August 1, 2025 • 37 mins
Today, Doug Pike interviews Dolores Woods about diabetes. Pike also speaks with Jacquie Young-Hall about the Port of Houston.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Remember when it was impossible to misplace the TV remote
because you were the TV remote. Remember when music sounded
like this? Remember when social media was truly social?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hey John, how's it going today?
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Cool?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
This show is all about you. This is fifty plus
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and what to do for fun. Fifty plus brought to
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decisions for a healthier, happier life, and now fifty plus
(00:43):
with Doug Pike.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
All right here we are welcome aboard yet another edition
of fifty plus, the show that tries every day. We've
in a little entertainment, some recent news, some medical things
which we got one of today for sure, and pretty
much anything else this audience might want or need to know.
I got a couple of good interviews on tap as
(01:07):
I mentioned on Facebook earlier this morning, and I'll get
to them in a little bit. In the meantime, the
market nose dived out of the gate this morning. Holy cow,
I was. I actually had a meeting my wife and
I did with our financial manager this week, and so
I kind of expected this, and I'm not scared by it.
(01:27):
Not in the least. It's a lot of this is
these these sudden shifts up or down are triggered by algorithms,
and I would bet you that ninety percent, maybe more,
of the transactions that occur on Wall Street daily are
done by computers and not by people. The people are
still there just for window dressing, really, but in big
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giant rooms of giant computers with giant brains, that's where
it all, that's where it all moves and shakes. It
was all dark red really across the board. That the
Dow was down five hundred and change, actually a little
bit more than that. Nasdaq was down. Russell and S
and P all dark red, but there was a little
(02:12):
bit of upward movement as we got closer to showtime.
And like I said, that's probably because the algorithms were
triggered into buying mode by certain thresholds that were met
on a lot of stocks. I'm sure our president's gonna
get blamed for it all too, but it's important to
remember how much of a mess he inherited from his predecessor.
He's still to come into what he came into and
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be as far ahead as we are now. I'm perfectly
comfortable with all of this, if the market corrects a
little bit more, all it's going to do is trigger
more buying from the machines that buy and sell every day.
So it'll be what it bees. As they say, weather,
they're going to stay a little unstable for a few
more days. Isolated heavy showers here and there, maybe some thunderstorms,
(02:55):
maybe some locally really heavy rain, but across the region,
just lots of clouds and light rain outside those isolated
super powerful cells. At least some relief from the heat, right,
but not much, not a whole lot really moving on.
Among the volumes of documents discovered recently, twenty four pages
(03:21):
released I guess it was made public just I think yesterday,
maybe day before, are said to contain proof that one
Hillary Clinton was involved and aware of the planned to
smear President Trump with false claims of russianclusion, and that,
my friends, is going to be just a tip of
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this iceberg. The lights are coming on, the rats and
the roaches are about to start running for cover. And
by the way, a whistleblower, you knew they were coming right.
A whistleblower has stepped forward now and is talking about
how people around him during that time were pressured to
keep their mouths shut about what was going on with
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that that thing that everybody involved knew was a hoax.
They manufactured it, they presented it to the public, they
pushed media to continue that narrative even though everybody involved
knew it wasn't real. And that's probably gonna get them
in trouble. It's probably gonna get him in trouble. Knowing
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that bunch, if they had told me to shut my mouth,
I probably would have done that. I'd like to think
that I'm a better man and that I'm a more
honorable man. But if I was being threatened and by
people with the power that they appear to have, at
least for now, I'd have probably just backed up, backed up,
(04:50):
and said, uh, okay, you know whatever you say. Speaking
of the media, by the way, not one of the
three major news networks in our country covered on television
and in primetime reporting that brutal attack in Cincinnati that
(05:10):
involved I don't know. It depends on whose video you're
looking at. Many people beating up first, beating up this
poor guy. He's not in my age, but he's he's
he's a lot older than Will and a lot younger
than me a little bit younger than me at least,
he's closer to my as and wills anyway, And these
people were beating and stomping and kicking and just absolutely
(05:34):
taking this guy close to death. I'm surprised he survived it,
I really am. And then there's some other guy when
when a woman tries to get involved and get in
and help that guy get out of the way, some
thug just sucker punches her right in the face, knocks
her unconscious. She falls to the ground and her eyes
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roll back in her head and make the news. Didn't
make the news. Didn't make the news. Two of the
three networks covered it eventually days later on their websites,
and the other actually rolled it into some subsequent morning show.
I think it was of little relevance, but in first
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available time, and for a story that is as significant
as that is in this country right now, they ignored it.
They ignored it. Who made that call, That's what I
want to know. Who looked at that coverage, Who looked
at that video, knowing it was all over the internet already,
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and opted to say, no, no, that's not really worth
a minute of our time on the news. That's not
worth it. Now we'll cover something else. Find something that
makes Donald Trump look bad, we'll use that. Moving forward
a little bit. Oh good, heavens, just got about a
minute left home. Well, okay, I'm keeping an eye on
the clock. Thank you, appreciate it. Oh, this is kind
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of gross. This is kind of gross, but I'm just
gonna let the pole of Americans go where it goes.
About clipping fingernails, Okay, everybody has to do it, and
a poll found that three percent of Americans, three percent
of Americans just leave them where they fall, wherever they're clipping,
(07:26):
they leave them. I guess to be swept up by somebody.
Maybe these people are royalty and they have fingernails sweeper
uppers on their staffs. I don't know. Seventy three percent
of people have the dignity and hygiene to throw them
in the trash. Seven percent of people and if my
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plumber friend CJ is listening, he'll probably cringe when he
hears this. Seven percent of people flush their fingernails down
the toilet, which it's got to be bad for your plumbing.
That just can't. That's that's a clog just waiting to happen.
Five percent throw them outside that's interesting. Three percent toss
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don't know if there's any percentages left, but that's where
most of them go. Seventy three percent in the trash
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Speaker 1 (09:16):
Aged to Perfection. This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
All right, welcome back to fifty plus. Thanks for listening,
certainly do appreciate it. As promised in my Facebook post
this morning, we're going to talk in this segment, and
I do hope your day's going well.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
By the way, here it it's midpoint wherever it is.
We'll talk in this segment about something that impacts millions
of Americans either directly or indirectly through family members, and
that is diabetes. And to answer a few questions, at
least one of which I guarantee you is gonna deal
with something you've likely never heard about, diabetes, I will
(09:52):
enlist again, uh, the knowledgeable help of Dolores Woods, director
of Culinary Nutrition for the program at the Michael and
Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living at UTA Health. Welcome
back to Lris.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Thank you, good afternoon.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
I'm glad to have you here. I'm going to need
your help all the way through this because I don't
know these answers. So let's just start with a very
brief difference A refresher if you will, between type one
and type two diabetes.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Sure.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
So with type one it is an autoimmune condition where
the body does not produce insulin at all or els
with type two two, it's more of a metabolic condition
and it happens when the body produces insulin but it
doesn't use it effectively.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Oh okay, and type two that's the one we get
from making bad decisions on what we eat, right or
is that too simplistics.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
No, that's the main part. Yeah, So lifestyle is going
to really impact the risk. It does increase the risk
of getting type two diabetes, so you know, maintaining a
healthy weight, eating balanced diet, that physical activity is going
to impact it. But also relatives. So if we do
have first degree relatives that have type two diabetes, we're
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going to be more at risk as well.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Okay, a little genetic twist and they're kind of like
a squeeze of lime in a kouba labor huh.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
And the type two is that something almost anyone can.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
Get, you know, it is, and it has increased over
the years just because again our lifestyle, our eating habit.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Have you know, they've they've worsten worstened a little bit
over the years, so anyone can get it, and it
is going to be again, it's that lifestyle. I keep
saying that, but really our habits are going to have
a lot to do with a type two.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
So the habits more so than age, even it can
show up fairly young if somebody's just knocking back the
wrong stuff every single day.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Yeah, and you know, it used to be called a
thet onset diabetes, but now it's just type two diabetes.
And that's because there are a lot of children getting diagnosed,
so it's not something that adults get. A lot of
children are getting diabetes as well because they're you know,
they could be slightly overweight, they're just not doing that
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much exercise.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Uh, Dolores's words here on fifty plus. So first, what
can we do to avoid developing this? Talk about what
we should be eating, should be drinking, should be doing
To not have to deal with.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
This activity is going to be really important even if
you do have it. But for prevention, making sure that
we are exercising, that's really something that is easy to change.
You know, we can change a lot of things like
our eating habits, how much we exercise, are stress that
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has something to do with it, right, But we can't
really change the genetics. So having control over how we're eating,
making sure we're eating plenty of vegetables, fruits, and a
lot of those pulled process foods really are going to
be the culprit. So really making sure we're not eating
those sugar sweetened beverages and a lot of those sweet desserts.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
And once somebody has type two diabetes, is it reversible?
Can we bring our numbers back down from where they
took us over the edge?
Speaker 5 (13:20):
You know?
Speaker 4 (13:20):
We can, And especially with pre diabetes, which is when
you're kind of borderline, it's much easier to kind of
reverse it and not get that diagnosis. In fact, right now,
about one in three Americans have pre diabetes, So you
can control it, but it is a chronic condition, which
means that you're going to have to manage it. Not
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everyone can reverse it, and in fact it progresses, but
with a good healthy diet and exercise, some weight loss
of needed, it can slow the progression.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Any specific medicines that can help along the way to
getting those numbers down.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Yeah, So most people will get to medication from their physicians,
and it could be insulin or met Foreman is a
really common one that most people have heard of. So
those two, along with those lifestyle changes will help manage
the disease and slow the progression of other complications.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Okay, and here comes the question Dolores that I promised
on Facebook this morning that is going to make a
lot of people really lean in and listen closely, because
I saw it in the prep work I got. Can
diet sodas help to reverse diabetes?
Speaker 1 (14:39):
No?
Speaker 4 (14:39):
And that's I feel like that's something that's been going around.
You know, things just picked up, and so diet sodas
cannot reverse it. They don't have, you know, the calories
in the sugar, so they're not going to necessarily spike
someone's sugar if they do have diabet So, you know,
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it could be a better alternative than something that has
so much sugar, but it's not gonna reverse it if
you do have diabetes.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Not gonna make it worse, but not gonna make it better.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Correct.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
You know.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
I wondered about that because I'm on a personal campaign
to kind of wean myself off of these things. I'll
go weeks at a time without drinking them, and then
I'll cave and and drink a couple more. But I
saw that question and I just I thought, now, gosh,
am I gonna have quite the tug of war in
my brain. If it's gonna lower my pre diabetes, then
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I'm gonna drink them every day. But if it's not,
then I can't because of all the other bad things
in them. So that's all just fantasy. Probably some TikTok scheme, huh.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
I think so things like that get picked up. Maybe
it's wishful thinking, but there they're not necessarily gonna reverse it,
although they don't affect the blood sugar.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Yeah, a couple of kop believers a day aren't gonna
help either, are they. But I bet somebody put that
on TikTok. Right, best advice the Lord for people who
are pre diabetic and who are willing to they're going
to have to make sacrifices in what they eat and
drink pretty much, what's the best advice you can give them?
(16:17):
And feel free to go ahead and kind of scare
people a little about what happens if it goes to
full diabetes.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
Right, So the best advice is watch what you drink,
because it's really easy for us to eat to drink
our calories, so that includes all those coffee, beverages, sodas, juices.
That would be the main thing, because you know it's
sometimes the hardest, but at the same time it's the
easiest thing. If we pick one thing, it's to do that,
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and yeah, if it progresses. There are so many complications
with type two diabetes that's unmanaged, such as heart and
blood vessel disease. There's nerve damage also, so it destroys
the nerves and you know of people get some of
their toes and feet amputated. Neat disease I damage. It
impacts really like it affects our entire body. So it's
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really important to prevent it and if you do have
type two diabetes, manage it.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
I heard the word juice. Is that just all fruit
juices or or are they all bad for us now
suddenly because of the sugar content? Is that what it is?
Speaker 4 (17:26):
If you do have the type two diabetes, it should
be limited. So four ounces of juice of one hundred
percent fruit juice, but four ounces, you know, it's like
two drinks, it's nothing. So you know, it's hard to
portion control juices, which is why I just say, you know,
have an alternative other than a sugar sweet and beverage.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Yeah. For me, I'm gonna personally make it a habit.
My wife drinks nothing but water. It's amazing. I don't
know how she does it, but that's all she drinks
is water. And what I'm gonna do now when I'm
thinking about going and grabbing something out of the refrigerator
that's not water, I'm gonna I might do that once,
but before I can have another one of those, I'm
gonna drink a whole bottle of water. Is that a
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good idea?
Speaker 4 (18:09):
That's a great idea. And you know, you could have
a sparkling water too, if you want some of that carbonation.
To have so many flavors out there now, so that's
a really great alternative.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
The flavors won't beat me up though, I'm scared now, No.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
There, The flavors are fine. They're usually not as long
as it doesn't have added sugar.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Okay, Yeah, that's something easy enough to look on the
label and see. Delores words. Thank you so very much.
I really do appreciate this. It's been very helpful.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
All right, we'll talk to you again soon. I hope
see you later. All right, we got to take a
little break. All the way out, I'm gonna tell you
all about ut House Institute on Aging, which is where
you and me and anyone who is interested can go
to find information, can go to find providers, all of whom,
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by the way, all the providers involved with the Institute
on Aging have gotten additional training to whatever it was
it took them to get out of school after six, eight,
ten years, whatever. And then they find out how to
use all that knowledge specifically to help seniors. And that's
a different that's a different playbook, Okay, it's a different
way of thinking for them, and by thinking that way
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and getting that additional training, they're able to help seniors
live longer, better, happier, healthier, more productive lives, which is
what I'm kind of counting on. I'm not anywhere near
ready to check out, so I'm glad to have this resource,
and it truly is. The whole Institute on Aging is
just this one giant resource available to us right here
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in the Greater Houston area. Most of the doctors and
other providers who are members of the Institute on Aging
are work primarily out of the med Center. As you
might imagine, but they also go to other areas of town.
They also go to other hospitals and clinics from from
the Woodlands all the way down to Galveston, all the
way to pair Land, out to Katie and beyond, even
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with some of them, so that they can help people
who need to see them without those people having to
come all the way into the mediciner, which can be
a kind of a hassle if you haven't been down
there in a while. Traffic's crazy in this town. We
all know that. Go to the website, look at all
the resources, and then find somebody who can help you
fix whatever's ailing you. Uth dot edu slash aging, ut
(20:27):
h dot edu slash aging. Yeah, they sure don't make
them like they used to.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
That's why every few months we wash him, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, welcome back.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Uh boy, that was quick. Let me let me rewind
that a little bit. All right, Welcome back fifty plus.
Thanks as auguys for joining me. We're gonna talk in
this segment about something from which all of us benefit,
but about which very few of us really know, And
we're gonna We're gonna kind of get a little granular
with it too, and that in the big picture, I'm
talking about the Port of Houston, which maybe we'll cover
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in its entirety some other time, but today we're gonna
talk about the port's maritime education and workforce Development program,
which I think would be a pretty interesting thing to
mention if you have younger children still or maybe grandchildren
who are trying to figure out what they want to
do with their lives. And I just happened to have
(21:28):
the right person to talk about that too. That would
be Jackie Young Hall, who runs that show, Welcome Jackie Good.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Good afternoon, sir.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
How are you? Yeah? You did what I always do.
It's it's almost morning. It used to be morning just
a few minutes ago, and now it's afternoon. I do
that almost every day.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Yes, yes, yes, and time just keeps flying.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
So yeah, we can't. It's my pleasure. So let's lead
off kind of with the mission statement. When did the
program start? What's it designed to do?
Speaker 3 (22:00):
So this is a great opportunity for us to share
with your listening audience what we've been doing for over
the past fifteen years. So the programs started in two
thousand and nine with a handful of students in HISD.
So it's really designed to introduce students in our region
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to the Port of Houston and all of the industry
related opportunities. We were fortunate enough to have embedded in
the high school's maritime programs. So these are career and
technical education programs much like culinary and healthcare, that prepare
our students for these careers. Not only do they prepare them,
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but they expose them to over one hundred different career
opportunities along the Houston Ship Channel. So it's not just
the Port of Houston, it's also what's going on in
the greater port, the Houston Ship Channel and the region.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
That's incredible. Yeah, and it's you're targeting young people obviously,
because they're going to be the future of the port,
the future of the shipping industry. And I'm wondering, how
is the influx of people into that industry or does
it need more people like the service industries do.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Oh, everyone is looking for talent. The crazy thing is
is that, you know, the Port of Houston, we're growing
and we are, you know, number one in waterway cargo,
but a lot of people don't understand that we Houston
Ship Channel, we're responsible for one point five four million
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jobs in the state of Texas. Wow, and that's I mean,
this is literally right in your backyard, you know, Houston
Ship Channel fifty two miles waterway from Galveston to Turning Basin,
which is right off of the six'. Ten and there
are so many opportunities for. Students and not only do
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we target that high, school those career and technical education kids,
there we also have to understand we have to reach
back and start grooming the middle school kids and showing
them what opportunities that they have because they have to
choose that pathway between The november And march of their
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eighth grade, year which is really mind boggling to some.
People but if you have a middle school, student you
know that they are asking you course selections and what
do you want to do when you grow? Up but
can you imagine being in the eighth. GRADE i know
WHEN i was in the eighth, GRADE i didn't know
WHAT i wanted to. Do but this still Don't this
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allows a student to really look at not only the
waterside maritime, transportation but we look at logistics and. Distribution
we look at multimodal transportation because here at the, port you,
know we have a. Railroad you, know we have a police,
department we have a fire, department we have everything from
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accounting to. Welding and people don't understand that the port
is a business and just like a much other you,
know other, businesses we're looking for talent and so we're
trying to make sure that in the middle, school we're
introducing the youth and young adults to maritime. Opportunities we're
encouraging higher, education but we also understand that some of
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these require some of these careers do not require a
two or a four year, degree and so there's opportunities
for all, students whether they want to go straight into
the workforce into an apprenticeship, program if they want to
go to college or a four year, university or even the.
Military so we're literally the liaison between our, stakeholders government, entities,
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businesses community, organizations and the goal is really to show
kids what opportunities are. Available and the great thing about
this program is we develop partnerships between academic and. Industry
and why do we do that because we want to
make sure that the academic institutions have the curriculum that
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the industry. Needs so it's it's nothing worse than getting
a degree and wondering where you're going to find a.
Job but if industry is talking to, academics you, know
then we know these are the type of people that
they are looking. For and we have some phenomenal programs
right now. Currently you, KNOW i said we started with two.
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Programs we're currently in nine high schools in eight different school,
districts and we're growing.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
BETA i looked at a lot of things on, here
and you in addition to these actual programs and currict there's,
mentorship there's, internships there's oh, yeah good having the relationships.
Partnership there's a lot of ships in the harbor right.
There if you think about, that you can use that
in your promotional material. Too that's pretty.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
Good.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Ida you, know, well you know, what thank, you AND
i will definitely give you credit for that. One you.
Know but over the past fifteen, years the port has
invested over five million dollars in maritime, education which has
enabled us to assist programs into in programs that help
students discover their interest and match them to opportunities after.
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Graduation so we're working with the middle school. Kids we're
working with the high school, kids but they've got to
have a landing. Spot so we're working with. Industry we're
working with you, know colleges and. Universities we have some
phenomenal programs that are right here in their backyard and
they don't know what's going, on you, know some of
the other benefits you mentioned all of the other, ships
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but you, know we do dual credit their industry specific
credentials and certificates that these kids can get in high.
School we have one of the only programs that is
allowing a partnership With Sanjasino, college the maritime, campus that
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is allowing our high school kids to graduate WITH Us
Coast Guard, CERTs certificate that get them ready and they're
ready to hit the ground. Running you. Know we do field,
trips you, know as you, mentioned workshops and. Seminars we
have a great mentorship program where port employees are paired
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with our high school kids and so not only are
they letting them know, about you, know the day in
the life of what they, do we're really looking at
those employability. Skills you, Know we're trying to let them,
know you, know can you work well with? Others you,
know can you show up to work on? Time can
you be a part of a.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Team you don't mean to cut you. Off we were
down to about twenty. Seconds the WEBSITE i want to
make sure we get here is Port houston dot. Com
then go To. Community then right there on the left
hand side you'll See Maritime Workforce. Development what a fantastic.
Program thank you so much for your time. Today thank you.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Sir and anytime you guys want to come. Down we
have free boat tours and we've got some awesome opportunities coming.
Up and you, know we've got a career, Fair we've
got a community resource fair that's coming up In. December
we have so many different, opportunities and you can visit
the same website for all of that information as.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Well thank you so. Much it's a. Pleasure all. Right
we got to take a little break. Here on the way,
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Damage how About, ike how About? Harvey there were trees
down everywhere from these big storms we've. HAD i remember
all the way back To Hurricane. Carla that's how OLD i.
AM i don't really recall, it BUT i remember seeing
the pictures of what. Happened, then your trees are valuable,
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BECAUSE i think he told me what to feed these,
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okay we, are and we're coming into the part where
everything starts to boil up and heat. Up That's august
And september, primarily and some Of, october even before we
start really getting comfortable with what's going on around. Us
nobody wants one of these things to come. Through but
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Couch, okay, well if you think that sounds like a good.
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Plan fifty plus. Continues here's more With doug come.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Back at fifty. Plus thanks for listening to certainly do
appreciate THAT i got a couple of THINGS i want
to get to in this final segment of the. PROGRAM
i hope you got something out of the diabetes interview.
Earlier and, then of, course The port Of houston for younger,
people for high school, kids and even like she, said
middle school, kids it's so important that they have some.
(32:40):
Direction at. LEAST i didn't know WHAT i wanted to
be WHEN i was that, young And I'm i'm sure
most of us. Didn't but it really helps these days
if someone can can get just the least little bit
focused and have a plan at least going into high
school and then perhaps going beyond high school in the
education or, not maybe an apprenticeship makes more sense to that,
(33:03):
person but to already have this option laid out for,
them these potential opportunities for employment at The port Of,
houston and like she, said there's all kinds of different
jobs over. There there are all kinds of different. Jobs
Jackie police, department the people who handle all the. Merchandise
(33:26):
there's a lot of high tech now at the port as,
well so there's going to be it opportunity over. THERE
ai is going to be a, big big part of
this in the very near term, future if it's not.
Already so it be worth a look from the, Boy
where DO i want to?
Speaker 5 (33:43):
Go?
Speaker 2 (33:44):
OH i listened To Michael Berry show yesterday, afternoon by the,
way AND i got to applaud his team for cobbling
dozens of reporters inquiries into the health and medical condition
Of President, trump just one after. One what's wrong with the?
Guy what does he? Have what does he not? Have
(34:05):
and it's just non, stop and by the, way it's
none of their, business, really but that never stops any
of them from asking stupid. Questions so how deeply have they? Probed?
Well they wanted to know based on the recordings of
all these questions and. Whatnot they want to know his physical,
Condition they want to know if he's fit to. Serve
they want to know about his psychological, profile his emotional, health,
(34:29):
is cognitive, health, everything but whether or not he'd ever
had a hangnail or a. Beasting and they dug up nothing,
really nothing of, substance nothing more than That President trump's
a little bit overweight and he's got a non clinical heart,
condition WHICH i would, say just Like michael, said most
people on the eve of their eightieth birthday probably also
(34:51):
have a little something in their arteries and veins that
wasn't supposed to be. There and then to hammer home his,
point which they saw coming from a mile, away AND
i was glad he did, This he said he was
about to play the audio from all the times many
of these same reporters asked the same questions About President
biden's medical health during his, term and all those times
(35:14):
added up to. Zero he filled the void with cricket.
Sounds MAYBE i don't know who put that, together but
it was filled with crickets because they never, asked because
they never, cared and they certainly probably didn't really want
that disgust openly because everybody pretty much by the time
(35:34):
he was halfway through his term knew what was going.
On he, knew they. Knew mainstream media just continues this
incessant quest to somehow disparage the one, man the one
man around here who really, cares the one man who's
serving as president for the right. Reasons not to feather
(35:55):
his own. Nest he's got plenty of feathers in his.
Nest not to make family men members rich, either which
has been going on, recently but just because he cares
about this country and he recognized a couple of years
ago that it was on the brink of, collapse and
he shared his mission in his story with enough people
(36:16):
to make sure he got elected. Again and, bye, gosh
she's we got the right people in the right places
now to revive us from Thee, boy where DO i
want to go with?
Speaker 5 (36:25):
This?
Speaker 2 (36:25):
Oh this was interesting and minute and a half will
Something i've been in ten. Whatever remember When President trump
offered federal employees a chance to take a buyout check
and leave their. Posts mainstream, Media, oh that's a horrible.
Idea these people were public. Servants they loved their jobs
because they're helping. People remember all, That, well one hundred
and fifty four thousand of, them some of these people,
(36:49):
helpers took the money and ran that thank, you we'll
take that check and we're out of. Here six point
seven percent more or less of the entire civilian federal.
Work and to be, precise that doesn't even include staffers
who were fired doesn't include people who took early retirement incentive.
(37:09):
Programs and it's SAVING us bazillions of, dollars bazillions of tax.
Dollars And i'm kind of, glad and maybe take another,
shot see if anybody else is willing to leave for
a couple of bucks. More that is going to wrap
it up almost we're just about down to the, wire
AND i guess on the way, out trying to see
if there's SOMETHING i could do really. Quickly woman In
(37:33):
ohio got revenge on a car dealership for repossessing her.
Car she bought the dealership's business, name which wasn't, registered
and sent them a cease and. Desist i'll always welcome
you around. Here never, mind we'll be back again next. Time.
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All right here we are welcome aboard yet another edition
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which we got one of today for sure, and pretty
much anything else this audience might want or need to know.
I got a couple of good interviews on tap as
(01:07):
I mentioned on Facebook earlier this morning, and I'll get
to them in a little bit. In the meantime, the
market nose dived out of the gate this morning. Holy cow,
I was. I actually had a meeting my wife and
I did with our financial manager this week, and so
I kind of expected this, and I'm not scared by it.
(01:27):
Not in the least. It's a lot of this is
these these sudden shifts up or down are triggered by algorithms,
and I would bet you that ninety percent, maybe more,
of the transactions that occur on Wall Street daily are
done by computers and not by people. The people are
still there just for window dressing, really, but in big
(01:50):
giant rooms of giant computers with giant brains, that's where
it all, that's where it all moves and shakes. It
was all dark red really across the board. That the
Dow was down five hundred and change, actually a little
bit more than that. Nasdaq was down. Russell and S
and P all dark red, but there was a little
(02:12):
bit of upward movement as we got closer to showtime.
And like I said, that's probably because the algorithms were
triggered into buying mode by certain thresholds that were met
on a lot of stocks. I'm sure our president's gonna
get blamed for it all too, but it's important to
remember how much of a mess he inherited from his predecessor.
He's still to come into what he came into and
(02:35):
be as far ahead as we are now. I'm perfectly
comfortable with all of this, if the market corrects a
little bit more, all it's going to do is trigger
more buying from the machines that buy and sell every day.
So it'll be what it bees. As they say, weather,
they're going to stay a little unstable for a few
more days. Isolated heavy showers here and there, maybe some thunderstorms,
(02:55):
maybe some locally really heavy rain, but across the region,
just lots of clouds and light rain outside those isolated
super powerful cells. At least some relief from the heat, right,
but not much, not a whole lot really moving on.
Among the volumes of documents discovered recently, twenty four pages
(03:21):
released I guess it was made public just I think yesterday,
maybe day before, are said to contain proof that one
Hillary Clinton was involved and aware of the planned to
smear President Trump with false claims of russianclusion, and that,
my friends, is going to be just a tip of
(03:41):
this iceberg. The lights are coming on, the rats and
the roaches are about to start running for cover. And
by the way, a whistleblower, you knew they were coming right.
A whistleblower has stepped forward now and is talking about
how people around him during that time were pressured to
keep their mouths shut about what was going on with
(04:04):
that that thing that everybody involved knew was a hoax.
They manufactured it, they presented it to the public, they
pushed media to continue that narrative even though everybody involved
knew it wasn't real. And that's probably gonna get them
in trouble. It's probably gonna get him in trouble. Knowing
(04:27):
that bunch, if they had told me to shut my mouth,
I probably would have done that. I'd like to think
that I'm a better man and that I'm a more
honorable man. But if I was being threatened and by
people with the power that they appear to have, at
least for now, I'd have probably just backed up, backed up,
(04:50):
and said, uh, okay, you know whatever you say. Speaking
of the media, by the way, not one of the
three major news networks in our country covered on television
and in primetime reporting that brutal attack in Cincinnati that
(05:10):
involved I don't know. It depends on whose video you're
looking at. Many people beating up first, beating up this
poor guy. He's not in my age, but he's he's
he's a lot older than Will and a lot younger
than me a little bit younger than me at least,
he's closer to my as and wills anyway, And these
people were beating and stomping and kicking and just absolutely
(05:34):
taking this guy close to death. I'm surprised he survived it,
I really am. And then there's some other guy when
when a woman tries to get involved and get in
and help that guy get out of the way, some
thug just sucker punches her right in the face, knocks
her unconscious. She falls to the ground and her eyes
(05:55):
roll back in her head and make the news. Didn't
make the news. Didn't make the news. Two of the
three networks covered it eventually days later on their websites,
and the other actually rolled it into some subsequent morning show.
I think it was of little relevance, but in first
(06:20):
available time, and for a story that is as significant
as that is in this country right now, they ignored it.
They ignored it. Who made that call, That's what I
want to know. Who looked at that coverage, Who looked
at that video, knowing it was all over the internet already,
(06:40):
and opted to say, no, no, that's not really worth
a minute of our time on the news. That's not
worth it. Now we'll cover something else. Find something that
makes Donald Trump look bad, we'll use that. Moving forward
a little bit. Oh good, heavens, just got about a
minute left home. Well, okay, I'm keeping an eye on
the clock. Thank you, appreciate it. Oh, this is kind
(07:02):
of gross. This is kind of gross, but I'm just
gonna let the pole of Americans go where it goes.
About clipping fingernails, Okay, everybody has to do it, and
a poll found that three percent of Americans, three percent
of Americans just leave them where they fall, wherever they're clipping,
(07:26):
they leave them. I guess to be swept up by somebody.
Maybe these people are royalty and they have fingernails sweeper
uppers on their staffs. I don't know. Seventy three percent
of people have the dignity and hygiene to throw them
in the trash. Seven percent of people and if my
(07:46):
plumber friend CJ is listening, he'll probably cringe when he
hears this. Seven percent of people flush their fingernails down
the toilet, which it's got to be bad for your plumbing.
That just can't. That's that's a clog just waiting to happen.
Five percent throw them outside that's interesting. Three percent toss
(08:07):
them into the sink, which is pretty nasty. And I
don't know if there's any percentages left, but that's where
most of them go. Seventy three percent in the trash
where they belong. We gotta go as well. On the
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I've mentioned now for several years and happy to do so.
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of which are done in clinic, all of which are
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which are covered by Medicare of Medicaid. Why wait, Go
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Speaker 1 (09:16):
Aged to Perfection. This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
All right, welcome back to fifty plus. Thanks for listening,
certainly do appreciate it. As promised in my Facebook post
this morning, we're going to talk in this segment, and
I do hope your day's going well.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
By the way, here it it's midpoint wherever it is.
We'll talk in this segment about something that impacts millions
of Americans either directly or indirectly through family members, and
that is diabetes. And to answer a few questions, at
least one of which I guarantee you is gonna deal
with something you've likely never heard about, diabetes, I will
(09:52):
enlist again, uh, the knowledgeable help of Dolores Woods, director
of Culinary Nutrition for the program at the Michael and
Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living at UTA Health. Welcome
back to Lris.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Thank you, good afternoon.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
I'm glad to have you here. I'm going to need
your help all the way through this because I don't
know these answers. So let's just start with a very
brief difference A refresher if you will, between type one
and type two diabetes.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Sure.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
So with type one it is an autoimmune condition where
the body does not produce insulin at all or els
with type two two, it's more of a metabolic condition
and it happens when the body produces insulin but it
doesn't use it effectively.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Oh okay, and type two that's the one we get
from making bad decisions on what we eat, right or
is that too simplistics.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
No, that's the main part. Yeah, So lifestyle is going
to really impact the risk. It does increase the risk
of getting type two diabetes, so you know, maintaining a
healthy weight, eating balanced diet, that physical activity is going
to impact it. But also relatives. So if we do
have first degree relatives that have type two diabetes, we're
(11:11):
going to be more at risk as well.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Okay, a little genetic twist and they're kind of like
a squeeze of lime in a kouba labor huh.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
And the type two is that something almost anyone can.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
Get, you know, it is, and it has increased over
the years just because again our lifestyle, our eating habit.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Have you know, they've they've worsten worstened a little bit
over the years, so anyone can get it, and it
is going to be again, it's that lifestyle. I keep
saying that, but really our habits are going to have
a lot to do with a type two.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
So the habits more so than age, even it can
show up fairly young if somebody's just knocking back the
wrong stuff every single day.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Yeah, and you know, it used to be called a
thet onset diabetes, but now it's just type two diabetes.
And that's because there are a lot of children getting diagnosed,
so it's not something that adults get. A lot of
children are getting diabetes as well because they're you know,
they could be slightly overweight, they're just not doing that
(12:17):
much exercise.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Uh, Dolores's words here on fifty plus. So first, what
can we do to avoid developing this? Talk about what
we should be eating, should be drinking, should be doing
To not have to deal with.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
This activity is going to be really important even if
you do have it. But for prevention, making sure that
we are exercising, that's really something that is easy to change.
You know, we can change a lot of things like
our eating habits, how much we exercise, are stress that
(12:49):
has something to do with it, right, But we can't
really change the genetics. So having control over how we're eating,
making sure we're eating plenty of vegetables, fruits, and a
lot of those pulled process foods really are going to
be the culprit. So really making sure we're not eating
those sugar sweetened beverages and a lot of those sweet desserts.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
And once somebody has type two diabetes, is it reversible?
Can we bring our numbers back down from where they
took us over the edge?
Speaker 5 (13:20):
You know?
Speaker 4 (13:20):
We can, And especially with pre diabetes, which is when
you're kind of borderline, it's much easier to kind of
reverse it and not get that diagnosis. In fact, right now,
about one in three Americans have pre diabetes, So you
can control it, but it is a chronic condition, which
means that you're going to have to manage it. Not
(13:43):
everyone can reverse it, and in fact it progresses, but
with a good healthy diet and exercise, some weight loss
of needed, it can slow the progression.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Any specific medicines that can help along the way to
getting those numbers down.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Yeah, So most people will get to medication from their physicians,
and it could be insulin or met Foreman is a
really common one that most people have heard of. So
those two, along with those lifestyle changes will help manage
the disease and slow the progression of other complications.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Okay, and here comes the question Dolores that I promised
on Facebook this morning that is going to make a
lot of people really lean in and listen closely, because
I saw it in the prep work I got. Can
diet sodas help to reverse diabetes?
Speaker 1 (14:39):
No?
Speaker 4 (14:39):
And that's I feel like that's something that's been going around.
You know, things just picked up, and so diet sodas
cannot reverse it. They don't have, you know, the calories
in the sugar, so they're not going to necessarily spike
someone's sugar if they do have diabet So, you know,
(15:01):
it could be a better alternative than something that has
so much sugar, but it's not gonna reverse it if
you do have diabetes.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Not gonna make it worse, but not gonna make it better.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Correct.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
You know.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
I wondered about that because I'm on a personal campaign
to kind of wean myself off of these things. I'll
go weeks at a time without drinking them, and then
I'll cave and and drink a couple more. But I
saw that question and I just I thought, now, gosh,
am I gonna have quite the tug of war in
my brain. If it's gonna lower my pre diabetes, then
(15:36):
I'm gonna drink them every day. But if it's not,
then I can't because of all the other bad things
in them. So that's all just fantasy. Probably some TikTok scheme, huh.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
I think so things like that get picked up. Maybe
it's wishful thinking, but there they're not necessarily gonna reverse it,
although they don't affect the blood sugar.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Yeah, a couple of kop believers a day aren't gonna
help either, are they. But I bet somebody put that
on TikTok. Right, best advice the Lord for people who
are pre diabetic and who are willing to they're going
to have to make sacrifices in what they eat and
drink pretty much, what's the best advice you can give them?
(16:17):
And feel free to go ahead and kind of scare
people a little about what happens if it goes to
full diabetes.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
Right, So the best advice is watch what you drink,
because it's really easy for us to eat to drink
our calories, so that includes all those coffee, beverages, sodas, juices.
That would be the main thing, because you know it's
sometimes the hardest, but at the same time it's the
easiest thing. If we pick one thing, it's to do that,
(16:48):
and yeah, if it progresses. There are so many complications
with type two diabetes that's unmanaged, such as heart and
blood vessel disease. There's nerve damage also, so it destroys
the nerves and you know of people get some of
their toes and feet amputated. Neat disease I damage. It
impacts really like it affects our entire body. So it's
(17:11):
really important to prevent it and if you do have
type two diabetes, manage it.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
I heard the word juice. Is that just all fruit
juices or or are they all bad for us now
suddenly because of the sugar content? Is that what it is?
Speaker 4 (17:26):
If you do have the type two diabetes, it should
be limited. So four ounces of juice of one hundred
percent fruit juice, but four ounces, you know, it's like
two drinks, it's nothing. So you know, it's hard to
portion control juices, which is why I just say, you know,
have an alternative other than a sugar sweet and beverage.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Yeah. For me, I'm gonna personally make it a habit.
My wife drinks nothing but water. It's amazing. I don't
know how she does it, but that's all she drinks
is water. And what I'm gonna do now when I'm
thinking about going and grabbing something out of the refrigerator
that's not water, I'm gonna I might do that once,
but before I can have another one of those, I'm
gonna drink a whole bottle of water. Is that a
(18:07):
good idea?
Speaker 4 (18:09):
That's a great idea. And you know, you could have
a sparkling water too, if you want some of that carbonation.
To have so many flavors out there now, so that's
a really great alternative.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
The flavors won't beat me up though, I'm scared now, No.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
There, The flavors are fine. They're usually not as long
as it doesn't have added sugar.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Okay, Yeah, that's something easy enough to look on the
label and see. Delores words. Thank you so very much.
I really do appreciate this. It's been very helpful.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
All right, we'll talk to you again soon. I hope
see you later. All right, we got to take a
little break. All the way out, I'm gonna tell you
all about ut House Institute on Aging, which is where
you and me and anyone who is interested can go
to find information, can go to find providers, all of whom,
(18:58):
by the way, all the providers involved with the Institute
on Aging have gotten additional training to whatever it was
it took them to get out of school after six, eight,
ten years, whatever. And then they find out how to
use all that knowledge specifically to help seniors. And that's
a different that's a different playbook, Okay, it's a different
way of thinking for them, and by thinking that way
(19:21):
and getting that additional training, they're able to help seniors
live longer, better, happier, healthier, more productive lives, which is
what I'm kind of counting on. I'm not anywhere near
ready to check out, so I'm glad to have this resource,
and it truly is. The whole Institute on Aging is
just this one giant resource available to us right here
(19:41):
in the Greater Houston area. Most of the doctors and
other providers who are members of the Institute on Aging
are work primarily out of the med Center. As you
might imagine, but they also go to other areas of town.
They also go to other hospitals and clinics from from
the Woodlands all the way down to Galveston, all the
way to pair Land, out to Katie and beyond, even
(20:04):
with some of them, so that they can help people
who need to see them without those people having to
come all the way into the mediciner, which can be
a kind of a hassle if you haven't been down
there in a while. Traffic's crazy in this town. We
all know that. Go to the website, look at all
the resources, and then find somebody who can help you
fix whatever's ailing you. Uth dot edu slash aging, ut
(20:27):
h dot edu slash aging. Yeah, they sure don't make
them like they used to.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
That's why every few months we wash him, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, welcome back.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Uh boy, that was quick. Let me let me rewind
that a little bit. All right, Welcome back fifty plus.
Thanks as auguys for joining me. We're gonna talk in
this segment about something from which all of us benefit,
but about which very few of us really know, And
we're gonna We're gonna kind of get a little granular
with it too, and that in the big picture, I'm
talking about the Port of Houston, which maybe we'll cover
(21:06):
in its entirety some other time, but today we're gonna
talk about the port's maritime education and workforce Development program,
which I think would be a pretty interesting thing to
mention if you have younger children still or maybe grandchildren
who are trying to figure out what they want to
do with their lives. And I just happened to have
(21:28):
the right person to talk about that too. That would
be Jackie Young Hall, who runs that show, Welcome Jackie Good.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Good afternoon, sir.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
How are you? Yeah? You did what I always do.
It's it's almost morning. It used to be morning just
a few minutes ago, and now it's afternoon. I do
that almost every day.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Yes, yes, yes, and time just keeps flying.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
So yeah, we can't. It's my pleasure. So let's lead
off kind of with the mission statement. When did the
program start? What's it designed to do?
Speaker 3 (22:00):
So this is a great opportunity for us to share
with your listening audience what we've been doing for over
the past fifteen years. So the programs started in two
thousand and nine with a handful of students in HISD.
So it's really designed to introduce students in our region
(22:22):
to the Port of Houston and all of the industry
related opportunities. We were fortunate enough to have embedded in
the high school's maritime programs. So these are career and
technical education programs much like culinary and healthcare, that prepare
our students for these careers. Not only do they prepare them,
(22:45):
but they expose them to over one hundred different career
opportunities along the Houston Ship Channel. So it's not just
the Port of Houston, it's also what's going on in
the greater port, the Houston Ship Channel and the region.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
That's incredible. Yeah, and it's you're targeting young people obviously,
because they're going to be the future of the port,
the future of the shipping industry. And I'm wondering, how
is the influx of people into that industry or does
it need more people like the service industries do.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Oh, everyone is looking for talent. The crazy thing is
is that, you know, the Port of Houston, we're growing
and we are, you know, number one in waterway cargo,
but a lot of people don't understand that we Houston
Ship Channel, we're responsible for one point five four million
(23:43):
jobs in the state of Texas. Wow, and that's I mean,
this is literally right in your backyard, you know, Houston
Ship Channel fifty two miles waterway from Galveston to Turning Basin,
which is right off of the six'. Ten and there
are so many opportunities for. Students and not only do
(24:04):
we target that high, school those career and technical education kids,
there we also have to understand we have to reach
back and start grooming the middle school kids and showing
them what opportunities that they have because they have to
choose that pathway between The november And march of their
(24:27):
eighth grade, year which is really mind boggling to some.
People but if you have a middle school, student you
know that they are asking you course selections and what
do you want to do when you grow? Up but
can you imagine being in the eighth. GRADE i know
WHEN i was in the eighth, GRADE i didn't know
WHAT i wanted to. Do but this still Don't this
(24:48):
allows a student to really look at not only the
waterside maritime, transportation but we look at logistics and. Distribution
we look at multimodal transportation because here at the, port you,
know we have a. Railroad you, know we have a police,
department we have a fire, department we have everything from
(25:09):
accounting to. Welding and people don't understand that the port
is a business and just like a much other you,
know other, businesses we're looking for talent and so we're
trying to make sure that in the middle, school we're
introducing the youth and young adults to maritime. Opportunities we're
encouraging higher, education but we also understand that some of
(25:32):
these require some of these careers do not require a
two or a four year, degree and so there's opportunities
for all, students whether they want to go straight into
the workforce into an apprenticeship, program if they want to
go to college or a four year, university or even the.
Military so we're literally the liaison between our, stakeholders government, entities,
(26:00):
businesses community, organizations and the goal is really to show
kids what opportunities are. Available and the great thing about
this program is we develop partnerships between academic and. Industry
and why do we do that because we want to
make sure that the academic institutions have the curriculum that
(26:24):
the industry. Needs so it's it's nothing worse than getting
a degree and wondering where you're going to find a.
Job but if industry is talking to, academics you, know
then we know these are the type of people that
they are looking. For and we have some phenomenal programs
right now. Currently you, KNOW i said we started with two.
(26:45):
Programs we're currently in nine high schools in eight different school,
districts and we're growing.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
BETA i looked at a lot of things on, here
and you in addition to these actual programs and currict there's,
mentorship there's, internships there's oh, yeah good having the relationships.
Partnership there's a lot of ships in the harbor right.
There if you think about, that you can use that
in your promotional material. Too that's pretty.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
Good.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Ida you, know, well you know, what thank, you AND
i will definitely give you credit for that. One you.
Know but over the past fifteen, years the port has
invested over five million dollars in maritime, education which has
enabled us to assist programs into in programs that help
students discover their interest and match them to opportunities after.
(27:36):
Graduation so we're working with the middle school. Kids we're
working with the high school, kids but they've got to
have a landing. Spot so we're working with. Industry we're
working with you, know colleges and. Universities we have some
phenomenal programs that are right here in their backyard and
they don't know what's going, on you, know some of
the other benefits you mentioned all of the other, ships
(27:58):
but you, know we do dual credit their industry specific
credentials and certificates that these kids can get in high.
School we have one of the only programs that is
allowing a partnership With Sanjasino, college the maritime, campus that
(28:18):
is allowing our high school kids to graduate WITH Us
Coast Guard, CERTs certificate that get them ready and they're
ready to hit the ground. Running you. Know we do field,
trips you, know as you, mentioned workshops and. Seminars we
have a great mentorship program where port employees are paired
(28:38):
with our high school kids and so not only are
they letting them know, about you, know the day in
the life of what they, do we're really looking at
those employability. Skills you, Know we're trying to let them,
know you, know can you work well with? Others you,
know can you show up to work on? Time can
you be a part of a.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Team you don't mean to cut you. Off we were
down to about twenty. Seconds the WEBSITE i want to
make sure we get here is Port houston dot. Com
then go To. Community then right there on the left
hand side you'll See Maritime Workforce. Development what a fantastic.
Program thank you so much for your time. Today thank you.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Sir and anytime you guys want to come. Down we
have free boat tours and we've got some awesome opportunities coming.
Up and you, know we've got a career, Fair we've
got a community resource fair that's coming up In. December
we have so many different, opportunities and you can visit
the same website for all of that information as.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Well thank you so. Much it's a. Pleasure all. Right
we got to take a little break. Here on the way,
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(29:58):
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many of you, are you probably remember more than one hurricane's.
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(30:22):
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we do get, one your trees should be able to
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(30:42):
come to your, house will assess your trees and find
out whether they need any help at, all which actually
mine only need a little. Food AND i need to
go back and look at the. Paperwork irwin dropped off
BECAUSE i think he told me what to feed these,
trees And i'm gonna get that taken care of post.
Haste we're right smack in the middle of storm, season,
(31:02):
okay we, are and we're coming into the part where
everything starts to boil up and heat. Up That's august
And september, primarily and some Of, october even before we
start really getting comfortable with what's going on around. Us
nobody wants one of these things to come. Through but
the last thing you want if it, does is to
wake up to a tree over your roof or on your,
(31:23):
car or on the fence or anything else like. That
get them out. There they'll help. You if it needs,
pruning they'll prune. It if it needs lopping of big,
limbs they'll take the big limbs. Off if the whole
tree has to, go they can do that too with the.
Equipment they own all their, equipment and they even own
a tree farm so that you can replace that tree
you lost and come to know it and love it
(31:45):
as much as a loved one that had to. Go
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and start taking a look at what they can do
for you and make a call from, there or you
just jump on the. Phone two eight one three two
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(32:07):
and of course women never get. Old if you want
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Speaker 5 (32:12):
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Speaker 1 (32:15):
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Speaker 2 (32:19):
Back at fifty. Plus thanks for listening to certainly do
appreciate THAT i got a couple of THINGS i want
to get to in this final segment of the. PROGRAM
i hope you got something out of the diabetes interview.
Earlier and, then of, course The port Of houston for younger,
people for high school, kids and even like she, said
middle school, kids it's so important that they have some.
(32:40):
Direction at. LEAST i didn't know WHAT i wanted to
be WHEN i was that, young And I'm i'm sure
most of us. Didn't but it really helps these days
if someone can can get just the least little bit
focused and have a plan at least going into high
school and then perhaps going beyond high school in the
education or, not maybe an apprenticeship makes more sense to that,
(33:03):
person but to already have this option laid out for,
them these potential opportunities for employment at The port Of,
houston and like she, said there's all kinds of different
jobs over. There there are all kinds of different. Jobs
Jackie police, department the people who handle all the. Merchandise
(33:26):
there's a lot of high tech now at the port as,
well so there's going to be it opportunity over. THERE
ai is going to be a, big big part of
this in the very near term, future if it's not.
Already so it be worth a look from the, Boy
where DO i want to?
Speaker 5 (33:43):
Go?
Speaker 2 (33:44):
OH i listened To Michael Berry show yesterday, afternoon by the,
way AND i got to applaud his team for cobbling
dozens of reporters inquiries into the health and medical condition
Of President, trump just one after. One what's wrong with the?
Guy what does he? Have what does he not? Have
(34:05):
and it's just non, stop and by the, way it's
none of their, business, really but that never stops any
of them from asking stupid. Questions so how deeply have they? Probed?
Well they wanted to know based on the recordings of
all these questions and. Whatnot they want to know his physical,
Condition they want to know if he's fit to. Serve
they want to know about his psychological, profile his emotional, health,
(34:29):
is cognitive, health, everything but whether or not he'd ever
had a hangnail or a. Beasting and they dug up nothing,
really nothing of, substance nothing more than That President trump's
a little bit overweight and he's got a non clinical heart,
condition WHICH i would, say just Like michael, said most
people on the eve of their eightieth birthday probably also
(34:51):
have a little something in their arteries and veins that
wasn't supposed to be. There and then to hammer home his,
point which they saw coming from a mile, away AND
i was glad he did, This he said he was
about to play the audio from all the times many
of these same reporters asked the same questions About President
biden's medical health during his, term and all those times
(35:14):
added up to. Zero he filled the void with cricket.
Sounds MAYBE i don't know who put that, together but
it was filled with crickets because they never, asked because
they never, cared and they certainly probably didn't really want
that disgust openly because everybody pretty much by the time
(35:34):
he was halfway through his term knew what was going.
On he, knew they. Knew mainstream media just continues this
incessant quest to somehow disparage the one, man the one
man around here who really, cares the one man who's
serving as president for the right. Reasons not to feather
(35:55):
his own. Nest he's got plenty of feathers in his.
Nest not to make family men members rich, either which
has been going on, recently but just because he cares
about this country and he recognized a couple of years
ago that it was on the brink of, collapse and
he shared his mission in his story with enough people
(36:16):
to make sure he got elected. Again and, bye, gosh
she's we got the right people in the right places
now to revive us from Thee, boy where DO i
want to go with?
Speaker 5 (36:25):
This?
Speaker 2 (36:25):
Oh this was interesting and minute and a half will
Something i've been in ten. Whatever remember When President trump
offered federal employees a chance to take a buyout check
and leave their. Posts mainstream, Media, oh that's a horrible.
Idea these people were public. Servants they loved their jobs
because they're helping. People remember all, That, well one hundred
and fifty four thousand of, them some of these people,
(36:49):
helpers took the money and ran that thank, you we'll
take that check and we're out of. Here six point
seven percent more or less of the entire civilian federal.
Work and to be, precise that doesn't even include staffers
who were fired doesn't include people who took early retirement incentive.
(37:09):
Programs and it's SAVING us bazillions of, dollars bazillions of tax.
Dollars And i'm kind of, glad and maybe take another,
shot see if anybody else is willing to leave for
a couple of bucks. More that is going to wrap
it up almost we're just about down to the, wire
AND i guess on the way, out trying to see
if there's SOMETHING i could do really. Quickly woman In
(37:33):
ohio got revenge on a car dealership for repossessing her.
Car she bought the dealership's business, name which wasn't, registered
and sent them a cease and. Desist i'll always welcome
you around. Here never, mind we'll be back again next. Time.
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