November 5, 2024 • 35 mins
Today, Doug Pike interviews Jay Maddock about the benefits of spending time in nature.
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Speaker 3 (00:51):
Tuesday edition of this train rolls out of the station
now twelve o'clock, well, twelve oh six, now straight up,
semi straight up. I guess on Election Day, of all days,
there's so much slime on this election. Honestly, I can
hardly stand it too. I'll be glad when, whenever it
finally happens, I'll be glad to get past this mess
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and hopefully, one way or the other, start to heal
this truly broken country of ours. There's no other time
in history I can recall, even written or in life,
and I've been on the planet a pretty long time
when politicians have just so successively managed to turn so
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many Americans against each other. Whatever happens, though, I'll be
back in here tomorrow and the next day to push forward.
Life does go on, even if it doesn't seem to
be going our way or your way or anybody else's way.
It just continues to go on. You got to be
thankful that you're in what's still the best country in
the world. If it wasn't, people wouldn't be lining up
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to get in here, and the people who say they
hate America wouldn't move to someplace they think is better.
Funny thing, though, all those loud mouse who swear they're
gonna do that if the election doesn't go their way,
they never move. They never move. So on where we
go anyway, and no time like the president. I guess
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to take a look at local weather, which was some
kind of nasty this morning. Should continue to lighten up.
It was looking pretty good just a few minutes ago.
Going to clear up through the afternoon and still some
random showers for the rest of the week, but nothing
like this morning. With that will we'll go to highs
and Low's and Haikuk courtesy is always of Texas indoor
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air quality especialists, because cleaner air is healthier air. Just
dile pound two fifty. You'll get the message, and you'll
talk to somebody who can give you the message more importantly. Ready,
will I am finally drying this rained enough for a while?
Ready for sunshine?
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Okay? You know, yesterday I seem to remember a lot
of talk about rain, and now I'm done with it.
You're done with.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
That, finally drying, just rain enough for a while.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
I felt like it was gonna rain all week the
way that you were talking about it yesterday.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
No, no, I didn't know. You misunderstood. Then all right,
hold on, let me put a score down. Okay, put
a score. I got it.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
I got it all right. Because I'm feeling good today.
I went out, I voted this morning.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Good for you.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
I got a two in wordle Oh Lord, so I'm
I'm gonna give you a seven point five God, because
I'm feeling generous.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
You must be. I'm not even anywhere near there. Oh,
I'm almost three points off, well, four point six. I
felt even, I felt it was a little pedestrian. But nonetheless,
I'll take that seven point anything that's good. Seven five, Okay,
I may have to note that one. I'll probably forget though,
in any event. Also worth a look that is tropical
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Storm Rafael Raphael out there kind of cutting across and
finding its way into the Gulf of Mexico eventually where
it's it's going to be a hurricane for a while.
But as it nears the north and northeastern ish depending
on which way it does whatever it does, is it
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nears the Gulf coast, it's supposed to lose a lot
of steam. And when it does come ashore fingers crossed.
This is like over the weekend, maybe as a as
a tropical storm. Again, it's supposed to kind of lose
some oomph and according to the models, land somewhere like
maybe between gosh, between Louisiana and Alabama. I don't know
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if it's going to make it all the way back
to Florida, and I really hope it doesn't. They've they've
had enough of that for this year. The bottom line
is it shouldn't be nearly so devastating is what we've
already experienced this year. We've had enough bad storms for
Heaven's sakes, and the cold front that's coming down in
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a few days, all of that heavy air, cold air
coming from the north down is what is supposed to
keep us from having to deal with Raphael. And frankly,
I don't want to deal with Raphael at all. It's
it's just it's not the end yet. It's not the
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end yet a storm season. People tend to forget that
come November, but it's it goes all the way through November,
and who knows, who knows? I hope that cold front
just kicks Raphael right in its teeth and softens the
blow wherever it lands. Strolling down Market Street, well, I
guess Wall Street more specifically courtesy of Houston gooldexchange dot com.
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Of course, everything's green today, everything everything, which is good
for stocks and gold. Not so much for oil though,
back north of seventy two dollars a barrel again, which
will push gas prices back up again four years ago
for reference. And I'm not trying to influence anybody's vote,
because you, most of this audience, I would bet, has
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already done that. Four years ago gas was lower than
two dollars a gallon, not anymore, though hadn't been since
then there you go in election news because well, of course,
three states, including Texas, said no thanks to the Department
of Justice observers nosing around polling places where state observers
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already are in place and obligated by law to keep
things clean. Loss pretty clear about each state conducting and
monitoring its own business on election day, and I agree
with that. Frankly, I don't. I don't think any state
should be required to let the Department of Justice, especially
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under under current Department of DJ situation. It's just I
just I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
I don't really think they need to be there. They're
not supposed to be there, even by by law. It's
supposed to be up to the state to keep it
keep its nose clean, and make sure the election goes
off the way it's supposed to. And you end up
with too many cooks in the kitchen, I think. And
that's just not necessary. Oh, we're very close to time
when it's time to take a break real quick. Will
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should election Day be a federal holiday?
Speaker 2 (07:38):
I think?
Speaker 4 (07:39):
So?
Speaker 3 (07:39):
What percentage of Americans agree with you?
Speaker 2 (07:42):
I'll say sixty five.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
God, it's so close. Will seventy percent and half of
them are going to vote early anyway and just play
golf on Tuesday, which and there's nothing wrong with that.
If you've already voted, then why not why not do
what you want to do on that holiday? That would
encourage early voting, I think because you can either go
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stand in line like they're doing in Pennsylvania. Why these
people don't vote early or however they can in advance.
Why they don't do that, I don't know. I would
not stand in line behind one hundred and something people.
That would be hard. That would be I'm not good
with lines. I never have been. I'm gonna ask you
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about something else relative to voting when we get back
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Speaker 3 (10:21):
Well twenty on am nine to fifty KPRC fifty plus here.
Thanks for sharing your grilled cheese and tomato soup, which
is a reference from yesterday's show. We'll talk in this
segment about how connecting with nature actually can be quite
beneficial to your mental health and well being, and I
couldn't agree more. I love the outdoors. So to address
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this more concisely and with far better explanation than I'll
welcome Jay Maddock, Professor in the Department of Environmental and
Occupational Health and Nature at the School of Public Health
at Texas A and M and co director of the
Center for Health and Nature.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Welcome Jay, Thanks don great to be here.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
This is this is a good one for I can't
think of a time in my life when Americans in
general have been so tense, so anxious. Not exactly the
best of times for mental health.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Is it.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
No, I think today's a good day to recognize that.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Now app poe for us to be talking about calming
down a little bit. Uh And speaking for personal experience,
I've never found a better way to reset myself than
by than by going outside, preferably golf or fishing or
hunting or just hiking whatever. But really most anything, so
long as it's outside. Why does nature have just such
a soothing and calming effect on most of us?
Speaker 4 (11:41):
You know, it really seems to be evolutionary. You know,
we grew up in natural environment. It's really on the
last couple hundred years that we were inside all the time,
and so there's a variety of effects from you know,
having the natural sunlight on us to kind of just
the beauty of nature that just works through our psychology
and our physiology to improve our health.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
It's not just anecdotal evidency either, is it exposure to
out door activity? It has been studied quite a bit,
hasn't it.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Yeah. You know, we had a big study rate in
Houston with the Bayeu Greenway, and we found that communities
that live near that, you know, the walking and biking
trails there, actually had lower rates of hospitalization.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Oh wow, that's yeah. Anything like that has got to
get people's attention. Talk about some of the specific differences
between people who actively engage with nature on a regular
basis and people who just rarely, if ever, venture off
the sidewalk in city street.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Sure, so, you know, with nature we get some really
immediate effects. So we get changes within ten minutes in
improvement and mood resets your ability to pay attention just
general well being. And then for folks that are doing
it kind of chronically getting out into natural environments, we
see changes in immune function. Actually, your body's ability to
fight cancer goes up. We see reduction in yeah like
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wild stuff be these heart disease. For kids, we see
a reduction ADHD symptoms. So anybody who knows that that's
a big issue these days. So it really is just
this systemic issue of better help but from spending time
in nature.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Yeah, and to be fair to city people, it didn't
always easy to pack up and spend a day in
a state park. So what options do they have that
kind of qualify as as quality outdoors time without having
to drive one hundred miles.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Yeah, you know, our parks are really great. I think
any of the city parks is a great place to
get Even a small pocket park really can work. If
you're in an apartment building and it's got a rooftop garden,
that's a great place to get to really almost you know,
treasure hunting for the green spaces in and around the
city could be a great way to kind of connect
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to nature, you know.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
And there are plenty of them if you go looking
for them. I've never allowed anybody to tell me I
just don't have any place to go, because they do.
They clearly do. Jay Mattock here on fifty plus, What
would you say is the amount of time it takes
for a walk or fishing trip or a bike ride whatever,
for that activity to disconnect you from all the stress
and worry and whatever else is bugging you and kind
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of put you back on track.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
Yeah. So you know, during the week when we're busy,
as little as ten minutes makes a difference. But we're
shooting for about two hours a week overall, seems to
be better for better help.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Oh, I'm aiming hired, and that I promise you.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
The more and more is certainly better. And so you
know I talked about the immune function. We find that
people that's been like a full day in nature, that's
when you see the changes in immune function.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
No question. If I were trying to get somebody else
to spend more time outdoors, somebody who's not exactly the
eager to get out there with the bugs and the
snakes and the stickers and the mud, what's a good
entry level idea to toss their way.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Yeah, you know, I think that the beauty is that
nature really is continuum, and so you know, going out
to the park and taking a walk on to the
zoo or the botanical gardens or all real safe places
where you can start with that nature does before you
go out on that big fishing trip or a hunting
trip and really get into deep nature.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
I have no problem walking into the woods chasing golf balls,
and I've come back with so many jigger bites over
the years. Man. Oh yeah, gosh. I don't want to
scare anybody out, you know, but you know what I'm
talking about. You're as outdoorsy as I am. I have
a hunch sometimes I like to go by myself. Sometimes
I'll bring my son or maybe a friend with me.
Does it really matter who you've got with you or
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if you have somebody with you?
Speaker 4 (15:32):
You know, That's the interesting thing is that we tend
to find that people who go out by themselves actually
get this bigger connection to the natural world. And so
even if you're alone, you reduce loneliness, which is kind
of wild. And you know, we've all had that thing
where you're in the city and there's a million people
around you so lonely and so you know, people that
you enjoy being with definitely can enhance it. You can
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have great conversations. But if you want to be alone
and walk and be contemplative, that's amazing too.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Yeah, really it really is for me. Sometimes I do
like to just be out there by myself and just
get lost in trying to catch another fish or a
bigger fish or whatever, or maybe hit a better golf shot,
and I feel so refreshed at the end of it
because I haven't had to worry about all the stuff
that I worry about most of the day. I really
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like that. I saw an interesting term too in the
notes I got nature prescriptions. Are there providers who actually
recommend more time outdoors for their patients?
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Yeah, you know, we're seeing this nationwide. There's a broom
called Parker ex America which encourages physicians two prescriptions work
or working with Houston Methodists to do it right in
Houston and really simple. The doctor comes in and they
prescribe you to spend a certain amount of time in
a place that makes sense for you and depending on
how comfortable you are in nature. And this really is prevention,
you know, it's helping people so they don't have to
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go on the medications for anxiety, depression, stress disorders, or
even for your heart. I mean, really, if you're walking
in nature, you get all the benefits from being in nature,
all the benefits of physical activities. It's kind of a
two first.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
I know a lot of people, Jay, who in this
audience right now, hoping their doctors will write prescriptions to
them to go fish or play more golf. I know, right,
if you gotta, if you kind a list of those providers,
you might want to send it over here, because I'm
gonna sign up with every one of them.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Oh yeah, We're gonna be doing some work for the
Harris County Medical Site, so I hope to get it
Harris County wise.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
You know what, keep me, keep me on your list
of people to talk to when you come up with
stuff more more advances in this area, because I couldn't
agree more. I think being outside is probably one of
the healthiest things, and it's saved me from going bananas sometimes.
You know, I just I just need to be outside.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
I do.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
I can't stand just sitting around the house. It drives
me crazy.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
I feel the same way, all.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Right, Jay, Maddick. Thank you so very much, man, I
really appreciate this. I'm serious about keeping in touch with me. Okay,
I will wonderful. Thank you, Jay, buddy. All Right, we
gotta take a little break, boy. Speaking about getting outside,
how about Alpine, Texas. You're gonna have to drive aways
to get there, and you're gonna go through some of
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very well rounded experience. On Thursday, they're gonna send you
to the shops down on Murphy Street and Holland Avenue.
Then on Friday, they're gonna host you for a wonderful,
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weekend with a tour of beautiful historic Adobe homes decorated
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for the season. On Alpine's Adobe Trail. Free stargazing by
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I suggest you go to bed, sleep it off. Just
wait until this show's over, sleepy.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Segment creep starts right now. Thanks for listen. Something to do.
Appreciate it. Thanks for giving us a little piece of
your lunch hour or whatever hour it is. Man, I'm
getting hungry, will for for tomato soup and a grilled
cheese sandwich. I really am. I thought you would have
had it last night. No I didn't, and then I
saw it was National Sandwich Day? Was that yesterday or
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day before or something like that? Yeah, yesterday? Yeah, And
I saw one this morning, I guess late rival to
the party. It was a fried baloney sandwich. Have you
ever had that? No fried baloney sandwich? I have, actually,
but this one was more like a gourmet fried baloney sandwich.
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It had just at a glance, I could see that
it had fried baloney. It had a little ham in
it also for real meat flavor, and it had pickle slices.
It had cheese, and then something else all over it.
I don't know. I'd have to go back and look.
I left it up on my screen on my monitor
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over at my desk, and I'll go check that out
later and I might just fire one up this afternoon.
That sounds pretty good. I mentioned yesterday that a different
kind of animal, and I titled this move over drug
sniffing dogs, but a different kind of animals being used now.
And they're carrying little backpacks and they're being led on
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leashes actually to detect illegally smuggled animal parts which are
kind of a big illegal import like elephant ivory and
rhino horns and even other things. And these animals can
sniff them out even when they're hidden amongst other smelly things,
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which I find fascinating. And how many guesses did it take?
You will at nine or ten?
Speaker 2 (21:43):
I don't know exactly.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Well, you threw an eater out that was your first one,
and that was wrong, and then eventually you got to rats.
There are animal parts sniffing rats out there working every
day for us to keep our borders secure from the
importation of illegal animal parts. Who knew, huh rats already?
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As I kept reading, They've already been trained to sniff
out all kinds of stuff, from explosives to tuberculosis, and
now animal parts are trained. So what happens is when
they detect the right item, the item that they're trained
to look for or smell for. I guess in that case,
the little tiny vest that their wear contains a micro switch,
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and the rat activates that switch when it detects whatever
it's supposed to find. And once they flip that switch,
they get food. What else would motivate a rat? You
can't offerm a bitcoin. What else would motivate a rat? Will?
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Would you think, oh, vital information to an organization that
they just want to they want to club yeah, they
want to blow the whistle on. They want to be
a rat.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
I think maybe front row tickets to to Chuck e
Cheese to watch the rat. Yeah, uh, I would. I
think Chucky Cheese is a rat. A rat, Yeah, I
believe so too. I've heard people tell me he's a mouse.
You just got to just go in there and look
for yourself and you'll see it's it's clearly a rat.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
I think he's actually a robot.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
I think he could. Yeah, there's that, but don't don't
spoil it for the kids. Really will? There are no
kids listening to the grandkids? Possibly? Really? Yeah? Yeah, and
there are kids. Everybody is somebody's child, now, aren't they will?
For your entire life, you're somebody's child, I guess yeah.
And I think maybe the rats instead of that, they
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maybe they like want a little tiny can of cats
spray just in case the cat comes sniffing around. They
just like bear spray cats run away. Who knit, Boy,
we're just so off man. You know what they get,
the food they get, and it's no wonder they're motivated.
They get gourmet rat food. Basically they're getting avocado and
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banana and things that you know, if you're a rat.
You're not gonna find that just rooting around the side
of a building somewhere, unless you're outside of a bad
grosser who has a lot of spoiled fruit. Speaking of,
there's a I have something from the consumer recall desk here.
It is word that the FDA has upgraded its warnings
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on hammonds, candies, chocolate filled waffle cones. You got any
of those at the house, will no good thing. The recall.
The recall. The recall originally issued August thirtieth, but further
testing has found more than traces of milk in the product.
(24:50):
When it said it only had traces, I guess and
somebody had an allergic reaction. So they upgraded packaging. Says
the cones were in in quotes. I'm going to give
you exactly what it says, packaged in a facility that
processes egg, milk, mustard, peanuts, sesame, soy sulfites, tree nuts,
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and wheat. I bet they had to make a bigger
label to get all that on there. They were distributed
across thirty thirty eight states, actually in all and DC.
So if you're allergic to milk and you live in
America and you like dark chocolate filled many cones. Might
want to check your freezer or pantry or wherever you
keep them. I don't even know whether they're I guess
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they might be frozen things since they're little cones. Maybe
I'm so glad I didn't grow up knowing what was
in most of the stuff I ate. Honestly, I don't remember.
I don't remember any of my generation kids of us
us eaniors. I don't remember anybody really getting sick from
eating stuff like that. The caution specifically is for undeclared
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excuse me, undeclared milk. That's it, So be careful out there,
watch out for that undeclared milk. And I'm not making
light of this. It is a serious recall. So if
you may have some of those things in your freezer
or wherever they're stored, I'd highly recommend taking a look,
just to make sure you're okay real quick. Well, no,
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from the FBI that two new fake election related videos
popped up recently and we're making the rounds on social media.
One which was presented as coming from the agency, actually
claimed that there were terroristic threats against polling places and
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urged people to vot vote remotely. The other fake rigged
alleged rigged voting by prisoners in prisons around the country,
both totally fake and intended to do nothing more than
just disrupt our God Lee, what happened to me? I
can't pronounce a word disrupt, he said, correctly, our electoral process.
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US intelligence sources point to Russia as being behind most
of this disinformation, allegedly originating depending on which one you
look at or which one you see both sides of
the either they're not playing even really not playing favorites much.
They just want to disrupt everything. Of course, Russia denies
being involved. Of course it does. From the nobody asked
(29:47):
you desk. In a last ditch effort to make her
presence felt in this election cycle, Nancy Pelosi questioned President
Trump's cognitive wellness and wondered aloud recently whether he was
fit to serve our government, which brings me back to
one of my favorite favorite sayings of all time. So
long as you're pointing at somebody else, nobody's looking at you. Glasshouses. Nancy,
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speaking of Russia again, it's to blame for several instances recently,
according to intelligence, people of cargo planes in Europe catching
fire after packages were smuggled aboard and contained little, small
explosive devices supposedly bound for these parcels were bound for
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addresses around that continent. All the devices magically, sure, yeah,
magically detonated before the planes left the ground, so nobody hurt.
Planes kind of messed up. But here's where it gets interesting.
Packages from the same cender also have turned up on
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US cargo planes, but none of them just yet contained
anything flammable. That's one of those hmm, wonder what's going
on there? All right? Will I'm gonna come back to
you for a minute. Let's see it, and then I
might get to Friday night lights too, and in just
a second, but I want to do a couple of these.
(31:18):
Ah here today, gone before dark. Bad decisions or come
fly with me?
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Bad decisions.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Drug dealer on Staten Island got busted with fifty two
bags of drugs on his person. And you know why
he got stopped and questioned and ultimately found to be
carrying fifty two bags of drugs because he hopped on
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the bus and didn't pay his fare. He tried to
cheat the system, out of a couple of bucks, and
he'll be he gonna get a free to jail, and
then after that a free ride to court, and then
a free ride to prison. He'll be gone for a while.
I don't know fifty two bags of anything I think
will get you. Some bound to be something about distribution
(32:12):
and for sale and all that. Wouldn't you think I
don't know much about all that. Here's something I don't understand. Well,
maybe you can clue me in, says here. The New
York Post says the latest trend is food themed purses.
What would that be like? A person the shape of
a cheeseburger or pizza. I've literally never heard of this.
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A loaf of bread. Perhaps that's actually a leather purse.
That could all be done pretty easily. I guess that's
what it means. I have no idea, and you know what,
it didn't matter enough to actually go look it up.
So and if you're trying now, you don't need to.
It's okay, it's okay. From my right, your own punchline
desk comes this. I'll just make the statement and then
(32:58):
if you want to send me what you got it.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Oh no, I was I had to give a thumbs
up to Tom somebody else.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
Tom tends to walk by and give you a thumbs up,
doesn't he. Yeah, just for just to make sure you're
okay in here with me. I haven't jumped across the
we're buddies, all right. Well, so write your own punchline
to this and you can send me yours. If you
have something that just comes to mind, scream it out.
Several porta potties fell off a truck yesterday in Massachusetts.
(33:28):
That's the line. You provide the punchline, got anything or
you want to think about it?
Speaker 2 (33:34):
I would say, uh uh, it looks like tea wasn't
the only thing dropped in the harbor.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
That's not horrible, that's not horrible. Well that's a six
point eight. Oh okay, Yeah, that'll be your chance to score.
Is on is going to be on your own punchline, Okay,
And you know I'll give you a few seconds if
(34:04):
you need them, say give me a second and I'll
just go onto something else and then we'll come back
to it. Okay, all right, all right? From the Texas
high school football desk, because you know, Friday lights, Friday
night lights and all that stuff. Dallas areas. Samuel High
School have to forfeit all seven of its wins this
season for using ineligible players right on the doorstep to
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the playoffs too. The Spartans are out in Florida. So
is Miami Central High which had to give up nine
wins because of playing somebody who wasn't eligible, as was
the First Academy, also in Florida, which has to forfeit
all of its wins and sit out this year's and
next year's playoffs, plus a hefty fine and the suspension
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of a coach. This stuff's gotten. This is high school sports.
It's way too competitive now, but not among the players.
The players can can go out there and bang around
for the whole game, and then after that it's okay,
we're gonna go get some deat The coaches are the
ones who are addicted now to winning at any cost,
(35:08):
even if it means jeopardizing the work these kids have
done for three or four years. High school recruiting for
athletics is way too slimy for Mitage, probably for every
one of those kids who work so hard and then
got the rug yanked out from under their feet too.
Shame on those coaches. Shame on those schools for allowing
that to happen. It's a big fat mess.
Speaker 4 (35:30):
Ah.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
Well, from the pickleball court comes word of Lois White,
a great great grandmother who, at ninety five years old,
has taken up pickleball. She's from Kansas, plays twice a
week and says that she can hold her own against
players in their fifties and sixties. That's what she says.
I'm not gonna tell her will You shouldn't either. She
(35:53):
loves it, she's having fun. Let her have her fun,
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Tuesday edition of this train rolls out of the station
now twelve o'clock, well, twelve oh six, now straight up,
semi straight up. I guess on Election Day, of all days,
there's so much slime on this election. Honestly, I can
hardly stand it too. I'll be glad when, whenever it
finally happens, I'll be glad to get past this mess
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and hopefully, one way or the other, start to heal
this truly broken country of ours. There's no other time
in history I can recall, even written or in life,
and I've been on the planet a pretty long time
when politicians have just so successively managed to turn so
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many Americans against each other. Whatever happens, though, I'll be
back in here tomorrow and the next day to push forward.
Life does go on, even if it doesn't seem to
be going our way or your way or anybody else's way.
It just continues to go on. You got to be
thankful that you're in what's still the best country in
the world. If it wasn't, people wouldn't be lining up
(01:55):
to get in here, and the people who say they
hate America wouldn't move to someplace they think is better.
Funny thing, though, all those loud mouse who swear they're
gonna do that if the election doesn't go their way,
they never move. They never move. So on where we
go anyway, and no time like the president. I guess
(02:15):
to take a look at local weather, which was some
kind of nasty this morning. Should continue to lighten up.
It was looking pretty good just a few minutes ago.
Going to clear up through the afternoon and still some
random showers for the rest of the week, but nothing
like this morning. With that will we'll go to highs
and Low's and Haikuk courtesy is always of Texas indoor
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air quality especialists, because cleaner air is healthier air. Just
dile pound two fifty. You'll get the message, and you'll
talk to somebody who can give you the message more importantly. Ready,
will I am finally drying this rained enough for a while?
Ready for sunshine?
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Okay? You know, yesterday I seem to remember a lot
of talk about rain, and now I'm done with it.
You're done with.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
That, finally drying, just rain enough for a while.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
I felt like it was gonna rain all week the
way that you were talking about it yesterday.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
No, no, I didn't know. You misunderstood. Then all right,
hold on, let me put a score down. Okay, put
a score. I got it.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
I got it all right. Because I'm feeling good today.
I went out, I voted this morning.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Good for you.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
I got a two in wordle Oh Lord, so I'm
I'm gonna give you a seven point five God, because
I'm feeling generous.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
You must be. I'm not even anywhere near there. Oh,
I'm almost three points off, well, four point six. I
felt even, I felt it was a little pedestrian. But nonetheless,
I'll take that seven point anything that's good. Seven five, Okay,
I may have to note that one. I'll probably forget though,
in any event. Also worth a look that is tropical
(04:06):
Storm Rafael Raphael out there kind of cutting across and
finding its way into the Gulf of Mexico eventually where
it's it's going to be a hurricane for a while.
But as it nears the north and northeastern ish depending
on which way it does whatever it does, is it
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nears the Gulf coast, it's supposed to lose a lot
of steam. And when it does come ashore fingers crossed.
This is like over the weekend, maybe as a as
a tropical storm. Again, it's supposed to kind of lose
some oomph and according to the models, land somewhere like
maybe between gosh, between Louisiana and Alabama. I don't know
(04:53):
if it's going to make it all the way back
to Florida, and I really hope it doesn't. They've they've
had enough of that for this year. The bottom line
is it shouldn't be nearly so devastating is what we've
already experienced this year. We've had enough bad storms for
Heaven's sakes, and the cold front that's coming down in
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a few days, all of that heavy air, cold air
coming from the north down is what is supposed to
keep us from having to deal with Raphael. And frankly,
I don't want to deal with Raphael at all. It's
it's just it's not the end yet. It's not the
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end yet a storm season. People tend to forget that
come November, but it's it goes all the way through November,
and who knows, who knows? I hope that cold front
just kicks Raphael right in its teeth and softens the
blow wherever it lands. Strolling down Market Street, well, I
guess Wall Street more specifically courtesy of Houston gooldexchange dot com.
(05:56):
Of course, everything's green today, everything everything, which is good
for stocks and gold. Not so much for oil though,
back north of seventy two dollars a barrel again, which
will push gas prices back up again four years ago
for reference. And I'm not trying to influence anybody's vote,
because you, most of this audience, I would bet, has
(06:18):
already done that. Four years ago gas was lower than
two dollars a gallon, not anymore, though hadn't been since
then there you go in election news because well, of course,
three states, including Texas, said no thanks to the Department
of Justice observers nosing around polling places where state observers
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already are in place and obligated by law to keep
things clean. Loss pretty clear about each state conducting and
monitoring its own business on election day, and I agree
with that. Frankly, I don't. I don't think any state
should be required to let the Department of Justice, especially
(07:02):
under under current Department of DJ situation. It's just I
just I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
I don't really think they need to be there. They're
not supposed to be there, even by by law. It's
supposed to be up to the state to keep it
keep its nose clean, and make sure the election goes
off the way it's supposed to. And you end up
with too many cooks in the kitchen, I think. And
that's just not necessary. Oh, we're very close to time
when it's time to take a break real quick. Will
(07:33):
should election Day be a federal holiday?
Speaker 2 (07:38):
I think?
Speaker 4 (07:39):
So?
Speaker 3 (07:39):
What percentage of Americans agree with you?
Speaker 2 (07:42):
I'll say sixty five.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
God, it's so close. Will seventy percent and half of
them are going to vote early anyway and just play
golf on Tuesday, which and there's nothing wrong with that.
If you've already voted, then why not why not do
what you want to do on that holiday? That would
encourage early voting, I think because you can either go
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stand in line like they're doing in Pennsylvania. Why these
people don't vote early or however they can in advance.
Why they don't do that, I don't know. I would
not stand in line behind one hundred and something people.
That would be hard. That would be I'm not good
with lines. I never have been. I'm gonna ask you
(08:29):
about something else relative to voting when we get back
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fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Well twenty on am nine to fifty KPRC fifty plus here.
Thanks for sharing your grilled cheese and tomato soup, which
is a reference from yesterday's show. We'll talk in this
segment about how connecting with nature actually can be quite
beneficial to your mental health and well being, and I
couldn't agree more. I love the outdoors. So to address
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this more concisely and with far better explanation than I'll
welcome Jay Maddock, Professor in the Department of Environmental and
Occupational Health and Nature at the School of Public Health
at Texas A and M and co director of the
Center for Health and Nature.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Welcome Jay, Thanks don great to be here.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
This is this is a good one for I can't
think of a time in my life when Americans in
general have been so tense, so anxious. Not exactly the
best of times for mental health.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Is it.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
No, I think today's a good day to recognize that.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Now app poe for us to be talking about calming
down a little bit. Uh And speaking for personal experience,
I've never found a better way to reset myself than
by than by going outside, preferably golf or fishing or
hunting or just hiking whatever. But really most anything, so
long as it's outside. Why does nature have just such
a soothing and calming effect on most of us?
Speaker 4 (11:41):
You know, it really seems to be evolutionary. You know,
we grew up in natural environment. It's really on the
last couple hundred years that we were inside all the time,
and so there's a variety of effects from you know,
having the natural sunlight on us to kind of just
the beauty of nature that just works through our psychology
and our physiology to improve our health.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
It's not just anecdotal evidency either, is it exposure to
out door activity? It has been studied quite a bit,
hasn't it.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Yeah. You know, we had a big study rate in
Houston with the Bayeu Greenway, and we found that communities
that live near that, you know, the walking and biking
trails there, actually had lower rates of hospitalization.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Oh wow, that's yeah. Anything like that has got to
get people's attention. Talk about some of the specific differences
between people who actively engage with nature on a regular
basis and people who just rarely, if ever, venture off
the sidewalk in city street.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Sure, so, you know, with nature we get some really
immediate effects. So we get changes within ten minutes in
improvement and mood resets your ability to pay attention just
general well being. And then for folks that are doing
it kind of chronically getting out into natural environments, we
see changes in immune function. Actually, your body's ability to
fight cancer goes up. We see reduction in yeah like
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wild stuff be these heart disease. For kids, we see
a reduction ADHD symptoms. So anybody who knows that that's
a big issue these days. So it really is just
this systemic issue of better help but from spending time
in nature.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Yeah, and to be fair to city people, it didn't
always easy to pack up and spend a day in
a state park. So what options do they have that
kind of qualify as as quality outdoors time without having
to drive one hundred miles.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Yeah, you know, our parks are really great. I think
any of the city parks is a great place to
get Even a small pocket park really can work. If
you're in an apartment building and it's got a rooftop garden,
that's a great place to get to really almost you know,
treasure hunting for the green spaces in and around the
city could be a great way to kind of connect
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to nature, you know.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
And there are plenty of them if you go looking
for them. I've never allowed anybody to tell me I
just don't have any place to go, because they do.
They clearly do. Jay Mattock here on fifty plus, What
would you say is the amount of time it takes
for a walk or fishing trip or a bike ride whatever,
for that activity to disconnect you from all the stress
and worry and whatever else is bugging you and kind
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of put you back on track.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
Yeah. So you know, during the week when we're busy,
as little as ten minutes makes a difference. But we're
shooting for about two hours a week overall, seems to
be better for better help.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Oh, I'm aiming hired, and that I promise you.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
The more and more is certainly better. And so you
know I talked about the immune function. We find that
people that's been like a full day in nature, that's
when you see the changes in immune function.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
No question. If I were trying to get somebody else
to spend more time outdoors, somebody who's not exactly the
eager to get out there with the bugs and the
snakes and the stickers and the mud, what's a good
entry level idea to toss their way.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Yeah, you know, I think that the beauty is that
nature really is continuum, and so you know, going out
to the park and taking a walk on to the
zoo or the botanical gardens or all real safe places
where you can start with that nature does before you
go out on that big fishing trip or a hunting
trip and really get into deep nature.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
I have no problem walking into the woods chasing golf balls,
and I've come back with so many jigger bites over
the years. Man. Oh yeah, gosh. I don't want to
scare anybody out, you know, but you know what I'm
talking about. You're as outdoorsy as I am. I have
a hunch sometimes I like to go by myself. Sometimes
I'll bring my son or maybe a friend with me.
Does it really matter who you've got with you or
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if you have somebody with you?
Speaker 4 (15:32):
You know, That's the interesting thing is that we tend
to find that people who go out by themselves actually
get this bigger connection to the natural world. And so
even if you're alone, you reduce loneliness, which is kind
of wild. And you know, we've all had that thing
where you're in the city and there's a million people
around you so lonely and so you know, people that
you enjoy being with definitely can enhance it. You can
(15:53):
have great conversations. But if you want to be alone
and walk and be contemplative, that's amazing too.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Yeah, really it really is for me. Sometimes I do
like to just be out there by myself and just
get lost in trying to catch another fish or a
bigger fish or whatever, or maybe hit a better golf shot,
and I feel so refreshed at the end of it
because I haven't had to worry about all the stuff
that I worry about most of the day. I really
(16:19):
like that. I saw an interesting term too in the
notes I got nature prescriptions. Are there providers who actually
recommend more time outdoors for their patients?
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Yeah, you know, we're seeing this nationwide. There's a broom
called Parker ex America which encourages physicians two prescriptions work
or working with Houston Methodists to do it right in
Houston and really simple. The doctor comes in and they
prescribe you to spend a certain amount of time in
a place that makes sense for you and depending on
how comfortable you are in nature. And this really is prevention,
you know, it's helping people so they don't have to
(16:50):
go on the medications for anxiety, depression, stress disorders, or
even for your heart. I mean, really, if you're walking
in nature, you get all the benefits from being in nature,
all the benefits of physical activities. It's kind of a
two first.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
I know a lot of people, Jay, who in this
audience right now, hoping their doctors will write prescriptions to
them to go fish or play more golf. I know, right,
if you gotta, if you kind a list of those providers,
you might want to send it over here, because I'm
gonna sign up with every one of them.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Oh yeah, We're gonna be doing some work for the
Harris County Medical Site, so I hope to get it
Harris County wise.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
You know what, keep me, keep me on your list
of people to talk to when you come up with
stuff more more advances in this area, because I couldn't
agree more. I think being outside is probably one of
the healthiest things, and it's saved me from going bananas sometimes.
You know, I just I just need to be outside.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
I do.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
I can't stand just sitting around the house. It drives
me crazy.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
I feel the same way, all.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Right, Jay, Maddick. Thank you so very much, man, I
really appreciate this. I'm serious about keeping in touch with me. Okay,
I will wonderful. Thank you, Jay, buddy. All Right, we
gotta take a little break, boy. Speaking about getting outside,
how about Alpine, Texas. You're gonna have to drive aways
to get there, and you're gonna go through some of
the most beautiful landscape and scenery in the state of Texas,
(18:11):
all the way out to far West Texas where you'll
find Alpine. They're inviting you out there to celebrate an
early Christmas December fifth through the seventh, right there in
the city of Alpine. Thursday, that Thursday, the fifth there
and now you could do whatever you want while you're there. Okay,
you don't have to follow this script, but if you
(18:32):
want to, you can, and you'll end up having a
very well rounded experience. On Thursday, they're gonna send you
to the shops down on Murphy Street and Holland Avenue.
Then on Friday, they're gonna host you for a wonderful,
magical Christmas concert, and then you can cap that long
weekend with a tour of beautiful historic Adobe homes decorated
(18:54):
for the season. On Alpine's Adobe Trail. Free stargazing by
the way every night, and in West Texas, you drive
a couple of miles outside of Alpine, there's not a
whole lot of light to deal with in that regard.
Get a little ways out of town and then stop
and get out of the car and look up, and
you will be treated to one of the most amazing skies,
(19:15):
amazing night skies you have ever seen in your life.
Christmas season in the Big Bend. Go to Historicalpine dot org.
Historicalpine dot org, and then just click on the big
box in the middle of the page. You'll find out
all about it. Historicalpine dot org. What's life without a net?
(19:35):
I suggest you go to bed, sleep it off. Just
wait until this show's over, sleepy.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Segment creep starts right now. Thanks for listen. Something to do.
Appreciate it. Thanks for giving us a little piece of
your lunch hour or whatever hour it is. Man, I'm
getting hungry, will for for tomato soup and a grilled
cheese sandwich. I really am. I thought you would have
had it last night. No I didn't, and then I
saw it was National Sandwich Day? Was that yesterday or
(20:11):
day before or something like that? Yeah, yesterday? Yeah, And
I saw one this morning, I guess late rival to
the party. It was a fried baloney sandwich. Have you
ever had that? No fried baloney sandwich? I have, actually,
but this one was more like a gourmet fried baloney sandwich.
(20:31):
It had just at a glance, I could see that
it had fried baloney. It had a little ham in
it also for real meat flavor, and it had pickle slices.
It had cheese, and then something else all over it.
I don't know. I'd have to go back and look.
I left it up on my screen on my monitor
(20:53):
over at my desk, and I'll go check that out
later and I might just fire one up this afternoon.
That sounds pretty good. I mentioned yesterday that a different
kind of animal, and I titled this move over drug
sniffing dogs, but a different kind of animals being used now.
And they're carrying little backpacks and they're being led on
(21:15):
leashes actually to detect illegally smuggled animal parts which are
kind of a big illegal import like elephant ivory and
rhino horns and even other things. And these animals can
sniff them out even when they're hidden amongst other smelly things,
(21:36):
which I find fascinating. And how many guesses did it take?
You will at nine or ten?
Speaker 2 (21:43):
I don't know exactly.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Well, you threw an eater out that was your first one,
and that was wrong, and then eventually you got to rats.
There are animal parts sniffing rats out there working every
day for us to keep our borders secure from the
importation of illegal animal parts. Who knew, huh rats already?
(22:08):
As I kept reading, They've already been trained to sniff
out all kinds of stuff, from explosives to tuberculosis, and
now animal parts are trained. So what happens is when
they detect the right item, the item that they're trained
to look for or smell for. I guess in that case,
the little tiny vest that their wear contains a micro switch,
(22:32):
and the rat activates that switch when it detects whatever
it's supposed to find. And once they flip that switch,
they get food. What else would motivate a rat? You
can't offerm a bitcoin. What else would motivate a rat? Will?
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Would you think, oh, vital information to an organization that
they just want to they want to club yeah, they
want to blow the whistle on. They want to be
a rat.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
I think maybe front row tickets to to Chuck e
Cheese to watch the rat. Yeah, uh, I would. I
think Chucky Cheese is a rat. A rat, Yeah, I
believe so too. I've heard people tell me he's a mouse.
You just got to just go in there and look
for yourself and you'll see it's it's clearly a rat.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
I think he's actually a robot.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
I think he could. Yeah, there's that, but don't don't
spoil it for the kids. Really will? There are no
kids listening to the grandkids? Possibly? Really? Yeah? Yeah, and
there are kids. Everybody is somebody's child, now, aren't they will?
For your entire life, you're somebody's child, I guess yeah.
And I think maybe the rats instead of that, they
(23:46):
maybe they like want a little tiny can of cats
spray just in case the cat comes sniffing around. They
just like bear spray cats run away. Who knit, Boy,
we're just so off man. You know what they get,
the food they get, and it's no wonder they're motivated.
They get gourmet rat food. Basically they're getting avocado and
(24:06):
banana and things that you know, if you're a rat.
You're not gonna find that just rooting around the side
of a building somewhere, unless you're outside of a bad
grosser who has a lot of spoiled fruit. Speaking of,
there's a I have something from the consumer recall desk here.
It is word that the FDA has upgraded its warnings
(24:29):
on hammonds, candies, chocolate filled waffle cones. You got any
of those at the house, will no good thing. The recall.
The recall. The recall originally issued August thirtieth, but further
testing has found more than traces of milk in the product.
(24:50):
When it said it only had traces, I guess and
somebody had an allergic reaction. So they upgraded packaging. Says
the cones were in in quotes. I'm going to give
you exactly what it says, packaged in a facility that
processes egg, milk, mustard, peanuts, sesame, soy sulfites, tree nuts,
(25:11):
and wheat. I bet they had to make a bigger
label to get all that on there. They were distributed
across thirty thirty eight states, actually in all and DC.
So if you're allergic to milk and you live in
America and you like dark chocolate filled many cones. Might
want to check your freezer or pantry or wherever you
keep them. I don't even know whether they're I guess
(25:32):
they might be frozen things since they're little cones. Maybe
I'm so glad I didn't grow up knowing what was
in most of the stuff I ate. Honestly, I don't remember.
I don't remember any of my generation kids of us
us eaniors. I don't remember anybody really getting sick from
eating stuff like that. The caution specifically is for undeclared
(25:56):
excuse me, undeclared milk. That's it, So be careful out there,
watch out for that undeclared milk. And I'm not making
light of this. It is a serious recall. So if
you may have some of those things in your freezer
or wherever they're stored, I'd highly recommend taking a look,
just to make sure you're okay real quick. Well, no,
(26:19):
I'll wait, I'll wait all the way out. Bronze roofing
Bronze roofing has been around for thirty plus years now.
I have used bronze roofing for the better part of
almost twenty of those years that he's been in business.
Skeeter Braun is the heat I'm talking about, and he
built his business and it's very large right now. They
do really well because they do good work. They do
(26:39):
quality work at a fair price. That's all quality work
at a fair price. Now, if every roofer did that,
there'd be a lot more competition for him, But some do,
some don't. Bottom line is a good roof can last
fifteen or so years, maybe even more if it's properly maintained.
But what you have to do is get an inspection
(27:00):
in every couple of years to make sure it's doing
its job and there's nothing going wrong. Skeeter Braun and
his cruise will do that for absolutely no cost to you.
They're happy to come out and check your roof, and
if you're lucky, they'll come down and tell you there's
nothing wrong. If there is something wrong, you'll see pictures
of it. You'll find out whether they can fix it
with what they have on the truck. Right now, you
(27:21):
will learn how long it'll take to fix it, and
you will learn how much it's gonna cost to get
it done. And at that point, best plan of attack
would be to just say get started. You're not gonna
find better work. You're not gonna find a cheaper price
for the same quality of work. Quality work at a
fair price. That's why he's still in business after thirty
(27:42):
plus years. Bronzroofing dot Com br A U N S.
Bronzrooofing dot Com. Or put this number in your phone
like I've said to do for so long now, because
if something happens to your roof, you don't want to
have to try to get in touch with me, or
remember who I was talking about, or just trust some
guy you see drive around with a little magnetic sign
on the side of his truck. Two eight one four
(28:04):
eight zero ninety nine hundred to eight one four eight
zero ninety nine hundred.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Aged to perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
We welcome back plus on AM ninety fifty KPRC. I
appreciate it certainly due from b where do I want
to go?
Speaker 4 (28:35):
Here?
Speaker 3 (28:36):
From the Why Am I not surprised? Desk comes word
from the FBI that two new fake election related videos
popped up recently and we're making the rounds on social media.
One which was presented as coming from the agency, actually
claimed that there were terroristic threats against polling places and
(28:58):
urged people to vot vote remotely. The other fake rigged
alleged rigged voting by prisoners in prisons around the country,
both totally fake and intended to do nothing more than
just disrupt our God Lee, what happened to me? I
can't pronounce a word disrupt, he said, correctly, our electoral process.
(29:23):
US intelligence sources point to Russia as being behind most
of this disinformation, allegedly originating depending on which one you
look at or which one you see both sides of
the either they're not playing even really not playing favorites much.
They just want to disrupt everything. Of course, Russia denies
being involved. Of course it does. From the nobody asked
(29:47):
you desk. In a last ditch effort to make her
presence felt in this election cycle, Nancy Pelosi questioned President
Trump's cognitive wellness and wondered aloud recently whether he was
fit to serve our government, which brings me back to
one of my favorite favorite sayings of all time. So
long as you're pointing at somebody else, nobody's looking at you. Glasshouses. Nancy,
(30:14):
speaking of Russia again, it's to blame for several instances recently,
according to intelligence, people of cargo planes in Europe catching
fire after packages were smuggled aboard and contained little, small
explosive devices supposedly bound for these parcels were bound for
(30:35):
addresses around that continent. All the devices magically, sure, yeah,
magically detonated before the planes left the ground, so nobody hurt.
Planes kind of messed up. But here's where it gets interesting.
Packages from the same cender also have turned up on
(30:57):
US cargo planes, but none of them just yet contained
anything flammable. That's one of those hmm, wonder what's going
on there? All right? Will I'm gonna come back to
you for a minute. Let's see it, and then I
might get to Friday night lights too, and in just
a second, but I want to do a couple of these.
(31:18):
Ah here today, gone before dark. Bad decisions or come
fly with me?
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Bad decisions.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Drug dealer on Staten Island got busted with fifty two
bags of drugs on his person. And you know why
he got stopped and questioned and ultimately found to be
carrying fifty two bags of drugs because he hopped on
(31:50):
the bus and didn't pay his fare. He tried to
cheat the system, out of a couple of bucks, and
he'll be he gonna get a free to jail, and
then after that a free ride to court, and then
a free ride to prison. He'll be gone for a while.
I don't know fifty two bags of anything I think
will get you. Some bound to be something about distribution
(32:12):
and for sale and all that. Wouldn't you think I
don't know much about all that. Here's something I don't understand. Well,
maybe you can clue me in, says here. The New
York Post says the latest trend is food themed purses.
What would that be like? A person the shape of
a cheeseburger or pizza. I've literally never heard of this.
(32:36):
A loaf of bread. Perhaps that's actually a leather purse.
That could all be done pretty easily. I guess that's
what it means. I have no idea, and you know what,
it didn't matter enough to actually go look it up.
So and if you're trying now, you don't need to.
It's okay, it's okay. From my right, your own punchline
desk comes this. I'll just make the statement and then
(32:58):
if you want to send me what you got it.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Oh no, I was I had to give a thumbs
up to Tom somebody else.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
Tom tends to walk by and give you a thumbs up,
doesn't he. Yeah, just for just to make sure you're
okay in here with me. I haven't jumped across the
we're buddies, all right. Well, so write your own punchline
to this and you can send me yours. If you
have something that just comes to mind, scream it out.
Several porta potties fell off a truck yesterday in Massachusetts.
(33:28):
That's the line. You provide the punchline, got anything or
you want to think about it?
Speaker 2 (33:34):
I would say, uh uh, it looks like tea wasn't
the only thing dropped in the harbor.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
That's not horrible, that's not horrible. Well that's a six
point eight. Oh okay, Yeah, that'll be your chance to score.
Is on is going to be on your own punchline, Okay,
And you know I'll give you a few seconds if
(34:04):
you need them, say give me a second and I'll
just go onto something else and then we'll come back
to it. Okay, all right, all right? From the Texas
high school football desk, because you know, Friday lights, Friday
night lights and all that stuff. Dallas areas. Samuel High
School have to forfeit all seven of its wins this
season for using ineligible players right on the doorstep to
(34:25):
the playoffs too. The Spartans are out in Florida. So
is Miami Central High which had to give up nine
wins because of playing somebody who wasn't eligible, as was
the First Academy, also in Florida, which has to forfeit
all of its wins and sit out this year's and
next year's playoffs, plus a hefty fine and the suspension
(34:47):
of a coach. This stuff's gotten. This is high school sports.
It's way too competitive now, but not among the players.
The players can can go out there and bang around
for the whole game, and then after that it's okay,
we're gonna go get some deat The coaches are the
ones who are addicted now to winning at any cost,
(35:08):
even if it means jeopardizing the work these kids have
done for three or four years. High school recruiting for
athletics is way too slimy for Mitage, probably for every
one of those kids who work so hard and then
got the rug yanked out from under their feet too.
Shame on those coaches. Shame on those schools for allowing
that to happen. It's a big fat mess.
Speaker 4 (35:30):
Ah.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
Well, from the pickleball court comes word of Lois White,
a great great grandmother who, at ninety five years old,
has taken up pickleball. She's from Kansas, plays twice a
week and says that she can hold her own against
players in their fifties and sixties. That's what she says.
I'm not gonna tell her will You shouldn't either. She
(35:53):
loves it, she's having fun. Let her have her fun,
will We'll be back tomorrow. Audios
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