January 22, 2025 • 36 mins
Today, Doug Pike interviews LaShaune Johnson, Ph.D about breast cancer. Pike also speaks with Roshelle Salinas about the Houston AutoBoative Show.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:50):
All right, I am back, I am live. Thanks to
all of you who listened yesterday. By the way, I
got a couple of emails while I was out, not
out and about, but just about anyway. I didn't really
leave home to do anything, and made one quick trip
to the grocery store which was open. And because we
have no snow plows, because we lacked the infrastructure in
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this giant, fourth largest suit to be third largest city
in the entire country, everywhere you went was just a
giant slush pile. As the temperatures rose a little teeny
bit above freezing for a little while, all that snow
turned to goo, and it dawned on me trying to
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walk across that parking lot. First of all, I had
the common sense, the good sense, anyway, to put on
a pair of snow boots that I bought years ago
when I was taking my son on some ski trips
when he was very young. He's skiing and me snowboarding,
and so my feet were dry, they were warm, and
I saw people coming out of the grocery store. There
(01:57):
was one woman coming out. Bless her heart, I felt
badly for her. She was probably maybe ten years my
junior or so, but not in great shape. She just
wasn't And she was struggling just a little bit to
walk while her husband and actually she was using the
grocery cart, I think, maybe a little bit to keep
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her steady on her feet, and a little bit just
because he was such a buffoon that he wouldn't help
with it. Long story short of it, though, she was
in a pair of relatively thin shoes ankle just that
fit below her ankle kind of like oh I don't like,
like a deck shoe almost and no socks whatsoever. Yeah,
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her feet had to have been absolutely frozen by the
time she got to the car, because the slush in
that parking lot was was it was thick. It was
two or three inches deep. Everywhere you stepped, you were
stepping into a slurpe with no flavor. Well, I don't know,
just gravel have flavor? You think? Will I taste it
(03:05):
all the time? Was it good? Yeah? Oh buddy? Could
I have made a fortune off of you yesterday? I
would have sold you a one gallon parking lot gravel slurpy.
I'd have given them to you for a dollar apiece,
because that's the kind of guy. Yeah, you would sell
them to me? Yeah, No, you know what my treat
(03:28):
will Yeah, next time we get one of these, I'm
gonna you could get it right now too. You know
where else you can get those, Well, freeway overpasses, you
can still get a gravel slurpy, and god knows what
else will be mixed in with it in a grocery store,
parking lot or around the freeways. I used to when
the traffic was really bad years ago. It's not as
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bad actually recently as it was, say, before COVID, and
I think that's because a lot more people are working
from home, Thank goodness, they get out of get out
of the real workers' way, and I would get stuck
in traffic that was so bad. I would just kind
of play a little game with myself. I'd get it
in the inside lane and then just watch for interesting
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things that had fallen off of or been thrown out
of people's cars. And almost every day that I had
nothing better to do than play that game. If I
played it for twenty thirty minutes in traffic, I would
see at least one cell phone. That's how many people
were leaving their phones on their cars. Ort Either that
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or couples getting in fights. So you've cheated on me.
I'm throwing away your phone out He goes, Yeah, it
was amazing how many of them there were, It really was.
And all kinds of other stuff as you can imagine.
But I digress. I'm getting off of the main thing is,
and that is us getting back to normalcy around here.
I made it in and I couldn't have done it yesterday.
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There's no way there were. The roads were just in
more in my neighborhood than on the freeways. Even but
it would just it probably would have been nearly im
possible to get safely to the freeway and well, actually
there were two hard parts. First one was thawing out
the spigot on the north facing exterior wall of my house.
And before the next hard freeze, I'm gonna have that
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situation figured out. I've covered for years. I've covered all
of my outside spigots with foam, those foam caps with
a little thing that hooks around the spigot itself and
then it cinches on down. I add a washcloth inside
all of them for even more insulation. The east and
west side of the house never a problem. North side
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frozen like a rock. I used an old trick I
figured out years ago to take care of that this
morning before I could come in. I'll talk about that
in a minute or so. Just got a few minutes
in this segment, though. Quick look at the weather. It
looks a hell of a lot better than it did yesterday,
although the snow was beautiful. I'll give it that and
this thanks to Texas Indoor Air Quality Specialist dot net
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Texas IAQ dot net. All things looking good once we
get past tonight's little minor freeze. Unless you live unless
you live in Huntsville or something it's gonna be pretty
nice back close to seventy for the weekend too. It's
kind of hard to believe, but if you live here
long enough, you'll see stuff like that all the time.
The market's courtesy of Houston Gold Exchange, mostly up. I
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think the russell was down about a half a point.
The other three pretty much up, as was gold trading
now at a a seller's market. Twenty seven hundred and
seventy two dollars and change per ounce I sold mine
I had. It's not like I had a brick laying
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around any anywhere. Everything that I sold fit comfortably into
the palm of my hand. And when I sold it
to bread over at Houston Gold Exchange, I got I
want to say, it was about twenty six hundred an ounce,
and I had slightly more than an ounce of real
gold that I had been sitting around collecting dust for
(07:04):
the better part of I don't know, ten, fifteen, twenty
thirty years, and just my wife and I kind of
talked about it, why are we holding onto this stuff?
Who wants that? Who needs that? And all of that.
That little bitty thing was turned out to be worth
some money. Oil down a tick after opening on the
way up. Actually it climbed briefly, but a little while
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ago had turned the other way, and it was below
yesterday's clothes still though, at seventy five hundred or not
seventy five hundred seventy five dollars and change per barrel,
and I'm very confident that that number is going to
start changing pretty quickly. I'll tell you what I don't
have time to do to tell you how I took
care of that that frozen spigot this morning in this segment,
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but I'll get back to it a little later. We've
got a couple of guests I want to get to
coming up next. We're going to talk about breast cancer
and some of the some of the some of the
people who are frankly getting the short end of the
stick when it comes to being treated, and the newer
treatment protocols that are out there now on the way out.
Ut Health Institute on Aging is that same amazing collaborative
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of more than a thousand providers around here, all of
whom have gotten additional education, additional training to what got
them the diploma on their walls, and what they've learned
on top of that is how they can apply their
specific knowledge and expertise to seniors. That's really important that
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we be seen by people who understand us best, not
just by And there are tremendous doctors all around this city,
don't get me wrong, but the ones who have become
members of the ut Health Institute on Aging have taken
an extra step on our behalf and it's going to
be well worth your time and effort to find one
of these providers. You can find them at the website.
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You can find tons of resources for seniors also at
that website, which happens to me uth dot edu slash
aging ut H dot edu slash aging. What's life without
a net? I suggest to go to bed, sleep it off.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Just wait until the show's over.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Sleepy.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues, Oh so.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Good, So good to be back in the studio where
I'm comfortable. I was awkwardly uncomfortable just hanging around the house.
I took my laptop home, which is great. I need
to talk to I need to talk to the fellas
around here about getting broadcast stuff that I can use
from home. Will it shouldn't be that hard to get?
(09:50):
Oh yeah, well, why notes that extra work. It's too
much work. You want to be in the studio. I
do want to be in this studio, but yesterday would
have been a prime example of why I need that. Yeah,
but then I'd have to still come in. Now I'm
not problem. Hey, I gotta get to work here. So
welcome back on this warming Wednesday and another freeze tonight,
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but not nearly so severe as last night. We'll talk
in this segment about breast cancer and how research actually
is turning up some disparities between the outcomes for diat
different ethnicities. And to help me with that, I'm gonna
bring in Lashawn Johnson, PhD and clinical professor in the
Department of Health Systems and Population Health Sciences. Welcome to
(10:33):
fifty plus.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Lashawan, Hi, Thanks great to be here.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Appreciate that. So let's talk first about breast cancer in general.
How is our country doing overall in the detection and
treatment of breast cancer. Give it a grade I would
say a b Okay, that's encouraging. I would think, yes, yeah, so.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
We've done over the past couple of decades. I think
partly because of so many famous people being diagnosed with
breast cancer and talking about it. Because we've gotten rid
of some of that stigma. People have been more willing
to go and do routine screenings and you know, join
support groups and although some of those other things that
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we know that help extend the life course for women
being diagnosed with breast cainter at any age, so that's
been really encouraging. There's still a number of programs that
provide mammograms for low income folks, so some of those
folks who would have had barriers maybe in the seventies
or eighties to getting screening now don't have quite as
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many of those, right. So folks to whether you're insured
or not, are able to get into the pipeline, and
that's often the first step.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
I think it's just just taking that first step and
getting a benchmark, getting a starting point, and it's important
before we go into anything even deeper. It's important to
have that regular test so they can pick this stuff
up as early as possible, right.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Right, And I think one of the things that we
talk about is also breast self awareness, so even before
you're at that recommended age, just sort of knowing what's
normal for you. Often you can be a part of
the team that figures out, you know, what's going on
your breast health or if there any changes that people
need to keep an eye on and maybe use a
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little bit of extra testing so you can be part
of that. You have your life in your hands, literally,
so encouraging folks to become aware of what their breath
looks like is always important as well.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
What's the overall survival rate these days for breast cancer.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
That very slice stages and by cancer. I'll often folk
talk about breast cancers if it's one disease, but it's
actually a family of diseases, and so at very early
stages it's treatable and survival ball and you know, like
eighty to ninety percent reach of like stage zero to one.
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But then there are other stages or types of cancers
that are not quite they were in that sort of
grade C or D kinds of scores in terms of survivorship.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Yeah, I noticed in my notes Lashan that for this,
for the different types of breast cancer and whatnot, also
different survival rates among different races. Talk about that.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
So yes, we've noticed that in spite the fact that
African American women in particular are going to do screenings
just as much as other folks. Sometimes even more, they
are surviving in much lower rates. There was a study
of by American Cancer Society a few years ago that
said in some cities, African American women died a rate
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almost forty percent higher than white's peers. Typically. What the
story is there is lots of layers, but some of
it is social economic, like they might have access to insurance,
they might be working a job to put them at
higher stress or expose them to environmental contaminants that we
don't quite understand. In some cases, they're being diagnosed wid
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just because they're juggling so many things at once. Another
thing that we know is that African Americans and some
Latinas and other groups are often diagnosed with a formal
cancer called triple negative breast cancer, and that one is
much harder to treat. It tends to be more aggressive,
and it often starts at earlier ages than we expect,
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so that you see people in their twenties and thirties
being diagnosed the triple negative breast cancer. So by the
time someone gets to that recommended at around forty, they
may already be at stage two or three, right, So
it's incredibly hard to treat at that point. In the
survivor rates as a result are much lower in those.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Groups earlier, and we also see.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
In older women that those kinds of things are also
a problem in terms of delays to diagnoses as well.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Yeah, yeah, that's what I was thinking about when you
were talking. Just then. These younger and younger cases could
be survivable if we catch them at that younger and
younger stage. And what you're saying is pretty much across
the board. A lot of women aren't getting in there.
Why aren't there people standing on street corners carrying signs saying,
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I don't care how much money a woman's got, she
deserves to get this test.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
I mean, there are some arts start doing some of that,
but part of it is, oddly enough, something not related
to medical things at all. It's cultural, right, Like we
know that women are often the backbones of families and
their communities, and some of the work that I've done
with frest cancer survivors, as often they say when I
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ask them, well, I have to give my family's a
fears of order, Like I noticed something was wrong, but
you know, my son's graduating from high school, my daughter's
getting married, So they delay going in and seeking care
or asking questions about how to get access to even
the screening, and so what happens is by the time
they get around to it, because now maybe it hurts
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too much, or maybe someone else that's sort of pokes
them to do it, they are past that very early,
very treatable stage to a stage that you know requires
a lot more complicated treatment plans, and perhaps those are
plans that are much harder on their bodies. They're certainly
often more expensive, and if that person has no insurance
or not great insurance, that may also result in some
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delays or pauses in the treatment, if they've got to
figure out how to apply for Medicaid or something like that.
So surprisingly, it's not always a biology that's the problem.
Is often sort of all those things outside of the
clinics that they're and grappling with that causeleose delays or
cause them to sort of not put themselves first.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
It makes yeah, it makes very good sense. Men and women, both,
i think, for different reasons, though, don't like to go
to the doctor. Men don't like to go because we
just don't like to go. But women are putting themselves
behind other people in their families and making themselves a
second priority or a third when for the sake of
the family, they need to take care of themselves. We've
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got just very few seconds left. Does that sum it up?
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Absolutely so. If you've got a woman in your life,
tell just remind her that I had. The ultimate act
of love is taking care of herself, right like he
loves her family and wants to take care of them.
Getting her Regulus greetings for cancered ibetes, whatever she's going through,
would be a loving act, right. So helping someone in
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your family get to that appointment or make that appointment
would be a great mother's vegas.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
That really makes so much good sense. Thank you so
very very much, le showing up phiated, I really do
this is good.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Thank you, Thank you so much. I really appreciate me today.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
I told you it would be easy, didn't I. We'll
talk again sometime, thank you. All right? Oh sure, by ba,
all right, we got to take a little break here.
We will do that. We will be back. I'm in
the studio and I'm so glad to be back. And
I'm so glad that she She made such a good point,
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and I don't even think she realized how good a
point it is that women take care of themselves last
in so many aspects of life, and to be around
the most unselfish thing you could do is take care
of yourself. We need you. Men and children need all
the women in their lives that they can get and
all the help they can get. Stay healthy. Go get
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your breast examination and catch this stuff early. We'll take
a little break here. We'll be right back fifty plus
on AM nine, fifty kp RCYM.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
They sure don't make them like they used. That's why
every few months we wash him, check his fluids, and
spring on a fresh coat of wax. This is fifty
plus with Doug Pike. All right, welcome back to fifty plus.
I'm so glad to be back in this studio. Will
(19:21):
wants me to stay home more often, don't you?
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Will you do too?
Speaker 4 (19:24):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Yes you do. No, I said it earlier. I've got
it on. We've got it. I did not say it podcast.
We can go back and listen to the podcast. I'm like,
what if I go in and edit you in saying that?
If you can, AI, if you can edit the podcast,
you know, I don't know what I'm doing here though,
I'm not sure I could do that all right, welcome back,
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so glad to see the sunshine it again really And
in this segment, we're gonna talk about one of my
favorite consumer shows in Houston, especially since it's actually two
shows in one, and that would be the upcoming Houston
Auto Boative Show except for January twenty nine, Dash Feb
two in NRG Center. And to speak in greater detail
than can I, I have enlisted Rochelle Salinas to tell
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us all about it. Welcome Rochelle.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Hey, how's it going?
Speaker 2 (20:14):
You know it's going pretty well. I was able to
get to work this morning, which is always a good feat. Well,
it's a bittersweet, but I do like being here. So
how many how many years now since the two shows combined?
It's been a while. Huh.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
This will be our fourth year too. Yeah, okay, so
it has been a little while. Post COVID, we joined
up and said, hey, we're both using this space, but
weeks one week apart and now we both can't fill
the whole space, so let's put it together and make
a really good event for everybody all in one.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Do you recall which side knocked on the door of
the other side first, just out of.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Can it was definitely a mutual Yeah, it was a
mutual thing. We had reached out to them kind of
early on, was just like, hey, if anything ever comes
up and you'll want to chat and collaborate somehow, let's
do it. And then after COVID the Boat Show came
and said, hey, remember that time he said you wanted
to collaborate on something.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Huh, Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
So it works out really well. So half of energy
is full of boats and of all types, and then
they've got more than two hundred vendors, you know, outdoor
activities and attire and fishing poles and all that good,
good jazz. And then the other half we've got, you know,
more than three hundred vehicles, trucks, cars, SUVs. We've got camp, jeep,
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obstacle course, and about thirty different brands this year. So
we're bringing back some brands that haven't been at the
Auto Show in a while. So it's a great opportunity.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
It's like the Auto Show in the Boat Show got
married and had a baby, really, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Yeah that's right. Well, I I shoke that we're on
a we're on a five year engagement plan and then
we'll see if married him.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Going on, Nah, I don't know if it'd be hard
to take it apart. I think at this point anyway,
who cares. So let's talk about how that space is
utilized too. And I think you kind of hinted at
it that it's not boat car boat car. It's either
car car, car or boat boat boat.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Right, Yeah, that's correct. One half. When you walk in
main entrance, you go to the left, you'll have all
the boat show side of things. You go to the
right and you'll have all the auto show side of things.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Wow. And there are so many exhibitors overall. Really, is
there any stone left unturned at all?
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Well, we don't have space for another stone, that's for sure.
We both sold out of space this year and Jim
packed the place.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
That's fantastic. All the car makers, all the boat makers,
and additionally, as you mentioned about the boating side, the
accessories as well. Are there are car accessories represented as
well as boating accessories.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
We have a little bit. Yeah, there's D three Motorsports
and Texas Truck Works are there on display, and they've
got a whole kit of aftermarket accessories and car wraps
and lift kits and all that kind of thing that
you can watch them doing and purchase and check them
out at their on site location.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Hey, and you mentioned all the cars. How many car
makers are represented? I I may have missed that.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Yeah, we've got about thirty brands represented this year, and
BMW Mini and Infinity are back. They haven't been at
the Auto Show in a few years, so we're happy
to have them return. We've also got dealers representing brands
that the manufacturers couldn't get to the show, So we've
got Cadillac, Postoke Motor Cars will bring some luxury vehicles,
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and we've got Lincoln, Mazda, Honda, Toyota, Ford, Chevrolet, and
then all of the Stlantis brands are back as well,
the Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge Ram as well as the obstacle
course of Camp Jeep.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
You know, off hand, what's the most expensive car that's
going to be on that floor.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
I'm just kidre well, not yet, but I'm sure it'll
probably be the Bugatti or the one of the Bentleys
with post Soake motor Cars.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
I'm not even going to name any of the other brands.
I could sit next to them where it would be
so clear that the Bugatti or the rolls might be
the one, yeah exactly, Oh my goodness. And from all
from the extremes of lavish luxury, there's always just there's
also just the everyday person's card. Like the pickup trucks.
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How many different pickup trucks are going to be around
there for Texans.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Oh yeah, we'll have all the latest of everything, all
the twenty twenty five models from Ford, Chevrolet, Nissan, Toyota,
the new Ram HD will be on display, so they'll
you'll have all your pickup options too. It's great to
check out the new towing technology from some of these trucks. Also,
if you've got a boat to pool.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Technology. Technology is really such a big part of the
automotive and the boating industries. Now, what's the latest and
greatest in auto technology?
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Well, I think all of this, you know, getting closer
and closer to autonomous driving, all the feature safety features
that we have in the vehicles today, as far as
the lane assist, all the extra cameras are backing up
and looking at three sixty view of your cameras. I
think all of that is really fascinating stuff today. As
well as there's going to be the new Infinity QX
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eighty and I did some information on it the other
day and I learned that it has a climate control
system that measures how hot you are in your car
and will adjust the AC as needed. Oh, my work,
it's you know, pretty pretty high tech.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Yeah, holy cow. We had one of those in my
car when my friends and I were driving to the
beach too in the in the nineteen seventies to go surfing.
We called it the window handle. That's what we had
to roll down. Well, a rolldown technology come a long
way since then. Roch, Holy cow. Rochelle Selena's from the
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Houston Auto Boat of Show on fifty plus. What's a
good amount of time for a family or maybe a
couple to set aside if they really want to see
the whole show?
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Oh yeah, you definitely need a few hours. It's a
big venue with tons of stuff to see and do,
so I mean I would plan, you know, at least
three hours to be out there and have a good time.
We've got a new remote control race car area that
the kids will all want to touch out their driving me. Yeah,
and NASA is also going to have a great display
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with some astronauts, spacesuits and space rovers. Three different cars
that are going to the Moon and March. We'll be
on display and you're going to want to spend time
in all of those type of exhibits too.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
That would draw me in a heartbeat. I love stuff
like that so much. All right, very quickly, before we
run out of time. What about tickets and what about
the website? What are they going to find there?
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Yeah, automotiveshow dot com, you can get your tickets online.
Family foard pack are a special right now. You'll get
one ticket free in that pack. At the door. Tickets
are twenty dollars and energy charges parking as well. So
check all that information out online at autobotiveshow dot com.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Twenty dollars plus parking well spent for you, say three hours,
I'm thinking like five or six. I'm not gonna I
won't be able to leave in three hours. Thank you
so much, Rochelle Selinas. I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Thank you have a great dame.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
We'll see out there. Uh huh by bye, Houston Autobotive
Show dot com. Well, no, it's takeout to Houston Autobotive
Show dot com. I got that wrong earlier, like last
week I did too. Autobotive Show dot com go there,
find out all about it, and be out there. January
twenty ninth through February second and NRG Center. We've got
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to take a little break here. When we get back,
I will share some of the things that have been
going on in the world for the last several days
while a couple of most of us, at least in
the last twenty four hours were either bundled up by
the fireplace or outside playing in the snow. I've seen
I've seen lots of stuff on both sides of that
coin on Facebook. We'll take a little here. We'll be
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right back. Fifty plus on AM nine fifty k p RC.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Aged to Perfection. This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Hi, welcome back. Leave fourth and final segment already, Will,
it's nice one. I have two good, solid interviews to
work with. That makes it a lot easier on Will
and me, and I hope you guys enjoy these things.
Is we do put some time into them and a
little effort. I've got help from the people over at
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ut Health Science Centers Institute on Aging at a visit
with Jose this morning. As a matter of fact, the
guy who puts most of these together does a fine job.
Back to in the very first segment, I talked about
this little hack that I found for for thawing out.
It smells like coffee in here. Maybe it's because I
(29:08):
have a coffee cup. I think that's it. Well, I
think I think the air just came on in here
and started circulating it. That's why I smell it now.
In any event, I talked about how the north facing
spigot on my house, which is in the backyard, tends
to freeze in a no matter what I do to
it initially tends to freeze and thus make it annoying
(29:34):
and a little teeny bit scary. I'm I'm not just
gonna walk out there and open it up and hope
it melts on down depending on how far up into
the house that freeze goes. I don't want a busted
pipe anywhere. I really don't. I'm not in the mood
for that at all. But anyway, what I do when
that happens, and I'm gonna find a way before the
(29:54):
next big freeze comes, I'm going to find a way
to outsmart that north wall to make it freeze proof.
And I have a couple of ideas already that won't
take much to put together, and once I do, I
think that thing will become immune if you will, to
freezing temperatures. I'm just gonna build a bigger, bigger cap
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to go over it, and I'm actually going to include
a little flap where I can throw in what I
use to thaw these things out when they freeze up,
or this thing out when it freezes up. And that's
those little simple little hand pocket warmers that you can
buy at any sporting good store. And what I do
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when a freeze is coming is by about a dozen
of them and just keep them on hand. I use
them in the house. Actually, I had a toilet flow
fill line, that little quarter inch line that comes in
from the back of the toilet out of the wall.
One of those on the west side of the house
actually froze up once and scared me to death. And
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I took one of those pocket hand warmers and wrapped
a little wash cloth, tucked it into a washcloth and
then folded that over that line, and then put a
rubber band around that to keep it in place or something,
maybe a zip ti, I don't know, but anyway, that
thing melted back down without busting any pipes, And then
this morning, when that outside line was frozen, I took
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a couple of pocket hand warmers out there and wrapped
them around the pipe and got it back to working
before I left to come in here. That's one of
the reasons it took me a little longer to get
in here than I wanted. But nonetheless that does work.
And given time, you want to get out there and
start doing that before the freeze finishes, I think, because
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if you wait until everything starts to thaw to kind
of help that thing along, there's a risk that there
may be a break somewhere up in those pipes. I
don't know. I don't know the technology behind all that,
I don't know the physics behind it all. But the
bottom line is I have no intention of busting a
pipe in my house that I don't want that. So
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there that's good on the way in this morning. By
the way, if you're still worried about driving, the Southwest
Freeway was virtually it was just like a sunny day
when I came in at about nine thirty mine that
was just a little later than net maybe about ten
thirty when I was driving up in here, and the
only slush was in the left lanes on the overpasses,
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and it was still a pretty significant amount of slush.
And never mind that there were people driving past me
in that lane through that slush on the top of
the bridges at sixty five seventy miles an hour, and
I just stayed over where it was nice and dry,
and I knew I had traction at least, and if
one of those guys had spun out in front of me,
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I'd just slowed down, let him quit spinning, and then
deal with it. However you have to deal with it.
It was a little bit scary, though, but then when
is it not on a Houston freeway. Right. We are
on a new track in our country, and one that
I'm confident is going to be a very prosperous one.
Anybody willing to show up and work hard is going
(33:16):
to be rewarded in the years to come. Oh, by
the way, I got to talk about our the snow
day yesterday. I've got to talk about that. I don't
have grandchildren yet, so and my son, my seventeen year
old son, claimed he didn't care about the snow. Oh yeah,
that's cool, dad, and then ended up at a neighbor's
house later in a snowball fight with a few other kids.
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Kind of funny how that works, really, And I'm going
I'm pushing forward through his teenage years on the bet
that he's going to change and mature and understand and
appreciate all that my wife and I have sacrificed for
him in his many, many years. I think he will.
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I really do. I think I've seen glimmers just every
now and then they're they're he'll say something that's that's
really well thought out, he'll say something that's appreciative, and
those just little things like that, go so so far,
Just go so so far. There was also an issue
with I would presume teenagers running around some of the
(34:28):
neighborhoods and let's just say this. They were they were
doing artwork, let's call it, uh inappropriate artwork on a
canvas created by the snow. They were drawing things in
the snow on the cars that really didn't belong on
(34:49):
the cars. And that's that's just childish behavior. They're children,
I know, that's what I'm saying. So at that's what
they mad at it. Ibee, you would have been doing
it when you were there age. No, I've had a
million opportunities to do something like that on the beach
(35:11):
in the sand. Everybody else the building sand. This is
a new this is a whole new instrument. It's a
new paladin, a new easel, a new triumph. No, we'll
just you don't draw that in this all. It's so
easy to get rid of. At least they weren't writing
their names in the snow. That was an old time pastime.
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Uh yeah, one of the funnier things. And yeah, I
don't think it's appropriate, I really don't, But I don't
think I would have called the police if I saw
a kid doing that. Just go just go wipe it
off your car. Not that big a deal. My my neighbor,
I was looking out the window upstairs window into my
(35:54):
neighbor's backyard. We just took out a forty five I
don't know foot tall crape myrtle that just had become
a liability. Frankly, it could have fallen and torn up
something that didn't belong to me, and I just didn't
want that to happen, or anything that belonged to me,
depending on which way the women was blowing. So anyway,
we've got this big clear view now and big bright
(36:15):
view thanks to all the reflected sunlight. And he had
a snowman will his kids had built a big snowman
in the backyard, and they had one of those little
little kid's battery powered cars that are about four feet
long or so. And I sent him this text. I
was kind of joking. Big snowman got a hat and
all that stuff on, and I said, hey man, you're
(36:37):
Uber drivers here. And I talked to him for a second.
His name is Frosty, and my neighbor writes back, hey man,
I didn't order an Uber and maybe it's a food delivery.
And then two seconds later he writes back, oh the snowman,
I get it all right. We got it too. We'll
be back tomorrow. It's pretty funny. Audios
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all of you who listened yesterday. By the way, I
got a couple of emails while I was out, not
out and about, but just about anyway. I didn't really
leave home to do anything, and made one quick trip
to the grocery store which was open. And because we
have no snow plows, because we lacked the infrastructure in
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this giant, fourth largest suit to be third largest city
in the entire country, everywhere you went was just a
giant slush pile. As the temperatures rose a little teeny
bit above freezing for a little while, all that snow
turned to goo, and it dawned on me trying to
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walk across that parking lot. First of all, I had
the common sense, the good sense, anyway, to put on
a pair of snow boots that I bought years ago
when I was taking my son on some ski trips
when he was very young. He's skiing and me snowboarding,
and so my feet were dry, they were warm, and
I saw people coming out of the grocery store. There
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was one woman coming out. Bless her heart, I felt
badly for her. She was probably maybe ten years my
junior or so, but not in great shape. She just
wasn't And she was struggling just a little bit to
walk while her husband and actually she was using the
grocery cart, I think, maybe a little bit to keep
(02:19):
her steady on her feet, and a little bit just
because he was such a buffoon that he wouldn't help
with it. Long story short of it, though, she was
in a pair of relatively thin shoes ankle just that
fit below her ankle kind of like oh I don't like,
like a deck shoe almost and no socks whatsoever. Yeah,
(02:44):
her feet had to have been absolutely frozen by the
time she got to the car, because the slush in
that parking lot was was it was thick. It was
two or three inches deep. Everywhere you stepped, you were
stepping into a slurpe with no flavor. Well, I don't know,
just gravel have flavor? You think? Will I taste it
(03:05):
all the time? Was it good? Yeah? Oh buddy? Could
I have made a fortune off of you yesterday? I
would have sold you a one gallon parking lot gravel slurpy.
I'd have given them to you for a dollar apiece,
because that's the kind of guy. Yeah, you would sell
them to me? Yeah, No, you know what my treat
(03:28):
will Yeah, next time we get one of these, I'm
gonna you could get it right now too. You know
where else you can get those, Well, freeway overpasses, you
can still get a gravel slurpy, and god knows what
else will be mixed in with it in a grocery store,
parking lot or around the freeways. I used to when
the traffic was really bad years ago. It's not as
(03:49):
bad actually recently as it was, say, before COVID, and
I think that's because a lot more people are working
from home, Thank goodness, they get out of get out
of the real workers' way, and I would get stuck
in traffic that was so bad. I would just kind
of play a little game with myself. I'd get it
in the inside lane and then just watch for interesting
(04:11):
things that had fallen off of or been thrown out
of people's cars. And almost every day that I had
nothing better to do than play that game. If I
played it for twenty thirty minutes in traffic, I would
see at least one cell phone. That's how many people
were leaving their phones on their cars. Ort Either that
(04:31):
or couples getting in fights. So you've cheated on me.
I'm throwing away your phone out He goes, Yeah, it
was amazing how many of them there were, It really was.
And all kinds of other stuff as you can imagine.
But I digress. I'm getting off of the main thing is,
and that is us getting back to normalcy around here.
I made it in and I couldn't have done it yesterday.
(04:52):
There's no way there were. The roads were just in
more in my neighborhood than on the freeways. Even but
it would just it probably would have been nearly im
possible to get safely to the freeway and well, actually
there were two hard parts. First one was thawing out
the spigot on the north facing exterior wall of my house.
And before the next hard freeze, I'm gonna have that
(05:13):
situation figured out. I've covered for years. I've covered all
of my outside spigots with foam, those foam caps with
a little thing that hooks around the spigot itself and
then it cinches on down. I add a washcloth inside
all of them for even more insulation. The east and
west side of the house never a problem. North side
(05:36):
frozen like a rock. I used an old trick I
figured out years ago to take care of that this
morning before I could come in. I'll talk about that
in a minute or so. Just got a few minutes
in this segment, though. Quick look at the weather. It
looks a hell of a lot better than it did yesterday,
although the snow was beautiful. I'll give it that and
this thanks to Texas Indoor Air Quality Specialist dot net
(05:57):
Texas IAQ dot net. All things looking good once we
get past tonight's little minor freeze. Unless you live unless
you live in Huntsville or something it's gonna be pretty
nice back close to seventy for the weekend too. It's
kind of hard to believe, but if you live here
long enough, you'll see stuff like that all the time.
The market's courtesy of Houston Gold Exchange, mostly up. I
(06:20):
think the russell was down about a half a point.
The other three pretty much up, as was gold trading
now at a a seller's market. Twenty seven hundred and
seventy two dollars and change per ounce I sold mine
I had. It's not like I had a brick laying
(06:42):
around any anywhere. Everything that I sold fit comfortably into
the palm of my hand. And when I sold it
to bread over at Houston Gold Exchange, I got I
want to say, it was about twenty six hundred an ounce,
and I had slightly more than an ounce of real
gold that I had been sitting around collecting dust for
(07:04):
the better part of I don't know, ten, fifteen, twenty
thirty years, and just my wife and I kind of
talked about it, why are we holding onto this stuff?
Who wants that? Who needs that? And all of that.
That little bitty thing was turned out to be worth
some money. Oil down a tick after opening on the
way up. Actually it climbed briefly, but a little while
(07:27):
ago had turned the other way, and it was below
yesterday's clothes still though, at seventy five hundred or not
seventy five hundred seventy five dollars and change per barrel,
and I'm very confident that that number is going to
start changing pretty quickly. I'll tell you what I don't
have time to do to tell you how I took
care of that that frozen spigot this morning in this segment,
(07:51):
but I'll get back to it a little later. We've
got a couple of guests I want to get to
coming up next. We're going to talk about breast cancer
and some of the some of the some of the
people who are frankly getting the short end of the
stick when it comes to being treated, and the newer
treatment protocols that are out there now on the way out.
Ut Health Institute on Aging is that same amazing collaborative
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of more than a thousand providers around here, all of
whom have gotten additional education, additional training to what got
them the diploma on their walls, and what they've learned
on top of that is how they can apply their
specific knowledge and expertise to seniors. That's really important that
(08:35):
we be seen by people who understand us best, not
just by And there are tremendous doctors all around this city,
don't get me wrong, but the ones who have become
members of the ut Health Institute on Aging have taken
an extra step on our behalf and it's going to
be well worth your time and effort to find one
of these providers. You can find them at the website.
(08:57):
You can find tons of resources for seniors also at
that website, which happens to me uth dot edu slash
aging ut H dot edu slash aging. What's life without
a net? I suggest to go to bed, sleep it off.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Just wait until the show's over.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Sleepy.
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Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues, Oh so.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Good, So good to be back in the studio where
I'm comfortable. I was awkwardly uncomfortable just hanging around the house.
I took my laptop home, which is great. I need
to talk to I need to talk to the fellas
around here about getting broadcast stuff that I can use
from home. Will it shouldn't be that hard to get?
(09:50):
Oh yeah, well, why notes that extra work. It's too
much work. You want to be in the studio. I
do want to be in this studio, but yesterday would
have been a prime example of why I need that. Yeah,
but then I'd have to still come in. Now I'm
not problem. Hey, I gotta get to work here. So
welcome back on this warming Wednesday and another freeze tonight,
(10:12):
but not nearly so severe as last night. We'll talk
in this segment about breast cancer and how research actually
is turning up some disparities between the outcomes for diat
different ethnicities. And to help me with that, I'm gonna
bring in Lashawn Johnson, PhD and clinical professor in the
Department of Health Systems and Population Health Sciences. Welcome to
(10:33):
fifty plus.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Lashawan, Hi, Thanks great to be here.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Appreciate that. So let's talk first about breast cancer in general.
How is our country doing overall in the detection and
treatment of breast cancer. Give it a grade I would
say a b Okay, that's encouraging. I would think, yes, yeah, so.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
We've done over the past couple of decades. I think
partly because of so many famous people being diagnosed with
breast cancer and talking about it. Because we've gotten rid
of some of that stigma. People have been more willing
to go and do routine screenings and you know, join
support groups and although some of those other things that
(11:21):
we know that help extend the life course for women
being diagnosed with breast cainter at any age, so that's
been really encouraging. There's still a number of programs that
provide mammograms for low income folks, so some of those
folks who would have had barriers maybe in the seventies
or eighties to getting screening now don't have quite as
(11:43):
many of those, right. So folks to whether you're insured
or not, are able to get into the pipeline, and
that's often the first step.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
I think it's just just taking that first step and
getting a benchmark, getting a starting point, and it's important
before we go into anything even deeper. It's important to
have that regular test so they can pick this stuff
up as early as possible, right.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Right, And I think one of the things that we
talk about is also breast self awareness, so even before
you're at that recommended age, just sort of knowing what's
normal for you. Often you can be a part of
the team that figures out, you know, what's going on
your breast health or if there any changes that people
need to keep an eye on and maybe use a
(12:31):
little bit of extra testing so you can be part
of that. You have your life in your hands, literally,
so encouraging folks to become aware of what their breath
looks like is always important as well.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
What's the overall survival rate these days for breast cancer.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
That very slice stages and by cancer. I'll often folk
talk about breast cancers if it's one disease, but it's
actually a family of diseases, and so at very early
stages it's treatable and survival ball and you know, like
eighty to ninety percent reach of like stage zero to one.
(13:10):
But then there are other stages or types of cancers
that are not quite they were in that sort of
grade C or D kinds of scores in terms of survivorship.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Yeah, I noticed in my notes Lashan that for this,
for the different types of breast cancer and whatnot, also
different survival rates among different races. Talk about that.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
So yes, we've noticed that in spite the fact that
African American women in particular are going to do screenings
just as much as other folks. Sometimes even more, they
are surviving in much lower rates. There was a study
of by American Cancer Society a few years ago that
said in some cities, African American women died a rate
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almost forty percent higher than white's peers. Typically. What the
story is there is lots of layers, but some of
it is social economic, like they might have access to insurance,
they might be working a job to put them at
higher stress or expose them to environmental contaminants that we
don't quite understand. In some cases, they're being diagnosed wid
(14:21):
just because they're juggling so many things at once. Another
thing that we know is that African Americans and some
Latinas and other groups are often diagnosed with a formal
cancer called triple negative breast cancer, and that one is
much harder to treat. It tends to be more aggressive,
and it often starts at earlier ages than we expect,
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so that you see people in their twenties and thirties
being diagnosed the triple negative breast cancer. So by the
time someone gets to that recommended at around forty, they
may already be at stage two or three, right, So
it's incredibly hard to treat at that point. In the
survivor rates as a result are much lower in those.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Groups earlier, and we also see.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
In older women that those kinds of things are also
a problem in terms of delays to diagnoses as well.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Yeah, yeah, that's what I was thinking about when you
were talking. Just then. These younger and younger cases could
be survivable if we catch them at that younger and
younger stage. And what you're saying is pretty much across
the board. A lot of women aren't getting in there.
Why aren't there people standing on street corners carrying signs saying,
(15:32):
I don't care how much money a woman's got, she
deserves to get this test.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
I mean, there are some arts start doing some of that,
but part of it is, oddly enough, something not related
to medical things at all. It's cultural, right, Like we
know that women are often the backbones of families and
their communities, and some of the work that I've done
with frest cancer survivors, as often they say when I
(15:58):
ask them, well, I have to give my family's a
fears of order, Like I noticed something was wrong, but
you know, my son's graduating from high school, my daughter's
getting married, So they delay going in and seeking care
or asking questions about how to get access to even
the screening, and so what happens is by the time
they get around to it, because now maybe it hurts
(16:20):
too much, or maybe someone else that's sort of pokes
them to do it, they are past that very early,
very treatable stage to a stage that you know requires
a lot more complicated treatment plans, and perhaps those are
plans that are much harder on their bodies. They're certainly
often more expensive, and if that person has no insurance
or not great insurance, that may also result in some
(16:44):
delays or pauses in the treatment, if they've got to
figure out how to apply for Medicaid or something like that.
So surprisingly, it's not always a biology that's the problem.
Is often sort of all those things outside of the
clinics that they're and grappling with that causeleose delays or
cause them to sort of not put themselves first.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
It makes yeah, it makes very good sense. Men and women, both,
i think, for different reasons, though, don't like to go
to the doctor. Men don't like to go because we
just don't like to go. But women are putting themselves
behind other people in their families and making themselves a
second priority or a third when for the sake of
the family, they need to take care of themselves. We've
(17:25):
got just very few seconds left. Does that sum it up?
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Absolutely so. If you've got a woman in your life,
tell just remind her that I had. The ultimate act
of love is taking care of herself, right like he
loves her family and wants to take care of them.
Getting her Regulus greetings for cancered ibetes, whatever she's going through,
would be a loving act, right. So helping someone in
(17:51):
your family get to that appointment or make that appointment
would be a great mother's vegas.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
That really makes so much good sense. Thank you so
very very much, le showing up phiated, I really do
this is good.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Thank you, Thank you so much. I really appreciate me today.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
I told you it would be easy, didn't I. We'll
talk again sometime, thank you. All right? Oh sure, by ba,
all right, we got to take a little break here.
We will do that. We will be back. I'm in
the studio and I'm so glad to be back. And
I'm so glad that she She made such a good point,
(18:28):
and I don't even think she realized how good a
point it is that women take care of themselves last
in so many aspects of life, and to be around
the most unselfish thing you could do is take care
of yourself. We need you. Men and children need all
the women in their lives that they can get and
all the help they can get. Stay healthy. Go get
(18:49):
your breast examination and catch this stuff early. We'll take
a little break here. We'll be right back fifty plus
on AM nine, fifty kp RCYM.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
They sure don't make them like they used. That's why
every few months we wash him, check his fluids, and
spring on a fresh coat of wax. This is fifty
plus with Doug Pike. All right, welcome back to fifty plus.
I'm so glad to be back in this studio. Will
(19:21):
wants me to stay home more often, don't you?
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Will you do too?
Speaker 4 (19:24):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Yes you do. No, I said it earlier. I've got
it on. We've got it. I did not say it podcast.
We can go back and listen to the podcast. I'm like,
what if I go in and edit you in saying that?
If you can, AI, if you can edit the podcast,
you know, I don't know what I'm doing here though,
I'm not sure I could do that all right, welcome back,
(19:47):
so glad to see the sunshine it again really And
in this segment, we're gonna talk about one of my
favorite consumer shows in Houston, especially since it's actually two
shows in one, and that would be the upcoming Houston
Auto Boative Show except for January twenty nine, Dash Feb
two in NRG Center. And to speak in greater detail
than can I, I have enlisted Rochelle Salinas to tell
(20:10):
us all about it. Welcome Rochelle.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Hey, how's it going?
Speaker 2 (20:14):
You know it's going pretty well. I was able to
get to work this morning, which is always a good feat. Well,
it's a bittersweet, but I do like being here. So
how many how many years now since the two shows combined?
It's been a while. Huh.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
This will be our fourth year too. Yeah, okay, so
it has been a little while. Post COVID, we joined
up and said, hey, we're both using this space, but
weeks one week apart and now we both can't fill
the whole space, so let's put it together and make
a really good event for everybody all in one.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Do you recall which side knocked on the door of
the other side first, just out of.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Can it was definitely a mutual Yeah, it was a
mutual thing. We had reached out to them kind of
early on, was just like, hey, if anything ever comes
up and you'll want to chat and collaborate somehow, let's
do it. And then after COVID the Boat Show came
and said, hey, remember that time he said you wanted
to collaborate on something.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Huh, Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
So it works out really well. So half of energy
is full of boats and of all types, and then
they've got more than two hundred vendors, you know, outdoor
activities and attire and fishing poles and all that good,
good jazz. And then the other half we've got, you know,
more than three hundred vehicles, trucks, cars, SUVs. We've got camp, jeep,
(21:36):
obstacle course, and about thirty different brands this year. So
we're bringing back some brands that haven't been at the
Auto Show in a while. So it's a great opportunity.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
It's like the Auto Show in the Boat Show got
married and had a baby, really, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Yeah that's right. Well, I I shoke that we're on
a we're on a five year engagement plan and then
we'll see if married him.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Going on, Nah, I don't know if it'd be hard
to take it apart. I think at this point anyway,
who cares. So let's talk about how that space is
utilized too. And I think you kind of hinted at
it that it's not boat car boat car. It's either
car car, car or boat boat boat.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Right, Yeah, that's correct. One half. When you walk in
main entrance, you go to the left, you'll have all
the boat show side of things. You go to the
right and you'll have all the auto show side of things.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Wow. And there are so many exhibitors overall. Really, is
there any stone left unturned at all?
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Well, we don't have space for another stone, that's for sure.
We both sold out of space this year and Jim
packed the place.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
That's fantastic. All the car makers, all the boat makers,
and additionally, as you mentioned about the boating side, the
accessories as well. Are there are car accessories represented as
well as boating accessories.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
We have a little bit. Yeah, there's D three Motorsports
and Texas Truck Works are there on display, and they've
got a whole kit of aftermarket accessories and car wraps
and lift kits and all that kind of thing that
you can watch them doing and purchase and check them
out at their on site location.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Hey, and you mentioned all the cars. How many car
makers are represented? I I may have missed that.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Yeah, we've got about thirty brands represented this year, and
BMW Mini and Infinity are back. They haven't been at
the Auto Show in a few years, so we're happy
to have them return. We've also got dealers representing brands
that the manufacturers couldn't get to the show, So we've
got Cadillac, Postoke Motor Cars will bring some luxury vehicles,
(23:37):
and we've got Lincoln, Mazda, Honda, Toyota, Ford, Chevrolet, and
then all of the Stlantis brands are back as well,
the Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge Ram as well as the obstacle
course of Camp Jeep.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
You know, off hand, what's the most expensive car that's
going to be on that floor.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
I'm just kidre well, not yet, but I'm sure it'll
probably be the Bugatti or the one of the Bentleys
with post Soake motor Cars.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
I'm not even going to name any of the other brands.
I could sit next to them where it would be
so clear that the Bugatti or the rolls might be
the one, yeah exactly, Oh my goodness. And from all
from the extremes of lavish luxury, there's always just there's
also just the everyday person's card. Like the pickup trucks.
(24:23):
How many different pickup trucks are going to be around
there for Texans.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Oh yeah, we'll have all the latest of everything, all
the twenty twenty five models from Ford, Chevrolet, Nissan, Toyota,
the new Ram HD will be on display, so they'll
you'll have all your pickup options too. It's great to
check out the new towing technology from some of these trucks. Also,
if you've got a boat to pool.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Technology. Technology is really such a big part of the
automotive and the boating industries. Now, what's the latest and
greatest in auto technology?
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Well, I think all of this, you know, getting closer
and closer to autonomous driving, all the feature safety features
that we have in the vehicles today, as far as
the lane assist, all the extra cameras are backing up
and looking at three sixty view of your cameras. I
think all of that is really fascinating stuff today. As
well as there's going to be the new Infinity QX
(25:19):
eighty and I did some information on it the other
day and I learned that it has a climate control
system that measures how hot you are in your car
and will adjust the AC as needed. Oh, my work,
it's you know, pretty pretty high tech.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Yeah, holy cow. We had one of those in my
car when my friends and I were driving to the
beach too in the in the nineteen seventies to go surfing.
We called it the window handle. That's what we had
to roll down. Well, a rolldown technology come a long
way since then. Roch, Holy cow. Rochelle Selena's from the
(25:57):
Houston Auto Boat of Show on fifty plus. What's a
good amount of time for a family or maybe a
couple to set aside if they really want to see
the whole show?
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Oh yeah, you definitely need a few hours. It's a
big venue with tons of stuff to see and do,
so I mean I would plan, you know, at least
three hours to be out there and have a good time.
We've got a new remote control race car area that
the kids will all want to touch out their driving me. Yeah,
and NASA is also going to have a great display
(26:27):
with some astronauts, spacesuits and space rovers. Three different cars
that are going to the Moon and March. We'll be
on display and you're going to want to spend time
in all of those type of exhibits too.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
That would draw me in a heartbeat. I love stuff
like that so much. All right, very quickly, before we
run out of time. What about tickets and what about
the website? What are they going to find there?
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Yeah, automotiveshow dot com, you can get your tickets online.
Family foard pack are a special right now. You'll get
one ticket free in that pack. At the door. Tickets
are twenty dollars and energy charges parking as well. So
check all that information out online at autobotiveshow dot com.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Twenty dollars plus parking well spent for you, say three hours,
I'm thinking like five or six. I'm not gonna I
won't be able to leave in three hours. Thank you
so much, Rochelle Selinas. I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Thank you have a great dame.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
We'll see out there. Uh huh by bye, Houston Autobotive
Show dot com. Well, no, it's takeout to Houston Autobotive
Show dot com. I got that wrong earlier, like last
week I did too. Autobotive Show dot com go there,
find out all about it, and be out there. January
twenty ninth through February second and NRG Center. We've got
(27:38):
to take a little break here. When we get back,
I will share some of the things that have been
going on in the world for the last several days
while a couple of most of us, at least in
the last twenty four hours were either bundled up by
the fireplace or outside playing in the snow. I've seen
I've seen lots of stuff on both sides of that
coin on Facebook. We'll take a little here. We'll be
(28:00):
right back. Fifty plus on AM nine fifty k p RC.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Aged to Perfection. This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Hi, welcome back. Leave fourth and final segment already, Will,
it's nice one. I have two good, solid interviews to
work with. That makes it a lot easier on Will
and me, and I hope you guys enjoy these things.
Is we do put some time into them and a
little effort. I've got help from the people over at
(28:47):
ut Health Science Centers Institute on Aging at a visit
with Jose this morning. As a matter of fact, the
guy who puts most of these together does a fine job.
Back to in the very first segment, I talked about
this little hack that I found for for thawing out.
It smells like coffee in here. Maybe it's because I
(29:08):
have a coffee cup. I think that's it. Well, I
think I think the air just came on in here
and started circulating it. That's why I smell it now.
In any event, I talked about how the north facing
spigot on my house, which is in the backyard, tends
to freeze in a no matter what I do to
it initially tends to freeze and thus make it annoying
(29:34):
and a little teeny bit scary. I'm I'm not just
gonna walk out there and open it up and hope
it melts on down depending on how far up into
the house that freeze goes. I don't want a busted
pipe anywhere. I really don't. I'm not in the mood
for that at all. But anyway, what I do when
that happens, and I'm gonna find a way before the
(29:54):
next big freeze comes, I'm going to find a way
to outsmart that north wall to make it freeze proof.
And I have a couple of ideas already that won't
take much to put together, and once I do, I
think that thing will become immune if you will, to
freezing temperatures. I'm just gonna build a bigger, bigger cap
(30:18):
to go over it, and I'm actually going to include
a little flap where I can throw in what I
use to thaw these things out when they freeze up,
or this thing out when it freezes up. And that's
those little simple little hand pocket warmers that you can
buy at any sporting good store. And what I do
(30:42):
when a freeze is coming is by about a dozen
of them and just keep them on hand. I use
them in the house. Actually, I had a toilet flow
fill line, that little quarter inch line that comes in
from the back of the toilet out of the wall.
One of those on the west side of the house
actually froze up once and scared me to death. And
(31:04):
I took one of those pocket hand warmers and wrapped
a little wash cloth, tucked it into a washcloth and
then folded that over that line, and then put a
rubber band around that to keep it in place or something,
maybe a zip ti, I don't know, but anyway, that
thing melted back down without busting any pipes, And then
this morning, when that outside line was frozen, I took
(31:27):
a couple of pocket hand warmers out there and wrapped
them around the pipe and got it back to working
before I left to come in here. That's one of
the reasons it took me a little longer to get
in here than I wanted. But nonetheless that does work.
And given time, you want to get out there and
start doing that before the freeze finishes, I think, because
(31:48):
if you wait until everything starts to thaw to kind
of help that thing along, there's a risk that there
may be a break somewhere up in those pipes. I
don't know. I don't know the technology behind all that,
I don't know the physics behind it all. But the
bottom line is I have no intention of busting a
pipe in my house that I don't want that. So
(32:09):
there that's good on the way in this morning. By
the way, if you're still worried about driving, the Southwest
Freeway was virtually it was just like a sunny day
when I came in at about nine thirty mine that
was just a little later than net maybe about ten
thirty when I was driving up in here, and the
only slush was in the left lanes on the overpasses,
(32:33):
and it was still a pretty significant amount of slush.
And never mind that there were people driving past me
in that lane through that slush on the top of
the bridges at sixty five seventy miles an hour, and
I just stayed over where it was nice and dry,
and I knew I had traction at least, and if
one of those guys had spun out in front of me,
(32:55):
I'd just slowed down, let him quit spinning, and then
deal with it. However you have to deal with it.
It was a little bit scary, though, but then when
is it not on a Houston freeway. Right. We are
on a new track in our country, and one that
I'm confident is going to be a very prosperous one.
Anybody willing to show up and work hard is going
(33:16):
to be rewarded in the years to come. Oh, by
the way, I got to talk about our the snow
day yesterday. I've got to talk about that. I don't
have grandchildren yet, so and my son, my seventeen year
old son, claimed he didn't care about the snow. Oh yeah,
that's cool, dad, and then ended up at a neighbor's
house later in a snowball fight with a few other kids.
(33:40):
Kind of funny how that works, really, And I'm going
I'm pushing forward through his teenage years on the bet
that he's going to change and mature and understand and
appreciate all that my wife and I have sacrificed for
him in his many, many years. I think he will.
(34:04):
I really do. I think I've seen glimmers just every
now and then they're they're he'll say something that's that's
really well thought out, he'll say something that's appreciative, and
those just little things like that, go so so far,
Just go so so far. There was also an issue
with I would presume teenagers running around some of the
(34:28):
neighborhoods and let's just say this. They were they were
doing artwork, let's call it, uh inappropriate artwork on a
canvas created by the snow. They were drawing things in
the snow on the cars that really didn't belong on
(34:49):
the cars. And that's that's just childish behavior. They're children,
I know, that's what I'm saying. So at that's what
they mad at it. Ibee, you would have been doing
it when you were there age. No, I've had a
million opportunities to do something like that on the beach
(35:11):
in the sand. Everybody else the building sand. This is
a new this is a whole new instrument. It's a
new paladin, a new easel, a new triumph. No, we'll
just you don't draw that in this all. It's so
easy to get rid of. At least they weren't writing
their names in the snow. That was an old time pastime.
(35:34):
Uh yeah, one of the funnier things. And yeah, I
don't think it's appropriate, I really don't, But I don't
think I would have called the police if I saw
a kid doing that. Just go just go wipe it
off your car. Not that big a deal. My my neighbor,
I was looking out the window upstairs window into my
(35:54):
neighbor's backyard. We just took out a forty five I
don't know foot tall crape myrtle that just had become
a liability. Frankly, it could have fallen and torn up
something that didn't belong to me, and I just didn't
want that to happen, or anything that belonged to me,
depending on which way the women was blowing. So anyway,
we've got this big clear view now and big bright
(36:15):
view thanks to all the reflected sunlight. And he had
a snowman will his kids had built a big snowman
in the backyard, and they had one of those little
little kid's battery powered cars that are about four feet
long or so. And I sent him this text. I
was kind of joking. Big snowman got a hat and
all that stuff on, and I said, hey man, you're
(36:37):
Uber drivers here. And I talked to him for a second.
His name is Frosty, and my neighbor writes back, hey man,
I didn't order an Uber and maybe it's a food delivery.
And then two seconds later he writes back, oh the snowman,
I get it all right. We got it too. We'll
be back tomorrow. It's pretty funny. Audios
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