January 6, 2026 • 37 mins
Today, Doug Pike discusses his break and the beginning of 2026.
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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? You remember when social media was truly social?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hey John, how's it going today?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Well, this show is all about you only. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike. Helpful information on your finances,
good health, and what to do for fun. Fifty plus
brought to you by the ut Health Houston Institute on
Aging Informed Decisions for a healthier, happier life, and now
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fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Well, here we go. Welcome back to fifty plus on
this the first time. I'm back in the studio after
a very long anticipated and much appreciated vacation. I didn't
do a whole lot, to be perfectly honest, no jetaway getaway.
I didn't even take a bus ride anywhere, didn't get
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on a train a plane. I got my automobile often,
but not to go terribly far. I just kind of
chilled for a little while. Mostly just played some golf
with friends and did a little fishing practice my golf too,
although you'd never know it. Quick sidebar about golf for
those of you who are contemplating trying it out for
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the first time. It's a very cruel sport in that
it's rewarding in that when you hit a good shot,
it feels, it feels really good, and it makes you
want to continue to play more and more and more.
You sink your first long putt, you want to make
more of those. You hit your first perfect drive right
down the middle, and you want to make more of those.
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But it's also a little bit cruel in that lessons
from the most qualified instructor they're invaluable, no question. But
if you can't spend after that lesson hours on the
range pounding that new move into your muscles in your brain,
what you end up with, and just speaking for myself
here to be perfectly honest, but what you end up
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with is about two dozen actual swings that are just
circulating in your brain. It's almost like spinning a prize wheel.
There are thirty six spots on the prize wheel, and
each one of those is a different outcome to the
way you're about to swing the club at the ball
and just duck hook. That's kind of what I'm dealing
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with now, or slice or chunk or blade or whatever,
depending on the club I have in my hands, I
know that's all very personal stuff. I'm not playing horribly,
but I'm playing just badly enough to realize that I
need to practice more the moves I've been taught by
a very qualified instructorre gun named Tommy O'Brien out at
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black Hawk Country Club. I've known Tommy since he was
a wee lad, and I know he knows what he's doing,
and I know it works when I do what he
says to do. But when I get out there on
the course on my own, it just kind of just
flies away, just flies away. Sometimes sometimes it's there. Just
like I said, the prize wheel's got some it's got
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some gold squares on it. It's got gold, silver and
mud basically, and yesterday's round was way more muddy than
gold or silvery. Nothing's shiny that I can recall. I
know what to do, I know how to do it.
But getting that knowledge from my head to my hands
and my body without interference from the old information just
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brutally tough. And so I am what I am until
the new becomes the norm and the old is flushed
away entirely, which will probably be about the time Tommy says, hey,
I want to show you one more thing, and I
know it'll make me better, and I'm going to listen
and I'm going to execute it, and he's gonna say there,
that's it, and then it'll take me a while to
get that one will. Have you ever taken up golf?
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You have? Did you like it? Is it too hard?
Too hard to learn? Or just you just bored? Yeah,
it's a little bit boring. It is if you. I
don't want to. I don't want to spend all day
on golf. Let's move let's move forward. Weather Wise, we're
going to be warm in the afternoons for the next
couple of days. But honestly, the most recent forecast showed
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that the highs today and tomorrow a couple of days
from now, aren't going to be quite as high as
we're being touted. Even as late as last night on
the news, Overnight lows in the sixties through Thursday, when
rain chances increase, says just yet another cold front plows
through here, then nighttime lows in the forties and high
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highs in the low sixties as dryer air behind finds
its way here. There was talk of setting records for
the next three days with our high temperatures. But the
site that I trust the most was telling me that
the highs for today, Tomorrow, and Thursday are going to
be several degrees lower than the record. So yeah, that's
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not a bad thing. In wintertime, we don't need to
be setting high temperature records. Not a good idea, not
fun at all. Market news looks pretty good actually, behind
this week's world events, and after being gone for almost
two full weeks. I guess it was two full weeks
kind of, but I was in here both this past
weekend the weekend before, so I didn't stay away. I
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couldn't stay away. I wanted to get back in here.
I truly, truly did all four of the major indicators
I watched very well, into the green and pushing into
new territory. Yet again, Gold was the same way, by
the way, it was up thirty five bucks on the
day about I want to say, about forty five minutes ago,
and plodding forward four thousand, four hundred eighty seven dollars
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an ounce, four thousand, four hundred and eighty seven dollars
an ounce. If you've got a little gold, you might
want to talk to my buddy, might want to talk
to my buddy Bread over at Houston Gold Exchange. Take
it over there. It's amazing to me how little a
bit of real gold would get you a big old
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handful of money off of that. Oh, the oil. I
did want to talk about oil too, because this morning
I kept seeing and hearing that oil was moving up,
and they were trying to tie it to what happened
in Venezuela. But the bottom line is the last time
I looked, which was about fifteen minutes ago, about forty
five minutes ago, I take that back forty five minutes
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ago or so, oil was at fifty eight to twenty
to a barrel, which is down a dime actually from
the open this morning. So nothing really to see there
as well. It's the The market is doing remarkably well.
And even better. I saw another story in there talking
about the changes that are going to come with the
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Fed this year early this year, and the guy who's
coming in is talking about interest rates needing to come
down at least a full point this year, which is
really going to open some things up for home buyers,
for existing home sellers all across the board, home improvement, retail,
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all of that stuff. It's just going to open up
more money and hopefully we all can take advantage of that.
I'll tell you what, let's do. Will Let's just pause
because I don't want to get into the ugly stuff,
and there's all kinds of ugly stuff. There's medical news
I've got, I've also got I'm gonna try to do
better with this this year. I'm going to also make
sure that I've got at least a few good news
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stories because I want to give you do what I've
always done. I want to give you enough to make
you want to go look for more about all of
these things I tell you. Instead of just dwelling on
the same subject for an entire hour on the way
out here, let me tell you about Ute Health Institute
on Aging. This is that amazing collaborative of healthcare providers
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from every aspect of medicine. And what they have done
is voluntarily on dime on time, voluntary gone back and
taken additional time to get in there and learn more
about how they can apply whatever it was it got
them out of med school or trainer school or psychiatry school,
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whatever what got them the diploma on the wall in
their office. These are highly skilled, highly dedicated men and
women who have taken the time to make sure that
they can help us as well or better than anybody else.
This is one of the hubs and one of the
starting points for this type of operation. The UT Health
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Institute on Aging been around for about twelve years, maybe
thirteen now, I'm not exactly sure, but it's been around
long enough that it's gotten well in excess of one
thousand providers plus hundreds and literally thousands more actually around
the country and other similar stages where other similar places
where all of these people come together to just continue
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to help seniors better. Our stuff's right here in Houston,
mostly in the Med Center, but a lot of those
providers also work outside the med center. So if you
don't want to drive down there, you probably don't have to.
Ut dot edu slash aging. Start there, learn about what
they do, learn about all the resources at that site,
and then work your way if you need it, to
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a provider who can help you with whatever you need.
Utch dot edu slash aging.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Now, they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash them, check us
fluids and spray on a fresh code O wax. This
is fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, welcome back
to fifty plus. Thank you for listening. I certainly do
appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
So six days into the new year, and this country
of ours is generating just one major news story after another.
Like I said a minute ago, I'm gonna I'm just
gonna kind of bounce off these things. I'm not gonna
dwell too long because I want to. I want to
catch your attention, but I don't want to stay on
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them so long that you get bored and fall asleep
in any of it. I ought to start with one
right here. The hot topic in healthcare is a flu. Well,
the flu of the noir virus, and then I guess
you had another strain of COVID, and of course the
common cold. I'm out there amongst everybody else, still living
my life, still doing what I need to do, but
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I am a lot more aware of the people around
me again, kind of like I was during the pandemic.
It was hard to I'm not quite to the stage
where I'm gonna start putting on a mask every day,
although I do see more of them when I'm out
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in retail stores and whatnot now, and that's fine. I
prefer to do my work by just steering clear of
everybody I can. If I have to, I'll hold my
breath for a little while if there's a lot of
people on an aisle that I need to go down
or whatever, But nonetheless it's out there. There was a
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good friend of mine had an issue recently that he
thought was generated by food poisoning. He was certain because
he was he was having a rough time keeping anything
down in any way, shape or form for a full
day almost and then it just gradually got a little
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bit better. Lasted about three days, and he was certain
that he'd gotten food poisoning, and he just couldn't put
his finger on what it might have been, though, And
I said, hey, do your off a favor. Go look
up the symptoms of neurovirus online and tell me. Then
tell me again that it's food poisoning. And the next
time I saw him, which was was actually yesterday, said
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he had gone and taken a look online and really
laid down his symptoms against those of the neurovirus, and
he just checked every box and that's I'm sure what
it was. He didn't have the food poisoning after all,
so nothing anybody cooked for him, nothing anybody handed him
at a party or anything like that. He just had
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the neurovirus, which means somebody else in those places he's
been had it too. Either way, it's not it's one
of the it's one of the shortest lived of all
those things, but it's also one of the roughest because
it just goes after you and empties you out. And
one of the biggest threats from nourovirus's dehydration. So if
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you do happen to get that stuff, just try somehow
to keep fluids in you. Try use those prepared pedia
light or liquid IV things like that to keep your
body at least at least half topped off with the
new nutrients it needs and the electrolytes and whatnot. Yeah,
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that was rough for him. Speaking of rough, we've got
a socialist mayor in New York City now where protesters
tore down American flags recently. I watched the video of that.
You can go find the video yourself and see who
was tearing them down. Not even gonna tell you, probably
don't need to. By the way, We've also captured Nicholas Madua,
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the dictator in Venezuela, who's alleged to be up to
his eyeballs in narco trafficking. And there's video of Chuck
Schumer criticizing President Trump. This wasn't that long ago either,
for not ousting Maduro a while back and just just
standing there in front of a camera, in front of
his peers in Congress, telling him that President Trump's not
doing his job if he's not getting Dure out of there,
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and then darned if we don't get him bringing back
here to face charges. And now Schumer's criticizing the President
for doing that. They just can't stand it. They just
can't stand for him to get any credit for doing anything.
And in a story you may not have seen yet
from Fox News, by the way, Chrome Extensions will when
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I'm finished with this one. Tell me it's just three lines,
four lines. But tell me whether you've heard of this
or not, because you're a more savvy tech guy than me.
Certain Chrome exten Extensions are alleged to have been spying
on their users, said that story for at least since
twenty seventeen. Have you heard about that at all? Yes? No? Oh, oh,
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you know more than you're maybe so maybe not. In
any event, look it up online and then use the
instructions you find to maybe make sure that you're it's
I don't think it's anything that affects the general public.
If you're just using Chrome to search for great places
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to go listen to live music and things like that,
I don't I don't think that's as bad. But this
coding where it is being used is very cleverly disguised
and difficult to detect. Has been there for about ten years.
That's truly frightening to me. Anyway. All let's shift over
to the good news page, and I'm gonna lead with
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my best one. I'm not gonna wait until later and
then realize I'm out of time. This one is good
news for your knees. And it's an injectable that blocks
the activity I'm gonna read here that blocks the activity
of a protein involved in aging. And what it does
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that's kind of the end of the quote. But what
it does is reverses this naturally occurring Cardilig's loss in
our knees. And they're they're studying it all mice now,
so don't get all excited and call your doctor and
try to figure out what this is. It's being studied
on mice and it's actually reversing that issue, reversing the
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loss of cartilage and regenerating new cartilage to replace the old.
And now imagine all the acl tears we have in
this world and that take. I don't know my son
had one. He I think he was out for close
to six, eight, nine months something like that. Couldn't do
what he wanted to do on in sports, and it
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kind of really hurt him. It bothered him, it bothered
us because he loved being on the field and being
out there doing things and he couldn't. But by and large,
there's already an oral version of this stuff in clinical trials,
and the goal is to just treat and reverse age
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related muscle weakness. Along with the the cartilage stuff. Samples
of human tissue, it says here from new knee replacement
surgeries and the joint also responded to the treatment by
making new functional cartilage, a result which suggests in the
future knee and hip replacement may be totally unnecessary. I
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got a hunch I'm not gonna live that long, but
if you do, that's pretty good stuff. All right, We
got to take a little break here. Will's giving me
the Heidi ho get out of here. Son I'll take
a break. I'll be right back. More fifty plus on
almost am nine to fifty kprc Aged to perfection.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
All right, welcome back to fifty plus. Thank you for listening,
certainly to appreciate it them first, first, radle out of
the box. Will This is our first one for twenty
twenty six. And I like that one about the knee stuff,
knees and hips. Anytime you read that replacements of knees
and hips may ultimately become unnecessary because they can just
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give you a shot or a pill and target those
areas and regrow stuff. There's gotta be some connection, I
would think to regenerative medicine. There's some tie in there.
I don't understand it enough to have any idea, really,
but I really I'm excited that for so many many
people it could be a pretty dog one good alternative
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to going in and having major surgery. Currently, it says
here that degenerative joint disease affects about one in every
five adults in the country and is estimated, it says here,
to cost US about sixty five billion dollars in direct
health care costs. A year. That's nuts. And right now
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the only strategy is prevention or replacement, and neither one
of them. Prevention. It just I don't think it's prevention
as much as it's delay. It just delays onset of
the real pain and replacement for anybody who's had it.
Most people, the surgeries are refined enough now that they
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typically go very well. But I also know people who
have had them not go so well, and that where
it becomes a problem. They just they struggle, They struggle,
and sometimes it hurts more than it did before they went. Ah,
Jasmine Crockett made the news again, no surprise, and she
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keeps ramping up the vulgarity, she keeps ramping up the
disrespect for our government. And this time she's done it again,
as if we didn't already know what's coming. She needs
to learn some restraint, a little bit of decorum, a
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little just societal politeness. It all just seems to evade her.
Most recently, she dropped a one of those bombs. The
I'm not even going to give you the two initials
of what this is. You know what it is. It's
one of the worst things you could say to somebody.
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Drop that one on the Supreme Court after the Supreme
Court decided to temporarily uphold our new state congressional districts,
And she went on a rant and dropped a little
f this and a little left that on the r
Supreme Court. Oh, not making any favors there or making
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any friends there. I guess where else do I want
to go? Here's a quote that I saw, And I
am jumping around a little bit today because I did
my prep work a little differently than I normally do,
and so please forgive me. I'll get back into the
full rhythm of things as we go along. But I
am gonna make a concerted effort this year to balance
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balance good with bad, because it's always the good is all.
He's there, And even in a time like right now,
where there's so much stuff that so many people think
is bad, I'm still I'm still confident that we're on
the right track. And I've maintained my social experiment of
saying hello and good afternoon and good morning to people
when I pass them in a parking lot or just
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anywhere where we can make eye contact. Five percent or more,
it might be ninety eight percent, the overwhelming majority of
people to whom I issue a greeting like that return
that greeting. And there from every walk of life, every
walk of life, and they are polite and they are
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kind because that's how most people are. And I'm convinced
of that. Nobody's going to make me think differently unless
they hire a bunch of people, hire a bunch of
actors to be rude to me. That would be the
only way you could maybe even sway my judgment on this.
The little teenious, tiniest bit a quote from Charles Kingsley.
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You ever heard of him, will Charles Kingsley, it's probably okay, wit,
It is okay that you have. He died in eighteen
seventy five, so it's not like somebody who was a
movie star or even a twentieth century poet, let alone
a twenty first century poet. But here's what Kingsley said,
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And this kind of ties into my little baby acts
of kindness with my social experiment. There's no use doing
an act of kindness if you do it a day
too late. That's worth thinking about. I think that's worth
giving a little thought to. If you're thinking, you know,
so and so down the street could use little help
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with this or that person over there looks like they
could just use a friendly smile or whatever it is.
Your kids are having trouble with their schoolwork, help them out,
Help them out today. Don't wait until tomorrow might be
a day too late. That's enough of that one from
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the Motivational good News Desk. Boy, I'm laying it on
thick now. Now I'm gonna save this one for the final. Now,
I've got one more after this one. I can do
this one. News of a woman, an eighty year old
retired teacher who this past year became the oldest woman
ever to complete a hike, which took her through fourteen
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states and a lot of you already know where we're
going here, all twenty two hundred miles of the Appalachian Trail.
Betty Kellenberger is her name. That's an eighty year old's name.
You don't hear of too many betties anymore. Betty Kellenberger
said she became interested in that trail all the way
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back in elementary school, not when she was teaching it,
when she was attending elementary school, and three times prior
to successfully doing it this past year, she tried got
out there twice, had nasty falls, which, by the way,
boy that's a heartache. Had nasty fall in twenty twenty two.
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I think it was another nasty fall in what was it,
twenty yeah, twenty three, and then there was some other
issue that kept her or took her off the trail
in twenty four. Anyway, she finally got it done. So
hats off too. Hats off to Betty kellen Berger. That is,
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I know only one other person who has actually completed
the Appalachian Trail was a listener actually from my Outdoors show,
and he would send pictures and here's where I am,
now here's where I have to go, and it's an ordeal.
It takes the better part of a year to really
do that. You stop and think about walking twenty two
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hundred miles. And to make it official, they say it
has to happen within one year of your start day.
So hats off to anybody who's ever done that. It's
a very short list, probably wouldn't take long to name them.
How are we doing, well, we have much time left?
Two perfect, let's go to not there. Oh, a couple
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of little quick notes. Privately owned but Hilton branded hotel
up North. I believe it is it's in the news
for refusing to honor reservations made by Ice agents. Now
they carry the brand on the sign out front. But
when this story hit the airwaves and the press, the
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Hilton Corporation jumped up and said in we don't support
what those people did in that one hotel, and that
was I think wise on their part to distance themselves
the best they could from what was clearly, I think,
I believe any way, a poor decision on the part
of that hotel. I don't understand what motivates people to
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get in the way of people who are really trying
to clean this country up, and there are I acknowledge
that mistakes occasionally are made, and I acknowledge that it's
a shame that that happens. But the caliber of people,
by and large who are being picked up are people
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that are not here to assimilate and become part of
the American dream. Another story I saw, well, I'm gonna
leave that one out too. Oh halfway this struck me
as almost curiously both funny and confusing and in another
way pathetic. All the way halfway around the world, at
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least in Iran, leaders there are trying to quell the
having big protests over living conditions, and the whole place
is just falling apart. And the government came out and
promised monthly payments to every citizen there. You're gonna get
a check, and you're gonna get a check like Oprah
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giving away cars. You get a check. Well, I don't
know how they're gonna pay it out, but in any event,
in case you haven't read it yet, seven dollars a month.
Seven dollars a month is what they're gonna pay to
these people in hopes that that quiets them down, gets
them out of the town square with their protests and
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flags and bull horns and all that good heavens. Well,
that was a quick two minutes. All right, I'll take
a break. We're gonna pause, We're gonna come back. I'm
gonna wrap it up on this first edition. Back from Vacation,
AM nine fifty KPRC. Thanks for listening.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Old guys rule, and of course, women never get old.
If you want to avoid sleeping on.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
The couch, I think that sounds like a good plan.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug. All Right, welcome back.
Fourth and final segment of the program starts right now.
Thank you very much. I just got some really good news. Oops,
what are you doing will tearing things up? You want
it more less? Okay, don't touch it, all right?
Speaker 2 (28:16):
That's yeah, that's that's been my assignment ever since I
covered the I covered the Houston Grand Prix and was
uniformed out for I was working at the newspaper and
totally uniformed for the for the race. The whole week
that was my assignment was cover the team. And the
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original offer was to I had two. One was to
spend today with the driver's wife and see what she
does when she's in town. Like, no, that's his wife.
I'm gonna leave her alone. She doesn't need me walking
around following her and looking like a stalker. The other one,
the second one of the three, was to interview and
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hang out with the teen chef, who, according to the
pr advanced stuff, would be preparing as many as a
thousand meals while they were in town for that week.
And the third one was working the pits. And I said, oh, yeah,
that's me. That's what I'm going to do, and so
I got the uniform. I actually had to go out
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and buy a pair of black tennis shoes because I
didn't own black tennis shoes. Then I got that done.
And the very first thing they said to me when
I showed up the first time and got my kind
of introduction and briefing on what I could and couldn't do,
where I couldn't couldn't go, which I could go anywhere.
Basically I had full access. I even had the headphones
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with all the conversations going on between the crews and
with Dario and with Paul Tracy, all of that stuff.
I could hear it all. It was fantastic. See the
one thing that they emphasized it. I mean, the guy
almost kind of leaned in and looked me in the
eye and said, don't touch the cars. Whatever you do,
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don't touch the cars. I'm good with that. I'm not
gonna touch those cars. And it was absolutely a fantastic experience,
it really was. That was one of my favorite that's
a highlight, real thing to be out there at that race,
which I would have gone to anyway and covered for
the paper just because it was so cool, but to
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be on that team and in the in the pits
and seeing and hearing all that goes on in there,
it was just fantastic. Ah, I said enough of that.
In Fast Food News, class action lawsuit filed by three
people accuses McDonald's McRib sandwich of not being made with
rib meat. Yeah, okay, okay, I I'm not really worried
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about what it's made from. They taste pretty good. I
used to eat them. I haven't in having ten or
fifteen years, but back in the day twenty whenever they
were introduced, I kind of kind of liked them, probably
too much. Ate a lot of those things I really
did in hindsight, So I'm not gonna go try one now.
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And if yeah, that's I mean, that's the way the
world works, and that's they're they're entitled to do that.
I don't know where it'll lead but or what good
will come of it, but they can do whatever they
want with that. And speaking of doing whatever they want
in a in a move that favors a lot of
us who travel, especially if you fly frequently, you know
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that for the past twenty something years you've had to
drop your shoes as you went through the security line
and through the X ray area. Uh, that's gone. Finally,
across the board, the TSA has dropped entirely that requirement
that you remove your shoes when you go through security.
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This is because number one, it hasn't happened since that
one guy twenty something years ago tried to slip a
shoe bomb onto an airplane. It well, actually did get
it on there, but didn't get it detonated. And now
the scanning software and technology is such that even if
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somebody did try to do that, it would be picked
up before it got through there, and so at least
it wouldn't make it onto an airplane. It might cause
a lot of damage in the airport, but nothing on
an airplane because they would catch that person. How much
time do I have? Will three? Four, five, four and
a half? Is that right? Okay, I'm gonna go to
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New York here, mayor Mom. Donnie's plans to make so
many things free, at least one of his plans is
kind of going in the other direction. If you'll recall,
one of his pitches to the New Yorkers who ultimately
voted him into office was that he he was gonna
make busting subway rides free. Well, that plan's driven into
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a ditch already. The city has raised its busting subway fares,
not lowered them, not made them free, but they raised
the fair and then again it still costs the same
for New Yorkers who jumped the turnstile, so they won't
notice any change in their pocket books and their money clips.
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You get what you vote for, New Yorkers. You get
what you vote for. And the exodus, the exodus from
that that once magnificent city, is underway as most of
the people, the wealthy people there, realize it's going to
be their money that Mom Donni intends to grab first.
As if they didn't know that already. I guess they
were just hoping, against all hope that he might soften
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or something like that. Two of the hottest landing spots,
by the way, for the folks that are getting out
of there as fast as they can, Florida and Texas,
that's no big surprise. That's no big surprise at all.
And as long as the people who are coming here
are not bringing with them left ideas, which I think
the left people are mostly staying in New York because
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that's what they see as this ultimate utopia in which
they can live out wonderful, wonderful lives. It's not going
to turn out that way, but that's what they think.
Also one of Mom Donnie's new appointees, a woman named
Cea Weaver, said a while back that people who own
private property can expect a big old change. It's going
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to be more of a collective look. And he's used
that same terminology more recent just this week actually, now
Cea Weaver has come in and said that New Yorkers
can expect a little more collective look at private property.
She actually called home ownership quote a weapon of white
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supremacy quote, which makes no sense to me because it's
not only it's not one group that owns all that property.
It's just not it's whoever can afford that property can
own that property that property. And she's also used the
s word seizure in the past when it comes to
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owning private property. In other words, she's just as socialists
and communist as he is. And if they start taking
away the right to own private property, my gut says,
the exodus from that city only will accelerate, and we
need to roll out the welcome matt down here for
people who just say enough's enough, enough's enough. Man, Gosh,
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I just can't imagine, Well, I guess I can. In
the State of the States and State of the country.
I'm not even gonna get to Minnesota today, but I
will tomorrow. I promise you. There's a lot to talk
about coming out of there. Where I'll go now is
to some good news. Finish it off a couple of
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minutes a week or will one. That's it. I'll do
this quickly. Free dive instructor. This is just cool under
sea news. Free dive instructor off the Mexican Pacific Coast.
Emily Marzilli diving near a sardine ball with a bunch
of students when Bride's whale suddenly comes rolling through there
and makes a hot mess of a big, giant ball
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of sardines that had been trying to look bigger and
intimidating because of a bunch of marlin or stripe marlin
and tuna working around there. All of a sudden, this
whale comes through there, right in front of them, and
through the foam that the tuna and the stripe marlin
had made and just makes a hot mess of everything.
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All of those people, I'm sure were treated to an experience,
and hopefully a few of them got video. There are
a few snapshots I've seen, but I hope somebody got
video of that awesome experience. I love being offshore, I
love being in the water, on the water, I love
it all. What are you doing to you? Rest in
your hands, will Oh, I remember what that means. I've
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got about five or six seconds and that's it. I'll
be back tomorrow. I thank you all for rejoining us here.
We'll talk again.
Remember when it was impossible to misplace the TV remote
because you were the TV remote. Remember when music sounded
like this? You remember when social media was truly social?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hey John, how's it going today?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Well, this show is all about you only. This is
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good health, and what to do for fun. Fifty plus
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Aging Informed Decisions for a healthier, happier life, and now
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fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Well, here we go. Welcome back to fifty plus on
this the first time. I'm back in the studio after
a very long anticipated and much appreciated vacation. I didn't
do a whole lot, to be perfectly honest, no jetaway getaway.
I didn't even take a bus ride anywhere, didn't get
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on a train a plane. I got my automobile often,
but not to go terribly far. I just kind of
chilled for a little while. Mostly just played some golf
with friends and did a little fishing practice my golf too,
although you'd never know it. Quick sidebar about golf for
those of you who are contemplating trying it out for
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the first time. It's a very cruel sport in that
it's rewarding in that when you hit a good shot,
it feels, it feels really good, and it makes you
want to continue to play more and more and more.
You sink your first long putt, you want to make
more of those. You hit your first perfect drive right
down the middle, and you want to make more of those.
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But it's also a little bit cruel in that lessons
from the most qualified instructor they're invaluable, no question. But
if you can't spend after that lesson hours on the
range pounding that new move into your muscles in your brain,
what you end up with, and just speaking for myself
here to be perfectly honest, but what you end up
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with is about two dozen actual swings that are just
circulating in your brain. It's almost like spinning a prize wheel.
There are thirty six spots on the prize wheel, and
each one of those is a different outcome to the
way you're about to swing the club at the ball
and just duck hook. That's kind of what I'm dealing
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with now, or slice or chunk or blade or whatever,
depending on the club I have in my hands, I
know that's all very personal stuff. I'm not playing horribly,
but I'm playing just badly enough to realize that I
need to practice more the moves I've been taught by
a very qualified instructorre gun named Tommy O'Brien out at
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black Hawk Country Club. I've known Tommy since he was
a wee lad, and I know he knows what he's doing,
and I know it works when I do what he
says to do. But when I get out there on
the course on my own, it just kind of just
flies away, just flies away. Sometimes sometimes it's there. Just
like I said, the prize wheel's got some it's got
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some gold squares on it. It's got gold, silver and
mud basically, and yesterday's round was way more muddy than
gold or silvery. Nothing's shiny that I can recall. I
know what to do, I know how to do it.
But getting that knowledge from my head to my hands
and my body without interference from the old information just
(03:44):
brutally tough. And so I am what I am until
the new becomes the norm and the old is flushed
away entirely, which will probably be about the time Tommy says, hey,
I want to show you one more thing, and I
know it'll make me better, and I'm going to listen
and I'm going to execute it, and he's gonna say there,
that's it, and then it'll take me a while to
get that one will. Have you ever taken up golf?
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You have? Did you like it? Is it too hard?
Too hard to learn? Or just you just bored? Yeah,
it's a little bit boring. It is if you. I
don't want to. I don't want to spend all day
on golf. Let's move let's move forward. Weather Wise, we're
going to be warm in the afternoons for the next
couple of days. But honestly, the most recent forecast showed
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that the highs today and tomorrow a couple of days
from now, aren't going to be quite as high as
we're being touted. Even as late as last night on
the news, Overnight lows in the sixties through Thursday, when
rain chances increase, says just yet another cold front plows
through here, then nighttime lows in the forties and high
(04:51):
highs in the low sixties as dryer air behind finds
its way here. There was talk of setting records for
the next three days with our high temperatures. But the
site that I trust the most was telling me that
the highs for today, Tomorrow, and Thursday are going to
be several degrees lower than the record. So yeah, that's
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not a bad thing. In wintertime, we don't need to
be setting high temperature records. Not a good idea, not
fun at all. Market news looks pretty good actually, behind
this week's world events, and after being gone for almost
two full weeks. I guess it was two full weeks
kind of, but I was in here both this past
weekend the weekend before, so I didn't stay away. I
(05:38):
couldn't stay away. I wanted to get back in here.
I truly, truly did all four of the major indicators
I watched very well, into the green and pushing into
new territory. Yet again, Gold was the same way, by
the way, it was up thirty five bucks on the
day about I want to say, about forty five minutes ago,
and plodding forward four thousand, four hundred eighty seven dollars
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an ounce, four thousand, four hundred and eighty seven dollars
an ounce. If you've got a little gold, you might
want to talk to my buddy, might want to talk
to my buddy Bread over at Houston Gold Exchange. Take
it over there. It's amazing to me how little a
bit of real gold would get you a big old
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handful of money off of that. Oh, the oil. I
did want to talk about oil too, because this morning
I kept seeing and hearing that oil was moving up,
and they were trying to tie it to what happened
in Venezuela. But the bottom line is the last time
I looked, which was about fifteen minutes ago, about forty
five minutes ago, I take that back forty five minutes
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ago or so, oil was at fifty eight to twenty
to a barrel, which is down a dime actually from
the open this morning. So nothing really to see there
as well. It's the The market is doing remarkably well.
And even better. I saw another story in there talking
about the changes that are going to come with the
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Fed this year early this year, and the guy who's
coming in is talking about interest rates needing to come
down at least a full point this year, which is
really going to open some things up for home buyers,
for existing home sellers all across the board, home improvement, retail,
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all of that stuff. It's just going to open up
more money and hopefully we all can take advantage of that.
I'll tell you what, let's do. Will Let's just pause
because I don't want to get into the ugly stuff,
and there's all kinds of ugly stuff. There's medical news
I've got, I've also got I'm gonna try to do
better with this this year. I'm going to also make
sure that I've got at least a few good news
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stories because I want to give you do what I've
always done. I want to give you enough to make
you want to go look for more about all of
these things I tell you. Instead of just dwelling on
the same subject for an entire hour on the way
out here, let me tell you about Ute Health Institute
on Aging. This is that amazing collaborative of healthcare providers
(08:13):
from every aspect of medicine. And what they have done
is voluntarily on dime on time, voluntary gone back and
taken additional time to get in there and learn more
about how they can apply whatever it was it got
them out of med school or trainer school or psychiatry school,
(08:33):
whatever what got them the diploma on the wall in
their office. These are highly skilled, highly dedicated men and
women who have taken the time to make sure that
they can help us as well or better than anybody else.
This is one of the hubs and one of the
starting points for this type of operation. The UT Health
(08:57):
Institute on Aging been around for about twelve years, maybe
thirteen now, I'm not exactly sure, but it's been around
long enough that it's gotten well in excess of one
thousand providers plus hundreds and literally thousands more actually around
the country and other similar stages where other similar places
where all of these people come together to just continue
(09:19):
to help seniors better. Our stuff's right here in Houston,
mostly in the Med Center, but a lot of those
providers also work outside the med center. So if you
don't want to drive down there, you probably don't have to.
Ut dot edu slash aging. Start there, learn about what
they do, learn about all the resources at that site,
and then work your way if you need it, to
(09:40):
a provider who can help you with whatever you need.
Utch dot edu slash aging.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Now, they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash them, check us
fluids and spray on a fresh code O wax. This
is fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, welcome back
to fifty plus. Thank you for listening. I certainly do
appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
So six days into the new year, and this country
of ours is generating just one major news story after another.
Like I said a minute ago, I'm gonna I'm just
gonna kind of bounce off these things. I'm not gonna
dwell too long because I want to. I want to
catch your attention, but I don't want to stay on
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them so long that you get bored and fall asleep
in any of it. I ought to start with one
right here. The hot topic in healthcare is a flu. Well,
the flu of the noir virus, and then I guess
you had another strain of COVID, and of course the
common cold. I'm out there amongst everybody else, still living
my life, still doing what I need to do, but
(10:47):
I am a lot more aware of the people around
me again, kind of like I was during the pandemic.
It was hard to I'm not quite to the stage
where I'm gonna start putting on a mask every day,
although I do see more of them when I'm out
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in retail stores and whatnot now, and that's fine. I
prefer to do my work by just steering clear of
everybody I can. If I have to, I'll hold my
breath for a little while if there's a lot of
people on an aisle that I need to go down
or whatever, But nonetheless it's out there. There was a
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good friend of mine had an issue recently that he
thought was generated by food poisoning. He was certain because
he was he was having a rough time keeping anything
down in any way, shape or form for a full
day almost and then it just gradually got a little
(11:48):
bit better. Lasted about three days, and he was certain
that he'd gotten food poisoning, and he just couldn't put
his finger on what it might have been, though, And
I said, hey, do your off a favor. Go look
up the symptoms of neurovirus online and tell me. Then
tell me again that it's food poisoning. And the next
time I saw him, which was was actually yesterday, said
(12:11):
he had gone and taken a look online and really
laid down his symptoms against those of the neurovirus, and
he just checked every box and that's I'm sure what
it was. He didn't have the food poisoning after all,
so nothing anybody cooked for him, nothing anybody handed him
at a party or anything like that. He just had
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the neurovirus, which means somebody else in those places he's
been had it too. Either way, it's not it's one
of the it's one of the shortest lived of all
those things, but it's also one of the roughest because
it just goes after you and empties you out. And
one of the biggest threats from nourovirus's dehydration. So if
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you do happen to get that stuff, just try somehow
to keep fluids in you. Try use those prepared pedia
light or liquid IV things like that to keep your
body at least at least half topped off with the
new nutrients it needs and the electrolytes and whatnot. Yeah,
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that was rough for him. Speaking of rough, we've got
a socialist mayor in New York City now where protesters
tore down American flags recently. I watched the video of that.
You can go find the video yourself and see who
was tearing them down. Not even gonna tell you, probably
don't need to. By the way, We've also captured Nicholas Madua,
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the dictator in Venezuela, who's alleged to be up to
his eyeballs in narco trafficking. And there's video of Chuck
Schumer criticizing President Trump. This wasn't that long ago either,
for not ousting Maduro a while back and just just
standing there in front of a camera, in front of
his peers in Congress, telling him that President Trump's not
doing his job if he's not getting Dure out of there,
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and then darned if we don't get him bringing back
here to face charges. And now Schumer's criticizing the President
for doing that. They just can't stand it. They just
can't stand for him to get any credit for doing anything.
And in a story you may not have seen yet
from Fox News, by the way, Chrome Extensions will when
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I'm finished with this one. Tell me it's just three lines,
four lines. But tell me whether you've heard of this
or not, because you're a more savvy tech guy than me.
Certain Chrome exten Extensions are alleged to have been spying
on their users, said that story for at least since
twenty seventeen. Have you heard about that at all? Yes? No? Oh, oh,
(14:46):
you know more than you're maybe so maybe not. In
any event, look it up online and then use the
instructions you find to maybe make sure that you're it's
I don't think it's anything that affects the general public.
If you're just using Chrome to search for great places
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to go listen to live music and things like that,
I don't I don't think that's as bad. But this
coding where it is being used is very cleverly disguised
and difficult to detect. Has been there for about ten years.
That's truly frightening to me. Anyway. All let's shift over
to the good news page, and I'm gonna lead with
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my best one. I'm not gonna wait until later and
then realize I'm out of time. This one is good
news for your knees. And it's an injectable that blocks
the activity I'm gonna read here that blocks the activity
of a protein involved in aging. And what it does
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that's kind of the end of the quote. But what
it does is reverses this naturally occurring Cardilig's loss in
our knees. And they're they're studying it all mice now,
so don't get all excited and call your doctor and
try to figure out what this is. It's being studied
on mice and it's actually reversing that issue, reversing the
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loss of cartilage and regenerating new cartilage to replace the old.
And now imagine all the acl tears we have in
this world and that take. I don't know my son
had one. He I think he was out for close
to six, eight, nine months something like that. Couldn't do
what he wanted to do on in sports, and it
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kind of really hurt him. It bothered him, it bothered
us because he loved being on the field and being
out there doing things and he couldn't. But by and large,
there's already an oral version of this stuff in clinical trials,
and the goal is to just treat and reverse age
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related muscle weakness. Along with the the cartilage stuff. Samples
of human tissue, it says here from new knee replacement
surgeries and the joint also responded to the treatment by
making new functional cartilage, a result which suggests in the
future knee and hip replacement may be totally unnecessary. I
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got a hunch I'm not gonna live that long, but
if you do, that's pretty good stuff. All right, We
got to take a little break here. Will's giving me
the Heidi ho get out of here. Son I'll take
a break. I'll be right back. More fifty plus on
almost am nine to fifty kprc Aged to perfection.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
All right, welcome back to fifty plus. Thank you for listening,
certainly to appreciate it them first, first, radle out of
the box. Will This is our first one for twenty
twenty six. And I like that one about the knee stuff,
knees and hips. Anytime you read that replacements of knees
and hips may ultimately become unnecessary because they can just
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give you a shot or a pill and target those
areas and regrow stuff. There's gotta be some connection, I
would think to regenerative medicine. There's some tie in there.
I don't understand it enough to have any idea, really,
but I really I'm excited that for so many many
people it could be a pretty dog one good alternative
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to going in and having major surgery. Currently, it says
here that degenerative joint disease affects about one in every
five adults in the country and is estimated, it says here,
to cost US about sixty five billion dollars in direct
health care costs. A year. That's nuts. And right now
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the only strategy is prevention or replacement, and neither one
of them. Prevention. It just I don't think it's prevention
as much as it's delay. It just delays onset of
the real pain and replacement for anybody who's had it.
Most people, the surgeries are refined enough now that they
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typically go very well. But I also know people who
have had them not go so well, and that where
it becomes a problem. They just they struggle, They struggle,
and sometimes it hurts more than it did before they went. Ah,
Jasmine Crockett made the news again, no surprise, and she
(19:29):
keeps ramping up the vulgarity, she keeps ramping up the
disrespect for our government. And this time she's done it again,
as if we didn't already know what's coming. She needs
to learn some restraint, a little bit of decorum, a
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little just societal politeness. It all just seems to evade her.
Most recently, she dropped a one of those bombs. The
I'm not even going to give you the two initials
of what this is. You know what it is. It's
one of the worst things you could say to somebody.
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Drop that one on the Supreme Court after the Supreme
Court decided to temporarily uphold our new state congressional districts,
And she went on a rant and dropped a little
f this and a little left that on the r
Supreme Court. Oh, not making any favors there or making
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any friends there. I guess where else do I want
to go? Here's a quote that I saw, And I
am jumping around a little bit today because I did
my prep work a little differently than I normally do,
and so please forgive me. I'll get back into the
full rhythm of things as we go along. But I
am gonna make a concerted effort this year to balance
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balance good with bad, because it's always the good is all.
He's there, And even in a time like right now,
where there's so much stuff that so many people think
is bad, I'm still I'm still confident that we're on
the right track. And I've maintained my social experiment of
saying hello and good afternoon and good morning to people
when I pass them in a parking lot or just
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anywhere where we can make eye contact. Five percent or more,
it might be ninety eight percent, the overwhelming majority of
people to whom I issue a greeting like that return
that greeting. And there from every walk of life, every
walk of life, and they are polite and they are
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kind because that's how most people are. And I'm convinced
of that. Nobody's going to make me think differently unless
they hire a bunch of people, hire a bunch of
actors to be rude to me. That would be the
only way you could maybe even sway my judgment on this.
The little teenious, tiniest bit a quote from Charles Kingsley.
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You ever heard of him, will Charles Kingsley, it's probably okay, wit,
It is okay that you have. He died in eighteen
seventy five, so it's not like somebody who was a
movie star or even a twentieth century poet, let alone
a twenty first century poet. But here's what Kingsley said,
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And this kind of ties into my little baby acts
of kindness with my social experiment. There's no use doing
an act of kindness if you do it a day
too late. That's worth thinking about. I think that's worth
giving a little thought to. If you're thinking, you know,
so and so down the street could use little help
(22:44):
with this or that person over there looks like they
could just use a friendly smile or whatever it is.
Your kids are having trouble with their schoolwork, help them out,
Help them out today. Don't wait until tomorrow might be
a day too late. That's enough of that one from
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the Motivational good News Desk. Boy, I'm laying it on
thick now. Now I'm gonna save this one for the final. Now,
I've got one more after this one. I can do
this one. News of a woman, an eighty year old
retired teacher who this past year became the oldest woman
ever to complete a hike, which took her through fourteen
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states and a lot of you already know where we're
going here, all twenty two hundred miles of the Appalachian Trail.
Betty Kellenberger is her name. That's an eighty year old's name.
You don't hear of too many betties anymore. Betty Kellenberger
said she became interested in that trail all the way
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back in elementary school, not when she was teaching it,
when she was attending elementary school, and three times prior
to successfully doing it this past year, she tried got
out there twice, had nasty falls, which, by the way,
boy that's a heartache. Had nasty fall in twenty twenty two.
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I think it was another nasty fall in what was it,
twenty yeah, twenty three, and then there was some other
issue that kept her or took her off the trail
in twenty four. Anyway, she finally got it done. So
hats off too. Hats off to Betty kellen Berger. That is,
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I know only one other person who has actually completed
the Appalachian Trail was a listener actually from my Outdoors show,
and he would send pictures and here's where I am,
now here's where I have to go, and it's an ordeal.
It takes the better part of a year to really
do that. You stop and think about walking twenty two
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hundred miles. And to make it official, they say it
has to happen within one year of your start day.
So hats off to anybody who's ever done that. It's
a very short list, probably wouldn't take long to name them.
How are we doing, well, we have much time left?
Two perfect, let's go to not there. Oh, a couple
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of little quick notes. Privately owned but Hilton branded hotel
up North. I believe it is it's in the news
for refusing to honor reservations made by Ice agents. Now
they carry the brand on the sign out front. But
when this story hit the airwaves and the press, the
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Hilton Corporation jumped up and said in we don't support
what those people did in that one hotel, and that
was I think wise on their part to distance themselves
the best they could from what was clearly, I think,
I believe any way, a poor decision on the part
of that hotel. I don't understand what motivates people to
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get in the way of people who are really trying
to clean this country up, and there are I acknowledge
that mistakes occasionally are made, and I acknowledge that it's
a shame that that happens. But the caliber of people,
by and large who are being picked up are people
(26:23):
that are not here to assimilate and become part of
the American dream. Another story I saw, well, I'm gonna
leave that one out too. Oh halfway this struck me
as almost curiously both funny and confusing and in another
way pathetic. All the way halfway around the world, at
(26:45):
least in Iran, leaders there are trying to quell the
having big protests over living conditions, and the whole place
is just falling apart. And the government came out and
promised monthly payments to every citizen there. You're gonna get
a check, and you're gonna get a check like Oprah
(27:06):
giving away cars. You get a check. Well, I don't
know how they're gonna pay it out, but in any event,
in case you haven't read it yet, seven dollars a month.
Seven dollars a month is what they're gonna pay to
these people in hopes that that quiets them down, gets
them out of the town square with their protests and
(27:28):
flags and bull horns and all that good heavens. Well,
that was a quick two minutes. All right, I'll take
a break. We're gonna pause, We're gonna come back. I'm
gonna wrap it up on this first edition. Back from Vacation,
AM nine fifty KPRC. Thanks for listening.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Old guys rule, and of course, women never get old.
If you want to avoid sleeping on.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
The couch, I think that sounds like a good plan.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug. All Right, welcome back.
Fourth and final segment of the program starts right now.
Thank you very much. I just got some really good news. Oops,
what are you doing will tearing things up? You want
it more less? Okay, don't touch it, all right?
Speaker 2 (28:16):
That's yeah, that's that's been my assignment ever since I
covered the I covered the Houston Grand Prix and was
uniformed out for I was working at the newspaper and
totally uniformed for the for the race. The whole week
that was my assignment was cover the team. And the
(28:38):
original offer was to I had two. One was to
spend today with the driver's wife and see what she
does when she's in town. Like, no, that's his wife.
I'm gonna leave her alone. She doesn't need me walking
around following her and looking like a stalker. The other one,
the second one of the three, was to interview and
(29:01):
hang out with the teen chef, who, according to the
pr advanced stuff, would be preparing as many as a
thousand meals while they were in town for that week.
And the third one was working the pits. And I said, oh, yeah,
that's me. That's what I'm going to do, and so
I got the uniform. I actually had to go out
(29:23):
and buy a pair of black tennis shoes because I
didn't own black tennis shoes. Then I got that done.
And the very first thing they said to me when
I showed up the first time and got my kind
of introduction and briefing on what I could and couldn't do,
where I couldn't couldn't go, which I could go anywhere.
Basically I had full access. I even had the headphones
(29:46):
with all the conversations going on between the crews and
with Dario and with Paul Tracy, all of that stuff.
I could hear it all. It was fantastic. See the
one thing that they emphasized it. I mean, the guy
almost kind of leaned in and looked me in the
eye and said, don't touch the cars. Whatever you do,
(30:09):
don't touch the cars. I'm good with that. I'm not
gonna touch those cars. And it was absolutely a fantastic experience,
it really was. That was one of my favorite that's
a highlight, real thing to be out there at that race,
which I would have gone to anyway and covered for
the paper just because it was so cool, but to
(30:30):
be on that team and in the in the pits
and seeing and hearing all that goes on in there,
it was just fantastic. Ah, I said enough of that.
In Fast Food News, class action lawsuit filed by three
people accuses McDonald's McRib sandwich of not being made with
rib meat. Yeah, okay, okay, I I'm not really worried
(30:55):
about what it's made from. They taste pretty good. I
used to eat them. I haven't in having ten or
fifteen years, but back in the day twenty whenever they
were introduced, I kind of kind of liked them, probably
too much. Ate a lot of those things I really
did in hindsight, So I'm not gonna go try one now.
(31:15):
And if yeah, that's I mean, that's the way the
world works, and that's they're they're entitled to do that.
I don't know where it'll lead but or what good
will come of it, but they can do whatever they
want with that. And speaking of doing whatever they want
in a in a move that favors a lot of
us who travel, especially if you fly frequently, you know
(31:38):
that for the past twenty something years you've had to
drop your shoes as you went through the security line
and through the X ray area. Uh, that's gone. Finally,
across the board, the TSA has dropped entirely that requirement
that you remove your shoes when you go through security.
(32:00):
This is because number one, it hasn't happened since that
one guy twenty something years ago tried to slip a
shoe bomb onto an airplane. It well, actually did get
it on there, but didn't get it detonated. And now
the scanning software and technology is such that even if
(32:21):
somebody did try to do that, it would be picked
up before it got through there, and so at least
it wouldn't make it onto an airplane. It might cause
a lot of damage in the airport, but nothing on
an airplane because they would catch that person. How much
time do I have? Will three? Four, five, four and
a half? Is that right? Okay, I'm gonna go to
(32:43):
New York here, mayor Mom. Donnie's plans to make so
many things free, at least one of his plans is
kind of going in the other direction. If you'll recall,
one of his pitches to the New Yorkers who ultimately
voted him into office was that he he was gonna
make busting subway rides free. Well, that plan's driven into
(33:04):
a ditch already. The city has raised its busting subway fares,
not lowered them, not made them free, but they raised
the fair and then again it still costs the same
for New Yorkers who jumped the turnstile, so they won't
notice any change in their pocket books and their money clips.
(33:25):
You get what you vote for, New Yorkers. You get
what you vote for. And the exodus, the exodus from
that that once magnificent city, is underway as most of
the people, the wealthy people there, realize it's going to
be their money that Mom Donni intends to grab first.
As if they didn't know that already. I guess they
were just hoping, against all hope that he might soften
(33:47):
or something like that. Two of the hottest landing spots,
by the way, for the folks that are getting out
of there as fast as they can, Florida and Texas,
that's no big surprise. That's no big surprise at all.
And as long as the people who are coming here
are not bringing with them left ideas, which I think
the left people are mostly staying in New York because
(34:09):
that's what they see as this ultimate utopia in which
they can live out wonderful, wonderful lives. It's not going
to turn out that way, but that's what they think.
Also one of Mom Donnie's new appointees, a woman named
Cea Weaver, said a while back that people who own
private property can expect a big old change. It's going
(34:31):
to be more of a collective look. And he's used
that same terminology more recent just this week actually, now
Cea Weaver has come in and said that New Yorkers
can expect a little more collective look at private property.
She actually called home ownership quote a weapon of white
(34:52):
supremacy quote, which makes no sense to me because it's
not only it's not one group that owns all that property.
It's just not it's whoever can afford that property can
own that property that property. And she's also used the
s word seizure in the past when it comes to
(35:13):
owning private property. In other words, she's just as socialists
and communist as he is. And if they start taking
away the right to own private property, my gut says,
the exodus from that city only will accelerate, and we
need to roll out the welcome matt down here for
people who just say enough's enough, enough's enough. Man, Gosh,
(35:34):
I just can't imagine, Well, I guess I can. In
the State of the States and State of the country.
I'm not even gonna get to Minnesota today, but I
will tomorrow. I promise you. There's a lot to talk
about coming out of there. Where I'll go now is
to some good news. Finish it off a couple of
(35:55):
minutes a week or will one. That's it. I'll do
this quickly. Free dive instructor. This is just cool under
sea news. Free dive instructor off the Mexican Pacific Coast.
Emily Marzilli diving near a sardine ball with a bunch
of students when Bride's whale suddenly comes rolling through there
and makes a hot mess of a big, giant ball
(36:17):
of sardines that had been trying to look bigger and
intimidating because of a bunch of marlin or stripe marlin
and tuna working around there. All of a sudden, this
whale comes through there, right in front of them, and
through the foam that the tuna and the stripe marlin
had made and just makes a hot mess of everything.
(36:37):
All of those people, I'm sure were treated to an experience,
and hopefully a few of them got video. There are
a few snapshots I've seen, but I hope somebody got
video of that awesome experience. I love being offshore, I
love being in the water, on the water, I love
it all. What are you doing to you? Rest in
your hands, will Oh, I remember what that means. I've
(37:00):
got about five or six seconds and that's it. I'll
be back tomorrow. I thank you all for rejoining us here.
We'll talk again.
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