May 9, 2025 • 39 mins
Today, Doug Pike interviews Crystal Walter about grandparents looking after their grandchildren. Pike also speaks with Shanisty Ireland about Summertime snacks.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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And now fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, here
we go.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
The latest and greatest I guess episode of fifty plus.
Land not necessarily of the free, but at least of
senior discounts. There are no free lunch wi is I
don't think anywhere for anybody anymore. Land of the free, well,
land of the senior discounts and home of the gray
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if you've got them flowing them. And that of course
is in reference to wrinkles. I don't really understand, honestly
why people go to such links to tighten their skin
when it gets a little looser, when the muscle mass
tends to go away some in the aging process, which
by the way, starts when I first started doing fifty plus.
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That came up at one point I don't remember how
deep into the show we were at that point, maybe
a year or so, talking about losing muscle as we age,
and I was shocked to learn that the pinnacle, the
top of your muscle building and the best you're gonna
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look probably is somewhere in your thirties, and then the
muscle starts to slowly retreat unless you work overtime to
maintain it and possibly to try to build it a
little bit. It's still quite possible to get in good
shape no matter how old you are, if you just
start from scratch and don't try to do too much,
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and then just do what you have to do over
and over and over and over and over. I don't
have enough time to put enough overs into this. It's
not impossible, but it certainly takes commitment to not just
the exercise either, but to a better diet, maybe some
lifestyle changes. There's all kinds of things that you can
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do to help yourself live longer. I'm going to I'm
gonna make it a point. I think this year is
gonna be the year. And we're just barely into Q two,
so I can still do it, Jeney've heard March to
April and we're halfway through Q two. In any event,
I'm gonna start doing a little bit more for myself
and a little bit less for my sweet tooth.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
If you will, I get it if people, if people
have medical reasons to lose weight, I get it why
they would have the surgeries.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
But some of the cosmetic stuff, it's kind of like
putting fresh paint on a car that's got bad breaks,
a rusty trunk, and an engine with a million miles
on it. The insides don't match the outsides. And if
it makes you happy, I'm fine. I don't don't. I
don't look down upon anyone who does anything that makes
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them feel better about themselves. I really don't, So don't
misconstrue what I'm saying. It's just not for me, that's all.
I'm just kind of running with what God gave me.
My hair is graying and probably won't be long till
it's all that way. I'm just glad it's hanging on.
That's the old joke, you know, from the what would
you do? Desk? By the way, if Fox News comes
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word of a Virginia man, I read about this morning.
It's been charged with murder, actually, after three teenagers show
up at his house in the middle of the night
and they are recording a ding Dong ditch prank for TikTok. Yeah,
don't okay if you don't know, those pranks are just
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ramped up versions of what some of us did as kid.
You run up somebody's house, ring the doorbell and then
just take off a running Only the difference here, according
to the story, was that these three also were accused
not just of ringing the doorbell, but of banging, kicking,
and slamming on a garage door. That's a lot different
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from ringing the bell and scramming down the street. And
the homeowner probably pretty certain these people outside were trying
to get inside, said he feared for his life and
fired his gun to protect himself. And that's tough, it
really is, you know how else, I don't know. I'm
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not going to judge either side. I'll let the loss
sort all that, I really will. There was an attorney
that was called by Fox for his opinion and said
that at first looked, the case may not meet Virginia
standards for self defense, and I don't know what Elsie
could have done. And don't think for a second that
if those three were intent on home invasion, that there
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would have been time for the police to be called
and for them to respond maybe change the outcome. It
takes them minutes typically to arrive, even under the best
of circumstances, and in this case, the whole thing happened
in seconds. We'll just have to let the lass sort
that one out. The reason I bring it up, the
only reason I bring it up, is because I would
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recommend that you talk to your teenage kids, you talk
to your grandkids about things like this that happen because
of peer pressure, because it's a cool TikTok thing, because
it's the hip and cool, funny thing that their friends
are doing, and talk to them about how so something
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that seems really funny on one side of the door
might sound and feel a whole lot different on the
other side. I don't I don't want anybody to get
hurt in stuff like this, and the best way to
not get hurt in something like that is to just
not do that stupid stuff. It's just it's clearly dangerous
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and it's there's just the only the only thing that
they get out of it, even if they're successful. Is
number one, they frightened the heck out of somebody in
Number two, nobody really cares on TikTok, to be perfectly honest,
they just don't. Oh a minute and a half will Oh,
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here's here's a real quick one from the election problem
desk comes worth that six people, And I think this
story broke yesterday or day before. Six people indicted right
here in Texas after a year's long investigation into possible
vote harvesting three years ago. And one of those people
in dited happens to be in a did Democrat judge
in this state, And so they're all gonna they'll have
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their days in court and hopefully that'll work out the
way that the law and justice should have it work out.
But they get their chance, by the way. Coming up next,
we are going to talk to a woman I've had
on the program before. Her name is Crystal Walter, and
she is a She is a licensed social worker, licensed
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clinical social worker at UT Physicians. And what we're going
to talk about is the growing number of grandparents in
this country who are serving as surrogate parents, if you will,
to their own children's children. They're taking care of their
own grandchildren. And that's that's an unusual thing, although not
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so unusual as it should be, or as it once was.
We'll take a little break here, we'll come back. We
talked to Crystal in a few minutes. On the way out,
I'll tell you about ut Health Institute on Aging, this
collaboration of providers from every aspect of medicine who have
gotten together over the past ten eleven years and created
this gigantic thing that is the Institute on Aging. It
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includes an amazing website uth dot edu slash aging, where
you can find resources that can answer lots and lots
of your questions about seeingior health. About anything that's available
and resourceful and helpful to seniors is pretty much going
to be somewhere in those pages. The providers have been
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good enough to go back and get additional training to
whatever got them their diploma on how they can apply
all of that knowledge specifically to us to seniors, which
is a pretty dog one handy thing to have at
our disposal as seniors in this Greater Houston area folks
working out of the Medcenter, but many of them also
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spend time at least a couple of days a week
in outlying clinics and hospitals and offices and whatnot, so
that people who don't or can't get to the med
center handily and comfortably can still be seen by people
who understand stand us better than we understand ourselves. UT
dot edu slash aging, Utch dot edu slash aging.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Now, they sure don't make them like they used to.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
That's why every few months we wash them, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, Welcome back to
fifty plus. Thanks for listening. Second segment stars right now,
beautiful day to be outside.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
We're going to talk in this segment about a growing
trend as I mentioned before, and that is families in
which the grandparents are serving as primary guardians and custodians
of their grandchildren. And to help, I'm gonna bring in
Crystal Walter, a licensed clinical social worker at UT Physicians
and she has been doing what she does now for
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the past sixteen years. Welcome back to fifty plus. Crystal.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
Hi, I'm glad to be here.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
I'm glad to have you because I don't know a
whole lot about this. Did I read correctly? That in
Texas alone, there are more than two hundred and sixty
six thousand grandparents responsible for their grandchildren.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
Yes, and in Houston's seven point five percent of adults
sixty plus live with their grandchildren. So that's more thousand
people just in Houston, not the surrounding areas. And this
is on trend. It's more prevalent even in our county
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where it's eight point three percent, So that's sixty nine
thousand people. Doctor Tammy Marmelstein of Collaborative Collaboratory for Aging
Resources and Education has been watching this trend for some
time and it's very concerning because a lot of our
grandparents are on fixed income or they have illnesses, and
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they're trying to juggle being a parent.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Talk about the reasons, Chris, and I'm sure there are
a lot of them that the reasons these these little
kids wind up in the primary care of grandma and grandpa.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
But that's a very complex question. I mean, let me
tell you, we have now seen a trend where grandparents
are outliving their own children. Oh okay, we're talking about
the change in diet, physical activity. Many societal changes are
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impacting longevity. You have parents that are not living as
long for various issues are they do not have the
resources that their parents had. The other piece is the
multi generational let's help each other. Grandparents are now staying
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with their children, so part of that exchange and to
feel value and to bring value to the family. They
also take on lead roles of watching the children, caring
for the children while the parents are maybe traveling for
work or during these different things. So they become the
point of contact for a lot of these children. And
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it's difficult because they still have to practice self care
for themselves. They still have to keep a routine not
only for themselves as elders, but also the children.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Now, somebody in their twenties, thirties or forties has no
way of knowing how difficult it is to be a
senior and physically and emotionally and financially. And I don't know.
I like the idea of having multi generation help in
a home to help raise the children, but I fear
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that there are a lot of parents who are using
the grandparents so that they can go have fun instead
of raising their own kids. Am I right, Oh, you're
absolutely correct.
Speaker 5 (13:28):
So we didn't talk. We didn't talk about the fact
that what does a grandparents look like in twenty twenty five,
and that really depends on where are we put in
a microscope. So we have grandparents that are becoming grandparents
at forty five in US, Okay, So that is something
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that very.
Speaker 6 (13:54):
New.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
But we also have a larger component. So when I
say grandparents, let me respect full, we say we have
great grandparents raising. We have a great grandparents that you know,
didn't drink a lot of alcohol, that you know, grew
their food, very active, still on their knees pulling collarge grains,
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and it's working out in their favor for their longevity.
But it also means that they find themselves helping raise
their grandkids more often than not. And it is trending
and we expect to see this.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
More.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
And I think, if you don't mind, I'd love to
just share, you know, some wisdom to these grandparents. You know,
it's okay to have open, honest communication with their grandchildren.
You know, definitely you want to be involved in their lives.
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Show up, but still be firm on providing us stay
environment and a consistent routine because that's what children need
to thrive and prosper and model ways to manage stress.
Model ways to practice self care because children need to
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learn these things and elders need these things. So it
can really be a beautiful exchange when a grandparent has
to parents if they are modeling those things, continue to
give phrase and encouragement. Even if you don't understand this generation,
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excuse me, and if you more resource and resources and
insight and how to relate to your grandchild. I want
to say that the Harrison County Area Agency on Aging
has a wonderful caregiver support network for grandparents raising grandchildren,
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especially if you're raising grandchildren with developmental disabilities. They have
a great network and that phone number is eight three
to two three ninety three four to three zero one.
And lastly, even with everything that's going on in this
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world in this generation, coming to us, share your family's
culture and transition. Yeah right, you know we're parenting, but
we're still the grandparents and there's things we want to
pass on that they need to know about that they
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should take pride in. And that's so important and through
that intergenerational exchange, I believe that it will keep our
grandparents youthful. And that is the research I really look
forward to hearing about some of the games in elders
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being busy raising grandkids.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
You know, one of the things we talked, Britt, you
touched on financial burden of especially for grandparents who are
who are raising these children without the parents around. And
my one of my concerns for seniors who are having
to do this is that they may be on a
very tight fixed income and those seniors will will sacrifice
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food or medication maybe or new shoes or whatever to
make sure the kids are well cared for, won't they.
They've got to be careful about that.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
They do. And that's why social workers are so important
because we help in strategizing and planning and helping budgets.
You know, reach out to your local social worker, ask
your doctor where is your social worker? If they don't
have one of they should be able to refer you too.
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Want them because you're right, they have to plan for
their retires.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Well, they're already retired.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
Longevity they need. They need to be able to also
know how do I prepare this child for college if
that's something they want to do While I'm on a
six day come what does that look like? What type
of accounts are available that I can just start putting
just a little bit of something aside for them. All
of that is available through geriatric social workers and family
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and children social workers, and so I will not I
can't stress amount how important the Harrison County Area Agency
on Aging is good at connecting builders with those type
of resources.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
I greatly appreciate it. Crystal Walter, thank you very much.
A good conversation here.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
Yes, most definitely.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
All right, well, thank you, Yeah, we'll do it again
sometimes anytime you're ready. We can talk about this as
much as you want. Thank you, Crystal, No problem, all right,
thank you. We gotta take a little break here on
the way. I'm going to remind these grandparents who are
doing this that they need to care for themselves too.
They need breaks. Okay, and we didn't have time to
get into it with Crystal, but if you're a grandparent
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in that situation, you need to find somebody who can
give you a break, and start with the help from professionals.
They can lead you to people who may be able
to give you at least a half a day or
a day or maybe two days away from that responsibility.
Because it's a tremendous, tremendous thing to be having to
care for kids when you're a senior on the way
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Speaker 1 (21:31):
Aged to Perfection. This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
By welcome back, thanks for listening. Fifty plus this afternoon.
I keep wanting to say this morning because I walk
in here and it's morning, and I we light it
up in it's afternoon.
Speaker 5 (21:46):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
With summer coming at us like a freight train, a
lot of us gonna spend our weekends at baseball or
softball or soccer fields, watching those grandkids play their versions
of my favorite sport. I'd be baseball, and they're all
gonna want snacks, some of which are going to travel
better than others. And to help keep us from making
ourselves or a whole team of ten year old sick
because we let something that's not supposed to get hot
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get hot. I'm gonna welcome back to the show Shannessy, Ireland,
former news anchor and current expert on summertime snacks that
can make it through three maybe four games on a
triple digit Saturday.
Speaker 6 (22:21):
Welcome back, Shannessy, Hi doun, thanks for having me on today.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Oh it's my pleasure. So and for starters, you're you're
no stranger to kids sports fields, are you?
Speaker 6 (22:31):
Oh my gosh, it's so funny. You know with Mother's
Day weekends, this weekend we actually only have three games
as opposed to like seventy, so they're like, we're gonna
we're gonna get moms a break. So on Saturday we'll
have three and then Sunday we're not gonna have any games.
But yeah, I'm no stranger.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
You know.
Speaker 6 (22:52):
I have five kids and they're all at that prime age.
My oldest is twelve, so they all are baseball and
malts and all of the things. So we're outside spot
and you know, I love this topic because you're one
hundred percent right. Kids are hungry. If they're your grandkids
or whether you're on a team and you're providing snacks
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for everyone. You really got to be thinking about what
you're giving the kids these days after the games or
even in between breaks at a tournament.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Let's start with whatever we're going to put in this
snack pile. We're going to make it. It's got to
be kept cool until it's time to consume most of
this stuff. We'll get to some other stuff later. What
do you consider a good way to keep everything cold?
Use a little blue ice packs? Or I got a
friend that freezes water in ziplock bags and uses those
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bricks of ice. Is there a better way than that that?
Speaker 6 (23:46):
You know, I personally like the ice cubes. I actually
we have a deep freezer and we have a whole
section that just has all of those giant cubes because
those last a little long. And as much as I
love of, you know, the plastic baggies that are frozen,
a lot of times they leak and it gets messy.
And the last thing in the world you want to
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do is to have your trail mix getting all soggy
or whatever's in there, and you know, and I really
recommend investing in a really nice cooler.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
I think.
Speaker 6 (24:17):
I mean, look, I love shopping at the Dollar Tree
and you know, getting things on the budget, but when
it comes to something like the cooler, you don't really
want to jeopardize having things get hotter than they should be.
So so making that invest in it in a yettier
or whatever your brand of cooler that you prefer. And
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even Costco and Sam's Club has great coolers. So just
and honestly, coming up with the beginning of summer memorials
the weekend on the rise, there's probably gonna be some
sales as well, So getting a really good cooler is
really important.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
I think, amen to that. So let's let's go to
the stuff we're gonna put on the menu for before
and after game snacks and maybe for what are some
of the things most parents might not even realize. You're
gonna make a good healthy snack for kids who are
going to be playing just like yours are all day
on a hot summer day.
Speaker 6 (25:12):
Yeah, I think you know, if we're going with the
traditional snacks that everyone has, you have the trail mix.
You have granola bars, apples or even these mandarin oranges, cuties,
dried fruit, rice cakes, or even popcorn. It's something really
light can be a good stack. And then this one
may be shocking, but I like the Southern recipes small
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about pork grinds because pork grinds are their protein packs
and they're really shelf stable, so these are not going
to go bad and they're really not going to get
stale if they're packaged right. And not all kids are
gonna love the taste of pork grinds, but they have
a variety of different flavors, and I think that's a
really good stack that you can take as well. I
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also love just having like cheese crispin there or cheese sticks.
If you're going to be able to have a cooler
that's going to be cool enough for it. Protein balls.
I even make my own protein bites just with peanut
butter and flax seed and oats and honey and chocolate chips,
and those are really fantastic because they're going to give
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you a lot of protein. And then the other brand
that I want to talk to you about, Doug is
Rayburn Sandwiches. I know I've talked about this brand on
your show before. But you can heat them up before
you leave, and you can wrap them in foil to
hold the heat. And there's a lot of protein in
those and they're fairly easy to clean. It's not going
to be a super messy sandwich. So they've got the
silly cheese steak, they get to beef cheddarmilt. They have
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a chicken sandwich as well, and those are heated up
in the microwave forrolling ninety seconds. That they're really durable
for a long tournament or a long day of baseball.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Yeah, some of the stuff my son and his buddies
tried to eat in my vehicle, it would have been
appropriate to just just put a shower curtain over the
back back there and just let them eat on that.
That was the only chance I had Chancey Ireland on
fifty plus, you're helping us stay healthy on hot days
at the baseball fields. Every kid's got a water jug.
Do they need sports drinks too?
Speaker 5 (27:09):
I don't think so.
Speaker 6 (27:11):
I you know, I really don't. We tried to stay
away from the gatorades in our house. I mean it's okay,
I think to have a liquid ivy for some of
the older kids to get some of those electrolytes in there.
But the sports drinks, Doug, they're so dangerous with the
added sugars and they have a ton a ton of
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sodium in them, and you know, it's good to have
some sodium if you're going to be getting dehydrated, but
you got to really be on the watch for that.
So I think sticking with the good old fashioned water
is really key. Now if you have little littles that
are playing soccer, like my five year old, he's gonna
expect to get a caprice on and that's okay. Everyone's
in a while, you know. I mean, he's not going
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to the pros anytime soon, so he's fine. But if
we're talking about the older kids, yeah, water is just
really key.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
You gotta stick with that.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Believe it or not. We're already at a minute, very
quickly what type of food should we avoid? And then
tell us where to find all this stuff you've told
us about.
Speaker 6 (28:11):
Well, anything super chocolity that's gonna melk, avoid that. Anything
that's super heavy in the carbs, or something that's going
to be heavy or greasy or anything like that. Avoid
all of those and you gotta watch that sodium intake
as well. But if you want to learn more about
the pork Grinds, it's pork Grinds dot com. Rayburns is
Rayburns dot com and of course Doug. I am on
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Instagram at shannonsa Ireland. I have a lot of fun
Mother's Day stuff on there because you know that's the holiday.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
So uh, I'm supposed to be a lot of fun
tips on there.
Speaker 6 (28:42):
Yeah. I don't hope so, at least according to me.
I haven't talked to my husband yet about that, but
I'm expect.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
And from a former coach, very quickly keep the moms
out of the dugouts, okay, thank you, yes, yes, and.
Speaker 6 (28:58):
Just okay really quick. I have a twelve girlf you
play soccer, and I would just be like, oh go
and he was like, mom, just don't because I can't
hear the coach like yes, you know, there's a time
and a place and oh my gosh, I could go
on and on about here.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
Can you just keeps a whole other segment it is
keep cheering Shannessy. Thank you so much for your time.
I really appreciate talking to you.
Speaker 6 (29:23):
Thank you have a wonderful weekend.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Sobete audios.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
Oh my goodness, Yeah, we gotta take a little break here.
When we come back, we will wrap this one up.
I've got oh good lord, I have so much stuff
from the cutting room floor. We'll be back in a
minute or two. Thanks for listening to fifty plus on
Am nine fifty KPRC.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
What's life without a nap? I suggest you go to bed,
sleep it off, just wait until the show's over. Sleepy.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues. All right,
welcome back to fifty plus.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
We are stepping into segment four, which will take us
to the top of the hour, at which point I'll
shut her down if Will doesn't shut me down first.
How you doing, Will? And we're out of here. Okay,
thanks for playing. How was your week? Did you did
anything exciting happen this week? Nothing really exciting happened this week.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
It's just been.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
A regular, regular kind of week, regular regular. Yes. Well,
kprc's birthday was that's true, one hundred years old? And
where did we celebrate? Right here on KPRC while everybody
else ate crawfish and I'm betting had a drink or
two because none of them came back. Did you notice that, Yeah,
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came staggering back into the office. I'm sure they had
a heck of a time, and I did get Courtney.
Courtney said she would eat a crawfish for me, and
she said she did so vicariously. I too ate crawfish
from the hypocrisy desk. Will and this is just one
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of several that were available this week. If we have time,
I don't know, comes a little something from the Disney corporation.
This is just so typical of how all of that works. Okay,
I'll make it short and sweet too, so you can
decide whether you want more information, which is what I
try to do. I try to give you enough information
(31:24):
to either interest you or just let that be enough,
and if you're interested, you can go find a lot more.
I found this at RedState dot com. So Disney, which
presents itself as a steadfast reporter of what is now
the LGBTQIA plus community, and that's fine. I don't have
(31:47):
a problem with that. But they also happen to be
opening a theme park in Abu Dhabi, which is a
Muslim state which imprisons people for being gay almost sexuality
in Abu Dhabi is illegal and the punishment can be severe, actually,
(32:08):
like really severe, pretty much the same as the rules
and laws on extramarital sex in Abu Dhabi. So Disney
all about LGBTQA plus, but they're still going to put
that theme park over there where it's illegal to for
anybody who's within that community to come hang out, or
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most of the people in that community. I that's pretty hypocritical,
if you ask me. There's another one. I enjoyed this
one as well. On the hypocrisy train. Bernie Sanders, champion
of climate and defender of the country from what he
believe is now is an oligarchic administration, When asked by
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Fox News why he and his campaigns have spent millions
of dollars on private jets to do whatever it is
he's doing these days, he said this, and I quote,
you run a campaign and do three or four or
five rallies in a week. The only way you can
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get around to talk to thirty thousand people. You think
I'm going to be sitting on a waiting line at
United waiting while thirty thousand people are waiting. That's the
only way you can get around. No apologies, for that.
That's what campaign travel is about. We've done it in
the past, We're going to do it in the future. Yeah,
(33:37):
so okay for me, but not for thee I want
you to drive an electric car. I want you to
get rid of your your gas stove. I want you
to get rid of all those appliances that are mucking
up the universe in the atmosphere. No, no, why is
it okay for you to do all that stuff and
not for us? They just once again they tell us
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what to do, what's right for the good of the country,
and then they do the opposite and justify it. That's oligarchy.
They just got different rules for them and us. Sadly, hmmm,
I found this. No, I'm not gonna do that one.
Oh yeah, this was interesting. From the Wrong Place, Wrong
(34:23):
Time desk comes word all from a click to Houston
story of a gun store this is last week that
thieves thought would be a soft target for an overnight
haul of guns and ammo and whatever else they could
find in there. Instead, though, when they rammed their truck
backwards into the store's front windows, they were met with
(34:44):
gunfire from an armed security guard and cowards that they
were they just ran away. They ran away, drove away
anything they could do to get away from somebody who
wasn't putting up with that. All right, Will, it's gonna
come down to you and me for the lex five minutes,
four and a half minutes, no sense of humor doing
(35:06):
the right thing or too far from Mexico doing the
right thing. This is interesting and this is one of
those what would you do things?
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Will?
Speaker 3 (35:16):
Okay, So what would you do if this happened to you?
Two hikers in the Czech Republic found three hundred and
forty thousand dollars worth of buried treasure.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Keep it?
Speaker 3 (35:28):
Didn't even let me ask the question, hocket, sell it,
auction it off, keep it? You got it through your
family something you just you found it in grandpa's attic. Yes, no,
you know what they did with it? What the right thing?
What they gave it to a museum, said, do you
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think they're chumps?
Speaker 2 (35:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (35:51):
I think they're chumps. Maybe they could have sold it
to the museum. Maybe they didn't give all of it
to the museum. You know, if you're hiking through the
Czech Republic, you're probably a trust fund baby or something
like that. And maybe if that's what you do for
a living. It's just hike. You've already got money. So
that three hundred and forty thousand, that's probably what they
blow on on laundry every week. Who knows also doing
(36:19):
the right thing? Mother's day outings or birds of a feather,
Birds of a feather? This I found interesting. It's not
it's not comical, it's it's just interesting to me as
a man who who appreciates all animals and and knows
a little bit about a lot of them. A study
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found that birds form friendships. I don't know whether it's
friendships or just collaboration and exchange favors to help each
other survive. What now? What? What are they talking about? There?
Will any idea? I have no idea here? You want
to share this worm? What are we talking about here? Maybe? Maybe?
(37:04):
Maybe not? I'm not sure I needed to. You know,
that's one of the ones that where I probably should
have gone ahead and clicked on full story. I think
a lot of these you probably should have clicked on
full sit. But who's got time for that?
Speaker 2 (37:15):
Really?
Speaker 5 (37:16):
Time?
Speaker 3 (37:17):
Okay? Uh? England is worse. Here's how bonfied. No, we
already did that one. We did the bonfire, one wrong
turn we could do, or TikTok trends that shouldn't be
and we talked about one of those, just a little
one wrong term. Two people in Cincinnati or no, excuse me, Connecticut.
They kind of look the same when you just look
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at the first letter and then all the ends in
the seas. Two people in Connecticut busted for prostitution will
after they were caught doing their business and blocking the
driveway to the police station. That's where they decided to
park to do what they were going to do. And
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they did, and they were so smart that they even
once they got stopped by the police who had to
get out of their cars to ask them to move
because they were blocking the driveway. Well, finding them in
the commission of a crime gives them probable cause. They
searched the car, they found drugs too. So those two
(38:22):
are going away, presumably presumably in separate cells. I guess
unless the guide declares that he believes himself to be
a woman in that way, they could put him in
the same prison or the same jail or whatever. That
one I don't care about. I'm gonna go back to
the other page. Well, too far from Mexico or no
(38:45):
sense of humor. I'm just gonna cut it down to two.
No sense of humor. Mother in Sweden convicted of harassment
and ordered to pay two thousand dollars to her daughter
for posting a vision on TikTok of her cracking an
egg on the younger girl's four on the girl's forehead.
(39:07):
Woman insisted it was a harmless prank. I agree with that.
Do you think it's any worse than a harmless prank?
Speaker 2 (39:13):
Will?
Speaker 3 (39:15):
Should it be two thousand dollars? Two thousand dollars for that? Really? Yeah,
that's messed up. Guess what Swedish people put on their tacos?
Speaker 2 (39:27):
Will what?
Speaker 3 (39:29):
I'll give you one guess and then let me finish.
Pre up, No, we gotta go. It's bananas, taco cabana.
No taco banana. We'll see you later, Audios
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The latest and greatest I guess episode of fifty plus.
Land not necessarily of the free, but at least of
senior discounts. There are no free lunch wi is I
don't think anywhere for anybody anymore. Land of the free, well,
land of the senior discounts and home of the gray
(01:08):
if you've got them flowing them. And that of course
is in reference to wrinkles. I don't really understand, honestly
why people go to such links to tighten their skin
when it gets a little looser, when the muscle mass
tends to go away some in the aging process, which
by the way, starts when I first started doing fifty plus.
(01:28):
That came up at one point I don't remember how
deep into the show we were at that point, maybe
a year or so, talking about losing muscle as we age,
and I was shocked to learn that the pinnacle, the
top of your muscle building and the best you're gonna
(01:48):
look probably is somewhere in your thirties, and then the
muscle starts to slowly retreat unless you work overtime to
maintain it and possibly to try to build it a
little bit. It's still quite possible to get in good
shape no matter how old you are, if you just
start from scratch and don't try to do too much,
(02:11):
and then just do what you have to do over
and over and over and over and over. I don't
have enough time to put enough overs into this. It's
not impossible, but it certainly takes commitment to not just
the exercise either, but to a better diet, maybe some
lifestyle changes. There's all kinds of things that you can
(02:31):
do to help yourself live longer. I'm going to I'm
gonna make it a point. I think this year is
gonna be the year. And we're just barely into Q two,
so I can still do it, Jeney've heard March to
April and we're halfway through Q two. In any event,
I'm gonna start doing a little bit more for myself
and a little bit less for my sweet tooth.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
If you will, I get it if people, if people
have medical reasons to lose weight, I get it why
they would have the surgeries.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
But some of the cosmetic stuff, it's kind of like
putting fresh paint on a car that's got bad breaks,
a rusty trunk, and an engine with a million miles
on it. The insides don't match the outsides. And if
it makes you happy, I'm fine. I don't don't. I
don't look down upon anyone who does anything that makes
(03:23):
them feel better about themselves. I really don't, So don't
misconstrue what I'm saying. It's just not for me, that's all.
I'm just kind of running with what God gave me.
My hair is graying and probably won't be long till
it's all that way. I'm just glad it's hanging on.
That's the old joke, you know, from the what would
you do? Desk? By the way, if Fox News comes
(03:45):
word of a Virginia man, I read about this morning.
It's been charged with murder, actually, after three teenagers show
up at his house in the middle of the night
and they are recording a ding Dong ditch prank for TikTok. Yeah,
don't okay if you don't know, those pranks are just
(04:06):
ramped up versions of what some of us did as kid.
You run up somebody's house, ring the doorbell and then
just take off a running Only the difference here, according
to the story, was that these three also were accused
not just of ringing the doorbell, but of banging, kicking,
and slamming on a garage door. That's a lot different
(04:28):
from ringing the bell and scramming down the street. And
the homeowner probably pretty certain these people outside were trying
to get inside, said he feared for his life and
fired his gun to protect himself. And that's tough, it
really is, you know how else, I don't know. I'm
(04:51):
not going to judge either side. I'll let the loss
sort all that, I really will. There was an attorney
that was called by Fox for his opinion and said
that at first looked, the case may not meet Virginia
standards for self defense, and I don't know what Elsie
could have done. And don't think for a second that
if those three were intent on home invasion, that there
(05:16):
would have been time for the police to be called
and for them to respond maybe change the outcome. It
takes them minutes typically to arrive, even under the best
of circumstances, and in this case, the whole thing happened
in seconds. We'll just have to let the lass sort
that one out. The reason I bring it up, the
only reason I bring it up, is because I would
(05:38):
recommend that you talk to your teenage kids, you talk
to your grandkids about things like this that happen because
of peer pressure, because it's a cool TikTok thing, because
it's the hip and cool, funny thing that their friends
are doing, and talk to them about how so something
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that seems really funny on one side of the door
might sound and feel a whole lot different on the
other side. I don't I don't want anybody to get
hurt in stuff like this, and the best way to
not get hurt in something like that is to just
not do that stupid stuff. It's just it's clearly dangerous
(06:20):
and it's there's just the only the only thing that
they get out of it, even if they're successful. Is
number one, they frightened the heck out of somebody in
Number two, nobody really cares on TikTok, to be perfectly honest,
they just don't. Oh a minute and a half will Oh,
(06:41):
here's here's a real quick one from the election problem
desk comes worth that six people, And I think this
story broke yesterday or day before. Six people indicted right
here in Texas after a year's long investigation into possible
vote harvesting three years ago. And one of those people
in dited happens to be in a did Democrat judge
in this state, And so they're all gonna they'll have
(07:05):
their days in court and hopefully that'll work out the
way that the law and justice should have it work out.
But they get their chance, by the way. Coming up next,
we are going to talk to a woman I've had
on the program before. Her name is Crystal Walter, and
she is a She is a licensed social worker, licensed
(07:30):
clinical social worker at UT Physicians. And what we're going
to talk about is the growing number of grandparents in
this country who are serving as surrogate parents, if you will,
to their own children's children. They're taking care of their
own grandchildren. And that's that's an unusual thing, although not
(07:54):
so unusual as it should be, or as it once was.
We'll take a little break here, we'll come back. We
talked to Crystal in a few minutes. On the way out,
I'll tell you about ut Health Institute on Aging, this
collaboration of providers from every aspect of medicine who have
gotten together over the past ten eleven years and created
this gigantic thing that is the Institute on Aging. It
(08:19):
includes an amazing website uth dot edu slash aging, where
you can find resources that can answer lots and lots
of your questions about seeingior health. About anything that's available
and resourceful and helpful to seniors is pretty much going
to be somewhere in those pages. The providers have been
(08:44):
good enough to go back and get additional training to
whatever got them their diploma on how they can apply
all of that knowledge specifically to us to seniors, which
is a pretty dog one handy thing to have at
our disposal as seniors in this Greater Houston area folks
working out of the Medcenter, but many of them also
(09:05):
spend time at least a couple of days a week
in outlying clinics and hospitals and offices and whatnot, so
that people who don't or can't get to the med
center handily and comfortably can still be seen by people
who understand stand us better than we understand ourselves. UT
dot edu slash aging, Utch dot edu slash aging.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Now, they sure don't make them like they used to.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
That's why every few months we wash them, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, Welcome back to
fifty plus. Thanks for listening. Second segment stars right now,
beautiful day to be outside.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
We're going to talk in this segment about a growing
trend as I mentioned before, and that is families in
which the grandparents are serving as primary guardians and custodians
of their grandchildren. And to help, I'm gonna bring in
Crystal Walter, a licensed clinical social worker at UT Physicians
and she has been doing what she does now for
(10:06):
the past sixteen years. Welcome back to fifty plus. Crystal.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
Hi, I'm glad to be here.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
I'm glad to have you because I don't know a
whole lot about this. Did I read correctly? That in
Texas alone, there are more than two hundred and sixty
six thousand grandparents responsible for their grandchildren.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
Yes, and in Houston's seven point five percent of adults
sixty plus live with their grandchildren. So that's more thousand
people just in Houston, not the surrounding areas. And this
is on trend. It's more prevalent even in our county
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where it's eight point three percent, So that's sixty nine
thousand people. Doctor Tammy Marmelstein of Collaborative Collaboratory for Aging
Resources and Education has been watching this trend for some
time and it's very concerning because a lot of our
grandparents are on fixed income or they have illnesses, and
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they're trying to juggle being a parent.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Talk about the reasons, Chris, and I'm sure there are
a lot of them that the reasons these these little
kids wind up in the primary care of grandma and grandpa.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
But that's a very complex question. I mean, let me
tell you, we have now seen a trend where grandparents
are outliving their own children. Oh okay, we're talking about
the change in diet, physical activity. Many societal changes are
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impacting longevity. You have parents that are not living as
long for various issues are they do not have the
resources that their parents had. The other piece is the
multi generational let's help each other. Grandparents are now staying
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with their children, so part of that exchange and to
feel value and to bring value to the family. They
also take on lead roles of watching the children, caring
for the children while the parents are maybe traveling for
work or during these different things. So they become the
point of contact for a lot of these children. And
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it's difficult because they still have to practice self care
for themselves. They still have to keep a routine not
only for themselves as elders, but also the children.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Now, somebody in their twenties, thirties or forties has no
way of knowing how difficult it is to be a
senior and physically and emotionally and financially. And I don't know.
I like the idea of having multi generation help in
a home to help raise the children, but I fear
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that there are a lot of parents who are using
the grandparents so that they can go have fun instead
of raising their own kids. Am I right, Oh, you're
absolutely correct.
Speaker 5 (13:28):
So we didn't talk. We didn't talk about the fact
that what does a grandparents look like in twenty twenty five,
and that really depends on where are we put in
a microscope. So we have grandparents that are becoming grandparents
at forty five in US, Okay, So that is something
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that very.
Speaker 6 (13:54):
New.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
But we also have a larger component. So when I
say grandparents, let me respect full, we say we have
great grandparents raising. We have a great grandparents that you know,
didn't drink a lot of alcohol, that you know, grew
their food, very active, still on their knees pulling collarge grains,
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and it's working out in their favor for their longevity.
But it also means that they find themselves helping raise
their grandkids more often than not. And it is trending
and we expect to see this.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
More.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
And I think, if you don't mind, I'd love to
just share, you know, some wisdom to these grandparents. You know,
it's okay to have open, honest communication with their grandchildren.
You know, definitely you want to be involved in their lives.
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Show up, but still be firm on providing us stay
environment and a consistent routine because that's what children need
to thrive and prosper and model ways to manage stress.
Model ways to practice self care because children need to
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learn these things and elders need these things. So it
can really be a beautiful exchange when a grandparent has
to parents if they are modeling those things, continue to
give phrase and encouragement. Even if you don't understand this generation,
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excuse me, and if you more resource and resources and
insight and how to relate to your grandchild. I want
to say that the Harrison County Area Agency on Aging
has a wonderful caregiver support network for grandparents raising grandchildren,
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especially if you're raising grandchildren with developmental disabilities. They have
a great network and that phone number is eight three
to two three ninety three four to three zero one.
And lastly, even with everything that's going on in this
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world in this generation, coming to us, share your family's
culture and transition. Yeah right, you know we're parenting, but
we're still the grandparents and there's things we want to
pass on that they need to know about that they
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should take pride in. And that's so important and through
that intergenerational exchange, I believe that it will keep our
grandparents youthful. And that is the research I really look
forward to hearing about some of the games in elders
(17:02):
being busy raising grandkids.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
You know, one of the things we talked, Britt, you
touched on financial burden of especially for grandparents who are
who are raising these children without the parents around. And
my one of my concerns for seniors who are having
to do this is that they may be on a
very tight fixed income and those seniors will will sacrifice
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food or medication maybe or new shoes or whatever to
make sure the kids are well cared for, won't they.
They've got to be careful about that.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
They do. And that's why social workers are so important
because we help in strategizing and planning and helping budgets.
You know, reach out to your local social worker, ask
your doctor where is your social worker? If they don't
have one of they should be able to refer you too.
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Want them because you're right, they have to plan for
their retires.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Well, they're already retired.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
Longevity they need. They need to be able to also
know how do I prepare this child for college if
that's something they want to do While I'm on a
six day come what does that look like? What type
of accounts are available that I can just start putting
just a little bit of something aside for them. All
of that is available through geriatric social workers and family
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and children social workers, and so I will not I
can't stress amount how important the Harrison County Area Agency
on Aging is good at connecting builders with those type
of resources.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
I greatly appreciate it. Crystal Walter, thank you very much.
A good conversation here.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
Yes, most definitely.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
All right, well, thank you, Yeah, we'll do it again
sometimes anytime you're ready. We can talk about this as
much as you want. Thank you, Crystal, No problem, all right,
thank you. We gotta take a little break here on
the way. I'm going to remind these grandparents who are
doing this that they need to care for themselves too.
They need breaks. Okay, and we didn't have time to
get into it with Crystal, but if you're a grandparent
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in that situation, you need to find somebody who can
give you a break, and start with the help from professionals.
They can lead you to people who may be able
to give you at least a half a day or
a day or maybe two days away from that responsibility.
Because it's a tremendous, tremendous thing to be having to
care for kids when you're a senior on the way
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out here of late health. I don't want age to
sneak up on me any more than you do on you.
But if it does, you might start feeling symptoms or
seeing symptoms of something that can be I won't say
easily corrected. Because they make it look easy, they make
it feel comfortable. What the people that'll late health do,
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and what they do is vascular procedures that can alleviate
ugly veins in some cases alleviate head pain even and
of course the two of the procedures they do most
often are helped with fibroids for women and enlarged noncantrist
prostates for men. Those things all can be remedied or
(20:23):
at least alleviated to a much more tolerable state simply
by shutting off the blood supply to whatever it is
that's giving you the grief. And with the prostate, for example,
when they get in there and plug up the artery
that supplies that prostate with oxygenated blood, prostate goes away,
(20:43):
It shrivels up and dies, and with it go all
those nasty, nasty symptoms. Go to the website a latehealth
dot com and take a look around there and then
see for yourself what they can do. And they always
do everything right there in their own clinics. They don't
send you to the hospital. It's all done right there
in the office, very simple, very easy. Usually just a
(21:04):
couple of hours. You'll need a ride home, so I'll
arrange for that. Most of what they do is covered
by Medicare and Medicaid as well, so that may alleviate
some financial burden for you. Regenerative medicine done there as well,
which is extremely helpful with chronic pain. All of that
just from that one place A Late Health seven to
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Aged to Perfection. This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
By welcome back, thanks for listening. Fifty plus this afternoon.
I keep wanting to say this morning because I walk
in here and it's morning, and I we light it
up in it's afternoon.
Speaker 5 (21:46):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
With summer coming at us like a freight train, a
lot of us gonna spend our weekends at baseball or
softball or soccer fields, watching those grandkids play their versions
of my favorite sport. I'd be baseball, and they're all
gonna want snacks, some of which are going to travel
better than others. And to help keep us from making
ourselves or a whole team of ten year old sick
because we let something that's not supposed to get hot
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get hot. I'm gonna welcome back to the show Shannessy, Ireland,
former news anchor and current expert on summertime snacks that
can make it through three maybe four games on a
triple digit Saturday.
Speaker 6 (22:21):
Welcome back, Shannessy, Hi doun, thanks for having me on today.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Oh it's my pleasure. So and for starters, you're you're
no stranger to kids sports fields, are you?
Speaker 6 (22:31):
Oh my gosh, it's so funny. You know with Mother's
Day weekends, this weekend we actually only have three games
as opposed to like seventy, so they're like, we're gonna
we're gonna get moms a break. So on Saturday we'll
have three and then Sunday we're not gonna have any games.
But yeah, I'm no stranger.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
You know.
Speaker 6 (22:52):
I have five kids and they're all at that prime age.
My oldest is twelve, so they all are baseball and
malts and all of the things. So we're outside spot
and you know, I love this topic because you're one
hundred percent right. Kids are hungry. If they're your grandkids
or whether you're on a team and you're providing snacks
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for everyone. You really got to be thinking about what
you're giving the kids these days after the games or
even in between breaks at a tournament.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Let's start with whatever we're going to put in this
snack pile. We're going to make it. It's got to
be kept cool until it's time to consume most of
this stuff. We'll get to some other stuff later. What
do you consider a good way to keep everything cold?
Use a little blue ice packs? Or I got a
friend that freezes water in ziplock bags and uses those
(23:43):
bricks of ice. Is there a better way than that that?
Speaker 6 (23:46):
You know, I personally like the ice cubes. I actually
we have a deep freezer and we have a whole
section that just has all of those giant cubes because
those last a little long. And as much as I
love of, you know, the plastic baggies that are frozen,
a lot of times they leak and it gets messy.
And the last thing in the world you want to
(24:06):
do is to have your trail mix getting all soggy
or whatever's in there, and you know, and I really
recommend investing in a really nice cooler.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
I think.
Speaker 6 (24:17):
I mean, look, I love shopping at the Dollar Tree
and you know, getting things on the budget, but when
it comes to something like the cooler, you don't really
want to jeopardize having things get hotter than they should be.
So so making that invest in it in a yettier
or whatever your brand of cooler that you prefer. And
(24:38):
even Costco and Sam's Club has great coolers. So just
and honestly, coming up with the beginning of summer memorials
the weekend on the rise, there's probably gonna be some
sales as well, So getting a really good cooler is
really important.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
I think, amen to that. So let's let's go to
the stuff we're gonna put on the menu for before
and after game snacks and maybe for what are some
of the things most parents might not even realize. You're
gonna make a good healthy snack for kids who are
going to be playing just like yours are all day
on a hot summer day.
Speaker 6 (25:12):
Yeah, I think you know, if we're going with the
traditional snacks that everyone has, you have the trail mix.
You have granola bars, apples or even these mandarin oranges, cuties,
dried fruit, rice cakes, or even popcorn. It's something really
light can be a good stack. And then this one
may be shocking, but I like the Southern recipes small
(25:34):
about pork grinds because pork grinds are their protein packs
and they're really shelf stable, so these are not going
to go bad and they're really not going to get
stale if they're packaged right. And not all kids are
gonna love the taste of pork grinds, but they have
a variety of different flavors, and I think that's a
really good stack that you can take as well. I
(25:55):
also love just having like cheese crispin there or cheese sticks.
If you're going to be able to have a cooler
that's going to be cool enough for it. Protein balls.
I even make my own protein bites just with peanut
butter and flax seed and oats and honey and chocolate chips,
and those are really fantastic because they're going to give
(26:15):
you a lot of protein. And then the other brand
that I want to talk to you about, Doug is
Rayburn Sandwiches. I know I've talked about this brand on
your show before. But you can heat them up before
you leave, and you can wrap them in foil to
hold the heat. And there's a lot of protein in
those and they're fairly easy to clean. It's not going
to be a super messy sandwich. So they've got the
silly cheese steak, they get to beef cheddarmilt. They have
(26:37):
a chicken sandwich as well, and those are heated up
in the microwave forrolling ninety seconds. That they're really durable
for a long tournament or a long day of baseball.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Yeah, some of the stuff my son and his buddies
tried to eat in my vehicle, it would have been
appropriate to just just put a shower curtain over the
back back there and just let them eat on that.
That was the only chance I had Chancey Ireland on
fifty plus, you're helping us stay healthy on hot days
at the baseball fields. Every kid's got a water jug.
Do they need sports drinks too?
Speaker 5 (27:09):
I don't think so.
Speaker 6 (27:11):
I you know, I really don't. We tried to stay
away from the gatorades in our house. I mean it's okay,
I think to have a liquid ivy for some of
the older kids to get some of those electrolytes in there.
But the sports drinks, Doug, they're so dangerous with the
added sugars and they have a ton a ton of
(27:31):
sodium in them, and you know, it's good to have
some sodium if you're going to be getting dehydrated, but
you got to really be on the watch for that.
So I think sticking with the good old fashioned water
is really key. Now if you have little littles that
are playing soccer, like my five year old, he's gonna
expect to get a caprice on and that's okay. Everyone's
in a while, you know. I mean, he's not going
(27:54):
to the pros anytime soon, so he's fine. But if
we're talking about the older kids, yeah, water is just
really key.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
You gotta stick with that.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Believe it or not. We're already at a minute, very
quickly what type of food should we avoid? And then
tell us where to find all this stuff you've told
us about.
Speaker 6 (28:11):
Well, anything super chocolity that's gonna melk, avoid that. Anything
that's super heavy in the carbs, or something that's going
to be heavy or greasy or anything like that. Avoid
all of those and you gotta watch that sodium intake
as well. But if you want to learn more about
the pork Grinds, it's pork Grinds dot com. Rayburns is
Rayburns dot com and of course Doug. I am on
(28:32):
Instagram at shannonsa Ireland. I have a lot of fun
Mother's Day stuff on there because you know that's the holiday.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
So uh, I'm supposed to be a lot of fun
tips on there.
Speaker 6 (28:42):
Yeah. I don't hope so, at least according to me.
I haven't talked to my husband yet about that, but
I'm expect.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
And from a former coach, very quickly keep the moms
out of the dugouts, okay, thank you, yes, yes, and.
Speaker 6 (28:58):
Just okay really quick. I have a twelve girlf you
play soccer, and I would just be like, oh go
and he was like, mom, just don't because I can't
hear the coach like yes, you know, there's a time
and a place and oh my gosh, I could go
on and on about here.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
Can you just keeps a whole other segment it is
keep cheering Shannessy. Thank you so much for your time.
I really appreciate talking to you.
Speaker 6 (29:23):
Thank you have a wonderful weekend.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Sobete audios.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
Oh my goodness, Yeah, we gotta take a little break here.
When we come back, we will wrap this one up.
I've got oh good lord, I have so much stuff
from the cutting room floor. We'll be back in a
minute or two. Thanks for listening to fifty plus on
Am nine fifty KPRC.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
What's life without a nap? I suggest you go to bed,
sleep it off, just wait until the show's over. Sleepy.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues. All right,
welcome back to fifty plus.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
We are stepping into segment four, which will take us
to the top of the hour, at which point I'll
shut her down if Will doesn't shut me down first.
How you doing, Will? And we're out of here. Okay,
thanks for playing. How was your week? Did you did
anything exciting happen this week? Nothing really exciting happened this week.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
It's just been.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
A regular, regular kind of week, regular regular. Yes. Well,
kprc's birthday was that's true, one hundred years old? And
where did we celebrate? Right here on KPRC while everybody
else ate crawfish and I'm betting had a drink or
two because none of them came back. Did you notice that, Yeah,
(30:42):
came staggering back into the office. I'm sure they had
a heck of a time, and I did get Courtney.
Courtney said she would eat a crawfish for me, and
she said she did so vicariously. I too ate crawfish
from the hypocrisy desk. Will and this is just one
(31:03):
of several that were available this week. If we have time,
I don't know, comes a little something from the Disney corporation.
This is just so typical of how all of that works. Okay,
I'll make it short and sweet too, so you can
decide whether you want more information, which is what I
try to do. I try to give you enough information
(31:24):
to either interest you or just let that be enough,
and if you're interested, you can go find a lot more.
I found this at RedState dot com. So Disney, which
presents itself as a steadfast reporter of what is now
the LGBTQIA plus community, and that's fine. I don't have
(31:47):
a problem with that. But they also happen to be
opening a theme park in Abu Dhabi, which is a
Muslim state which imprisons people for being gay almost sexuality
in Abu Dhabi is illegal and the punishment can be severe, actually,
(32:08):
like really severe, pretty much the same as the rules
and laws on extramarital sex in Abu Dhabi. So Disney
all about LGBTQA plus, but they're still going to put
that theme park over there where it's illegal to for
anybody who's within that community to come hang out, or
(32:31):
most of the people in that community. I that's pretty hypocritical,
if you ask me. There's another one. I enjoyed this
one as well. On the hypocrisy train. Bernie Sanders, champion
of climate and defender of the country from what he
believe is now is an oligarchic administration, When asked by
(32:54):
Fox News why he and his campaigns have spent millions
of dollars on private jets to do whatever it is
he's doing these days, he said this, and I quote,
you run a campaign and do three or four or
five rallies in a week. The only way you can
(33:16):
get around to talk to thirty thousand people. You think
I'm going to be sitting on a waiting line at
United waiting while thirty thousand people are waiting. That's the
only way you can get around. No apologies, for that.
That's what campaign travel is about. We've done it in
the past, We're going to do it in the future. Yeah,
(33:37):
so okay for me, but not for thee I want
you to drive an electric car. I want you to
get rid of your your gas stove. I want you
to get rid of all those appliances that are mucking
up the universe in the atmosphere. No, no, why is
it okay for you to do all that stuff and
not for us? They just once again they tell us
(34:01):
what to do, what's right for the good of the country,
and then they do the opposite and justify it. That's oligarchy.
They just got different rules for them and us. Sadly, hmmm,
I found this. No, I'm not gonna do that one.
Oh yeah, this was interesting. From the Wrong Place, Wrong
(34:23):
Time desk comes word all from a click to Houston
story of a gun store this is last week that
thieves thought would be a soft target for an overnight
haul of guns and ammo and whatever else they could
find in there. Instead, though, when they rammed their truck
backwards into the store's front windows, they were met with
(34:44):
gunfire from an armed security guard and cowards that they
were they just ran away. They ran away, drove away
anything they could do to get away from somebody who
wasn't putting up with that. All right, Will, it's gonna
come down to you and me for the lex five minutes,
four and a half minutes, no sense of humor doing
(35:06):
the right thing or too far from Mexico doing the
right thing. This is interesting and this is one of
those what would you do things?
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Will?
Speaker 3 (35:16):
Okay, So what would you do if this happened to you?
Two hikers in the Czech Republic found three hundred and
forty thousand dollars worth of buried treasure.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Keep it?
Speaker 3 (35:28):
Didn't even let me ask the question, hocket, sell it,
auction it off, keep it? You got it through your
family something you just you found it in grandpa's attic. Yes, no,
you know what they did with it? What the right thing?
What they gave it to a museum, said, do you
(35:50):
think they're chumps?
Speaker 2 (35:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (35:51):
I think they're chumps. Maybe they could have sold it
to the museum. Maybe they didn't give all of it
to the museum. You know, if you're hiking through the
Czech Republic, you're probably a trust fund baby or something
like that. And maybe if that's what you do for
a living. It's just hike. You've already got money. So
that three hundred and forty thousand, that's probably what they
blow on on laundry every week. Who knows also doing
(36:19):
the right thing? Mother's day outings or birds of a feather,
Birds of a feather? This I found interesting. It's not
it's not comical, it's it's just interesting to me as
a man who who appreciates all animals and and knows
a little bit about a lot of them. A study
(36:40):
found that birds form friendships. I don't know whether it's
friendships or just collaboration and exchange favors to help each
other survive. What now? What? What are they talking about? There?
Will any idea? I have no idea here? You want
to share this worm? What are we talking about here? Maybe? Maybe?
(37:04):
Maybe not? I'm not sure I needed to. You know,
that's one of the ones that where I probably should
have gone ahead and clicked on full story. I think
a lot of these you probably should have clicked on
full sit. But who's got time for that?
Speaker 2 (37:15):
Really?
Speaker 5 (37:16):
Time?
Speaker 3 (37:17):
Okay? Uh? England is worse. Here's how bonfied. No, we
already did that one. We did the bonfire, one wrong
turn we could do, or TikTok trends that shouldn't be
and we talked about one of those, just a little
one wrong term. Two people in Cincinnati or no, excuse me, Connecticut.
They kind of look the same when you just look
(37:38):
at the first letter and then all the ends in
the seas. Two people in Connecticut busted for prostitution will
after they were caught doing their business and blocking the
driveway to the police station. That's where they decided to
park to do what they were going to do. And
(38:01):
they did, and they were so smart that they even
once they got stopped by the police who had to
get out of their cars to ask them to move
because they were blocking the driveway. Well, finding them in
the commission of a crime gives them probable cause. They
searched the car, they found drugs too. So those two
(38:22):
are going away, presumably presumably in separate cells. I guess
unless the guide declares that he believes himself to be
a woman in that way, they could put him in
the same prison or the same jail or whatever. That
one I don't care about. I'm gonna go back to
the other page. Well, too far from Mexico or no
(38:45):
sense of humor. I'm just gonna cut it down to two.
No sense of humor. Mother in Sweden convicted of harassment
and ordered to pay two thousand dollars to her daughter
for posting a vision on TikTok of her cracking an
egg on the younger girl's four on the girl's forehead.
(39:07):
Woman insisted it was a harmless prank. I agree with that.
Do you think it's any worse than a harmless prank?
Speaker 2 (39:13):
Will?
Speaker 3 (39:15):
Should it be two thousand dollars? Two thousand dollars for that? Really? Yeah,
that's messed up. Guess what Swedish people put on their tacos?
Speaker 2 (39:27):
Will what?
Speaker 3 (39:29):
I'll give you one guess and then let me finish.
Pre up, No, we gotta go. It's bananas, taco cabana.
No taco banana. We'll see you later, Audios
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