Healthy Aging and Playing with Heart

Today, Doug Pike interviews Maureen Beck about healthy aging. Pike also speaks with Geoff Blum about Playing with Heart.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:42):
And now fifty plus with Doug Pike.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
Yes, Now, indeed, Tuesday edition of the program starts and welcome,
Welcome to Tuesday, which kind of ushered in a few
more clouds than we've seen lately and get used to them.
Beginning tomorrow, those low dark clouds might start dumping a
little bit of water fifty percent or so, more or

(01:06):
less fifty to fifty shot at rain through Friday. I
think the actual forecast, which are going to change within
twenty minutes, I'm sure like forty sixty and forty percent
for Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and then the chance of rain
finally settles out a little bit for the weekend, which
bodes very well for the Tour Champions event. This week

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up at the tournament course at the Woodlands. That would
be the inspirity. It might be a little damp, i'd suspect,
but hey, I'd also suspect there's not a player in
that field who hasn't played in the rain during his career.
If I were a betting man, I would like Jeff
Maggert right now. Only well, not only but first because

(01:50):
he's a very good golfer and has has won many
tournaments over his career, but secondly because he's just an
all around good guy and I've gotten to know him
a little bit. It's not like we're besties or anything.
I've never been to his house, he's never been to mine,
But every time we bounce into each other, we end
up talking for a few minutes and it goes back, Gosh,
I don't know how many years, to a couple of

(02:12):
media rounds before the Inspirity, in which I got to
actually play the whole round with Jeff and two other
guys there were the four sons went out and we
all had a good time. So I just I've got
that slightly personal connection to him, so I like his
chances of winning, And then I can't ignore Steven Alker either,
who's won here before, but I haven't gotten to play

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golf with him. Still relatively mild temperatures through the weekend,
by the way, and the rest of the week then well, yeah,
the weekend starts to heat up a little bit. It'll
be like low eighties or so through Friday, and then
I think it's eighty four or eighty five on Saturday,
and eighty nine I believe on Sunday. Those are the highs.

(02:55):
The lows just usual for this time of year, not
quite cool enough that you don't have to leave the
ac on at least at some point in the late
early night. It might have to come on a couple
of times, but once it settles out to whatever your
favorite temperature is, it probably won't come on again until
the sun peaks over the horizon. Looking at the stock market,

(03:19):
all four of the big indicators I usually chase, we're
very comfortably green. After all, I didn't know where they
were going to go after some stuff I read yesterday,
but bumbs up, let's do it, huh. Actually the russell
was actually up a full point and a half a
little while ago. Oil still north of one hundred dollars
a barrel. But I'm confident this problem is going to

(03:41):
go away soon. I really am. I don't know. I
just have this feeling that our president is tired of this.
I know the country's tired of it, and hopefully we
can get back out of there and see what we
can do with gas prices, because once that straight of
horror moves opens up again, that's that whole issue is

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going to go away. Goal was up fifty dollars an
ounce and holding around forty five eighty four last time
I looked. Diving headfirst into the news from Fox News. Actually,
a Michigan Democrat Rep. Rashida Taleb has proposed one of
the most far fetched resolutions probably ever dropped onto a

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desk in Washington, and what she's proposing hints to what
Democrats will do if they gain control of Congress in
the mid terms. Her proposal would grant the homeless population
of this country and I quote freedom from harassment by law,
well end quote there by law enforcement, private businesses, property owners,

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and housed residents. In other words, if a homeless person
comes to your house and puts a tent in your
front yard, by the letter of what she's written, you
probably can't do much about it. I don't like that idea.
I have no no intention of backing that idea in
any way. Her proposal also would grant them, Oh it

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would actually it says here specific homeless individuals would be
given protections against banishment from private property. That's the front
yard issue. That's the storefront issue. Camped out on the
sidewalk in front of somebody's store, and they can't tell
that person to go away, They can't tell them, Hey,
you're kind of ruining my business here, man, you need

(05:28):
to move on. Oh no, no, no, no, I'm not
moving anywhere. It's just a remarkable disrespect for private property
and for private ownership of real estate to allow anybody
and everybody to do anything they want on my front yard.

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I'm not a big fan of that. She also, by
the way, wants all the homeless people in this country
to have access to internet and to the technology to
receive it. So hold on tight. Now, what she's proposed
is a resolution, which means it's not law and it
can't be enforced or not enforced as a law. But

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that's just a little hint at what's going to be
on the table if the Left gets control of the
House and Senate. Again, it's just crazy. And to pay
for all this even worse, she wants to peel back
one hundred and sixty eight billion dollars in defense spending
to get her pipe dream across the finish line. In

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other words, to support the homeless. She wants to take
away homeowners excuse me, housed people's rights, just throw them
under the bus. And she also wants to weaken our military,
which would come at the delight of about probably a
half a dozen organizations and nations I can think of

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around the world who would love to take us over
more than anything else they can imagine. Just goes on
and on with the extremity, the extremity of what they'll propose,
even just tells us that they think they can push
us around. And in so many ways we're being pushed

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around by the left now and watching little erosions, just
little tiny erosions here, there and everywhere. If you want
to see where we're headed, go look at Europe. Just
go look at Europe. Go look at Great Britain, where
I saw somebody being harassed on the sidewalk by police
telling them that when he asked someone to speak English,

(07:42):
that that was considered hate speech. That he was trying
to have a conversation with someone who wasn't speaking He said,
please speak English, and the police came about and explain
to him that that was hate speech and he could
be charged for that. Uh, here we go. All right,

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let's take a break, pause, take a deep breath. It's
going to be better when we get back, I promise you.
Ut Health Institute on Aging is a tremendous collaborative of
thousands of providers from all aspects of medicine who have
taken it upon themselves to learn more about how to

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apply their body of knowledge, whatever it is, whether they
are doctors, trainers, psychologists, whatever they are psychiatrists, they go
back and find out how to apply that knowledge specifically
to seniors. And that's kind of a big deal. There
are only a handful of places like It's not a place,
it's an organization. They're only a handful of organizations like

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the Institute on Aging in the entire country, and anywhere
they sit, they are a tremendous asset to seniors. And
the one we have sitting right here in Houston is
the best in the country. I'm one hundred percent convinced
of that, and nobody's ever challenged that. All you have
to do to learn about what they can do for
you and how to find these providers is go to

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the website utch dot edu slash aging. Most of those providers,
by the way, as you might expect, work in the
medical center, but there are also many of them who
visit outlying clinics and hospitals and whatnot, so that if
you don't want to go in the med center, you
don't have to. Utch Institute on Aging write it down

(09:29):
somewhere so you'll remember to go looking for it. Websites
really easy, Utch dot edu slash aging, uth dot edu
slash aging.

Speaker 2 (09:39):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.

Speaker 1 (09:41):
That's why every few months we wash them, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh code O wax.

Speaker 3 (09:48):
This is fifty plus with Dougpike Plus and thanks for listening.
We'll talk in this segment about healthy aging for those
of us who've already done a whole lot of living
and intend to do a a whole lot more, And
to give us some insight on what it takes to
make the most of seniority, I will enlist once again
the help of Maureen Beck, a gerontological nurse practitioner and

(10:10):
assistant associate Excuse me, sorry, Maureen Associate Professor of Geriatric
Impalliative Medicine at MC Government Medical School.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
Welcome back, Thank you.

Speaker 3 (10:21):
It's my pleasure to have you here. Healthy aging seems
like a good plan for all of us, but there's
a whole lot more to it than just talking about
it in there.

Speaker 4 (10:30):
Oh yeah, you have to work at it, that's for sure.

Speaker 3 (10:34):
And I'm guessing the definition of healthy aging would be
different for pretty much everybody in this audience, right, That's
so true.

Speaker 4 (10:43):
Now, the World Health Organization has a definition. It's to
be able to meet your basic needs and grow and
be mobile and maintain relationships and contribute to society. But
in fact, every person is so different. You could be
sitting next to someone who was born in the same
day as you and they may have a lot of

(11:03):
limitations in their mobility, and you may be running or
participating at the gym. So you just can't base anything
on how exactly old you are because everybody ages differently.

Speaker 5 (11:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (11:19):
I see a lot of things on social media about
use this exercise program to get fit if you're over
fifty or sixty and use this tai Chi program to
get fit if you're over fifty or sixty or seventy
or whatever. And that might work for some people. But
just like you said, there is no one size fits all,
is there?

Speaker 4 (11:41):
You're correct, there is. And also it's based on your
level of discomfort, for instance, pain with arthritis, history of surgeries,
on your heart condition. So many things will unpack the
type of exercise that you will enjoy or want to do.

Speaker 3 (11:58):
But I guess it's safe to say that through all
of that that no matter where you are today, no
matter what your limitations, you can probably improve the aging
process if you'll go ahead and do some work. Is
that fair statement?

Speaker 4 (12:15):
That's fair. I don't think anybody should give up. Even
if you've never exercised. There's still things that you can
do to keep yourself healthy. And it's more than exercise
its attitude, it's a healthy diet, it's keeping up with
your prevention like immunizations, checkups. It's also getting enough sleep

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and keeping your hearing as good as possible so you
can be social. Healthy aging involves a lot and it's
never too late to start.

Speaker 3 (12:47):
You mentioned a healthy diet, and I think that's where
a lot of people probably not quite as old as
I am. I'm up there, but a lot of people
in say maybe fifty to sixties, they tend to still
not eat a good diet. Is that a fair assessment,
because now I'm really starting to pay attention to it
when I wish I had twenty years ago.

Speaker 4 (13:10):
I really don't know if that particular age group is
worse or not. So that I think we all have
things that we like to snack on, or our temptations,
for instance. But there are some diets that are recommended,
such as the Dash diet and the Mediterranean diet, that
you can incorporate some of those things into your normal

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routine and make a few little changes that can really help.

Speaker 3 (13:36):
Leaning into the adage that announce of prevention is worth
a pound of cure. Talk about the importance of setting
yourself up for success. What are some of the more
important things we need to do that will keep us
up right longer.

Speaker 4 (13:49):
Well, you know, very few people really exercise in the
over sixty five age group, maybe thirty five percent. So
if you want to start doing something for yourself, you
need to start moving one way or the other. Eating healthy,
keeping up your social relationships and getting your immunizations if

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you believe in immunizations, and also hearing is very important
for socialization and for memory loss. True, and looking at
your list of meds and then talking to your provider
about whether do I really still need to be on
this medicine that was started ten years ago and was
always it was never stopped, it keeps getting renewed, and

(14:32):
how many of I actually on? Are they act or are
they part of my problem in not being as healthy
as possible? But there's a lot we can do to
prevent new problems, and then we are all living with
chronic illnesses that we manage from.

Speaker 5 (14:47):
Day to day.

Speaker 3 (14:49):
Holy cow, just looked over at Will and we've got
not a whole lot of time left. I did a
story recently and actually did a segment last week I
think it was maybe two weeks ago about how more
people are leaning on a for healthcare advice. What's your
opinion on that.

Speaker 4 (15:04):
It need to be very careful and talk to the
trusted personal and get some feedback from them, because not
everything you read online is going to help you.

Speaker 3 (15:12):
Well, yeah, no, Truer words wherever spoken. I think and
talk about from a patient standpoint how can we tell
the difference between good medical advice and hogwash.

Speaker 4 (15:25):
I think it's just very difficult. You need to look
at the sort. If you have the time to do
some research, which not everybody has the time to do.
I think you need to go to your regular provider
and have a discussion and see if they have any
background in that or if they can give you some
really good advice so you're not doing something that's going.

Speaker 5 (15:43):
To hurt you.

Speaker 3 (15:44):
I've been going to the same primary care guy for
probably I don't know, seven or eight years now, and
I would much prefer to talk to him than I
would go to AI for an answer on anything. And
for my listeners who might also have a caregiver listening
as well. By the way, Maureen talk about the importance
that the caregiver not take take away any of the

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patient's independence or voice.

Speaker 4 (16:08):
That's correct. So if someone brings a patient into the office,
we try to make sure we talk to them and
get additional input from a caregiver. But it's important to
respect a person who is the patient, listen to them,
give them a chance to talk and find out what
their goals are.

Speaker 3 (16:26):
Yeah, because if the goals of the caregiver and the
goals of the patient don't match up. That's not going
to be a very long or good relationship.

Speaker 5 (16:32):
Is it.

Speaker 4 (16:34):
It is not and may be harmful.

Speaker 3 (16:36):
Oh my goodness. So I hope we've convinced a few
listeners that they need to be a little bit more
proactive with their path. I'm afraid we are out of time, though, Maureens.
Thank you so very much.

Speaker 4 (16:46):
Thank you. I enjoyed it.

Speaker 3 (16:48):
Oh my pleasure, Bubby. All right, let's take a little
break here. Country Boys Roofing. I got a text from
John Aiman, the man who owns Country Boys Roofing, just
a few days ago, because there was a little bit
of in my neighborhood. And he reassured me that he
doubts that the hell we got was enough to hurt
my roof, and that makes me feel better. But he's
going to come on out once the people who really

(17:11):
need his services right now can be reached and taken
care of. John talks about what you should ask of
any roofer who comes to your house and wants to
give you a bit on a roof. First of all,
you want to find out if their Texas windstorms certified,
which is a big piece if you ever have to
make an insurance claim. And secondly, you should never have

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to pay any money up front. John feels like and
I agree that if the person who wants to put
your roof up can't afford to go buy the materials
to do it, then maybe you need to find another roofer.
Country Boys Roofing they'll come out and do a free assessment,
and if it's some little thing they find up there,
there's a really good chance they'll be able to fix
it right then and there because they carry stuff around

(17:54):
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And you don't have to they don't have to make
a second visit out there. Just ask him for an estimate.
Talk about it if you want to, but it's going
to be a fair and honest estimate. That's a good part.
And by the way, if you do need a complete roof,
two things. Number one, he has a financing company he's
working with to help you not have to try to

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Speaker 2 (18:42):
What's life without a net? If I suggest to go
to bed, leave it off, just wait until the show's over. Sleepy.

Speaker 6 (18:49):
Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues. Plus, thanks
for listening. I certainly do appreciate that. Thanks to moriing
Beck for helping us all live a lot longer and
feel a lot better. And speaking of living a long
and feeling pretty good, I'm sure my next guest has
a name and a voice you'll likely recognize if you're
an Astros fan. But we're not going to talk about
baseball today, at least not much.

Speaker 3 (19:10):
If we have time with that, I'll welcome in Jeff Blum,
former right handed switch hitter who spent thirteen seasons playing
Major League baseball.

Speaker 2 (19:19):
Welcome aboard, Jeff, great and beyond.

Speaker 5 (19:23):
Thank you for having me my pleasure.

Speaker 3 (19:24):
So as much as I'd like to talk baseball for
a couple of hours, we're going to go to this
new initiative for MERK and Women Heart, an educational program
called Playing with Heart. That's gonna I got a hunt.
It's going to save tons of lives over the next
several years. What exactly is Playing with Heart.

Speaker 5 (19:42):
Well, that's the idea, and you know MERK has collaborated
with Major League Baseball and Women Heart to allow us
an opportunity to raise awareness. You know, former baseball players
like myself are going to be out there to try
and educate a lot of the adults around my age
because I am fifty plus us and like you said
in the intro, we all want to live a little

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bit longer. We want to live better. But was underlining,
you know, themes that maybe we don't see symptoms of.
Is the LDL, the bad cholesterol. So if we can
enlighten more people about the potential risks of that, I
think the better we're going to be as a community.
And that's just what we're trying to do, is raise
the awareness with this Playing with Heart campaign.

Speaker 3 (20:22):
You you mentioned just a second ago that you had
bad cholesterol. Did you when the doctor said, hey, you
got to work on your cholesterol, did you realize how
dangerous it was.

Speaker 5 (20:33):
No. I had no idea. And you know, it's kind
of ironic the timing of this whole thing, because I,
you know, I do by yearly check outs. I'm fortunate
enough to have a very good doctor that I do trust,
which I recommend for a lot of people out there.
Is you know, especially here at Houston. You know, we
have an opportunity with so many great positions down here
to meet and be with. But I actually had my

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levels checked a couple of weeks ago, and I do
have my cholesterol, and I didn't realize the ris I
just thought it was.

Speaker 2 (21:00):
A bad diet.

Speaker 5 (21:01):
I thought it was, you know, maybe a couple of
too many beverages. But and and the thing is too,
is that you know, we all get in the gym.
We're trying to get out and go on our walks
and keep our cardiovascular health healthy in the sense that
we're working out and doing and doing the work with
the walks. But at the same time, you know, the
symptoms don't pop up unless you get that blood level check.
And that's what I did, and now I'm aware of it.

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And much like having a hitting coach in baseball, I'm
slumping a little bit right now with my health, and
I need those doctors to give me the right information
so that I can combat this and get that number
under control.

Speaker 3 (21:34):
Yeah. I've talked about cholesterol for a lot on fifty
plus here, and one of the things that strikes me
is that there are so many people around this country
who don't even know what their numbers are because they
feel good, they don't see anything wrong, they don't have
a call, they don't have a cold, whatever, And if
sick comes up from high cholesterol or bad cholesterol, the

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results from that are going to be pretty catastrophic, aren't they.

Speaker 5 (21:59):
Yeah, they are. And that's what's crazy. I you know,
I didn't realize until recently that there was, you know,
a link between high you know, high LDL or bad
cholesterol and heart heart attack and stroke. And you know,
it's it's crazy that you know, uh, myself, some other
analysts in the game who played the game at an
elite level. We still take good care of our bodies.

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But I know guys that are my age or a
little bit older than me who work out, they eat right.
Some of them are even vegan, which everybody assumes is
going to you know, create a little cholesterol number. Yet
these guys have had scares with heart attacks and things
like that, so you know, we all want to we
want to avoid being a burden on our families later

(22:42):
in life. But along with not being a burden, we
get to be active, we get to be healthy, we
get to be around the family a little bit longer.
And that's pretty much my primary goal and why I'm
excited about being with playing the part.

Speaker 3 (22:53):
Hey man for that talk a bit about the connection
between merk and baseball. How did that come about?

Speaker 5 (23:00):
I wish I had more knowledge on that. You know,
I think that's something that the higher ups probably looked into.
But I think that the idea is that we have
this massive platform. We're a sport. We have athletes, and
we have excellent athletes talking about the game. And I
think that's where the collaboration kind of maybe spawned from.
Is having guys like myself across Major League Baseball, Yeah,

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probably have issues with this, just to bring more awareness.

Speaker 3 (23:27):
Is playing with heart. It's set to continue I think
through this whole season. Is that correct. I'm sure it'll
live on after but yeah, right.

Speaker 5 (23:36):
Oh yeah, no, you're absolutely right, And that's kind of
the beauty of it too, And you can go to
Playing with Heart dot com. You can. They'll have a
list of all the major league teams. I think they're
rolling out nine ball clubs this year. Fortunately, I'm with
the Houston Estros that we get to an initial process.
I'm excited about it because of the awareness. And even
tomorrow in Wednesday's game against the loss Soders, which will

(23:56):
be a day game, I will get to go out
and actually catch the pitch. Uh, you know, during this
playing with hard campaigns. So it's going to be relentless.
It's going to be great, and there's plenty more information.
You know, we already talked about going and finding that doctor,
but you can also go to playing with Heart dot
com and get more information as well. And don't forget
about the women in your life too, if this affects
them as well.

Speaker 3 (24:17):
That's so, so very true. Talk about Darryl Kyle and
and how what happened to him.

Speaker 5 (24:26):
No, I don't know the the the you know, the
exact causes, but the fact that it happened to somebody
that was my contemporary, a guy that I actually faced,
admired in the game, and uh, you know, I know,
you know, Jeff Bagwell Craig Bigio. There's some guys that
played with Darryl Kyle, with his cimate here at Houston,

(24:46):
and the impact that he had on people is what
I remember most because I know that the day he
passed away in Chicago, it rocked the entire baseball community
because it was he was one of ours. He was
he was one of us. Yeah, and when I stood
on the line in the national anthem and we had
a moment of silence for Darryl Kyle, and you see,

(25:08):
you see, you know, uh, I don't want to use
the term glad eaters because it's so raw and it's
so hence. But you know, I'm watching Jeff Bagwell, you know,
shed a chair, I'm watching Dad Austin. These guys are
men who have grit and have played the game hard.
But I think the recognition of losing a friend number one,
but also losing a teammate at that level is what

(25:30):
frightened a lot of us. And hopefully, you know, unfortunately,
seeing things like that happen that raise awareness for us.

Speaker 3 (25:35):
Yeah, Jenny sent me a cheat sheet. That's why I
was asking. Kyle died of a heart attack in two
thousand and two. It's just so, yeah, my dad the
same way, heart attacking, not not. He's I've outlived him,
how about five years, And I feel like I'm I'm
getting a second chance and doing more. I'm really I'm
really happy that we've been able to do this. Three
chairs to Mark for this. As you know, maybe somebody

(25:57):
in their in their boardroom has season tickets to a
couple of baseball games somewhere. M'd be my hunt. You've
got baseball fans over there, right, Jeff gotta be yeah.

Speaker 5 (26:08):
I would imagine. Yeah. I mean, it's a great sport.
You know, it's a game that's also played one hundred
and sixty two games a year, so you've got in
the shape of your life, and it's also something that's
just going to basically be the theme of your summer.
So I think it's really smart on their part to
get with these nine ball clubs in Major League Baseball
because it's going to be out there quite a bit.
And when you start to relate major League Baseball to

(26:30):
awareness to health issues actually has the ability to carry
a lot of weight. And that's the idea here.

Speaker 3 (26:36):
I'm so glad Mark pulled this off and got people
like you to take care of them and be the
spokesperson for them playing with heart dot com. Okay, I
got about a minute or so. I got to talk baseball.
What are the astros chances of overcoming having basically half
the team hurt since opening day?

Speaker 5 (26:56):
I mean, it's kind of crazy that we're talking about
health and that's the one issue that much like it
did last year. But if they can get healthy, I
know that, you know, we're one month into the season.
The American League West is you know, it fluctuates, and
the Ashros aren't digging an incredibly deep hold just yet, right,
But I'm always holding out hope that these guys can

(27:16):
get healthy because you know, tonight in sugar Land, you're
going to see EMI's pitch a couple of innings. You're
gonna see Josh Haner go out there and pitch an inning.
There's also a guy that we haven't heard of, Nate
Pearson's going out there and pitching. He could be a
big arm. And I think it's if we can get
some guys in that pitching isut healthy. With the offense
we already have, this's playing really well. I think we

(27:37):
you know, we could come back and maybe shock some
people but we.

Speaker 3 (27:40):
Got to get healthy and everybody who goes to that
stadium needs to go get their cholesterol checked. Dog gone it, don't.

Speaker 5 (27:45):
They please, I'm with you.

Speaker 3 (27:47):
Let's do that, yes, sir, playing with heart dot Com. Jeff,
thanks so much for your time.

Speaker 5 (27:52):
Buddy, No, I really appreciate the opportunity. It's going to
be a great, great Thank.

Speaker 3 (27:57):
You, my player. All right, let's take a break show
Jeff Blunt. He's one of the best man. He's so
easy to talk to and yeah, I'm glad they chose
him because he's a good spokesperson. Midway meat Market. Midway
meat Market is in Katie. It's very easy to find.

Speaker 2 (28:15):
Go out.

Speaker 3 (28:15):
I tend to the first Katie exit, fall off the
interstate there and get on the old ninety highway between
Katie and Brookshire, and right there in the little town
of Katie you will see Midway Meat Market on the
south side of the of ninety. Been there for fifty
seven plus years, going back to the eighties. Myself, I
was going out there right about the time they were

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pretty new. I guess Herman Meyer started the place, and
now that he's passed, his daughter Tricia has taken over
the reins and is doing a fantastic job of maintaining
what her father started out there. They've been smoking their
meats the same way since they opened the doors, old
fashioned oak and pecanwood, that's all. They've even got a

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sample table where you can figure out which one of
their twenty five different sausages you like best. And they're
open every day of the week, seven days a week,
eight am to seven pm. Got a nice little lunch
counter in there if you want to order up a
barbecue plate or maybe a cheeseburger or something like that.
Their cheeseburgers are fantastic, by the way. And right now,
since it's backyard barbecue in season, they have USDA Choice

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ground beef for just five eighty five a pound Choice
ground beef five eighty five a pound, and it's ground
fresh daily. You know it's going to be good. Grab
some snack and go stuff on your way out the door.
Be sure to get all the meat you want to
cook for the next couple of weeks. And then if
you see Trish around there, tell her I said hello,
will you I don't think you'll give you a discount,

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but you won't need one. Prices are great at Midway
meat Market. So are the people there. They're friendly as well,
they're country people, they're friendly by nature, great people. Midwaymeatmarket
dot COM's website midday excuse me, Midway meat Market dot Com.

Speaker 1 (30:00):
Aged to perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike.

Speaker 3 (30:05):
Hundreds of millions of dollars thrown at the cause. I
want to say it was about one hundred and seventy million.
I might be off by I don't know a lot,
but it's a huge number. I remember that maybe it
was seventy five million, Maybe it was one hundred and
seventy five I'm not sure, but there's a lot of
tax dollars that governor got about Gavin Newsom through at
homeless problems, and they still have roughly the same number

(30:27):
of homeless people out there, and even worse, nobody knows
where the money went. This is This is socialism one
oh one. You promise everything, you deliver nothing, and then
you force people, You train people to be happy with
the scraps you toss at their feet while you live

(30:48):
behind a wall and travel with a security detail. No thanks, okay,
no thanks. Similar story out of New York where Mayor
Mom Donnie moron zom Donnie has declared that these grocery stores,
he promised, the ones that are gonna have free groceries
for everybody and anybody who wants them. Well, the first

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one's gonna open up in about sometime next year. It
doesn't say exactly when, but what's gonna happen. They're opening
this thing up in a part of Harlem called La Marquetta.
It's a public market, public market space that has a
lot of individual vendors in there. And what the what

(31:31):
the city's gonna do now is drop thirty million bucks
on building a free grocery store and getting it up
and running. And as soon as it gets tarted, if
it ever does, the smaller stores in the area all
will suffer. A lot of them are going to be
forced to close. But hey, socialism, right, great stuff, great stuff.

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Zom Donnie won't have to go to the free grocery
store except for except for imaging. There'll be foos, there'll
be video, there'll be a big announcement. He'll show up
with his entourage and everybody will be thrilled. All the
people around there who have been having to pay for
their groceries, now they're gonna get them free, and so

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what's the grocer gonna do? How's he gonna support his family?
From Breitbart something kind of funny, really, former Chick fil
A worker in Grapevine, Texas accused of stealing eighty thousand
dollars by using his stores registers to dole out to

(32:36):
himself to his own credit card. Hundreds actually eight hundred
of them refunds for mac and cheese orders. My mac
and cheese didn't taste right. Give me ten dollars, okay,
I'll write you up. And they were all fake orders.
I'm sure nobody would have come in there and not

(32:59):
gotten discount. But yeah, he got away with it eight
hundred times. And then I guess that that eight hundred
to one was the one that caught somebody's attention. It's
pretty bizarre. By the speaking of food in world news
in Amsterdam been there, by the way, beautiful place. Probably

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not going to be that way much longer though. Amsterdam
has banned all public ads for meat and fossil fuels.
Think about that for a minute. No more car ads,
no more food ads, no more gas powered car ads.
That's for sure. The I guess the electric cars are okay.

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And no airline ads because they burn fossil fuel. Amsterdam
has just gone all in on the climate agenda, and
somehow thinks tiny little Amsterdam can save the world by
keeping pork chops a secret. Good luck with that. This
world has been changing for billions of years, and the

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climate has changed over billions of years. It gets warm,
then it gets cool, that it gets warm and it
gets cool, and there's I don't feel like there's any
concrete way for humans to manipulate the temperature so that
it would affect the entire planet. I just don't see that,

(34:29):
and I've looked, I've looked for a way that that
might be something to talk about, but I don't see it.
As if we didn't have enough unqualified illegal immigrants driving
commercial trucks around the country now killing Americans. News from
Fox this morning about illegal license counterfeiting operations providing thousands

(34:50):
of phony CDLs to pretty much anybody who wanted one
and has a few hundred bucks. And in the same
Vein Department of Transportations also shut down now more than
five hundred sham driving schools. They thank you, keep it up,
Keep it up. I had some pretty funny stuff over
here but it doesn't look like we're gonna get to

(35:10):
any of it unfortunately, And truth be told, it might
probably be best let me see what this is right here. No,
I've already talked about that. By the way, next year,
every new car sold in the US could be required
to actively monitor the person behind the wheel, including being

(35:33):
able to decide if you're fit to drive. That is
a bad idea, my friend. If somebody being followed makes
a couple of erratic turns to get to a well
lit area for their safety and AI decides they need
to be shutting down, the car needs to be shut down.
That's gonna be a problem. We'll see you tomorrow, Audios.