December 9, 2025 • 36 mins
Today, Doug Pike interviews Dr. Jay Maddock about exercise.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Remember when it was impossible to misplace the TV remote
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like this, Remember when social media was truly social?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hey John, how's it going today? Good?
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Cool?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
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and now fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
All right, Tuesday starts now. Thank you all for listening.
Speaker 5 (00:50):
One day removed from iHeart Houston's golf tournament supporting Saint
Jude Children's Research Hospital. The day started out actually a
little bit chilly, I must say more than a little
bit chilly, actually a lot chili. Let me write something
down here real quickly. Stand by because it's very important,
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and that will be that that that I'm writing down
a phone number for Will because we have a printer issue.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Okay, here you go, Will, that's gonna Oh, that's where
we're going.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
So yesterday started out very chilly, actually in the mid
to high forties, somewhere around there. Up at Golf Club
of Houston as our tournament for Saint Jude Children's Research
Hospital got underway. And actually I did a video and
just kind of humorous. Really, I panned for I was
at the driving range early, and I panned back over
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toward the clubhouse and said, while all of those golfers
who are going to play today are over there stuffing
their faces with breakfast and getting their goodie bags, the
golfers are over here at the driving range working on
their games.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
And I panned back over to the.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
Driving range and the view all way down from one
end to the other was just buckets full of golf balls,
not a single soul over there but me.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
And turns out all.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
My hard work didn't really amount to much, didn't really
amount to anything.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Really, it didn't matter.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
Basically is what it goes by. It just didn't matter.
We didn't play well. Now, in fairness to us, my
team of good players, in fairness to us, we couldn't
make a putt all day long. We only made five
birdie putts, and well that was the highlight reel. Really,
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we just couldn't make a putt.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Now.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
Mitch Terrio from Oak Harvest the he and I the
senior members of the group, more most senior members of
the group anyway. Mitch actually had two putts that practically
disappeared in the.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Hole and then turned and came right back out.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
And for some reason, that was about as close as
we got on one is fifteen from eighteen. That's thirteen holes.
That's all we could do was get near missus, and
we had a lot of near missus. We had puts
that stopped an inch in front of the hole. We
had puts that went just over the top of the
hole and then kind of turned back but never quite
fell in. We had puts that grazed it within an inch,
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within a half inch, but none of them fell.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
It's okay.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
It was for a good cause, and we raised a
ton of money for Saint Jude. Almost we were right
at right well, right on the doorstep of four hundred
thousand dollars, only only one hundreds off, not thousands off.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
It was three ninety nine and change.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
I can't remember what the exact number was, But we're
gonna take care of that and make up the little
shortfall there and then add two it generously. I hope
with the radiothon that will start a little later in
the week, I will be participating.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
All of our on air hosts on all of our.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
AM stations will participate in this, and I'm not sure
if any of the if our FM's are going to
participate or not this year, But when I find out
which I'll do today, I'll probably tell you about it tomorrow.
Moving back to where I was stand by, I'm having
to work off of my laptop this morning because the
printer is giving me frustrating hassles.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Got that. Got that.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
While we were out there basking in the sunshine right
by the way, the state and country just kept on
as usual. Markets were sort of sluggish early and then
gain some momentum going into the morning, and then kind
of have stepped back a little bit.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
There.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Just its uncertainty primarily that's fueling the market right now.
All four were green at last look, and I think
I don't know if they're all still green or not anymore.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
But there's no major movement.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
I don't believe until there's more news on interest rates
probably and who's going to be in charge of the Fed,
not going to be a lot of movement. I don't
think oil, by the way lower than sixty bucks a barrel,
and I'm seeing gas prices around town in the two
dollars and fifteen cents range up to about two twenty
five depending on what part of town you're in and
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the tradition of the station.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
You're looking at.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
You could probably still find gas for three dollars and
seventy five cents a gallon in Houston if you're at
the wrong station, not the right station, And just out
of curiosity to make you understand or help us understand
how good we have it here with gas prices. I
checked on I just did a search for current gasoline
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prices in Los Angeles, and the average in LA right
now just another reason not to live in California.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Really, the average right.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
Now in LA four dollars and seventy two cents a gallon,
which is basically a three for one. If you live here,
you getting three gallons to one over the LA people.
I don't know how they do it, I really don't.
There have got to be people out there who make
less than a million dollars a year, and if you're
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under that number, probably struggling. It's amazing how many taxes
and how many burdens they put on everybody out there
and just still keep going. Moving into news item somewhat
likely to impact at least several members of this audience,
I would think. From Fox News this morning, FDAs issued
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a nationwide recall on thousands of bottles of blood pressure medicine.
The recall impacts a combo medicine if you will, bisoprolol
fumerate or fumerate I'm not sure, and hydro chlorothiazide. They
are sold as a combo under the name Zayak, and
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the recall bottles showed traces of s a oh boy,
s zetimibe. I think that's the right pronunciation, which is
a medication that treat high cholesterol.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
So on the plus side, it's a Class three recall.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Which means it's not likely to cause any adverse reactions
or consequences. But still you might want to look it
up to make sure that you don't have the recalled stuff.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
That go ahead and get yourself some new stuff. Those lots.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
By the way, the recalled lots have expiration dates from
November twenty five to May of twenty six. Let's take
the first break, shall we. Let's do that a little
bit ahead of time so I can give doctor J.
Mattick a little bit of extra time in this next segment.
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Speaker 6 (08:21):
What's life without a NET?
Speaker 2 (08:23):
I suggest you go to bed, sleep it off.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Just wait until the show's over, Sleepy. Back to Doug
Pike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Fifty plus, thanks for listening.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Dealing with a printer issue in here, and I don't
know why it wants to do that, but it's doing
it to me, so.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
We'll be all right.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
Though, I can assure you let me get the page
I want up here so I can speak intelligently to
my next guest.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
We're going to talk in this segment about something. Get
this so weird front of me a little bit better
about something that we actually mention.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
I would think will would you probably agree with me
at least once or twice a week, and that's walking
and exercise, and when you start combining those kind of
often turns into maybe hiking and to encourage all of
us to get up and move outside.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
I'm gonna welcome doctor j.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
Maddock, professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health
at Texas A and M and co director of the
Center for Health and Nature and serves on the Brasis
Country Board, Brezis County.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
I bet it's supposed to be Board of Health. Welcome
doctor Mattick.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
How are you, thanks, Doug doing great?
Speaker 5 (09:32):
I saw in my notes that you have written a
book and it's called Texas and Hikes.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Does it lean more toward the bruise or the hikes?
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Oh, it's even so.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
The book goes over twenty four different hikes across the
state of Texas, and we pair each of them with
a craft brewery that's kind of in a nearby vicinity.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
You know, it's not a bad motivation. I think for
a lot of people at least it gets them out walking.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Huh, exactly, kind of get the exercise and get a
little relaxing time and connecting with everybody.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
You bet, yeah, I saw it in my notes. Does
this what makes you want to write this book? What
was your inspiration for this?
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (10:13):
So my co author Deb Kel said and I were
walking back in twenty twenty during the pandemic and kind
of got bored of walking around our neighborhood and we said,
you know, let's let's go find out what hiking is
like in Texas. And she's a marathoner and she said
one of the best things about doing a marathon was
looking forward to the cheeseburger at the end of the marathon.
So we said, well, what's the what's the cheeseburger for hiking?
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And we came up with craft brewing. So that was
kind of our motivation, Right, I like that a lot.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
And that kind of it sort of well, let me
get to where I wanted to be in this. I
want to make sure I go one question at a time,
because what I'm looking at is a reason. The reason
is to get out outside and be fit. It's not
just the sunshine on your shoulders. There are a lot
more health benefits to hiking or golf. For fishing or
whatever you do outside.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Right, Yeah, you know this is we tell everybody. You know,
we all know we're socio physically active, but trying to
take one or two of those sessions a week outside
and you just get a ton of benefits almost instantly.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
You get an improvement in mood, you.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Get your attention, your ability to pay attention reset within
ten minutes, which is really fantastic. And then with the
hiking piece, you know, it really helps, especially as you know,
both deb and I are in our fifties. Balance, you know,
becomes a big issue, and so it's going to strengthen
your balance, and you're footing, if you're doing anything with terrain,
you're going to build leg strength. You know, if you're
going up or down, your legs are going to get stronger.
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And then you know you mentioned the sunshine on your shoulders.
This is crazy, but there's new evidence around UV exposure,
which we've always been kind of scared of for melanoma.
But the studies show that the more UV exposure that
people get, the lower they're all cause mortality, so less
likely to die from anything. The lower their cardiovascular mortality.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Is, which is you know obviously.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
From heart disease, but then the lower their cancer mortality is.
So even though melanoman does go up, the offsetting of
UV exposure actually offsets the number of cancers and so
pretty wild stuff. It doesn't mean get sunburned, but it
doesnt mean, you know, probably need a little bit more
sun exposure.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
You know, if we go all the way back doc,
all the way back to the beginning of people, they
probably had to stay in a cave or a shelter
of some sort overnight, stay warm, dry and avoid the
big predators.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
But when that sun came up, those people had to get.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
Outside and hunt or work or we're going to field
or whatever, just to survive. And that's turning out now
we figured out that that was keeping them alive too, wasn't.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
It that that was our habitat right, we were supposed
to be And even to the nineteen fifties, like kind
of pre air conditioning, if you were living in Texas,
you were outside almost one higher day. And so it's
really a recent phenomenon that we're seeing.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
I grew up in Sharptown in a house with one
little room air conditioner in the den, and it was
a tiny little den at the back of a house
in a regional Sharpstown and after school when we got home,
it was do your homework and then leave and come
back when the street lights come on.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
That was it me too, for sure.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
So let's let's shift over a little bit, doctor J.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
Mattock here on fifty plus to the social benefits you
mentioned kind of earlier about getting outdoors, which I'm guessing
maybe get somebody into a hiking club who'd never been
there or some sort of a walking group.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
Is that about right?
Speaker 6 (13:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
You know, we had a blast with the book where
we just had different people join us on most of
the hikes, and so it was Deb and I were there,
but then we'd have different friends, you know, join us
for one or the other. We had people that would
join us at the brewery. And you know what I
always say is, you know, kind of anecdotal evidence. If
if you're walking down the city street right and you
see someone coming the other way, you're probably not saying.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Hi to them.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
But if you're on a hiking trail, you're always waving,
saying hi, greeting the person. And if you've been to
some of these breweries, they're really great community hubs. I
mean they tend to be extremely family friendly, extremely pet friendly,
and so kind of everybody's out there. They've got you know,
yard games and stuff, and so you really see this
this strong connectedness around the brewery community. It's not kind
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of the old dive bar field, but much more of
a community center.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
So do you look at them differently if they don't
make the hike but they show up at the brewery.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Actually, Dead's husband refuse to do any of the hikes
with us, but showed up at the brewery, So we
fill up them anyway.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Yep.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
Gosh, let's go back to these first timers, people who
have been kind of sheltered for whatever reason, stayed inside
for way too long. They need to get out their
first timers, How should they prep for their first real hike?
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Yeah, I think the biggest thing is to make sure
that you have enough water, especially if you're hiking anytime
in the summer months around Texas. And then I would
strongly recommend starting in a state park. State parks have
great facilities. They've got rangers there. They're going to give
you a map when you show up. Versus like the
National Force of Sam Houston National Forest north of Houston.
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You are out in the wilderness, and it's not a
place I would recommend you started. The state parks have
all the facilities, and a lot of them even have
the like a nature trail and interpretive trail that'll have
signs telling you what the different plants and.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Animals of the area are.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
And they tend to be fairly flat and easy to
walk around.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
Right over here at the Houston Arboretum off of it
ten or six ten in Memorial, they have like a
two and a half or three mile trail that winds
through way more land than I thought they had over there.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Yeah, those are the perfect type of opportunities.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
Not too much uphill, not too much downhill, but just enough,
like you said earlier, just kind of strengthen your legs and.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Your balance right exactly.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
You know, there's another park out in sugar Land where
my son used to to practice for cross country that
has trails that go down along the Brasis River.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Are you familiar with that one.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
I don't know that one, but I'm gonna have to
look at it. There's so many trailers. That's probably not
a state park, but it definitely could be a community park.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
So, with a minute left to go, what are your
favorite one or two around here where somebody could get
started comfortably.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Yeah too.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
I would recommend if you're in the southern part of
Houston is Brazos Bend, which has more than one hundred
gators in the park.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Very safe, very flash and just a cool thing for sure.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
And then if you're in northern Houston, Huntsville State Park
is got great trails, that's got a Lake Raven and
it's just a great place to hike around Lake Raven.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Not a bast place to go bass fishing either, if.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
You're interested, exactly for sure.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
Doctor J. Maddick, thank you very much. This has really
been informative.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
I hope it gets some people off their duffs and
outside in the sunshine we've got today.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Thank you, Thank you for having me, Yes, sir, my pleasure.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
All Right, we got to tell you a little break.
I'm gonna tell you a story about those alligators when
we get back. I probably told it before to this audience.
I know I have to my outdoors audience, but it
is kind of funny all the way out. Ut Health
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Speaker 4 (16:59):
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Speaker 6 (18:04):
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Speaker 1 (18:06):
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Speaker 5 (18:16):
Thank you for listening. Third segments starts right now, finishes
in a little while.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
I mentioned that recall.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
On medications earlier, and speaking of recalls, Ritz Crackers has
recalled its peanut butter crackers sandwiches in eight states after
some labeling mix up that could trigger severe allergic reactions,
it says in People with peanut allergies out with a
Fox News story. Also the other one was but not
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in Texas at least not yet. And the good news
is there was a picture of these peanut what do
they call them, exactly peanut butter crackers sandwiches of the box,
of the container, and I've never seen that on our shelves.
I don't believe I've seen Ritz Crackers. I've seen little
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peanut butter crackers, but this box was unfamiliar to me,
and I used to eat a lot of those things.
So maybe it's something that's not popular enough to even
carry in the grocery stores down here. But at least
it recalls not valid in Texas, just eight states and
we're not one of them, so not yet anyway, also
saw recall notices for in each of these stories there's
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always a little bold faced one line headline that you
can click on to see more about something related. And
there were recall notices before I got through with those
first two for everything from crayons to tires, to chocolate,
and to air conditioners. So whatever you've got in your
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house right now, it might not be a bad idea
at some point to make a habit, just do a
calendar reminder, maybe once a month, look up current recalls
in my area and make sure in my zip code.
I would put current recalls in my zip code, and
AI should be able to figure out where in the
heck you are and what's being recalled around there. Just
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to stay on the safe side.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
If you haven't.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
Heard, Minnesota is in a very embarrassing spotlight at present,
after all kinds of things are turning up that pretty
much show that there's all kinds of nonprofits up there
accused of funneling money. Governor Tim wats up there been
accused of being part of some of this stuff, and
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it's really looking bad for them. It goes all the
way back to the COVID era, and probably farther back
than that, the one that involved this particular nonprofit that
nonprofit is accused of funneling about two hundred and fifty
dollars and fifty million taxpayer dollars into shell companies and
then distributing to individuals who use that money to feather
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their own nests with real estate and luxury cars and
expensive jewelry. How someone could think that they could get away, Well,
I guess they got away with it for a long time.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
It's been years, not weeks.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
So in any event, there's one hundred and twenty page
report in the state said it's the state is said
to have ignored dozens of warnings about what was happening.
So good luck, Minnesota. It's very frustrating to realize how
much money we have been paying into just bad investments
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on that the American people had no We had no
vote in that.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
We voted the people in. Now that's true, we voted
the people.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
In who made these decisions, but we didn't vote to
give up two hundred and fifty.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Million here, a billion there.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
And hopefully all of this will get sorted out in
the next three years. In local news out in sugar Land,
this caught my attention because that's I'm in sugar Land.
The guy's pleaded guilty to smuggling AI technology and handing
it over to China.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
The export was said.
Speaker 5 (22:14):
To be worth more than about one hundred and sixty
million in advanced computer chips that were moved through here's
that same term shell companies and with fake documentation. That
concerns me far more from a defense level than it
does in just a waste of tax dollars or something.
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But yeah, this guy, he just said, yep, I'm guilty,
And I don't know what his penalty is going to be.
I don't know what his punishment's going to be. But
when I hear about it, when it's set, if it's noteworthy,
I'll bring it back to you, and I hope it
will be. We just can't allow our technology to be
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smuggled out of here. And I think the problem is
that we've let so many bad people into the into
the country in the last four years that it's hard
to keep up with all of them. It was certainly
easier before the last four years to keep track of
bad people who might have slipped under the fence or
across somehow got in through the airports or whatever. We
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could certainly chase x number of people more satisfactorily, more
extensively and comprehensively than we can ten x.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
And that's about what we're dealing with now.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
I'm afraid there was a story I saw, a headline
I story I didn't read the story. A headline I
saw this morning also about how the FBI, I think
it was the FBI had thwarted another Boston massacre. That
was what they were calling what this group or person
was plotting, and glad they got it in time. That's
all we can do is just hope we keep catching
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these bad people before they do whatever they're plotting to do.
And I feel like we're doing a pretty good job
so far. But again, with all those people in here
who aren't supposed to be in here, and with their
backgrounds that we're learning about now that how many of
them were definitely bad guys, and if they had just
been vetted a little bit, we'd have found that out
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and booted them out of here. We'll have to see
how that works out for us. I'm not gonna dwell
on this one, but I think it's worth talking about.
Totally unrelated to bad guys, the cost of World Cup
tickets for the games scheduled to be played here already
sky high and trending toward well toward outer space. The
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average the average ticket for one of these games it's
going to be played in Houston little more than six
hundred dollars per seat, and the playoff match tickets are
already going for just a couple of cheeseburger shy of
one thousand dollars. Now, there are some people who say,
I just wait, don't buy them yet, because if we
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don't buy them and there's a big surp loss of tickets,
the rates you're going to go down. But I can
assure you that people around the world are not going
to play that game. If they want to come here
to see their team or one of their favorite teams
from another country play in the World Cup, they're going
to pay those rates and they're just going to go up.
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I wonder how many people in Houston, Well would you
well know you're you're renting.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
You can't do that.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
But there are going to be lots of people in
Houston putting their houses on the market as temporary housing
for the World Cup and then going and staying out
in some outlying community somewhere and probably making a handsome
profit off one two, three, five, ten, fifteen people, depending
on what you got, and how will it sleeps people
that happens for Super Bowls, that happens for any major
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sporting event around the world. Really the local PGA tour events,
most of those golfers prefer not to stay in hotels.
They've got ontournes of people, and it's much easier for
them to just rent a significant house rather than to
try to rent five.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
Or six hotel rooms.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
The last thing I'll tell you about the World Cup
is it's expected revenue for Houston, And I know it's
been talked about on the news broadcast because they're just
giddy over this.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
Thing coming here as am I. It'll be fun.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
It'll make traffic horrific around the Galleria where I am,
but it'll still be fun to kind of see what
the city turns up and does when all of these
people from around the entire planet show up here. Expected
to grab nearly one point five billion dollars in revenue
just from what is it a few weeks that they'll
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be around here.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
I don't know how long it lasts.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
I'll do some research when we take this break, which
we're gonna do right now. We'll take a little break here,
we'll be right back. More fifty plus coming up.
Speaker 6 (26:55):
Old guys rule and of course women never get old.
If you want to avoid sleeping on the couch.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Okay, well, I think that sounds like a good plan.
Speaker 6 (27:05):
Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
I neglected to mention the weather in the first segment
because it's been so dog one nice for the past
what eighteen hours or so. It was chilly yesterday morning,
like I mentioned, and chili this morning as well.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
It would have been a little bit.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
It's right on my tolerance level for playing golf now
for a good cause, like the Saint Jude tournament for
us here at iHeart. This was number twelve for us,
by the way, and for a good cause. I'll go
out there as long as there's not a I'll go
out there and play, so long as there's not a
frost delay or a snow delay, and if there is,
I'll wait until the delay is lifted and we'll play
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the thing, play the tournament thin. But on just a
personal note, I'm good for about I like about a
low temperature overnight of no lower than fifty and hopefully
a high during the day. That's going to creep up
into the mid sixty's, maybe even seventy degrees. That's almost ideal.
It's there's still that little bit of nip in the
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air that keeps you from feeling like you just have
to peel down every layer you have on. I actually
started with too much clothing yesterday, and before we even
started the tournament, after I'd gone out and warmed up,
I slipped into the locker room and took off my
long Johns that I'd put on just in case I
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had fairly slim, slim or fairly thin.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
Golf slacks on.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
So I took those off, and I took off the
first layer I had against my chest and still had
two a wonderful bamboo fabric hoodie from Duck Camp, and
then on top of that, I had a Kobe Stevens
golf shirt, all very color coordinated. By the way to
the thumbs up from my wife or the way I
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had matched the colors up, felt like I looked could
and that's really all I can hope to do anymore
in golf. I'm not gonna be good. I'm okay, but
I'm not gonna be very good. But I can sure
look the part home mercy. Let's go to some useless
world records? Will I found some more? Are you ready?
Speaker 4 (29:10):
I would imagine you are. I can't see your thumb?
Where is it? Yes? Okay? Good? This guy?
Speaker 5 (29:19):
Well, let me just tell you what's going on. A
father and son over in Idaho. I have been to
I think I've been to Idaho once, but not more
than that. I've been to Utah many times, but not Idaho.
This team, this tag team, father and son kind of
like Jerry and JTK from down at Shooter's Corner. They're
in Idaho and now only they have way more time
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than Jerry and j do on their hands. They now
claim the title of have you ever played hungry hunky hippo?
Speaker 4 (29:49):
Will? Okay, So here's the deal. These two, this father
and son. I don't know how old they are, it
doesn't matter.
Speaker 5 (29:57):
Now claim the title of fastest to clear there hungry
hungry hippos by two people. There's actually apparently a I
guess a record for three and for four people.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
They did it.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
By a show of your fingers, Will, how many seconds
do you think it took?
Speaker 4 (30:17):
However many you think it is? Just add them up.
That's it.
Speaker 5 (30:21):
No, they're not that fast, but they actually put one
more up there, and then I'll tell you, okay, there
you go. We'll guessed six seconds. They actually cleared the
entire board. These two board people did in five point
eight seconds. Dad's name is David Rush, who also, by
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the way, if you're wondering why they even attempted that, well,
Father David also holds the record for most Guinness World Records,
which means he's got a whole lot of time on
his hands. And and I would bet since he's just
thumbing through the pages and looking around for new records
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to break, I would bet not a whole big ton
of friends.
Speaker 4 (31:08):
Maybe I'm wrong though, maybe the guy's as popular as ever.
Speaker 5 (31:11):
But when you're focused on breaking the record for two
people fastest to clear hungry, hungry hippos, and I'll.
Speaker 4 (31:22):
Just leave that there, that's okay. Maybe they're great people,
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (31:26):
In Argentina, speaking of records, dog Lovers set a new
one unofficial I think at last glance, but it's in
for consideration. They managed this is another one is a
big fat why they managed to gather the most golden
retrievers in a single place, which forces you to consider
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that there are records for every dog species gathering the
most will well, I'm not even no, we don't have
time to get to that number. The number of golden
retrievers gathered at this one park in Argentina was two thousand,
three hundred and ninety seven, which begs the question they
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couldn't find three more and just rounded up to twenty
four hundred. Surely there were three more golden retrievers in
Argentina that I don't know where they did it. There
are some parts of Argentina that are very unpopulated and
just vast, vast, vast.
Speaker 4 (32:31):
Fields of grain.
Speaker 5 (32:33):
They grow a lot of grain down there, and that's
one of the reasons they have one of the highest
dove populations as well. So many so that, well, I
won't get into all that. I don't have time because
I want to get to this in India. How much
time do I have? Will not a lot? Four minutes?
Speaker 4 (32:50):
Oh this is awesome, I'm going to get to all
of this stuff. Oh wait, come back here.
Speaker 5 (32:54):
So in Indiana, this is something that I would have
expected to see in Texas, and when I saw that
it was in Indiana, I felt compelled to at least
mention it because folks driving down in Indiana Highway recently
caught sight of something I bet they'd never thought they
would see. There, a genuine, no kidding around longhorn steer,
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just walking down side of the road, no indication where
it was from, no indication where it was headed in
the story, and I think rightfully so, there's no reason
to go into details. It was just a long horn
in Indiana that didn't belong there. I wonder, does anybody
know where BiVO is right now? There was that issue
(33:40):
with BiVO not being allowed to go to kyw Field,
and then in turn it turned out to be not
real story, but it was still kind of funny that
they weren't going to allow revide into.
Speaker 4 (33:50):
Ut But that was all garbage. This is the one.
I'm gonna finish with this because I'm gonna stick with
it for a minute. Ah gosh, where did it go?
Come back? There we go.
Speaker 5 (34:01):
I'm having to work off my laptop because there was
some sort of a glitch in the printing system around
here down in Bolivia, long ways from here, But turns
out it is one of the one of the places
where there were many, many, many, many, many many dinosaurs
millions of years ago. And this one particular place I
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saw two different stories on this, thank you well, this
one particular place down there which happened to be long ago,
back in dinosaur days. Look at the flintstone days, long
ago shoreline of a mud kind of a hard bottomed,
hard mud bottomed lake, Okay, And they find all the
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this is fairly new stuff too. They found all these
dinosaur footprints that really, according to them, they can tell
when the dinosaurs were running, which way they were going,
when they were walking, when they were standing still and
just kind of moving their feet. But the bottom line
is some of these things were as tall they estimate
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based on the size of the feet, as tall as
thirty three feet tall. That's kind of redundant, pardon down
to barely the size of a chicken. Now, the carnivore
in me figures that those big dinosaurs were there hanging
around those dino chickens for one reason and one reason alone.
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The researchers are kind of coming up with a few
other ideas. But I got a hunch that when those
thirty three foot dinosaurs walking on two legs showed up,
these are two legged dinosaurs, not four they probably weren't herbivores.
They were carnivores, and the little ones by the size
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of a chicken, they took off. The cool thing about
this place we've seen we have dinosaur footprints in Texas
along a lot of creek bottoms, but we don't have
in an area as small as the one that they're
working on in Bolivia. We don't have sixteen thousand so
far documented footprints, So I guess they've they've got the
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line's share of the of the evidence to work with,
at least very quickly. Faberge Eggs one recently sold a
crystal Faberge created for Russian Royalty thirty point two million dollars.
Speaker 4 (36:27):
You'll never find that in your attic. I will see
you tomorrow. What else
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All right, Tuesday starts now. Thank you all for listening.
Speaker 5 (00:50):
One day removed from iHeart Houston's golf tournament supporting Saint
Jude Children's Research Hospital. The day started out actually a
little bit chilly, I must say more than a little
bit chilly, actually a lot chili. Let me write something
down here real quickly. Stand by because it's very important,
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and that will be that that that I'm writing down
a phone number for Will because we have a printer issue.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Okay, here you go, Will, that's gonna Oh, that's where
we're going.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
So yesterday started out very chilly, actually in the mid
to high forties, somewhere around there. Up at Golf Club
of Houston as our tournament for Saint Jude Children's Research
Hospital got underway. And actually I did a video and
just kind of humorous. Really, I panned for I was
at the driving range early, and I panned back over
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toward the clubhouse and said, while all of those golfers
who are going to play today are over there stuffing
their faces with breakfast and getting their goodie bags, the
golfers are over here at the driving range working on
their games.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
And I panned back over to the.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
Driving range and the view all way down from one
end to the other was just buckets full of golf balls,
not a single soul over there but me.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
And turns out all.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
My hard work didn't really amount to much, didn't really
amount to anything.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Really, it didn't matter.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
Basically is what it goes by. It just didn't matter.
We didn't play well. Now, in fairness to us, my
team of good players, in fairness to us, we couldn't
make a putt all day long. We only made five
birdie putts, and well that was the highlight reel. Really,
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we just couldn't make a putt.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Now.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
Mitch Terrio from Oak Harvest the he and I the
senior members of the group, more most senior members of
the group anyway. Mitch actually had two putts that practically
disappeared in the.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Hole and then turned and came right back out.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
And for some reason, that was about as close as
we got on one is fifteen from eighteen. That's thirteen holes.
That's all we could do was get near missus, and
we had a lot of near missus. We had puts
that stopped an inch in front of the hole. We
had puts that went just over the top of the
hole and then kind of turned back but never quite
fell in. We had puts that grazed it within an inch,
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within a half inch, but none of them fell.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
It's okay.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
It was for a good cause, and we raised a
ton of money for Saint Jude. Almost we were right
at right well, right on the doorstep of four hundred
thousand dollars, only only one hundreds off, not thousands off.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
It was three ninety nine and change.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
I can't remember what the exact number was, But we're
gonna take care of that and make up the little
shortfall there and then add two it generously. I hope
with the radiothon that will start a little later in
the week, I will be participating.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
All of our on air hosts on all of our.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
AM stations will participate in this, and I'm not sure
if any of the if our FM's are going to
participate or not this year, But when I find out
which I'll do today, I'll probably tell you about it tomorrow.
Moving back to where I was stand by, I'm having
to work off of my laptop this morning because the
printer is giving me frustrating hassles.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Got that. Got that.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
While we were out there basking in the sunshine right
by the way, the state and country just kept on
as usual. Markets were sort of sluggish early and then
gain some momentum going into the morning, and then kind
of have stepped back a little bit.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
There.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Just its uncertainty primarily that's fueling the market right now.
All four were green at last look, and I think
I don't know if they're all still green or not anymore.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
But there's no major movement.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
I don't believe until there's more news on interest rates
probably and who's going to be in charge of the Fed,
not going to be a lot of movement. I don't
think oil, by the way lower than sixty bucks a barrel,
and I'm seeing gas prices around town in the two
dollars and fifteen cents range up to about two twenty
five depending on what part of town you're in and
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the tradition of the station.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
You're looking at.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
You could probably still find gas for three dollars and
seventy five cents a gallon in Houston if you're at
the wrong station, not the right station, And just out
of curiosity to make you understand or help us understand
how good we have it here with gas prices. I
checked on I just did a search for current gasoline
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prices in Los Angeles, and the average in LA right
now just another reason not to live in California.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Really, the average right.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
Now in LA four dollars and seventy two cents a gallon,
which is basically a three for one. If you live here,
you getting three gallons to one over the LA people.
I don't know how they do it, I really don't.
There have got to be people out there who make
less than a million dollars a year, and if you're
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under that number, probably struggling. It's amazing how many taxes
and how many burdens they put on everybody out there
and just still keep going. Moving into news item somewhat
likely to impact at least several members of this audience,
I would think. From Fox News this morning, FDAs issued
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a nationwide recall on thousands of bottles of blood pressure medicine.
The recall impacts a combo medicine if you will, bisoprolol
fumerate or fumerate I'm not sure, and hydro chlorothiazide. They
are sold as a combo under the name Zayak, and
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the recall bottles showed traces of s a oh boy,
s zetimibe. I think that's the right pronunciation, which is
a medication that treat high cholesterol.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
So on the plus side, it's a Class three recall.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Which means it's not likely to cause any adverse reactions
or consequences. But still you might want to look it
up to make sure that you don't have the recalled stuff.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
That go ahead and get yourself some new stuff. Those lots.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
By the way, the recalled lots have expiration dates from
November twenty five to May of twenty six. Let's take
the first break, shall we. Let's do that a little
bit ahead of time so I can give doctor J.
Mattick a little bit of extra time in this next segment.
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I suggest you go to bed, sleep it off.
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Speaker 4 (08:31):
Fifty plus, thanks for listening.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Dealing with a printer issue in here, and I don't
know why it wants to do that, but it's doing
it to me, so.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
We'll be all right.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
Though, I can assure you let me get the page
I want up here so I can speak intelligently to
my next guest.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
We're going to talk in this segment about something. Get
this so weird front of me a little bit better
about something that we actually mention.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
I would think will would you probably agree with me
at least once or twice a week, and that's walking
and exercise, and when you start combining those kind of
often turns into maybe hiking and to encourage all of
us to get up and move outside.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
I'm gonna welcome doctor j.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
Maddock, professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health
at Texas A and M and co director of the
Center for Health and Nature and serves on the Brasis
Country Board, Brezis County.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
I bet it's supposed to be Board of Health. Welcome
doctor Mattick.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
How are you, thanks, Doug doing great?
Speaker 5 (09:32):
I saw in my notes that you have written a
book and it's called Texas and Hikes.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Does it lean more toward the bruise or the hikes?
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Oh, it's even so.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
The book goes over twenty four different hikes across the
state of Texas, and we pair each of them with
a craft brewery that's kind of in a nearby vicinity.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
You know, it's not a bad motivation. I think for
a lot of people at least it gets them out walking.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Huh, exactly, kind of get the exercise and get a
little relaxing time and connecting with everybody.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
You bet, yeah, I saw it in my notes. Does
this what makes you want to write this book? What
was your inspiration for this?
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (10:13):
So my co author Deb Kel said and I were
walking back in twenty twenty during the pandemic and kind
of got bored of walking around our neighborhood and we said,
you know, let's let's go find out what hiking is
like in Texas. And she's a marathoner and she said
one of the best things about doing a marathon was
looking forward to the cheeseburger at the end of the marathon.
So we said, well, what's the what's the cheeseburger for hiking?
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And we came up with craft brewing. So that was
kind of our motivation, Right, I like that a lot.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
And that kind of it sort of well, let me
get to where I wanted to be in this. I
want to make sure I go one question at a time,
because what I'm looking at is a reason. The reason
is to get out outside and be fit. It's not
just the sunshine on your shoulders. There are a lot
more health benefits to hiking or golf. For fishing or
whatever you do outside.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Right, Yeah, you know this is we tell everybody. You know,
we all know we're socio physically active, but trying to
take one or two of those sessions a week outside
and you just get a ton of benefits almost instantly.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
You get an improvement in mood, you.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Get your attention, your ability to pay attention reset within
ten minutes, which is really fantastic. And then with the
hiking piece, you know, it really helps, especially as you know,
both deb and I are in our fifties. Balance, you know,
becomes a big issue, and so it's going to strengthen
your balance, and you're footing, if you're doing anything with terrain,
you're going to build leg strength. You know, if you're
going up or down, your legs are going to get stronger.
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And then you know you mentioned the sunshine on your shoulders.
This is crazy, but there's new evidence around UV exposure,
which we've always been kind of scared of for melanoma.
But the studies show that the more UV exposure that
people get, the lower they're all cause mortality, so less
likely to die from anything. The lower their cardiovascular mortality.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Is, which is you know obviously.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
From heart disease, but then the lower their cancer mortality is.
So even though melanoman does go up, the offsetting of
UV exposure actually offsets the number of cancers and so
pretty wild stuff. It doesn't mean get sunburned, but it
doesnt mean, you know, probably need a little bit more
sun exposure.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
You know, if we go all the way back doc,
all the way back to the beginning of people, they
probably had to stay in a cave or a shelter
of some sort overnight, stay warm, dry and avoid the
big predators.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
But when that sun came up, those people had to get.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
Outside and hunt or work or we're going to field
or whatever, just to survive. And that's turning out now
we figured out that that was keeping them alive too, wasn't.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
It that that was our habitat right, we were supposed
to be And even to the nineteen fifties, like kind
of pre air conditioning, if you were living in Texas,
you were outside almost one higher day. And so it's
really a recent phenomenon that we're seeing.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
I grew up in Sharptown in a house with one
little room air conditioner in the den, and it was
a tiny little den at the back of a house
in a regional Sharpstown and after school when we got home,
it was do your homework and then leave and come
back when the street lights come on.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
That was it me too, for sure.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
So let's let's shift over a little bit, doctor J.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
Mattock here on fifty plus to the social benefits you
mentioned kind of earlier about getting outdoors, which I'm guessing
maybe get somebody into a hiking club who'd never been
there or some sort of a walking group.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
Is that about right?
Speaker 6 (13:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
You know, we had a blast with the book where
we just had different people join us on most of
the hikes, and so it was Deb and I were there,
but then we'd have different friends, you know, join us
for one or the other. We had people that would
join us at the brewery. And you know what I
always say is, you know, kind of anecdotal evidence. If
if you're walking down the city street right and you
see someone coming the other way, you're probably not saying.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Hi to them.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
But if you're on a hiking trail, you're always waving,
saying hi, greeting the person. And if you've been to
some of these breweries, they're really great community hubs. I
mean they tend to be extremely family friendly, extremely pet friendly,
and so kind of everybody's out there. They've got you know,
yard games and stuff, and so you really see this
this strong connectedness around the brewery community. It's not kind
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of the old dive bar field, but much more of
a community center.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
So do you look at them differently if they don't
make the hike but they show up at the brewery.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Actually, Dead's husband refuse to do any of the hikes
with us, but showed up at the brewery, So we
fill up them anyway.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Yep.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
Gosh, let's go back to these first timers, people who
have been kind of sheltered for whatever reason, stayed inside
for way too long. They need to get out their
first timers, How should they prep for their first real hike?
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Yeah, I think the biggest thing is to make sure
that you have enough water, especially if you're hiking anytime
in the summer months around Texas. And then I would
strongly recommend starting in a state park. State parks have
great facilities. They've got rangers there. They're going to give
you a map when you show up. Versus like the
National Force of Sam Houston National Forest north of Houston.
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You are out in the wilderness, and it's not a
place I would recommend you started. The state parks have
all the facilities, and a lot of them even have
the like a nature trail and interpretive trail that'll have
signs telling you what the different plants and.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Animals of the area are.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
And they tend to be fairly flat and easy to
walk around.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
Right over here at the Houston Arboretum off of it
ten or six ten in Memorial, they have like a
two and a half or three mile trail that winds
through way more land than I thought they had over there.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Yeah, those are the perfect type of opportunities.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
Not too much uphill, not too much downhill, but just enough,
like you said earlier, just kind of strengthen your legs and.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Your balance right exactly.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
You know, there's another park out in sugar Land where
my son used to to practice for cross country that
has trails that go down along the Brasis River.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Are you familiar with that one.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
I don't know that one, but I'm gonna have to
look at it. There's so many trailers. That's probably not
a state park, but it definitely could be a community park.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
So, with a minute left to go, what are your
favorite one or two around here where somebody could get
started comfortably.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Yeah too.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
I would recommend if you're in the southern part of
Houston is Brazos Bend, which has more than one hundred
gators in the park.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Very safe, very flash and just a cool thing for sure.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
And then if you're in northern Houston, Huntsville State Park
is got great trails, that's got a Lake Raven and
it's just a great place to hike around Lake Raven.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Not a bast place to go bass fishing either, if.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
You're interested, exactly for sure.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
Doctor J. Maddick, thank you very much. This has really
been informative.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
I hope it gets some people off their duffs and
outside in the sunshine we've got today.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Thank you, Thank you for having me, Yes, sir, my pleasure.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
All Right, we got to tell you a little break.
I'm gonna tell you a story about those alligators when
we get back. I probably told it before to this audience.
I know I have to my outdoors audience, but it
is kind of funny all the way out. Ut Health
Institute on Aging is this amazing collaborative of caregivers from
every medical discipline.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
Now they mostly they're in the med Center.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
As you might imagine, these are outstanding caregivers in outstanding fields.
And that's where the hub of all this medicine in
Southeast Texas and even out beyond state boundaries really is
centers right there in our Medcenter. They're there, but they
also most of them work a little bit outside of
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their outlying clinics and hospitals and offices wherever, so that
if you don't want to go to the med Center,
you don't have to start with a visit to the website.
Look at all the resources they have there. Then look
for these providers who to get that qualification as part
of the Institute on Aging have to go back and
get additional training to whatever got them their diploma on
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the wall so that they can apply that knowledge specifically
to us. That's just a tremendous benefit that's not available
anywhere but in maybe one handful of cities around the
entire country. UT dot edu slash uh dot edu slash aging.
Speaker 6 (18:04):
Now, they sure don't make them like they used to.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
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, Welcome back to fifty plus.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
Thank you for listening. Third segments starts right now, finishes
in a little while.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
I mentioned that recall.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
On medications earlier, and speaking of recalls, Ritz Crackers has
recalled its peanut butter crackers sandwiches in eight states after
some labeling mix up that could trigger severe allergic reactions,
it says in People with peanut allergies out with a
Fox News story. Also the other one was but not
(18:45):
in Texas at least not yet. And the good news
is there was a picture of these peanut what do
they call them, exactly peanut butter crackers sandwiches of the box,
of the container, and I've never seen that on our shelves.
I don't believe I've seen Ritz Crackers. I've seen little
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peanut butter crackers, but this box was unfamiliar to me,
and I used to eat a lot of those things.
So maybe it's something that's not popular enough to even
carry in the grocery stores down here. But at least
it recalls not valid in Texas, just eight states and
we're not one of them, so not yet anyway, also
saw recall notices for in each of these stories there's
(19:30):
always a little bold faced one line headline that you
can click on to see more about something related. And
there were recall notices before I got through with those
first two for everything from crayons to tires, to chocolate,
and to air conditioners. So whatever you've got in your
(19:52):
house right now, it might not be a bad idea
at some point to make a habit, just do a
calendar reminder, maybe once a month, look up current recalls
in my area and make sure in my zip code.
I would put current recalls in my zip code, and
AI should be able to figure out where in the
heck you are and what's being recalled around there. Just
(20:14):
to stay on the safe side.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
If you haven't.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
Heard, Minnesota is in a very embarrassing spotlight at present,
after all kinds of things are turning up that pretty
much show that there's all kinds of nonprofits up there
accused of funneling money. Governor Tim wats up there been
accused of being part of some of this stuff, and
(20:40):
it's really looking bad for them. It goes all the
way back to the COVID era, and probably farther back
than that, the one that involved this particular nonprofit that
nonprofit is accused of funneling about two hundred and fifty
dollars and fifty million taxpayer dollars into shell companies and
then distributing to individuals who use that money to feather
(21:04):
their own nests with real estate and luxury cars and
expensive jewelry. How someone could think that they could get away, Well,
I guess they got away with it for a long time.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
It's been years, not weeks.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
So in any event, there's one hundred and twenty page
report in the state said it's the state is said
to have ignored dozens of warnings about what was happening.
So good luck, Minnesota. It's very frustrating to realize how
much money we have been paying into just bad investments
(21:40):
on that the American people had no We had no
vote in that.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
We voted the people in. Now that's true, we voted
the people.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
In who made these decisions, but we didn't vote to
give up two hundred and fifty.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Million here, a billion there.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
And hopefully all of this will get sorted out in
the next three years. In local news out in sugar Land,
this caught my attention because that's I'm in sugar Land.
The guy's pleaded guilty to smuggling AI technology and handing
it over to China.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
The export was said.
Speaker 5 (22:14):
To be worth more than about one hundred and sixty
million in advanced computer chips that were moved through here's
that same term shell companies and with fake documentation. That
concerns me far more from a defense level than it
does in just a waste of tax dollars or something.
(22:34):
But yeah, this guy, he just said, yep, I'm guilty,
And I don't know what his penalty is going to be.
I don't know what his punishment's going to be. But
when I hear about it, when it's set, if it's noteworthy,
I'll bring it back to you, and I hope it
will be. We just can't allow our technology to be
(22:54):
smuggled out of here. And I think the problem is
that we've let so many bad people into the into
the country in the last four years that it's hard
to keep up with all of them. It was certainly
easier before the last four years to keep track of
bad people who might have slipped under the fence or
across somehow got in through the airports or whatever. We
(23:18):
could certainly chase x number of people more satisfactorily, more
extensively and comprehensively than we can ten x.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
And that's about what we're dealing with now.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
I'm afraid there was a story I saw, a headline
I story I didn't read the story. A headline I
saw this morning also about how the FBI, I think
it was the FBI had thwarted another Boston massacre. That
was what they were calling what this group or person
was plotting, and glad they got it in time. That's
all we can do is just hope we keep catching
(23:50):
these bad people before they do whatever they're plotting to do.
And I feel like we're doing a pretty good job
so far. But again, with all those people in here
who aren't supposed to be in here, and with their
backgrounds that we're learning about now that how many of
them were definitely bad guys, and if they had just
been vetted a little bit, we'd have found that out
(24:12):
and booted them out of here. We'll have to see
how that works out for us. I'm not gonna dwell
on this one, but I think it's worth talking about.
Totally unrelated to bad guys, the cost of World Cup
tickets for the games scheduled to be played here already
sky high and trending toward well toward outer space. The
(24:35):
average the average ticket for one of these games it's
going to be played in Houston little more than six
hundred dollars per seat, and the playoff match tickets are
already going for just a couple of cheeseburger shy of
one thousand dollars. Now, there are some people who say,
I just wait, don't buy them yet, because if we
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don't buy them and there's a big surp loss of tickets,
the rates you're going to go down. But I can
assure you that people around the world are not going
to play that game. If they want to come here
to see their team or one of their favorite teams
from another country play in the World Cup, they're going
to pay those rates and they're just going to go up.
(25:21):
I wonder how many people in Houston, Well would you
well know you're you're renting.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
You can't do that.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
But there are going to be lots of people in
Houston putting their houses on the market as temporary housing
for the World Cup and then going and staying out
in some outlying community somewhere and probably making a handsome
profit off one two, three, five, ten, fifteen people, depending
on what you got, and how will it sleeps people
that happens for Super Bowls, that happens for any major
(25:49):
sporting event around the world. Really the local PGA tour events,
most of those golfers prefer not to stay in hotels.
They've got ontournes of people, and it's much easier for
them to just rent a significant house rather than to
try to rent five.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
Or six hotel rooms.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
The last thing I'll tell you about the World Cup
is it's expected revenue for Houston, And I know it's
been talked about on the news broadcast because they're just
giddy over this.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
Thing coming here as am I. It'll be fun.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
It'll make traffic horrific around the Galleria where I am,
but it'll still be fun to kind of see what
the city turns up and does when all of these
people from around the entire planet show up here. Expected
to grab nearly one point five billion dollars in revenue
just from what is it a few weeks that they'll
(26:44):
be around here.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
I don't know how long it lasts.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
I'll do some research when we take this break, which
we're gonna do right now. We'll take a little break here,
we'll be right back. More fifty plus coming up.
Speaker 6 (26:55):
Old guys rule and of course women never get old.
If you want to avoid sleeping on the couch.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Okay, well, I think that sounds like a good plan.
Speaker 6 (27:05):
Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
I neglected to mention the weather in the first segment
because it's been so dog one nice for the past
what eighteen hours or so. It was chilly yesterday morning,
like I mentioned, and chili this morning as well.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
It would have been a little bit.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
It's right on my tolerance level for playing golf now
for a good cause, like the Saint Jude tournament for
us here at iHeart. This was number twelve for us,
by the way, and for a good cause. I'll go
out there as long as there's not a I'll go
out there and play, so long as there's not a
frost delay or a snow delay, and if there is,
I'll wait until the delay is lifted and we'll play
(27:44):
the thing, play the tournament thin. But on just a
personal note, I'm good for about I like about a
low temperature overnight of no lower than fifty and hopefully
a high during the day. That's going to creep up
into the mid sixty's, maybe even seventy degrees. That's almost ideal.
It's there's still that little bit of nip in the
(28:06):
air that keeps you from feeling like you just have
to peel down every layer you have on. I actually
started with too much clothing yesterday, and before we even
started the tournament, after I'd gone out and warmed up,
I slipped into the locker room and took off my
long Johns that I'd put on just in case I
(28:27):
had fairly slim, slim or fairly thin.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
Golf slacks on.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
So I took those off, and I took off the
first layer I had against my chest and still had
two a wonderful bamboo fabric hoodie from Duck Camp, and
then on top of that, I had a Kobe Stevens
golf shirt, all very color coordinated. By the way to
the thumbs up from my wife or the way I
(28:52):
had matched the colors up, felt like I looked could
and that's really all I can hope to do anymore
in golf. I'm not gonna be good. I'm okay, but
I'm not gonna be very good. But I can sure
look the part home mercy. Let's go to some useless
world records? Will I found some more? Are you ready?
Speaker 4 (29:10):
I would imagine you are. I can't see your thumb?
Where is it? Yes? Okay? Good? This guy?
Speaker 5 (29:19):
Well, let me just tell you what's going on. A
father and son over in Idaho. I have been to
I think I've been to Idaho once, but not more
than that. I've been to Utah many times, but not Idaho.
This team, this tag team, father and son kind of
like Jerry and JTK from down at Shooter's Corner. They're
in Idaho and now only they have way more time
(29:42):
than Jerry and j do on their hands. They now
claim the title of have you ever played hungry hunky hippo?
Speaker 4 (29:49):
Will? Okay, So here's the deal. These two, this father
and son. I don't know how old they are, it
doesn't matter.
Speaker 5 (29:57):
Now claim the title of fastest to clear there hungry
hungry hippos by two people. There's actually apparently a I
guess a record for three and for four people.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
They did it.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
By a show of your fingers, Will, how many seconds
do you think it took?
Speaker 4 (30:17):
However many you think it is? Just add them up.
That's it.
Speaker 5 (30:21):
No, they're not that fast, but they actually put one
more up there, and then I'll tell you, okay, there
you go. We'll guessed six seconds. They actually cleared the
entire board. These two board people did in five point
eight seconds. Dad's name is David Rush, who also, by
(30:42):
the way, if you're wondering why they even attempted that, well,
Father David also holds the record for most Guinness World Records,
which means he's got a whole lot of time on
his hands. And and I would bet since he's just
thumbing through the pages and looking around for new records
(31:04):
to break, I would bet not a whole big ton
of friends.
Speaker 4 (31:08):
Maybe I'm wrong though, maybe the guy's as popular as ever.
Speaker 5 (31:11):
But when you're focused on breaking the record for two
people fastest to clear hungry, hungry hippos, and I'll.
Speaker 4 (31:22):
Just leave that there, that's okay. Maybe they're great people,
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (31:26):
In Argentina, speaking of records, dog Lovers set a new
one unofficial I think at last glance, but it's in
for consideration. They managed this is another one is a
big fat why they managed to gather the most golden
retrievers in a single place, which forces you to consider
(31:48):
that there are records for every dog species gathering the
most will well, I'm not even no, we don't have
time to get to that number. The number of golden
retrievers gathered at this one park in Argentina was two thousand,
three hundred and ninety seven, which begs the question they
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couldn't find three more and just rounded up to twenty
four hundred. Surely there were three more golden retrievers in
Argentina that I don't know where they did it. There
are some parts of Argentina that are very unpopulated and
just vast, vast, vast.
Speaker 4 (32:31):
Fields of grain.
Speaker 5 (32:33):
They grow a lot of grain down there, and that's
one of the reasons they have one of the highest
dove populations as well. So many so that, well, I
won't get into all that. I don't have time because
I want to get to this in India. How much
time do I have? Will not a lot? Four minutes?
Speaker 4 (32:50):
Oh this is awesome, I'm going to get to all
of this stuff. Oh wait, come back here.
Speaker 5 (32:54):
So in Indiana, this is something that I would have
expected to see in Texas, and when I saw that
it was in Indiana, I felt compelled to at least
mention it because folks driving down in Indiana Highway recently
caught sight of something I bet they'd never thought they
would see. There, a genuine, no kidding around longhorn steer,
(33:19):
just walking down side of the road, no indication where
it was from, no indication where it was headed in
the story, and I think rightfully so, there's no reason
to go into details. It was just a long horn
in Indiana that didn't belong there. I wonder, does anybody
know where BiVO is right now? There was that issue
(33:40):
with BiVO not being allowed to go to kyw Field,
and then in turn it turned out to be not
real story, but it was still kind of funny that
they weren't going to allow revide into.
Speaker 4 (33:50):
Ut But that was all garbage. This is the one.
I'm gonna finish with this because I'm gonna stick with
it for a minute. Ah gosh, where did it go?
Come back? There we go.
Speaker 5 (34:01):
I'm having to work off my laptop because there was
some sort of a glitch in the printing system around
here down in Bolivia, long ways from here, But turns
out it is one of the one of the places
where there were many, many, many, many, many many dinosaurs
millions of years ago. And this one particular place I
(34:23):
saw two different stories on this, thank you well, this
one particular place down there which happened to be long ago,
back in dinosaur days. Look at the flintstone days, long
ago shoreline of a mud kind of a hard bottomed,
hard mud bottomed lake, Okay, And they find all the
(34:47):
this is fairly new stuff too. They found all these
dinosaur footprints that really, according to them, they can tell
when the dinosaurs were running, which way they were going,
when they were walking, when they were standing still and
just kind of moving their feet. But the bottom line
is some of these things were as tall they estimate
(35:07):
based on the size of the feet, as tall as
thirty three feet tall. That's kind of redundant, pardon down
to barely the size of a chicken. Now, the carnivore
in me figures that those big dinosaurs were there hanging
around those dino chickens for one reason and one reason alone.
(35:29):
The researchers are kind of coming up with a few
other ideas. But I got a hunch that when those
thirty three foot dinosaurs walking on two legs showed up,
these are two legged dinosaurs, not four they probably weren't herbivores.
They were carnivores, and the little ones by the size
(35:51):
of a chicken, they took off. The cool thing about
this place we've seen we have dinosaur footprints in Texas
along a lot of creek bottoms, but we don't have
in an area as small as the one that they're
working on in Bolivia. We don't have sixteen thousand so
far documented footprints, So I guess they've they've got the
(36:14):
line's share of the of the evidence to work with,
at least very quickly. Faberge Eggs one recently sold a
crystal Faberge created for Russian Royalty thirty point two million dollars.
Speaker 4 (36:27):
You'll never find that in your attic. I will see
you tomorrow. What else
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