February 4, 2026 • 36 mins
Today, Doug Pike interviews Dr. Sam Dahr about AMD.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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And now fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
All right, here we go. Welcome aboard fifty plus, the
one and only show that airs this time every week
down a M nine fifty k PRC and addresses things
of importance to seniors. That's what we do here. That's
what I've been doing with this show for a little
more than ten years now, believe it or not. It's
hard to believe it's been going on that long, but
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it has, and I'm just enjoying every minute of it.
Most of us in this category seniors, and the fifty
plus label is just there as a kind of a bumper,
if you will that. I know that I have younger
listeners who are the wonderful children, adult children of older parents.
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And for the plus, I'm not sure who my oldest
listener is, but I would be curious. I do know
that my mom's best friend, Cel Crawford, from back when boy,
I mean, I'm talking about when I was an infant
and each of our parents had a boy first and
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in Sharpstown. And I know she still listens. Maybe she's
listening today. Who knows if she is. I'll bet you
I get a text message or a call from her
later today, and I hope that's the case. I always
enjoy visiting with her. In any event, we have all
in this audience spent a lot of time on this earth,
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invested a lot of sweat equity in building a solid
foundation on which the future can be built. And at present,
i'd guess many, if not most, of us are all
still hopeful for the best, but kind of wondering at
the same time about how so many Americans have just
thrown aside allegiance to our country lately and decided instead
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just throw the law out the window, federal law. And
they're fighting it, and that's troubling. And by that, I
mean I'm going to start today with reminders to all
of you to vote in the midterm elections. And I'm
not going to tell you where to vote, how to vote,
when to vote.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Just do it once.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
That's all that, all the voting that's allowed by law,
although we do know that more of that goes on
than we think. I guess it's frightening in a way.
I can tell you that if we turn our backs
just for a second, most of what you and I worked,
what thirty forty fifty or more years to establish in
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this country quite possibly could get washed down the river
by people think thinking socialism and communism are the way
to go that despite neither system ever work again all
of history, except for the folks who make the rules
and make anyone who disagrees disappear. If you want to
go to one of those could in the ironies that
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so many people have fled countries like that and have
somehow convinced Americans that that's what we ought to be doing.
I would be willing to bet that most of the
people who have come here from from either socialist or
commune his countries, if you gave them a platform, if
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you gave them a podium and a microphone, and we
all gathered around. They would say, no, no, no, we
didn't come here to see this country turned into that.
We came here to see this country doing it right.
And I guess you'd have to throw out all the
thousands of people we're finding out who have been defrauding
the federal government for any number of years. Now. I
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think it really peaked under the Biden administration. It really did.
And now that they got too cavalier about it, they
got too careless about hiding what they were doing, and
all of a sudden, they're getting picked off one by one,
getting picked off one by one. Joe Biden, whoever was
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making decisions for him through most of his term, they
managed to turn almost half this country so deeply and
viscerally against President Trump that they can't focus on anything else.
Not the incredible things he's accomplished in a year, Not
the speed at which he re established respect for our
country after his predecessor rendered us kind of a laughing
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stock around the world. President Trump didn't have to run
for president again. He has plenty of money. He doesn't
have to worry about that. He's got plenty of business
he could be minding instead of being criticized at every
turn by the media, instead of being thrown back and
forth in and out of court every time he turns around,
just strictly by people who don't like him. They just
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don't like him. The left is still leaning so far left.
I don't know how they can stand up really to
say what they do straight face, knowing they're either not
telling the whole truth or that they're just straight up
lying through their teeth. But it keeps on happening. But enough,
weather looks pretty good for the next several days. I'll
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go through that briefly and then get back to the
business at hand. We do have a guest this morning
actually or this afternoon, excuse me, Doctor Sam Darr will
be joining us pretty soon to talk about AMD. And
that is what is it. Let me go back to it. Boy,
I wanted to do that age related macular degeneration. I
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talked about it ten times to myself while I was
writing all this up and preparing for today, and then
in the crunch I couldn't come up with the the
meaning of the acronym AMD, but I got it now,
age related macular degeneration. We're going to talk about that
with doctor Sam darr and trust me, he knows a
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heck of a lot more about it than almost everybody
in this audience, presuming there's one or two doctors in
there who would know a little bit about it. Back
to the weather real quickly, sunshine and mild temperatures right
through the weekend into early next week, and as promised yesterday,
when it looked like in the early afternoon that we
wouldn't get any measurable rain, at least around where I live,
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and then that the sun went down and the sky
lit up with lightning, and I got a really nice
bit of rain too, probably a good ten or fifteen
minutes of hard rain, enough to knock out the signal
to my satellite television reception. I'm gonna guess it was
a quarter inch, maybe a little bit more. I might
get myself a rain gauge soon. I used to have
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one at my old house, but that was thirty something
years ago. It might be fun to see how much
actual rain I'm getting versus what I think I got
from a shower like I caught last night. Officially, the
bottom of this front's temperature range is forty one, which
is tonight. After that, a cool sixty one tomorrow, fifties
overnight and seventies during the day all the way to
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Speaker 1 (09:33):
Back to Doug Pike, as fifty plus continues fifty plus,
Thanks for listening, so afternoon or certain to appreciate it.
We'll talk in this segment about something you might have
realized as being talked about on television quite a bit
more frequently this month than last, and mostly in commercials
for remedies or treatments. That thing is age related macular degeneration,
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a condition of the eye, and February is AMD aware.
And since I'm not aware, I have enlisted doctor Sam Dharr,
board certified ophalmologist with decades in his field and professor
at medical or excuse me, at McGovern Medical School. Welcome aboard, doctor,
Thanks so much for having me. Oh, I appreciate the help.
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I wouldn't have been able to do this without you.
I can assure you of that. So I've always liked
to define things for segments like this one. What exactly
is age related macular degeneration.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
It's best thought of as aging of the center of
the retina, which is called the macula, and it's defined
by a couple things. We can get little metabolic deposits
at the center of the retina that we call drusen.
We can also get sinning of some of the critical
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layers underneath the retina called geographic atrophy. And then sometimes
as a response to those processes, we can all also
develop abnormal blood vessels growing underneath the retina, and we
call that exudative or wet macular generation. So the first
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two things, the little deposits called drusen, and the thinning
of the tissues are called dry macular generation, and then
abnormal blood vessels growing that's called wet macular generation.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
It's just so good that there are people who are
willing to just dig into our eyes so deeply and
learn so much about them. I can't. I just don't
know how the human race got this far without you, guys,
I really don't. It's amazing. So what changes does that
bring to our vision?
Speaker 3 (11:42):
So over time, what can happen in terms of dry
macular generation is fine detail becomes less sharp. It may
be harder to recognize a face across the room, it
may be harder to see a road sign that's fifty
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feet away. And if it gets significantly advanced, the dry
macular generation can make the center vision become somewhat gray
and indistinct. And then with the wet macular generation, we
can develop wavy lines. When we look at a straight line,
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or we look at Venetian blinds, instead of being straight,
they can look bent or wavy. And then also wet
macular generation can cause sort of a gray, a grayness
in the center of vision as well.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Do we know what definitively do we know definit definitively
spin it out, Doug. Why the risk for AMD increases
with age or is it just another one of those
things that happens when we get older.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Well, to some extent, it probably increases with age just
because the tissues sort of start to wear out. The
retin as very metabolically active. It's processing a lot of oxygen,
and over time, that sort of oxidative metabolism over decades
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creates some inflammation in the macula and some byproducts that
lead to macular generation. And we know that certain genetic
profiles are more prone.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
To macular generation.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
There has been research that has shown that certain genes
associated with certain parts of the immune system do increase
the risk of macular generation.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
I was going to ask you about that, who's that
greatest risk?
Speaker 3 (13:44):
So, in general, the main risk factors, the main risk
factor absolutely is age, and then there are these genetic
risk factors.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
That we talk about. But really we have not.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Yet adopted widespread commercial testing in the sense that you
don't really go to your eye doctor and get prescribed
a blood test to show what whether you have those
genes or not.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
We're not really at that stage.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Yet and then the main modifiable risk factor is tobacco use.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Mm hm, imagine that. Yeah, that's almost every interview about
any condition of the human form says quick smoking and
yet still.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Now, I'll tell you tobacco use really eats up the
back of the eye over the course of decades, and
so it takes a toll.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
There's no doubt doctor Sam Dohr on fifty plus here
is there any enhancement of risk from staring at computer screens.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
That's actually a common concern that using the eyes, looking
at our phone, looking at the computer, quote unquote wears
out the eyes. That's actually not the case. Okay, good,
using your eyes does not wear out the ret now whatsoever?
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Well that that I'm so glad I asked you that
question because I was kind of worried that I look
at screens almost all day long. I saw something else
about working with debris. What on Earth? That's very vague.
What's that mean?
Speaker 3 (15:21):
I am not quite sure about that one. I have
to say, I think most I would say there's very
few jobs that would increase the risk of macular generation.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
That's more good news. And we talked about the difference
between wet and dry AMD. Are there any subtle symptoms? Well,
we know I've already gone over that with everybody. How
about this? How do you diagnose this? When somebody comes
to you, how do you say, yes, you have a MD.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Well, in the office, we have some really cool gadgets.
One of the gadgets we use is called the OCT machine,
which essentially gives us a little real time thickness slice
of the retina and we can look to see if
there are deposits under the retina. We can look to
see if there's thinning of the tissues under the retina.
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We can look to see if there's microscopic fluid underneath
or within the retina. And so when you come into
your ophthalmologist's office, they're going to look at your eye
with a dilated exam, look for those deposits, look for
any hemorrhage in the retina, and they're going to run
in OCT to look for some of those findings. And
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our ability to diagnose AMD is really quite high with
the instrumentation in the office, namely the OCT.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Once the diagnosis is made, are we managing symptoms? Are
we curing? What are we doing?
Speaker 3 (16:54):
In hell?
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Well, so what we do is.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
What dry macular degeneration in its early stages is simply observed,
and we generally recommend patients avoid tobacco, eat a retina
healthy diet which consists of two servings a week of
baked or boiled fish, and five to seven servings a
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week of dark leafy green vegetables broccoli, spinach, green beans,
scale and so we watch dry macular degeneration. We ask
patients to monitor themselves with what's called an Amsler grid.
It's basically a little print out of a box with
a lot of little boxes inside it, and we tell
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patients if you start to see wavy lines where you
start to see boxes go missing, you should call us.
And so then if over time we start to see
wet macular generation. There's been a class of medications called
the anti veget medications available since about two thousand and
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five two thousand and six, so they've now been around
for twenty years and they really revolutionalize the care of
wet macular generation. And it's a medicine that we inject
in the office into a patient's eye, and patients really
do very well over the long term in regards to
their wet macular generation.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
With the needle in the eye. We're gonna have to
We're gonna have to wrap it up. Unfortunately we're out
of time. Doctor Sandar, thanks you so very much. I
really I learned a lot today. I know my audience
did as well.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Thank you, my pleasure, thanks for having me bybye.
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fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, welcome back to
fifty plus. Thanks for listening. Certain to appreciate that, you
know I do stepping into the hot mess of politics
and ice and our mostly secure border now from a
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story at the Chronicles website. As a matter of fact,
he's the Chronicle. Texas Education Agency said Tuesday that it
will discipline any teachers who help students participate in protests
against federal crackdown on illegal immigration. School staff and teachers
said the TEA cannot quote neglect students released into public streets,
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end quote. Teachers who encourage students to participate in these
protests are going to be investigated and quite possibly sanctioned.
Here's another quote from the TEA bulletin. It says, and
I quote, the freedom of expression does not include the
right to disrupt an orderly learning environment. What's being encouraged
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by some of these teachers around the country is actually
just a page right out of the socialist and communist playbooks.
Teach the children very early to defy authority. Now accept
the teachers. Of course, you've got to listen to the teachers,
because they're going to tell you what to do, and
that their waigh's the only way they teach these kids
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to defy authority and do what they're told, rather than
engage in independent thought and maybe come up with their
own ideas on problem solving, which is what you and
I grew up with. Back in the nineteen forties, real
communists and real Nazis used the same strategy and convinced
children to report their own parents to the police, their
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own parents for not towing the party line. And I
can't imagine that some of those kids that felt compelled
to hand over their parents to law enforcement at that
point in history deeply regretted that decision to the ends
of their lives. The case of the missing mother of
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NBC correspondent Savannah Guthrie took a very sad and it's
not that kind of sad, but more of a frightening
twist with revelation that there are, or either are or
is at least one ransom letter from kidnappers of the
eighty four year old woman from her home on Sunday night,
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Their demand millions of dollars in bitcoin to be deposited
into an account that's already been verified as real. Now.
I don't know dilly about bitcoin and buying it and
selling it and all of that stuff, but I do
know that it's probably it's at least virtually untraceable. I
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hope the FBI has some way of seeking out the
people who would benefit from that deposit, but I just
don't know. But already they've had hundreds of leads into
the Pima County Sheriff's office, and the FBI has come
on board to help with the investigation. I do hope,
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I do pray that they find that woman alive. I
really do. There's just no reason at all for this
to have happened except greed and thinking. I guess that
Savannah Guthrie is worth a ton of money. Almost everybody's
net worth. If you're a celebrity with any shine on
your star, there's some website, whether it be correct or incorrect.
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But some website will post what your net worth is,
and it may be right, it may be wrong. But
apparently these guys thought that Savannah Guthrie had just enough
money to cover whatever it is they asked for millions.
I don't know how many millions. I do hope they
find her alive, I really do. And I hope they
find her kidnappers too. One way or the other. It
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won't really matter to me how they find them. That's
just that's just scummy stuff. Democrats keep trying to turn
is It's operations into something far more dangerous and sinister.
From Breitbart comes word that New York Democrat reped Jerry Natler,
in so many words and I'll read you his words
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in just a second, suggested that it would be okay
for people to shoot masked ICE agents who were trying
to detain them or take them into custody. It's okay,
Well you're illegal, but they got masks on you don't
know who they are. Well, that's that's the problem with
this kind of very incendiary rhetoric. And here's what he said,
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and I quote, what is really the major problem in
this country today is the fascism in our streets the
attacks on American citizens by masked hoodlums. He said, if
you were attacked by a masked person, you might think
you were being kidnapped. You'd be justified in shooting the
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person to protect yourself and quote that is one of
the most idiotic remarks I've heard in quite some time,
and it was spoken only to incite problems, only to
incite problems, and to divide our country even farther than
it is now. These are not masked hoodlums. They're uniformed
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law enforcement officers, and they're forced to wear masks for
a couple of reasons. First of all, they don't like
people spitting in their faces, and that happens more and
more regularly as these protests and protesters become more emboldened
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because nothing really bad's happened to them yet for the
most part. Secondly, the left wing protesters have for months
now taken to revealing the identities of these men and
women so that other lunatics can harass them personally, which
has evolved increasingly into not only threats to the officers,
but threats to their families. And still nobody on the
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left comes out to say that these protests should be peaceful,
because they're not peaceful. We've seen that. The video is there.
You won't see much of it on mainstream media, but
if you watch any other legitimate sources of news, you'll
see plenty to convince you that these are in many
cases borderline riots, if not all out riots. Riots. They
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don't denounce that violence at all either. That's evident in
Natler's words, which suggests not so subtly that uniformed ICE
agents are somehow the same as what he called masked hoodlums.
He's lit a dangerous fuse, and nobody on his side
has the courage to extinguish it. Either. That's the problem.
I gotta take a break saw that hand will Sorry,
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I just get wrapped up in this stuff.
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Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug at fifty plus.
Thank you for listening. I certainly do appreciate it hear
from all of you. I've got a couple of text
messages after actually a minute ago, and i'll check my
emails in a bit. I didn't get to this story yesterday,
but I want to read it today because as a well,
I guess once you're a surfer, you're always a surfer.
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But I haven't been on a board in two long
I'll say that it's been a while, okay, and I
wish I had more time to give to that sport.
Because it is remarkable for conditioning. I bring it up
only because of the story I found yesterday out in California.
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An older guy. It just said he was in his fifties,
and they call that older. Now I'm kind of looking
at that like, hey, he's just a kid. He's on
a paddle board, and there's a young woman on a surfboard,
and they're all out there amongst others in the lineup
waiting for just the right wave to come. Well, the
old guy and the young woman had eyes on the
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same wave, and the young woman dropped in in front
of the paddle border, and the paddle border did something
that was just wrong. Deliberately while screaming obscenity. He's calling
her every name in the naughty book, and I mean
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every one of them. This guy slammed into her and
knocked her off her board. And I'm not talking about
bumped into her. It said he knocked her off for board.
Scume of the earth. This guy is clearly somebody who
either had a bad day protesting ice or maybe got
some pepper spray in his face. Maybe somebody poured hot
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sauce down his wet suit. I don't know, I know
he was in a this time of year, any time
of year in California, if you're surfing, you're in a
wet suit. Almost anybody and everybody. He was having a
bad day surf. He's got protocol, it's got pecking order.
I get it. There's a lot to do with locals
versus visitors usually when something like this comes up. But
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these two were apparently from the area, and he just
got his knickers in a knot because she dropped in
in front of him on what he presumed was his wave.
I guess he's forgotten that no wave belongs to anybody,
and you got to all get along in the water.
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It just nowhere. Is it okay for a paddle border
to deliberately knock a surfer off her board? Shame on
that guy. I want to come back. I wouldn't be
friends with a guy like that who would do something
like that. I'm gonna I'm gonna start start measuring things
by that that criteria. Would you be friends with somebody
who remember Billie Eilish speaking of not being friends And
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I don't dislike her music at all. I think she's
a very talented singer, but after what she did to
the Grammy's talking about stolen lamb and how just well
you've probably heard what she said.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
It was.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
She punctuated what she said with vulgarity, which that just
immediately tells me. They don't know what they're talking about.
They're just sensational, that's all they are. Well, the Native tribe,
the Native American tribe that actually owns the land on
which her multi million dollar mansion sits, said that if
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she's going to virtue signal, she should at least name
the tribe. I think that's the very least she can
do if she really cares about stolen land. She ought
to give it to them, let them turn it, turn
it into a daycare center or something for all their children.
She's on stolen land. She ought to give it back
if it really bothers her that much. From the Telegraph
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comes word that the Tent Pretent the Pentagon has let
Scouting America know that if it doesn't reform its core value,
which is its way of saying the organization should ditch
the current gender fluid stance and go back to being
an organization more closely resembling its roots, they could stand
to lose a lot of support at issue primarily are
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the current Scouting American Scouting America policies on DEI, which
is slowly but certainly being removed from a lot of
parts of this country. And I think when everybody gets
back to making sure that the best person gets the
job period. I've always kind of said that I think
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it would be interesting if job interviews were just totally anonymous.
You could just do it by typing answers back and
forth or using an AI voice to you to deliver
the prospective employees' thoughts. That way, there would be no
question that you were selecting the right person to fill
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the job, whatever that job may be. But they they
haven't asked me yet. How much time do you have
a left? Will dose? Trace? Trace man new TOAs I
can handle that? From CBS forty seven in Jacksonville, the
story of a man and this could have happened in
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any city, any medium to large city in the country.
I'll say that I don't think it would happen in
smalltown USA. This guy's sitting in his car, mining his
own business, maybe doing some paperwork, maybe reading something, maybe whatever,
listen to the radio, listen to a game, whatever. When
he was approached by four armed men. When they demanded
(33:40):
that he leave his car. He did. He opted out
of the car, then opened fire with his own gun,
hitting two of them, neither of whom, by the way,
suffered life threatening injuries. And it didn't say it didn't
say whether the other two hung around to make sure
their boys were okay. But my gut says that if
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they could run, they did run, and yeah, the other
two are gonna be okay. One of them got shot
in the I think in the leg, one in the
side of the back or something like that. But yeah,
they all four of them had guns and they exchanged gunfire.
But if you're gonna bring a gun to a gunfight,
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or a gun to any fight, you better be sure
you can point it and shoot it. And that and that.
That's on both sides too. If you're gonna if you're
gonna carry a gun, or if you're gonna draw a
weapon in your home, uh, in hopes of getting rid
of some really bad person that's right in front of you,
then you better be able to do what you gotta do.
And that that's there's a lot of there's a lot
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of mental constitution that has to be considered as well.
Do you have the the mindset that could could do
that and and get over it. And honestly, if there's
a threat to me or my family or someone I
know and someone well just any person, really, I'd have
to I'd have to stop that threat. I wouldn't watch
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someone die innocently with the.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Big game right around the corner.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has doubled down on his support
for Bad Bunny, the Puerto Rican rapper who spoke out
against Ice at the Grammys like so many other Uber
Rich Award winners that night. According to Goodell, this is
a direct quote from him. Listen, Bad Bunny is and
I think that was demonstrated last night. One of the
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great artists in the world. That's one of the reasons
we chose him. But the other reason is he understood
the platform he was on and that this platform is
used to unite people and to be able to bring
people together with their creativity, with their talent, and to
be able to use this moment to do that. End quote,
(35:57):
Bad Bunny isn't gonna do anything to unite to unite
this country, you mark my words. He hates Ice, he
hates President Trump, and he's gonna do all he can
to stir the pot. He's gonna put on a performance,
there's no question about that, and more power to him.
That's what he's getting paid very handsomely. I'm sure to
(36:17):
be there and do what he's gonna do. And they've
just handed him the keys to the castle with that
little little speech from Goodell. He'll get his money after
the show, and he'll have his arm security detail take
him back to the airport. We can fly home. See
you tomorrow, Audios.
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All right, here we go. Welcome aboard fifty plus, the
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more than ten years now, believe it or not. It's
hard to believe it's been going on that long, but
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it has, and I'm just enjoying every minute of it.
Most of us in this category seniors, and the fifty
plus label is just there as a kind of a bumper,
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And for the plus, I'm not sure who my oldest
listener is, but I would be curious. I do know
that my mom's best friend, Cel Crawford, from back when boy,
I mean, I'm talking about when I was an infant
and each of our parents had a boy first and
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listening today. Who knows if she is. I'll bet you
I get a text message or a call from her
later today, and I hope that's the case. I always
enjoy visiting with her. In any event, we have all
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invested a lot of sweat equity in building a solid
foundation on which the future can be built. And at present,
i'd guess many, if not most, of us are all
still hopeful for the best, but kind of wondering at
the same time about how so many Americans have just
thrown aside allegiance to our country lately and decided instead
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just throw the law out the window, federal law. And
they're fighting it, and that's troubling. And by that, I
mean I'm going to start today with reminders to all
of you to vote in the midterm elections. And I'm
not going to tell you where to vote, how to vote,
when to vote.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Just do it once.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
That's all that, all the voting that's allowed by law,
although we do know that more of that goes on
than we think. I guess it's frightening in a way.
I can tell you that if we turn our backs
just for a second, most of what you and I worked,
what thirty forty fifty or more years to establish in
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this country quite possibly could get washed down the river
by people think thinking socialism and communism are the way
to go that despite neither system ever work again all
of history, except for the folks who make the rules
and make anyone who disagrees disappear. If you want to
go to one of those could in the ironies that
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so many people have fled countries like that and have
somehow convinced Americans that that's what we ought to be doing.
I would be willing to bet that most of the
people who have come here from from either socialist or
commune his countries, if you gave them a platform, if
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you gave them a podium and a microphone, and we
all gathered around. They would say, no, no, no, we
didn't come here to see this country turned into that.
We came here to see this country doing it right.
And I guess you'd have to throw out all the
thousands of people we're finding out who have been defrauding
the federal government for any number of years. Now. I
(04:27):
think it really peaked under the Biden administration. It really did.
And now that they got too cavalier about it, they
got too careless about hiding what they were doing, and
all of a sudden, they're getting picked off one by one,
getting picked off one by one. Joe Biden, whoever was
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making decisions for him through most of his term, they
managed to turn almost half this country so deeply and
viscerally against President Trump that they can't focus on anything else.
Not the incredible things he's accomplished in a year, Not
the speed at which he re established respect for our
country after his predecessor rendered us kind of a laughing
(05:10):
stock around the world. President Trump didn't have to run
for president again. He has plenty of money. He doesn't
have to worry about that. He's got plenty of business
he could be minding instead of being criticized at every
turn by the media, instead of being thrown back and
forth in and out of court every time he turns around,
just strictly by people who don't like him. They just
(05:33):
don't like him. The left is still leaning so far left.
I don't know how they can stand up really to
say what they do straight face, knowing they're either not
telling the whole truth or that they're just straight up
lying through their teeth. But it keeps on happening. But enough,
weather looks pretty good for the next several days. I'll
(05:53):
go through that briefly and then get back to the
business at hand. We do have a guest this morning
actually or this afternoon, excuse me, Doctor Sam Darr will
be joining us pretty soon to talk about AMD. And
that is what is it. Let me go back to it. Boy,
I wanted to do that age related macular degeneration. I
(06:16):
talked about it ten times to myself while I was
writing all this up and preparing for today, and then
in the crunch I couldn't come up with the the
meaning of the acronym AMD, but I got it now,
age related macular degeneration. We're going to talk about that
with doctor Sam darr and trust me, he knows a
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heck of a lot more about it than almost everybody
in this audience, presuming there's one or two doctors in
there who would know a little bit about it. Back
to the weather real quickly, sunshine and mild temperatures right
through the weekend into early next week, and as promised yesterday,
when it looked like in the early afternoon that we
wouldn't get any measurable rain, at least around where I live,
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and then that the sun went down and the sky
lit up with lightning, and I got a really nice
bit of rain too, probably a good ten or fifteen
minutes of hard rain, enough to knock out the signal
to my satellite television reception. I'm gonna guess it was
a quarter inch, maybe a little bit more. I might
get myself a rain gauge soon. I used to have
(07:19):
one at my old house, but that was thirty something
years ago. It might be fun to see how much
actual rain I'm getting versus what I think I got
from a shower like I caught last night. Officially, the
bottom of this front's temperature range is forty one, which
is tonight. After that, a cool sixty one tomorrow, fifties
overnight and seventies during the day all the way to
next Tuesday. Quick run through the market. You heard it earlier,
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and historic price good one to get you some real
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Back to Doug Pike, as fifty plus continues fifty plus,
Thanks for listening, so afternoon or certain to appreciate it.
We'll talk in this segment about something you might have
realized as being talked about on television quite a bit
more frequently this month than last, and mostly in commercials
for remedies or treatments. That thing is age related macular degeneration,
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a condition of the eye, and February is AMD aware.
And since I'm not aware, I have enlisted doctor Sam Dharr,
board certified ophalmologist with decades in his field and professor
at medical or excuse me, at McGovern Medical School. Welcome aboard, doctor,
Thanks so much for having me. Oh, I appreciate the help.
(10:16):
I wouldn't have been able to do this without you.
I can assure you of that. So I've always liked
to define things for segments like this one. What exactly
is age related macular degeneration.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
It's best thought of as aging of the center of
the retina, which is called the macula, and it's defined
by a couple things. We can get little metabolic deposits
at the center of the retina that we call drusen.
We can also get sinning of some of the critical
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layers underneath the retina called geographic atrophy. And then sometimes
as a response to those processes, we can all also
develop abnormal blood vessels growing underneath the retina, and we
call that exudative or wet macular generation. So the first
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two things, the little deposits called drusen, and the thinning
of the tissues are called dry macular generation, and then
abnormal blood vessels growing that's called wet macular generation.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
It's just so good that there are people who are
willing to just dig into our eyes so deeply and
learn so much about them. I can't. I just don't
know how the human race got this far without you, guys,
I really don't. It's amazing. So what changes does that
bring to our vision?
Speaker 3 (11:42):
So over time, what can happen in terms of dry
macular generation is fine detail becomes less sharp. It may
be harder to recognize a face across the room, it
may be harder to see a road sign that's fifty
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feet away. And if it gets significantly advanced, the dry
macular generation can make the center vision become somewhat gray
and indistinct. And then with the wet macular generation, we
can develop wavy lines. When we look at a straight line,
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or we look at Venetian blinds, instead of being straight,
they can look bent or wavy. And then also wet
macular generation can cause sort of a gray, a grayness
in the center of vision as well.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Do we know what definitively do we know definit definitively
spin it out, Doug. Why the risk for AMD increases
with age or is it just another one of those
things that happens when we get older.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Well, to some extent, it probably increases with age just
because the tissues sort of start to wear out. The
retin as very metabolically active. It's processing a lot of oxygen,
and over time, that sort of oxidative metabolism over decades
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creates some inflammation in the macula and some byproducts that
lead to macular generation. And we know that certain genetic
profiles are more prone.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
To macular generation.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
There has been research that has shown that certain genes
associated with certain parts of the immune system do increase
the risk of macular generation.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
I was going to ask you about that, who's that
greatest risk?
Speaker 3 (13:44):
So, in general, the main risk factors, the main risk
factor absolutely is age, and then there are these genetic
risk factors.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
That we talk about. But really we have not.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Yet adopted widespread commercial testing in the sense that you
don't really go to your eye doctor and get prescribed
a blood test to show what whether you have those
genes or not.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
We're not really at that stage.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Yet and then the main modifiable risk factor is tobacco use.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Mm hm, imagine that. Yeah, that's almost every interview about
any condition of the human form says quick smoking and
yet still.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Now, I'll tell you tobacco use really eats up the
back of the eye over the course of decades, and
so it takes a toll.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
There's no doubt doctor Sam Dohr on fifty plus here
is there any enhancement of risk from staring at computer screens.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
That's actually a common concern that using the eyes, looking
at our phone, looking at the computer, quote unquote wears
out the eyes. That's actually not the case. Okay, good,
using your eyes does not wear out the ret now whatsoever?
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Well that that I'm so glad I asked you that
question because I was kind of worried that I look
at screens almost all day long. I saw something else
about working with debris. What on Earth? That's very vague.
What's that mean?
Speaker 3 (15:21):
I am not quite sure about that one. I have
to say, I think most I would say there's very
few jobs that would increase the risk of macular generation.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
That's more good news. And we talked about the difference
between wet and dry AMD. Are there any subtle symptoms? Well,
we know I've already gone over that with everybody. How
about this? How do you diagnose this? When somebody comes
to you, how do you say, yes, you have a MD.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Well, in the office, we have some really cool gadgets.
One of the gadgets we use is called the OCT machine,
which essentially gives us a little real time thickness slice
of the retina and we can look to see if
there are deposits under the retina. We can look to
see if there's thinning of the tissues under the retina.
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We can look to see if there's microscopic fluid underneath
or within the retina. And so when you come into
your ophthalmologist's office, they're going to look at your eye
with a dilated exam, look for those deposits, look for
any hemorrhage in the retina, and they're going to run
in OCT to look for some of those findings. And
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our ability to diagnose AMD is really quite high with
the instrumentation in the office, namely the OCT.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Once the diagnosis is made, are we managing symptoms? Are
we curing? What are we doing?
Speaker 3 (16:54):
In hell?
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Well, so what we do is.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
What dry macular degeneration in its early stages is simply observed,
and we generally recommend patients avoid tobacco, eat a retina
healthy diet which consists of two servings a week of
baked or boiled fish, and five to seven servings a
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week of dark leafy green vegetables broccoli, spinach, green beans,
scale and so we watch dry macular degeneration. We ask
patients to monitor themselves with what's called an Amsler grid.
It's basically a little print out of a box with
a lot of little boxes inside it, and we tell
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patients if you start to see wavy lines where you
start to see boxes go missing, you should call us.
And so then if over time we start to see
wet macular generation. There's been a class of medications called
the anti veget medications available since about two thousand and
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five two thousand and six, so they've now been around
for twenty years and they really revolutionalize the care of
wet macular generation. And it's a medicine that we inject
in the office into a patient's eye, and patients really
do very well over the long term in regards to
their wet macular generation.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
With the needle in the eye. We're gonna have to
We're gonna have to wrap it up. Unfortunately we're out
of time. Doctor Sandar, thanks you so very much. I
really I learned a lot today. I know my audience
did as well.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Thank you, my pleasure, thanks for having me bybye.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
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fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, welcome back to
fifty plus. Thanks for listening. Certain to appreciate that, you
know I do stepping into the hot mess of politics
and ice and our mostly secure border now from a
(20:07):
story at the Chronicles website. As a matter of fact,
he's the Chronicle. Texas Education Agency said Tuesday that it
will discipline any teachers who help students participate in protests
against federal crackdown on illegal immigration. School staff and teachers
said the TEA cannot quote neglect students released into public streets,
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end quote. Teachers who encourage students to participate in these
protests are going to be investigated and quite possibly sanctioned.
Here's another quote from the TEA bulletin. It says, and
I quote, the freedom of expression does not include the
right to disrupt an orderly learning environment. What's being encouraged
(20:53):
by some of these teachers around the country is actually
just a page right out of the socialist and communist playbooks.
Teach the children very early to defy authority. Now accept
the teachers. Of course, you've got to listen to the teachers,
because they're going to tell you what to do, and
that their waigh's the only way they teach these kids
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to defy authority and do what they're told, rather than
engage in independent thought and maybe come up with their
own ideas on problem solving, which is what you and
I grew up with. Back in the nineteen forties, real
communists and real Nazis used the same strategy and convinced
children to report their own parents to the police, their
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own parents for not towing the party line. And I
can't imagine that some of those kids that felt compelled
to hand over their parents to law enforcement at that
point in history deeply regretted that decision to the ends
of their lives. The case of the missing mother of
(22:05):
NBC correspondent Savannah Guthrie took a very sad and it's
not that kind of sad, but more of a frightening
twist with revelation that there are, or either are or
is at least one ransom letter from kidnappers of the
eighty four year old woman from her home on Sunday night,
(22:26):
Their demand millions of dollars in bitcoin to be deposited
into an account that's already been verified as real. Now.
I don't know dilly about bitcoin and buying it and
selling it and all of that stuff, but I do
know that it's probably it's at least virtually untraceable. I
(22:50):
hope the FBI has some way of seeking out the
people who would benefit from that deposit, but I just
don't know. But already they've had hundreds of leads into
the Pima County Sheriff's office, and the FBI has come
on board to help with the investigation. I do hope,
(23:13):
I do pray that they find that woman alive. I
really do. There's just no reason at all for this
to have happened except greed and thinking. I guess that
Savannah Guthrie is worth a ton of money. Almost everybody's
net worth. If you're a celebrity with any shine on
your star, there's some website, whether it be correct or incorrect.
(23:35):
But some website will post what your net worth is,
and it may be right, it may be wrong. But
apparently these guys thought that Savannah Guthrie had just enough
money to cover whatever it is they asked for millions.
I don't know how many millions. I do hope they
find her alive, I really do. And I hope they
find her kidnappers too. One way or the other. It
(23:56):
won't really matter to me how they find them. That's
just that's just scummy stuff. Democrats keep trying to turn
is It's operations into something far more dangerous and sinister.
From Breitbart comes word that New York Democrat reped Jerry Natler,
in so many words and I'll read you his words
(24:17):
in just a second, suggested that it would be okay
for people to shoot masked ICE agents who were trying
to detain them or take them into custody. It's okay,
Well you're illegal, but they got masks on you don't
know who they are. Well, that's that's the problem with
this kind of very incendiary rhetoric. And here's what he said,
(24:41):
and I quote, what is really the major problem in
this country today is the fascism in our streets the
attacks on American citizens by masked hoodlums. He said, if
you were attacked by a masked person, you might think
you were being kidnapped. You'd be justified in shooting the
(25:01):
person to protect yourself and quote that is one of
the most idiotic remarks I've heard in quite some time,
and it was spoken only to incite problems, only to
incite problems, and to divide our country even farther than
it is now. These are not masked hoodlums. They're uniformed
(25:24):
law enforcement officers, and they're forced to wear masks for
a couple of reasons. First of all, they don't like
people spitting in their faces, and that happens more and
more regularly as these protests and protesters become more emboldened
(25:44):
because nothing really bad's happened to them yet for the
most part. Secondly, the left wing protesters have for months
now taken to revealing the identities of these men and
women so that other lunatics can harass them personally, which
has evolved increasingly into not only threats to the officers,
but threats to their families. And still nobody on the
(26:08):
left comes out to say that these protests should be peaceful,
because they're not peaceful. We've seen that. The video is there.
You won't see much of it on mainstream media, but
if you watch any other legitimate sources of news, you'll
see plenty to convince you that these are in many
cases borderline riots, if not all out riots. Riots. They
(26:33):
don't denounce that violence at all either. That's evident in
Natler's words, which suggests not so subtly that uniformed ICE
agents are somehow the same as what he called masked hoodlums.
He's lit a dangerous fuse, and nobody on his side
has the courage to extinguish it. Either. That's the problem.
I gotta take a break saw that hand will Sorry,
(26:55):
I just get wrapped up in this stuff.
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Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug at fifty plus.
Thank you for listening. I certainly do appreciate it hear
from all of you. I've got a couple of text
messages after actually a minute ago, and i'll check my
emails in a bit. I didn't get to this story yesterday,
but I want to read it today because as a well,
I guess once you're a surfer, you're always a surfer.
(28:16):
But I haven't been on a board in two long
I'll say that it's been a while, okay, and I
wish I had more time to give to that sport.
Because it is remarkable for conditioning. I bring it up
only because of the story I found yesterday out in California.
(28:38):
An older guy. It just said he was in his fifties,
and they call that older. Now I'm kind of looking
at that like, hey, he's just a kid. He's on
a paddle board, and there's a young woman on a surfboard,
and they're all out there amongst others in the lineup
waiting for just the right wave to come. Well, the
old guy and the young woman had eyes on the
(29:00):
same wave, and the young woman dropped in in front
of the paddle border, and the paddle border did something
that was just wrong. Deliberately while screaming obscenity. He's calling
her every name in the naughty book, and I mean
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every one of them. This guy slammed into her and
knocked her off her board. And I'm not talking about
bumped into her. It said he knocked her off for board.
Scume of the earth. This guy is clearly somebody who
either had a bad day protesting ice or maybe got
some pepper spray in his face. Maybe somebody poured hot
(29:46):
sauce down his wet suit. I don't know, I know
he was in a this time of year, any time
of year in California, if you're surfing, you're in a
wet suit. Almost anybody and everybody. He was having a
bad day surf. He's got protocol, it's got pecking order.
I get it. There's a lot to do with locals
versus visitors usually when something like this comes up. But
(30:07):
these two were apparently from the area, and he just
got his knickers in a knot because she dropped in
in front of him on what he presumed was his wave.
I guess he's forgotten that no wave belongs to anybody,
and you got to all get along in the water.
(30:28):
It just nowhere. Is it okay for a paddle border
to deliberately knock a surfer off her board? Shame on
that guy. I want to come back. I wouldn't be
friends with a guy like that who would do something
like that. I'm gonna I'm gonna start start measuring things
by that that criteria. Would you be friends with somebody
who remember Billie Eilish speaking of not being friends And
(30:51):
I don't dislike her music at all. I think she's
a very talented singer, but after what she did to
the Grammy's talking about stolen lamb and how just well
you've probably heard what she said.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
It was.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
She punctuated what she said with vulgarity, which that just
immediately tells me. They don't know what they're talking about.
They're just sensational, that's all they are. Well, the Native tribe,
the Native American tribe that actually owns the land on
which her multi million dollar mansion sits, said that if
(31:26):
she's going to virtue signal, she should at least name
the tribe. I think that's the very least she can
do if she really cares about stolen land. She ought
to give it to them, let them turn it, turn
it into a daycare center or something for all their children.
She's on stolen land. She ought to give it back
if it really bothers her that much. From the Telegraph
(31:50):
comes word that the Tent Pretent the Pentagon has let
Scouting America know that if it doesn't reform its core value,
which is its way of saying the organization should ditch
the current gender fluid stance and go back to being
an organization more closely resembling its roots, they could stand
to lose a lot of support at issue primarily are
(32:13):
the current Scouting American Scouting America policies on DEI, which
is slowly but certainly being removed from a lot of
parts of this country. And I think when everybody gets
back to making sure that the best person gets the
job period. I've always kind of said that I think
(32:35):
it would be interesting if job interviews were just totally anonymous.
You could just do it by typing answers back and
forth or using an AI voice to you to deliver
the prospective employees' thoughts. That way, there would be no
question that you were selecting the right person to fill
(32:57):
the job, whatever that job may be. But they they
haven't asked me yet. How much time do you have
a left? Will dose? Trace? Trace man new TOAs I
can handle that? From CBS forty seven in Jacksonville, the
story of a man and this could have happened in
(33:18):
any city, any medium to large city in the country.
I'll say that I don't think it would happen in
smalltown USA. This guy's sitting in his car, mining his
own business, maybe doing some paperwork, maybe reading something, maybe whatever,
listen to the radio, listen to a game, whatever. When
he was approached by four armed men. When they demanded
(33:40):
that he leave his car. He did. He opted out
of the car, then opened fire with his own gun,
hitting two of them, neither of whom, by the way,
suffered life threatening injuries. And it didn't say it didn't
say whether the other two hung around to make sure
their boys were okay. But my gut says that if
(34:02):
they could run, they did run, and yeah, the other
two are gonna be okay. One of them got shot
in the I think in the leg, one in the
side of the back or something like that. But yeah,
they all four of them had guns and they exchanged gunfire.
But if you're gonna bring a gun to a gunfight,
(34:24):
or a gun to any fight, you better be sure
you can point it and shoot it. And that and that.
That's on both sides too. If you're gonna if you're
gonna carry a gun, or if you're gonna draw a
weapon in your home, uh, in hopes of getting rid
of some really bad person that's right in front of you,
then you better be able to do what you gotta do.
And that that's there's a lot of there's a lot
(34:46):
of mental constitution that has to be considered as well.
Do you have the the mindset that could could do
that and and get over it. And honestly, if there's
a threat to me or my family or someone I
know and someone well just any person, really, I'd have
to I'd have to stop that threat. I wouldn't watch
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someone die innocently with the.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Big game right around the corner.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has doubled down on his support
for Bad Bunny, the Puerto Rican rapper who spoke out
against Ice at the Grammys like so many other Uber
Rich Award winners that night. According to Goodell, this is
a direct quote from him. Listen, Bad Bunny is and
I think that was demonstrated last night. One of the
(35:36):
great artists in the world. That's one of the reasons
we chose him. But the other reason is he understood
the platform he was on and that this platform is
used to unite people and to be able to bring
people together with their creativity, with their talent, and to
be able to use this moment to do that. End quote,
(35:57):
Bad Bunny isn't gonna do anything to unite to unite
this country, you mark my words. He hates Ice, he
hates President Trump, and he's gonna do all he can
to stir the pot. He's gonna put on a performance,
there's no question about that, and more power to him.
That's what he's getting paid very handsomely. I'm sure to
(36:17):
be there and do what he's gonna do. And they've
just handed him the keys to the castle with that
little little speech from Goodell. He'll get his money after
the show, and he'll have his arm security detail take
him back to the airport. We can fly home. See
you tomorrow, Audios.
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