August 8, 2025 • 35 mins
Today, Doug Pike interviews Crystal Walter about cognitive impairment and anxiety in elders. Pike also speaks with John Eitman of Kountry Boyz Roofing about his business.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:45):
All Right, welcome aboard, Holy Cow, Welcome yet again to
fifty plus on yet another day. It's gonna look a
lot like the one before it, and probably, if the
forecast are right, a lot like the one after it.
On my way home yesterday from a little run to
the golf course to work on some things, I left
there because I'm smart enough to come in from the rain. Now,
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it wasn't raining when I left, but there was a
significant thunderstorm building and i'd call it almost due east
of where I was, and lightning apparent the whole nine yard.
Things that would run you off of a golf course,
And so that's what I did. I got off the
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golf course and headed home. And guess what, yesterday, same place,
same time, same exact scenario. There's a building thunderstorm and
I'm getting out of there, and I get out of
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there just in time, and I'm on Highway ninety headed
home and Highway ninety between ninety nine and Highway six
moving east, and in front of me, in front of
me is this giant rainbow that stretches from well north
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of ninety to well south of ninety just it fills
the whole windshield. Basically, both days, same rainbow, same place,
same time, same road. And as if that weren't enough
of a groundhog Day experience, the heavens opened up at
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nearly the exact same time as I got closer to home,
which was about two minutes after I ran into the
grocery store thinking I had a couple more minutes to
pick up a couple of things, and then came outside
to realize that the rain had started without me, and
so I had to kind of stand there and hang
out for a little bit and wait till I could
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run to the car. I can't run as fast as
I used to, and I didn't have big loads of groceries.
I had enough that I could carry it in one hand.
I didn't have to push the basket all the way
out there. But nonetheless, nonetheless that was it was pretty creepy, really,
except except for what was in those bags. That entire
scene kind of played out identically on both days, complete
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with the same rainbows, the same building, thunderstorms. I only
wish I could remember what songs were on the radio
when I was going through all of that, because if
they had been the same, I just started wondering whether
we're all real beings or just avatars in some future
futuristic three D live action game being played by people
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with foot long fingers and and bulging eyeballs and giant brains.
Probably not, but it's a thought. Computers can't be that smart, right,
or can they? Here's the CEO of one of the
big AI companies came right out and said this week
that a new version of the GPT platform has him
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a little spooped, a little worried that AI is advancing
too quickly and has potential to kind of turn on
the people who are writing the code and setting up
the platforms. I don't know enough about that to understand
how that works, but I know that if a guy
who's in charge of it is a little bit concerned
that it's moving too fast, it's probably moving too fast probably,
So there was just there was a deal. There's Eric,
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my boy, he's waiting. He needs thirty more minutes before
we're gonna talk. Talk to him. I'll text him when
we go to the break. That's John Eiman from Country
Boys Roofing. I want to I'm gonna interview him today
and I want you to learn about not just about
his company, but I'm gonna I'm gonna quiz him on
how to avoid roofers who aren't in his category. And
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there aren't very many in his category actually, so he's
a good guy to talk about that. In any event,
this AI that's going on and coming about has different
personalities ca work with you. When you're asking it questions,
it can answer with the personality of four different types
of people. Very it just gets deeper and deeper and deeper,
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and it's a little bit scary, to be perfectly honest,
it really is to me too. There was a company,
a smaller company just a few weeks ago, I believe
it was, that had an issue they were internally discussing
by email whether or not that they needed as much
AI exposure as they had, and the AI of that
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company jumped in and responded by basically almost extorting them
until leaving it alone. And that's kind of that's really
over the top, kind of threatened to tear down the
firm software if that plan proceeded. We've been invented these
machines that are capable of calculating at the speed of light,
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things that are things that have taken us decades to
even think about. Decades, and in theory anyway, those same machines,
if they're capable of thinking on their own about how
to push us out of the equation, they'll be able
to get that done before any of us even thinks
about unplugging it and rebooting it like the IT Department
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would do. You if it comes to that, I'm gonna
unplug it and I'm gonna throw it in the ocean
off a really high cliff, and I'm gonna bounce it
off a couple of rocks before it hits the water.
With all the connections between all the computers in the world,
now think about that, there's no telling what AI is
going to be able to do in the future. And
if it comes down to it, whether any human will
be able to shut it down once it initiates whatever
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scenario it feels best serves its purposes. Well, welcome to
the twilight zone. Let's take a little break here, shall
we will. I'm gonna tee it up this morning with
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The most common procedures called prostate artery embolization. Look at that,
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And by the way, most of everything they do over
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Speaker 1 (08:05):
That's why every few months we wash them, check us words,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike, and welcome back.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Thank you for listening, of course, says always hopping on
the train. Here we'll talk in this segment sort of
piggybacking on yesterday's visit with doctor Paul Schultz about Alzheimer's disease.
Today we're going to talk about a connection between cognitive
impairment and anxiety. And this time I'm signing up Crystal Walter,
a licensed clinical social worker at UTI Physicians who's been
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doing what she does now for sixteen years. Welcome back, Crystal, Good.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
To have you, Hi, Glad to be here, Dougs.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
All right, so let's start with the anxiety part. Maybe
an explanation of the differences in how that looks in
younger adults compared to seniors. You know, I think, uh, oh,
we're having there's there's a little bit of trouble. I
don't know whether you moved or shuffled or whatever. There
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I can hear you now, yes, okay, go.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Ahead, Okay.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
So yes, we're noticing that there is some issues with
mental health going under radar with elders, especially with anxiety.
Some of the symptoms that we notice as far as
cognitively and emotionally, it can look different with elders. So
sometimes you see the difficulty concentrating. Sometimes this is really
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just anxiety.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
You know.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
People are quick to assume, oh is a dementia, not necessarily,
but we see if we don't treat anxiety that it
can really make dementia manifest sooner than later. Others. It's
a memory problems, you know, experiencing memory lapses blaxes are
heightened anxiety because of a natural memory decline. Right, So
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we got mild cognitive impairment, which is very common in
everyone that ages, totally different than dementia. And sometimes we
start having some mild cognitive impairments and we start our
minds start racing.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Oh boy, yeah, that all the way to the finish
line where you just can't remember anything and you're stuck
in somewhere you don't want to be correct.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
That's where the irrational fears into play.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
So which typically comes first, the anxiety chicken or the
dementia egg.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
You know, that's a debate, but I would honestly say
the anxiety thugs. The anxiety. It starts there and it
goes back to self care. And when we start feeling
those fears and thoughts, those racing thoughts in our heads,
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the heart palpitations, that's when we need to really slow down,
pause and really find the space to be vulnerable, to
share with the loved woman or medical team. Hey, I'm
really not feeling well right now.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
And let's just make sure right here. I had a
little lower in my list, but I'm going to bring
it up right now since you kind of did. Everybody
listening here ought to realize, as they should, that emotional
and mental issues aren't being swept under the rug anymore.
It's okay to talk about them, and even better to
be proactive about getting help. Right.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
That's right. You know, there is power and being vulnerable,
and a lot of times it's hard for us as
elders to be vulnerable because one, we don't want to
admit that we need help or we're not operating at
our desired level of capacity. But understanding that it's okay,
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and understanding that you know, you do have safe spaces
to share, and if you don't reach out to your
doctor or a therapist, specifically a geriatric therapist psychotherapist, it.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Did really it would help, really, I think, to just
get rid of and it's not gonna all go away,
but to at least get rid of as much as
you can that, just like we talked about the anticipatory anxiety,
because that's just gonna that's just fuel on the fire.
It's gas on the fire.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Oh my god, let me leave you all with a
tip on that.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
A lot of.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Times when we have what you're describing, it's all rooted
in fear, and fear is an acronym for false expectations
appearing real. And in therapy we talk a lot about that.
There are different types of therapy modalities that address this. Right,
you got cognitive behavioral therapy, you have acceptance and commitment therapy,
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and then you also have integrative modalities like yoga hi
chi that not only help you, clear your mind, clear
your thoughts, but slow down, go down the thought, pump
down our movement.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
On a one to ten scale, Crystal, where one is
me and tennis Brad Pitt, how would you score the
current accessibility of mental health management for seniors?
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Oh hmm, that's a tough scale. I will say that
a lot of it. Okay, so let's take the scale
away if you don't mind. Sure, I want to say
that we need to really there are resources, but yes,
there could be more, and we are lacking in that area.
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But I think it starts with conversation, and those conversations
start with a medical professional. You know, you don't have
to have a therapist right now, but if you have
at least a doctor or is someone in your family
to say, hey, I need help, then we can guide
and direct you and help you find the help that
you need. But no, it's not out there.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
We're not.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
You know, people's number one priority. But the help is there.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
One thing before we go, I saw something about a
caregiver's retreat coming up soon. Talk about that for a
couple of minutes.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Okay, So we have a caregiver retreat which is tied
to keeping the anxiety down too, and we're welcoming the
community August sixteenth, Saturday at the Kingdom Builders Center Events.
Then you we're going to be practicing mindful meditation, We're
going to be doing soundback therapy, yoga, the things that
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we talked about to keep the anxiety away because you
have to focus on self care. So if you're a
family care and you'd like to register, if there are
spots available, you are welcome to register and you can
reach us at Caregivers Retreat at ut H dot t
MC dot ed.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
U, UH dot TMC dot e d U Caregivers Retreat.
That's such a great thing. You know, I try that
yoga stuff, but I'm scared I'd snap a here for something.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
And that's okay. You do not have to do yoga.
You can do mindful meditation. There's so many objects out there.
So let's be open and if you're having symptoms of anxiety,
let's get the help before it exacerbates and brings symptoms
like dementia or diagnosis like dementia into our lives.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Yeah, so many of us at my age certainly start
to you start to forget a couple of little things,
and they are little things. That is, I'm convinced now
after doing interviews with you and several other people on
the subject, that they are just kind of normal. And
I hate it because and I'm doing all the brain
exercises and whatnot that I can, I actually do that.
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I'm big into word games and stuff like that. I
keep my brain working, but they're still every now and then,
we're going to leave my keys where whatever. And the greatest,
the greatest consolation I got was from someone I wish
it it may have been you who told me it's
okay to forget where you put your keys, it's not
okay to forget what they're for. And that makes such a.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Exactly exactly Christmas between. Yes, that's the difference between mild
cognitive and pairment dementia, where we start forgetting what is
it for our executive functioning? And so if I can
leave you all with some really gems, yes, let's improve
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our lifestyle. We have to be active. We have to
pay attention to our diet because our diet is linked
to our cardiovascular health, which is also linked to our
cognitive health and social isolation. If we don't use our brains,
we will lose it. And the first way and easiest
way you can use it. It's with social connection, so engagement,
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getting out, volunteering. Let's start there. And if we can
start there, I promise we're making efforts to keep dementia
away as long as possible.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Thank you so much, Crystal Walter, You're always a pleasure
to visit with. I hope we can do it again
sometime soon.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
I look forward to it. Doug, thank you.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
All Right, we've got to take a little break here,
and on the way out, I'm going to tell you
about country boys roofing. We're in the middle of storm season, okay,
and there's just there's no time like now to get
that reof of yours checked out by country boys. They're
going to be coming in and they're going to get
up on that roof of yours and they're gonna walk
it front to back, side, side, whatever it takes to
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look and make sure that every nook, every cranny of
it is prepared for storms. That's the real test of
a Roof's a lot of kind of shady roofs, let's
call them, can get away with light rains or even
some of the brief heavy rains, but when there's wind
and rain coming at you. That's when if there's a
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problem with a roof, it's going to be exposed. And
that's what Country Boys is gonna come over to your
house and find before it becomes a problem. They'll be
out there within a short amount of time, probably a
day two at the most, to make sure your roof
is ready. And one of the things that I've talked
to John Aipman about and we're gonna be talking to
him in just a couple of minutes, is how important
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it is to make sure you're talking to the right
roof or somebody who knows what they're doing. And we're
going to get a couple of tips out of him
on what questions to ask to make sure that you're
in the right hands. Probably the only question you really
need to ask is it are you from Country Boys Roof?
And that would solve all the problems. You can get
a fifteen hundred dollars discount on a complete roof if
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you are a first responder, a teacher, if you're active military,
and even if you're not any of that, you can
still get a thousand dollars off just for dropping my name.
And no, like I said yesterday, you cannot stack those discounts. Okay,
give the guy a break. He's doing everybody he can
a really solid thing because he cares about making sure
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all these roofs are right. We'll talk to him some
more in just a little bit. Country Boy's Roofing. You
can spell it the Boomer way, you can spell it
the gen Z way, and you'll still get to the
right spot. Countryboys at Roofing dot com. What's life without
a nap? I suggest to go to bed, sleep it off,
just wait until the show's over. Sleepy.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
All right, welcome back to fifty plus, Thanks for listening,
Thanks for dropping in for this segment. My hope is
to accomplish two things. First, I'm going to be introducing
a new a new sponsor of this program, and he's
gonna teach us how to not get burned if we
need the services of a roofer, either for a minor repair,
maybe a whole new lid on your house. And with
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that I will welcome in John Eiman from Country Boys
roof and thanks for your time. John.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Hey, how you doing, Doug? Thank you for having us.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
I'm good man. Are you on a roof now, No, but.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
I've been on them this morning already.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
I'm sure ringing red Oh yeah, Holy cow. It doesn't
have to rain to get ringing wet around here, does it.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
No, not at all.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
So let's spend a couple of minutes on you in
the company. What got you into roofing?
Speaker 4 (20:38):
Uh, funny story. I was, I was always interested in
and I was always, you know, driving by this one
particular company years ago, doing another job, working for another,
working for in another industry. Sure, and I was like, now,
I don't wonder how these guys make money, And got
tired and burned out in the other industry and went
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went to work for and then I broke away from
them after a couple of years, went on my own.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Good for you, man, thank you, Good for you. Yeah,
it's it's not It's scary opening a new business, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
Well, yeah it is. I mean I'm not a silver spoon,
golden spoon pit baby boy and all this and baby book.
I mean we when my wife and I opened went
out on our own years ago. We did this with
our own money. Yeah, we didn't have family backing or
investor or. No, this was done by me. And me alone,
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her too, but you know, yeah, it was mostly it
was for the longest just me alone.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Wow, how long you been doing me?
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Now, I've been in the industry now for fourteen going on, yeah,
about fourteen years. Fifteen years this March.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
When I teach you up first time yesterday, I mentioned
that fifteen dollars discount on a complete roof for military
active duty first responders teachers. What sparked that little chunk
of generosity for you?
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Because I'm just trying to give back. Yeah, I mean,
you know, first responders, whether it's EMT's law enforcement, firefighters, military, active, retired, disabled.
I mean I've run across you know, T some my
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niece and her now my two great oldest great nieces
are educators. They're now you know, all three of them
are teachers. And we have friends that are teachers and
educators out here, and so I mean, and it's I mean, look, man,
everything's hard. Yeah, yeah, I mean, I don't care who's what,
doing what, running what office. It's hard out there. So
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if I'm able to give back any way, shape or form,
then the way that I teach my people is that
we're not in it to hit a grand slam. I'll
take quality and quantity every day over one big, huge
we just we just nailed this huge, giant client and everything.
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I just soon to do it that a way, that's
just the way I've always been with hands on.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Yeah, and let's talk about how the public has to
deal with hands on deal hands on with with roovers.
If they need a repair, they need a replacement. From
from the customer's point of view, Johan, what are some
of the red flags that probably ought to end the
conversation before it starts.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
First thing, first sign this? Oh yeah, don't right, don't
sign nothing. Don't don't just don't just sign. Look, when
you sign something, if you're going to sign something with
a roofer, do it when you have agreed upon on
the pricing and you have agreed upon the ay that
the roof is going to be prepared or replaced. Don't
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go don't listen to Oh you got to sign this.
What's called an insurance contingency and insurance Claus's look all
not written. It's not worth the piece of paper is
written on it will not stand up in court unless
they show you on the back of their contracts a
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three day writer recision clause and you initially it's you know,
just don't sign. You get a couple of bit whether
you call us or you call five other different roofers,
and you don't use us, do your homework, whatever you do,
whatever you do, do not pay somebody up front. Please people,
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This is some people. Oh well I've got to have
half money down so i can get the material. Okay,
you're a roofer or you're a plumber, or you're a
brick layer or whatever. You don't have working capital.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Yeah, that's a good point.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
You don't have credit across the Harris County, fork ben
whatever county to buy materials with.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
John Hightman from the Country Boys Roofing here on fifty
plus this afternoon, talk a little bit about we only
got two minutes left already. Holy can we have to
do this again? Talk about shingles and ratings and how
important that is when we live in a hurricane zone
to use quality materials.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
Speaking of shingles, you know on your homes, we all
have ninety nine percent of the homes have what is
called a thirty year architectural shingle. It's the heaviest and
the thickest for the money. Yes, there are fifty year
roof shingles out there that you know. Those shingles are
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those fifty years are They're very very very expensive. Yeah,
well they will last you, they would, They live up
to their names. But yeah, we use an Atlas Pinnacle
thirty year shingle. They're very good, very reliable. They have
the six percent more copper which is in a shingle
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to fight stained resistant and algae. They have the highest
copper rating ratio in the business compared to all the
other manufacturers. And what's great too, as my representative, my
shingle rep from Atlas Mark lives right here and friends.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Oh good, yeah, good good. Believe it or not, John Aiman,
we are already done, man, I'm out of time, but
I do. I've got half a page questions. I'm gonna
get you back on in a few weeks.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
Okay, yeah, absolutely, I feel yeah. I mean, I love
educating everybody and helping however we can.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
I know you do, partner, John Aiman, Country boys, roof
and thank you man, Thank you guys, sir audios. All right,
we got to take a little break here. Holy cow,
that was quick. Holy cow. Ut Health Institute on Aging
an amazing collaborative of providers from every medical discipline. They
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work primarily in the med center. Who could have guessed that, huh,
But they also come at least a day or two
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that diploma so that they could apply their knowledge to seniors,
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with Doug Pike. I'm deciding whether I want to go
to and I had so many choices today. I had
all these extra pages I was going to bring in
here and work kind of whittled down from the things
that had hit the floor by the way, before I
get too far beyond it, where is that piece of
paper the teacher of the day, And I've got to
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go back here? Yeah, there it is right there. The
teacher of today at for today. This is something iHeart
is doing. Is Loretta Kaiser from Harvey Turner Elementary School,
who was noted as pretty much being somebody who will
just do whatever it takes to make the whole school better.
She is, see somebody you want on your team if
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you're a teacher. And we're doing this all the way
through the month. I believe as we get kids going
back to school, all you have to do is go
to iHeartRadio. I believe it's dash or iHeartRadio dot com
slash teacher. I'm pretty sure that's it. And if it's not,
I'll sort it out. I'll put something at my web
page actually, or my Facebook page. I'll put something on
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Facebook about it, because I don't want to mess that up.
And I left the piece of paper that has it
all on it at my desk. Who knew. Okay, I've
got that taken care of. I've got this taken care of.
That can go over here into that stack. And now,
which way do I want to go, Ah, how can
I not address the conniption fit that Judge Lena had
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all Go had yesterday when the county commissioners voted against
a property tax hike she proposed to boost chalkcare programs.
And I have to wonder why she was pushing so
hard to get that money. And I also wonder who's
she really trying to help with that, because she was
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clearly well so much so out of line according to
the commissioners that they voted three to one to censure her.
And that takes a lot. That level of escalation says
to me, at least there might be more to this
than me ci. I have no idea, really, who knows,
not us, that's for sure. I'm just glad she didn't
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hike taxes again. Taxes we pay across the board are
just too high anyway. We get taxed on our income
and then we go start spending that income, and pretty
much everywhere we spend that income, we get taxed on
those already taxed dollars. So hats off to the commissioners
who opted to do right by the taxpayers. Good for them.
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Speaking sort of about children, RFK juniors pushing back to
block the purchase or pushing hard really not pushing back.
He's just pushing to block the purchase of soda and
candy with food stamps. That program, I think is supposed
to improve the health of families who can't afford healthy food,
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not to satisfy the sweet teeth the people who are
supported by taxpayers in order to get healthy, not to
get diabetes. That's messed up, and I don't have a
problem at all with what he's trying to do. There
are so many healthier choices than soda and candy that
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the people who need that help can make instead of
making bad choices with the dollars that we provide them
with the little wheat. Once again, my mouth ahead of
my brain. With the Little League World Series crowning one
regional champ after another, this week comes the story of
a younger boy attending a game out in California, and
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out of nowhere, this kid was attacked by a coyote
that actually tore him up pretty badly, bitting in the neck.
It scratched him all to pieces. This animal tore that
kid up really badly, and by the wounds, as I
read it, this coyote had every intention of killing that
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kid and dragging him off into the woods. Fortunately, the
boy's mom heard the commotion behind her behind the stands
and raced out and scared that animal away. All she
had to do was yell at it. It knew that
it was not as big and as mean as that
woman was going to be protecting her baby, and that
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took care of that. To anyone who calls coyotes song dogs,
as a lot of animal rights people tend to do,
trying to impart some sort of snatch up some sympathy
for these things, don't fool yourself. They are high level
apex predators. Uh. And they're only holding that position because
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we don't have any wolves around here. And if they
come after you, they're gonna get you. Well, they're not
gonna get you, but they're gonna get your little dog,
they're gonna get your cat, they're gonna get your small children.
And this whole song dog thing somewhere, somehow is gonna
end up costing some kid his or her life someday,
(33:27):
if it hadn't already happened. I've seen videos of pets
being snatched by coyotes, and it's just not pretty and
it shouldn't happen. I'll leave that alone. I'll go over here.
I got about a minute and a half.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Hmm.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Here's a question to throw out at the at the
gathering if the gathering gets a little quiet. Does a
layover at an airport count as visiting a state? I
don't think layovers count really, because you haven't you haven't
set ground outside of the airport. I think that's important.
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Fourteen percent of Americans think that's the minimum required to
requirement to say you've been somewhere. Twenty seven percent say
driving through the state is a minimum, twenty one say
it's a full trip with sight seeing, and two percent
percent think you can you can say yeah, yeah, I've
been there. If you just fly over it, that's messed up.
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That's not right. Sidney Sweeny's great genes have been on
display in the news lately, and Paul asked, what's a
small way you won the genetic lottery? The answers there
are pretty interesting. One a huge bladder, and the older
I get, the more I could appreciate that. The second
is double eyelashes, about which I could not care least
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one another good one is no reaction to poison ivy
and for who. For what it's worth, somebody was born
with three functional kidneys. I got lots more to talk about.
We'll do it next time. Audios,
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All Right, welcome aboard, Holy Cow, Welcome yet again to
fifty plus on yet another day. It's gonna look a
lot like the one before it, and probably, if the
forecast are right, a lot like the one after it.
On my way home yesterday from a little run to
the golf course to work on some things, I left
there because I'm smart enough to come in from the rain. Now,
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it wasn't raining when I left, but there was a
significant thunderstorm building and i'd call it almost due east
of where I was, and lightning apparent the whole nine yard.
Things that would run you off of a golf course,
And so that's what I did. I got off the
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golf course and headed home. And guess what, yesterday, same place,
same time, same exact scenario. There's a building thunderstorm and
I'm getting out of there, and I get out of
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there just in time, and I'm on Highway ninety headed
home and Highway ninety between ninety nine and Highway six
moving east, and in front of me, in front of
me is this giant rainbow that stretches from well north
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of ninety to well south of ninety just it fills
the whole windshield. Basically, both days, same rainbow, same place,
same time, same road. And as if that weren't enough
of a groundhog Day experience, the heavens opened up at
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nearly the exact same time as I got closer to home,
which was about two minutes after I ran into the
grocery store thinking I had a couple more minutes to
pick up a couple of things, and then came outside
to realize that the rain had started without me, and
so I had to kind of stand there and hang
out for a little bit and wait till I could
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run to the car. I can't run as fast as
I used to, and I didn't have big loads of groceries.
I had enough that I could carry it in one hand.
I didn't have to push the basket all the way
out there. But nonetheless, nonetheless that was it was pretty creepy, really,
except except for what was in those bags. That entire
scene kind of played out identically on both days, complete
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with the same rainbows, the same building, thunderstorms. I only
wish I could remember what songs were on the radio
when I was going through all of that, because if
they had been the same, I just started wondering whether
we're all real beings or just avatars in some future
futuristic three D live action game being played by people
(03:40):
with foot long fingers and and bulging eyeballs and giant brains.
Probably not, but it's a thought. Computers can't be that smart, right,
or can they? Here's the CEO of one of the
big AI companies came right out and said this week
that a new version of the GPT platform has him
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a little spooped, a little worried that AI is advancing
too quickly and has potential to kind of turn on
the people who are writing the code and setting up
the platforms. I don't know enough about that to understand
how that works, but I know that if a guy
who's in charge of it is a little bit concerned
that it's moving too fast, it's probably moving too fast probably,
So there was just there was a deal. There's Eric,
(04:27):
my boy, he's waiting. He needs thirty more minutes before
we're gonna talk. Talk to him. I'll text him when
we go to the break. That's John Eiman from Country
Boys Roofing. I want to I'm gonna interview him today
and I want you to learn about not just about
his company, but I'm gonna I'm gonna quiz him on
how to avoid roofers who aren't in his category. And
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there aren't very many in his category actually, so he's
a good guy to talk about that. In any event,
this AI that's going on and coming about has different
personalities ca work with you. When you're asking it questions,
it can answer with the personality of four different types
of people. Very it just gets deeper and deeper and deeper,
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and it's a little bit scary, to be perfectly honest,
it really is to me too. There was a company,
a smaller company just a few weeks ago, I believe
it was, that had an issue they were internally discussing
by email whether or not that they needed as much
AI exposure as they had, and the AI of that
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company jumped in and responded by basically almost extorting them
until leaving it alone. And that's kind of that's really
over the top, kind of threatened to tear down the
firm software if that plan proceeded. We've been invented these
machines that are capable of calculating at the speed of light,
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things that are things that have taken us decades to
even think about. Decades, and in theory anyway, those same machines,
if they're capable of thinking on their own about how
to push us out of the equation, they'll be able
to get that done before any of us even thinks
about unplugging it and rebooting it like the IT Department
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would do. You if it comes to that, I'm gonna
unplug it and I'm gonna throw it in the ocean
off a really high cliff, and I'm gonna bounce it
off a couple of rocks before it hits the water.
With all the connections between all the computers in the world,
now think about that, there's no telling what AI is
going to be able to do in the future. And
if it comes down to it, whether any human will
be able to shut it down once it initiates whatever
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scenario it feels best serves its purposes. Well, welcome to
the twilight zone. Let's take a little break here, shall
we will. I'm gonna tee it up this morning with
a Late Health. This is the crew that well, it's
not a crew, it's it's yeah, it is. It's a
crew over at a Late Health in their clinic, a
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vascular clinic where doctor Andrew Doe leads the way in
taking care of things that can be alleviated, things that
need to go away and can be alleviated with vascular
procedures to either shut down the blood flow in one
direction or maybe increase the blood flow in another direction.
Go to the website, look around, see what they do.
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The most common procedures called prostate artery embolization. Look at that,
Look at fibroids for women, look at ugly veins. Everybody
can have those. All kinds of things that can be
done in their clinic that will keep you from having
to go to a hospital, will probably save you money.
And by the way, most of everything they do over
there is covered by Medicare. And Medicaid too. They do
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regenerative medicine as well, which is greatly successful with chronic pain,
and nobody should have to deal with that. A lighthealth
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That's why every few months we wash them, check us words,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike, and welcome back.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Thank you for listening, of course, says always hopping on
the train. Here we'll talk in this segment sort of
piggybacking on yesterday's visit with doctor Paul Schultz about Alzheimer's disease.
Today we're going to talk about a connection between cognitive
impairment and anxiety. And this time I'm signing up Crystal Walter,
a licensed clinical social worker at UTI Physicians who's been
(08:39):
doing what she does now for sixteen years. Welcome back, Crystal, Good.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
To have you, Hi, Glad to be here, Dougs.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
All right, so let's start with the anxiety part. Maybe
an explanation of the differences in how that looks in
younger adults compared to seniors. You know, I think, uh, oh,
we're having there's there's a little bit of trouble. I
don't know whether you moved or shuffled or whatever. There
(09:12):
I can hear you now, yes, okay, go.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Ahead, Okay.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
So yes, we're noticing that there is some issues with
mental health going under radar with elders, especially with anxiety.
Some of the symptoms that we notice as far as
cognitively and emotionally, it can look different with elders. So
sometimes you see the difficulty concentrating. Sometimes this is really
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just anxiety.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
You know.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
People are quick to assume, oh is a dementia, not necessarily,
but we see if we don't treat anxiety that it
can really make dementia manifest sooner than later. Others. It's
a memory problems, you know, experiencing memory lapses blaxes are
heightened anxiety because of a natural memory decline. Right, So
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we got mild cognitive impairment, which is very common in
everyone that ages, totally different than dementia. And sometimes we
start having some mild cognitive impairments and we start our
minds start racing.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Oh boy, yeah, that all the way to the finish
line where you just can't remember anything and you're stuck
in somewhere you don't want to be correct.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
That's where the irrational fears into play.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
So which typically comes first, the anxiety chicken or the
dementia egg.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
You know, that's a debate, but I would honestly say
the anxiety thugs. The anxiety. It starts there and it
goes back to self care. And when we start feeling
those fears and thoughts, those racing thoughts in our heads,
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the heart palpitations, that's when we need to really slow down,
pause and really find the space to be vulnerable, to
share with the loved woman or medical team. Hey, I'm
really not feeling well right now.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
And let's just make sure right here. I had a
little lower in my list, but I'm going to bring
it up right now since you kind of did. Everybody
listening here ought to realize, as they should, that emotional
and mental issues aren't being swept under the rug anymore.
It's okay to talk about them, and even better to
be proactive about getting help. Right.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
That's right. You know, there is power and being vulnerable,
and a lot of times it's hard for us as
elders to be vulnerable because one, we don't want to
admit that we need help or we're not operating at
our desired level of capacity. But understanding that it's okay,
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and understanding that you know, you do have safe spaces
to share, and if you don't reach out to your
doctor or a therapist, specifically a geriatric therapist psychotherapist, it.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Did really it would help, really, I think, to just
get rid of and it's not gonna all go away,
but to at least get rid of as much as
you can that, just like we talked about the anticipatory anxiety,
because that's just gonna that's just fuel on the fire.
It's gas on the fire.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Oh my god, let me leave you all with a
tip on that.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
A lot of.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Times when we have what you're describing, it's all rooted
in fear, and fear is an acronym for false expectations
appearing real. And in therapy we talk a lot about that.
There are different types of therapy modalities that address this. Right,
you got cognitive behavioral therapy, you have acceptance and commitment therapy,
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and then you also have integrative modalities like yoga hi
chi that not only help you, clear your mind, clear
your thoughts, but slow down, go down the thought, pump
down our movement.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
On a one to ten scale, Crystal, where one is
me and tennis Brad Pitt, how would you score the
current accessibility of mental health management for seniors?
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Oh hmm, that's a tough scale. I will say that
a lot of it. Okay, so let's take the scale
away if you don't mind. Sure, I want to say
that we need to really there are resources, but yes,
there could be more, and we are lacking in that area.
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But I think it starts with conversation, and those conversations
start with a medical professional. You know, you don't have
to have a therapist right now, but if you have
at least a doctor or is someone in your family
to say, hey, I need help, then we can guide
and direct you and help you find the help that
you need. But no, it's not out there.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
We're not.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
You know, people's number one priority. But the help is there.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
One thing before we go, I saw something about a
caregiver's retreat coming up soon. Talk about that for a
couple of minutes.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Okay, So we have a caregiver retreat which is tied
to keeping the anxiety down too, and we're welcoming the
community August sixteenth, Saturday at the Kingdom Builders Center Events.
Then you we're going to be practicing mindful meditation, We're
going to be doing soundback therapy, yoga, the things that
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we talked about to keep the anxiety away because you
have to focus on self care. So if you're a
family care and you'd like to register, if there are
spots available, you are welcome to register and you can
reach us at Caregivers Retreat at ut H dot t
MC dot ed.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
U, UH dot TMC dot e d U Caregivers Retreat.
That's such a great thing. You know, I try that
yoga stuff, but I'm scared I'd snap a here for something.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
And that's okay. You do not have to do yoga.
You can do mindful meditation. There's so many objects out there.
So let's be open and if you're having symptoms of anxiety,
let's get the help before it exacerbates and brings symptoms
like dementia or diagnosis like dementia into our lives.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Yeah, so many of us at my age certainly start
to you start to forget a couple of little things,
and they are little things. That is, I'm convinced now
after doing interviews with you and several other people on
the subject, that they are just kind of normal. And
I hate it because and I'm doing all the brain
exercises and whatnot that I can, I actually do that.
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I'm big into word games and stuff like that. I
keep my brain working, but they're still every now and then,
we're going to leave my keys where whatever. And the greatest,
the greatest consolation I got was from someone I wish
it it may have been you who told me it's
okay to forget where you put your keys, it's not
okay to forget what they're for. And that makes such a.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Exactly exactly Christmas between. Yes, that's the difference between mild
cognitive and pairment dementia, where we start forgetting what is
it for our executive functioning? And so if I can
leave you all with some really gems, yes, let's improve
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our lifestyle. We have to be active. We have to
pay attention to our diet because our diet is linked
to our cardiovascular health, which is also linked to our
cognitive health and social isolation. If we don't use our brains,
we will lose it. And the first way and easiest
way you can use it. It's with social connection, so engagement,
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getting out, volunteering. Let's start there. And if we can
start there, I promise we're making efforts to keep dementia
away as long as possible.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Thank you so much, Crystal Walter, You're always a pleasure
to visit with. I hope we can do it again
sometime soon.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
I look forward to it. Doug, thank you.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
All Right, we've got to take a little break here,
and on the way out, I'm going to tell you
about country boys roofing. We're in the middle of storm season, okay,
and there's just there's no time like now to get
that reof of yours checked out by country boys. They're
going to be coming in and they're going to get
up on that roof of yours and they're gonna walk
it front to back, side, side, whatever it takes to
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look and make sure that every nook, every cranny of
it is prepared for storms. That's the real test of
a Roof's a lot of kind of shady roofs, let's
call them, can get away with light rains or even
some of the brief heavy rains, but when there's wind
and rain coming at you. That's when if there's a
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problem with a roof, it's going to be exposed. And
that's what Country Boys is gonna come over to your
house and find before it becomes a problem. They'll be
out there within a short amount of time, probably a
day two at the most, to make sure your roof
is ready. And one of the things that I've talked
to John Aipman about and we're gonna be talking to
him in just a couple of minutes, is how important
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it is to make sure you're talking to the right
roof or somebody who knows what they're doing. And we're
going to get a couple of tips out of him
on what questions to ask to make sure that you're
in the right hands. Probably the only question you really
need to ask is it are you from Country Boys Roof?
And that would solve all the problems. You can get
a fifteen hundred dollars discount on a complete roof if
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you are a first responder, a teacher, if you're active military,
and even if you're not any of that, you can
still get a thousand dollars off just for dropping my name.
And no, like I said yesterday, you cannot stack those discounts. Okay,
give the guy a break. He's doing everybody he can
a really solid thing because he cares about making sure
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all these roofs are right. We'll talk to him some
more in just a little bit. Country Boy's Roofing. You
can spell it the Boomer way, you can spell it
the gen Z way, and you'll still get to the
right spot. Countryboys at Roofing dot com. What's life without
a nap? I suggest to go to bed, sleep it off,
just wait until the show's over. Sleepy.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
All right, welcome back to fifty plus, Thanks for listening,
Thanks for dropping in for this segment. My hope is
to accomplish two things. First, I'm going to be introducing
a new a new sponsor of this program, and he's
gonna teach us how to not get burned if we
need the services of a roofer, either for a minor repair,
maybe a whole new lid on your house. And with
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that I will welcome in John Eiman from Country Boys
roof and thanks for your time. John.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Hey, how you doing, Doug? Thank you for having us.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
I'm good man. Are you on a roof now, No, but.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
I've been on them this morning already.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
I'm sure ringing red Oh yeah, Holy cow. It doesn't
have to rain to get ringing wet around here, does it.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
No, not at all.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
So let's spend a couple of minutes on you in
the company. What got you into roofing?
Speaker 4 (20:38):
Uh, funny story. I was, I was always interested in
and I was always, you know, driving by this one
particular company years ago, doing another job, working for another,
working for in another industry. Sure, and I was like, now,
I don't wonder how these guys make money, And got
tired and burned out in the other industry and went
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went to work for and then I broke away from
them after a couple of years, went on my own.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Good for you, man, thank you, Good for you. Yeah,
it's it's not It's scary opening a new business, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
Well, yeah it is. I mean I'm not a silver spoon,
golden spoon pit baby boy and all this and baby book.
I mean we when my wife and I opened went
out on our own years ago. We did this with
our own money. Yeah, we didn't have family backing or
investor or. No, this was done by me. And me alone,
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her too, but you know, yeah, it was mostly it
was for the longest just me alone.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Wow, how long you been doing me?
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Now, I've been in the industry now for fourteen going on, yeah,
about fourteen years. Fifteen years this March.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
When I teach you up first time yesterday, I mentioned
that fifteen dollars discount on a complete roof for military
active duty first responders teachers. What sparked that little chunk
of generosity for you?
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Because I'm just trying to give back. Yeah, I mean,
you know, first responders, whether it's EMT's law enforcement, firefighters, military, active, retired, disabled.
I mean I've run across you know, T some my
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niece and her now my two great oldest great nieces
are educators. They're now you know, all three of them
are teachers. And we have friends that are teachers and
educators out here, and so I mean, and it's I mean, look, man,
everything's hard. Yeah, yeah, I mean, I don't care who's what,
doing what, running what office. It's hard out there. So
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if I'm able to give back any way, shape or form,
then the way that I teach my people is that
we're not in it to hit a grand slam. I'll
take quality and quantity every day over one big, huge
we just we just nailed this huge, giant client and everything.
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I just soon to do it that a way, that's
just the way I've always been with hands on.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Yeah, and let's talk about how the public has to
deal with hands on deal hands on with with roovers.
If they need a repair, they need a replacement. From
from the customer's point of view, Johan, what are some
of the red flags that probably ought to end the
conversation before it starts.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
First thing, first sign this? Oh yeah, don't right, don't
sign nothing. Don't don't just don't just sign. Look, when
you sign something, if you're going to sign something with
a roofer, do it when you have agreed upon on
the pricing and you have agreed upon the ay that
the roof is going to be prepared or replaced. Don't
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go don't listen to Oh you got to sign this.
What's called an insurance contingency and insurance Claus's look all
not written. It's not worth the piece of paper is
written on it will not stand up in court unless
they show you on the back of their contracts a
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three day writer recision clause and you initially it's you know,
just don't sign. You get a couple of bit whether
you call us or you call five other different roofers,
and you don't use us, do your homework, whatever you do,
whatever you do, do not pay somebody up front. Please people,
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This is some people. Oh well I've got to have
half money down so i can get the material. Okay,
you're a roofer or you're a plumber, or you're a
brick layer or whatever. You don't have working capital.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Yeah, that's a good point.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
You don't have credit across the Harris County, fork ben
whatever county to buy materials with.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
John Hightman from the Country Boys Roofing here on fifty
plus this afternoon, talk a little bit about we only
got two minutes left already. Holy can we have to
do this again? Talk about shingles and ratings and how
important that is when we live in a hurricane zone
to use quality materials.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
Speaking of shingles, you know on your homes, we all
have ninety nine percent of the homes have what is
called a thirty year architectural shingle. It's the heaviest and
the thickest for the money. Yes, there are fifty year
roof shingles out there that you know. Those shingles are
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those fifty years are They're very very very expensive. Yeah,
well they will last you, they would, They live up
to their names. But yeah, we use an Atlas Pinnacle
thirty year shingle. They're very good, very reliable. They have
the six percent more copper which is in a shingle
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to fight stained resistant and algae. They have the highest
copper rating ratio in the business compared to all the
other manufacturers. And what's great too, as my representative, my
shingle rep from Atlas Mark lives right here and friends.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Oh good, yeah, good good. Believe it or not, John Aiman,
we are already done, man, I'm out of time, but
I do. I've got half a page questions. I'm gonna
get you back on in a few weeks.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
Okay, yeah, absolutely, I feel yeah. I mean, I love
educating everybody and helping however we can.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
I know you do, partner, John Aiman, Country boys, roof
and thank you man, Thank you guys, sir audios. All right,
we got to take a little break here. Holy cow,
that was quick. Holy cow. Ut Health Institute on Aging
an amazing collaborative of providers from every medical discipline. They
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work primarily in the med center. Who could have guessed that, huh,
But they also come at least a day or two
a week out into outlying areas. Most of them do
so that they can get in front of you, and
you can get in front of them to take care
of something that requires a little more knowledge than the
(27:29):
average pick a discipline, average cardiologists, the average neurologists, the
average anything ologists or even nurses and other people who
are in the medical industry, trainers, therapists. All of these
people who are part of the Institute on Aging have
gone back and gotten additional training to whatever got them
(27:49):
that diploma so that they could apply their knowledge to seniors,
specifically to us. What a tremendous resource this is. Go
to the website see what I'm talking about. Up ut
h dot ed U slash aging ut h dot ed
U slash aging Aged to Perfection. This is fifty plus
(28:12):
with Doug Pike. I'm deciding whether I want to go
to and I had so many choices today. I had
all these extra pages I was going to bring in
here and work kind of whittled down from the things
that had hit the floor by the way, before I
get too far beyond it, where is that piece of
paper the teacher of the day, And I've got to
(28:35):
go back here? Yeah, there it is right there. The
teacher of today at for today. This is something iHeart
is doing. Is Loretta Kaiser from Harvey Turner Elementary School,
who was noted as pretty much being somebody who will
just do whatever it takes to make the whole school better.
She is, see somebody you want on your team if
(28:56):
you're a teacher. And we're doing this all the way
through the month. I believe as we get kids going
back to school, all you have to do is go
to iHeartRadio. I believe it's dash or iHeartRadio dot com
slash teacher. I'm pretty sure that's it. And if it's not,
I'll sort it out. I'll put something at my web
page actually, or my Facebook page. I'll put something on
(29:18):
Facebook about it, because I don't want to mess that up.
And I left the piece of paper that has it
all on it at my desk. Who knew. Okay, I've
got that taken care of. I've got this taken care of.
That can go over here into that stack. And now,
which way do I want to go, Ah, how can
I not address the conniption fit that Judge Lena had
(29:42):
all Go had yesterday when the county commissioners voted against
a property tax hike she proposed to boost chalkcare programs.
And I have to wonder why she was pushing so
hard to get that money. And I also wonder who's
she really trying to help with that, because she was
(30:02):
clearly well so much so out of line according to
the commissioners that they voted three to one to censure her.
And that takes a lot. That level of escalation says
to me, at least there might be more to this
than me ci. I have no idea, really, who knows,
not us, that's for sure. I'm just glad she didn't
(30:23):
hike taxes again. Taxes we pay across the board are
just too high anyway. We get taxed on our income
and then we go start spending that income, and pretty
much everywhere we spend that income, we get taxed on
those already taxed dollars. So hats off to the commissioners
who opted to do right by the taxpayers. Good for them.
(30:47):
Speaking sort of about children, RFK juniors pushing back to
block the purchase or pushing hard really not pushing back.
He's just pushing to block the purchase of soda and
candy with food stamps. That program, I think is supposed
to improve the health of families who can't afford healthy food,
(31:09):
not to satisfy the sweet teeth the people who are
supported by taxpayers in order to get healthy, not to
get diabetes. That's messed up, and I don't have a
problem at all with what he's trying to do. There
are so many healthier choices than soda and candy that
(31:30):
the people who need that help can make instead of
making bad choices with the dollars that we provide them
with the little wheat. Once again, my mouth ahead of
my brain. With the Little League World Series crowning one
regional champ after another, this week comes the story of
a younger boy attending a game out in California, and
(31:55):
out of nowhere, this kid was attacked by a coyote
that actually tore him up pretty badly, bitting in the neck.
It scratched him all to pieces. This animal tore that
kid up really badly, and by the wounds, as I
read it, this coyote had every intention of killing that
(32:15):
kid and dragging him off into the woods. Fortunately, the
boy's mom heard the commotion behind her behind the stands
and raced out and scared that animal away. All she
had to do was yell at it. It knew that
it was not as big and as mean as that
woman was going to be protecting her baby, and that
(32:38):
took care of that. To anyone who calls coyotes song dogs,
as a lot of animal rights people tend to do,
trying to impart some sort of snatch up some sympathy
for these things, don't fool yourself. They are high level
apex predators. Uh. And they're only holding that position because
(33:04):
we don't have any wolves around here. And if they
come after you, they're gonna get you. Well, they're not
gonna get you, but they're gonna get your little dog,
they're gonna get your cat, they're gonna get your small children.
And this whole song dog thing somewhere, somehow is gonna
end up costing some kid his or her life someday,
(33:27):
if it hadn't already happened. I've seen videos of pets
being snatched by coyotes, and it's just not pretty and
it shouldn't happen. I'll leave that alone. I'll go over here.
I got about a minute and a half.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Hmm.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Here's a question to throw out at the at the
gathering if the gathering gets a little quiet. Does a
layover at an airport count as visiting a state? I
don't think layovers count really, because you haven't you haven't
set ground outside of the airport. I think that's important.
(34:03):
Fourteen percent of Americans think that's the minimum required to
requirement to say you've been somewhere. Twenty seven percent say
driving through the state is a minimum, twenty one say
it's a full trip with sight seeing, and two percent
percent think you can you can say yeah, yeah, I've
been there. If you just fly over it, that's messed up.
(34:23):
That's not right. Sidney Sweeny's great genes have been on
display in the news lately, and Paul asked, what's a
small way you won the genetic lottery? The answers there
are pretty interesting. One a huge bladder, and the older
I get, the more I could appreciate that. The second
is double eyelashes, about which I could not care least
(34:46):
one another good one is no reaction to poison ivy
and for who. For what it's worth, somebody was born
with three functional kidneys. I got lots more to talk about.
We'll do it next time. Audios,
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