Golf and a Kangaroo

Today, Doug Pike discusses golf, liver damage, and a kangaroo.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hey John, how's it going today?

Speaker 1 (00:20):
Well, this show is all about you. This is fifty
plus with Doug Pike. Helpful information on your finances, good health,
and what to do for fun. Fifty plus brought to
you by the UT Health Houston Institute on Aging, Informed
Decisions for a healthier, happier life.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
And now fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, here
we go. Wednesday edition of the program starts right now.
My first for a live back in here. I played
hooky yesterday. Well not really, it was work related, it was. Indeed,
it was media day in advance of the Inspirity Championship

(01:03):
up in the Woodlands on the tournament players course up there,
and I and a bunch of media folks from around
here got a chance to go look at the tournament
course again and refresh ourselves. It's it's something many of
us look forward to annually these these Well, it's a
wonderful day. Actually, it was a beautiful day for golf.

(01:26):
It was kind of muggy actually earlier and then the
breeze came up. It remained cloudy most of the day,
which was just fine, very comfortable. Got a chance to
play with a couple of guys I hadn't seen in
a long time. The tournament, by the way, set for May.
The fourth course is in excellent shape as always, and
I got to make my lap with two great old friends,

(01:47):
Joe Pogi and Renee Hopper, who works down a street
for a Pogy I've known for many, many years. He
does some podcast radio on or podcast anyway on golf
and is also in the marketing business. And no, gosh,
I've known him for probably it's frightening, probably thirty thirty

(02:09):
years easy somewhere in there. Run into both of them
at several of these events, and we've always talked about
getting a chance to play in the same group, and
we finally did and we had a good time. We
didn't score well. We finished somewhere in the middle, and
by the middle, I mean somewhere between first and last.
That's the middle, right, will I guess technically, well, that's

(02:33):
exactly how many teams, oh, probably one now about maybe
eighteen sixteen, eighteen somewhere in there. One for whole probably
so anywhere between two and seventeen. We're between second and seventeenth,
probably probably closer to seventeenth than second. Okay, but that's okay.
The team that won, Like, holy cow, this was Do

(02:54):
you know what a shamble is, will Now? A shamble
is when a scramble is when everybody tease then you
go to the best of the four te shots. Then
everybody hits from there, and you go to the best
from there and all the way to the hole. In
a shamble, everybody tease off and then you go to
the best ball from those four tee balls, and then

(03:14):
you play your own ball from there in so it's
kind of like playing real golf, but you usually get
a pretty good shot out of the fair way to
make it go around. And on our very first hole
we made birdie. I actually I hit a good iron shot.
I think it was about maybe eight iron to about
two and a half feet. So walk up there, tap
the putt in, and off we go. But after that,

(03:36):
the highlight reel just got shorter and shorter. It was
fun start, you know, yeah, right out the gate man
you can't be eighteen under par unless you burdy them all,
you know. But that didn't happen for us unfortunately. Oh
well I've ran up. Yeah it was. It was good.
So back to work. We hit good shots, we hit

(03:57):
bad shots. We had a good time. They fed us
just amazing, two amazing meals, a lunch and a dinner. Wow. Yeah,
it should have brought you something. No, well, what was
the lunch and what was the dinner? Gosh, let me
think lunch was Was it a club sandwich? No? No, no,
no no, this was a buffacetile country club meal both times.

(04:22):
And I mean soup, just soup to nuts. Man, it
was awesome. It was only soup and nuts. No, no,
you know exactly what I meant. Don't show your hackles,
will back to work. Weather's just kind of what it
is this time of year. Highs in the eighties through
the rest of the week, then showers and a high
of Have you looked at the weather forecast lately? Will, No,

(04:45):
what do you think the high is going to be
on Sunday? On Sunday Sunday, Yeah, based on what it's
been lately, I'll say eighty seven, No, sixty one, sixty one,
fifty one with a low of fifty one. And then
after that it shows two, just Chamber of Commerce days
highs around seventy two, seventy four, and then after that,

(05:07):
who knows. I didn't even want to look past that.
I don't want to be disappointed by some horrible forecast
Beyond there, markets seeming almost as unpredictable as the weather,
with all four major end of season are red again,
while Wall Street wrings its hands over over tariffs. The
T word has people pretty nervous, But I do think
we've needed a level to play in field a little

(05:28):
bit after the previous administration just kind of rolled over
and let a handful of trade partners drop high tariffs
on our exports while we levied very little or no
tariff on most of the goods they sold us. We're
barely three months into this second Trump administration, and our
president continues to work with just with one hand trying

(05:50):
hard to regain the strength and respect our nation deserves,
and with the other hand fending off these pouting liberals
who bout with their tds seems to have only worsened
since his election. Let's make this fun, will on the
It's gonna be a fun day. By the way, I
do have some good news to share as we as

(06:10):
the program moves on, and when I've been out like
I have, like I was yesterday for a day, I
always go looking for the good news stuff because it
seems like every time I take a day off, something
really cool happens in the world. And that's exactly what's happened.
I'll tell you later today will speaking of food, as
we were a minute ago, is national What day? Is it? Up? There? No?

(06:31):
No good? So what do you think? It's World Autism
Awareness Day? And that way it's way more important than
what I have here. My source must not have been
very good. Whoa is this the least delicious? Little kids
would find it very delicious? Oh that's a hint, clearly,
So I'm gonna guess it's something sweet. It's not Brussels sprouts. No,

(06:53):
it's not Brussels Sprout Day, nor is it broccoli Day,
nor is it any vegetable day out it let's say
it is a World fudge sickle Day, no peanut butter
and jelly day. Oh that's just standard op sir. Crust
or no crust growing up? Well? Crust absolutely now why

(07:15):
would you cut off perfectly good bread and you can
actually buy? People are so lazy now that you can
buy in the grocery store bread that's already had the
crust cut off of it. Pay extra for that. They
take some of your bread and they charge you more
for it. Yep, that makes sense to you. No, nor
to me will nor to me look at less agreeing
on something in the first segment. That's good stuff, man.

(07:39):
I have more of these, more of these. I'll save
them for a little bit later. On the way out,
I'll tell you about UT Health Institute on Aging. This
is the collective effort of more than a thousand people
around here. Now I'm sure it's that number and then some,
maybe a couple of times that many after UT Health
Institute on Aging has been around as long as it

(07:59):
has been doing the work it does, and that work
includes includes an amazing website full of resources for seniors.
And on top of that, it is a collective, a
collaborative effort among these thousands of providers from every medical
field there is, who have gone back and received additional instruction,

(08:20):
additional training. They've spent hours working on how exactly they
can apply their knowledge to the issues of seniors. Our
eyes are different than young people's eyes. Our livers and
hearts and lungs and kidneys and all of our organs
different than those of young people. We've got miles on

(08:40):
our tires. Okay, some of us lugnuts are falling loose
a little bit, but we can get more help, better
help from people who have studied us and what makes
us tick and what keeps us ticking, and that is
the providers from ut Health Institute on Aging. Go to
that website, look at all the resources there, and if
you need help, start looking for a specific provider who's

(09:03):
in your area. They're all over town, all over the
Greater Houston area, all nine thousand square miles of it.
Whatever it is, uth dot ed U slash aging, uth
dot ed u slash aging.

Speaker 1 (09:19):
Aged to perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
All right, welcome back fifty plus. I plead to be
back in here. I really am. I kind of missed,
kind of missed the old gang yesterday and here we are,
will we're the band has gotten back together after just
a one day brief exit. By the way, I'm going
to be out. I'm going to be out of the office,

(09:52):
out of the studio next weekend. Not this coming weekend,
but next weekend because I will be down in Moody,
down in Galveston at Moody Gardens, hosting and emseeing the
fourth annual I can't believe it's been four years already,
fourth Annual Fly Fishing Film Festival where you can see

(10:13):
those films on the largest screen in Texas. And it's
really a fun weekend that they have packages available and
all that, and discounted tickets online. You can go to
Moodygardens dot org and find those tickets and get yourself
involved down there. And who knows, if you play your
cards right and bring your golf clubs and it's a

(10:34):
pretty day, you might be able to go over there
and play the golf course at Moody Gardens. I may
take a look at that. I'm either gonna do that
or fish on Saturday, depending on and if it's pouring
down rain and Wendy, I'll just take a nap. I
could use one of those as well. So back to
the show up. In Minnesota, five lawmakers have introduced a

(10:56):
bill that would declare Trump derangement syndrome a form of
an official form of mental illness. And it's not a
tongue in cheek. It seems a little bit. Minnesota State
Senator Glenn Gruenhagen said, and I quote, we should be
able to have civil debates without demonstrating violent and unreasonable

(11:20):
actions such as burning down Tesla dealerships, threatening people who
were a Trump patzer, committing road rage at the site
of a Trump bumper sticker, and quote, members of both parties,
you used to compromise after elections and then get back
to working together for our country. That was back in
the days of common sense and common goals, back when

(11:44):
we were Americans first and conservative or liberal second. That's
not the way it is anymore. I saw a related
story actually about a loss. It said in this story
said a loss for President Trump because a Democrat has
been elected to Wisconsin's Supreme Court. The party affiliation of judges,

(12:08):
it strikes me, should not be impacted, should not impact
how they interpret the law. But that's kind of become
the norm in the past fifteen to twenty thirty years,
and the problem only seems to be getting worse as
we've seen over more recent years. It seems like judges
are allowing their political beliefs to dictate how they interpret

(12:30):
the law. And that's a dangerous path that I really
truly hope can be corrected somehow, at least I don't
know how we're going to do it, but that needs
to happen. We can't. We can't have people sitting on
the bench making stuff up as though just because they're
a judge, that's the way it should be when it's

(12:50):
in clear disregard for the way laws are written. And
we've seen a lot of that. We really have happened
the last several years. It's a shame, it truly is.
All Right, Well, I'm gonna kind of balance these things out.
I think. I don't want to. I don't want to
go too negative. By the way, I haven't asked you
how your yesterday went. Any excitement, No, it's just peaches

(13:12):
and cream. The weekend, the weekend, more pages, more cream. Yeah, well, elaborate,
feel free, you've got to. You've got a minute. Go,
let's start carrying you day. What did I do this week? Saturday?
Let's just go day by day. Saturday. I got some
great breakfast tacos where you know that this place called Coachinitas.

(13:36):
It's on the east end of town. Okay, that's too
far from me, then, well, I mean they're worth it.
It's kind of like golf courses. Well, I don't want
to have to. I don't want to drive past ten
really good tacos to get to that taco. I don't.
I love breakfast. They got they got lots of other things,
you know, Okay, but the breakfast tacos are good worth

(13:57):
driving for the riving. Was it for you ten minutes? Yeah, okay,
Well they'd be yeah, way more than ten for me.
And I've got a place right up the street across
from the high school where my son says they make
the best breakfast tacos ever. So maybe you should come
out there and try some of them. You know. Yeah, boy,
that's a long way. It was a long ways for breakfast.

(14:19):
It's really not as far as you think. My drive
here on the weekends, when I get passed by people
doing about one hundred hundred and ten, they're going, man,
trying to get home, the vampires, trying to get home
before the sun comes up. And yeah, it's only I've measured.
I want to say. It's like maybe twelve miles is
all it is from here to there, from here to

(14:40):
my house, maybe twelve miles that's it. And ten of
them are are highway miles, so twenty minutes. It's not bad.
It's really not bad. All right. Well, let's let's go
on to Oh, I'm sorry Sunday. What'd you do Sunday? Sunday?
I did chores? Sure, I did too, Actually, no matter
if I could quite a few, well too. I got

(15:03):
some things done. I did a little painting, did a
little gardening, did a little painting. I did kind of painting.
Do you do acrylics? Watercolor? More of a latex guy,
latex wall and baseboards, that kind of thing. Oh, we're
talking about some different painting, your artistic expression. I dabbled

(15:25):
years ago, but good a painter, maybe with some you know,
I'd prefer to paint with words. Well that's what I do. Okay,
I've been doing that a very long time, and I
still enjoyed doing that. All right, Well, roll on? Can
money buy happiness? Or where's the beef? And these are
all actually pretty good? Where's the beef? That might be

(15:48):
my favorite one of the three. Actually, I'll put a
little check mark by that so we know you we've
already done it. Fake trucking company. Okay, this guy rolls
up to a big meat packing plant, in Tennessee last week,
got some Billy Bob's Meat company on the side. Hey,
I'm here to pick up eighty thousand pounds of meat.

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Eighty thousand pounds of meat, and the Tennessee packing company
packed it all onto the truck. Three hundred and fifty
grand wow worth of the meat packed it on the truck.
They still haven't found the truck and they're still asking,
go ahead, where is the beef? They don't know. I
saw a very related story, and I didn't even I

(16:35):
didn't even see the connection until just right now. And
there's good and bad in AI, and this is some
of the bad that's popping up. Chat. GPT can generate
very convincing fake receipts for retailers, okay, and so if

(16:57):
it can do that, it can certainly eight fake packing orders,
fake packing slips, fake orders for eighty thousand pounds of meat.
Whatever it was. You think that's how it was done, Well,
somebody had some kind of paperwork that not just gonna
take the driver's word for it. When he pops open
the back doors, it says, filler up at the meat package,

(17:19):
What are you even gonna do with eighty thousand pounds
of meat. It's kind of like having a big ranch.
You cut it into smaller pieces and sell it for
a profit, one hundred percent profit. Where do you think
he stores it? You know? I mean, honestly, I don't
know where you take eighty thousand pounds of You gotta
sell that meat pretty fast. Yeah, you gotta be in

(17:41):
a hurry. You gotta have willing buyers now, and the buyers,
if you think about it, will the buyers would have
to be somewhere kind of in the middle, their middle men.
Somewhere they would have to be, wouldn't they. You can't
just go rolling up with a semi and back up
in front of a big steakhouse somewhere. He have we
got a deal for you. Come on out back, take

(18:03):
a look at what we got on the truck. Pops
open the trunk. No leg meat, you know, my god?
But yeah, I mean, that's that's a bold move. Eighty
thousand pains. It's a lot of meat. Forty tons forty
tons of meat. Man. Yeah, well, all right, we're out

(18:25):
of time, aren't we.

Speaker 1 (18:25):
Yep?

Speaker 2 (18:26):
Speaking of food, Berry Hill out there in Sugarland, where
you really should come out and eat dinner with me.
One night. Will bring your girlfriend. I'll buy all dinner.
Barrel Hill's been out there for thirty something years. I
think it's a family run restaurant on fifty nine that
has some of the problem. Well maybe the best fish

(18:46):
tacos anywhere will. I'm telling you straight up, that's what
we had here last week. Recall and and your thumbs up. Yeah,
they were great. They were I had some fish tacos.
I had some extra fish tacos for later. As a
matter of fact, very family friendly, very relaxed atmosphere. There's
a bar side that's got a couple of TVs. It

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gets a little bit rowdy in there if there's a
big game on or something like that, but mostly it's
just friends, neighborhood friends, and people coming in from a
few miles away. Maybe with just people who know berry
Hill and love coming back like I have with my
I was in there last night. It didn't matter of
fact picking up or no. Night before last last night,
I was late coming home. Actually it was she wanted

(19:31):
Berry Hill. I called her when I was about fifteen
minutes from home, said Hey, what do you want? She said,
well Berry Hill? Of course, I said okay, and I
went and picked up her two Baja chicken tacos no
pico and black beans and Mexican rice. Delicious. You know
what I thought was so great from the berry Hill

(19:51):
that we had last week, that trestleche oh oh, the
chocolate or the Vania had the chocolate and it was
so good. You didn't have both nutty in one bite. Well,
I wanted to save something for the rest of them.
I could have eaten both plots, the whole pan, yes,
you know, you and I could probably we probably could
could knock off a whole pan one, not two, but

(20:14):
one definitely. Yeah. Well, anyway, I'll see if I can
arrange that with my friends from berry Hill. If you're
new to Sugarland, go in there that fifty nine at
Sugar Creek Boulevard, right there in that it's actually a
free standing building or right at the end toward fifty
nine of a little strip there in that big giant

(20:35):
parking lot. And believe me, you will not regret going
in there. It's fun, it's relaxed. Like I said, you
don't have to get dressed up. You can wear flip
flops and shorts and t shirt if you want and
feel right at home or you can gussy up a
little bit and maybe throw a party in one of
their private rooms in the back. Either way, you pretty
good chance you're gonna see me in there if you
go in there between about eight and nine thirty. Berryhill

(20:58):
dot Com closed on Sundays, by the way, Well I'll
let you know that, but otherwise free reign Berryhill dot Com.

Speaker 1 (21:05):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash him, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh code O wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike.

Speaker 2 (21:22):
All right, welcome back, twelve thirty five on AM nine
to fifty KPRC. It's fifty plus. Thank you all for
listening very much so. And what we try to do here,
I really I think is balance out a little bit
of the news nationally, a little bit of local news
when it's relevant and interesting stuff from the rest of

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the day and the rest of the world that's not
necessarily always bad news, certainly. In fact, I try to
find good news that I've got some that I'll share
in a little bit. But I told Will over the
break that I wanted him to guess what kind of
pet some body up there in the woodlands had in
their backyard somebody who lives on the tournament course. And

(22:06):
I'm gonna give him three guesses. Will have you come
up with your three guesses? Already? Are we just gonna
have to drag on? I've come up with a couple
of guesses. Guess bear, no fox, no tortoise. You're on
the wrong continent, my friend. And that is a very

(22:26):
good hint on the wrong continent. Oh yeah, what about
a monkey? No, we have monkeys in Texas. But yeah,
they got out. They got out. They weren't supposed to
get out, but they did. It's a long, long story.
Is it a cat? No, No, it's not a big
cat or a small cat. Is it a big, big animal?

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It'll get bigger than it is right now. It's it's
bigger than a bread box right now. And it's gonna
get bigger, and that's gonna be a problem for the
p who own it. I want me to just show you. Yeah, Oh,
a little kangaroo. They have a kangaroo. He's about three
feet tall right now. Real cute. I sent my picture

(23:14):
or my wife a picture of this beast, and uh,
and he was very friendly. Actually, I walked over close
to the fence, but not that close because I'm not stupid.
He might have reached through and bit my finger off.
But when I went over there and just said, hey, buddy,
how you doing, he came hopping over. Just look, good
old kangaroo hops came right over to the fence, stuck

(23:34):
his nose through like cold on put your finger but
it just put it close and I'm backed up some
good at home protection. Though they'll they'll box people. Well
that one you drop kick still, but but yeah, and
that's we talked about it. And every person we were
the second group on that tea box because things got

(23:55):
slowed down around there. And then after that next group
in front of us left, the other group behind us
came up behind us, and every single person who stopped
at that fence took a picture of the kangaroo. How
could you not? How could you not? In Houston, Texas? Uh,
if you if you throw out the kangaroos at the zoo,
there can't be two dozen of them in the city, right,

(24:19):
hopefully not. How did they even get a kangaroo here
by permit? Do you think so? Yeah? They bought it
somewhere in the in the black market. Might be an
illegal kangaroo. No, No, that kangaroos. He's got documentation. Okay,
that kangaroo is it's okay for him to be here.

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It was, yeah, that was If you'd asked me what
I might see yesterday, that would be really weird and off,
just totally off the grid. I would not have guessed kangaroo. No,
it was cool though. He was And I sent my
wife that picture and she said it. She said he's adorable.
He said, yes, but at some point he's going to

(25:04):
be about one hundred and fifty pounds and he's gonna
be six feet were not six feet but about five
feet tall and willing and willing and able to beat
me up. Yep. And that leaves you defenseless. So we're
not getting a kangaroo. Last pet we had was our
our guinea big May May Stubbs rest in peace, and
that would be a big jump, you know, from pig Daroo.

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You know, I don't know. It was interesting, it really was.
It was. It was that just that just made a
fun day even more fun to see. We played golf
on a great golf course. We all played okay, you know,
we had our stumbles and we saw a kangaroo. My god.
Actually I smuggled a fishing rod onto the cart for

(25:51):
the back nine or actually for the front nine. We
started on nine. No, we started on eight or nine.
We started on nine, And after going around the front
and looking at all that water, I grabbed a fishing
right out of the back of my vehicle and made
a few casts. I didn't go after it really heavy,
and I noticed, actually paying attention to the water as

(26:12):
a fisherman, that most of the lakes out there are
relatively small, and so they wouldn't have many fish in them,
and if they did, I'm sure the neighborhood kids just
wear them out. So that was a bust, but it
was still fun and it passed the time. We got
some delays, all right, from oh yeah, I want to
go to this good news story. I thought this was

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really nice and that's what I look for, Like I said,
if I'm out on a normal show day, when I
get back, I take a good look around at a
couple of sources that are daily with good news. And
here's some for parents and grandparents of young adults, especially
young women adults. Researchers at the University of British Columbia,

(26:54):
after twelve years of research, will have developed something that's
no more you are no more out of place than
a stir stick in a drink for young women to
carry when they go out and partying with their friends
at bars and clubs and whatnot. And what it is
essentially is a little stick that you put in kind

(27:15):
of like a pregnancy test, only this thing tests for drugs. Yeah,
for twelve different kinds of drugs. I think it is,
or maybe more. It just says all the common drugs
used by bar going predators. And I think that's fantastic.
You not, I mean, no, it is. It really is.
As sooners they can get these things on the market,
and the cheaper they can make them and provide them. Honestly,

(27:38):
I think that a lot of bars to keep the
bad guys from coming in there until they come up
with some new drug that's not detectable. But just offer
those to anybody and everybody who wants to stick one
in their drink. If they had to go to the restroom,
if they went out to dance for a minute and

(27:58):
their drink was left under tie, and did just go
ask for one of those sticks and check it out. Well,
you can also there's there's like lids that you can buy, yeah,
put over right. But I mean you should see like
some of these videos where you see just how quickly
these people drop, you know, drugs into drinks and it's

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it's so fast you would just you would never notice. Yes, Unfortunately,
for a lot of young people, that's happened to them,
and I don't want it to happen anymore of them.
We're about to be late, aren't we. I don't want
to do that doing all right, I'm gonna tell you
again about UT Health Institute on Aging because it's such
an important, such an important part of our lives as seniors.

(28:43):
They are a collecting by they, I mean everybody who's involved,
from the top to the bottom. Doctor Nayak. I think
he and I may end up at an Astros game
here pretty soon and along with some other people from
UTA Health and the Institute on Aging, and I look
very forward to that only a couple of weeks. But
what they've done is created over ten twelve years now,

(29:06):
this amazing collaborative of providers from every aspect of medicine
who get additional training, get additional education, if you will,
on how to apply the knowledge that they needed to
graduate from med school or physical therapy school or anything

(29:27):
you name it. Who are therapy school, all of it.
Anybody who's in the medical field who wants to be
involved gets that additional training so that they can apply
their knowledge specifically to us. And that's such a benefit
to us. It truly is. Without these people. Now, there's
nothing wrong with any doctor who is who graduated from

(29:50):
med school is a doctor. There's no question about that,
and I'm not knocking their credentials at all. But what
I'm saying is that these people went back and got
that extra training just so they can accommodate us, perhaps
a little bit better than some of the others in
this area. And that goes for the entire metropolitan Houston area.
Most of these people are in the in the med Center,

(30:12):
but they also practice either routinely or occasionally in outlying
areas all the way from the Woodlands to Paarland to Sugarland,
Kingwood to Unit Katie, you name it. People from the
Institute on Aging are there to help you feel better,
and that's what they're always there for. Go to the website,

(30:33):
look at all the free resources they have there, and
then check out where the providers are that can help
you with whatever you need done to help you feel better,
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slash aging, ut dot edu slash aging. What's life without

(30:54):
a net? If I suggest you go to bed, sleep
it off.

Speaker 1 (30:57):
Just wait until the show's over, Sleepy. Back to Doug
Pike as fifty plus continues.

Speaker 2 (31:12):
Right, Welcome back, fourth and final segment. Holy cow, this
hour is going quickly for me and for you will
quick enough. It has been quick. Yeah, just get back
in the saddle and get going and see where we land.
Heart guitarist Nancy Wilson. These people, she's very liberal, very progressive,

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and she said recently that it's more embarrassing now than
ever to be an American, more than even during the
Vietnam War.

Speaker 1 (31:43):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (31:44):
Where do you want to go, Nancy? Just pick a spot,
any country, any city. I'll start a GoFundMe to buy
you a one way ticket. Uh, just just as soon
as you can settle your affairs here and pack a suitcase.
And I bet that after I at it, if I
were the the need correctly, it'll take I don't know

(32:06):
five minutes to help you go go someplace you think
is better than here, and be sure to write too, okay,
because I'm sure there will be things wherever you land
that will be so different that you probably kind of
wish you'd not said what you said. That just drives
me crazy. All these people who talk about leaving, boy,

(32:29):
if if this happens, or if that happens, if he's
elected or if he's not elected, or or whatever, that
they're going to leave this country, and then they just don't.
They just don't. It's very frustrating to have to deal
with that. All right, Well, let's get to boy. I've
got so much here I can't do. There's no way

(32:50):
I can do even half of what I have here. Oh,
by the way, there's another good news story that I
did want to get to before we get to silliness.
Researchers in Spain have discovered a potential new treatment for
liver damage up to it, including severe liver damages. It's

(33:12):
a mechanism that's triggered only minutes after acute liver damage
that they found, and it has potential to greatly improve
the outcomes for patients with all sorts of damage to
their livers. Currently, for example, in cases of cirrhosis and
other very serious liver issues, the organ stops regenerating itself.

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It just gives up. But the research in Spain is
showing some promise that this trigger mechanism they've discovered that
kind of goes off right after damage can be restarted.
It's kind of got. They've found a way to put
more gas in the tank, if you will, for the
liver to regenerate itself. And that's that's some good stuff.

(33:58):
That's some very good stuff. Casha didn't know it. Okay, Well,
here we go moonshot. Oh no, I've already talked about that.
I'm gonna tell I'm gonna go back to this, this
fresh one I have. I have a better page here
for that. Where did they go? Here? They are? I

(34:19):
had to get back to the peanut butter and jelly page.
Will I apologize MM testing America's honesty more fakery or
put the phone down? Put the phone down? Good idea.
Don't look at your phone before bed, it says here.
A study says that using screens in bed for just

(34:43):
one hour, which can just blow by if you're if
you're lying there in bed looking at little short videos
and all that stuff, and snaps and instas and all that.
Do you abbreviate when you say all those things? Snap
not Snapchat? And Insta instead of instat I don't use
a chat, so I'm not really talking about it that much,
but I sometimes I'll say install Instagram. Kind of depends

(35:12):
just your mood and how much time you got. Yeah,
may movie probably that, Okay. So anyway, this study finds
that one hour of screen time in bed trying to
go to sleep increases insomnia risk by fifty nine percent
and will reduce your sleep duration by twenty four minutes.

(35:35):
Now that may not sound like a lot, but if
you're somebody who doesn't get a whole lot of sleep already,
that can be a real problem. And that especially for kids.
Teenagers are so hard headed anyway, as a rule, and
I'm basing that on mine. He's a good kid, but
he can still be kind of hard headed and not

(35:56):
listen to his parents because they don't know anything, after all,
And he has a habit of just lying there and
staring at that screen and he'll fall asleep with it sometimes,
and I know he's not getting enough rest. I'm working
on him. I am uh, he's out back will or

(36:17):
scratch that one out? More fakery, just those two for
this more fakery. So I was just asking you earlier
whether you were a proponent or an opponent of lip injections,
and I had to make sure you understood that I
wasn't talking about for you. Okay, But anyway, you said no,

(36:38):
and I agree with you. That doesn't do anything for me.
You know what the latest fashion trend is though? Will
what prosthetic? I didn't even look at full story. I
didn't want to because it says there are now now
prosthetics so that you look like you have six pack abs.

(36:59):
They're gonna put implants in your I'd sick more like
a tub washtub abs. You don't want them? No, I'm
not gonna get implants if I'm If you see me
walking down the street looking if you mistake me for

(37:20):
Brad Pitt and then realize it's me, Okay, I'm shirtless
on the beach. If I got a six pack that
day in my abs, it's because I earned it. You're
not gonna buy that, and who would not be fooled
by that? I mean, honestly, they're gonna put what six implants,
three on each side? Is that what it sounds like? Yeah?

(37:40):
You are you looking it up? You're looking at it? No,
fess up? Will I look at it that? I would
never do that, probably not, but maybe you'll look it
up to see. Evening. Want to let me tell you
about this outback thing. This is really cool. And then
I've got one more thing. I want to talk about.
A miniature Docson. Okay, what are we talking about? A

(38:02):
three and a half pound dog? Maybe? No, and many
doction's gotta be more than than that. I'd say many docks.
I gotta be seven. No, that's a real one.

Speaker 1 (38:12):
No.

Speaker 2 (38:13):
I had a docs and what it was. I had
a Doxon that was my childhood pet. And I have
a Doxon now and he's sixteen pounds sixteen Yeah, okay,
so half of that eight pounds? Can we go with that? Yeah,
we're good. Nonetheless, this little many a toure Wiener dog
in Australia gets lost, lost in the outback. They were

(38:34):
out I don't know. I didn't of course I didn't
look at the full story. I hardly ever do, but
I think they were out walking in the and taking
a big hike in some outback area and the dog
just disappeared by running from a kangaroo and oraroo. That's yeah,
the one that's in the woodlands now. Anyway. Guess how

(38:57):
long it was before that turned up and it's back
with them. Two weeks. You're gonna go higher, Will, One month. Yeah,
it's gonna take you that long to get to where
we are. No long more. Four months more, eight months more,
one year, a little bit more, Will, a year and

(39:20):
four months exactly. Wow, sixteen months that wierdog was missing
and he's back home now, just like we are. We'll
see it tomorrow. Thanks a lot, Audios.