Alzheimer's Disease and Travel Tips

Today, Doug Pike interviews Dr. Paul Schulz about Alzheimer's Disease. Pike also speaks with Heather Greenwood Davis about travel.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:47):
Thursday it is, and boy.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
Well it looks actually like a whole a whole lot
like Wednesday. Did.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
There's another chance for pop up showers later today, and
then a little bit more chance a little later tomorrow,
and Saturday, Sunday, and then who knows what after that.
You really don't know around here this time of year.
The chance for pop ups this afternoon, it's kind of

(01:15):
the same as yesterday. It depends on what side of
the street you're on. Really, these were very small, isolated showers,
but they were in some cases pretty severe. I got
caught in one yesterday on the way home from the
golf course by the way, where while I was there
up until I got out of there, because I know
how these things work, and I was gonna get while

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the getting was dry.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
While I was there earlier, it.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
Was about one hundred degrees until the wind switched from
the side I think it was from the southeast maybe
early at about eight, shifted to north at about thirty.
In the time it took the lightning siren to come
on one time, interesting to me was how many people
out there ignored that warning. Why wow, all this big

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siren sound going off and playing through as though there
were weren't a cloud in the sky. When I was there,
a major cell, a tiny one, but a major black
cloud cell was clearly visible off to the east kind
of the east northeast. There was audible thunder, there was

(02:25):
visible lightning, and there were golfers on probably half the
holes out there.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
I only saw one.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Or two people moving back toward the clubhouse and just boy, okay,
it's all on you. I'd already started fishing at that point.
I practiced my golf game for about an hour maybe,
and then I thought about playing a few holes. I thought, no,
I need to focus on this other game. That I play.

(02:54):
So I did, and that made it prey pretty easy
for me to just kind of call the ride back
to the parking lot after about a dozen more hypocritical casts.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
There's something that's really important.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
If you're one of those people who's not scared to
play golf when there's lightning nearby, do a search. Do
me a favor, and do yourself a favor, and do
a search this afternoon for golf clubs struck by lightning,
and ask yourself if you'd like to be pulling your
six iron out of the bag when that bolt hits it.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
Take a look at that for real.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
About two thirds of the way home, the absolute bottom
fell out of the clouds wipers. Immediately to high speed
there was i'll call it minor flooding, and only on
little isolated parts of Highway six that I was driving
that almost certainly were probably drained and evaporated with no
sign whatsoever. Maybe ten minutes after I went through there,

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it was crazy wind blowing in circles, all kinds of
little things falling out of the trees and rolling down
the street. It was like a mini No, I'm not
gonna say no, I'm not gonna say the word I
was gonna use, because that could have that could have
jinxed us, So I'm not gonna do it.

Speaker 3 (04:12):
If where am.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
I going from? Oh, by the way, yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
On the Atlantic map of the National Hurricane Center, I
want to address the three things that were out there yesterday.
They're all still there today, looking generally good. Though for
North America, despite those three colorful balloons, the red one, Dexter,
is floundering in the mid Atlantic now, just wandering aimlessly

(04:37):
until it finally just falls asleep so we can check
that one off. The yellow one that was along the
East coast has turned its back on North America for good,
I think, and decided to go follow Dexter wherever it's
gonna end up.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
And then that.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
Giant orange blob that's it seems to cover half of
the Atlantic Ocean the way they've drawn it. I don't
know why they're becoming so uncertain or becoming so vague
with these things. If it's that big of an area, I.

Speaker 3 (05:09):
Don't think it needs even attention yet.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
Call us back when it's a little more defined, call
us back when the odds of it becoming something are
a little greater, so that nobody runs to the grocery
store and stocks up on stuff they'll never end up using,
just because somebody on the local news that night showed
that map, and then show their own enhanced map of
how much more possibility there was for a potential cataclysmic event.

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I'm so tired of the chicken littles in the weather departments.
And I get it, you don't want anybody to be
caught unaware of something that could dangerously affect them. But
nor do you want to keep telling people every time
the wind blows that it's going to be a tornado.

Speaker 3 (05:58):
It's not.

Speaker 2 (05:59):
And the those of us who have lived long enough
to be on our side of the ledger know that, fortunately,
so we don't really freak out.

Speaker 3 (06:10):
Anyway.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
That yellow blob probably about three or four hundred miles
east of Virginia at this point, and expected to keep
turning more northerly and more easterly as it moves on.
I don't think it's going to threaten North America. Two
minutes perfect in the news. I'm going to be somewhat
brief with these today, lingering just long enough, I think,

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and providing just enough information that you hopefully will be
inspired to do some.

Speaker 3 (06:39):
Deeper, digging on your own.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
You know, the one thing that I truly believe about
this audience of mine is that you're smart people, and
I'd rather you gather information on your own.

Speaker 3 (06:52):
If you feel so inclined, then.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
Even remotely think that I know everything that you ought
to listen to every word I say, I'm gonna point
you in directions. I'm going to encourage you to go
look for yourself and inform your own opinions. That's critical thinking.
That's what our schools should be teaching kids. But unfortunately
they're being taught to take as gospel anything they're told

(07:18):
by somebody who is in a position of authority, and
that's a bad way to live. That's a wrong way
to live. I have opinions on a lot of stuff,
but in the long run, and I truly believe this,
in the long run, my opinion is no more valuable
than yours or anybody else's.

Speaker 3 (07:36):
It's just an opinion.

Speaker 2 (07:37):
And there's a saying about opinions, but it's kind of raunchy,
so I'm not gonna use it.

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Speaker 1 (09:14):
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Speaker 2 (09:28):
Thanks for sharing your lunch hour, though, even if you
won't share your lunch with us, We've we've asked so
many times, haven't we will, and they just we never
seem to have any food come up here.

Speaker 1 (09:39):
That's all right.

Speaker 2 (09:40):
We're talking this segment about the early symptoms of Alzheimer's
disease and to get right down to brass tacks, how
even those first indicators tend to be different among men
and women. And to explain all this, I've enlisted my
favorite source for this particular topic, doctor Paul Schultz, neurologist
in neuropsychology, just practicing at UT Physicians and a professor

(10:03):
at UT Health Mcgovernment Medical School.

Speaker 3 (10:05):
Welcome back, doctor Schultz.

Speaker 4 (10:08):
Thank you, Doug, thank you for having me.

Speaker 1 (10:09):
Yes, sir, so pleasure.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
Let's start with early symptoms of Alzheimer's that are most
common among men and women, and then well, they'll will
break them out. And as a ne knowledge, what signs
might you notice during an exam of a man or
a woman that would lead you to believe that person
either has or is soon gonna have Alzheimer's.

Speaker 4 (10:29):
Yeah, the most common symptom, as we've talked about, is forgetfulness, Yeah,
some sometimes word finding issues, sometimes getting lost. What distinguishes
men and women, though, is the non cognitive symptoms. It's
not necessarily commonly known that people, I mean, everything we
do comes from our brain, right, so if my mood changes,

(10:52):
that comes from the brain, If my behavior changes. It
turns out in women, I tend to see more people
who present with a mood change like depressure, your anxiety
for the first time in their life, or what we
call psychosis, which means they've got kind of funny thinking,
or they might have a hallucination. Those are more common
in women. And then if they come in and there's
a little forgetfulness and the wife says, well, he's just

(11:14):
not himself. He's more apathetic, he's not doing things like
he always did. That apathy is more common in men.
Different part of the brain. Mood disorder different part of
the brain. Cognitives changes different part of the brain, So
depending on which part is effective, you have different symptoms.
But women and men tend to be different in that regard.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
Do those symptoms manifest themselves.

Speaker 2 (11:34):
Earlier or later in women or men or is it
just kind of the same across the board.

Speaker 3 (11:40):
They're just different things you're looking at.

Speaker 4 (11:43):
Oh, that's a really good question. So it turns out
in retrospect people don't come in because they have a
mood disorder. Of course, they come in when they.

Speaker 1 (11:50):
Have cognitive disorder.

Speaker 4 (11:51):
But in retrospect we see that, oh, for the first
time in their life, they developed depression three years ago,
and that could have been a cool if we have
been you know, if we have been aware of it.
That their interness wasn't aware of whatever, so they didn't
come in. But yeah, the point is that you can
have a movie symptom as the presenting symptom, or a
behavior change or a cognitive one and still count as

(12:13):
Alzheimer's but it's harder to diagnose those other ones. If
they come in forgetful, well you don't need to be
a neurologist to figure that out. But if it's a
mood change or a behavior change, it's a lot more
difficult to figure out.

Speaker 2 (12:25):
Indeed it is and hopefully getting this right. Will there
be more subtle symptoms in women even than that?

Speaker 3 (12:31):
Is there?

Speaker 2 (12:32):
Or is that the mood change, the potential psychosis? Those
things are those the first indicators in a woman that somehow,
some way do you have to get Should you get tested?
Is there a test now for Alzheimer's?

Speaker 1 (12:47):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (12:47):
Yeah, yes, yes, that's a good question. Yeah, yeah, we
can definitely figure out if someone has it or not.
And you know, Doug, the big thing is that when
we look at our clinic here who's coming in, it's
twice as often women as men. Women are getting Alzheimer's
twice as often, and they're progressing more rapidly. So it's
really it's a real mystery why that is. But it's

(13:09):
a very specific risk factor there.

Speaker 2 (13:15):
When I did mind, when I did my research research,
I also saw sleep disorders among women mentioned how does
that play into it?

Speaker 4 (13:25):
So we've talked before about how there's amyloid plaques in
the brains that actually accumulate and cause symptoms. When we're
in deep sleep, we actually clear a lot of amyloid
from the brain. We're all making it. Well, it's just
a question of do we get rid of it fast enough.
And it turns out if you have sleep disorders and
you're sleeping less, you're probably getting rid of it less

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of it, and that probably puts you at greater risk
for it. The other thing, the same with exercise.

Speaker 2 (13:53):
The other thing I noticed, it's just the elephant in
the room almost as menopause. Does that play any role hormonally.

Speaker 4 (14:00):
Yeah, yes, that's a real interesting one. We've known for
years that after menopause women are more at risk, and
we've tried replacement therapy. It's now become more apparent. It's
not one hundred percent, but it's quite convincing the evidence
that if you get on hormone replacement therapy right after menopause,
it reduces the risk of Alzheimer's. But when we've become

(14:22):
aware of it five years later and put women on
hormone replacement therapy, they may actually be at increased risk
of Alzheimer's. Disease. So yeah, there's definitely a hormonal component
to it, and it may depend on when we intervene
as to whether or not they're at increased risk or
decreased risk of Alzheimer's. But regardless of that, again, twice

(14:42):
as many women have Alzheimer's as men, so it's probably
more than the hormones alone, but that's probably certainly a
critical part of it.

Speaker 2 (14:50):
Something I saw this more and hinted at physical differences
in the sex is specifically, one of which was frailty.
And well, I'm going to make a lot of really
strong women upset by saying that, but frailty among women
compared to men might be some sort of a contributor.

Speaker 3 (15:06):
Are you on that train? Do you believe?

Speaker 4 (15:08):
Well, we could look at it that way, another way
to say it, Doug, it would be more politically correct,
Thank you. Men put ourselves in more dangerous position, Okay, okay,
we tend to get more head trauma and other risk
factors for for Alzheimer's disease, and then the women who
are smarter than us, that might be a better way

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to put it.

Speaker 2 (15:29):
That's a great way to put it. I'm gonna remember that.
And speaking of putting ourselves in dangerous positions. True confession.
When I was like eight nine years old, we would
choose up sides in the neighborhood and have rock wars,
and twice because I had a great arm, but I
didn't have much sense, twice I got bean right in
the head by big rocks and had to go get stitches.

Speaker 3 (15:49):
Am I in trouble?

Speaker 4 (15:52):
Well it's a risk factor, but hopefully your other risk
factors are less. No, I'm telling you boys, I like that.
I've got two grandsons, four and who they're exactly like
my brother and I, which is exactly what you're talking about.
They just try to beat each other up all the time.

Speaker 2 (16:06):
And on the flip side and again back in the
favor of women, although some people would say yes, no, whatever,
a potential slowing of that disease appears to have occurred
in women who have continued their education and are in
the workforce where they're having to make decisions and using

(16:27):
their cognitive engagement. Do you agree with that as being
a lowering of the risk factor.

Speaker 1 (16:34):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (16:34):
Absolutely, absolutely. The more we use our brain, the better
off it is. And that's true for both sexes. But
obviously years ago less women had the opportunity for education,
but now that more are getting it. Yes, Yeah, it
turns out the various parts of the brain that are
affected by Alzheimer's are affected in the opposite direction by

(16:57):
mental exercise and physical exercise. And as I might have
mentioned before, I don't know. We think you can reduce
the risk of Alzheimer's about forty five percent through lifestyle modifications,
including those and other ones. Yeah, so it's very significant.
The other thing I want to mention Douglas I can
is that you know we've got You've been kind enough

(17:17):
to have me on before to talk about some of
our new treatments for Alzheimer's, but this is a real
chakra to me. I've been looking through the data from
our different trials because we're submitting a grant next month
on this, and it turns out that for our new medications,
women don't fare as well as men.

Speaker 1 (17:35):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (17:36):
And that hasn't become common knowledge yet. Yeah, and I
don't know why that is, but that's so they're not
only twice as likely to get it, but in all
of our own data, in the multi center data, it
looks like they don't. They're not affected quite as much
by the medications real conundrum that we need to figure
out so that we can obviously help them as much
as the men and eventually help both of them even more.

Speaker 2 (17:58):
Doctor Paul Schultz, thank you so much. I'm afraid we're
out of time, my friend. Anytime you want to come
back and talk about this, I'm wide open to it,
all right, yes.

Speaker 3 (18:08):
Sir, pleasure, Oh yeah, thank you.

Speaker 2 (18:10):
Doc Obay, all right, we got to take a little
break here on the way out. UT Heals Institute on
Aging speaking of things that seniors get and might need
some treatment for. UT's Institute on Aging is a collaborative
effort among more than a thousand providers around here, all
of whom have gone back to get more training, to

(18:31):
get more information on how they can apply their specialization
to seniors to us, and that is a tremendous resource
we have right here in the Greater Houston area, and
by greater Houston. Most of these providers are in the
med Center, as you might understand, everybody would understand that
that's the epicenter of it all, but many of them

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also work at least a day or two a week,
maybe three in outlying clinics and out lying hospitals so
that people who can't or don't want to go into
the med center don't have to. That's an even better
way to access this is to find one of these
providers who is going to be out near you at
some time during the week, and the schedule your appointment

(19:15):
for Then go to the website, look at all the
resources there, look at all the roadmaps you can find
to feeling better and healthier and happier and just getting
on with the rest of your life, however long that's
going to be ut dot edu slash aging, utch dot

(19:35):
edu slash aging.

Speaker 1 (19:37):
What's life without a nap?

Speaker 3 (19:39):
If I suggest to go to bed, sleep it off.

Speaker 1 (19:41):
Just wait until the show's over. Sleepy. Back to Dougpike
as fifty plus continues.

Speaker 3 (19:48):
All right, welcome back, Thanks for listening. Certainly do appreciate that.

Speaker 2 (19:51):
Thanks to doctor Schultz too for shedding some more light
on Alzheimer's disease. We're going to lighten it up in
this segment little travel talk, and my help on this
is going to come from Heather Greenwood Davis, a National
Geographic Traveler of the Year and someone who can help
us and teach us how to get the most from
our vacations when it kind of comes to resetting, reconnecting,

(20:12):
and feeling refreshed when we return. Good Heavens. Welcome to
fifty plus Heather.

Speaker 5 (20:17):
Thanks thanks for having me.

Speaker 3 (20:20):
You bet, it's my pleasure. Really.

Speaker 2 (20:21):
First sentence I read about this topic was that Americans
are taking shorter trips, but not just to save money.
And I guess the first thing we need to do
really is describe short and long. What was formerly considered
an average length of a vacation.

Speaker 3 (20:35):
What is it now?

Speaker 5 (20:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (20:38):
I think it used to be about five to seven
days most people would think when they're taking their vacation,
and now we see people taking trips as short as
three to four days. Right, They're looking to maximize their time.
And you're right, it's not just about money. It's about time.
It's about people not necessarily wanting to blow all the
vacation time in one go.

Speaker 2 (20:57):
You know, one thing I would recognize as well is
that if you're really trying to reset and relax and
do all of those things, get all of that from
your vacation, it would And I had the time to
do this, I'm leaving vacation days on the table and
I'm not doing that anymore. But I have the time
to take say a Monday through Friday, and maybe not

(21:17):
leave until Tuesday morning, and just take that Monday to
just lazily pack and make sure I don't forget anything
and not be hurried or anything, and then come back
on Friday instead of Saturday or Sunday night, where I
don't have to just turn over in the bed the
next morning and jump out and go to work.

Speaker 1 (21:37):
That seems very very enticing to me.

Speaker 6 (21:41):
Yeah, absolutely, And I think you're not alone. I think
people want to make sure they're getting the most out
of their vacation, so they want to be rested before
they go. They want to make sure on the vacation
they're having, you know, getting financial, emotional and experiential value
from that trip, that they're visited a place and it
feels authentic, you know, and that they had that escape.
So yeah, it makes sense to me that you would

(22:02):
want to build in some time before and after you though,
as well.

Speaker 2 (22:06):
I noticed Heather that there was some interest in Canada,
and then I read a little farther and I found
out that you are from Canada, which happens to look
so appealing right now, because it's like a one hundred
and fifty degrees down here, what I can sit barring
the season, never mind the season. Where are some easy
to get to places in Canada that are really appealing

(22:28):
to you?

Speaker 6 (22:30):
Yeah, So first of all, yes, I am Canadian. I'm
actually coming to you from Toronto today. Good And I
always recommended Americans consider a trip here because it's such
a natural fit and we're so close, so you get
access to all of those breathtaking, diverse landscapes, you know,
and the warm hearted people. I am one of them,
I promise, And you can also get out here and
enjoy outdoor thrills and cultural experiences. But you guys are

(22:53):
so close, Like it is really a short flight for
you to get to Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver, Edmonton, and any
of those are going to deliver with incredible opportunities.

Speaker 5 (23:03):
If you want specifics, I can give them.

Speaker 2 (23:05):
Well, even from Houston, it's not that far a fly,
and I've actually flown up there a couple of times.
No on old old trips to outdoors related trips. And
the only person I know in the entire country of
Canada is from Toronto, by the way, so small one.

Speaker 5 (23:20):
Well now you know.

Speaker 3 (23:21):
Too, Yeah, that's exactly right.

Speaker 1 (23:24):
Double them.

Speaker 2 (23:25):
So, and a lot of building a trip depends on
what you want to get out of it. If you
want well you talk about if you want relaxation, great,
then schedule that way. If you want jam packed activities
so you can pad your Facebook likes, then do that.
How do you go about that? How do you figure
out what you want to do each day of a

(23:45):
three day trip?

Speaker 6 (23:46):
Yeah, well you want to think a little bit about
First of all, you're not going to be able to
do everything, so you give up on that idea right away,
and you think about who you're traveling with and how
are you going to make sure that you get As
you said off the top, you know that you come
back feel rested and rejuvenated.

Speaker 5 (24:01):
Well, you can build that right into your trip.

Speaker 6 (24:03):
You can go to Alberta and visit you know, they've
got hot springs there that are well worth your time
and are going to keep you relaxed. You can get
to Toronto and you know, move from the city center
itself to take a ferry over to the Toronto Islands
and be on a picnic or in a kayak, you know,
looking back at the city but enjoying the quiet of that.

Speaker 5 (24:22):
If you can get all the way to Quebec.

Speaker 6 (24:23):
Or out east, you're looking at seafood and cultural offerings,
So there's all kinds of things you can do, as
long as you're making sure that you a are thinking
of who you're with and be not overpacking that trip,
leaving room to meet the people and make some friends.

Speaker 3 (24:37):
Down to a couple of minutes. I'm overdue for a vacation.

Speaker 2 (24:40):
I love to fish, i love to play golf, and
I've got enough vacation time to take September off. That
might look good. Oh no, yeah, well, at least the
problem is I can't seem to ever lock down a trail.
I guess the first step really is you just have
to look way down the calendar and carve out a
week where there's nothing written down, and then build around that.

Speaker 3 (24:58):
Right Is that smart?

Speaker 1 (24:59):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (25:00):
Absolutely?

Speaker 6 (25:01):
Absolutely, Start with the time you have book and see
what's available in your price range where you're going, you know,
for you know, Vancouver is a great option because you've
got those natural parks in the city, got Stanley Park,
which is iconic, but you can also get in you know,
some of the shopping and dining and all of the
other big city likes that people like to travel for.
Or you can go even further north. You could head

(25:22):
to Yukon, where you're going to learn about indigenous offering.
You're gonna have you ever heard of the sour toe cocktail?

Speaker 3 (25:28):
Absolutely not.

Speaker 6 (25:31):
Well you might be sorry now, but it's it's basically
a shot of liquor with a mummified human toe. Oh yeah, yeah,
Well listen to Facebook.

Speaker 5 (25:43):
Here's your chance.

Speaker 6 (25:47):
Oh yeah, really something for everyone here, I.

Speaker 2 (25:52):
Guess so, Heather on that happy note, Cheers to you,
Heather Greenwood Davis, Thank you so much. I need to
do this again because I want to learn a bit
more about Canada. I really do. I want to go back.

Speaker 5 (26:04):
I'd love to be here. I'd love to do it.

Speaker 3 (26:06):
Yeah, thank you, all right, Heather Greenwood Davis, thank you
so much.

Speaker 1 (26:10):
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a new member of the sponsorship family for fifty plus
and I'm really glad to have him on board. That
would be John Eittman from Country Boys Roofing. I've been
talking to him for quite some time now and I've
gotten to know him, and I know him well enough
that he's going to take care of you. He's gonna

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take care of anybody who needs roof help. We're in
the middle of storm season. There's no time like now
to get that roof of yours checked out by Country
Boys roofing. He'll come to the house, he'll look it over,
He'll he'll tell you honestly what is or is not
wrong with it. And sometimes you're just gonna get lucky
and he's gonna climb down and say, you know, everything

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looks fine. We'll come back in a while and try
it again. The key is to get it done before
there's a big problem. You can't let little problems become
big problems. That's what the problem in those problems, those
little ones are going to be exposed if we do
get a major storm. A good roof can survive those things.

Speaker 1 (27:14):
It really can.

Speaker 2 (27:15):
Get John out there for an inspection right now before
one of those blobs in the ocean decides it wants
to roll up your street. Country boys will never ask
for any money upfront. They are for a fifteen hundred
dollars discount on a complete roof for first responders, for teachers,
active duty military, and even if you're not any of those,

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you can still get a thousand bucks off just for
dropping my name. And know you cannot stack those if
you qualify on both ends of that. Country Boys, great guy,
great guy. He lives down on the southwest side, way
way out the southwest side.

Speaker 3 (27:50):
Almost country boys. That's what his name is.

Speaker 2 (27:53):
Country with a K, boys with a Z, countryboysroofing dot
com Countryboy's roofing.

Speaker 1 (28:02):
Old guy's rule. And of course women never get old
if you want to avoid sleeping on the couch.

Speaker 4 (28:10):
Oh, I think that sounds like a good plan.

Speaker 1 (28:13):
Fifty plus continues Here's more with Doug.

Speaker 2 (28:16):
Welcome back to fifty flus, fourth and final segment of
this Thursday afternoon Teaing up right now, back to the
little well. First of all, iHeart is very primed. I'm
sure every one of you remembers a teacher that made
an impression on you at some point in your school life,
if you had, if you were lucky enough to have

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some really good teachers.

Speaker 3 (28:39):
I had a few.

Speaker 2 (28:40):
I mentioned them last week, and I actually got an
email from the son of my I believe she was
my first grade teacher. Yes, from the son of my
first grade teacher over at Sutton Elementary School.

Speaker 3 (28:55):
Oh, those many years ago.

Speaker 2 (28:56):
I was thrilled to see that, and I'm hoping to
maintain little contact. Today's teacher of the day is Cheryl
Ner from Mayatt Elementary School. She is in her twenty
fifth year of teaching, and according to the brief bio
they showed about Cheryl Entner, she pretty much does whatever

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it takes to take care of the kids in her class,
depending on who they are and what they need. She'll
buy them food, She'll encourage them, she'll boost their self esteem.

Speaker 3 (29:30):
She helps all of them learn.

Speaker 2 (29:32):
A wonderful teacher who is our iHeart teacher of the day,
Cheryl Enter from Myatt Elementary School. So back to where
we were earlier, and boy, I've got once again.

Speaker 3 (29:45):
I got way too much stuff to squeeze into this sack.

Speaker 2 (29:48):
Well, tomorrow might be an easy prep day because I
may go back to that cutting room floor plan. First up,
Harris County Judge Lena Hidalgo has racked up a nine
hundred dollars personal security tab, which is more than that
of all the other commissioners combined. How unpopular can she

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be that she needs that much personal security? And who's
threatening her? Who's threatening her? To the tune of nine
hundred thousand dollars. I done in Rosenberg. By the way,
I moved this one up. I had it a little
lower on the list, but I'm moving it up. Mayor
William Benton down there said that after years of complaints

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from residents, he's gonna recommend to a city council or
two city council a ban on door to door solicitation, which, man,
if I'm in Rosenberg, I'm I'm sitting in there and
championing that idea. I'm gonna bring my tambourine. I'll bring
a whistle.

Speaker 3 (30:48):
No, I won't.

Speaker 2 (30:49):
I won't, I won't disrupt the proceedings. I just I'll
just give them all thumbs ups in there. ABC story,
ABC thirteen story where Benton said that there's a danger
really on both sides of the doors at which these
solicitors show up unannounced. Most of them probably are operating
within the city guidelines down there, which means they have

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to have a permit, but a lot of them aren't.
And the problem with that is that some of them
are just burglars with clipboards and using that prop to
seem legit as they just case.

Speaker 3 (31:21):
One house after another. My wife just I think it was.

Speaker 2 (31:25):
Early this week. Maybe might have been on Monday. Yeah,
it was on Monday actually, because I remember what it
all turned.

Speaker 3 (31:32):
Out to be.

Speaker 2 (31:34):
My wife was at home and startled by somebody who
I was watching this at work. I was here at
work and watching this guy on our ring camera. He
walks up to the door, He kind of looks around
and then just starts pounding on the front door, just
pounding on it. And I tried to call my wife,
but she didn't answer. And the reason she didn't answer

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is because she was up at the front of the
house dealing with this guy as we always do, not
opening the door ever to a stranger, but telling the
guy we weren't interested and that he should leave our
property right away, and fortunately he did. You know, and
if hey, if Rosenberg can do it, so can Sugarlands, Oken, Houston,
so can any place else where. People feel uncomfortable having

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strangers walking around their property, and they get bolder and
bolder too. If you watch these little neighborhood app things,
you'll see videos of strangers wandering into people's backyards, peering
over fences and kind of looking around at the eve
of the homes, looking for security cameras. That's scary, it
really is. I'm very suspicious now of anybody who comes

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to my door unannounced and uninvited. Between burglars and porch pirates,
the bad guys that just found a new way to
steal from us and potentially hurt us, and it needs
to stop. So I might just move to Rosenberg if
they pull that off, and wouldn't hurt my feelings at all.
Going to something a little bit lighter, which is always fun.

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Check your closet is what I put on the front
end of this. The Associated Press did a story on
how if you still have them, and a lot of
you probably do. Your old baggy jeans, remember those when
they were so in style and the chunky sandals. Apparently
they are worth a lot of money on eBay because

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y two k fashion is back in style. Not what
I was wearing back then. That would have just been
probably blue jeans. I see the year two thousand is
when I actually started here, so there could have been
some golf shirts. There could have been blue jeans. The
golf shirts would have been all cotton. We didn't have
the breathable fabrics in Nah. I have none of that,

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nor does my wife. Uh from something I taught them
not a secret anymore. Sketchers has this new line of
kids shoes that has a hidden compartment in the soul
where you can slide a little apple air tag in
case you need to find them somewhere, and they're still
wearing their shoes. People are wondering on the websites and
whatnot whether we've reached peak obsessive parenting yet, And I'd

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say that puts us right on the edge. I would
think from the cringey, creepy desk, a melting glacier in
Pakistan removed, not removed, revealed.

Speaker 3 (34:29):
And subsequently got moved.

Speaker 2 (34:31):
I guess the body of a hiker that went missing
twenty eight years ago.

Speaker 3 (34:37):
I found that pretty. I found it interesting at least.
And this is the.

Speaker 2 (34:41):
Last one, I promise probably, although it's very short, manty.
It ought to be a Monty Python sketch is what
it ought to be, because this is the kind of
thing that creates great humor in England, and the Python
group would have been perfect to pull it off. A
pet parrot just imagine them doing this. A pet parrot

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in England ratted out a group of drug dealers when
they were being confronted by the police. It's in the freezer. Right,
cracker police, it's in the freezer.

Speaker 3 (35:16):
Yeah, they all got busted. That's it for today. We'll
see tomorrow. Audios