
The cure they do for an enlarge non cancerous prostate
is to shut off the blood supply to it, which
then makes it kind of shrivel up and go away,
and away with it go the symptoms. If you have one,
you know what I'm talking about. You know the symptoms
aren't good. Same with fibroids for women. They can do
exactly the same type of procedure to make those issues
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go away. And then of course the ugly veins and
even some head pains also alleviated in many cases with
vascular procedures, which is what they do all day, every day.
Except when they're doing regenerative medicine, which they also do
and is outstandingly successful. Time is showing in alleviating chronic pain,
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and nobody should have to suffer like that. Most of
what they do covered by Medicare and Medicaid, and everything
they do is done in the office. In a couple
of hours, you'll need somebody to drive you home, but
that's where you gonna recover, is at home, where you're
most comfortable. A latehealth dot Com is the website seven
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one three, five eight eight thirty eight eighty eight.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash him, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This is
fifty plus with doug Pike, all right.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Welcome back fifty plus on a M nine fifty KPRC
on Dougie's will, and we have very little time left
before the University of Houston takes on Southern Illinois University
from Edwardsville in Round one of the NCAA Tournament.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
March Madness.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
You have h favored by thirty two over the fighting.
Whatever they are is from Edwardsville. I'm not sure what
their mascot is, but they're gonna have their hands full
with the Koogs and the Kugs. Better pay attention because
every now and then these tournaments produce upsets, some pretty
big ones too, and ruin everybody's brackets.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
So hopefully that won't happen.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Hopefully a couple of news items, and then I'll, because
I'm on a short time, I'll get to a little
lighter stuff to wrap it up. Remember Tim Wallace, the
Minnesota governor and Democratic nominee for vice president alongside Kamala
Harris for president back in last year. Wall's caught a
lot of flak this week after he claimed that his
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self proclaimed ability to fix a truck somehow translated to
a frightening fear of him among Republican men of his masculinity.
Tim Walls bragging about his masculinity. He made the claim
during a podcast with California Governor Gavin Newsom, whom I
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bet also well, maybe Walls can to some degree, but
I'd bet Newsom can't fix a truck.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
And even if Walls can fix.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Something on a truck, something beyond filling it up, he
still doesn't add up to it exactly to a tower
of masculinity in my book. Anyway, Tesla's being batalized and
set on fire and the disappointing number of Americans actually
are applauding those deliberate acts. There was a I can't
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remember the name of the show, but some comedy show,
I think something on the Comedy Network. Actually the host
of that show shut down the audience when they were
applauding video of Tesla's being set on fire, and to
his credit, he just said, stop.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
It, just stop.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
It truly bothering me that our own citizens would engage
in violent, criminal activity that hurts literally and figuratively a
lot of.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
People when they do that.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
It just tells me that we're really a long way
from where we need to be, which would be a
country in which, again for the first time in a
couple of decades, a place where differing opinions generate conversation
and not arson or fistfights or canceling or anything else.
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Just listen to somebody else's opinion and then ask them
to hear your opinion, and then the two of you
can walk off and just think about where there might
be some middle ground that would work. A whole lot better,
and honestly, with cameras everywhere and rewards out for the taken,
you can pretty much count on most of these idiots
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being caught and prosecuted at some point. Let's pause there.
I'll save some of this stuff for tomorrow if I
can get to it. Pam Bondy, by the way, our
US knew Attorney General, just came out and ripped Judge
James Boseberg in no uncertain terms about how she and
President Trump would continue deporting violent gang members and criminals
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in accordance with the law, and that Bozburg basically lacks
the authority to block this program, which he keeps trying
to do. It's pretty brassy of that guy, honestly, to
put the welfare of violent criminals, rapists and murderers and
people such as those put their welfare ahead of that
of Americans. Keeping any of these people on American soil,
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even for another minute, puts another American life at risk.
There's no sense at all on this. This guy is
an unelected judge, by the way. He originally was a
Bush appointee years ago, then he got elevated into his
current position by Obama. And he's pretty much trying to
flex his liberal muscles, and it's not working out so
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well for him. I'll say the rest of that, we'll
here we go. And these don't even have titles. I'll
just something about march madness, something about needs versus once,
and something about anesthesia.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
March madness.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
These are so so lame without my clever titles. Aren't
they just boring you to tears with.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
These March madness.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
Poll found that most of us just wing it when
we fill out brackets.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Of course, why not. There's it's like a one and
quintillion chance that you get a perfect bracket.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
I know, but if you're in the right bracket, if
you're in the right arena, that one perfect bracket someday
might make somebody a whole lot of money.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
There was a story about it's there is one bracket
out there that had every single game wrong.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Oh, every game wrong? Yes, the first round though they're
all wrong, aren't they? Well, I mean, but like he
missed every single of the first round. Some idiot who
bet on all the sixteens for starters.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
Fourteen percent of people based on a hunch, twenty two
percent said just whatever, vibes they're feeling. That's your generation.
Will we're over with the vibe. My generation, we don't
get vibes anymore. We get liquored up and you're just numb.
Nomb not numb, not numb at all.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
All right, let's let's see if I can figure out.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
Uh, there's a new trend that says, here are people
going under holy cow general anesthesia to get a tattoo. Doctors, however,
say there are serious risks that come with that. Well, yeah,
you're going under anesthesia. Anytime you do, you're in you
could get in big trouble. Uh oh, this one, this
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one I found interesting. Woman in Texas will hit the
lottery for eighty three and a half million dollars last month. Okay,
but she's probably not gonna get paid because she he
bought that ticket through an app called jack pocket whatever
that is. Says officials are looking into whether or not
the wind should count, and she's not gonna get paid
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until that investigation's complete. There was another story related to
that one recently about how there's some serious investigation going
on into how some of these tickets get bought, and
there's more to it. I don't even know exactly what
it's all about. Oh now I'm bummed out. Two days ago,
liftin Iced Tea went online and announced they were discontinuing
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peach Ice Tea.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
I'm disappointed. I'm so disappointed.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
But yesterday, yesterday, this is kind of the trend nowadays
of stretching things. Okay, you know what they announced yesterday?
What it was an early April fools gag. That's not
an April fools gag. Then that's a March nineteenth gag. No,
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March eighteenth.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
It seems like somebody accidentally hit you know, to send
it out early, send it out early button. And then
they had to backtrack, well off with their head.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
No it's peacht I'm not I don't care. It's not
that big a deal.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Have you ever had peace t before?
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Hi?
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Brand, No, what is that about p E A or
p I E No, p E A C E peace?
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Yeah? I asked about p c A or p E
A and you said no, Well you.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
Just said p E A quick two more words that
you can nate that you can make out of the
letters in peace?
Speaker 3 (27:41):
What two other words? I'm big into jumbles in no
peace piece?
Speaker 4 (27:46):
Yeah? Yeah, And then you go that's my turn, Cape,
go ahead, cape. Yeah, or we can just make any
any any letters or any word letters in the word piece.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
Okay, okay, you.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
Don't have all day.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Uh well, I gotta think about it, you know. I
gotta imagine you, Matt. It's like a little jumble right now.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Let's see uh capes.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
Caps Okay, I don't know where we're using plurals.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
That's fine, pace, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Oh my word, Doug, look we have we have a
minute and thirty seconds.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
I don't know how many of there are, but I
bet you I can get eight just off hand. All right,
So anyway, let's move on, shall we? Oh my gosh,
Oh no, that's just no. It's a rest news. And
if it's got to be really good to get a
rest news, there were some good things I have here.
Hold on, I can Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
A nine year old boy in North Carolina, what do
I have? Like a minute? You have a minute?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Ten?
Speaker 5 (28:51):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (28:51):
This is perfect.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
A nine year old boy in in North Carolina on
the playground noticed a friend of his. They're out there
during a little game of pick up basketball. Okay, and
this kid, Jason Branch, did what he had learned, not
from school, not from his parents.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
He learned this on a.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
YouTube video how to how to perform the Heimlich maneuver. Wow,
and just tucked it away in his brain somewhere. And
his little buddy on the playground, a little bit younger
than him, a little bit smaller than him, just kind
of while they're playing basketball, just leans over and starts choking.
Turns out he'd been chewing on a granola bar and
got a chunk of it stuck in his throat.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Jason moves over, and there's video of this.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
It's really kind of cool.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
He just goes immediately over to that kid gets behind him,
Remember when it was impossible to misplace the TV remote
because you were the TV remote. Remember when music sounded
like this, Remember when social media was truly social? Hey John,
how's it going today?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Well?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
This show is all about you. This is the d
plus with Doug Pike. Helpful information on your finances, good health,
and what to do for fun. Fifty plus brought to
you by the UT Health Houston Institute on Aging, Informed
Decisions for a healthier, happier life. And now fifty plus
(00:43):
with Doug Pike.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
All right, here we go.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Thursday edition of the program starts right now, an abbreviated
edition of fifty plus.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Because what time, exactly? Will what's our out time?
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Our out time is twelve forty five called forty five.
We're gonna shift gears and send you all who choose
to go, and I hope most of you do over
to the University of Houston basketball game against what are the.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
It's SIU Edwardsville. What are the s? And the I
will do you? Remember? I have no idea.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
That's all you're gonna give me this. This team made
the tournament. It's Southern Illinois. Southern Illis, thank you. I
couldn't remember Southern Illinois Edwardsville. I you know now that
I say Edwardsville, Illinois, it falls off the tongue very
easily because I've heard of it before. But I don't
know much about them. I know they're in the tournament
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and a lot of before anybody kind of laughs and
snickers about them playing U of H, which is a powerhouse.
Recognize SIU Edwardsville for even making it to Round one
of the official NC Double a March Madness tournament.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
That's not that's a an.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Opportunity that most US universities didn't get this year. A
whole lot of teams don't make it compared to the
ones who do. And now it shouldn't be much of
a task. So long as the fighting Cougars keep their
eyes on their game and their heads in the game.
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They are a thirty two point favorite. Will you want
to take a long shot bet with me?
Speaker 3 (02:29):
No? What if I spot you thirty one points? What
do you mean?
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Yeah, they're a thirty two point favorite, you of HS.
So in other words, at the score was thirty two
to nothing, you of H, then it would just be
a push. But if I were to tell you, I'll
give you thirty two and a half points and they
only win by thirty two, then you win. They would
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have to be better than thirty two points ahead of
SIU Edwardsville. At the end of the game, the Coogs
would for me to lose and for you to win.
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
I'm not I'm not a betting man.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Okay, I'll try and find somebody else who will take
that bet.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
I bet they're you know, spotting you thirty two and
a half.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
That means I'm convinced that the kugs are even better
than the big time gamblers in Vegas.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Thing.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
I guess that's.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Where those odds come from. I have no idea. It
makes no difference. So back to the regular part of
the program. What is this around the eight hundredth or
so episode of fifty plus, the only time primetime radio
show in Houston that's dedicated to the stuff that matters
most to you and me but not so much.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Will because he's less than.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Half my age, keep him around because he knows how
to keep us on the air, and that's kind of important.
I recognize your importance. Well, I do a quick look
at the weather courtesy of Texas iaq dot, and that
deduct cleaning people who do a darned good job of it,
so good, in fact, that it lasts a couple of years.
Go to Texas iaq dot net and you'll see what
(04:09):
I'm talking about. Mighty nice outside, except for the wind
that's helping wildfire spread up in Montgomery County. Firefighters trying
to bring that one under controlled. It wasn't much under
control this morning. I hope they made some headway before
the wind started to pick up again. They have aircraft
and several, like probably close to a dozen fire departments
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helping out up there trying to bring that thing under control.
I believe it's already burned a couple of thousand acres
if I'm not mistaken, and hopefully they'll they'll get that done.
They're gonna have their hands full all day to day.
No rain in the forecast either through Saturday, which won't
do those men and women any favors. But it is
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supposed to warm up tomorrow. If that's any consolation, I
guess it'll make the firefighting more difficult, but lighter, and
it hopefully that'll get taken care of them. We won't
have to worry about those people so far. Knock on
wood so far, no structural damage and no lives lost
(05:13):
so far, and even no animals. According to a report
I heard earlier this morning looking at the markets courtesy
of Houston Gooldexchange dot com, Algreen, al green, all green, well,
all green, and looking like they'll stay that way for
the four big ones, roughly green by about half a
point four, all but the rustle, which was good by
(05:35):
maybe a quarter of a point or so. Oil sadly
up more than a buck and back north of sixty
eight dollars a barrel. It is as long as it
stays up there or lower somewhere between about sixty four
and sixty eight, the oil companies can make a little
bit of profit, and I'm talking about a little bit
off drilling that and getting this stuff out of the ground,
(05:57):
and we could all enjoy fairly low gas prices. Gold
Gold was up a pretty good chunk early, then came
down briefly into the red. Now back up and comfortably
north of three thousand and forty seven dollars an ounce.
Last time I looked into the hold on, let me
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check the time, because there's no clock visible on the
wall today, it's twelve eleven. Just an oversight on your part.
Are you just not gonna bother since it's a short
program anyway? Yeah, is that what's going on here?
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Of course?
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Taking it's just have already checked out, yep. Okay, well okay,
well I'm gonna I'm gonna force you into action then
for these last two minutes and go to some fun stuff.
Pop quiz, Will, what is the windiest city in America?
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Well, it's not Chicago. No, it's not. Even though it
has the name, Oh yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
They call it the windy city, it's not the windiest
city though. There's a distinct difference betwe between the two.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
And like it's got to be in the north. Okay,
you're not even gonna give me a hint. It's in
corn Country. It's in corn Country. Yeah, the Midwest, really, sir,
I feel I feel like maybe a Nebraska could get windy.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
No, no, I'll give you another clue. There is an
automobile company named in that in that city.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Autumn.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Yeah, an automobile company. And that's all man put it together, Will,
I don't know what is Dodge City, Kansas? Oh, windy
city in America? Roll that out. When the game gets boring,
when the when the coop drew up by about fifty
and everybody's looking kind of bored and going, O, what
are we going to do? Now?
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Say?
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Did you happen to know that the windiest city in
America is not Chicago? And then that'll that'll light and
everything up and everybody will want to know. That's another
one before we go out. Do I have twenty seconds?
You have no seconds?
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Thirds? None?
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Nothing?
Speaker 3 (08:07):
No, you're done? All right, I'll take it true, I'll
take a break.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
I'll take a break.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Will you of Ages Institute on Aging? You of H's
Institute on my Aging?
Speaker 4 (08:17):
I did that, didn't I?
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Oops?
Speaker 5 (08:18):
U t.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Ut. Not to be confused with the Longhorns.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
No, the University of Texas Institute on Aging down here.
I'm not so sure how many basketball players there are there,
but I can guarantee you there are a lot of
medical providers who would be happy as larks to help
us seniors to feel more healthy, to become more healthy,
to be more vigorous, enjoy life more because they have,
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in addition to getting whatever training it took to get
their diploma, to get their degree, to get their accreditation,
whatever it is, whatever they've got, they've gone back and
gotten more so that they can apply their knowledge to seniors.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Specifically to us.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
That is a huge deal for us, and it's not
available anywhere else that I can find. This is a
group of more than a thousand providers around around the
Greater Houston area, some in the medical center all the time,
some in the medical center some of the time, but
going to outlying clinics and hospitals and offices during the week,
and some who maintain their primary practice outside of the
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medical center, which makes it very convenient for any of
us who need to see somebody about anything medical to
find somebody, go to the website. Look at all the
research resources first, so many many things that can help
us lead better lives, many suggestions, many places to go,
things to see, things.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
To do.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
As regards our health. And then make sure you find
a provider who is within that network of people the
ut UT Institute on a and then get yourself fixed up.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
You eat ut H.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Well, I'm just I'm going too fast, will because I'm
trying to trying to stack twenty pounds of sugar into
a ten pound sack. Because of you, of h baseball God,
I did it again, basketball Utch dot Edu slash aging.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
I'll get it right, and I'll slow it down so
we can all.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Get it uth dot edu slash aging.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Aged to perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
All right, welcome back to fifty plus.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
We are on an abbreviated schedule, so I'm not going
to waste any time. And thanks as always, by the way,
for sharing your lunch. How we're going to talk in
this segment if I can keep from sneezing about allergies,
which is something I didn't even have until my mid fifties,
And to help us all manage our way through these
days of yellow air and scratchy throats, I'll bring in
doctor William Yale, Assistant Professor in the Department of odo
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rhino Laryngology at Mcgovernment Medical School at UT Health.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Welcome aboard, doctor.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
Thank you very much Doug for having me on your show.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Oh it's my pleasure, so believe me, because I want
to learn some stuff for myself.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
So right out the box here.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
How can I get through fifty plus years with no
allergies to anything and then suddenly start sneezing my brains out.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
That's a great question, and that's probably one of the
biggest things it's something called iminosinescence. So basically, as you
get older, your immune system kind of builds up to
kind of simplify stuff, and so over time you kind
of build up the immune, your immune system weakens a
little bit, so then your threshold to reacting to these
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polling say tree pollens, you're more responsive to it, and
so because of that, you've just built it up, and
then that's why you develop these reactions to it.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Now.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
The other thing is that your previous immune response is
now more overactive compared to before.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Oh great, in a nutshell, great, any idea what percentage
of seniors developed these latent life allergies?
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Ah?
Speaker 6 (12:15):
Gosh, that one.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
That's a great question that I don't know, but I
would say probably about fifty percent plus will develop allergy symptoms.
And it is dependent on locations. So it's going to
feel like everybody in your community will have some kind
of allergy symptoms, and then it just all depends on
how significant or severe it is.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
For the for the lucky ones who don't have allergies yet,
what if anything can they do to maybe fight the
development or is there anything they can do?
Speaker 5 (12:45):
There really isn't any fighting of development. You could prevent
exposure though or minimize exposure, meaning that you know, add
a HEPA filter in your in your house, your ac events,
clean it up, don't have anger. Don't dry your laundry
materials outside. So if you hang dry them, that's the
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wind blows all the oat, pollen or any pollen materials
could stick on to it, even dust mites for example.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
And then that if you're sleeping on sheets for example
that was dried outside, you're sleeping on allergy particles.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Not a good idea.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Are these fourth quarter allergies restricted to specific type like
pollen or whatever. Can they manifest as allergies to foods
or something else too?
Speaker 5 (13:31):
It could be anything, to be absolutely honest, Most likely
to the environment is more common than food allergies. It's
very rare for you to develop late onset food allergies
other than idine.
Speaker 6 (13:45):
I would say, so other than the shellfishes.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
A lot of times it's if you have it, you
have it, if you don't, it's really hard to develop
late onset food allergy. But for the environmental allergies like
say dust mites and stuff, it's probably yeah, you could
get at any time.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Oh great, doctor Wigham. Yeah, on fifty plus. So let's
talk about managing this stuff. Start start with over the
counter stuff or go straight to the doctor. What's the
best IDEA.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
Great, great question.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
So allergies could be diagnosed by history alone. You really
don't need that much physical exam and so if you
know the history, I would say start with the over
the counter. Nowadays a lot of medications are over to
counter that was previously under prescription, So anti histamines would
be number one. By anti histamines, I would say the
class of zero tech, Clariton, allegora.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
Those are some simple ones.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
Avoid the d's, So the dash D you want to
avoid because that has decongestionment, which is not good for you.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
With regards to.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
With topical sprays, then it would be topical steroids which
would be flownase and so flow nase, which would be
flutica zone. There's a rhino court as a court. Those
are available over the counter. Other anti histamine nasal sprays
would be ascylin, which would be asked to pro uh.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
Finally, uh the uh.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
There's uh some prescription medications out there now which would
be the next stage, which would be chromolin uh, which
would be UH patinase or pata day, which would be
eye drops, and that would be anti histamine.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
There's always these stronger anti like.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
Nasal sprays and allergy medications available by prescription as well,
and then finally allergy shots.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Yeah, that's that's the last resort. I hope, I hope.
I don't get to that point you mentioned. You mentioned
this minus or dash D the decongestion. Why is that
not preferred?
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Yeah, so the D is not good because it could
actually elevate blood pressure. Oh, because it's the D could
raise the blood pressure and it could actually cause rebound
congestion as well.
Speaker 6 (15:57):
So we always say avoid the D.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Right, well, appreciate that. So allergy meds are going to
help us keep away from that stuff. Can allergies, though,
be signs of bigger health problems or they are those
two things just unrelated.
Speaker 6 (16:11):
Ah, they are generally unrelated. Okay, so they go hand
in hand.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
But usually so, if you have, for example, natal pull
ups and stuff, there's a higher chance that you have allergies, right, Okay,
it doesn't mean that you have other problems. If you
have uncontrolled allergies, let's say that it can't be treated
just by with sprays and stuff. Then I would say
that's when you want to kind of look into it
deeper and see a physician either at allergies and see, like,
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you know, what is it, because it may actually be
something else.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Sure, it's a tale of our time here, doctor William.
You know any easy ways we can self diagnose between
allergies and could or flu.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
Yes, allergies will go well. Cold and flu is more acute, right,
so it goes and goes away. But allergy is mostly repetitive,
meaning that it happens every March. When you go outside
and you see the oak pollen. Again, that's classic. If
you mowd a lawn and then after you come home
you get it, that's classic. If you see your neighbor's
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cat and then you get allergies, that's those are all classic.
But a flu or something would be more aware. It's
constant and it doesn't even wax and weight and.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
A fever probably with the flu or a cold exactly.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Okay, that makes very good sense, doctor William. Y'll thank
you so very much for your time.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
You've kind of told me what i'd you know, I
wish it weren't true that they weren't gonna go away,
but I don't think they are. I'm just living with them.
Thank you so much.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
Great, no problem you, thank you very much for having
me on your show.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
My pleasure. All right, we got to take a little
break here. On the way out, I will tell you
all about a late Health. This is the group that well,
they're clinics around town where you can get vascular procedures done.
Nothing to do with allergies, and that's not that's not
their area of expertise. What they do is take care
of pretty serious problems like arge non cancerous prostate.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
That's the process or the thing they do most often.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
The cure they do for an enlarge non cancerous prostate
is to shut off the blood supply to it, which
then makes it kind of shrivel up and go away,
and away with it go the symptoms. If you have one,
you know what I'm talking about. You know the symptoms
aren't good. Same with fibroids for women. They can do
exactly the same type of procedure to make those issues
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go away. And then of course the ugly veins and
even some head pains also alleviated in many cases with
vascular procedures, which is what they do all day, every day.
Except when they're doing regenerative medicine, which they also do
and is outstandingly successful. Time is showing in alleviating chronic pain,
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and nobody should have to suffer like that. Most of
what they do covered by Medicare and Medicaid, and everything
they do is done in the office. In a couple
of hours, you'll need somebody to drive you home, but
that's where you gonna recover, is at home, where you're
most comfortable. A latehealth dot Com is the website seven
one three, five eight eight thirty eight eighty eight. Seven
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one three, five eight eight thirty eight eighty eight.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash him, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This is
fifty plus with doug Pike, all right.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Welcome back fifty plus on a M nine fifty KPRC
on Dougie's will, and we have very little time left
before the University of Houston takes on Southern Illinois University
from Edwardsville in Round one of the NCAA Tournament.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
March Madness.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
You have h favored by thirty two over the fighting.
Whatever they are is from Edwardsville. I'm not sure what
their mascot is, but they're gonna have their hands full
with the Koogs and the Kugs. Better pay attention because
every now and then these tournaments produce upsets, some pretty
big ones too, and ruin everybody's brackets.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
So hopefully that won't happen.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Hopefully a couple of news items, and then I'll, because
I'm on a short time, I'll get to a little
lighter stuff to wrap it up. Remember Tim Wallace, the
Minnesota governor and Democratic nominee for vice president alongside Kamala
Harris for president back in last year. Wall's caught a
lot of flak this week after he claimed that his
(20:34):
self proclaimed ability to fix a truck somehow translated to
a frightening fear of him among Republican men of his masculinity.
Tim Walls bragging about his masculinity. He made the claim
during a podcast with California Governor Gavin Newsom, whom I
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bet also well, maybe Walls can to some degree, but
I'd bet Newsom can't fix a truck.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
And even if Walls can fix.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Something on a truck, something beyond filling it up, he
still doesn't add up to it exactly to a tower
of masculinity in my book. Anyway, Tesla's being batalized and
set on fire and the disappointing number of Americans actually
are applauding those deliberate acts. There was a I can't
(21:30):
remember the name of the show, but some comedy show,
I think something on the Comedy Network. Actually the host
of that show shut down the audience when they were
applauding video of Tesla's being set on fire, and to
his credit, he just said, stop.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
It, just stop.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
It truly bothering me that our own citizens would engage
in violent, criminal activity that hurts literally and figuratively a
lot of.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
People when they do that.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
It just tells me that we're really a long way
from where we need to be, which would be a
country in which, again for the first time in a
couple of decades, a place where differing opinions generate conversation
and not arson or fistfights or canceling or anything else.
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Just listen to somebody else's opinion and then ask them
to hear your opinion, and then the two of you
can walk off and just think about where there might
be some middle ground that would work. A whole lot better,
and honestly, with cameras everywhere and rewards out for the taken,
you can pretty much count on most of these idiots
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being caught and prosecuted at some point. Let's pause there.
I'll save some of this stuff for tomorrow if I
can get to it. Pam Bondy, by the way, our
US knew Attorney General, just came out and ripped Judge
James Boseberg in no uncertain terms about how she and
President Trump would continue deporting violent gang members and criminals
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in accordance with the law, and that Bozburg basically lacks
the authority to block this program, which he keeps trying
to do. It's pretty brassy of that guy, honestly, to
put the welfare of violent criminals, rapists and murderers and
people such as those put their welfare ahead of that
of Americans. Keeping any of these people on American soil,
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even for another minute, puts another American life at risk.
There's no sense at all on this. This guy is
an unelected judge, by the way. He originally was a
Bush appointee years ago, then he got elevated into his
current position by Obama. And he's pretty much trying to
flex his liberal muscles, and it's not working out so
(23:50):
well for him. I'll say the rest of that, we'll
here we go. And these don't even have titles. I'll
just something about march madness, something about needs versus once,
and something about anesthesia.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
March madness.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
These are so so lame without my clever titles. Aren't
they just boring you to tears with.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
These March madness.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
Poll found that most of us just wing it when
we fill out brackets.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Of course, why not. There's it's like a one and
quintillion chance that you get a perfect bracket.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
I know, but if you're in the right bracket, if
you're in the right arena, that one perfect bracket someday
might make somebody a whole lot of money.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
There was a story about it's there is one bracket
out there that had every single game wrong.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Oh, every game wrong? Yes, the first round though they're
all wrong, aren't they? Well, I mean, but like he
missed every single of the first round. Some idiot who
bet on all the sixteens for starters.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
Fourteen percent of people based on a hunch, twenty two
percent said just whatever, vibes they're feeling. That's your generation.
Will we're over with the vibe. My generation, we don't
get vibes anymore. We get liquored up and you're just numb.
Nomb not numb, not numb at all.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
All right, let's let's see if I can figure out.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
Uh, there's a new trend that says, here are people
going under holy cow general anesthesia to get a tattoo. Doctors, however,
say there are serious risks that come with that. Well, yeah,
you're going under anesthesia. Anytime you do, you're in you
could get in big trouble. Uh oh, this one, this
(25:50):
one I found interesting. Woman in Texas will hit the
lottery for eighty three and a half million dollars last month. Okay,
but she's probably not gonna get paid because she he
bought that ticket through an app called jack pocket whatever
that is. Says officials are looking into whether or not
the wind should count, and she's not gonna get paid
(26:11):
until that investigation's complete. There was another story related to
that one recently about how there's some serious investigation going
on into how some of these tickets get bought, and
there's more to it. I don't even know exactly what
it's all about. Oh now I'm bummed out. Two days ago,
liftin Iced Tea went online and announced they were discontinuing
(26:34):
peach Ice Tea.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
I'm disappointed. I'm so disappointed.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
But yesterday, yesterday, this is kind of the trend nowadays
of stretching things. Okay, you know what they announced yesterday?
What it was an early April fools gag. That's not
an April fools gag. Then that's a March nineteenth gag. No,
(27:01):
March eighteenth.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
It seems like somebody accidentally hit you know, to send
it out early, send it out early button. And then
they had to backtrack, well off with their head.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
No it's peacht I'm not I don't care. It's not
that big a deal.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Have you ever had peace t before?
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Hi?
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Brand, No, what is that about p E A or
p I E No, p E A C E peace?
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Yeah? I asked about p c A or p E
A and you said no, Well you.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
Just said p E A quick two more words that
you can nate that you can make out of the
letters in peace?
Speaker 3 (27:41):
What two other words? I'm big into jumbles in no
peace piece?
Speaker 4 (27:46):
Yeah? Yeah, And then you go that's my turn, Cape,
go ahead, cape. Yeah, or we can just make any
any any letters or any word letters in the word piece.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
Okay, okay, you.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
Don't have all day.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Uh well, I gotta think about it, you know. I
gotta imagine you, Matt. It's like a little jumble right now.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Let's see uh capes.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
Caps Okay, I don't know where we're using plurals.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
That's fine, pace, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Oh my word, Doug, look we have we have a
minute and thirty seconds.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
I don't know how many of there are, but I
bet you I can get eight just off hand. All right,
So anyway, let's move on, shall we? Oh my gosh,
Oh no, that's just no. It's a rest news. And
if it's got to be really good to get a
rest news, there were some good things I have here.
Hold on, I can Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
A nine year old boy in North Carolina, what do
I have? Like a minute? You have a minute?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Ten?
Speaker 5 (28:51):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (28:51):
This is perfect.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
A nine year old boy in in North Carolina on
the playground noticed a friend of his. They're out there
during a little game of pick up basketball. Okay, and
this kid, Jason Branch, did what he had learned, not
from school, not from his parents.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
He learned this on a.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
YouTube video how to how to perform the Heimlich maneuver. Wow,
and just tucked it away in his brain somewhere. And
his little buddy on the playground, a little bit younger
than him, a little bit smaller than him, just kind
of while they're playing basketball, just leans over and starts choking.
Turns out he'd been chewing on a granola bar and
got a chunk of it stuck in his throat.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Jason moves over, and there's video of this.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
It's really kind of cool.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
He just goes immediately over to that kid gets behind him,
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