July 17, 2025 • 37 mins
Today, Doug Pike interviews Dr. Asim Shah about the anxiety children of the 4th of July flood are facing in the aftermath. Pike also speaks with Marianne Hurley about her journey in nursing.
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what are some of the lines? Nobody puts Baby in
the corner? And for the adrenaline junkies, I guess I
feel the need for speed, getting right to it. Weather's
doing its usual interpretive dance. I've seen interpretive dance on
(01:09):
America's Got Talent and other talent type shows, and honestly,
I kind of can get ballet, but I can't. I
don't really understand interpretive dance. Anyway. That's what Weather's doing.
It's kind of a where the sky changes its appearance
every couple hours and seems like no rhyme, no reason
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to anything that might happen between sunrise and sunset or overnight.
You just wake up and the ground's either wet or
it's dry. The air is either humid or very humid.
That's one thing that I think newcomers to Houston have
to get used to is walking out like I do,
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leaving out through the back door, getting in my vehicle
and having to walk around. There's water on the path clearly,
and did it rain in a semicircle or what and
what it is? It's just all the condensation, all the
humidity in the air that is just clinging to the
roof and then being pulled downward by gravity, rolls off
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and hits that patio. And it the one time that
it really fooled me, though, I had an issue with
the the AC system and the drain line had clogged,
and the water that was on the back porch was
in a different place and there was more of it
than usual with humidity, and I looked upward and saw
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that little drain coming out of the attic and water drip, drip, rip,
rip rip, And so I had to deal with that.
That was a long time ago, though, and I think
I found through my friend at Water of Texas. I
think I found the solution for that, and I'm so far,
so far, I've been able to stop that from happening.
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But I'd digress. The thing that was in the gulf
remains a thing officially on the map, but it's a
lighter color now, and it's basically falling apart as we
speak over the Mississippi River delta, and temperature doesn't know
which way it's going to go. I guess over here
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for the next several days it's summer. But that's about
the only thing we've been able to say with certainty
for a while now. Really, that thing might shoot a
few clouds and might shoot a few showers over here
in a day or two, but by and large it's
we won't really know the difference from the way the
weather's been. So make your outdoors plans for the weekend. Accordingly,
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this whole thing that's going on over there to the
east should be done and fizzled by then. Stepping into
the soap opera of storylines our country has become in
recent years of Minnesota State Senator I saw this this morning.
She's on trial today after being charged a while back
with allegedly burglarizing her step mother's home in the middle
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of the night. This is a Minnesota state senator woman
named Nicole Nicole Mitchell, excuse me, and what she claims
is that she was just trying to recover memorabilia and
personal effects of her late father from her stepmother after
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the two of them had become estranged. She was caught.
According to the reports I saw this morning with they
found her and arrested her inside the house dressed in
all black. She had a flashlight that was covered with
a black sock for some I guess, trying to hide
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that as well. And the defenses claiming that she just
went in there to pick up a few things that
belonged to her father, Well, how about you just knock
on the door and make a phone call, or perhaps
if it's if there's reason to do so, just get
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the authorities involved, get some policemen to go over there
with you and knock on the door politely and say, hey,
can she have some of her dad's stuff. I think
this woman made a bad choice, and I would suspect
that it may it may cost her politically up to
an including her position. That'll be for people of higher
pay grades than me to figure out. So I'm just
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telling you this woman got ah, she got a little too,
and by the way, she had parked her car down
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enough merit to warrant the arrest and the charge. And
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a white man, it's certainly not hyperbolic to me as
a Latino. End quote. And just when it seemed there
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Speaker 1 (09:16):
This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Welcome back to fifty plus and thanks as always for listening.
In this segment, we'll talk about the anxiety and curiosity
and fright so many children are feeling now after hearing
about the tragedy up there in the Hill Country on
the fourth of July. And so that the parents and
grandparents of these kids can help them find their way
(09:39):
through this turmoil, I'm gonna enlist doctor A. Sim Shaw,
Professor and Executive Vice Chair in the Menager Department of
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Baylor College of Medicine. Welcome
to fifty plus, Doctor Shaw.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Thank you for getting weight.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
It's my pleasure. So what percentage of young kids would
you think in this region specifically are carrying a little
extra weight right now since they saw or her what
happened up there.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Well, anxiety is rather very common, and it is about
forty million people in the country who have anxiety. If
you think about it, and if you're thinking about younger people,
it is about usually seventy to ten percent of people.
But right now, with all what is happening, the percentage
is higher, and since COVID the percentage is almost doubled.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
I talk about why kids need to be approached so
cautiously to by well meaning parents and grandparents if they
sense that young person's having trouble. You really have to
tread very lightly, don't you.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Agree? Completely agree, And one of the reasons is that
kids present with symptoms of anxiety or depression rather differently.
So whether it does have anxiety or anything like that,
they will talk about it, they will discuss. Kids usually
do not come to parents and say that they have anxiety.
They will present something differently, which will be a little
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bit of inuitability. They will get irritable, they will get upset,
they will be withdrawn, they will have changes in speak
and appetite, they will have problems with concentrating. Some unfortunately,
may turn towards substances, in legal substances, so slightly different
symptoms than adults. And in order to how to care
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for kids, the first thing is that we need to
start with providing reassuredance to the kids, listening to the kids.
I think the biggest mistake a lot of us, if
not all of us do is that we try to
impose our decisions to the kids and our opinions to
the kids, but do not listen. We need to listen
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to what they are trying to say. They are trying
to tell us, because their train of thought may be
different than what we are thinking. Once we listen to them,
go ahead. Once we listen to them, we need to
reassure them and provide comfort and provide a safety zone.
And that's the starting point for kids.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Yeah, the biggest distinguishing, the biggest difference between adults and
children expressing anxiety is just like you said, as adults,
we'll just talk about it with somebody. We'll find somebody,
whether it's a therapist or a friend or just anybody
who will listen, or the dog even But the kids
don't really know how to express it, so they just
internalize it, don't they.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Absolutely. And plus right now, there is so much bullying
happening in schools and friends and social media and online
that they're even scared of talking about anything which is
out of non out of the scared that they may
be bullied. So they may not even mention it to
anybody because of that fear. Now, once you established that
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a child has anxiety, and you have talked to them
and reassured them and provided them some comfort and you
know safety zone, and then you need to see what
you need to do to minimize that. So, for example,
you need to maintain routine for them. They need to exercise,
they need to sleep well, they need to eat well,
they need have healthy habits. But also a lot of
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these kids need to limit exposure to media. And then
as they media, radio is perfectly fine. We are on
the radio. Not because we're on the radio. Now what
Reading news is fine, But sometimes watching news can be
very difficult for kids. Example, when you and me would
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watch an image of a flood, and you know how
TV does it, you will, TV will repeat that image
every two minutes, three minutes, five minutes. We can we
can separate that it is the same thing happening. But
when a child who's less than three or less than
four would see that image happening again and again, they
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may not be able to separate. Then it's the same
image happening again and again. For them. It may be
something happening again, not the same thing. Yeah sure, so
imagine how dramatic it can be for that small child.
So we have to limit exposure to that media. Reading
is fine, Listing is fine, but watching something And also
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we know that TV has a lot of emotions to
it and kids may or may not be able to
handle that emotional content.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Yeah, there's a whole lot that I've seen on the
news and heard and talked to people who've been up there.
I've got a very good friend who's up there, working
in the relief effort up there and looking for whatever's
left to find, and some of the things that he's seen,
even as someone who's been in that arena for the
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better part of forty years now, it's still it gets
to him, even and he's a grown man who's seen
it all. And I can't imagine how kids, Just like
I said that, they're internalizing and we have to be
very careful when we speak to them and try to
draw out a little bit. At what point get I
guess what I'm going for here is at what point
do you leave them alone and say enough enough and
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let them get back to their video game or whatever.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
So, like I said, you need to listen to their concerns.
If you need to talk to them, you need to
validate their emotions and not just deny that yeah right, yeah,
you need to validate their concern You need to also
see if their concerns are aged appropriate. A three year
may have a different concern and it may be appropriate,
but a twelve year old may have a different concern
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and it may be appropriate for their age, So just
separate that and then be patient and understanding. And if
you feel that these concerns they are able, or this
anxiety is not hindering in their functional capability, which means
they're great to find their school performance is okay, they're
okay at home, they're enjoying things they used to enjoy.
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Nothing needs to be done. But if you feel that
they're going in the falling, they'll be drawing, staying a
loof not interacting with their friends. So that's the time
that they need to seek some professionals help, whether it
is a therapist or a psychiatrist or something, but they
need some help anytime you feel that it is interfading
in their day to day functioning for more than a
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few days, or you feel that they are talking about
something to hurt themselves, or even putting something online stating
that they need to seek help immediately.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Yeah, and it's sooner the better. Exactly immediately, the only
word that applies here. It's not in a little while,
it's not tomorrow. Just make that phone call and make
the appointment for them before it becomes untenable anymore.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Yeah's great advice, and the other thing is that for kids,
school is very important, so school teachers are very important.
Right now school is off, but school is going to
open and less time that hardly happen. We train all
the school teachers about these signing symptoms of PTSD and
trauma and anxiety and depression, and we sent all those
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training to the school superadded that area this time, also
because we were able to record it during highvey, right,
because sometimes the family may not be able to identify
those symptoms, but school teachers are able to identify those symptoms,
so they are also parsel of this process.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
It's just the bottom lines. The adults in the room
all no matter in what touch point with the kids,
they have to stay calm. They have to be reassuring
so that these kids can realize that this isn't something
that's going that should affect them the rest of their lives.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
Right. Yeah, And anybody who has a pre existing anxiety
is usually more proved to get more anxious, so those
are more vulnerable population.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
YEA, keep an eye on them. Doctor Simshaw from Baylor
College of Medicine, thank you so very much. It's been
really good.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Wow. Okay, be the call ones if you can, and
some people may have trouble with that. As an adult,
that can be an issue as well. Let's take a break,
shall we, And coming up by the way, we're going
to talk to a woman who knows all about disasters,
a woman from right here in this area, who won
an award from the American Red Cross. And I'm going
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Speaker 2 (20:37):
Thanks to doctor Sharp for giving us some advice on
helping these kids navigate that hill country stuff. We'll talk
in this segment to a Katie woman who knows all
about tragedy unfortunately, but she's on the on the positive
side of all that. And on July seven, learn she'd
earn the organization that she works with, uh, she'd earned
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the the American Red Crosses and Magnuson Award, doled out
annually to only one nurse throughout the entire American Red
Cross network. That woman is mary Anne Hurley and she
joins us. Now, congratulations, Mary Anne.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Well, thank you so much, and thank you for having
me on.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
It's my pleasure. Welcome aboard. So looking back aways, what
drew you to nursing?
Speaker 3 (21:23):
I have wanted to be a nurse since I was
a little girl. Nothing ever. Straight from that, I read
the nurse Nancy Golden book had some band aids in
the front, and I was sold.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Oh wow, I saw that you spent fifty two years
in nursing. Hell were you six when you started?
Speaker 3 (21:41):
You're so sweet. I just went through the usual ranks
of college and that. But it's I am an old
late what can I say?
Speaker 2 (21:48):
And most of it in intensive care units too. You
were born with a whole lot of compassion for people
in need, weren't you.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
I was blessed, very blessed, and I'd like to share
those blessings with others.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Yeah. I was going to say, so you equally blessed,
at least are the people who've with whom you've interacted.
Was there any event in your young life that called
you to this or is it just in your DNA?
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (22:12):
I think it's just in my DNA. There wasn't anything
that happened subsequent to that fund you, but nothing that
made me choose that as my career. I just always
wanted to do it, and it really is the gratitude
of the people that you assist that makes it worthwhile.
Just knowing that you help somebody to have a better
day or to get well. Really special. It's a very,
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very rewarding career.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
So to fast forward, Mary Anne Hurley, You've been with
the American Red Cross now for twenty one years and
participated in thirty seven disaster relief operations. If you recall
what was your first one.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
The first big one that I went to was the
West Texas explosion, and it was Christening by fire. I
had fully trained. I had been working with them before
and sheltering at my church and things, but when I
went to that one, I was hooked. I just enjoy
helping people and I always worked emergency, and I see you,
I like to be in the thick of where things
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are going on and where the worst of it is happening,
and disaster was a good fit for once I retired.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Does the Red Cross put any sort of end time
on a relief effort once it gets started, or do
you guys just stick around until you're no longer needed.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
There is somewhat of an end time because it can't
go on for forever, although with huge disasters we do have,
we go on for a couple of years trying to
help people to recover. It would be something like Parvey,
where there's long term recovery, but that is not the
Norman a regular disaster, but we are there to meet
all of the immediate needs whatever they might have lost immediately.
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I mean, obviously our first line of defense is going
to be sheltering them and feeding them all of that,
but also if they've lost all of their medications in
any of their system devices, that's where the nurses call
and hook up with them within twenty four hours to
try to help them to replace all those things to
get going to stay healthy so they can finish out
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their recovery from a disaster.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
When your phone rings for an event, how many staff
and how many volunteers can you gather up in a
real big hurry.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
If the event is in our region, it is expected
to be the locals to stand up and do the sheltering,
and we can pull on just about everybody to get
them out there. We have a really good track record
because Texas Gulf Coast region is one of the mostly
heavily impacted with the custers in the United States for
the bigger disasters. After a few days, when they realize
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what their needs are going to be, then they will
post positions where people can come in to help. And
I think I've deployed three or four people to the
Hill Country at this point in time.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
So what do you know about Anne Magnuson, the woman
for whom this war is named.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Her past history? I really don't know a whole lot
about her. I did read it, and they don't remember
it all. But she was a big contributor to the
health program back in the day. I couldn't quote years
and things like that. She's not quite Clarence not Ingale,
but she had such an interest and they've named this
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award after her.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
It's fantastically If one of my listeners out there thinking
about joining forces with the American Red Cross, what would
you tell them is the most satisfying part of being involved?
Speaker 3 (25:32):
For me, it's the gratitude from the clients, just knowing
and the heart felt What I get from it is
giving back to the community and helping others, and you
can't help but feel it within the organization. I've never
worked with any people with bigger hearts than those that
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are giving of their own time to the Red Cross.
Every one of them has been absolutely amazing. It's such
a good support group. Everyone works together to get the
job done. Can you feel a certain sense of accomplishment
as well as that gratitude.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
I saw a quote from Mia Bendix and Coastal Plains,
executive director of American Red Cross that explains why you
won this award, and I'll quote her here. Marianne is
an incredible asset to our team. She is always there
no matter if it's a large scale disaster or an
everyday house fire, you can guarantee that Marianne is helping
those affected with their needs. And quote pretty much sums
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it up, now, doesn't it. It certainly does all about Yeah,
And you know I heard you're a very humble person,
so I'm just gonna I'm just going to say it
for you. Marianne Hurley, you are a really truly bona
fide American hero, and I thank you for helping so
many thousands of people during your time at Red Cross
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realize in a time of real crisis for them that
they're not alone and that all their needs are going
to be met. Thank you on behalf of everybody you've met.
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Thank you so much my pleasures to share your story.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Thank you. I appreciate that bye bye.
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be treated when they go to that business. I'm going
to a new client's place, Champions Tree Preservation this afternoon,
as a matter of fact, and then to go out
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there and visit with them a little bit and get
to know them a little better so I can do
a better job talking about them. If you were interested
in doing something like that in your business, reaching my audience,
if that would be a benefit to your company, by
all means, just shoot me email. That's all you have
to do. You don't have to work with anyone else,
you can work directly with me. I'm uniquely positioned that
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way here and I would be happy to have you
on board. I just watched a video. I just watched
a video a man explaining a big scam that's going
on out there now in the AI generated world, where
fake airline responses, and somehow the scammers are getting booking information,
(31:32):
perhaps off travel agency websites or whatever, or in some
way they're getting that information bottom line, and then sending
very legitimate looking emails explaining that there's been a cancellation
of a flight, or there's been a booking mistake that
has to be rectified, or for whatever reason they're they're
(31:53):
gonna end up asking you for money. And even an
attorney who travels often scammed out of two hundred and
eighty five dollars on a rebooking fee that he was
absolutely convinced was going to the airline with which he
was going to be traveling, And when he got to
the airport and mentioned something about the cancelation and the
(32:16):
rebooking and all that, they said, we don't know what
you're talking about. That didn't happen through us. This is
going on all over the country. It's fairly new. Yet
another scam. We've got to watch out for, yet another
intrusion into our lives, somebody trying to steal our money.
But it is kind of what it is, somehow, some way.
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According to the Chronicle, quite a few local politicians got
free tickets to Beyonce's Cowboy tour. I'm not entirely sure
how the rules on gifts like that work in politics,
but I am hoping to read more and more about
this one. It just I don't know. It just seems
like that might be covered by something in their world. Okay,
(32:58):
where am I now? Let me check my clock. About
four minutes, well four and a half is that about right?
Very good? All right, So this is one of those
little conversation starters. If you're at a gathering of people
and the room gets a little quiet, What are the
odds If you've ever wondered if you rolled dice a
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thousand times, the odds of rolling exactly five hundred even
numbers and five hundred odd numbers, the odds of that
happening only two and a half percent, Only two and
a half times out of a thousand times. Pretty interesting
(33:42):
and somewhat boring. I must admit that was not one
of my better efforts. I'll give you that, nor would
it be. From the From the desk of useless World Records,
this woman in Washington earned a Guinness World Record. This
is one of those ones. I don't know why they
even keep them, seems so Yonner four and sixty different
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jigsaw puzzles. I think I may have mentioned that one
yesterday and probably hopefully awoken from the coma that puts
you in then. From the Poor Choices Desk, this one.
When you wonder what people are thinking when they're naming
their babies, this one is gonna come to mind next
time anybody says something about that. Somebody shared a text
(34:27):
online where a mother tells her cousin she's settled on
a baby name for her girl. Instead of her second choice, Serena.
This woman named her little baby girl Vassilina, Mommy's little helper.
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I guess I don't know what that means. That's not
a very that's a name that that woman is going
to struggle with right up until the time she turns
eighteen and changes it. Riding along New Pole found the
average car has seen eleven major life milestones. I challenged that,
actually it says here like first dates, teaching your kid
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to drive, whatever else somebody might do in front seat,
back seat. Ninety percent of Americans say they like their
current car. Forty percent say they love it. Will do
you like your car? Do you love your car? You
love your car? Okay, I'll have to talk more. I'll
check in with you and see what you've got when
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we get off the air.
Speaker 4 (35:34):
Here.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
I'm kind of curious. I wish I love I can
say I like my car, I don't love it. I
loved the pickup truck I had before I had this car,
but then the transmission blew out on it. At about
sixty five miles an hour. It went from sixth gear
to fifth gear all by itself on the freeway, and
(35:55):
then went from fifth gear to fourth gear all by itself.
That's when I had to take it off the highway
completely and pull into a parking lot. And when I
went to back into a spot so the wrecker could
come along and just hook it up and take it out,
put the car or put the truck in reverse, let
off the brake, and it went forward. So that's when
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I kind of knew this one had run its course
from the worthy of another mentioned desk. I'll take a
second pass at that story, and this is right to
the end here. I'm going to take this a Colorado
er nurse, the opposite completely of Marianne Hurley, the winner
of the Anne Magnuson Award from the American Red Cross.
(36:35):
This woman in Colorado, smiling, and this is the second
time I've talked about this, declared on TikTok she would
deliberately delay or dodge treatment of patients in dire urgent
need of care if she thought they were president or
supporters of President Trump. Good news and the follow up
to all of that is that she has been identified
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and that her proclamation has been shared with her employer,
and you can just about guess where it went from there.
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feel the need for speed, getting right to it. Weather's
doing its usual interpretive dance. I've seen interpretive dance on
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America's Got Talent and other talent type shows, and honestly,
I kind of can get ballet, but I can't. I
don't really understand interpretive dance. Anyway. That's what Weather's doing.
It's kind of a where the sky changes its appearance
every couple hours and seems like no rhyme, no reason
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to anything that might happen between sunrise and sunset or overnight.
You just wake up and the ground's either wet or
it's dry. The air is either humid or very humid.
That's one thing that I think newcomers to Houston have
to get used to is walking out like I do,
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leaving out through the back door, getting in my vehicle
and having to walk around. There's water on the path clearly,
and did it rain in a semicircle or what and
what it is? It's just all the condensation, all the
humidity in the air that is just clinging to the
roof and then being pulled downward by gravity, rolls off
(02:16):
and hits that patio. And it the one time that
it really fooled me, though, I had an issue with
the the AC system and the drain line had clogged,
and the water that was on the back porch was
in a different place and there was more of it
than usual with humidity, and I looked upward and saw
(02:36):
that little drain coming out of the attic and water drip, drip, rip,
rip rip, And so I had to deal with that.
That was a long time ago, though, and I think
I found through my friend at Water of Texas. I
think I found the solution for that, and I'm so far,
so far, I've been able to stop that from happening.
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But I'd digress. The thing that was in the gulf
remains a thing officially on the map, but it's a
lighter color now, and it's basically falling apart as we
speak over the Mississippi River delta, and temperature doesn't know
which way it's going to go. I guess over here
(03:21):
for the next several days it's summer. But that's about
the only thing we've been able to say with certainty
for a while now. Really, that thing might shoot a
few clouds and might shoot a few showers over here
in a day or two, but by and large it's
we won't really know the difference from the way the
weather's been. So make your outdoors plans for the weekend. Accordingly,
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this whole thing that's going on over there to the
east should be done and fizzled by then. Stepping into
the soap opera of storylines our country has become in
recent years of Minnesota State Senator I saw this this morning.
She's on trial today after being charged a while back
with allegedly burglarizing her step mother's home in the middle
(04:08):
of the night. This is a Minnesota state senator woman
named Nicole Nicole Mitchell, excuse me, and what she claims
is that she was just trying to recover memorabilia and
personal effects of her late father from her stepmother after
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the two of them had become estranged. She was caught.
According to the reports I saw this morning with they
found her and arrested her inside the house dressed in
all black. She had a flashlight that was covered with
a black sock for some I guess, trying to hide
(04:54):
that as well. And the defenses claiming that she just
went in there to pick up a few things that
belonged to her father, Well, how about you just knock
on the door and make a phone call, or perhaps
if it's if there's reason to do so, just get
(05:14):
the authorities involved, get some policemen to go over there
with you and knock on the door politely and say, hey,
can she have some of her dad's stuff. I think
this woman made a bad choice, and I would suspect
that it may it may cost her politically up to
an including her position. That'll be for people of higher
pay grades than me to figure out. So I'm just
(05:37):
telling you this woman got ah, she got a little too,
and by the way, she had parked her car down
the street too. So it's pretty clear to me at
least that allege the allegations against her have certainly had
enough merit to warrant the arrest and the charge. And
we'll see what the jury thinks about it. From CNN,
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hate mongering stories, and network senior political commentator, a woman
named Anna Navarro, just brushed off a comment made by
conservative guy guy named Brad Palumbo in regard to Navarro's
thoughts on President Trump's immigration policies by reaching into her
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back pocket and pulling out the race card. And I hate,
I hate that we're still here. I really do. To
quote from Navarro, it might be hyperbolic to you as
a white man, it's certainly not hyperbolic to me as
a Latino. End quote. And just when it seemed there
was going to be a real, no cheap shot discussion
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of political issues, Navarro said that when it just it
recurs too often to be coincidental, that when they have
no fact based response to a difference of opinion and
expressed by somebody on the other side of their political aisle.
They flip it back to that that or gender or
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issue is that the person speaking those words doesn't have
a valid, equally challenging response to what was just said.
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This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Welcome back to fifty plus and thanks as always for listening.
In this segment, we'll talk about the anxiety and curiosity
and fright so many children are feeling now after hearing
about the tragedy up there in the Hill Country on
the fourth of July. And so that the parents and
grandparents of these kids can help them find their way
(09:39):
through this turmoil, I'm gonna enlist doctor A. Sim Shaw,
Professor and Executive Vice Chair in the Menager Department of
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Baylor College of Medicine. Welcome
to fifty plus, Doctor Shaw.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Thank you for getting weight.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
It's my pleasure. So what percentage of young kids would
you think in this region specifically are carrying a little
extra weight right now since they saw or her what
happened up there.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Well, anxiety is rather very common, and it is about
forty million people in the country who have anxiety. If
you think about it, and if you're thinking about younger people,
it is about usually seventy to ten percent of people.
But right now, with all what is happening, the percentage
is higher, and since COVID the percentage is almost doubled.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
I talk about why kids need to be approached so
cautiously to by well meaning parents and grandparents if they
sense that young person's having trouble. You really have to
tread very lightly, don't you.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Agree? Completely agree, And one of the reasons is that
kids present with symptoms of anxiety or depression rather differently.
So whether it does have anxiety or anything like that,
they will talk about it, they will discuss. Kids usually
do not come to parents and say that they have anxiety.
They will present something differently, which will be a little
(11:05):
bit of inuitability. They will get irritable, they will get upset,
they will be withdrawn, they will have changes in speak
and appetite, they will have problems with concentrating. Some unfortunately,
may turn towards substances, in legal substances, so slightly different
symptoms than adults. And in order to how to care
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for kids, the first thing is that we need to
start with providing reassuredance to the kids, listening to the kids.
I think the biggest mistake a lot of us, if
not all of us do is that we try to
impose our decisions to the kids and our opinions to
the kids, but do not listen. We need to listen
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to what they are trying to say. They are trying
to tell us, because their train of thought may be
different than what we are thinking. Once we listen to them,
go ahead. Once we listen to them, we need to
reassure them and provide comfort and provide a safety zone.
And that's the starting point for kids.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Yeah, the biggest distinguishing, the biggest difference between adults and
children expressing anxiety is just like you said, as adults,
we'll just talk about it with somebody. We'll find somebody,
whether it's a therapist or a friend or just anybody
who will listen, or the dog even But the kids
don't really know how to express it, so they just
internalize it, don't they.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Absolutely. And plus right now, there is so much bullying
happening in schools and friends and social media and online
that they're even scared of talking about anything which is
out of non out of the scared that they may
be bullied. So they may not even mention it to
anybody because of that fear. Now, once you established that
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a child has anxiety, and you have talked to them
and reassured them and provided them some comfort and you
know safety zone, and then you need to see what
you need to do to minimize that. So, for example,
you need to maintain routine for them. They need to exercise,
they need to sleep well, they need to eat well,
they need have healthy habits. But also a lot of
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these kids need to limit exposure to media. And then
as they media, radio is perfectly fine. We are on
the radio. Not because we're on the radio. Now what
Reading news is fine, But sometimes watching news can be
very difficult for kids. Example, when you and me would
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watch an image of a flood, and you know how
TV does it, you will, TV will repeat that image
every two minutes, three minutes, five minutes. We can we
can separate that it is the same thing happening. But
when a child who's less than three or less than
four would see that image happening again and again, they
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may not be able to separate. Then it's the same
image happening again and again. For them. It may be
something happening again, not the same thing. Yeah sure, so
imagine how dramatic it can be for that small child.
So we have to limit exposure to that media. Reading
is fine, Listing is fine, but watching something And also
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we know that TV has a lot of emotions to
it and kids may or may not be able to
handle that emotional content.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Yeah, there's a whole lot that I've seen on the
news and heard and talked to people who've been up there.
I've got a very good friend who's up there, working
in the relief effort up there and looking for whatever's
left to find, and some of the things that he's seen,
even as someone who's been in that arena for the
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better part of forty years now, it's still it gets
to him, even and he's a grown man who's seen
it all. And I can't imagine how kids, Just like
I said that, they're internalizing and we have to be
very careful when we speak to them and try to
draw out a little bit. At what point get I
guess what I'm going for here is at what point
do you leave them alone and say enough enough and
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let them get back to their video game or whatever.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
So, like I said, you need to listen to their concerns.
If you need to talk to them, you need to
validate their emotions and not just deny that yeah right, yeah,
you need to validate their concern You need to also
see if their concerns are aged appropriate. A three year
may have a different concern and it may be appropriate,
but a twelve year old may have a different concern
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and it may be appropriate for their age, So just
separate that and then be patient and understanding. And if
you feel that these concerns they are able, or this
anxiety is not hindering in their functional capability, which means
they're great to find their school performance is okay, they're
okay at home, they're enjoying things they used to enjoy.
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Nothing needs to be done. But if you feel that
they're going in the falling, they'll be drawing, staying a
loof not interacting with their friends. So that's the time
that they need to seek some professionals help, whether it
is a therapist or a psychiatrist or something, but they
need some help anytime you feel that it is interfading
in their day to day functioning for more than a
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few days, or you feel that they are talking about
something to hurt themselves, or even putting something online stating
that they need to seek help immediately.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Yeah, and it's sooner the better. Exactly immediately, the only
word that applies here. It's not in a little while,
it's not tomorrow. Just make that phone call and make
the appointment for them before it becomes untenable anymore.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Yeah's great advice, and the other thing is that for kids,
school is very important, so school teachers are very important.
Right now school is off, but school is going to
open and less time that hardly happen. We train all
the school teachers about these signing symptoms of PTSD and
trauma and anxiety and depression, and we sent all those
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training to the school superadded that area this time, also
because we were able to record it during highvey, right,
because sometimes the family may not be able to identify
those symptoms, but school teachers are able to identify those symptoms,
so they are also parsel of this process.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
It's just the bottom lines. The adults in the room
all no matter in what touch point with the kids,
they have to stay calm. They have to be reassuring
so that these kids can realize that this isn't something
that's going that should affect them the rest of their lives.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
Right. Yeah, And anybody who has a pre existing anxiety
is usually more proved to get more anxious, so those
are more vulnerable population.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
YEA, keep an eye on them. Doctor Simshaw from Baylor
College of Medicine, thank you so very much. It's been
really good.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Wow. Okay, be the call ones if you can, and
some people may have trouble with that. As an adult,
that can be an issue as well. Let's take a break,
shall we, And coming up by the way, we're going
to talk to a woman who knows all about disasters,
a woman from right here in this area, who won
an award from the American Red Cross. And I'm going
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to talk directly with her, and within that discussion you're
going to figure out why I wanted to talk to her.
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Sleepy Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Thanks to doctor Sharp for giving us some advice on
helping these kids navigate that hill country stuff. We'll talk
in this segment to a Katie woman who knows all
about tragedy unfortunately, but she's on the on the positive
side of all that. And on July seven, learn she'd
earn the organization that she works with, uh, she'd earned
(20:59):
the the American Red Crosses and Magnuson Award, doled out
annually to only one nurse throughout the entire American Red
Cross network. That woman is mary Anne Hurley and she
joins us. Now, congratulations, Mary Anne.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Well, thank you so much, and thank you for having
me on.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
It's my pleasure. Welcome aboard. So looking back aways, what
drew you to nursing?
Speaker 3 (21:23):
I have wanted to be a nurse since I was
a little girl. Nothing ever. Straight from that, I read
the nurse Nancy Golden book had some band aids in
the front, and I was sold.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Oh wow, I saw that you spent fifty two years
in nursing. Hell were you six when you started?
Speaker 3 (21:41):
You're so sweet. I just went through the usual ranks
of college and that. But it's I am an old
late what can I say?
Speaker 2 (21:48):
And most of it in intensive care units too. You
were born with a whole lot of compassion for people
in need, weren't you.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
I was blessed, very blessed, and I'd like to share
those blessings with others.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Yeah. I was going to say, so you equally blessed,
at least are the people who've with whom you've interacted.
Was there any event in your young life that called
you to this or is it just in your DNA?
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (22:12):
I think it's just in my DNA. There wasn't anything
that happened subsequent to that fund you, but nothing that
made me choose that as my career. I just always
wanted to do it, and it really is the gratitude
of the people that you assist that makes it worthwhile.
Just knowing that you help somebody to have a better
day or to get well. Really special. It's a very,
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very rewarding career.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
So to fast forward, Mary Anne Hurley, You've been with
the American Red Cross now for twenty one years and
participated in thirty seven disaster relief operations. If you recall
what was your first one.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
The first big one that I went to was the
West Texas explosion, and it was Christening by fire. I
had fully trained. I had been working with them before
and sheltering at my church and things, but when I
went to that one, I was hooked. I just enjoy
helping people and I always worked emergency, and I see you,
I like to be in the thick of where things
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are going on and where the worst of it is happening,
and disaster was a good fit for once I retired.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Does the Red Cross put any sort of end time
on a relief effort once it gets started, or do
you guys just stick around until you're no longer needed.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
There is somewhat of an end time because it can't
go on for forever, although with huge disasters we do have,
we go on for a couple of years trying to
help people to recover. It would be something like Parvey,
where there's long term recovery, but that is not the
Norman a regular disaster, but we are there to meet
all of the immediate needs whatever they might have lost immediately.
(23:49):
I mean, obviously our first line of defense is going
to be sheltering them and feeding them all of that,
but also if they've lost all of their medications in
any of their system devices, that's where the nurses call
and hook up with them within twenty four hours to
try to help them to replace all those things to
get going to stay healthy so they can finish out
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their recovery from a disaster.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
When your phone rings for an event, how many staff
and how many volunteers can you gather up in a
real big hurry.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
If the event is in our region, it is expected
to be the locals to stand up and do the sheltering,
and we can pull on just about everybody to get
them out there. We have a really good track record
because Texas Gulf Coast region is one of the mostly
heavily impacted with the custers in the United States for
the bigger disasters. After a few days, when they realize
(24:43):
what their needs are going to be, then they will
post positions where people can come in to help. And
I think I've deployed three or four people to the
Hill Country at this point in time.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
So what do you know about Anne Magnuson, the woman
for whom this war is named.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Her past history? I really don't know a whole lot
about her. I did read it, and they don't remember
it all. But she was a big contributor to the
health program back in the day. I couldn't quote years
and things like that. She's not quite Clarence not Ingale,
but she had such an interest and they've named this
(25:22):
award after her.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
It's fantastically If one of my listeners out there thinking
about joining forces with the American Red Cross, what would
you tell them is the most satisfying part of being involved?
Speaker 3 (25:32):
For me, it's the gratitude from the clients, just knowing
and the heart felt What I get from it is
giving back to the community and helping others, and you
can't help but feel it within the organization. I've never
worked with any people with bigger hearts than those that
(25:52):
are giving of their own time to the Red Cross.
Every one of them has been absolutely amazing. It's such
a good support group. Everyone works together to get the
job done. Can you feel a certain sense of accomplishment
as well as that gratitude.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
I saw a quote from Mia Bendix and Coastal Plains,
executive director of American Red Cross that explains why you
won this award, and I'll quote her here. Marianne is
an incredible asset to our team. She is always there
no matter if it's a large scale disaster or an
everyday house fire, you can guarantee that Marianne is helping
those affected with their needs. And quote pretty much sums
(26:31):
it up, now, doesn't it. It certainly does all about Yeah,
And you know I heard you're a very humble person,
so I'm just gonna I'm just going to say it
for you. Marianne Hurley, you are a really truly bona
fide American hero, and I thank you for helping so
many thousands of people during your time at Red Cross
(26:53):
realize in a time of real crisis for them that
they're not alone and that all their needs are going
to be met. Thank you on behalf of everybody you've met.
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Thank you so much my pleasures to share your story.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Thank you. I appreciate that bye bye.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Wow, that's some that's a pretty I was told. I
was told she's very humble, she's not gonna want to
talk about herself and true to form. People who are
the most giving, the most open about offering help to
anybody who needs it typically are the ones who say
the least about doing so. Ut House Institute on Aging is,
(27:37):
as it always has been for more than ten years now,
an amazing collaborative of providers across the entire field of
medicine and therapy and training and anything and everything involved
in making people feel better. Mostly in the med center
are this thousand plus providers, and many of them also
(28:01):
work in outlying communities just because it's the right thing
to do for patients who need to see them but
for whatever reasons, can't get to the med center. This
is a truly dedicated group. They go back and get
additional training, go back and do additional work on their own.
It's not required of any of them. They've already got
the credential that got them the diploma on the wall
(28:23):
in the office. But they want to take care of seniors.
They want to help seniors, and that's a tremendous asset
for anybody in this region. Go to the website. Look
around ut dot edu slash aging. You'll find a treasure
trove of free resources, all of which can help you
(28:45):
address one or another issue that you may be dealing
with right now as an aging person. And then you'll
find ways to contact these providers so that you can
be seen for whatever it is it's bothering you. Edu
slash aging ut dot edu slash aging.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Old guy's rule. And of course, women never get old.
If you want to avoid sleeping on the couch.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Okay, if you think that sounds like a good plan.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Fifty plus continues.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Here's more with Doug. Welcome back to fifty plus. Thanks
for listening. Certainly, do appreciate it. Got about seven or
eight minutes left, and I'm gonna have to work off
my clock. Will will be the fingers in the sky
for me when it gets close, because for some reason,
for some reason, this thing refuses to work. Although it
tells him it's working, clearly it's not. We're fine very quickly.
(29:42):
The opportunities I get to speak for some of the
clients I talk about, for example, the Institute on Aging
UT Health Institute on Aging, don't come along randomly and
I don't accept endorsements randomly. I've if at my people.
I talked to al Kibi one hundred times over there
(30:04):
at Cedar CoV RV Park. I've talked to Jason at
Primo Doors and Optimum Iron Doors. Everybody I have on
the air of late Health. All of these people, everybody,
berry Hill, you name it. I know them, I know
their businesses. I trust them to take care of you
the same way I would want to be taken care of.
(30:24):
And I don't ask them for anything in return except
I get a little I get a little endorsement, and
that's fair. I don't go looking for special treatment. I
want to be treated like you or anybody else would
be treated when they go to that business. I'm going
to a new client's place, Champions Tree Preservation this afternoon,
as a matter of fact, and then to go out
(30:45):
there and visit with them a little bit and get
to know them a little better so I can do
a better job talking about them. If you were interested
in doing something like that in your business, reaching my audience,
if that would be a benefit to your company, by
all means, just shoot me email. That's all you have
to do. You don't have to work with anyone else,
you can work directly with me. I'm uniquely positioned that
(31:06):
way here and I would be happy to have you
on board. I just watched a video. I just watched
a video a man explaining a big scam that's going
on out there now in the AI generated world, where
fake airline responses, and somehow the scammers are getting booking information,
(31:32):
perhaps off travel agency websites or whatever, or in some
way they're getting that information bottom line, and then sending
very legitimate looking emails explaining that there's been a cancellation
of a flight, or there's been a booking mistake that
has to be rectified, or for whatever reason they're they're
(31:53):
gonna end up asking you for money. And even an
attorney who travels often scammed out of two hundred and
eighty five dollars on a rebooking fee that he was
absolutely convinced was going to the airline with which he
was going to be traveling, And when he got to
the airport and mentioned something about the cancelation and the
(32:16):
rebooking and all that, they said, we don't know what
you're talking about. That didn't happen through us. This is
going on all over the country. It's fairly new. Yet
another scam. We've got to watch out for, yet another
intrusion into our lives, somebody trying to steal our money.
But it is kind of what it is, somehow, some way.
(32:37):
According to the Chronicle, quite a few local politicians got
free tickets to Beyonce's Cowboy tour. I'm not entirely sure
how the rules on gifts like that work in politics,
but I am hoping to read more and more about
this one. It just I don't know. It just seems
like that might be covered by something in their world. Okay,
(32:58):
where am I now? Let me check my clock. About
four minutes, well four and a half is that about right?
Very good? All right, So this is one of those
little conversation starters. If you're at a gathering of people
and the room gets a little quiet, What are the
odds If you've ever wondered if you rolled dice a
(33:20):
thousand times, the odds of rolling exactly five hundred even
numbers and five hundred odd numbers, the odds of that
happening only two and a half percent, Only two and
a half times out of a thousand times. Pretty interesting
(33:42):
and somewhat boring. I must admit that was not one
of my better efforts. I'll give you that, nor would
it be. From the From the desk of useless World Records,
this woman in Washington earned a Guinness World Record. This
is one of those ones. I don't know why they
even keep them, seems so Yonner four and sixty different
(34:04):
jigsaw puzzles. I think I may have mentioned that one
yesterday and probably hopefully awoken from the coma that puts
you in then. From the Poor Choices Desk, this one.
When you wonder what people are thinking when they're naming
their babies, this one is gonna come to mind next
time anybody says something about that. Somebody shared a text
(34:27):
online where a mother tells her cousin she's settled on
a baby name for her girl. Instead of her second choice, Serena.
This woman named her little baby girl Vassilina, Mommy's little helper.
(34:49):
I guess I don't know what that means. That's not
a very that's a name that that woman is going
to struggle with right up until the time she turns
eighteen and changes it. Riding along New Pole found the
average car has seen eleven major life milestones. I challenged that,
actually it says here like first dates, teaching your kid
(35:13):
to drive, whatever else somebody might do in front seat,
back seat. Ninety percent of Americans say they like their
current car. Forty percent say they love it. Will do
you like your car? Do you love your car? You
love your car? Okay, I'll have to talk more. I'll
check in with you and see what you've got when
(35:33):
we get off the air.
Speaker 4 (35:34):
Here.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
I'm kind of curious. I wish I love I can
say I like my car, I don't love it. I
loved the pickup truck I had before I had this car,
but then the transmission blew out on it. At about
sixty five miles an hour. It went from sixth gear
to fifth gear all by itself on the freeway, and
(35:55):
then went from fifth gear to fourth gear all by itself.
That's when I had to take it off the highway
completely and pull into a parking lot. And when I
went to back into a spot so the wrecker could
come along and just hook it up and take it out,
put the car or put the truck in reverse, let
off the brake, and it went forward. So that's when
(36:15):
I kind of knew this one had run its course
from the worthy of another mentioned desk. I'll take a
second pass at that story, and this is right to
the end here. I'm going to take this a Colorado
er nurse, the opposite completely of Marianne Hurley, the winner
of the Anne Magnuson Award from the American Red Cross.
(36:35):
This woman in Colorado, smiling, and this is the second
time I've talked about this, declared on TikTok she would
deliberately delay or dodge treatment of patients in dire urgent
need of care if she thought they were president or
supporters of President Trump. Good news and the follow up
to all of that is that she has been identified
(36:56):
and that her proclamation has been shared with her employer,
and you can just about guess where it went from there.
That sports, by the way, if you're wondering are therapeutic,
feel free to watch all you want. They instill a
feeling of community, they release dopamine, and they distract from
the daily stresses of life. Back tomorrow, Audios.
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