November 20, 2024 • 38 mins
Today, Doug Pike interviews Dr. Jessica Lee about frailty in seniors.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Wednesday edition of the program starts right now. A cooler
carbon copy. I guess yesterday afternoon and one of actually
fun five or six more successive days of outstanding, whether
for those of you who prefer to be outstanding in
sunshine and cool air rather than inside staring at a
screen or through a window to the outside. I know
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there are some people in this audience who probably live
in assisted living facilities, maybe live in nursing homes, and
I hope that you have people around you who will
if you have to be pushed in a wheelchair, put
you in one, put a blanket over your knees, and
drive you out into that sunshine. Because it is a
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first Academy day, no question about it, no question about it.
Quick drive into the highs and lows in High Coup.
By the way, I was talking to somebody here about
the craziness on the freeways in general, and I've actually
got a little, tiny short story I'll get to later
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on about that and an opportunity that Australia is about
to take that I think this country probably ought to
take as well. But that's for another time. So let's
get to this quick dive into the his and lows,
he said correctly in haiku. Thanks as always to Texas
Indoor air quality specialists, because cleaner air is healthier air.
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That I'll pound two fifties, say healthy air, and somebody
will answer the phone and tell you about that duct
work work they do to blow cleaner air through your
house for years to come. You ready, will I am? Here?
You go? What did I say, will Sonny with high
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end sixties? Same for tomorrow personal. I was gonna bring
up that I said I would change the Monday's score.
I would give it an actor strip point. But oh,
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you had to come out and you had to call
me out. Came out like, who's the guy who fought
Tyson the other day, Jake Paul. Let me see, I'm
just kind of letting you off easy. I didn't really
take a full swing. I just I just I just
toyed with you in the ring. Didn't give you a
chance to bite off my ear or anything. Okay, but
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I'm Mike Tyson in this Huh No, not really, I'm
the camp huh former. Okay, you're the the grandpa in
the ring. Hey, what is he fifty eight or something
like that? He is fifty eight? That's that's up there,
man for a boxer. Yeah, I couldn't tip of the
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cap to him for even getting in the ring. But
may he had no business being in the ring. Everybody
knows it well for show. So anyway, you're dodging the
school or what. Yeah, unfortunately I did. It's gonna be uh,
it's gonna be a d q C. Yeah for attacking
the judge. That's a first. Yeah, it's a first. So
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do I still get my extra credit for you? Istory?
You don't you get that revoked? In fact, Monday's score
is a four now Oh my goodness, will if you
can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen man,
I'm i'm the gloves are off. All right, let's go
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off to market. We go now, Houston, gooldexchange dot com.
Thank you for this. All four of the big four
were down just to just minutes ago, but not way down.
Oil up but not way up. Still blows seventy dollars
a barrel. And that's that's a sad benchmark. Really, Uh,
it's a and it's quite telling. I think the the
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mark to watching the next four years is going to
be around sixty three to sixty five dollars somewhere in
there be very affordable to drive around and really unfair,
I think, to millions of Americans for the price of
oil to be going up. And this is all disadministration's doing.
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Don't lose sight of that. Even though there's tension in
the Middle East, if we were in full on drill
baby drill mode, we would be selling oil to the
rest of the world rather than having to beg it
and borrow it from enemies of our country. We're buying
it from the wrong people. Should we shouldn't be buying
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a drop of oil or a cubic foot of gas
gold up almost twenty four bucks an ounce actually to
twenty six fifty five and change about the same eight
or ten minutes ago. Now that I looked at the
rest of the markets. Ah, that's enough of that. Soon
we will be energy independent again and we won't have
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to have these worries and woes over the Middle East.
In local politics, because there is never a shortage of
juicy political mud being slung around here, Da kim Ogg
reacted to Harris County Judge Lean Hidalgo's criticism of charges
that Ogg's office filed against former Harris County Public Health
Director Barbie Robinson, which which accused Robinson of allegedly moving
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a thirty million dollar contract unlawfully. Kim Ogg responded to
Hidalgo's accusations of dirty politics by saying, just very succinctly,
the cases filed by her office are based on facts
and not opinions, and that'll that'll be to be, It'll
to be decided in the court of law as it
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should be. Uh, speaking of politics, you know, no, I'm
gonna wait. I read something written by a just most
openly and easily needed to figure out left waning left
leaning writer. I'll talk about that when we get back.
I want to go over to something different right now, Uh, well,
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you're up. It's National Botox Day. Man. Do you think
you would ever use botox? I don't know. If I will,
You'll know I would not never. It's temporary. You got
to keep sticking needles in your head to make you
look like a smooth skin the twenty year old rather
than whoever you are and whatever you are. I've got
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I've spent so much time out in the sun and
often squinting because maybe I've misplaced my sunglasses or whatever.
So you would just maybe do it, yeah, if it
was offered. Okay, I have another one for you later
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that will pertain to you because you are a dog owner.
I was wondering, I'll be wondering later in the program
whether you will do what I'm about what I will
eventually ask you about. Not soon, though, because next we're
going to talk to doctor Jessica Lee about frailty and
isolation among seniors on the way out of late health.
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Speaker 1 (09:39):
Wait until the show's over. Sleepy back that Doug Pike
as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Bright, Welcome back to fifty plus on this wide open Wednesday,
And by that I mean get your stuff done and
get outside and do whatever you want wide open. What
I want to do in this segment is talk about
frailty in seniors and all the ugly things that tend
to follow. It's on set to help. Welcome back to
fifty plus. Doctor Jessica Lee, Associate professor at u T
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Health Houston, who is studying frailty and cognitive interventions for
homebound seniors.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Welcome back dot Hello good to see you again.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
I right, Well, either one, there's evidence to support enabling
seniors to stay in their homes as long as possible, obviously,
but there's also doesn't there also kind of come a
time in most seniors' lives when that's really not practical anymore.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Yes, that loss of independence is something that we talk
about that goes along with frailty. But you know, nobody
grows older saying they want to move to a nursing home,
so we try to do as much as we can
to keep them in their home safely.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Is this is it sort of kind of a witch
came first, a chicken or the egg scenario. Since home
bound adults tend to become more frail and isolated than
those who transfer to maybe a more active physically and
active socially setting, it.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Certainly can be precipitated sort of both ways. So you know,
being homebound can worsen frailty, but you know, being having
frailty could also make you homebound. So I think it's
really a both ways kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
At what point physically does the medical community consider somebody
to be frail?
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Right? So you know there is a very technical kind
of definition and frailty is, you know, a decrease in
your reserve and function across multiple systems, so it's not
just physical but also cognitive. And that decrease in that
reserve and function leads some of our older adults to
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not be able to recover from stressors like an acute
hostilization or a fall or something like that. So they
just don't bounce back as quickly as they used to
when they were younger. And that's kind of how we
sort of define frailty currently and what.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Someone crosses that threshold, is it really possible for them
to kind of regain the strength and balance and cognition
that they had before, or at least some enough to
stay where they are.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Yes, absolutely so. Frailty is a very dynamic state. It
is something that you know once you're diagnosed. It doesn't
mean that you will always have frailty or you will
always be frailed.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
There's also a lot of interest now in sort of prehabilitation.
So if we know that somebody is frail and they're
going to go for a procedure or something more intensive treatment,
could there be things that we do ahead of times,
like physical therapy or maximizing their nutrition to make sure
that they're optimized before they even go into a stressor
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type of event.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Something I can I guess it would be to having
to lose weight before a surgeon will provide a particular
surgery for somebody, right.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Exactly. Or let's say, you know someone is smoking, you know, right, yeah, yeah,
so there are things that we can do. And so,
you know, even though it sounds very depressing to be
called frail, it's not a state that you have to
stay in.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Yeah. I kind of like knowing that because I've made
some changes recently in what I eat, and if it
ever comes up, I'm gonna have to change all of
this stuff. I think. Let's talk also about isolation and
the role that plays in the aging process and frailty.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Yeah, absolutely so isolation. For anyone who has read one
of the recent Surgeon General's reports, we've found that isolation
is actually equivalent to smoking fifteen cigarettes a day.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
My gosh, Okay, that's not right.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
So, yeah, you can imagine the risk on your heart disease.
You know, all of those things that are affected by
smoking similarly are affected by having isolation or being isolated.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
How do doctors measure loneliness and isolation. Currently, we do.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Use some questionnaires. There are someones that are validated out there,
but a lot of times it's really just sort of
the simple question of do you feel lonely? You know,
there is a difference. Some people they are alone, but
they like to be alone, and so they may not
actually be feeling lonely. But it's not really an assumption
of just you know, how many people are around you,
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but whether the person themselves feel like they're not making
those connections or you know, they themselves feel lonely.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
That's a very good point you're making about people being
alone but not being lonely. And do family members often
or rarely or whatever in between, do they see somebody
who just likes to be alone and say, hey, you
need to go make friends, you need to go do things,
when in fact they're perfectly comfortable where they are.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Right And I think that's kind of why this is
a really sort of personal question that we have to
ask each you know, individual, whether they feel lonely or not.
Because for some you know, they do they want to
go out, they want to have activities, they just don't
have someone to help them facilitate that. And the family members,
you know, could be very helpful for that could for
those who enjoy their alone time. You know, then maybe
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you know, the family members can back off.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
That could be just a simple transportation issue even right exactly.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Exactly it could be transportation. It could be just even
checking in with that person more often.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Uh, pretty easy to tell somebody to go make new friends,
but not as easy for seniors to do that, especially
if they live alone and maybe don't drive anymore. So
what what resources are available to kind of maybe uh
get people who haven't been around socialization in a while
out there without having to call on friends or family
to drive them around.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Absolutely still, you know, I mean this is where actually
a lot of times different kind joining different kinds of
groups that are maybe online, whether they're support groups. You know,
sometimes a person is isolated because they're a caregiver, and
you know, maybe that I can join some caregiver support groups.
Volunteering activities. I know that that sometimes does require driving,
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but sometimes you know that's as simple as volunteering to
make a phone call to an older adult, you know,
just to have a chat with them. So it doesn't
always have to be something that is you know, requires transportation.
There are lots of ways to sort of reach out
and feel like you're a part of a community.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
I was kind of stuck in my old guy rut
there for a minute talking about not being able to
get around. But with online and with cell phones, there
is a whole lot of volunteer work. There's a whole
lot of of making new friends, joining groups where you
don't just don't even have to put on pants and
leave the house.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Absolutely, you're absolutely right about that.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
I saw something in my notes too, doctor Jessica Lee
here on fifty plus about on wheels talk about how
beneficial that can actually be to somebody who lives alone.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Yeah, so meals on wheels, you know, one of their
sort of themes is that they're more than just a meal.
It's not just about sending you delivering somebody a meal,
but that person, the volunteer usually who is giving them
the meal weekly is oftentimes the only contact that that
homebound person might have, and so you know, it could
be a really they're sometimes the first ones to recognize,
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for example, if something is wrong with their you know,
with their participant or their client, and so that socialization
plays a huge role. And we're now seeing in different
kinds of studies that it's not. It is really is
more than just a meal. It is also about having
that connection with that volunteer or that driver who comes
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to see them regularly and gets to know their routine.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
It's a routine, regular welfare check in a way, isn't
it really? Yes? Absolutely absolutely, I saw something about or
in a sequency, what what is that?
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Yeah, So that gets a little bit more into the
technical you know, we are really interested in are there
some underlying biological mechanisms behind why people have loneliness or
have things like frailty. You know, is there something that's happening,
for example, in the muscles or in the blood that is,
you know, making maybe people more at risk for you know,
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frailty or isolation or you know. And then also on
the flip side, if they receive some sort of treatment,
let's say, like exercise for frailty, you know, are these
markers changing in their body, you know, to indicate that
they're getting healthier.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
That type of thing that's interesting is for family members
who might be listening on behalf of somebody older, Like
I used to try to find stuff for my mother,
what should they be looking for that indicates potential speed
bumps ahead for their older family members who still live
in their own homes away from the rest of them.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Yeahotely, So some things to look for, you know, Isolation,
I think is maybe a little bit easier to look for,
you know. Again that just this speaks to basically asking
the loved one, you know, are you feeling lonely? Do
you feel like you have enough activities? Do you feel
like you're engaging with other people? So that's a little
bit simpler question FRONTI is a little bit harder to
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diagnose and sometimes requires maybe a little bit more specialty.
But if you have a person who is falling a
lot at home, they're getting a lot weaker, they might
be having you know, more memory issues or trouble concentrating.
Those are all reasons to maybe get you know, seek
the help of a geriatrician or someone along those lines
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to help make that diagnosis and help put some interventions
into place.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Very good advice all the way across the board. I
asked somebody a while but we've just got a couple
of seconds. But I asked someone a while back in
a similar interview, I said, you know, every now and
then I misplaced my keys. Is that bad, she goes, No,
what's bad is forgetting what your keys do. So yeah,
so I feel very comfortable, doctor Jessica Lely as always,
thank you so much, and you're always welcome here.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Too, absolutely, thanks so much for having me.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
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They sure don't make them like they used to.
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That's why every few months we wash them, check his
fluids and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This
is fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, welcome back
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to fifty plus.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Thanks for listening. Certainly do appreciate it. I've already found
out that Will is a National botox day. Neither Will
nor I is getting it today, but Will might get
it tomorrow. Is that basically what you told me? Will
I might? You know, I just I don't know that
I can get comfortable for some temporary fix to something
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that is as natural as gray hair, well, which some
people die. I guess they do that too. They just
want to be eternally young and the inside's gonna wear
out anyway. Why I want to I don't know why
I want to keep painting the car if I'm not
going to be able to change the oil in the engine.
That makes sense? Yeah, okay, so let's let's stick stick
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on this one page here. One smart cookie, will more
scams to worry us or this is just nasty one
smart cookie? Will William Mitchell, not William Melbourne. It is William,
is it not? Yes? Okay? Uh is credited as an
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inventor of three very different things. When you get right
down to it, Can you name any of those things
credited to William Mitchell as a key inventor? No, I
have no idea. This is really I mean, these are
three things that just go off in all different directions
pop rocks, remember them? Yes, you were more of a
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pop rock person than I was. I didn't like pop rocks. Yeah,
they were kind of weird. I didn't like that sensation
of a minor volcanic eruption going off in between my
cheeks and gums. That was weird. I didn't get into
that much. Number two on the list, tang. You remember
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that breakfast drink. The astronauts took it to space with them. Yeah,
mix it with a little water powdered orange juice, which
it was okay in hindsight of that, I'm presuming it's
still out there. And the third and most important invention
credited to William Mitchell. And this is one that's in
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my refrigerator now, and not every day, but maybe at
least once every couple of three weeks. I'll buy it
along with something to put it on top of. And
that is cool whip. He made cool. He invented cool whip,
will William Mitchell. So for that he gets. If he
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had not invented pop rocks or tank, I wouldn't have
cared at all. So long as he got around a
cool whip. That's good stuff. Do you like it? Yes? Who?
Doesn't like cool whip. What is your favorite thing to
put cool whip on my mouth? Your tongue? Yeah, a
food item, You just seed it right out of the ball.
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Do I know you're gonna tell me you? Oh? I mean,
I'll you know. Oh, oh, I mean I think the
best thing to put it on is pie. What kind
of pie though? Any pop?
Speaker 1 (25:39):
No?
Speaker 2 (25:39):
No, yes, you did on any poe? Well I would too,
But I have a favorite in mind, and it's seasonally appropriate.
Oh is it a cherry pie?
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (25:51):
God? No, Will it's a pumpkin pie. Will a pumpkin pie?
There is? There are a few things better in this
world than cool whip on a pumpkin pie. A warm
pumpkin pie at that just right, just barely out of
the oven, just ready to go. But still when you
when you slice it and you throw that cool whip
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on top, you can see it start just start to melt,
just a teeny weeny bit. So you just ram that
fork right through the cool whip all the way to
the crust of the pie, peel off that little end
of the of the slice of pie. The triangular shape
that's about, I don't know, maybe the size of a quarter.
If a well, if a quarter were a triangle, and
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then you just gobble it up right then and there,
and then you just you just know that every bite
after that's going to be really good, except those edges
of the pie where you could all you get is
really crusted. That's not all that fun. You agree or disagree?
Or was that just too far? Yeah? You go too far? No,
I don't think you went too Okay, thank you. More
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scam to worry about. By the way, I definitely want
to get to this before we have to go anywhere else,
because this is real and it's serious. Hackers are now
sending scam QR codes in the physical mail. They are
paying postage to send you something that you'll believe is
probably a little more real since you got it in
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your mailbox. It's probably not real. So be very very
careful hitting those QR code. I'm not a big fan
of those anyway, especially in restaurants where they just they
have a QR code on the table and you have
to get on your phone to go to the menu.
I'm old school man. I want to hold that menu.
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I want to read it. I want to see depending
on where I am, I want to see pictures of
the food, not that what I'm gonna get is gonna
look like that, which is never more true than in
any fast food restaurant when you open up that little
box the thing inside there. First of all, it's gonna
be way smaller than it looks on the menu. And secondly,
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it's probably not gonna taste as good as the one
on the menu. Looks. A lot of that food's fake.
You realize that, right Will when they take the pictures, Yes,
totally stage. It's very stage. They're not getting when they're
shouldn't a McDonald's ad, they're not getting a real quarter pounder.
I think they should.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
It should be truth in advertising, and there should be
truth in advertising. But then you know what, nobody would
sell anything that's true. Okay, I'm gonna wait, but when
we come back. Despite having some really, really interesting I
call them conversation starters for the holidays, and I've had
a lot of them lately, I am going to start
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with something that's happening in grocery stores now and it
really concerns me. And since Will potentially could be someone
who's doing this, I don't.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Think he is. I really don't, for the record, but
I just want to get his reaction to what some
people are doing. Okay, all the way, No really, I'm
in all fairness to you. There's no way you're doing this,
But I just want to see how you would react
if you saw it. Thirty years in business, that's Bronze Roofing,
Skeeter Braun and his crew and now his son actually
working with him and following in his dad's footsteps, have
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been doing this for thirty plus years. Like I said,
on a simple premise, quality work at a fair price.
It just sounds so simple and so easy, but a
lot of roofing companies really don't want to do that.
They want to get more money from you without having
to do a lot of good work. Bron's roofing quality
work at a fair price. If you want to get
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them out there to come check out your roof, for example, zero,
it costs you nothing and usually they'll be there within
a day. Good roof can last you a long time
if you maintain it. If they get up on that
roof and they come down and they've found something, they're
gonna tell you what they found. They're gonna show you
pictures of what they found. Then they'll describe what it
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would take to fix it, how much cost is involved,
how much time is involved, and at that point, if
they actually have what they need on the truck, which
they often do to do a minor repair, just tell
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This is fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, welcome
back forth and final segment of the program starts right now.
And I as promised, I'm gonna go back to Will Melbourne.
Is it okay or not?
Speaker 3 (31:27):
Will?
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Which some people are doing is to let their dog
ride in the shopping cart at the grocery store. Why
are you bringing your dog to the grocery store? Well,
more and more I'm seeing these these dogs that with
what do you call them, service dog collars on them
(31:50):
and bridles I guess, saddles, I guess you'd call them.
And it's every kind of dog in the world. Man.
And I don't know some of those people, you know,
who am I to judge? They may need a service dog.
But some of them, it's kind of like some of
the people who have handicapped parking spots, disabled parking spot
(32:11):
tags hanging off their windshields, and then you watch them
get out of the car and they just practically skip
into the store. I think that's being taken advantage of
a little bit, you know what I mean. Yeah, So
what do you think about having a dog and a
shopping cart? I don't really think much of it. I
(32:32):
think I think it's unsanitary. I really do. I think
that a dog in a shopping cart could have all
kinds of issues. The dog might have fleas, The dog
might might relieve itself going down an aisle. The dog
(32:52):
might have walked through something in the yard that you'd
rather not have on the bottom of your shopping cart
when you're shopping for grocery. I don't think the dog.
But if the dog can't just walk alongside you and
be content to be a service dog and serve you
in that capacity, I don't know. I don't like that idea.
I really don't. Well, I mean, you can stay away
(33:16):
from those people, yeah, but how would I know if
I'm getting the cart that that they wipe the carts? No, never,
Yes they did. Where are you shopping? I should go
to h GB They wipe the carts down when they
also they have sanitizer wipes before you go in, so
you can pick up a wipe and you can just
(33:38):
wipe it down. To tell me how many times you've
wiped the bottom of your cart. Why would you wipe
them because that's where the little service dogs, right, and
sometimes maybe you go into muddy terrain. Do you not
have to do with anything. I'm saying. You probably step
in things that you're not even aware of and you're
(34:00):
bringing them around. But no, I don't wear the same
shoes to HB that I wear fish. You wear them
in the car, right, and then you put on different
shoes and they're on the bottom of your on your
your pedals come back, will come back telling you you
could go on and on or will you cool? You
(34:23):
could think about all the different things it goes through
and steps in and is bringing in dolls. Never know
if somebody is getting out of their car, they're nark
in the parking lot, and then they picked their nose.
They hate they're the big old lick of that booger,
(34:43):
and then they go and touch their dirty hands on
all of the produce. They are never no Doug. It's
best not to worry you. Are you done yet? Oh
my god? Just saying will come back? He just said
way too much? Holy cow? Oh my word. Uh From
(35:04):
the soup desk, speaking of grocery stores. These are all
little conversation starters for you over the holidays. Campbell's Soup,
the company that's forever been more closely linked to soup
than any other company is dropping soup from its name
after one hundred and fifty five years. One hundred and
(35:26):
fifty five years, and they're just gonna be Campbell's like
Madonna and Cher and liz O, who else? Who else? Will?
What guys? What guys have one name? Usher? Usher? Okay? Oh?
(35:47):
Who's that Miami guy? Uh Tua? No, No, he's older
than that. Uh. I don't bulldog pit bull. That's two words.
It's a bulldog. I had no idea, that's why. Oh,
here's something. This is another public service announcement, and it
really shocked me. The numbers are so high. From the
(36:10):
porch pirate desk or deck, I guess since we're talking
about pirates, comes word from safewise dot com that Houston.
Houston is number five on the list of the top
ten worst cities for package theft this year alone. So far,
(36:31):
Houstonians have been pirated out of more than a million
and a half packages worth an estimated two hundred and
seven point four million dollars. You want to know why
that's happening? Will Why? Insufficient? Law enforcement? Not inefficient? In sufficient,
(36:55):
we just don't have enough police officers out there because
they're busy chasing down on harder criminals, and so they're
just not not enough of them out there to go
chase down somebody who stole something off your porch, no
matter what it is, no matter what value it is.
And that's on top of a judicial system that doesn't
seem to care about people losing stuff in broad daylight.
(37:18):
I might add a lot of these people caught on
cameras they just don't care because they know they're not
going to get caught or prosecuted. They know that they
get caught with a few boxes in their car have
other people's names on them. I know I'm no big deal.
I won't then get a ticket, let alone criminal theft charges.
It's kind of like shoplifting, since consumers leave that we
(37:40):
lose either way, but it's just a more personal it's
on a more personal level, and either way you and
I will are paying for that too. That's really what
irks me. From the ah, No, I've got what a minute?
Less than a minute? Now? Yes? Back to you will,
Here we go. I checked that box. Check that this
(38:00):
is also nasty, or you hit the curb, You hit
the curb. In Australia, they have found that it makes
sense safety wise, to force drivers over a certain age
to retake their driving test. What's that age? Will of
(38:23):
sixty five? I think they ought to do it every
year anyway. No, it's not at fifty they're gonna want
you to take your driving test again. In Australia. That
wouldn't help over here. I don't think that's it for
us today. We'll be back tomorrow. Thanks for listening. Audios
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Wednesday edition of the program starts right now. A cooler
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fun five or six more successive days of outstanding, whether
for those of you who prefer to be outstanding in
sunshine and cool air rather than inside staring at a
screen or through a window to the outside. I know
(01:15):
there are some people in this audience who probably live
in assisted living facilities, maybe live in nursing homes, and
I hope that you have people around you who will
if you have to be pushed in a wheelchair, put
you in one, put a blanket over your knees, and
drive you out into that sunshine. Because it is a
(01:38):
first Academy day, no question about it, no question about it.
Quick drive into the highs and lows in High Coup.
By the way, I was talking to somebody here about
the craziness on the freeways in general, and I've actually
got a little, tiny short story I'll get to later
(01:58):
on about that and an opportunity that Australia is about
to take that I think this country probably ought to
take as well. But that's for another time. So let's
get to this quick dive into the his and lows,
he said correctly in haiku. Thanks as always to Texas
Indoor air quality specialists, because cleaner air is healthier air.
(02:20):
That I'll pound two fifties, say healthy air, and somebody
will answer the phone and tell you about that duct
work work they do to blow cleaner air through your
house for years to come. You ready, will I am? Here?
You go? What did I say, will Sonny with high
(02:40):
end sixties? Same for tomorrow personal. I was gonna bring
up that I said I would change the Monday's score.
I would give it an actor strip point. But oh,
(03:03):
you had to come out and you had to call
me out. Came out like, who's the guy who fought
Tyson the other day, Jake Paul. Let me see, I'm
just kind of letting you off easy. I didn't really
take a full swing. I just I just I just
toyed with you in the ring. Didn't give you a
chance to bite off my ear or anything. Okay, but
(03:23):
I'm Mike Tyson in this Huh No, not really, I'm
the camp huh former. Okay, you're the the grandpa in
the ring. Hey, what is he fifty eight or something
like that? He is fifty eight? That's that's up there,
man for a boxer. Yeah, I couldn't tip of the
(03:44):
cap to him for even getting in the ring. But
may he had no business being in the ring. Everybody
knows it well for show. So anyway, you're dodging the
school or what. Yeah, unfortunately I did. It's gonna be uh,
it's gonna be a d q C. Yeah for attacking
the judge. That's a first. Yeah, it's a first. So
(04:08):
do I still get my extra credit for you? Istory?
You don't you get that revoked? In fact, Monday's score
is a four now Oh my goodness, will if you
can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen man,
I'm i'm the gloves are off. All right, let's go
(04:29):
off to market. We go now, Houston, gooldexchange dot com.
Thank you for this. All four of the big four
were down just to just minutes ago, but not way down.
Oil up but not way up. Still blows seventy dollars
a barrel. And that's that's a sad benchmark. Really, Uh,
it's a and it's quite telling. I think the the
(04:52):
mark to watching the next four years is going to
be around sixty three to sixty five dollars somewhere in
there be very affordable to drive around and really unfair,
I think, to millions of Americans for the price of
oil to be going up. And this is all disadministration's doing.
(05:12):
Don't lose sight of that. Even though there's tension in
the Middle East, if we were in full on drill
baby drill mode, we would be selling oil to the
rest of the world rather than having to beg it
and borrow it from enemies of our country. We're buying
it from the wrong people. Should we shouldn't be buying
(05:34):
a drop of oil or a cubic foot of gas
gold up almost twenty four bucks an ounce actually to
twenty six fifty five and change about the same eight
or ten minutes ago. Now that I looked at the
rest of the markets. Ah, that's enough of that. Soon
we will be energy independent again and we won't have
(05:55):
to have these worries and woes over the Middle East.
In local politics, because there is never a shortage of
juicy political mud being slung around here, Da kim Ogg
reacted to Harris County Judge Lean Hidalgo's criticism of charges
that Ogg's office filed against former Harris County Public Health
Director Barbie Robinson, which which accused Robinson of allegedly moving
(06:18):
a thirty million dollar contract unlawfully. Kim Ogg responded to
Hidalgo's accusations of dirty politics by saying, just very succinctly,
the cases filed by her office are based on facts
and not opinions, and that'll that'll be to be, It'll
to be decided in the court of law as it
(06:40):
should be. Uh, speaking of politics, you know, no, I'm
gonna wait. I read something written by a just most
openly and easily needed to figure out left waning left
leaning writer. I'll talk about that when we get back.
I want to go over to something different right now, Uh, well,
(07:00):
you're up. It's National Botox Day. Man. Do you think
you would ever use botox? I don't know. If I will,
You'll know I would not never. It's temporary. You got
to keep sticking needles in your head to make you
look like a smooth skin the twenty year old rather
than whoever you are and whatever you are. I've got
(07:21):
some I have some sunshine lines on my forehead because
I've spent so much time out in the sun and
often squinting because maybe I've misplaced my sunglasses or whatever.
So you would just maybe do it, yeah, if it
was offered. Okay, I have another one for you later
(07:42):
that will pertain to you because you are a dog owner.
I was wondering, I'll be wondering later in the program
whether you will do what I'm about what I will
eventually ask you about. Not soon, though, because next we're
going to talk to doctor Jessica Lee about frailty and
isolation among seniors on the way out of late health.
If boy, if you're a guy like me and you
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get a little older and you're starting to do maybe
these are symptoms of an enlarged noncancerous prostate, because my
PSAs have been final lately, but I'm having some issues
that I need probably to go over and talk to
doctor Andrew Doe about at some point soon. Anyway, if
you have an enlarged prostate and if you know the symptoms,
(08:24):
you'd probably like to get rid of them, and you
can do that at late Health. They're vascular clinics. There's
several of them around town, and they do the same
types of work at each one of them, and they
do it all very well, and they'll never send you
to the hospital. You're going to get that work done
usually in a couple of hours right there in the clinics,
and then you get to go home and recover there.
What they do is they shut off the blood supply.
(08:46):
They determine exactly which artery is feeding it feeding that prostate.
Then they just turn off the switch. They flip the switch,
shut off the blood supply, and away it goes, and
away go the symptoms with it. They do fibroids and women,
they do ugly veins. They make them go away if
you want that. There are some head pains that can
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be alleviated with vascular procedures. They do those as well.
A latehealth dot Com is a website. They also do
regenerative medicine too, by the way, which is very very
effective for people who have chronic pain and nobody should
have to deal with that. Seven one three, five eight,
eight thirty eight eighty eight. Most of what they do
is covered by Medicare and Medicaid as well, So no
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reason to wait around seven to one, three, five eight
eight thirty eight eighty eight. What's life without a NET?
I suggest you go to bed, leave it off, just.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Wait until the show's over. Sleepy back that Doug Pike
as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Bright, Welcome back to fifty plus on this wide open Wednesday,
And by that I mean get your stuff done and
get outside and do whatever you want wide open. What
I want to do in this segment is talk about
frailty in seniors and all the ugly things that tend
to follow. It's on set to help. Welcome back to
fifty plus. Doctor Jessica Lee, Associate professor at u T
(10:16):
Health Houston, who is studying frailty and cognitive interventions for
homebound seniors.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Welcome back dot Hello good to see you again.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
I right, Well, either one, there's evidence to support enabling
seniors to stay in their homes as long as possible, obviously,
but there's also doesn't there also kind of come a
time in most seniors' lives when that's really not practical anymore.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Yes, that loss of independence is something that we talk
about that goes along with frailty. But you know, nobody
grows older saying they want to move to a nursing home,
so we try to do as much as we can
to keep them in their home safely.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Is this is it sort of kind of a witch
came first, a chicken or the egg scenario. Since home
bound adults tend to become more frail and isolated than
those who transfer to maybe a more active physically and
active socially setting, it.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Certainly can be precipitated sort of both ways. So you know,
being homebound can worsen frailty, but you know, being having
frailty could also make you homebound. So I think it's
really a both ways kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
At what point physically does the medical community consider somebody
to be frail?
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Right? So you know there is a very technical kind
of definition and frailty is, you know, a decrease in
your reserve and function across multiple systems, so it's not
just physical but also cognitive. And that decrease in that
reserve and function leads some of our older adults to
(11:52):
not be able to recover from stressors like an acute
hostilization or a fall or something like that. So they
just don't bounce back as quickly as they used to
when they were younger. And that's kind of how we
sort of define frailty currently and what.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Someone crosses that threshold, is it really possible for them
to kind of regain the strength and balance and cognition
that they had before, or at least some enough to
stay where they are.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Yes, absolutely so. Frailty is a very dynamic state. It
is something that you know once you're diagnosed. It doesn't
mean that you will always have frailty or you will
always be frailed.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
There's also a lot of interest now in sort of prehabilitation.
So if we know that somebody is frail and they're
going to go for a procedure or something more intensive treatment,
could there be things that we do ahead of times,
like physical therapy or maximizing their nutrition to make sure
that they're optimized before they even go into a stressor
(12:51):
type of event.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Something I can I guess it would be to having
to lose weight before a surgeon will provide a particular
surgery for somebody, right.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Exactly. Or let's say, you know someone is smoking, you know, right, yeah, yeah,
so there are things that we can do. And so,
you know, even though it sounds very depressing to be
called frail, it's not a state that you have to
stay in.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Yeah. I kind of like knowing that because I've made
some changes recently in what I eat, and if it
ever comes up, I'm gonna have to change all of
this stuff. I think. Let's talk also about isolation and
the role that plays in the aging process and frailty.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Yeah, absolutely so isolation. For anyone who has read one
of the recent Surgeon General's reports, we've found that isolation
is actually equivalent to smoking fifteen cigarettes a day.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
My gosh, Okay, that's not right.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
So, yeah, you can imagine the risk on your heart disease.
You know, all of those things that are affected by
smoking similarly are affected by having isolation or being isolated.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
How do doctors measure loneliness and isolation. Currently, we do.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Use some questionnaires. There are someones that are validated out there,
but a lot of times it's really just sort of
the simple question of do you feel lonely? You know,
there is a difference. Some people they are alone, but
they like to be alone, and so they may not
actually be feeling lonely. But it's not really an assumption
of just you know, how many people are around you,
(14:32):
but whether the person themselves feel like they're not making
those connections or you know, they themselves feel lonely.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
That's a very good point you're making about people being
alone but not being lonely. And do family members often
or rarely or whatever in between, do they see somebody
who just likes to be alone and say, hey, you
need to go make friends, you need to go do things,
when in fact they're perfectly comfortable where they are.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Right And I think that's kind of why this is
a really sort of personal question that we have to
ask each you know, individual, whether they feel lonely or not.
Because for some you know, they do they want to
go out, they want to have activities, they just don't
have someone to help them facilitate that. And the family members,
you know, could be very helpful for that could for
those who enjoy their alone time. You know, then maybe
(15:24):
you know, the family members can back off.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
That could be just a simple transportation issue even right exactly.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Exactly it could be transportation. It could be just even
checking in with that person more often.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Uh, pretty easy to tell somebody to go make new friends,
but not as easy for seniors to do that, especially
if they live alone and maybe don't drive anymore. So
what what resources are available to kind of maybe uh
get people who haven't been around socialization in a while
out there without having to call on friends or family
to drive them around.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Absolutely still, you know, I mean this is where actually
a lot of times different kind joining different kinds of
groups that are maybe online, whether they're support groups. You know,
sometimes a person is isolated because they're a caregiver, and
you know, maybe that I can join some caregiver support groups.
Volunteering activities. I know that that sometimes does require driving,
(16:18):
but sometimes you know that's as simple as volunteering to
make a phone call to an older adult, you know,
just to have a chat with them. So it doesn't
always have to be something that is you know, requires transportation.
There are lots of ways to sort of reach out
and feel like you're a part of a community.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
I was kind of stuck in my old guy rut
there for a minute talking about not being able to
get around. But with online and with cell phones, there
is a whole lot of volunteer work. There's a whole
lot of of making new friends, joining groups where you
don't just don't even have to put on pants and
leave the house.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Absolutely, you're absolutely right about that.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
I saw something in my notes too, doctor Jessica Lee
here on fifty plus about on wheels talk about how
beneficial that can actually be to somebody who lives alone.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Yeah, so meals on wheels, you know, one of their
sort of themes is that they're more than just a meal.
It's not just about sending you delivering somebody a meal,
but that person, the volunteer usually who is giving them
the meal weekly is oftentimes the only contact that that
homebound person might have, and so you know, it could
be a really they're sometimes the first ones to recognize,
(17:28):
for example, if something is wrong with their you know,
with their participant or their client, and so that socialization
plays a huge role. And we're now seeing in different
kinds of studies that it's not. It is really is
more than just a meal. It is also about having
that connection with that volunteer or that driver who comes
(17:49):
to see them regularly and gets to know their routine.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
It's a routine, regular welfare check in a way, isn't
it really? Yes? Absolutely absolutely, I saw something about or
in a sequency, what what is that?
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Yeah, So that gets a little bit more into the
technical you know, we are really interested in are there
some underlying biological mechanisms behind why people have loneliness or
have things like frailty. You know, is there something that's happening,
for example, in the muscles or in the blood that is,
you know, making maybe people more at risk for you know,
(18:27):
frailty or isolation or you know. And then also on
the flip side, if they receive some sort of treatment,
let's say, like exercise for frailty, you know, are these
markers changing in their body, you know, to indicate that
they're getting healthier.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
That type of thing that's interesting is for family members
who might be listening on behalf of somebody older, Like
I used to try to find stuff for my mother,
what should they be looking for that indicates potential speed
bumps ahead for their older family members who still live
in their own homes away from the rest of them.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Yeahotely, So some things to look for, you know, Isolation,
I think is maybe a little bit easier to look for,
you know. Again that just this speaks to basically asking
the loved one, you know, are you feeling lonely? Do
you feel like you have enough activities? Do you feel
like you're engaging with other people? So that's a little
bit simpler question FRONTI is a little bit harder to
(19:21):
diagnose and sometimes requires maybe a little bit more specialty.
But if you have a person who is falling a
lot at home, they're getting a lot weaker, they might
be having you know, more memory issues or trouble concentrating.
Those are all reasons to maybe get you know, seek
the help of a geriatrician or someone along those lines
(19:43):
to help make that diagnosis and help put some interventions
into place.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Very good advice all the way across the board. I
asked somebody a while but we've just got a couple
of seconds. But I asked someone a while back in
a similar interview, I said, you know, every now and
then I misplaced my keys. Is that bad, she goes, No,
what's bad is forgetting what your keys do. So yeah,
so I feel very comfortable, doctor Jessica Lely as always,
thank you so much, and you're always welcome here.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Too, absolutely, thanks so much for having me.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
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little break all the way out. As I put this
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(20:34):
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Now.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
They sure don't make them like they used to.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
That's why every few months we wash them, check his
fluids and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This
is fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, welcome back
(22:23):
to fifty plus.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Thanks for listening. Certainly do appreciate it. I've already found
out that Will is a National botox day. Neither Will
nor I is getting it today, but Will might get
it tomorrow. Is that basically what you told me? Will
I might? You know, I just I don't know that
I can get comfortable for some temporary fix to something
(22:47):
that is as natural as gray hair, well, which some
people die. I guess they do that too. They just
want to be eternally young and the inside's gonna wear
out anyway. Why I want to I don't know why
I want to keep painting the car if I'm not
going to be able to change the oil in the engine.
That makes sense? Yeah, okay, so let's let's stick stick
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on this one page here. One smart cookie, will more
scams to worry us or this is just nasty one
smart cookie? Will William Mitchell, not William Melbourne. It is William,
is it not? Yes? Okay? Uh is credited as an
(23:37):
inventor of three very different things. When you get right
down to it, Can you name any of those things
credited to William Mitchell as a key inventor? No, I
have no idea. This is really I mean, these are
three things that just go off in all different directions
pop rocks, remember them? Yes, you were more of a
(24:00):
pop rock person than I was. I didn't like pop rocks. Yeah,
they were kind of weird. I didn't like that sensation
of a minor volcanic eruption going off in between my
cheeks and gums. That was weird. I didn't get into
that much. Number two on the list, tang. You remember
(24:21):
that breakfast drink. The astronauts took it to space with them. Yeah,
mix it with a little water powdered orange juice, which
it was okay in hindsight of that, I'm presuming it's
still out there. And the third and most important invention
credited to William Mitchell. And this is one that's in
(24:44):
my refrigerator now, and not every day, but maybe at
least once every couple of three weeks. I'll buy it
along with something to put it on top of. And
that is cool whip. He made cool. He invented cool whip,
will William Mitchell. So for that he gets. If he
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had not invented pop rocks or tank, I wouldn't have
cared at all. So long as he got around a
cool whip. That's good stuff. Do you like it? Yes? Who?
Doesn't like cool whip. What is your favorite thing to
put cool whip on my mouth? Your tongue? Yeah, a
food item, You just seed it right out of the ball.
(25:27):
Do I know you're gonna tell me you? Oh? I mean,
I'll you know. Oh, oh, I mean I think the
best thing to put it on is pie. What kind
of pie though? Any pop?
Speaker 1 (25:39):
No?
Speaker 2 (25:39):
No, yes, you did on any poe? Well I would too,
But I have a favorite in mind, and it's seasonally appropriate.
Oh is it a cherry pie?
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (25:51):
God? No, Will it's a pumpkin pie. Will a pumpkin pie?
There is? There are a few things better in this
world than cool whip on a pumpkin pie. A warm
pumpkin pie at that just right, just barely out of
the oven, just ready to go. But still when you
when you slice it and you throw that cool whip
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on top, you can see it start just start to melt,
just a teeny weeny bit. So you just ram that
fork right through the cool whip all the way to
the crust of the pie, peel off that little end
of the of the slice of pie. The triangular shape
that's about, I don't know, maybe the size of a quarter.
If a well, if a quarter were a triangle, and
(26:33):
then you just gobble it up right then and there,
and then you just you just know that every bite
after that's going to be really good, except those edges
of the pie where you could all you get is
really crusted. That's not all that fun. You agree or disagree?
Or was that just too far? Yeah? You go too far? No,
I don't think you went too Okay, thank you. More
(26:53):
scam to worry about. By the way, I definitely want
to get to this before we have to go anywhere else,
because this is real and it's serious. Hackers are now
sending scam QR codes in the physical mail. They are
paying postage to send you something that you'll believe is
probably a little more real since you got it in
(27:16):
your mailbox. It's probably not real. So be very very
careful hitting those QR code. I'm not a big fan
of those anyway, especially in restaurants where they just they
have a QR code on the table and you have
to get on your phone to go to the menu.
I'm old school man. I want to hold that menu.
(27:37):
I want to read it. I want to see depending
on where I am, I want to see pictures of
the food, not that what I'm gonna get is gonna
look like that, which is never more true than in
any fast food restaurant when you open up that little
box the thing inside there. First of all, it's gonna
be way smaller than it looks on the menu. And secondly,
(28:00):
it's probably not gonna taste as good as the one
on the menu. Looks. A lot of that food's fake.
You realize that, right Will when they take the pictures, Yes,
totally stage. It's very stage. They're not getting when they're
shouldn't a McDonald's ad, they're not getting a real quarter pounder.
I think they should.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
It should be truth in advertising, and there should be
truth in advertising. But then you know what, nobody would
sell anything that's true. Okay, I'm gonna wait, but when
we come back. Despite having some really, really interesting I
call them conversation starters for the holidays, and I've had
a lot of them lately, I am going to start
(28:39):
with something that's happening in grocery stores now and it
really concerns me. And since Will potentially could be someone
who's doing this, I don't.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Think he is. I really don't, for the record, but
I just want to get his reaction to what some
people are doing. Okay, all the way, No really, I'm
in all fairness to you. There's no way you're doing this,
But I just want to see how you would react
if you saw it. Thirty years in business, that's Bronze Roofing,
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(29:12):
been doing this for thirty plus years. Like I said,
on a simple premise, quality work at a fair price.
It just sounds so simple and so easy, but a
lot of roofing companies really don't want to do that.
They want to get more money from you without having
to do a lot of good work. Bron's roofing quality
work at a fair price. If you want to get
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it costs you nothing and usually they'll be there within
a day. Good roof can last you a long time
if you maintain it. If they get up on that
roof and they come down and they've found something, they're
gonna tell you what they found. They're gonna show you
pictures of what they found. Then they'll describe what it
(29:55):
would take to fix it, how much cost is involved,
how much time is involved, and at that point, if
they actually have what they need on the truck, which
they often do to do a minor repair, just tell
them get started. You're not You can shop around all
you want, but you're not gonna find a better quality
company to do the same quality of work at that
(30:17):
same price. Bronze Roofing's been around a long time because
that's what they do all day, every day, and always
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(30:39):
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(31:05):
This is fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, welcome
back forth and final segment of the program starts right now.
And I as promised, I'm gonna go back to Will Melbourne.
Is it okay or not?
Speaker 3 (31:27):
Will?
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Which some people are doing is to let their dog
ride in the shopping cart at the grocery store. Why
are you bringing your dog to the grocery store? Well,
more and more I'm seeing these these dogs that with
what do you call them, service dog collars on them
(31:50):
and bridles I guess, saddles, I guess you'd call them.
And it's every kind of dog in the world. Man.
And I don't know some of those people, you know,
who am I to judge? They may need a service dog.
But some of them, it's kind of like some of
the people who have handicapped parking spots, disabled parking spot
(32:11):
tags hanging off their windshields, and then you watch them
get out of the car and they just practically skip
into the store. I think that's being taken advantage of
a little bit, you know what I mean. Yeah, So
what do you think about having a dog and a
shopping cart? I don't really think much of it. I
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think I think it's unsanitary. I really do. I think
that a dog in a shopping cart could have all
kinds of issues. The dog might have fleas, The dog
might might relieve itself going down an aisle. The dog
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might have walked through something in the yard that you'd
rather not have on the bottom of your shopping cart
when you're shopping for grocery. I don't think the dog.
But if the dog can't just walk alongside you and
be content to be a service dog and serve you
in that capacity, I don't know. I don't like that idea.
I really don't. Well, I mean, you can stay away
(33:16):
from those people, yeah, but how would I know if
I'm getting the cart that that they wipe the carts? No, never,
Yes they did. Where are you shopping? I should go
to h GB They wipe the carts down when they
also they have sanitizer wipes before you go in, so
you can pick up a wipe and you can just
(33:38):
wipe it down. To tell me how many times you've
wiped the bottom of your cart. Why would you wipe
them because that's where the little service dogs, right, and
sometimes maybe you go into muddy terrain. Do you not
have to do with anything. I'm saying. You probably step
in things that you're not even aware of and you're
(34:00):
bringing them around. But no, I don't wear the same
shoes to HB that I wear fish. You wear them
in the car, right, and then you put on different
shoes and they're on the bottom of your on your
your pedals come back, will come back telling you you
could go on and on or will you cool? You
(34:23):
could think about all the different things it goes through
and steps in and is bringing in dolls. Never know
if somebody is getting out of their car, they're nark
in the parking lot, and then they picked their nose.
They hate they're the big old lick of that booger,
(34:43):
and then they go and touch their dirty hands on
all of the produce. They are never no Doug. It's
best not to worry you. Are you done yet? Oh
my god? Just saying will come back? He just said
way too much? Holy cow? Oh my word. Uh From
(35:04):
the soup desk, speaking of grocery stores. These are all
little conversation starters for you over the holidays. Campbell's Soup,
the company that's forever been more closely linked to soup
than any other company is dropping soup from its name
after one hundred and fifty five years. One hundred and
(35:26):
fifty five years, and they're just gonna be Campbell's like
Madonna and Cher and liz O, who else? Who else? Will?
What guys? What guys have one name? Usher? Usher? Okay? Oh?
(35:47):
Who's that Miami guy? Uh Tua? No, No, he's older
than that. Uh. I don't bulldog pit bull. That's two words.
It's a bulldog. I had no idea, that's why. Oh,
here's something. This is another public service announcement, and it
really shocked me. The numbers are so high. From the
(36:10):
porch pirate desk or deck, I guess since we're talking
about pirates, comes word from safewise dot com that Houston.
Houston is number five on the list of the top
ten worst cities for package theft this year alone. So far,
(36:31):
Houstonians have been pirated out of more than a million
and a half packages worth an estimated two hundred and
seven point four million dollars. You want to know why
that's happening? Will Why? Insufficient? Law enforcement? Not inefficient? In sufficient,
(36:55):
we just don't have enough police officers out there because
they're busy chasing down on harder criminals, and so they're
just not not enough of them out there to go
chase down somebody who stole something off your porch, no
matter what it is, no matter what value it is.
And that's on top of a judicial system that doesn't
seem to care about people losing stuff in broad daylight.
(37:18):
I might add a lot of these people caught on
cameras they just don't care because they know they're not
going to get caught or prosecuted. They know that they
get caught with a few boxes in their car have
other people's names on them. I know I'm no big deal.
I won't then get a ticket, let alone criminal theft charges.
It's kind of like shoplifting, since consumers leave that we
(37:40):
lose either way, but it's just a more personal it's
on a more personal level, and either way you and
I will are paying for that too. That's really what
irks me. From the ah, No, I've got what a minute?
Less than a minute? Now? Yes? Back to you will,
Here we go. I checked that box. Check that this
(38:00):
is also nasty, or you hit the curb, You hit
the curb. In Australia, they have found that it makes
sense safety wise, to force drivers over a certain age
to retake their driving test. What's that age? Will of
(38:23):
sixty five? I think they ought to do it every
year anyway. No, it's not at fifty they're gonna want
you to take your driving test again. In Australia. That
wouldn't help over here. I don't think that's it for
us today. We'll be back tomorrow. Thanks for listening. Audios
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