Backyard BBQs

Today, Doug Pike interviews Shanisty Ireland about backyard BBQs.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 1 (00:20):
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(00:43):
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Speaker 2 (00:44):
All right, here we go. Wednesday edition of the program
starts right now. Thank you all for joining Will and me.
I appreciate that it's fifty plus where I'm almost certain
that any of you who stick around for the whole
hour going to learn something useful today. If you can
hang out, if you can hold on, and I'll try

(01:06):
to I'll try to share something enlightening as early as
I can. Anyway, So here we are on what promises
to be one of what will maybe one hundred and
fifty days coming up of heat basically with no reprieve,
let's hope not. You've got to jump on a jet
plane to go somewhere cool from now through about October.

(01:27):
I can remember, would you think based on your brief
life experience, and I'll base it on my longer term experience,
the average Halloween in Houston is cool or warm. I
don't think either one would be cold or hot by

(01:48):
my definitions, but cooler warm.

Speaker 4 (01:50):
Would you remember, say, it's tepid and it usually rains
on Halloween, so it's a little hut. It usually rains, Yeah,
just like on you or what you sure that was rain?

Speaker 2 (02:03):
I think it's everybody. Eh, you know that the odds
on any given holiday, if we get a great Fourth
of July, it'll be rainy somewhere else. If we get
a great if somebody else, if Oklahoma gets a great
gets great weather for Christmas or whatever one of the
Monday holidays, we might have rain. It's just random chance.

(02:28):
And actually, though I believe that by and large, more
good days than bad days across the year, we have
very We don't have that many rainy days really, but
when we get it, we tend to get kind of
get it in buckets, especially this time of year. Got
these the storms come up in the afternoon because the
heat sucking all the moisture out of the air, and

(02:48):
then the moisture just gets up there and makes a
big old cloud. And the heavier it gets, the darker
it gets, and then it just can't hold the bucket
anymore as it dumps it out on our heads. Pretty
much describes Monday. Yeah, that's what was happening. And oh,
by the way, while while somebody up there is dumping
the bucket, somebody else is hitting the bucket with a

(03:09):
big stick, and there's a third entity up there that's
flashing a big giant flashlight at us. You get that, Will?
Does that make sense? Yeah? Are you with me? Are
you following me? I fall up? By the way, Will,
Today is National what Day, and this is a very
important one for me. I didn't know it, and I'm
glad I did because now I have an excuse to

(03:31):
go home and tell my wife I have to go
back out this afternoon.

Speaker 4 (03:33):
It's National fishing Day.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
How did you know that? I heard you in the hallway. Ah,
dang it. Yes it is. It's National fishing Day, and
I intend to do my part. I'm gonna go fishing
this afternoon, come hell or high water, I'm going fishing
this afternoon. Not for long, probably, And I'm on a
slow streak over there. Honestly, there's a lot going on

(03:57):
with the lakes that I fish out at the golf
course at a lot going on over there, and I
don't know. I still haven't located the bomb shelter that
these fish go to when there's a lot of activity.
They're they're redoing a bulkhead, they're adding bulkhead there, they're

(04:18):
they're working on a big old drain actually on one lake,
and there's a lot of mechanical stuff going on. And
I need to find where they go when they're scared,
because even when they're scared, they have to eat. But
I just haven't pinned it down. In one of the
lakes where I was really becoming comfortable and and had
a pattern developed about three weeks ago, I guess it was.

(04:42):
Unfortunately that pattern has just gone by the wayside because
now there's just this abundance of well, there's there's one vegetation,
there's a couple of decent aquatic vegetations in there, but
this stuff up on the top of the The old
school term for it is snotgrass. That sound why are

(05:03):
you cringing? That's what it's called. It sounds gross. That's
what fisherman. It is gross. It's this filamentous algae that
will if you drag a lure through there, you'll end
up with it'll just look like there's there's astro turf
on it. Actually, no, it's far finer than that. It
would be this. It's finer than human hair. But it

(05:27):
just it just drapes all over everything. The other stuff
that you can pull out in chunks is easier to
get off the hook number one, and easier to fish
around at number two. But this stuff here, it's almost
impossible to fish. Now, I do have a frog that
I'm boy. I'm talking a lot about fishing. Hunh let
me just skip on down the road a little bit.

Speaker 1 (05:46):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
Anyway, we're you know, we're in for it. We got
probably one hundred and fifty days of a heat. One
hundred and twenty five of those are also going to
come with a heap and help and as we say here,
of humidity. And if you're new to Houston, by the way,
and no he told you before you moved here that
it gets really humid and hot. I apologize we should

(06:07):
have told you, but if we had, you probably might
have reconsidered and if you've moved here in the last
few years, you're probably the kind of people we want here.
So sorry you didn't hurt here about summer. And I'll
share now too that this is just the pregame warm
up for real summer. Played golf Monday, and honest to god,

(06:29):
I thought I was going to need a snorkel to
get from the range to the tea box. It was
that wet water's dripping off my face, the building, my cap,
and that was all before nine in the morning. I
walked outside and on my back patio, the roofline, you
can it looks like it's just kind of tried to
rain a little bit, because there's all this water right

(06:50):
off the drip line that's on that concrete back there
on the patio. It's quite the mess. Anybody mentioned mosquitoes
or nats to you on your way here, That's that's
something else we have to deal with. I actually prefer
mosquitos over nats if I'm gonna have to deal with them,
I want mosquitoes rather than nats for two real simple reasons.

(07:11):
Number One, it's easy to keep mosquitos away. You could
just you can just douse yourself in repellent and boom,
they're gone. But nats that there's almost nobody. I don't
know many companies that make a legitimate product to repel nats,
although I will say a fifty to fifty mix of
water and vanilla extract actually works works quite well, except

(07:32):
that you smell like a birthday cake, which is not horrible.
Another reason I hate gnats is that when a NAT
bites me, I have an allergic reaction. It's not it's
not gonna close my windpipe or anything, but wherever I'm
bitting it swells up kind of. It's like a stack
of nickels for about a day or two, and it's
it's very unbecoming. I got stung once on my lower lip,

(07:55):
and it looked like I'd made it two rounds into
a three round fight. My first thing when I walked
in the door from across the room, my wife is,
my god, what happened to you? I got a bit
by nat. I should have made up a better story, honestly.
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Speaker 1 (09:23):
Just wait until the show's over. Sleepy back that Doug
Pike as fifty plus continues.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
Oh okay, well, welcome back fifty plus. I'm Doug, He's
will and we're going to make it to one o'clock. Somehow,
fifty eight actually is the official checkout time in this motel.
In the next segment, by the way, not in this one,
but in the next one, we're going to talk to
a woman named Shannesty Ireland who has been on the
program before, and actually she's been on pretty much every

(09:53):
program on network television that comes on before ten o'clock
in the morning weekdays or not. About backyard barbecuing and
some little She's got a couple of little secret recipes
that she thinks will enjoy. I'll leave that up to you.
I'll eat pretty much anything somebody cooks for me. It
doesn't make any difference to me what they're cooking. If

(10:14):
I'm invited and they're cooking, I'll go over there. I'll
bring them beverages, I'll watch the kids. I'll do whatever
it takes to get a seat at that table. Stepping
right into national news this morning from the border crossing
desk by way of Breitbart. It was announced recently and
you've probably heard it. I hope you have the grand
total of zero zero people entered our country illegally in May,

(10:41):
and compare that as if you didn't already have a
pretty good idea to the sixty thousand plus who rolled
in here one year ago under the Biden administration's rules.
Interesting too, how Tom Holman, whose job it is to
oversee our border now, explained why President Biden had those
people put into five Well, I once again, I don't

(11:02):
think it was Biden pulling, pulling the strings and making
the calls. But anyway, those people were being put into
five hundred dollars a night hotels on taxpayer money, by
the way, rather than into ICE detention facilities. And according
to Homan, the reason was that under ICE's watch that
they they would have been granted asylum hearings within about

(11:24):
a month, maybe a month and a week, after which
most of them would have been deported. But by putting
them in hotels again at taxpayer expense, their hearings were
set for four or five, six, seven years down the road.
And by then the strategy among Democrats was to plan

(11:46):
to be back in power, which means they can find
a way to make all those millions of people citizens,
or at least just declare them eligible to vote, which
would have then, because these people had given so much
at no cost, they would have been voting Democrat for
a long long time to come. Yeah, just keep giving

(12:08):
me free stuff. They don't care. They have no morals,
they have no not all of them. I'm not believe me.
I know that a lot of good people came to
this country trying like crazy to get in here and
get ahead, start and truly become a part of the
American dream. I have no doubt about that. But a
lot of people who got left into this country would

(12:31):
would step on your neck for a dollar. They do
anything for a dollar, even vote Democrat. Holman he emphasized
that they're still doing what they're supposed to be doing
and still relieving this country of a horrible burden, the

(12:52):
ultimate goal of which was to just cripple this country
from within. That adage that you've heard so many times,
they are going to take over the country without firing
a shot. We're gonna do it to ourselves. But not more,
because that was that was their plan right up until
the time President Trump got re elected. And then now
they're having to scramble, they're having to come up with

(13:14):
something new, and they still haven't yet. They've got nobody
to represent the party, not not as a legitimate contender,
I can't see anybody who would be all right. From
the absurdity desk, which is stacking up pretty high lightly
comes news from Front Page magazine that the left. You know, oh,
this is a great idea. They want to ban masks

(13:34):
during protests. That sounds like a great idea. I think
everybody out there, if they're proud enough of that cause,
they ought to be able to show their face and say, yeah,
it's it's a free country. I can I can be
for anything I want to be for, and I'm not
afraid to show my identity. Oh oh, but wait, that's
not what they want to do. They want to make

(13:55):
law enforcement take off their masks, and that, unfortunately would
expose police and troopers and deputies and ice agents and
anybody who's out there working for America doing their jobs
to rid this country of people who aren't supposed to

(14:16):
be here. Would have to essentially reveal their identities, which,
as we've already learned, would be exposed to some very
bad people who would like nothing more than to cause
those enforcement officers and their families bodily harm, maybe even

(14:37):
kill them. Who knows these We've got the wrong people
trying to make it even worse than it is, and
it's very frustrating to watch them do what the overwhelming
majority of this country does not want done. We don't
want to put policemen in harm's way, we don't want

(14:58):
to put any kind of first respondors in harm's way
by identifying them to a bunch of radicalized people who
would take that as an open opportunity to hunt these
people down and do harm to them. It's just absolute chaos,
and it's just idiotic to even promote something like that

(15:21):
and to talk about it. They're gonna I really hope
this insanity gains no traction whatsoever, doesn't see the light
of day in any other state. There's a bill in California,
a bill in California that would force law enforcement to
expose their faces on duty when they're trying to take
out some really, really bad people from this country. It's California,

(15:47):
and the guy who runs California also would love to
run this country. I don't think he's got a snowballs chance, honestly,
of winning. He's already shown who he really is more
than once, more than twice, more than three times, so
I don't think he's got a shot to be perfectly honest,
but it's still kind of scary. It really is still

(16:07):
kind of scary. What is this? All this paper on
my desk? Some of it is redundant. I'm gonna have
to just I'll just do this. I'll fold all this up, Will,
and it will be Then I won't have to worry
about what it is, because I know it's redundancy that
I don't need. Today is National Fishing Day. I mentioned that, Will.
I'm gonna go ahead and jump over to you for

(16:27):
a couple of pops here. How much time do we
have since I can't what happened to our monitor? We
have one minute? Do you know what happened to the monitor? Yes?
Did you turn it off? Yes? Okay, one minute. I
will just tell you rather than hope that will picked
it that. There's a new study that shows drinking caffeinated

(16:51):
coffee every day is associated directly with a lower risk
of death, particularly from heart art issues. Hard issues are
what killed my dad, and what brought them on for
him was smoking two or three packs a day of
Lucky Strike cigarettes. He died several years younger than I

(17:15):
am now, and I quit smoking shortly after my dad
died from doing it, and I've never looked back, and
I'm glad I did.

Speaker 1 (17:24):
So.

Speaker 2 (17:25):
Drink your coffee, but just don't drown it in cream
and sugar. That's also not good for you, all right.
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(17:47):
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(18:08):
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you a few fish in the afternoon. Fun place to go,

(18:30):
really fun place to go. As we settle a little
deeper into summer around here, wake up. If you're planning
on traveling, maybe even and you're thinking, gosh, I really
don't want to. I really don't want to wake up
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and a Denny's. I don't want that. Go over to
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(18:51):
up to sunrises and sunsets. It's a lot better.

Speaker 4 (18:54):
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Speaker 2 (19:00):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.

Speaker 1 (19:02):
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 fifty
plus on this. I'm presuming it's still partly cloudy out there.
I know it's gonna be hot this afternoon, probably humid.
Here we go again.

Speaker 2 (19:20):
You know, in this segment we're going to talk about
a national pastime that Houstonians actually can enjoy most any
time of the year, and that is an old fashioned
backyard barbecue. Backyard cooking, I guess, like everything else has
evolved over the years. Back of charcoal, some lighter fluid,
a little round grill out on the patio and a match.
That's what I grew up with. Got some ground beef patties,

(19:42):
maybe a pack of hot dogs. That was the official
barbecue starter kit over in Old Sharpstown where I grew up.
Outdoor cookies changed a whole lot since then, unfortunately for us.
All I've got somebody on this phone who can share
a few ways to update your grill game. With that,
I will welcome back to fifty plus Shannessty, Ireland. Thanks

(20:02):
for your time, Shannessy.

Speaker 5 (20:04):
Hi, thanks for having me on today.

Speaker 2 (20:06):
I appreciate it. So I grew up in a neighborhood
where almost all the families had kids and cooked outside
in summer, and we invite a few friends, everybody brings
something and you wind up with two six foot tables
of food and two dozen flies trying to get into it. All.
Has tradition changed much really since then? In the backyard barbecue.

Speaker 5 (20:26):
You know, I think in the grand scheme of things,
that type of barbecue is still nostalgic and it's what
people want I know that it gets really fancy with
you know, the green eggs and the smokers and all
of that. And you can spend a fortune on your
backyard barbecue set up, you can have an outdoor kitchen,
YadA YadA. But the way you describe it, that's how

(20:48):
I grew up, That's how we still do it, because
it really just comes down to what the flavors are,
what the meat is like, and just getting together. It
does not have to break the bank. It could be
as simple as you you you spelled it out, or
it could be as elaborate as you want. But having
wholesome gathering with family and the and the picnic tables

(21:09):
is just is really the way to go this summer.

Speaker 2 (21:11):
Yeah, it seemed back when I was growing up. Again,
I hate to keep going back there. But if if
your dad still had eyebrows, his fire wasn't big enough,
that's kind of.

Speaker 5 (21:19):
What I love that. That's a great one. I think
I need to create an apron that.

Speaker 2 (21:24):
Says, oh, yeah, you've still got you're not even trying.
So so let's kind of walk this thing through like
a menu, if you will. We'll start with the main course,
then move to sides and desserts. So hamburgers and hot
dogs are still there, but now we're looking at what
maybe ribs, chicken, some kebabs, what else, what else fits
onto the main course side of the grill.

Speaker 5 (21:46):
Yeah you know, I mean, I know you guys are
down in Houston. You love your bricket, your pork shoulder,
you know, getting pretty elaborate with all of those needs.
The chicken, the hot dogs, the hamburgers still really standard.
You can up your game even with a whole full
blown barbecue charcoterie board, having the bacon and having you know,
just a variety of different meats and then also having

(22:09):
your favorite barbecue sauce, icy honey mustard on the side,
and just creating this I guess it's kind of a DIY.
Just walk down the line and pick out the meat
that you want. But as you mentioned, I think that
especially with kids. I have five kids, they still want
the hot dogs to bross the hamburger. So there's nothing
wrong with that as well.

Speaker 2 (22:28):
You got to keep that stuff out there. That and
even as a grown man, I'm next hamburger we eat
won't be my first. I can assure you I don't
have a problem with that. Long does this got some
cheese in there.

Speaker 5 (22:39):
Well, I'm so glad you brought that point up. You've
got to make sure that you have the cheese in there.
And you know a good a good tip for putting
the cheese in there to keep the flavor and to
keep the profile of the actual burger is to pop
your burger patties in the freezer for ten minutes before
even grilling. And that's going to really help keep the
shape and it's also going to keep cheese stuffed in

(23:00):
there as well.

Speaker 2 (23:01):
Oh wow, okay, and did not know that we just
I told this audience when we started the show that
they were going to learn something today and they just
did ten minutes in the freezer for the patties.

Speaker 5 (23:10):
Right, yeah, yeah, just just because sometimes, man, you slept
those pes on the grill and they just turn into
a blog. Oh god, you've popped in the freezer for
about ten minutes before you start grilling. It's going to
really hold that shape together and keep the cheese stuffed
stuffed in there.

Speaker 2 (23:27):
Sounds good to me. Let's let's shift over to the
sides a little bit and talk about And I saw
one that you that came with this, the notes I
have for this something about green pork or is it
Greek pork rind nacho?

Speaker 5 (23:43):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (23:43):
Greek?

Speaker 5 (23:44):
You Southern recipallat pork rimes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, So we're
going to just be using the Southern recipes fall batch
pork rimes. I like the sea salt and cracked black
pepper flavor for this recipe. It's basically how it sounds.
They're gonna service or nachos. What I love about the
pork grinds is they're packed with protein. They're Keto friendly

(24:06):
for anyone that's watching the Keto diet. They have collagen,
so they're a little bit on the healthier side. And
also they hold their crunch a little bit better than
having just chips at the bottom and that have become super
soggy when you pile everything on. And then you know,
of course piling it on with the cherry tomatoes, cucumber,
red onion. You can even if you want to do

(24:26):
the Greek yogurt side of it, you can do a
cup of yogurts with some lemon zest in there and
feta cheese crumbled on top, and that's going to just
be a healthier alternative to for cream. But if I'm
being completely honest with you, and we're having a backyard barbecue.
I'm not counting my calories. Yeah, you could flock the
sour cream on there too, but it's just it just

(24:48):
subs out the tostitos or the tortilla chips for the
pork grinds to give it a little extra flavor and
to kind of stick with the theme of a backyard barbecue.

Speaker 2 (24:57):
You know, you mentioned that that the pork runs are
on the healthier side of nacho chips. What's not on
the healthier side of nacho chips?

Speaker 5 (25:07):
I know that's I know whenever I say that it's
a nacho, you know they're good. Though I'm not gonna
say they're not good. They're really bad and tasty. So
what I love about the pork rinds there's a variety
of different flavors. They have a chili flavor, spicy dial,
you know, all sorts of different flavors for that you
can put on your nachos.

Speaker 2 (25:26):
All right, Shaniste, we've got we're down to a minute.
Believe it or not, this was way too fast. What's
your what's your best tip for a backyard barbecue this summer?

Speaker 5 (25:35):
Okay, substitute out the oil for mayonnaise instead of putting
oil all over your meats. The mayonnaise is going to
help brown it. It prevents the sticking and it burns
just as it does not burn quite as fast as
the oil, and it does not have a mayonnaise taste either.
And you could also sub that out for your buns.
Instead of putting the butter on the buns to brown them,

(25:55):
you can use mayonnaise instead. And it just helps with
that crispy edge because there's not like that Christie edge
of that Burger bond. That just makes it so much better.

Speaker 2 (26:04):
I've learned more than two things from you. Shannisty Ireland
thinks Instagram at Shanniste Ireland. Same name Shannessy Ireland will
get you connected on Facebook as well. Thank you so much, well, Stu.
This again sometime sounds good.

Speaker 5 (26:18):
Thank you for having me on time, My pleasure.

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Speaker 2 (28:48):
Okay, I think that sounds like a good plan.

Speaker 1 (28:51):
Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug welcome back.

Speaker 2 (28:55):
Fourth and final segment of the program starts right now,
and it's gonna end in what about six minutes five
and a half. This is why I don't do interviews
in the final segment of the show. And I've had
to explain that to people. There's just not that much
time left, and I don't want to get somebody important
on who has some important things to say, and then

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two questions in, Oh, that's all the time we have
from the We're not going to do that. From this
I found interesting this morning, and it's pretty easy to understand.
Why go back to the immigration desk for a minute.
For the first time in about fifty years, net migration

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in or out of this country is going to be
greater out than in. When all is said and done,
this actually should work in favor of our country's economic future.
By the way, a big part of the outflow is
people who weren't supposed to be here anyway. So there
on that side of the ledger people coming in that

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has also stopped because they can't come in illegally anymore.
They're just gonna get turned around and booted on out
back to wherever they came from, from whence they came.
And so I understand the number being that way. And
the good is that legal immigration has bloomed. It's blossomed,

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and it is increasing significantly for work visas the lawful
ways to get in. And you can add to that
the shutting down of wasteful spending to the tune of
about what trillions of tax dollars just went down the
drain over the last few years. In the long run,
I also saw a story I think it was late yesterday,

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maybe early this morning. They kind of blended together on me.
But the bottom line is some of these jobs that
were being done by people who weren't in the country
lawfully were being done at a very low wage. And
with those people now out, there is increased demand for

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lower paying jobs. And those lower paying jobs are paying
a little bit more these days because the people who
need them done need them done desperately enough that they're
going to pay a little bit more money to get
them done by people who will then contribute well, low
paying jobs and the people hold them, and it's a

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good thing that they don't really have to pay income
taxes because they're not making enough that there's no justification
to take away tax money from someone who is making
barely enough to survive on and in some cases almost
not enough to survive on without a couple of roommates,
for example. So I don't have a problem with low

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income jobs not generating income tax I'll pay my fair share.
I've always I've told my account and every year I'll
pay them every dime I own, but not a dime more.
His walk us to the line where it's free and
clear and we're doing exactly what we should do, and
then stop right there. I'm not going to hand over
money that I don't need to. But the bottom line

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is we're doing much better. We're doing much much better,
and in the long run, America is going to come
out well. We can just keep the Middle East from
going crazy. From the Great Medical News Desk, by the way,
the Chronicle, there was a lufkin Man two weeks ago
became the first person ever to receive a robotic heart

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transplant with assistance from a surgical robot. Doctor Kenneth Lowe
installed this hard and thus far it's worked quite well.
For this guy. Option was pretty much his last a
man named Rosales Ibarra whose prognosis just wasn't good until now.
Robotic surgery increasing in frequency and its efficiency all around

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the country and especially in the Houston Medical Center.

Speaker 4 (33:01):
And.

Speaker 2 (33:03):
Clearly it will just it will move out into the
greater Houston area outside of of just the med Center
that we're practically the epicenter I think for a lot
of cutting edge medicine right here at Houston, Texas. And
I'm so grateful that I live here so that I
too will have an opportunity, if it's ever necessary, to

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get incredible care from the people who are innovators, the
people who are the best at what they do. It's
kind of I hear that from a lot of the
people over at the at the ut Hells Institute for Aging,
Institute on Aging. Excuse me, those people are so smart
and we interview them all the time on this program.

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It's just amazing to me what they know and what
they share for us. All Right, will I'm gonna go
back to the fun stuff. I'll leave that alone. That alone,
that alone. Okay, here we go, I got that one done.
So cheap entertainment on every corner or time to pull
the plug? Uh crazy on every corner. Yeah, I kind

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of like that one too. New study looked into what
they quote here dark personality traits end quote, and found
that Americans are more likely to display these traits in
I'll pick a couple of states. Uh Texas, those crazy people. Yeah,
Texas was on the list. Give me another one. We

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gotta go now.

Speaker 4 (34:29):
Yeah, New York too, So we'll talk about that tomorrow maybe,
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