Caring for our Elderly

Today, Doug Pike interviews Dr. Barbara Manousso about caring for our elderly.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Remember whether it was impossible to misplace the TV remote
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hey John, how's it going today?

Speaker 1 (00:20):
Well?

Speaker 2 (00:20):
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Speaker 1 (00:25):
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Speaker 2 (00:46):
All right, I am back in town. I don't know
if you noticed yesterday or not. Well, had it go?
Do you think you fool them?

Speaker 1 (00:54):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (00:54):
Maybe? Maybe? Maybe not? You run the same one on
Monday and Tuesday. No, okay, mis make it sure. Thank
goodness for that. That would have been a little obvious.
I snuck out of town and I'm glad to be back.
I really am. I'll tell you a little bit more
about that in a minute. Thanks to you all, though,
for sharing this is a twenty fourth of your day.
I genuinely appreciate this opportunity to share with you what

(01:17):
I think is of importance to all of us who
either well we already are fifty and older, or maybe
you're a member of the wonderful adult children of seniors
who may be in your thirties or forties, planning ahead
on the behalf of your parents, because that's exactly what

(01:38):
started this show. As a matter of fact, ten years ago,
I was dealing with the failing health of my mother
and I was looking for answers to a lot of
very specific questions and I couldn't find them. I really
I was struggling with that, in fact, and I went
and I talked to management, and I said, look, I
think there's room for something like this, and indeed it

(02:00):
turned out there is. So anyway, here we are ten
years later and still grinding, and with more time on
the air now that we're on KPRC at noon than
I had just the once or twice a week the
show was airing on KTRH. I wish that I could
draw some people from over there, especially now that the

(02:21):
election's over and people aren't so concerned with politics. I
would like to I would like to think that more
and more seniors could be introduced to this show, and
we're working on that, and it's working. Actually, it's working
pretty well. Had a nice little boost in audiences past
reporting period. So hopefully I'm going to inform and entertain

(02:45):
throughout this hour and for many many more hours to come.
As long as they'll leave me behind this microphone, I
will be happy to come in here and work on
your behalf to find subject matter that benefits us all.
One of the things we're going to talk about today.
In fact, in the second segment of the show, it's
going to be the the Well. I'm bringing back doctor
Barbara Manuso to talk about the differences from one culture

(03:08):
to the next, and how we treat our seniors, how
we treat our parents and grandparents, and importantly as seniors,
how we can manage our own lives and medical decisions
right up pretty much well right up until the time
we can't. Like I said, I was out of town yesterday.
I visited Crown Colony Golf Club up in Lufkin. It

(03:29):
was the number one golf course in the state for
about ten years a good while ago, and it's still
still got very strong bones they have. It's been given
a makeover and it's still it winds through a neighborhood
that's been there as long as the golf course, and
so the actual layout can't be dramatically changed, but they've

(03:51):
redone all the greens. I'll talk more about that on
the weekend, when it's more appropriate to talk about golf.
I will tell you it's an easy drive up there
and bad at all. Basically from sugar Land, the directions
of my navigation said get on fifty nine drive to Lufkin,
take a right, and that was about it. That's as

(04:13):
hard as it is, and it's not that really that far.
I left here. Actually, I left here Monday at about
I want to say, about maybe one o'clock and was
there even with one stop at a grocery store. Was
there before three o'clock. It's a pretty easy drive. You
do go through about twenty different speed limit changes along
the way, though, between between small towns and construction areas,

(04:37):
and a little bit of orange cone stuff a couple
of times. That's about all the distraction you're gonna have
from a nice, calm ride up there. And you know
what was interesting will on the way home. I was
coming back from Lufkin to here, and from Luffkin all
the way back to about oh Montgomery County or so,

(05:00):
everybody seemed to be driving like normal people. There were
faster people and slower people, but nobody really seemed frantic
and crazy like Houston drivers. And then once once I
got into to Montgomery County, all of a sudden, here
they are just flying by me at eighty ninety one

(05:20):
hundred miles an hour. And that's how I knew I
was home. I just felt right at home. It's like
driving to work on a Saturday morning. Well that's what
it felt like. Did you do anything exciting over the weekend?

Speaker 3 (05:32):
Do anything exciting over the week And yeah, I'm trying.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
Reciting the question is a stall tactic. I know it.
This audience of mind is far more bright than to
not know that. They knew that all as soon as
you said that you're stalling. You're looking for something. Did
you partake in any of the events that you found
for last week or did you not get a chance?
And it's fair. I went to crawfish boil this weekend.

(06:03):
Oh now I'm kind of jealous. How many crawfish did
you eat? How many pounds?

Speaker 3 (06:08):
I don't know. I didn't have a scale with me.
I just kept cracking them open and shoving them in
my gullet.

Speaker 2 (06:15):
Checked the scale when you got home. No, you should do.
I don't have a scale at home. I ate. Actually,
I and my friend Art Strickland, the man I talked
to on Saturday and Sunday from over. He was over
at the Masters the whole week and I got him
on the phone Saturday and Sunday. He and I had
dinner Monday night, yeah, night before last, and ate at

(06:37):
a restaurant, a very nice seafood restaurant. I can't remember
the name of it exactly, but it was good and
it's it's the best one. It's the best seafood restaurant
in that town as far as I could tell by
according to the Internet, so I'll give them the credit
where it's due. It was delicious. I had seafood gumbo,
and then I had we had a a like a

(07:00):
a crab dip with chips, like just tortilla chips, but cheesy, crabby,
really really good stuff there, and just kept going from
that point forward. It was absolutely delicious, every bit of
it was. I ended up just eating a salad with
crab and shrimp in it, and you know, because I'm

(07:22):
watching my figure, so I didn't want to overdo it.
As if that cheese dip with crab. Didn't that was
probably more more calories than my salad. All right, we
are fast approaching time for this first break, and to
make sure that we stay on schedule, I will go
ahead and let's just go straight to it, will shall we?

(07:42):
That way we can get back a little bit earlier.
Perhaps maybe maybe depends on get doctor Manuso on the phone.
Oh no, no, no more. We'll take a little break here.
We'll be right back fifty plus on AM nine fifty KPRC.

Speaker 1 (07:56):
What's life without a neat I suggest to go to
bed and sleep it off, just wait until the show's over, sleepy.
Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
All right, welcome back to fifty plus. Thanks for listening
as always, and thanks for sharing that midday. We'll talk
in this segment about something that's different from one culture
to the next, and that's the way we care for
our aging and older adults. And to dive into this one,
I will bring right back into the show a woman
who's becoming a frequent flyer here on fifty plus, and

(08:27):
that is doctor Barbara Manuso, a credentialed family mediator who
I guess has pretty much seen and heard a lot
of different family dynamics in a city, So diversus Houston,
welcome back, doctor Mnusso.

Speaker 4 (08:40):
Well, thank you, Doug. It's it was a pleasure to
share information with you, like thank.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
You for inviting me? Oh you bet so. Moving from
one to another, talk in general about how different cultures
view their responsibilities to aging family members, and you can
start wherever you like.

Speaker 4 (08:58):
Well, I'll tell you something that a lot of people
don't realize. In America, when you have children under the
age of eighteen, as a parent, you are legally responsible
for them. When you are a child of a senior,
and a senior could be anybody fifty or above, as

(09:20):
you have promptly cleverly named your show fiftys. The children
are then responsible for their parents because they're senior, or
if the parent, let's say they were forty five and
they had a stroke and so then they become an

(09:40):
eligible compromised adult. The children are responsible for their parents,
but especially fifty five and over, so the child needs
to make sure that their parent is bed, sheltered and
taken care of appropriately. And many cultures, I mean this

(10:02):
is kind of a given that people are trained to
know about and in the States, people are always like, oh, really,
I didn't know that. And I think that's very significant.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
I think it's tremendously significant that I would bet you
that probably seventy five or eighty percent of people in
this country of ours, who are between say thirty five
and fifty don't realize that they have a legal responsibility
to their parents' well being.

Speaker 4 (10:35):
Absolutely. And one of our stories was a couple family
came to us and the daughter, the only child, had
gone to see her parents on the East Coast, had
stayed with them and could see that they were having
a decline, so she hired a housekeeper to come in

(10:55):
to clean the house and make sure they had food,
et cetera. Well, she just got back to Houston and
she got a phone call from Adult Protective Services. This
housekeeper was a student enough to realize that the parents
had a dementia. Wow, and they were not capable of

(11:19):
even working. In between the times that the housekeeper would
come in a couple times a week and she had
a flyback. She hadn't even unpacked your suitcase. And so
she called. She said, what can you do? And I said, well,
if Adult Protective Services has called you you need to
just go get your parents. So she brought them back

(11:39):
to Houston and then she put them in assisted living,
but they were so in decline that wasn't even adequate.
And the father she went to go visit, she said,
oh my gosh. Her father was sitting with a suitcase,
said okay, I'm ready to go home now. And yeah.
So these are stories that people don't understand. And when

(12:02):
we do elder and adult care mediation, it's not uncommon
that I hear things in the mediation. I call adult
protective services, so that not only are these is the
family responsible for making a proper plan to properly take
care of their parents. But if I hear something doesn't

(12:23):
feel right, it's not for me to investigate. It's not
for me to fix. But I call adult protective services.
They go out and they take care of you know,
they sort it out and the investigators.

Speaker 2 (12:36):
What cultures would you say have the better or best
models of elder care for older family members.

Speaker 4 (12:45):
I think very Asian, of course, they're very respectful and
responsible for their seniors, and the family is usually multi generational,
it's not uncommon. And the other one is a Hispanic family.
I think they also have a deep sensor responsibility for
their family members, and they will do the right thing

(13:10):
and they will go out of their way even if
resources are kind of sparse. It is a team and
a village effort, and they make sure that people are
taken care of. I think most of the world is
pretty good hunt it actually except Americans.

Speaker 2 (13:26):
Oh my, Yeah, we need to work on that way. Yeah,
that's sad. Talk about doctor Nusso talk about the hesitance
among American seniors to speak openly with these adult children
and doctors about health concerns for fear of maybe being
encouraged or forced to move out of wherever they are
if they're still capable of being there.

Speaker 4 (13:47):
Well, it is an issue, and this is usually what ought.
Not usually, but very often the families are brought to
the mediation table, and it's the one time, one time
they come. It's for a conversation they haven't been able
to have. And as many proud older people who don't
want to be treated like children and don't want to

(14:09):
feel like they've been put out into their last pasture. Yeah,
but a lot of times they're really not capable of
staying home and they really need the care and sometimes
there have been their children who have been trying to
get their inheritance before they they want to pass on.

(14:29):
And that's that's the tricky part that I'm very mindful
of when we do these mediations. We want a plan
that's satisfying for the parent and a plan that's satisfying
for the children, but not where any either side is
being compromised or taken advantage of.

Speaker 2 (14:47):
Ye In our country, it seems kind of like seniors
typically are steered toward one of two options. It's either
stay in your own home you and we encourage that
when they can, or it's going to be moved to
some sort of senior comunity or assisted living when staying
home is no longer an option. Unfortunately, that's probably not
what's best. How important is it, doctor Neusso for seniors

(15:10):
to feel like they can trust the people they rely
on for care and help with making important decisions for them.

Speaker 4 (15:18):
Well, that's a tricky question and that I can't give
you a sweeping answer because every family, every dynamic is
so different, But people, the seniors overall, want to feel
that they have some agency in these decisions. They're always
at the table when we do a mediation. So that
they're part of the plan and what's going to be
comfortable for them, and it is. Some people can stay

(15:42):
at home and they the kids might live nearby, a
neighbor might be able to come in and help. But
bury and if they have to hire help, it's not cheap.
But it's not cheap to go to it assisted living either,
And that means you're going to be sorting your belongings.
You know, you might be moving away, you might be

(16:03):
with people that you would be friends with on a
good day or maybe a bad day. So it's it's
a very you know, end of life's decisions like this
are very hard for the family. But that's why we
have the mediation process. We're not going to fix the
dysfunctional family. We're going to help them make a plan
together and have the conversation they've never had before.

Speaker 2 (16:27):
Talk about it. You have, yeah, talk about if you would,
some of the ways agism pops up in everyday life
and how that impacts the lives of seniors.

Speaker 4 (16:38):
Well, wow, that's a broad question. Have we got a
couple hours to have that conversation. I'll be happy to
come back because that's a topic by itself, But agism
there is a certain discrimination. And as children, we hear
nursery rhymes and it's always about the old people or

(16:59):
the old people that turn especially a woman who turns
into a witch, or it's the big bad wolf. So
there's this cultural norm that we have been trained mentally
with to think of as old people as some bad
influence or something nefarious, you know, to deal with. And

(17:22):
I think that's very sad for the American culture, which
makes our cultural comfort for taking care of seniors sometimes distorted.
And not everybody. You can't make a big sweep on it,
but it happens enough that it's a business for us

(17:44):
to offer the adult and family mediation. So it's tricky.

Speaker 2 (17:50):
So for members of this audience we're down to about
a minute who are at or nearing an age or
condition where they're starting to have some concerns about themselves
and their futures. How should they still are in a
conversation with their children to try to express what they
want to do and how they want to do it
and how it should work for them.

Speaker 4 (18:10):
Well, the best thing they can do is just sit
down with them, say come over for dinner. Let's this
is this is my will, These are my wishes who
this is, who's going to be my power of attorney,
And so it's very helpful if they meet with an
attorney who does elder who are specialized in elder care,

(18:33):
and that way they have the right paperwork in place
for medical, for handling finances, and for handling the person.
And this might keep them away from having me put
into guardianship, which completely strips a senior of any autonomy
at all. So that's what I would highly recommend. And

(18:53):
somebody that's board certified is an elder care mediator with
any attorney.

Speaker 1 (19:01):
No.

Speaker 2 (19:01):
I greatly appreciate your time. Remind the audience please of
your website.

Speaker 4 (19:06):
Well, it's Manuso Mediation and Arbitration Solution to Conflict and
it is www dot Manuso m A n ou sso
dot us. And there's a lot of information on there
and things that people can put together even before they

(19:27):
call us to maybe even schedule something. And there's a
lot of resources out there. So we're happy to help.

Speaker 2 (19:33):
Thank you so much, doctor Barbara Manusso. I appreciate your time.

Speaker 4 (19:37):
Thank you so much for inviting me.

Speaker 2 (19:39):
Oh you bet, all right, we'll do it again, believe me.
All right? On the way out UT's Institute on Aging.
I've talked about that, boy, you talk about resources. At
that website ut h dot edu slash aging, you will
find all sorts of medical information, all sorts of places
you can go, things you can do to improve your

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life as a senior. And then, of course there is
an addition to the website, this collective of more than
a thousand providers around here who have taken it upon themselves.
They're from every aspect of medical care, and these people
have taken it upon themselves to get extra training, to
get additional training in addition to whatever got them the

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diploma on the wall, so that they can treat us better.
They can take care of seniors better and using the
information they already had and then applying it to our
specific needs. Utch dot edu slash aging. Go to that website,
look around. You'll find more than enough information to keep

(20:43):
you busy as long as you want to stay busy
on that website uth dot edu slash aging.

Speaker 1 (20:50):
Yew, they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash them, check us
fluids and spring on a fresh code O wax. This
is fifty with Doug pike Go.

Speaker 2 (21:02):
Segment three of fifty plus starts right now. Thank you
will for that musical interlude, greatly appreciated. Did I did
I start too early? Yes, little sorry you just started.
I was just happy, humming along, just humming and happy.
I'm this close to helping some friends get a charter
boat for down at Cabo in late May, and the

(21:25):
options I've found for them through a good friend, well
through Cameron Plog. He's James Flogg's son and travels all
around the world fishing because he's that good. And we
found a forty eight foot boat, and we found a
seventy two foot boat, one of either of which would
be a fantastic couple of days on the water down

(21:46):
there at Cabo. And I'd be willing to bet that
the person who's going to do this would be thrilled
to be on either boat. All right, Moving into the
little bits and pieces that I right out the gate,
Just right out the gate. Yet another story of sadly
of illegal immigrants up in Montgomery County who are accused

(22:08):
of sexually assaulting a fourteen year old girl. Just one
more victim of the past administration's open border. In a
story that breaks about the same time, is that that
of Democrat members of Congress who want to fly to
El Salvador for a welfare check on a man who
was mistakenly sent to a prison there but is alleged

(22:29):
to have ties to MS thirteen. I don't know that
man's history, and I am sorry that there's been an
issue with that, but I do wish that Democrats would
would do welfare checks on people who actually live here
in areas currently heavy with dangerous gang members in our

(22:50):
own country. That trip it's made is it's a photo op, okay,
and it's one that they're going to try to use
to show how caring they are for everybody on the planet.
But when you start talking about people who have dangerous histories,
and again, I don't know that man's history, so I'm
not going to judge him at all. It may be
that he doesn't need to be there, but that's not

(23:13):
for me to say. I don't know. But nonetheless, it's
just it's kind of frustrating, kind of frustrating. From the
same desk. By the way, comes word that Caroline Levitt
came down pretty hard on an NBC reporter when he
failed to recognize the difference between information released on ice
arrests just kind of local stuff, and then information on

(23:34):
men sent to that prison in El Salvador, and Levitt
quickly reminded him that the people sent there were foreign
terrorists and that their deportation was a counter terrorism operation,
which is totally different from the other stuff that goes
on more locally from the fashion police desk. Will Would

(23:59):
you have ever dream that I would tell you something
about fashion? Yeah, you do constantly. That's well, yeah, you
know me the old clothes horse that I am. Anyway,
comes word that Starbucks now has a dress code for
its baristas, and you can bet they're not going to
go out and buy the clothes that they're demanding that
these baristas wear starting May twelve. I was gonna say,

(24:24):
henceforth throughout the land, but it doesn't start until May twelfth.
That gives them time, you know, to save up money
for the clothes they're gonna have to buy, because somebody
somewhere in the upper echelons of Starbucks has decided that
they will only be allowed to wear a black top,
only black, and either shades of black, khaki or blue

(24:48):
denim pants. That's all they can wear. Beneath that green apron,
because they say that will allow their iconic green aprons
to quote shine and create a sense of familiarity for
our customers end quote. Okay, first of all, I get it.
If they're wearing that green apron they work at Starbucks.

(25:10):
I've been seeing it for years. Just give me my
coffee and let me out of there. I don't care.
So long as they're wearing something under the apron. I'm
okay with that. They can wear shorts if they want to.
I don't care. Just give me my coffee the way
I ask for it and let me out of there.
From the hum boy, there's a lot. How about you

(25:32):
want some medical news? Will sure. This is very short,
and it is enabled. It has enabled a woman in
Great Britain to give birth, and she wasn't able to
until This is the this is the science fiction part.
She is She has given birth already to a child

(25:55):
after receiving a transplanted womb from I'm her sister. Her
sister apparently said, you know, I've got all I want here.
If this thing will work for you, have at it.
And indeed, the surgeons and doctors and everybody else who
was involved in this team transplanted that thing at least

(26:17):
what you have to assume at least nine or ten
months ago, and the woman has now given birth to
a baby. Didn't say what baby, baby, boy, baby girl, baby, whatever,
But nonetheless that was a successful surgery that I wouldn't
have even dreamed possible. And now I've got to add
that to the repertoire of hundreds of things since I

(26:40):
started this show that I wouldn't have dreamed medically possible,
but now are possible. It's really fun doing the research
for this show and for the little things that I
go looking for and the sites that I go to
to find them. And when you come across something like this,
which could be a game changer for so many, so

(27:01):
many women in the world and families in the world,
it's really uplifting. It really is. On the downside, if
you like working for a living from the AI desk,
by way of Bill Gates and Microsoft News, thank you
very much, comes word that AI may soon replace two
professions long believed to be pretty much immune to take

(27:24):
over by machines, and those two would be teaching and medicine.
On the upside, AI could help our country offset what's
expected to be a shortage of about eighty six thousand
medical specialists and primary care doctors by about twenty thirty
six or so, somewhere near Already in the UK, a

(27:45):
high school a high school in London has replaced teachers
with chat GPT to help students prepare for exams. Eventually,
according to Gates, robots are going to perform construction jobs.
They are going to do janitorial jobs. They're gonna do
it just more and more jobs that people do as
the technology and the dexterity of the robots improve. And

(28:09):
it's coming at us like a break train. So I
don't know where that leaves two or three generations from now.
There's an interesting transition taking place, and if I can
flesh it out, maybe i'll talk about it one day.
And I think it's I think it's very relevant, and
it's gonna become all the more relevant as we move forward.

(28:30):
All Right, it's time take the last broke break of
the program, not broke of the program, and we will
be back in just a couple of minutes. Thank you
all for listening. Give us a second, we'll be right back.
I'm Dougie's will. This is fifty plus on AM nine
to fifty kprc Aged to Perfection. This is fifty plus
with Doug Pike. All right, welcome back, final tvels out? Will,

(28:51):
was that better? Much? Sorry about that? I know you'll
take care of it. That's that's the confidence I have
in you fixing my mistake. That's what you do, and
it's a it's a task. I understand that. I recognize that.
So coming back, let's let's go a little softer, Will,
because after all, there's just so much weirdness and craziness

(29:13):
in the world, some of which I want to talk about,
some of which I don't want to talk about, and
a lot of it just kind of falls in the middle.
But some of this stuff is kind of fun and
I'm I'm happy to talk about it. So first of all, Will,
do you know what today is? National? Whatever day? It
doesn't show it on the screen, so.

Speaker 3 (29:33):
National starts with an L National Losers Day.

Speaker 2 (29:41):
Oh it's not your birthday, Will, that's a joke, you know,
It's all I just couldn't. Maybe today I'll just leave
in those little little songs in the podcast. Uh, you
better not. That would be on you, not me, And
I apologize. The better way I should have handled that.

(30:03):
Would I would have said, no, it's not my birthday. Will.
I don't know why I did that to you. I apologize.
Today is National Librarian Day. Do you know any librarians?

Speaker 1 (30:13):
I do.

Speaker 2 (30:13):
My godfather was really well. That means we've been life
is a librarian? I think. Oh, so that's two for you.
I have one. Who is the I believe I want
to say girlfriend and possibly former girlfriend of an old
old friend of mine. I mean, these two have dated

(30:33):
for gay close to thirty years. How's that she the
librarian and he an old old friend of mine. Let's
go here. Will the King of communication snap, crackle and pop?
Or another alternative to the gymnasium? Another alternative to the

(30:56):
Gymney's You know, if I had just said another alternative
to the gym, would you still have picked it? Yes?
I'm curious. I thought maybe since I rolled out that
it just got no never mind, it doesn't matter. Study
found that even if you don't work out, there's hope
for all of us. Will you can get some of
the same health benefits just by rushing through stuff you

(31:17):
do routinely, even five minutes a day of things like
speed vacuuming a rug can make a difference. Instead of
just standing there, just push it out there, pull it back,
push it out, just run around, make a racetrack out
of your living room and just vacuum it all in

(31:39):
record time and you will get the same or close
to the same health benefits as going all the way
to the gym and working out. I don't know that
you get much credit for dusting, really, but what you
could do. You know, you could put like wrist weights
on your wrist, a couple of pounds on each wrist
to do your dusting. That would Boy, you build up

(32:00):
your shoulders pretty quick doing that. Will any plans? Maybe? No? No,
Come on, I get a lot.

Speaker 3 (32:09):
I get a lot of working out when I because
my washer and dryer are outside in the backyard. Oh okay,
I have to carry the laundry from the second floor
all the way outside and down and then bring it
back up.

Speaker 2 (32:25):
That's a lot of steps. That's a lot of steps.
Then huh, yeah, it's not bad. I'm gonna leave King
of Communication in there. Then I'll go to All Gone
or in a pickle um All Gone. Mark Zuckerberg as
the story that I found at this random source of

(32:47):
mind goes once considered deleting all of our Facebook friends
and making everyone start over. You agree with that, you
think that you don't have facebooks? I know, but I
do care. Uh. The friends aspect, he said, has been declining,
and they wanted to make people kind of reconnect with

(33:09):
all of that. I am so glad that he didn't
do that, because I, like a lot of people, would
just say, you know what, starting over after the experiences
I've had with identity theft in getting my little Facebook
account hacked, I don't. I just I'd lose interest. I
have a lot of friend requests right now, and some

(33:33):
of them are from people who I absolutely know positively
I have no interest in talking to. I just say
their names. No, I don't say. These are all like
young women. Oh I saw on Facebook that you whatever,
that we could be friends. It's just so vague and

(33:55):
so ridiculous, and I'm not falling for that silliness. That's
just somebody's way of hacking into my stuff. Again, not
going to do it. And even if you're listening and
you and you've sent me a friend request, and if
you have, I thank you, but follow it up with
an email to me to let me know that you're legit.
Follow me up with someone that we have mutual friendships with,

(34:19):
who I can call and who will vouch for you,
because I have had to deal with that so many
times that I just get flustered and frustrated. And even
some of the ones I think are somewhat legit, I
have to wait and I wait and I wait, and
I put them off for a long time. And so
if you're in that category, I truly apologize to you.

(34:39):
But I'm just I'm aware of what happens when I
have to go through there and friends of mine are
getting weird emails or they're getting friend requests from me
that they know we're already friends. It's just they're phishing expeditions,
and I refuse to participate in them. All right, Will
back to you one more time, sir, cool the wagons

(35:02):
rather get audited or eggxasperating. Egg exasperating. I know I
could get you with that one. A semi truck hauling
twenty four thousand pounds of eggs burst into flames last
Friday in Illinois. Year About that, mmmm, fried eggs?

Speaker 1 (35:22):
Huh?

Speaker 4 (35:22):
You know.

Speaker 2 (35:23):
Fortunately nobody was hurt, but the way I'm looking at
I think it was something like one hundred and something
thousand dollars worth of egg twenty four thousand pounds, one
hundred and thirty hundred and fifty thousand dollars worth of eggs.
Where where was guinness when you just cooked the world's
largest omelet twenty four thousand pounds of eggs and fire?

Speaker 3 (35:46):
And remember a couple of weeks ago we talked about
that truck that loaded in eighty thousand pounds of meat.

Speaker 2 (35:54):
Oh yeah, steak and eggs. You know, you know stn't
all those states were stolen? How what? What had to
go wrong on the loading dock for a counterfeit truck
to pull up and talk them out of What was it?
How many pounds? Eighty eight eighty thousand pounds of meat?

(36:17):
That's I don't know, that's bad. I'm gonna go back
to Rather get audited. This is fun. We'll make it
all the way to the end. Just talking to you.
That's that's just gonna make my day, will it? Really?
It really does?

Speaker 1 (36:27):
I have?

Speaker 2 (36:28):
I was out for two days straight, so we're catching up.
Where's doze when you need it? Rather get audited or
circle the wagons.

Speaker 3 (36:36):
I thought you said you wanted to do rather get audited,
I'd really like to circle the wagons.

Speaker 2 (36:42):
Then God. Footage went viral yesterday of elephants at a
zoo in San Diego that reacted to an earth actually
was on Monday, an earthquake on Monday. And you know
what they did, Well, they instinctively, I'll tell you anyway,
they instinctively formed a circle around the youngest elephants in

(37:03):
the herd, which is kind of cool. I hope somebody
will circle around me if we ever have an earthquake
around here. I won't know how to act if the
ground started shaking right now underneath our feet. Will how
would you react? Mm? Probably get a little gigu with it,
other than taking it, just taking a mad dash for
the front door, get as far away from the building

(37:24):
as it can, group of pickleballers. I can get this
really quickly. Will Is this the audited one? No, I'll
do that then instead, Yeah, because no, we'll save it
for tomorrow. In Imperial Rome, will we may be able
to do both tax sheets? What happened to tax sheets
in Rome back in the day.

Speaker 3 (37:45):
Mmm, they were moved up the ranks.

Speaker 2 (37:48):
No, they got fed to the jaguars. They did, they
got fed to jag or leopards. Excuse me, not jaguars leopards.
So yeah, prefer to be audited. That's about all the
time we've got real quick. Most of the static you
hear on the radio is caused by a radiation field
around Jupiter. Who figured that out? I thought it was

(38:12):
just stormy weather. We'll be back tomorrow. Thanks for listening,
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