May 8, 2025 • 39 mins
Today, Doug Pike interviews Dr. John Higgins about bone health. Pike also speaks with Don Miller of Universal Technical Institute about taking care of your vehicle.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Remember when it was impossible to misplace the TV remote
because you were the TV remote. Remember when music sounded
like this, Remember when social media was truly social?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hey John, how's it going today?
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Well?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
This show is all about you, only the good die.
This is fifty plus with Doug Pike, Helpful information on
your finances, good health and what to do for fun,
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on Aging, Informed Decisions for a healthier, happier life.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
And now fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, show
starts down. Thank you all for listening. Certainly do appreciate
it for handing over this little piece of your day.
That's hard to believe. We've already got about eight hundred
and twenty episodes in the podcast closet. Now, will that's
pretty good?
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Huh?
Speaker 5 (01:00):
Is it more? I think it's a little less. I
think we're at almost I think we're at eight fifteen.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Well that's funny, Okay, I'll take eight fifteen for now.
That's fine. We're not that far really steaming along at
four live episodes a week. We're not that far from
a milestone, are we We are? We're close, you know,
we'll reach it this year, certainly, won't we four times
about what twenty something thirty something weeks? Yeah, we might
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make it. We might make it to the big Times.
Will we'll see. Thanks to all of you, honestly for
listening to the show and sharing it with your friends.
I really appreciate that, and never forget that I'm only
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so that will be easy. And so if there's anybody
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similar place and didn't didn't feel like we were really
getting anywhere. I don't I don't know that he was
that interested. I hope that he was, and if he is,
I hope he hears me and says, wait a minute,
Wait a minute, I was first in line, and we
can we can do that either way. I'm hoping to
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add at least one of them to the list pretty
soon because we're coming into the time when people are
going to use those types of places for either long
weekend getaways or maybe somebody even coming in from out
of town. There's there's It's pretty easy for me to
work with other iHeart markets to deliver a message pretty
much anywhere in the country to any of our stations,
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and there are even ways to deliver the stations not
within the iHeart network that I can do from over here.
By the way, in case you haven't heard, there is
white but on my email real quickly if you need
it for some reason. Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. And
I'm on Facebook too. You might have seen the little
uh what do they call that a post? Will at Facebook?
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Sure it was a real actually I think is how
it got loaded. Anyway, the people from Dave's Hot Chicken
came in and dropped some stuff off today. And I'm
not cheating on Barry Hill, believe me. Mexican food Barry Hill,
hands down, best fish tacos ever anywhere. But when a
little bit these little bite sized Dave's Hot Chicken things
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showed up, I couldn't resist. And they're very good. They
brought some. Did you get out and see any of that?
Did you get some of that?
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Will? By the time I got out there, it was
all gone, Oh.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I'm so sad for you. There are a couple of people
tackled that reaper seasoning that they use. That's not for me.
It wouldn't It wouldn't make me ill, I don't think.
But it would just make me so uncomfortable that it's
not worth it in my seniority. And Lord knows, we've
had enough interviews talking about the changes to the GI
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tract of seniors versus those of young healthy men and women. Boy,
that if I'd have known then what I know now
about what I was going to be able to eat
at this point in my life, I would have eaten
a lot more of the stuff that I miss that
I can't eat now. I can't eat a I can
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remember my family going to Christy's seafood house. It was
on West Timer and we would come into town and
go there and it was a lot of fun and
good food, and I would eat this giant fried seafood platter.
I was a young, strapping, big appetite kid, and I'd
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eat that whole thing. Wish there had been more on
the plate, And right now I'm not so sure I
would even order that for fear that I might pay
a heavy price later. Do you have anything like that
on your diet? Will things you can't eat?
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Ooh? Things I can't eat? I can stomach pretty much. Yeah,
most chast iron stomach. Yeah I can. I can. I
can go through and clear an entire plot. I love
clearing a plate.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Just whatever it is, you're gonna eat it.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Yeah, I will say over this past weekend, I did
have maybe the best food I think I've ever had
in my real life.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Well that's that's saying something. I can remember. One of
the top three meals I had years ago, what was
yours this time?
Speaker 5 (05:47):
This was at a It's a new restaurant in Houston,
and it's a fine dining so it was a little expensive,
but probably are my price range, but we well, they
have a great seventy five dollars prefix menu and it
was monumental honestly, and it was just so delicious. It's
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a restaurant called Camaraderie. It's over in the Heights.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
And it was it What did you eat that was
so delicious?
Speaker 5 (06:14):
So the they have four starters that you get with
the prefixed menu, all.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Four, Yes, you get all four of each.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
And the first thing that came out was this celery
root apple square and it was hot and cold, chewy
and crunchy and a little spice from like this chili sauce.
But it was honestly one of the wildest things I've
ever eaten.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
It's a flavorful experience, truly and good for you.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
The entree was veal asubuco with bucatini, and it was
it was amazing.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
That doesn't sound horrible at all. Yeah, it's a swing
by there or something.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
You should it. Truly. The service is impeccable. It's a
it's just it's a great time. A dinner for two
will be perfect, perfect.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
White smoke over the Sistine Chapel. Catholics have a new Pope.
No official introduction yet, at least not to my knowledge
as I came on the air, but the decision at
least is made and will I. When I walked in
the studio, I put will on Pope Watch. So every
what every five minutes? Will will you check the internet
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and see I'm reloading the page. What I want? I
want to be first, Okay, I want to be This
is breaking news, and I want it to break now.
I want it to break during this show because it's
a little later over there in the Vatican, So if
they're going to get that done before dark, they might
just need to step on it and hopefully it'll happen
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in the next what forty forty five minutes or so,
Fingers crossed. We have a couple of good guests coming
up coming up next, doctor John Higgins, one of the
most one of the most frequent flyers to this program
that I've had over the ten eleven years. Whatever it is,
we're doing it now, and we're going to talk about
bone health. And then after that we're going to talk
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to a man named Don Miller, who knows all about
things that you and I as mere civilians maybe should
or shouldn't try to tackle, as far as maintenance and
repairs on our automobiles goes. And there are some things
that we can do and probably should do for ourselves.
That will save us a lot of money if we
need to. And I'll get to all of that when
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I have to all the way out, I'll tell you, well,
we'll do this. We'll just do this when quick, since
I'm already late, we'll and then that'll leave us a
little bit more time for doctor Higgins and for Don Miller.
We'll take a little break here. We'll be right back
on Pope. Watch this day more of fifty plus coming up.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Aged to perfection. This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Come back to fifty plus.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Thanks for listening, certainly do appreciate it, and I'll thank
you yet again for choosing fifty plus. In this segment,
we'll talk to the man I called a frequent flyer
just a few minutes ago on fifty plus one and only,
doctor John Higgins, cardiologist at McGovern Medical School and sports
cardiologists for the Houston Rockets and Rice Athletics. Welcome back, Dot.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Hey, Doug guy. I enjoy being a frequent flyer on
your skies.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
You are, indeed, and I don't have a VIP lounge
or anything, but if I did, you have the only
card for it. I'll tell you that about that. Hey,
just out of curiosity, what, since you're the cardiologist for
the Rockets, what kind of heart rates are those guys
putting up when they're running up and down the court
for an hour?
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Oh yeah, Doug, those guys they're super healthy, so their
heart rates can get super low, you know, resting heart rates, right,
you know, the thirties, forties, fifties. Oh wow, But they
can bring it, you know when when you know time
is of the essence, they can bring it up. They
can get up to you know, one to ninety two. Yeah,
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they're they're they are definitely superheroes and they have superhards.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Oh my word. So today's topic not hearts, but bones,
which essentially, I guess are the two by fours and
one by twos of the human body. So let's start
almost at the beginning, Okay, the growing years, and specifically,
what I'm wondering is what might hinder healthy bone growth
in young people and leave them susceptible to the problems
in seniority. Anything come to mind?
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Yeah, sure, Doug. You know, I think one thing that
I sort of, you know, I'm very interested in this
topic is that actually a lot of risk factors for
bad bones are also risk factors for cardiovasculs, so you know, yeah,
we know for example, you know someone that is smoking,
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for example, or drinking too much alcohol, or has a
sedentary lifestyle, or is not getting proper nutrition, you know,
those things that can lead to poor bones, you know,
particularly osteoporosis, but it can also lead to unhealthy hearts.
And you know they're also tied in within information too,
so we know that both conditions, you know, bone problems
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and heart problems are related to increased levels of inflammation.
So it's really important in the form of years, Doug,
that those kiddos are getting enough of calcium in particular,
and you know, they don't have to go just milk.
I mean, you know, there's many, many other sources of calcium,
everything from kale to broccoli to yogurt, you know, so
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you know, there's lots of ways, but it's more kind
of the balanced diet. So we want them to get
a nice, healthy, bounced diet. We want them also to
be doing regular exercise because we know that regular exercise
really really helps strengthen bones, and you know it can
be weight bearing resistant stuff as well as aerobic. Both
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of them are going to strengthen your bones and also
reduce your chances of having a broken bone. For kiddos
as well, which is, you know, not a fun thing
because they're kind of out of taking out of circulation
from all of their fun activity for several months.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
It would seem to me too, that doing a lot
of exercise, especially the weight bearing stuff, builds muscle, and
that muscle helps to support the bones. Right, They're kind
of working together absolutely, Doug.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
In fact, you know, I recommend my patients that I
see they do a culbination of both the aerobic which
is kind of more beneficial for the heart, but the
resistance as you said, it strengthens the bones. It strengthens
the muscles, the ligaments, and keeps the joints healthy and
makes it less likely for them to have an accident
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or become unstable and full.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Now, as we go from youth to adulthood to middle
age to where I am now, which is kind of
over where I'm on the back side of the hill,
are are bones kind of like muscle. And what I'm
asking is if they start losing density or mass at
a certain age like muscles do.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Yeah, well, Doug, Again, it comes down to what you're doing.
So if you were getting a nice, healthy bounced dip
with plenty of calcium, phosphorus and other minerals, and you're
doing the right things. You know, you're exercising, you're avoiding
the smoking, the overdrinking of alcohol, and the you know,
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some of the sodas as well, Doug. You know, they
have things like phosphoric acid and other things in them
that actually can erode bone. So if you're doing the
right thing, you can maintain your bone health pretty good
and really really low down the the what we call
the leeching of the bone. That is basically that they
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you know, they slowly lose calcium. So you typically, Doug,
you'll peak your bones at about the twenties to thirties
and then you start kind of slowly losing some of
the calcium. But if you have a good program that
you're following, you can actually maintain most of that bone
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density throughout your life and even into old age. So
it's definitely a case of prevention is better than cure.
And you know, I just saw a patient last week, Doug,
that slipped and they hadn't you know, been doing a
lot of exercise and following a healthy diet and you know,
they fractured their fema. You know the big I know
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that's right, and you know they're going to be They're
going to be out now for you know, two three months.
So you know, if you had a healthy person with
strong bones that had had a similar fool they might
you know, might just end up with a bad bruise.
So this is really really important, particularly for older people.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
I remember reading quite some time back that a broken
femur in someone who is past whatever age it's said
in that story, after that, you got about two years
and that's all you got. Does that make sense to you?
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Yeah? Yeah, I mean, you know what they found. Essentially,
that's the beginning of the downhill spiral for a lot
of people because once they get the fracture, you know,
they're out of circulation for a while. They lose a
lot of you know, it only takes two to three
weeks for you to significantly lose your training effect on
your muscle rights and so now you know, some of
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them go into rehab to try to you know, strengthen
things up, but then often they're never the same doug
and then you know there they often gain weight. You know,
they get into unhealthy lifestyle, and that's when the other
problems occur. You know, they can get respiratory problems like pneumonia,
they can get blood cloths in the legs. They're not
moving like they used to. You know, obviously, the heart
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disease gets worse. So we want to do everything we
can to keep those bones strong and healthy, just like
the heart. And just like the heart, we can do
preventative stuff to keep you healthy into the you know,
later years.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Kor John Higgins here on fifty plus talk about the
role that bone marrow plays. I read that your bone
marrow is creating millions of blood cells and stem cells
and all these things every day.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Right, Oh yeah, absolutely, Doug. You know, healthy bones means
healthy bone marrow. So the big things that are coming
out of the bone marrow are going to be, first
of all, your red blood cells. Okay, the main oxygen transporters.
So that's basically when you work out, you know, and
you need more oxygen, you've got to have good red
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blood cells otherwise you're going to get out of breath
and tank.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
You know.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
The white blood cells they are there to protect your body.
They're your defense mechanism against you know, cough, scolds, and
other infections, and if they are not working well, you know,
it's you know, someone's going to get repetitively ill, you know,
get the flu and all of the other things. And
then finally, the platelets they have the little plugs. They
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are the things that when you cut yourself shaving or
you know, bump yourself and cut yourself, they are the
things that help to stop to clot the blood so
you don't essentially you know, bleed a lot. And those
those three really important things come from the healthy bone marrow.
And we know that that bone marrow is going to
be healthier if the bone outside bone is healthy because
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you know, they're kind of like in sync. So those
are That's a really important point, Doug. That it's not
just you know about standing up and having strength and
not falling over. It's about you know, can I do
my workout well, or can I you know, do that
climb that mountain that I want to climb? You know
when I you know, on my bucket list or whatever
it is, You've got to have the bone marrow and
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the bones.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Okay, I got I got a level two question for
you here. If bone marrow produces all these things inside
the bone. How does it get out? How do all
these things get out of a bone and into our systems?
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Oh, the bones, Doug, have these small blood vessels that
go in and out of them at different parts of
the bones, and and so they they actually can you know,
basically they have a very good blood supply and that
so basically, you know, at different times of the day
they release certain amounts of these substances. You know, if
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that they get much more active, like say that you
decide you're going to go and give blood, Doug, and
you give a you know, a leader of blood at
the blood bains, then your bone marrow for the next
you know, ten days to three weeks is going to
be actually revved up and producing a lot more of
the blood cells to replace the ones that you are missing.
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The bone marrow is it actually reacts, you know, to
what you're doing.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Well, I'm glad, I'm glad to hear that. I was
just sitting here thinking, Okay, the bone solid haws that
stuff getting in and out, but little teeny tiny capillaries
I guess are carrying it back and forth. And unfortunately
we are out of time, doctor Higgins. But thank you
as always for your insight in it, and I.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Would just I will leave you with this Doc. To succeed,
someone once said to succeed in life, you need three things.
A wishbone, a backbone, and a funny bone. And I
think them today.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
He nailed it. That's so good. Thank you, Doc. Yes, sir,
h boy bye. Oh what a good interview he is.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
He is.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
That's a very smart man right there, and I'm so
glad we get to talk with him from time to time.
A Late Health is the vascular clinic. I wonder if
it could work on something as small as a capillary
that feeds a bone.
Speaker 6 (19:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
I'll have to ask doctor Doe about that. What they
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They work with fibroids and women. They work with noncancerous
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eight what's life without a net? I suggest to go
to bed, leave it off, just.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Wait until the show's over. Sleepy Back to Doug Pike
as fifty plus continues, HI Welcome back to fifty plus.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Thanks for listening, starting to appreciate it, and thanks as
always for sharing the middle of your day. We're going
to talk in this segment about cars and SUVs and
light trucks and mini bands and whatever else this audience
drives on a regular basis. Specifically, we're going to talk
about taking care of those things and to help, I'm
bringing in Don Miller, lead technical team leader and instructor
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at Universal Technical Institute's Houston campus.
Speaker 6 (21:58):
Welcome aboard, Don, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
It's my pleasure. So right up front, let's establish an
eye and my audience grew up when when you could
look under the hood almost any car and actually see
the ground around the whole engine, and we can't do
that now, and that's that's pretty intimidating. How much more
complex are engines in cars now than they were when
radio still had push button presets.
Speaker 6 (22:22):
It's quite a bit more. We're approaching to almost one
hundred module mark, where we're that many computers are on
one vehicle, so it's very technical. There's a lot of sensors.
It takes a very trained technician to be able to
diagnose these things using scan tools and even into acilloscopes
to where we can test the network and so on.
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So it's quite a bit more so.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Is it even possible or practical for the average person
to work on a car these days, especially in an
electric car?
Speaker 6 (22:55):
Definitely not. It'd be very dangerous to work on an
electric car that you have vehicles out there with three
hundred and thirty four battery packs where it's a direct
direct current, and it will you do not get a
second chance. It's very dangerous.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Yeah, you just be going down. For my friends who
were fairly comfortable working on cars thirty or forty years ago,
what might they still be able to do besides checking
the air and the tires.
Speaker 6 (23:22):
That's about it. Even oil changes today can be pretty difficult,
depending on gaining access to the oil filter, removing splash
shields underneath, and so on. Even some of our newer cars.
When you replace the battery, the computer is running self
tests on the battery as you're driving. So if you
swap the battery out, it sees a difference and potential,
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it thinks something's wrong and it might throw one a
check engine light or have an issue. You almost have
to use a scan tool to reprogram the computer. To
accept the new battery.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Oh that's just wrong, isn't it though, That's just what
I'm telling you. Yeah, hey, can you do me favorite,
give me ten seconds. We have a new pope and
I've asked Will to tell us when it happened. So
he's going to tell us the guy's name.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
This is via the Houston Chronicle. Robert Prevost is the
first American pope in history and he will take on
the name Leo the fourteenth.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Thank you Will. Now we know how about that? All right?
So rather than I think maybe we heard it here first, huh,
maybe so Will. Rather than spend so much time under
the hood, though, don let's look at general maintenance that
will help keep a little problem from becoming a bigger,
more expensive one. And from the ground up, what about tires.
What can we do with our tires to make sure
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they're right and ready to go?
Speaker 6 (24:43):
Most nerve vehicles are going to have a tire pressure
monitoring system, right, keep an eye on that and keeping
your tires up to inflation is very important. And you know,
once every couple of years, having a front in alignment
done to where you're the wheels, you know, perfectly on
the ground and it's getting good wear on the tires,
so it's not wearing the tread.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Is is A is A A is getting that front
end alignment? Uh, the same as letting go of the
wheel and it's still tracks straight. Is that the same thing? Yes, sir, Oh, yes, sir,
it is. So if I'm tracking straight, I don't need
an alignment.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
Not necessarily, because there's three adjustments. You have what we
call a toe adjustment, a canber adjustment, and a castor adjustment.
And you can have a canber adjustment out or a
toe adjustment that will wear the tire, but it may
not cause it the vehicle to veer out of the lane. Yeah,
so it still needs to really be checked.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
A quick question, does or air?
Speaker 6 (25:47):
I've always gone air, and you can go nitro. Just
the only difference is temperature differentials. You're going to see
it change a little bit. Uh, the nitrogen, it's it's
it's not as susceptible to temperature changes.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
I'll tell you what it is susceptible too, though, is
having to go to the dealership to get it replaced exactly.
Speaker 6 (26:05):
That's why I always just go.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Yeah, my wife's car when we bought it, they said, yeah,
we're gonna put nitrogen in the tires for you. And
what they should have said is and you're gonna have
to come back here every time you get a low
pressure light. So eighty six that the last time I
went in there, I just in fact, I went in
to get something I got. I went and bought one
tire and said, get all that garbage out of my tires.
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I don't want it anymore. Don Miller from Universal Technical
Institute here correct me.
Speaker 6 (26:34):
I'm wrong.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
But the only changes we can make really when we're
rotating tires is back to front and front to back.
Speaker 6 (26:41):
Right. It depends on if it's what we call a
directional tire. Yeah, and a lot of our vehicles today too.
Depending if it's performance vehicle, there may be a different
sized tire on the front than there is on the rear. Lord,
so you may not even be able to rotate them.
It just depends.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
So we got to go spend some more money for
somebody to tell us that too.
Speaker 6 (26:59):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (27:01):
Now, one thing on an EV if you go be
one thing you were going to be careful with is
because of the weight of the battery packs, they use
a special low roll resistance tire that normally has an
Excel Extra load rating on it. It has a stiffer
side ball. You do not want to put it just
a standard cheaper tire on an EV That will cause problems.
So you know, it's always best to go back with
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the OEM recommendations.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Okay. And every time I get my wall change now,
don at least it seems this way they want to
sell me either a new engine air filter or a
cabin air filter. Those are both things that we actually
probably can check and replace ourselves and maybe save some money, right.
Speaker 6 (27:40):
Yes, absolutely, thank you. Yeah, and you'll save quite a
bit of money.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Oh yeah, they're pretty proud of those filters in the
wall change places. Okay, So the engine cranks, and I
know what this would have been thirty years ago. The
engine cranks really well, but it doesn't start up right.
So is that a fuel delivery issue? You usually so.
Speaker 6 (28:03):
But it could be an ignition issue also, So that's
really something that would be had to be diagnosed. Or
the spark plug's not getting the correct voltage or you know,
are they not working properly, or are you not getting
the correct fuel.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
There's that diagnosis thing again. And in fairness, the check
engine light comes on. The first thing I do now
is go to a parts store and say, here's the
code I'm getting, and they bring their little machine out
there and they plug it in and they tell me
exactly what's wrong, so that I can go my checkbook
and I can or credit card can go to the
(28:36):
actual mechanic and get it done. Is that a good
first step to see if it is maybe something that
you can fix on your own.
Speaker 6 (28:44):
It's not a bad first step. The only thing you
have to be very careful of in order for a
check ajulate to come on. All it takes is for
a voltage reading to get out of a range that
is not supposed to be. A computer will flag that.
So it could be a loose wire, it could be
resistance in a wire, could be a wiring problem. It
may not be the actual sensor itself. And so that's
(29:05):
kind of a gamble by just throwing the sensor.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
At it, you know, And it comes down to how
much do you trust your mechanic? Doesn't it?
Speaker 6 (29:13):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (29:14):
So how do we how do we pick a good
one in five seconds or less?
Speaker 6 (29:18):
That's tough, that is, I would you know. Word of
mouth is still to me the best thing.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Yeah, and it takes a little while to develop that relationship.
I learned from a good mechanic and I actually got
kind of in a squabble once and we worked it out,
and then I went to him every time because I
knew he would eventually make it right if something else happened.
And nothing else ever happened, everything went well, Don Miller,
thank you so very much. Universal Technical Institute. Where is
(29:48):
the campus?
Speaker 6 (29:50):
We have fifteen across the United States, So one we
have now is in Houston. Yeah, it's off of I
forty five, real close, but kind of between air Techs
and Richie.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Where that is. I certainly do well. Thank you very
much for your time. I really do appreciate it. Thank you, sir, Yes, sir, audios.
All right, we got to take a quick break. Holy cow,
we've zoomed through this one. We'll take a little break here.
We'll be right back. More of fifty plus on AM
nine to fifty KPRC. Now they sure don't make them
like they used to.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
That's why every few months we wash them, check his
fluids and spring on a fresh code of wax.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
This is fifty plus with Doug Pike. All Right, Welcome
back to fifty plus. Thanks for listening. Fourth and final
segment starts right now. On the way in, I'm going
to tell you about ut Health Institute on Aging. But
it's kind of like it's kind of like if you
had a thousand mechanics working on your old fifty seven
Chevy or your old Buick Land yacht or your Ta
(30:52):
Bird from the seventies. They are all kinds of cars
that might have a little extra mile on their engines,
maybe some wear and tear on the suspension. That's us
as seniors, and the Institute on Aging is a group
of people who are specialists in taking care of seniors,
specialists in what we need to feel better. Go to
(31:15):
their website, take a look around ut dot edu slash aging.
There are plenty of resources there that you'll find very interesting.
You'll go into scroll for a minute and you'll end
up there fifteen to twenty minutes maybe more, who knows,
and you also have access to find a provider who's
near you. Most of them are in the medical center
(31:36):
most of their time, but also i'd say most of
them at least spend a couple of days in outlying
clinics and areas. North southeast and west of the main
body of the med center. Makes it easier on somebody
who doesn't really want to drive in there, makes you
uncomfortable to drive in there no reason to add that stress.
You can find a member of ut Health Institute on
(31:57):
aging out where you live. Where that is uth dot
edu slash aging, uth dot edu slash aging again. As
Will announced during we broke into the interview with Don Miller,
I hope he wasn't upset by that. But a lot
of people have been asking who is the next pope?
And the next Pope is the He's the first American
(32:19):
ever to beat pope. His name is Robert Francis Prevost
and he will be from Chicago and as Pope, he
will be Leo the fourteenth.
Speaker 5 (32:30):
So there you have it.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Moving on from the staggering drug bust desk comes word
and again, if you haven't already heard it, then our
Drug Enforcement Administration made a monstrous bust this week, locations
all over the country that yielded.
Speaker 5 (32:48):
Have you seen this story?
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Will now take a guess how many fentanyl pills alone
were confiscated in this multi state operation. Just take a stab, Will,
how many pills?
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (33:05):
How many pills, individual pills, Yeah, how many will.
Speaker 5 (33:10):
Maybe one hundred?
Speaker 2 (33:12):
How about three million, three million fentanyl pills that happened
to be stamped as oxy codone, by the way, and
just in case you need to be a little bit
more scared for your children and grandchildren. Fentanl's already the
leading cause of death among young adults in this country
and at least three thousand times or three million times.
Now that won't happen. So they got all those pills,
(33:35):
according to Attorney General Pambondi in her Monday press conference.
Plus in the same roundup of bad guys, thirty five
kilos of meth, seven and a half kilos of cocaine
and four kilos of heroin, plus five million dollars in cash,
(33:57):
and dozens of guns and a dozen of rs to
including the leader of this whole group who was in Salem, Oregon,
by the way, and the drugs. So you get an
idea of how big in scope this business is, and
it is a business. The drugs were in Phoenix, Albuquerque,
and parts of Utah. Any organization of that magnitude didn't
(34:18):
spring up overnight, Okay, it took years for these guys
to build their transportation and distribution and enforcement networks. Maybe
about four years, I would guess. Bondi said emphatically that
more busts are coming to so hopefully they're going to
uncover a lot of that stuff. I'm seeing more and
more too, by the way, speaking of big revelations, the
(34:42):
Epstein issue, the Jeffrey Epstein and his island. There is
way way more evidence and information about that than any
of us could ever have possibly guessed. And they're going
through it methodically and meticulously and making certain that none
(35:02):
of the hundreds, if not thousands of victims of all
that was going on there are exposed in any way,
shape or form. That's the last thing they want to happen.
But the people who are responsible for what was happening,
they better hold on tight. They better hold on tight.
Will now not how he wanted to break a record?
(35:25):
A bigger man or interesting take on Americans?
Speaker 5 (35:30):
A bigger man?
Speaker 2 (35:31):
This is the shortest one, a very easy one in
the novel Forrest Gump. You want it to come with
a pop quiz or not? No. Forrest Gump is in
the book six six and weighs two hundred and forty
two pounds. Last time I looked at Tom Hanks. Certainly
not six' six and certainly not maybe maybe five ten
(35:54):
one point eighty one, seventy probably one sixty for the.
Film i'm not. SURE i have no Idea england is.
Worse here's how bonfire today at? Noon bring your own
snacks or wrong? TURN i mean the bonfire. Thing just
it sounds like you just did. It, no let's go with,
(36:15):
it let's go with.
Speaker 5 (36:16):
It, well, NO i.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
Didn't how DID i do a? Bonfire we just said
that there's a bonfire at, noon bring your. Snacks oh,
No i'm not talking about today today. Today that's just
a little HEADLINE i put on this. Story will people
in the Per turkish town Of, LEASE i believe that
it's L i ce AND i know it's a. Lice
it can't be got high. Inadvertently after law enforcement there,
(36:41):
burned how much seized cannabis in the town? Center will take?
It that is a pop.
Speaker 5 (36:48):
Quiz i'll say the two hundred and twenty pounds.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
The whole country ought to have been? High how about twenty?
Tons and they just threw a mat into it and
it had to have just blanketed the entire countryside with.
Smoke wouldn't you think twenty tons of that? Stuff it's a.
Lot it's a. Lot estimated value IN us currency two
hundred and sixty one. Dollars that's a lot as.
Speaker 5 (37:18):
Well Will.
Speaker 6 (37:21):
I'll take? That, NO i won't do.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
That i'll go to a baseball thing That Remember Ryan,
presley our former. Closer, no you, don't, really seriously, Don't, Okay,
Well Ryan presley was our closer until we Got Josh
hater and Then presley was moved to the eighth, inning
and he really didn't like. That he liked being the
(37:45):
guy in charge of closing out the, game of getting
the win for the. Team and he was very good
at what he, did and so, good in, fact that
he got picked up by The cubs when he left The.
Astros and, today unfortunately For Ryan, press he is now
known as the first pitcher in seventy years to allow
(38:08):
nine runs without getting an. Out that is not easy
for any pitcher to. Do surely somebody is gonna ground
out to an. Infielder sure surely somebody's gonna pop out
to an outfielder or.
Speaker 5 (38:22):
Infielder what was it nine home runs in a?
Speaker 2 (38:25):
Row NO i doubt, that but it was certainly a
whole bunch of, Hits and it doesn't say anything here
about errors, either just says nine runs without getting it.
OUT i feel sad for the, GUY i really. Do
he is a great. Picture he did a great job
for us in his time. Here But hater's doing as
well or better very. Quickly seventy percent Of americans say
(38:49):
it's likely THE us will have a widespread outbreak of
a new infectious disease in the next. Decade you think
the government didn't instill that fear in all of? Us
we were doing so fine. Too thirty two percent think
infectious diseases like measles are more of a threat now
than fifty years. Ago, well guess, why you know why
measles are. Back it's because we let in millions of
(39:10):
unvaccinated people over the past four, years and some of
them brought in measles with. Them it's not our, fault
not our, fault and we shouldn't have to worry about,
that but we.
Speaker 3 (39:21):
Do.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
Now that's sad but. True All, right we are out of.
Here we'll be back tomorrow to wrap up the. Week
thank you all for. Listening see you, Then. Audios
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That's hard to believe. We've already got about eight hundred
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Huh?
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Is it more? I think it's a little less. I
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Well that's funny, Okay, I'll take eight fifteen for now.
That's fine. We're not that far really steaming along at
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a milestone, are we We are? We're close, you know,
we'll reach it this year, certainly, won't we four times
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Will we'll see. Thanks to all of you, honestly for
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I really appreciate that, and never forget that I'm only
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so that will be easy. And so if there's anybody
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getting anywhere. I don't I don't know that he was
that interested. I hope that he was, and if he is,
I hope he hears me and says, wait a minute,
Wait a minute, I was first in line, and we
can we can do that either way. I'm hoping to
(02:33):
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soon because we're coming into the time when people are
going to use those types of places for either long
weekend getaways or maybe somebody even coming in from out
of town. There's there's It's pretty easy for me to
work with other iHeart markets to deliver a message pretty
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and there are even ways to deliver the stations not
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By the way, in case you haven't heard, there is
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it for some reason. Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. And
I'm on Facebook too. You might have seen the little
uh what do they call that a post? Will at Facebook?
(03:19):
Sure it was a real actually I think is how
it got loaded. Anyway, the people from Dave's Hot Chicken
came in and dropped some stuff off today. And I'm
not cheating on Barry Hill, believe me. Mexican food Barry Hill,
hands down, best fish tacos ever anywhere. But when a
little bit these little bite sized Dave's Hot Chicken things
(03:41):
showed up, I couldn't resist. And they're very good. They
brought some. Did you get out and see any of that?
Did you get some of that?
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Will? By the time I got out there, it was
all gone, Oh.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I'm so sad for you. There are a couple of people
tackled that reaper seasoning that they use. That's not for me.
It wouldn't It wouldn't make me ill, I don't think.
But it would just make me so uncomfortable that it's
not worth it in my seniority. And Lord knows, we've
had enough interviews talking about the changes to the GI
(04:15):
tract of seniors versus those of young healthy men and women. Boy,
that if I'd have known then what I know now
about what I was going to be able to eat
at this point in my life, I would have eaten
a lot more of the stuff that I miss that
I can't eat now. I can't eat a I can
(04:37):
remember my family going to Christy's seafood house. It was
on West Timer and we would come into town and
go there and it was a lot of fun and
good food, and I would eat this giant fried seafood platter.
I was a young, strapping, big appetite kid, and I'd
(04:59):
eat that whole thing. Wish there had been more on
the plate, And right now I'm not so sure I
would even order that for fear that I might pay
a heavy price later. Do you have anything like that
on your diet? Will things you can't eat?
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Ooh? Things I can't eat? I can stomach pretty much. Yeah,
most chast iron stomach. Yeah I can. I can. I
can go through and clear an entire plot. I love
clearing a plate.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Just whatever it is, you're gonna eat it.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Yeah, I will say over this past weekend, I did
have maybe the best food I think I've ever had
in my real life.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Well that's that's saying something. I can remember. One of
the top three meals I had years ago, what was
yours this time?
Speaker 5 (05:47):
This was at a It's a new restaurant in Houston,
and it's a fine dining so it was a little expensive,
but probably are my price range, but we well, they
have a great seventy five dollars prefix menu and it
was monumental honestly, and it was just so delicious. It's
(06:08):
a restaurant called Camaraderie. It's over in the Heights.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
And it was it What did you eat that was
so delicious?
Speaker 5 (06:14):
So the they have four starters that you get with
the prefixed menu, all.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Four, Yes, you get all four of each.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
And the first thing that came out was this celery
root apple square and it was hot and cold, chewy
and crunchy and a little spice from like this chili sauce.
But it was honestly one of the wildest things I've
ever eaten.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
It's a flavorful experience, truly and good for you.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
The entree was veal asubuco with bucatini, and it was
it was amazing.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
That doesn't sound horrible at all. Yeah, it's a swing
by there or something.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
You should it. Truly. The service is impeccable. It's a
it's just it's a great time. A dinner for two
will be perfect, perfect.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
White smoke over the Sistine Chapel. Catholics have a new Pope.
No official introduction yet, at least not to my knowledge
as I came on the air, but the decision at
least is made and will I. When I walked in
the studio, I put will on Pope Watch. So every
what every five minutes? Will will you check the internet
(07:30):
and see I'm reloading the page. What I want? I
want to be first, Okay, I want to be This
is breaking news, and I want it to break now.
I want it to break during this show because it's
a little later over there in the Vatican, So if
they're going to get that done before dark, they might
just need to step on it and hopefully it'll happen
(07:52):
in the next what forty forty five minutes or so,
Fingers crossed. We have a couple of good guests coming
up coming up next, doctor John Higgins, one of the
most one of the most frequent flyers to this program
that I've had over the ten eleven years. Whatever it is,
we're doing it now, and we're going to talk about
bone health. And then after that we're going to talk
(08:14):
to a man named Don Miller, who knows all about
things that you and I as mere civilians maybe should
or shouldn't try to tackle, as far as maintenance and
repairs on our automobiles goes. And there are some things
that we can do and probably should do for ourselves.
That will save us a lot of money if we
need to. And I'll get to all of that when
(08:36):
I have to all the way out, I'll tell you, well,
we'll do this. We'll just do this when quick, since
I'm already late, we'll and then that'll leave us a
little bit more time for doctor Higgins and for Don Miller.
We'll take a little break here. We'll be right back
on Pope. Watch this day more of fifty plus coming up.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Aged to perfection. This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Come back to fifty plus.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Thanks for listening, certainly do appreciate it, and I'll thank
you yet again for choosing fifty plus. In this segment,
we'll talk to the man I called a frequent flyer
just a few minutes ago on fifty plus one and only,
doctor John Higgins, cardiologist at McGovern Medical School and sports
cardiologists for the Houston Rockets and Rice Athletics. Welcome back, Dot.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Hey, Doug guy. I enjoy being a frequent flyer on
your skies.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
You are, indeed, and I don't have a VIP lounge
or anything, but if I did, you have the only
card for it. I'll tell you that about that. Hey,
just out of curiosity, what, since you're the cardiologist for
the Rockets, what kind of heart rates are those guys
putting up when they're running up and down the court
for an hour?
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Oh yeah, Doug, those guys they're super healthy, so their
heart rates can get super low, you know, resting heart rates, right,
you know, the thirties, forties, fifties. Oh wow, But they
can bring it, you know when when you know time
is of the essence, they can bring it up. They
can get up to you know, one to ninety two. Yeah,
(10:09):
they're they're they are definitely superheroes and they have superhards.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Oh my word. So today's topic not hearts, but bones,
which essentially, I guess are the two by fours and
one by twos of the human body. So let's start
almost at the beginning, Okay, the growing years, and specifically,
what I'm wondering is what might hinder healthy bone growth
in young people and leave them susceptible to the problems
in seniority. Anything come to mind?
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Yeah, sure, Doug. You know, I think one thing that
I sort of, you know, I'm very interested in this
topic is that actually a lot of risk factors for
bad bones are also risk factors for cardiovasculs, so you know, yeah,
we know for example, you know someone that is smoking,
(10:58):
for example, or drinking too much alcohol, or has a
sedentary lifestyle, or is not getting proper nutrition, you know,
those things that can lead to poor bones, you know,
particularly osteoporosis, but it can also lead to unhealthy hearts.
And you know they're also tied in within information too,
so we know that both conditions, you know, bone problems
(11:21):
and heart problems are related to increased levels of inflammation.
So it's really important in the form of years, Doug,
that those kiddos are getting enough of calcium in particular,
and you know, they don't have to go just milk.
I mean, you know, there's many, many other sources of calcium,
everything from kale to broccoli to yogurt, you know, so
(11:47):
you know, there's lots of ways, but it's more kind
of the balanced diet. So we want them to get
a nice, healthy, bounced diet. We want them also to
be doing regular exercise because we know that regular exercise
really really helps strengthen bones, and you know it can
be weight bearing resistant stuff as well as aerobic. Both
(12:09):
of them are going to strengthen your bones and also
reduce your chances of having a broken bone. For kiddos
as well, which is, you know, not a fun thing
because they're kind of out of taking out of circulation
from all of their fun activity for several months.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
It would seem to me too, that doing a lot
of exercise, especially the weight bearing stuff, builds muscle, and
that muscle helps to support the bones. Right, They're kind
of working together absolutely, Doug.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
In fact, you know, I recommend my patients that I
see they do a culbination of both the aerobic which
is kind of more beneficial for the heart, but the
resistance as you said, it strengthens the bones. It strengthens
the muscles, the ligaments, and keeps the joints healthy and
makes it less likely for them to have an accident
(13:02):
or become unstable and full.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Now, as we go from youth to adulthood to middle
age to where I am now, which is kind of
over where I'm on the back side of the hill,
are are bones kind of like muscle. And what I'm
asking is if they start losing density or mass at
a certain age like muscles do.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Yeah, well, Doug, Again, it comes down to what you're doing.
So if you were getting a nice, healthy bounced dip
with plenty of calcium, phosphorus and other minerals, and you're
doing the right things. You know, you're exercising, you're avoiding
the smoking, the overdrinking of alcohol, and the you know,
(13:44):
some of the sodas as well, Doug. You know, they
have things like phosphoric acid and other things in them
that actually can erode bone. So if you're doing the
right thing, you can maintain your bone health pretty good
and really really low down the the what we call
the leeching of the bone. That is basically that they
(14:05):
you know, they slowly lose calcium. So you typically, Doug,
you'll peak your bones at about the twenties to thirties
and then you start kind of slowly losing some of
the calcium. But if you have a good program that
you're following, you can actually maintain most of that bone
(14:25):
density throughout your life and even into old age. So
it's definitely a case of prevention is better than cure.
And you know, I just saw a patient last week, Doug,
that slipped and they hadn't you know, been doing a
lot of exercise and following a healthy diet and you know,
they fractured their fema. You know the big I know
(14:47):
that's right, and you know they're going to be They're
going to be out now for you know, two three months.
So you know, if you had a healthy person with
strong bones that had had a similar fool they might
you know, might just end up with a bad bruise.
So this is really really important, particularly for older people.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
I remember reading quite some time back that a broken
femur in someone who is past whatever age it's said
in that story, after that, you got about two years
and that's all you got. Does that make sense to you?
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Yeah? Yeah, I mean, you know what they found. Essentially,
that's the beginning of the downhill spiral for a lot
of people because once they get the fracture, you know,
they're out of circulation for a while. They lose a
lot of you know, it only takes two to three
weeks for you to significantly lose your training effect on
your muscle rights and so now you know, some of
(15:42):
them go into rehab to try to you know, strengthen
things up, but then often they're never the same doug
and then you know there they often gain weight. You know,
they get into unhealthy lifestyle, and that's when the other
problems occur. You know, they can get respiratory problems like pneumonia,
they can get blood cloths in the legs. They're not
moving like they used to. You know, obviously, the heart
(16:03):
disease gets worse. So we want to do everything we
can to keep those bones strong and healthy, just like
the heart. And just like the heart, we can do
preventative stuff to keep you healthy into the you know,
later years.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Kor John Higgins here on fifty plus talk about the
role that bone marrow plays. I read that your bone
marrow is creating millions of blood cells and stem cells
and all these things every day.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Right, Oh yeah, absolutely, Doug. You know, healthy bones means
healthy bone marrow. So the big things that are coming
out of the bone marrow are going to be, first
of all, your red blood cells. Okay, the main oxygen transporters.
So that's basically when you work out, you know, and
you need more oxygen, you've got to have good red
(16:52):
blood cells otherwise you're going to get out of breath
and tank.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
You know.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
The white blood cells they are there to protect your body.
They're your defense mechanism against you know, cough, scolds, and
other infections, and if they are not working well, you know,
it's you know, someone's going to get repetitively ill, you know,
get the flu and all of the other things. And
then finally, the platelets they have the little plugs. They
(17:17):
are the things that when you cut yourself shaving or
you know, bump yourself and cut yourself, they are the
things that help to stop to clot the blood so
you don't essentially you know, bleed a lot. And those
those three really important things come from the healthy bone marrow.
And we know that that bone marrow is going to
be healthier if the bone outside bone is healthy because
(17:40):
you know, they're kind of like in sync. So those
are That's a really important point, Doug. That it's not
just you know about standing up and having strength and
not falling over. It's about you know, can I do
my workout well, or can I you know, do that
climb that mountain that I want to climb? You know
when I you know, on my bucket list or whatever
it is, You've got to have the bone marrow and
(18:02):
the bones.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Okay, I got I got a level two question for
you here. If bone marrow produces all these things inside
the bone. How does it get out? How do all
these things get out of a bone and into our systems?
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Oh, the bones, Doug, have these small blood vessels that
go in and out of them at different parts of
the bones, and and so they they actually can you know,
basically they have a very good blood supply and that
so basically, you know, at different times of the day
they release certain amounts of these substances. You know, if
(18:40):
that they get much more active, like say that you
decide you're going to go and give blood, Doug, and
you give a you know, a leader of blood at
the blood bains, then your bone marrow for the next
you know, ten days to three weeks is going to
be actually revved up and producing a lot more of
the blood cells to replace the ones that you are missing.
(19:01):
The bone marrow is it actually reacts, you know, to
what you're doing.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Well, I'm glad, I'm glad to hear that. I was
just sitting here thinking, Okay, the bone solid haws that
stuff getting in and out, but little teeny tiny capillaries
I guess are carrying it back and forth. And unfortunately
we are out of time, doctor Higgins. But thank you
as always for your insight in it, and I.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Would just I will leave you with this Doc. To succeed,
someone once said to succeed in life, you need three things.
A wishbone, a backbone, and a funny bone. And I
think them today.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
He nailed it. That's so good. Thank you, Doc. Yes, sir,
h boy bye. Oh what a good interview he is.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
He is.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
That's a very smart man right there, and I'm so
glad we get to talk with him from time to time.
A Late Health is the vascular clinic. I wonder if
it could work on something as small as a capillary
that feeds a bone.
Speaker 6 (19:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
I'll have to ask doctor Doe about that. What they
do at late Health, among other things, is plug up
ugly veins on your legs or wherever they might be.
They work with fibroids and women. They work with noncancerous
enlarged prostates in men, and that's one of the procedures
they do most often over there. And if you're over
(20:18):
fifty five, you probably are starting to feel some symptoms
of that. And as those symptoms get worse, they're not
going to get better on their own. But as those
symptoms get worse, you might want to call and make
an appointment to go have that remedied over there at
a late Health Everything gets done right there in the clinic.
You don't have to go in the hospital where you
might end up walking out with something you didn't walk
(20:38):
in there with, and you're going to recuperate at home.
Most of what they do is covered by Medicare and
Medicare or Medicaid, so you don't really have to worry
too much about that. Additionally, they do regenerative medicine too,
and which is that's that stem cell stuff that does
a really good job of knocking out chronic pain. Go
(20:59):
to the website a latehealth dot com alate, look around,
see what they do, where they do it, how they
do it, and then maybe schedule yourself a consultation by
making a simple phone call and asking them about a
specific thing that you think they can help you with.
Seven to one, three, five, eight, eight, thirty eight eighty
eight seven one, three, five, eight, eight thirty eight eighty
(21:22):
eight what's life without a net? I suggest to go
to bed, leave it off, just.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Wait until the show's over. Sleepy Back to Doug Pike
as fifty plus continues, HI Welcome back to fifty plus.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Thanks for listening, starting to appreciate it, and thanks as
always for sharing the middle of your day. We're going
to talk in this segment about cars and SUVs and
light trucks and mini bands and whatever else this audience
drives on a regular basis. Specifically, we're going to talk
about taking care of those things and to help, I'm
bringing in Don Miller, lead technical team leader and instructor
(21:55):
at Universal Technical Institute's Houston campus.
Speaker 6 (21:58):
Welcome aboard, Don, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
It's my pleasure. So right up front, let's establish an
eye and my audience grew up when when you could
look under the hood almost any car and actually see
the ground around the whole engine, and we can't do
that now, and that's that's pretty intimidating. How much more
complex are engines in cars now than they were when
radio still had push button presets.
Speaker 6 (22:22):
It's quite a bit more. We're approaching to almost one
hundred module mark, where we're that many computers are on
one vehicle, so it's very technical. There's a lot of sensors.
It takes a very trained technician to be able to
diagnose these things using scan tools and even into acilloscopes
to where we can test the network and so on.
(22:44):
So it's quite a bit more so.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Is it even possible or practical for the average person
to work on a car these days, especially in an
electric car?
Speaker 6 (22:55):
Definitely not. It'd be very dangerous to work on an
electric car that you have vehicles out there with three
hundred and thirty four battery packs where it's a direct
direct current, and it will you do not get a
second chance. It's very dangerous.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Yeah, you just be going down. For my friends who
were fairly comfortable working on cars thirty or forty years ago,
what might they still be able to do besides checking
the air and the tires.
Speaker 6 (23:22):
That's about it. Even oil changes today can be pretty difficult,
depending on gaining access to the oil filter, removing splash
shields underneath, and so on. Even some of our newer cars.
When you replace the battery, the computer is running self
tests on the battery as you're driving. So if you
swap the battery out, it sees a difference and potential,
(23:44):
it thinks something's wrong and it might throw one a
check engine light or have an issue. You almost have
to use a scan tool to reprogram the computer. To
accept the new battery.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Oh that's just wrong, isn't it though, That's just what
I'm telling you. Yeah, hey, can you do me favorite,
give me ten seconds. We have a new pope and
I've asked Will to tell us when it happened. So
he's going to tell us the guy's name.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
This is via the Houston Chronicle. Robert Prevost is the
first American pope in history and he will take on
the name Leo the fourteenth.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Thank you Will. Now we know how about that? All right?
So rather than I think maybe we heard it here first, huh,
maybe so Will. Rather than spend so much time under
the hood, though, don let's look at general maintenance that
will help keep a little problem from becoming a bigger,
more expensive one. And from the ground up, what about tires.
What can we do with our tires to make sure
(24:41):
they're right and ready to go?
Speaker 6 (24:43):
Most nerve vehicles are going to have a tire pressure
monitoring system, right, keep an eye on that and keeping
your tires up to inflation is very important. And you know,
once every couple of years, having a front in alignment
done to where you're the wheels, you know, perfectly on
the ground and it's getting good wear on the tires,
so it's not wearing the tread.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Is is A is A A is getting that front
end alignment? Uh, the same as letting go of the
wheel and it's still tracks straight. Is that the same thing? Yes, sir, Oh, yes, sir,
it is. So if I'm tracking straight, I don't need
an alignment.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
Not necessarily, because there's three adjustments. You have what we
call a toe adjustment, a canber adjustment, and a castor adjustment.
And you can have a canber adjustment out or a
toe adjustment that will wear the tire, but it may
not cause it the vehicle to veer out of the lane. Yeah,
so it still needs to really be checked.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
A quick question, does or air?
Speaker 6 (25:47):
I've always gone air, and you can go nitro. Just
the only difference is temperature differentials. You're going to see
it change a little bit. Uh, the nitrogen, it's it's
it's not as susceptible to temperature changes.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
I'll tell you what it is susceptible too, though, is
having to go to the dealership to get it replaced exactly.
Speaker 6 (26:05):
That's why I always just go.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Yeah, my wife's car when we bought it, they said, yeah,
we're gonna put nitrogen in the tires for you. And
what they should have said is and you're gonna have
to come back here every time you get a low
pressure light. So eighty six that the last time I
went in there, I just in fact, I went in
to get something I got. I went and bought one
tire and said, get all that garbage out of my tires.
(26:28):
I don't want it anymore. Don Miller from Universal Technical
Institute here correct me.
Speaker 6 (26:34):
I'm wrong.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
But the only changes we can make really when we're
rotating tires is back to front and front to back.
Speaker 6 (26:41):
Right. It depends on if it's what we call a
directional tire. Yeah, and a lot of our vehicles today too.
Depending if it's performance vehicle, there may be a different
sized tire on the front than there is on the rear. Lord,
so you may not even be able to rotate them.
It just depends.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
So we got to go spend some more money for
somebody to tell us that too.
Speaker 6 (26:59):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (27:01):
Now, one thing on an EV if you go be
one thing you were going to be careful with is
because of the weight of the battery packs, they use
a special low roll resistance tire that normally has an
Excel Extra load rating on it. It has a stiffer
side ball. You do not want to put it just
a standard cheaper tire on an EV That will cause problems.
So you know, it's always best to go back with
(27:24):
the OEM recommendations.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Okay. And every time I get my wall change now,
don at least it seems this way they want to
sell me either a new engine air filter or a
cabin air filter. Those are both things that we actually
probably can check and replace ourselves and maybe save some money, right.
Speaker 6 (27:40):
Yes, absolutely, thank you. Yeah, and you'll save quite a
bit of money.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Oh yeah, they're pretty proud of those filters in the
wall change places. Okay, So the engine cranks, and I
know what this would have been thirty years ago. The
engine cranks really well, but it doesn't start up right.
So is that a fuel delivery issue? You usually so.
Speaker 6 (28:03):
But it could be an ignition issue also, So that's
really something that would be had to be diagnosed. Or
the spark plug's not getting the correct voltage or you know,
are they not working properly, or are you not getting
the correct fuel.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
There's that diagnosis thing again. And in fairness, the check
engine light comes on. The first thing I do now
is go to a parts store and say, here's the
code I'm getting, and they bring their little machine out
there and they plug it in and they tell me
exactly what's wrong, so that I can go my checkbook
and I can or credit card can go to the
(28:36):
actual mechanic and get it done. Is that a good
first step to see if it is maybe something that
you can fix on your own.
Speaker 6 (28:44):
It's not a bad first step. The only thing you
have to be very careful of in order for a
check ajulate to come on. All it takes is for
a voltage reading to get out of a range that
is not supposed to be. A computer will flag that.
So it could be a loose wire, it could be
resistance in a wire, could be a wiring problem. It
may not be the actual sensor itself. And so that's
(29:05):
kind of a gamble by just throwing the sensor.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
At it, you know, And it comes down to how
much do you trust your mechanic? Doesn't it?
Speaker 6 (29:13):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (29:14):
So how do we how do we pick a good
one in five seconds or less?
Speaker 6 (29:18):
That's tough, that is, I would you know. Word of
mouth is still to me the best thing.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Yeah, and it takes a little while to develop that relationship.
I learned from a good mechanic and I actually got
kind of in a squabble once and we worked it out,
and then I went to him every time because I
knew he would eventually make it right if something else happened.
And nothing else ever happened, everything went well, Don Miller,
thank you so very much. Universal Technical Institute. Where is
(29:48):
the campus?
Speaker 6 (29:50):
We have fifteen across the United States, So one we
have now is in Houston. Yeah, it's off of I
forty five, real close, but kind of between air Techs
and Richie.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Where that is. I certainly do well. Thank you very
much for your time. I really do appreciate it. Thank you, sir, Yes, sir, audios.
All right, we got to take a quick break. Holy cow,
we've zoomed through this one. We'll take a little break here.
We'll be right back. More of fifty plus on AM
nine to fifty KPRC. Now they sure don't make them
like they used to.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
That's why every few months we wash them, check his
fluids and spring on a fresh code of wax.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
This is fifty plus with Doug Pike. All Right, Welcome
back to fifty plus. Thanks for listening. Fourth and final
segment starts right now. On the way in, I'm going
to tell you about ut Health Institute on Aging. But
it's kind of like it's kind of like if you
had a thousand mechanics working on your old fifty seven
Chevy or your old Buick Land yacht or your Ta
(30:52):
Bird from the seventies. They are all kinds of cars
that might have a little extra mile on their engines,
maybe some wear and tear on the suspension. That's us
as seniors, and the Institute on Aging is a group
of people who are specialists in taking care of seniors,
specialists in what we need to feel better. Go to
(31:15):
their website, take a look around ut dot edu slash aging.
There are plenty of resources there that you'll find very interesting.
You'll go into scroll for a minute and you'll end
up there fifteen to twenty minutes maybe more, who knows,
and you also have access to find a provider who's
near you. Most of them are in the medical center
(31:36):
most of their time, but also i'd say most of
them at least spend a couple of days in outlying
clinics and areas. North southeast and west of the main
body of the med center. Makes it easier on somebody
who doesn't really want to drive in there, makes you
uncomfortable to drive in there no reason to add that stress.
You can find a member of ut Health Institute on
(31:57):
aging out where you live. Where that is uth dot
edu slash aging, uth dot edu slash aging again. As
Will announced during we broke into the interview with Don Miller,
I hope he wasn't upset by that. But a lot
of people have been asking who is the next pope?
And the next Pope is the He's the first American
(32:19):
ever to beat pope. His name is Robert Francis Prevost
and he will be from Chicago and as Pope, he
will be Leo the fourteenth.
Speaker 5 (32:30):
So there you have it.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Moving on from the staggering drug bust desk comes word
and again, if you haven't already heard it, then our
Drug Enforcement Administration made a monstrous bust this week, locations
all over the country that yielded.
Speaker 5 (32:48):
Have you seen this story?
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Will now take a guess how many fentanyl pills alone
were confiscated in this multi state operation. Just take a stab, Will,
how many pills?
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (33:05):
How many pills, individual pills, Yeah, how many will.
Speaker 5 (33:10):
Maybe one hundred?
Speaker 2 (33:12):
How about three million, three million fentanyl pills that happened
to be stamped as oxy codone, by the way, and
just in case you need to be a little bit
more scared for your children and grandchildren. Fentanl's already the
leading cause of death among young adults in this country
and at least three thousand times or three million times.
Now that won't happen. So they got all those pills,
(33:35):
according to Attorney General Pambondi in her Monday press conference.
Plus in the same roundup of bad guys, thirty five
kilos of meth, seven and a half kilos of cocaine
and four kilos of heroin, plus five million dollars in cash,
(33:57):
and dozens of guns and a dozen of rs to
including the leader of this whole group who was in Salem, Oregon,
by the way, and the drugs. So you get an
idea of how big in scope this business is, and
it is a business. The drugs were in Phoenix, Albuquerque,
and parts of Utah. Any organization of that magnitude didn't
(34:18):
spring up overnight, Okay, it took years for these guys
to build their transportation and distribution and enforcement networks. Maybe
about four years, I would guess. Bondi said emphatically that
more busts are coming to so hopefully they're going to
uncover a lot of that stuff. I'm seeing more and
more too, by the way, speaking of big revelations, the
(34:42):
Epstein issue, the Jeffrey Epstein and his island. There is
way way more evidence and information about that than any
of us could ever have possibly guessed. And they're going
through it methodically and meticulously and making certain that none
(35:02):
of the hundreds, if not thousands of victims of all
that was going on there are exposed in any way,
shape or form. That's the last thing they want to happen.
But the people who are responsible for what was happening,
they better hold on tight. They better hold on tight.
Will now not how he wanted to break a record?
(35:25):
A bigger man or interesting take on Americans?
Speaker 5 (35:30):
A bigger man?
Speaker 2 (35:31):
This is the shortest one, a very easy one in
the novel Forrest Gump. You want it to come with
a pop quiz or not? No. Forrest Gump is in
the book six six and weighs two hundred and forty
two pounds. Last time I looked at Tom Hanks. Certainly
not six' six and certainly not maybe maybe five ten
(35:54):
one point eighty one, seventy probably one sixty for the.
Film i'm not. SURE i have no Idea england is.
Worse here's how bonfire today at? Noon bring your own
snacks or wrong? TURN i mean the bonfire. Thing just
it sounds like you just did. It, no let's go with,
(36:15):
it let's go with.
Speaker 5 (36:16):
It, well, NO i.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
Didn't how DID i do a? Bonfire we just said
that there's a bonfire at, noon bring your. Snacks oh,
No i'm not talking about today today. Today that's just
a little HEADLINE i put on this. Story will people
in the Per turkish town Of, LEASE i believe that
it's L i ce AND i know it's a. Lice
it can't be got high. Inadvertently after law enforcement there,
(36:41):
burned how much seized cannabis in the town? Center will take?
It that is a pop.
Speaker 5 (36:48):
Quiz i'll say the two hundred and twenty pounds.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
The whole country ought to have been? High how about twenty?
Tons and they just threw a mat into it and
it had to have just blanketed the entire countryside with.
Smoke wouldn't you think twenty tons of that? Stuff it's a.
Lot it's a. Lot estimated value IN us currency two
hundred and sixty one. Dollars that's a lot as.
Speaker 5 (37:18):
Well Will.
Speaker 6 (37:21):
I'll take? That, NO i won't do.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
That i'll go to a baseball thing That Remember Ryan,
presley our former. Closer, no you, don't, really seriously, Don't, Okay,
Well Ryan presley was our closer until we Got Josh
hater and Then presley was moved to the eighth, inning
and he really didn't like. That he liked being the
(37:45):
guy in charge of closing out the, game of getting
the win for the. Team and he was very good
at what he, did and so, good in, fact that
he got picked up by The cubs when he left The.
Astros and, today unfortunately For Ryan, press he is now
known as the first pitcher in seventy years to allow
(38:08):
nine runs without getting an. Out that is not easy
for any pitcher to. Do surely somebody is gonna ground
out to an. Infielder sure surely somebody's gonna pop out
to an outfielder or.
Speaker 5 (38:22):
Infielder what was it nine home runs in a?
Speaker 2 (38:25):
Row NO i doubt, that but it was certainly a
whole bunch of, Hits and it doesn't say anything here
about errors, either just says nine runs without getting it.
OUT i feel sad for the, GUY i really. Do
he is a great. Picture he did a great job
for us in his time. Here But hater's doing as
well or better very. Quickly seventy percent Of americans say
(38:49):
it's likely THE us will have a widespread outbreak of
a new infectious disease in the next. Decade you think
the government didn't instill that fear in all of? Us
we were doing so fine. Too thirty two percent think
infectious diseases like measles are more of a threat now
than fifty years. Ago, well guess, why you know why
measles are. Back it's because we let in millions of
(39:10):
unvaccinated people over the past four, years and some of
them brought in measles with. Them it's not our, fault
not our, fault and we shouldn't have to worry about,
that but we.
Speaker 3 (39:21):
Do.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
Now that's sad but. True All, right we are out of.
Here we'll be back tomorrow to wrap up the. Week
thank you all for. Listening see you, Then. Audios
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