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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Remember when it was impossible to misplace the TV remote
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hey, John, how's it going today?
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Well?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
This show is all about you one. This is fifty
plus with Doug Pike. Helpful information on your finances, good health,
and what to do for fun. Fifty plus brought to
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Decisions for a healthier, happier life. And now fifty plus
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with Doug Pike. All right, here we go.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Welcome and not my favorite day of the week weatherwise.
But I've seen better, but I've also seen worse. It's
pretty much the same with the markets and oil and gold.
It's actually slipped a little bit from the first time
I looked this morning to now, But there's really nothing
there that should cause alarm. You don't need to go
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sell everything or go buy something. We're leveling out, I
feel like, and I do believe we're poised for significant
growth moving forward. I feel pretty good about it. From boy,
where do I start? Even from the Bold Talk desk,
I got a kick out of this this morning. Former
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ESPN host Keith Oberman called out Riley Gaines to say
that she was not an elite swimmer and she's no
better at swimming than she is as what did he
call her a maga lackey or something like that. It
wasn't very He wasn't very kind at all, and he's
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probably let his alligator mouth overload his humming bird behind
because Riley Gains twelve times an NCAA All American, an
elite swimmer, has now challenged him to a race one
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on one for charity. She's not trying to get rich
off this. She just wants to prove a point, and
she wants to jump in the pool with Keith Olberman
in his big mouth and swim two hundred yards freestyle,
and that that actually gives him a fighting chance, because
if she were to choose any other swimming stroke breaststroke
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or butterfly or backstroke, he wouldn't have any sort of
chance because he's probably not good at any of that.
And she's even she's even taunting him indirectly by telling him,
you know what, I'll go ahead and swim the full
two hundred yards and you only have to swim one fifty,
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and that puts him in a very awkward, very no
win situation position. Here are his two choices. Does he
let her humiliate him by trying to keep up with
her for all two hundred yards and lose by a
staggering amount of space, or does he risk losing to
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her despite being giving a fifty yard head start. You know,
just like anytime any other time you're underwater, anywhere else,
for any reason at all, anytime you're underwater, keep your
mouth shut. He should know better. Are there are so
many examples that would be like so and so challenging
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so and so an elite athlete in that sport to
something related to that sport, like challenging Jordan Alvarez or
josel two to a home run hitting contest when the
best you ever played is is neighborhood softball. He's that's
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just foolish on his part. I cannot imagine how dumb
he must feel right now, because he should have known
that she was not going to take that line down.
She was not going to let him or anybody else
continue to push against her for believing that men should
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not participate in women's sports, which they shouldn't by the way.
Oh well, I hope, I really hope they do have
that race, I really truly do it.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
I would.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
I'd say, hey, Riley, give him six months to train,
give him all the time he wants, all the time
he wants, because he's not going to get better overnight.
Give him a little time, give him a month, two months,
six months, whatever it takes. And when he feels ready,
he's hoping the pool and hip him and then go
on about your business. From the baseball desk, by the way,
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specifically the Astros desk. The return of power hitter Jordan
Olvaes is still up in the air. Dana Brown, general
manager of the team, set it's up to him basically,
and whenever he's ready, he'll be right back in the lineup.
But between the lines, with what's being said lately, it
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almost kind of sounds like some of the people in
the organization think he's probably able to return right now,
but not doing it for reasons unknown, and maybe there
is still a little hesitation on his part to make
a full swing at the baseball.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
But at some.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Point we need him back on the field, We need
him back in the batter's box at least, no question
about it, and we need that to happen A long
time before he matches the time off that Kyle Tucker
amassed this past season with that leg injury of his.
I understand that little things in your hands could make
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it very hard to swing the bat, But I also
understand that you're a professional athlete. You should be in
position to train your way through it. Do what the
doctors say, Do what the trainers say if there was
something seriously wrong with his hand. If there is something
seriously wrong with his hand, then they need to tell
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us about it. But don't just keep saying he's almost ready,
we expecting back any time now. He may be back tonight,
he may be back tomorrow night, and then two weeks
from now, not back yet. Just be honest with us.
I think that's what anybody and everybody who appreciates and
follows sports wants. We just want the truth. If the
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guy's out for the season, say so, and go buy
another bat and go trade for somebody. Don't trade away boy,
a lot of them. Jake, don't trade Jake Myers. Don't
trade jose L touve. I think he's had something like
four or five home runs just in this homestand he's
he There was a time not that long ago, a
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week and a half ago, or so two weeks maybe,
when people were saying, you know, Jose's just kind of
lost it. He's really just doesn't have the pop in
his bat that he used to. And then all of
a sudden, it's boom boom. Every time you turn around,
he's hitting the ball either into the Crawford boxes and
line shots to the outfield and just making believers out
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of everybody. Again, he's a he's a first round Hall
of Famer if he ever decides to retire. Now, I
think he's still got a few good years at him.
He's lost a little bit of speed, but that's about it.
That's about it. His bat still is formidable, and his
fielding still is very good. He just doesn't run quite
as fast as he used to. I'll save the rest
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of this. We've got a couple of good interviews coming
up coming up next. In fact, we're going to talk
about hearing without talking, well at least not much about
hearing aids. That'll be a good one with doctor Keneth Lee.
And then after that, I'm going to introduce you to
a new member of the marketing of the well not
marketing with the advertising family here and that'd be Cedar
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Cove RV Resort. I'll tell you a little bit about
Cedar Cove right now. Cedar Court. Cedar Cove RV Resort
is in Baytown, down Tri City Beach Road and near
Thompson's Bait Camp if you know where that is. It's
right on Galveston Bay. Got all the amenities you could
want in a place to park your vehicle, whether that's
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a big giant bus or just a little small camper
or whatever it is. You got park on that big
cement slab. You've got electric water and sewer at every site.
Their Wi Fi little bathhouse with showers if you need
to go clean up. You don't want to use up
your water that you've got on your vehicle. All that
plus a pretty good fishing if the wind and the
tide and the weather's right, which it tends to be
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down there this time of year, it's settling out. We're
still going to have thunderstorms here and there, but the
weather's settling out down there, and it's gonna be a
really nice time to watch the sun rise and set
over Trinity Bay. To find out more about what they
do down there, go to Cedarcove rvresort dot Com. We'll
be talking to Al in just a little while. Cedar Cove,
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rvresort dot com. What's life without a net?
Speaker 5 (09:22):
If I suggest to go to bed, sleep it off.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Just wait until the show's over, Sleepy. Back to Doug
Pike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
All right, welcome back to fifty plus. Thanks for listening
to appreciate it. I'm Will, He's Doug, and in this
segment we're gonna talk about hearing.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Wait.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Wait, you said I'm Will. He's Doug. Did ie.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Wow, it's been that kind of day. Will, I'm sorry,
he's Will. I'm Doug, and we're gonna talk about hearing.
You heard right, didn't you? You heard me mess up,
But not necessarily about hearing age, which actually not a
lot anyway, which may disappoint some of you, and at
some point in the near future I'll do that, But
in this one we're going to address more specifically cochlear
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implants and how they've quite literally changed people's lives. And
to help I'll bring in doctor Keneth Lee, a professor
in the Department of ODA Laryngology at ut Southwestern. Thank
you for your time, doctor Lee.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
Well, thank you, it's an honor and a pleasure for
me to be here on your show.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Well that almost makes me blush. Yeah, your time is
more important than mine. So the information I got for
this one was quite interesting. And I actually know someone
who has a cochlear implant, but I don't know even
well enough to ask a lot of questions. So let
me ask you when did these things get introduced?
Speaker 6 (10:41):
So the first cokelar implants became available in the nineteen seventies.
They were developed early on. And the first cokel implants
actually just had a single channel, meaning that it's just
a single electrode or a wire that would electrically stimulate
the nerve that goes between the ear, the cochlear specifically,
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what's why it's called a cochlear implant, And it stimulates
the nerve that goes to the brain. And so this
is a devices for people who have substantial hearing loss.
Essentially initially just for people who are deaf and could
not really hear anything, any meaningful sound.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
And so what did it enable them to hear?
Speaker 6 (11:22):
So the first one enabled patients just to be able
to hear sound they could understand kind of actually they
surprising they could hear more than what we initially expected.
That was with just a single electrode. Then shortly thereafter
came what called multi channel cochlear implants, and the first
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device has just had six different electrodes and with that
you could understand different pitches or different tones, and so
with that they could the patient was able to understand
kind of simple songs of recognis a simple song including
happy Birthday.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
And that for them was tremendous, wasn't it?
Speaker 6 (12:08):
Well? Absolutely, I mean without that, they were completely had
no access to sound.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Yeah, I can't imagine that and how difficult that must be.
And so many people in this country actually go about
their daily lives without the ability to hear. Are there
minimum or maximum ages for candidacy to receive candidacy to
receive a cochlear implant?
Speaker 5 (12:35):
Yeah, great question.
Speaker 6 (12:37):
So the minimum So I'm a pediatric otologist and I
only treat children, and so I am kind of focused
on the lower end. That age has actually decreased over time.
When cochlear implants were first FDA approved for children, the
lower limit was two years of age. But as the
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implant technology has gotten better and the functional outcomes have
become better. What we call the risk of benefit ratio
has become more in the favor of the benefit. So
the age, the minimum age has decreased over time. It
then came down to one year of age and currently
it's nine months of age. We can implant children. The
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one exception is that is a child who has meningitis,
because if you have meningitis, the cochlea can the fluid
spaces in the cochlea can fill a bone, and so
from the inflammatory response, and so for these children, we
want to implant them as soon as possible before that
bony and growth occurs.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Forget my ignorance, but how do you test hearing in infants?
Speaker 6 (13:42):
Every other great question, So there's one. So as a
child's older, we can look for reaction. The audiologists, the
hearing specialist who does the hearing testing, our partners will
do things such as play tones, and they'll look for
the babies for spons do they lift their eyebrows, do
they turn their head, those kind of things. We also
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kind of rely on parents to kind of also report
certain things and from a behavioral standpoint, but we do
have a way to objectively measure hearing with something called
an ABR or auditory brainstem response test. So this is
an electrophysiological test where you placed electrodes on the forehead
and then around the ear. You play sounds and then
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you can measure the electrical activity between the ear and
the brain with these electrodes. And they're basically just kind
of surface electrodes that are stickers that are placed on
the skin.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Wow, doctor kennth Lee on fifty plus Here, I saw
something about the device's potential to minimize background noise, and
that kind of got my attention. How does that work?
Speaker 6 (14:48):
So there's different you know, as cochlear plants, and this
is also similar with hearing aids, is that they've become much
more sophisticated. They can have multiple microphones, for example, on
the front and the back, and then one of the
advantages of having two ears is that your brain can
kind of merge the signal from the left and the
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right ear and kind of drowned out background noise. So
when you're in a busy place like at a cocktail
party or in the cafeteria, there's a lot of background noise,
but you're speaking to somebody who's directly in front of you.
Your brain is able to actually drown out that background
noise behind you and from the side and just focus
in on the sound source coming directly in front of you.
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So with cochlear implants and with hearing aids, the speech
processor and the multiple microphones can function.
Speaker 5 (15:40):
In the same way.
Speaker 6 (15:41):
It can kind of help drown out some of that
background noise based on kind of very sophisticated electronics.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
We get a lot of background noise on the days
that we have staff meetings here. I might could use
something like that myself. On a personal note, Do these
things do anything for in the ear for tunatas?
Speaker 5 (16:02):
Oh, that's another excellent question.
Speaker 6 (16:04):
So that actually sparked a whole line of research and
they and that's led to something called cochlear implants for
single sided deafness. It was kind of initially kind of discovered,
you know, it's not directly but sort of just serendipitously,
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someone named Paul Vanderhining, who is a professor and that
ear surgeon in Belgium, did a lot of work initial
work on using cochlear implants for tenadas and it's just
because they found that when someone got implanted, they had
hearing loss. This tenadas are ringing in the ears went away.
And one of the main reasons is you have this
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ring in your ears because your brain is always trying
to pick up signals and when you're when you have
hearing loss, that input is not going from the ear
to the brain, so your brain's kind of looking for
that signal and so as a result, that kind of
creates some sound else. That's one of the theorized way
reasons why we have this ring. But when those patients
that had hearing loss and also had tenatis got a
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cokelar implant, their tenatus went away, and so that has
kind of sparked quite a bit of research and looking
at this as potentially a treatment for tendadus.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
And also a lot of these patients.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
Had single sided deafness or just hearing loss only on
one side, and that's also kind of led to the
benefits of cochlear implants or someone who only has hearing
loss on one side, whereas traditionally it was a device
for patients that had hearing loss on you know, deaf
in both ears.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Quick question before we run out of time, what's new
on the research side. What are you working on now?
Speaker 5 (17:43):
Right? Excellent? I appreciate that question.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
So we are developing a new coke liar ienplant electrode array,
and this is one that self coils. So the cochlea
is that snail shell shape organ in the ear. It
contains the cells that converts the mechanical energy of sound
into the electrical signal. Now, because from a surgical and
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a technical standpoint, you need kind of a straight object,
kind of think of like a pool queue. You can't
really have a like a coiled pool queue to hit
the ball straight. You need it to be straight. But
the but the object, the cochlea, is coiled, so once
we get it in there, it needs to coil. There's
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two main types of cochlear and plant electrode arrays. One's
called the lateral wall, and that's a straight one, and
as you put it into that coiled container, it'll naturally
position itself on that ladder wall or on the outside wall.
The problem is is that the nerves in the cochlea
are in the center or in the inner wall. So
there's an advantage to bring those electrodes from the lateral
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wall to the center and cochline plant companies have realized this.
They've come up with clever ways to bring the electrodes
in to the center. The problem with that, though, is
when in the current mechanisms used to do that, it
causes quite a bit of trauma to the tissue, and
that trauma leaves the scarring and what's called fibrosis, and
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that decreases the.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
Function of the cochlear plant.
Speaker 6 (19:14):
We're developing something called a self coiling cochleterm plant electro
array using something called shape memory polymers, so it can
be straight at room temperature, but once you put it
in the cochlea, it'll self coil and it'll start moving
by itself to the inner wall. So this provides with
the minimal trauma. Thank you. Yeah, we're very excited about it.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
I hope to hear more as it goes along. When
you when you hit another milestone like that, let me
know and we'll have you back on to talk about it.
Doctor Kenneth Lee, thank you so very much. I really
appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (19:46):
Well, thank you, Doug Pike. It's been a pleasure in
an honor.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Likewise, thank you. All right. Oh my gosh, we gotta
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Speaker 1 (21:36):
Yeah, they sure don't make them like they used to.
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 to
fifty plus. Thank you for listening. We will, I'll get
it right this time. I'm Doug, He's will and we
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do appreciate your time. I want to use this segment too.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
You introduced a new member of the family around here,
a guy whose business is over on Trinity Bay down
Tri City b Troad. Mentioned him earlier a little while ago,
and that would be Al Kibby, who happens to be
the owner of Cedar Cove RV park. Welcome aboard.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Al thank you, Doug.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
It's my pleasure to have you. Have you joined us here.
So take me back to when somebody, maybe it was you,
maybe your wife, maybe a friend or whomever, somebody said,
you know what, you ought to run an RV park
on the bay.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
When was that?
Speaker 7 (22:34):
That was a number of years ago now, I guess
it was back in twenty sixteen or seventeen or so.
Actually it was a friend of mine. We were on
a boy Scout camp out. Both of our sons were
in the same troop. We were on the camp out,
and he had a little bit of money, I had
a little bit of land, and we decided to our
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V park was a thing we wanted to do.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
So that's how it all got started.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
I guess you hadn't met but about a bazillion interesting
people since then.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
Huh.
Speaker 7 (23:09):
It's a it's a great little business to be and
uh we meet people from just about everywhere, and and
everybody's got a good life story to tell.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Did you have any business experience in RV parks or
did y'all just figure it out on the fly.
Speaker 7 (23:24):
Well, As a matter of fact, my granddad made a
little park.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
He had a He had an.
Speaker 7 (23:30):
Alley an island on the Allegheny River up in Pennsylvania
when I was when I was a kid, and uh
uh there was guys that would come fishing and all
uh in camp and and so they said, you know, Francis,
you need to make this a business. And so I
spent a lot of summers going up there cutting trees
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and just uh doing that sort of thing, you know.
So that's how I cut my teeth in my high
school years. But never thought i'd come full circle.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
You have, indeed. Yeah, right now, you're the guy who
opens up in the morning, locks up at night. And
I'm hoping your office window overlooks the water. Please tell
me that's true, that's in.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
We have a beautiful view.
Speaker 7 (24:14):
We have a beautiful view out here of the sunrise
and the sunset from the office.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
How many spaces you got out there?
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Al we have eighty one?
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Okay? And are they all about the same size? I
don't know anything about this really, So are they all
the same size? Are they different sizes?
Speaker 7 (24:32):
Now, they're all the same size as far as the
footprint goes that they're all sixty foot down the center line.
So and then they have parking for two additional.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Vehicles after that.
Speaker 7 (24:45):
The yeah, everything's everything's full hookups with thirty and fifty
amp service and it's all the lot sizes. Now, we
tried to keep every every indigenous tree that was there
when we when we built the place, so the lot
sizes are stretched and squeezed here and there, you know.
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But but yeah, we try to uh give everybody a
lot of space to to stretch out.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Are there designated areas? This is I'm asking questions because
I don't know the answer, and I bet there's a
lot of people asking are there designated areas for cooking out?
Or can you just light the coals on the slab
and burn your burgers.
Speaker 7 (25:27):
Every site has a has a little camp drill to it,
just like you would find in a in a in
a state park or something. And then and then in
addition to that, we in most spots, the ones that
aren't too tight, have a fire ring so you can
you can enjoy just a little campfire.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
On the ground.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
I'm gonna give the ring, you know, fire ring. I
think I know the answer to this. But our RV
park people pretty friendly. Do they mingle and make friends
with each other? Pretty easy.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 7 (25:58):
One of the one of the things I always say,
you know, if you if you ever have a problem
with anything, just just act like you're working on something
and two or three people walk.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Up and tell you exactly how to do it.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Just the opposite of taking your cowling off the engine
on a boat in the middle of the BAYNT go
around you like you're on fire. You've got to play.
Oh my gosh. Al Kibbi from Cedar Cove RV Park
on fifty plus here you mentioned a while back that
not everybody who comes over there is just there for
a long weekend or even a week. Some folks are
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working here and rather than use that travel allowance on
a hotel, they roll onto one of those slabs and
get to see that sunrise and sunset every day for
a month or more.
Speaker 7 (26:39):
Right, we have a lot of guys that are here
on per dim and working in different chemical plants around
that are just tired of doing the hotel thing. And
they they bring their RV and they know who's slept
in that bed last night, so they uh, they're yeah,
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and they're just adapt to to the lifestyle. And we like,
like I told.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
You, I guess already.
Speaker 7 (27:07):
But the uh, you know, when we designed the park,
we designed it uh on on three pillars, uh pretty
much uh thinking about the guys that that come, and
we we would cover just about everybody else, but the
guys that come, they want a nice place to live.
When they're here, they want to they want something to
do when they get a little bit of time off. Uh.
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So we got you know, the fishing and the cooking
and all the stuff. And then uh when they go home,
uh for the weekend and they got four days off,
they want to leave the rig and not have to
worry about it. So we've got the security cover too, kind.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Of like your own private little beach house for a
week or two or a month or whatever.
Speaker 7 (27:46):
And a lot of people use that a lot of
We have a number of people that live in the
Conroe area and uh and and and farther inland that
uh that's what they do. They bring their they bring
their r V down for a week or two or
a month and leave it and go back home and
come back down with their boat and fish and do
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whatever for the time they're here.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Yeah, all those people coming and going out, I'm guessing
you've got a story or two about either maybe an
unusual request or maybe you had to run somebody off
or doing something crazy. What give me a real life
unusual experience from Cedar Cove.
Speaker 7 (28:26):
Gee, you know, we are so blessed that I don't
have many many crazies, a lot, a lot of the
most of the people here are are just regular sort
of people that want to have a good time and
and kick back. I guess the one thing that kind
of of it is hard to understand. Sometimes people call
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and they say, do you have any shade? You have trees,
and I tell them, you know, we have trees, a
lot of elm trees, but they're not very much for shade.
But some there's some spots that are very shady. And
then when they get here they complain about the leaves
falling off. So anyway, it's, uh, you can't win for losing, now,
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that's right.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
But they're good people.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Very very quickly, because we're almost out of time, somebody
in the office asked about pets. What's the pet rule?
Speaker 3 (29:23):
Uh? Welcome.
Speaker 7 (29:24):
Uh we're dog lovers ourselves, and we've got plenty of
room for him to run. And we've even we owned
the five acres next door, so they can run out
in the field if they want to.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Outstanding sounds like pretty much everybody's welcome at Cedar Cove.
Speaker 5 (29:38):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
All right, well, believe it or not, that was quick.
I know you got to get back to lunch with
your buddies too. I hated to break you away from them.
Tell them I said, hello, Will.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
You good chatting you with to Doug.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Yes, sir, we'll talk again soon.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
Audios.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
All right, that was Al Kibby from Cedar Cove r
Vresort dot com theater Covearvresort dot com. He said, you
don't have to come over there and just stay two
or three days. And I like that idea for the
folks who have them bring your RV down there and
just kind of park yet because it's not terribly expensive,
and then use your main vehicle to pull a boat
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down there back and forth on weekends. That's not a
bad idea either. Holy cow. UT Health Institute on Aging
not a bad idea for people our age. The website
ut dot edu slash aging is absolutely loaded with resources
of interest to me and you and anybody else in
our age group. The people who are providers who are
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associated with the institute on aging. Well, what they do
is they've already gotten all their school work behind them.
They've done everything they had to do to become a surgeon,
a physical therapist, a trainer, a psychologist, whatever it is.
They've done all that, and then they've said, you know what,
seniors need a little extra help. So we're going to
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go back and learn more about how we can apply
our knowledge specifically to them, specifically to you and me
and anybody else in our age group. That's a handy
thing to have, especially in a big, old city like this.
There's so many providers, and if you don't know where
to start a search for somebody to help you with
an issue you might be having healthwise. Right now, go
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to uth dot edu slash aging, and when you finish
going through all the cool resources, start looking for names.
Start looking for providers specifically who can help you with
what's bothering you. Uth dot edu slash aging, ut h
dot edu slash aging.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Aged to Perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Dunda Duda dun dunda dun dun dunt dunt will we're back.
How about that? Uh, couple of brief things to talk
about here, and then we'll will and I will wander
through some of the bits and pieces of the day,
and maybe one or two from yesterday too, because every
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time I turn around there's always so much left.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
At the end.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
On Friday at one o'clock, there's so many things that
I didn't get to cover. It drives me crazy. And
if there's something that you want me to cover, by
all means, please let me know. And like I've talked
about before, if you would like to join al Kibby now,
who's a member of the family, if you want to
jump on this crazy train that I call fifty plus,
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by all means, email me as well, because you can
kind of skip the middleman and go directly with me.
And when I get to put things together, they tend
to get put together pretty well in favor of my crew.
If you will, you know over on the Doug Pike
Show on KB and ME on Saturday and Sunday. Will
(32:53):
There was some discussion a while back about what to
call my listeners was it? And I think I'm gonna
settle on Pikes peeps. What's that do for you? No,
don't smirk, just unless you've got something better.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
For So it came up on the outdoor show for
what you should call fifty plus listeners.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
No, no, just just my listeners, not okay, plus listeners.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
Pikes peeps. I just I don't know. It doesn't it's
too punchy.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Almost punchy pipes peeps.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
Punchy pikes peep.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Perhaps please pardon keep going? How many pea words do
you know?
Speaker 4 (33:41):
Well, let's see, I think that I think that it
should be the mm what I mean? I was thinking
for the fifty plus people, you just.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Call it the best generation.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
No, I would say the old timers.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
You already have seniors, you know, the free home of
the gray.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (34:07):
What's that do for you?
Speaker 4 (34:09):
That one's used a lot? You know, I would say,
I would say, you know, just going going my word,
the senior round you.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
But see that's low hanging fruit. That's just too easy,
and we are so much more than just our age.
We are. Well, I'm gonna have to think about one
specifically for fifty plus and if you've got one, just
anything you want to know, anything you need to know
for me, just email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com.
We'll go from there. From the not so friendly Sky's desk,
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I saw this this morning at Emson. There's a guy
at the Miami Airport. There's video, there's cameras all over airport.
You know that he got in a in a fight
on a flight from Panama going through Miami, and I
think he was supposed to continue on to somewhere up
in Canada. I believe he may be a Canadian citizen.
Actually he's not an American, I don't believe if I
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remember reading the story correctly. So he gets upset somehow
some way between Panama and Miami, and when they yanked
him off the plane in Miami, apparently the other airlines
kind of found out about him, or didn't or whatever,
and he was a man without a ticket. He wasn't
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gonna get back on that same plane and go up there.
I can't remember the name of the airline. The bottom
line is that infuriated him to the point that he
decided that he was gonna pick a fight with a
bunch of TSA agents at security. Well, he lost that fight,
and he probably lost his freedom to move about the
country at least until he can be put on a
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plane headed out of here. They might fly him on
up to Canada and do him a favor. If they
did that, they could also hold him and charge him
with AsSalt on a go an official, maybe an assault
on a peace officer. Even I'm not sure exactly how
TSA people are classified, but one way or the other,
there's video of him. There was one guy trying to
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hold him down, just standing over him in a big,
big fellow too, and that guy hit him in the
face twice. And just to know how little that fighter
was and how big the guy holding him down was,
he got hit square in the jaw twice and never
even flinched. It's like, what is that? It is that
all you got? Okay, fine, we'll take it all right. Well,
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I've got two stories about lip whiskers, okay, and they're
very brief. You want to hear them? Do you want
to hear t rex or no t rex? Or do
you want to heal here? I might as well pour
milk on skittles. Oh man, let's go with the lip whiskers.
(36:58):
I made that term up. Have you ever heard that before?
Speaker 7 (37:00):
No?
Speaker 4 (37:00):
And I know you, I know I do, and I
don't want to hear it again.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
You're gonna hear it almost every day now then until
you shave yours. I'm gonna say, hey Will, how are
your lip whiskers doing? Hey Will, that's some mighty handsome
lip whiskers you got there. I like that you don't
handlebar lip whiskers. I don't have a handlebar. I know
that I do. Yours is more traditional beard style. So anyway,
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Adolph Hitler shaved his mustache deliberately squared.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
Do you know why?
Speaker 5 (37:35):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
This was fascinating to me. It really was. And this
is just one of those little conversation starters that made
it more easy to fit inside of a gas mask.
That's why he shaved it off square.
Speaker 3 (37:50):
Now.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
I don't know what kind of mask he was wearing,
but it wasn't the kind our boys had. It just
fit over your whole face. But I can I guarantee
you facial hair. If there's mustard gas or pretty much
any kind of poison gas floating around in the air,
I want my whole face covered with the mask, And
I don't want whiskers anywhere, because they're just gonna allow
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that gas to get up in the mask, and once
that happens, you're kind of a goner.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
Kind of a corner.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
Speaking of lip whiskers police in Jacksonville. Problem. Oh man,
the more you and the more you resist, the more
tempting it's gonna be. You just need to just not
respond at all. Will people are the police in Jacksonville
looking for a man with a long mustache, long lip whiskers,
as they say, who stole a ferret from a pet
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store by shoving it down his pants. And I guess
didn't think anybody would notice. Hey, man, is.
Speaker 4 (38:48):
That a fair or you just happy to see me?
Speaker 2 (38:50):
I'll stop it? Oh my god, will let's see it.
I didn't go there. I didn't go there. That's something
a lip whisker guy would say. Might as well pour
milk on skittles, fewer branches on the family tree, do
that one? Or put it out?
Speaker 1 (39:09):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (39:10):
The skittles one? God, you didn't hear me, Yeah, you
heard me, something lip whisker guy would do. So the
skittles one is this kid's breakfast cereals have gotten less
healthy over the past fifteen years. Significant increases in fat, sodium,
and sugar. This is in breakfast cereals and decreases in
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protein and fiber content. So basically we're just having birthday
cake and Skittles and M and m's for breakfast with
milk on not healthy at all, But we got a
guy in charge of that right now who may may
put kind of a screaming halt on some of that
and get a little bit more truth in advertising, more
truth and labeling, and make people more aware of what
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they're actually feeding themselves in their kids. Fewer branches on
the family We've got Oh, we got a minute and change.
I can do two. This is a quick one, will
snack time, okay, list of America's favorite gas station snacks.
The top two are beef jerky, which I could see
that and what I'd have never gotten this beef It's
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it's a sweet yes, and it's not a candy bar.
Speaker 4 (40:21):
It's a honey bun.
Speaker 2 (40:22):
No, you know, I like those. However, the number two
on the list was rice crispies treats.
Speaker 4 (40:30):
Those are good.
Speaker 2 (40:32):
Would you buy them in a gas station?
Speaker 6 (40:33):
Now?
Speaker 2 (40:34):
I have have you?
Speaker 3 (40:35):
Oh my god?
Speaker 2 (40:36):
Of course you know that just sounds like something guy
with lip whiskers would do. Will real quick, the family
tree thing. Nine percent of people in Britain will nine
percent of people in Britain think you should be able
to marry your first cousin, what say you will let.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
Comes to the brine?
Speaker 4 (40:58):
Uh no, I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (41:01):
That is man.
Speaker 2 (41:03):
It is all right. We're not awful. Listen. Hey yeah,
thank you for listening. Greatly appreciate it. Audios.