March 6, 2026 • 35 mins
Today, Doug Pike interviews Dolores Woods about healthy eating. Pike also speaks with Meredith Johnson about Metro's airport route.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Him.
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Welcome to fifty plus. Thanks all, thanks to all of
you for joining us on this Friday, a day that
in the future I may dedicate all I'll dedicate Fridays.
I'm thinking about it. I talked to about it a
little bit yesterday to all the cool stuff from the
week that wound up on the cutting room floor because
I ran out of time. But not today, because I've
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already got two great interviews scheduled. I just put up
a little Facebook post about them, and some timely world
news and some other stuff that seems worthy at least
for now. We'll see how that turns out. As we
plod through the hour, weather calls for rain all weekend
and into Monday, and my son, my only child, had plans. Actually,
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at this point, he still has plans to drive himself
all the way up to the middle of Arkansas and
watch some baseball up there. Friend of his plays up
there over the weekend. I may have to pull the
plug on a solo six hundred mile drive in thunderstorms.
He's not gonna like that, but safety Trump's stupidity every time,
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and I don't want him driving off into something that
That would be the first time he's driven that far.
He's done a couple of hundred miles before, but six
hundred solo in heavy weather. I don't know that he's
quite ready for that. I may have to pull the plug.
We'll see. Markets tumbled again this morning on day seven
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of our war with a run which also pushed up
oil prices close to ninety dollars a barrel. They may
be there now. There's a guy who works in this
building on the opposite corner from our office, whose company
handles a lot of worldwide shipping of goods. I asked
him a little while ago. I saw him in the
hall and asked if he had any tankers held up
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over in the strait of horror moves, and he said,
thank goodness, no. His opinion is that if things that'll
settle out pretty quick, oil could be at one hundred
bucks by early next week. Gold gained almost seventy five
dollars an hour else this morning. Last time I looked,
it was at fifty one fifty three, And as I said,
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that was the last time I looked. While more than
half the world, well half the nation anyway, warned about
the dangers of President Biden's wide open border. During his
time in office, young men from more than one hundred
countries showed up suddenly in our country and gladly accepted
his handouts for food and housing, transportation, cell phones, all
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on our dime. And among them hundreds of young fighting
age men from Iran. Among the thousands from other countries,
hundreds at least from Iran. Mostly they got lost in
the shuffle of young men too, traveling alone from enemy
countries from friendly countries. Didn't matter. They all got in,
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and they all got treated way better than that administration
ever treated Americans. Because Biden's cruiting care, that's why, And
neither did the liberals who put them in office, and
now well in Austin. Just recently one of them went
berserk or just deliberately and sanely, because that's the way
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they think, killed a bunch of innocent people on Sixth Street.
How many more of them are there, I wonder? And
when are they going to make their displeasure for what
we've done to their country? Known Democrats who are turning
their backs on this won't learn until it's way too
late that if they let this whole far left trend
continue and try to reopen the borders and just let
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more and more and more people unvetted entirely into our
country and pay them, pay them better than they then
any Americans get paid for doing what they do, which
is nothing. Yeah, that's a real problem. They're going to
learn that they're going to be among the first yanked
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out of power if eventually this country of ours ever
was to fall thanks to their bad policies, as soon
as soon as enough other people got in, as soon
as enough people who wanted to take over this country
are in, and they may be now already. You stop
and look at New York City, look at Chicago, look
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at things that are going on in those cities, and
you'll see what I'm talking about. There is this push
and it's I think it's stage three of the takeover
plan that's been talked about, uh in openly and all
over the media. If you go looking for it. Stage
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three is kind of spreading your wings and flexing your
muscles and telling everybody to get out of your way.
And that's kind of what happens when you have tens
of thousands of people in the streets, blocking the streets
and exercising their American right to freedom religion, totally blocking
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the streets, and there's more of it. It's quite frightening.
You've got to look at it, you've got to learn
about it, and hopefully we can do well what we
can do as mere mortals and not in any power
set up, power position at all. We can vote. That's
all we have is that one vote, and I just
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pray that we get this id requirement in that Save
Act has got to pass or this nation's going a
hard time, gonna have a hard time getting to birthday
two fifty one. Even I think it's very frustrating. How
are we doing? Will one minute and a half? Okay,
I can do that. Let me just kind of shift
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off of that. Got that. Yeah, that is I'll say this.
I had one more little note about this. When those
left leaners get ousted by in this hypothetical overthrow, they'll
wipe out our entire government and replace it with others.
And if it were Iran, for example, which I don't
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think it would be, but who knows, but Iranian leaders
have had they've already shown this. They have no trouble
killing their own people to keep them in line. How
much you think they really care about us. They're sworn
enemy the people they've been. This is the country that
Iran's gone after for fifty something years. And finally we
have a president that's just said, no, we're not going
to give you money and make you pinky swear not
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stuff up. That's the only thing they understand, and hopefully
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What's life without a net? Did you go to bed?
Leave it off, just wait until the show's over. Sleepy.
Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues. Back to
fifty plus, thanks for listening. Certainly do appreciate it since
since nearly every interview I do on this show somehow
winds up including emphasis on the importance of a healthy diet.
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That's what we'll discuss specifically in this segment, and we'll
do it with registered dietrician who's been with me here
several times over the years, and that would be Dolores Woods,
nutrition supervisor for the Newish program at ut Heuse Houston
School of Public Health. Welcome back, Delrius, Good afternoon, Good
afternoon to you as well. So I know that you know.
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But we'll tell the audience now that March is National
Nutrition Month and the theme this year is discover the
power of Nutrition. And I'm going to tag that line
with for seniors, if I may so, tell us first
just how nutritional needs change going into senior and then
we'll get to the rest.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Yeah, so as we get older, we lose more muscle mass,
and this is a natural process which means we're going
to need more protein to maintain that strength, to maintain
the less that muscle mass. We also really need to
make sure we're seeing hydrated. Our thirst queues weekend over time,
so we may not think that we're thirsty or we
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need water and completely forget. But that's why it's just
important making that habit to you know, drink waters about
the day, even if you're not feeling thirsty.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
That's a good way to look at it. You've got
to keep it up regardless. And the protein thing, I'm
glad you pointed that out because I've been drinking like
a little protein supplement every day.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Is that okay, Yeah, the proteins are supplements are fine,
just make sure they don't have too much of that
added sugar so somewhere better than others. But also getting
it from food first is really important. So you know,
lean protein, it could be chicken, lean beef is fine.
Fish is a great source of protein. I think so
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many foods that have added protein, including you know, cereals
and soda, so we don't need to be you know,
eating it in that way where it's added to foods
that aren't necessarily going to contain protein. Food first is
always going to be better.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
I saw something kind of a sidebar here about sugar
and there was somebody who came on and said, eliminating
sugar entirely from your diet is actually very unhealthy. Is
that Is that true.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Those added sugars? I would say it's not necessarily true.
You know, we have there are foods that are going
to have natural sugars, the fruits, right, and then even
milk has that milk sugar. But it's thinking about those sweets,
the can eat chocolate cakes, all of that is not
going to be healthy for so eliminating that it's going
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to be better, but it's not going to be possible
to completely eliminated since some foods aren't going to have
natural sources of sugar.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Yeah, the natural sugar, that's okay, But if you're eating
chocolate cake for breakfast, that's not good. Let's talk about
that or a chocolate buff then okay. What lifestyle or
genetic factors might might bring on an earlier or later
change in our nutritional needs as seniors.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
Well, if we haven't had a healthier, you know, lifestyle
just for a long time, it really does catch up.
So I'm also having family members who have had maybe
type two diabetes or even things like Alzheimer's Parkinson's. This
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is going to increase the risk for us if we
do have first degree family members with some of these conditions.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Fair enough, when you're talking to somebody about nutrition, what
questions do you ask them before you make recommendations. I'm
kind of curious.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
I usually try to assess what they're eating. So a
lot of times, you know, I want to fill in
the gap. I don't like to take food away. I
think that a lot of times people think dieticians are
the food police, and we're going to tell you not
to eat any of that good food you like. So
I just like to see what's missing. Are you missing vegetables?
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Are you missing fruits or whole creams? How can we
add that to what you're already eating so that it's
not such a dramatic change and you're not, you know,
feeling upset because you're not eating some of your favorite foods.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Let's talk about I saw this brand new the nutrition chart.
What is it called the pyramid? The food pyramid, and
it's basically been turned upside down. Do you agree with
what's what it's configuration is now?
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Yeah, you know, I did see It's it's different. It's
going to take a while to get used to it,
But overall I agree with it because it is promoting
you know, real whole food. So I feel like, you know,
good nutritional advice. It's not going to change. I know
there is a lot of things in the media, and
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there may be a lot of controversy, but when it
comes down to it, we know that a diet that
is you know, full of vegetables, whole grains, healthy fats,
and good sources of protein fruits, these are all things
that we should be continuing to eat. Having those key
healthy staples like beans, FROs and vegetables on hand. These
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are you know, healthy things. So there may be some
things on that pyramid, like maybe too much be for
too much of this saturated fat through the whole milk,
But overall, I think sticking to eating whole food that
is not as processed is a good tip.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
That's a very good way to put it. I'm looking
at that chart right now, and I tell you straight up,
I couldn't eat that steak that's on that chart, so
or the whole chicken that's there. I'm gonna have to
get some smaller portions. Are there any Are there any
specific rules about three meals a day or two meals
a day and some snacks or anything like that these days,
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you know.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
I actually I tell people, if you're eating three balanced
meals and you're not hungry in between, that's a good
way to go. I feel like we've gotten used to
the idea of eating throughout the day the day, grazing, snacking,
and if you're not hungry, don't eat. You don't you know.
One of the things that happens is our blood sugar
spikes every time we eat, and that's not necessarily good
(15:38):
for us. So three meals a day, I think is
a good recommendation and a good goal. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
I tend down here at the office. I keep some
snacks at my desk, and I don't go to them
unless I really truly feel hungry. I don't just grab
them and start eating. And I hope that's that okay
with you. I'm just checking.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
I think that's a great. Yeah, if you're hungry, definitely
reach for them and eat them. And you know, if
you're prepared, that's also what helps. If you do have
that snack by your side, so you're not you're not
getting cranky, right.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
I don't want to get angry around here. Exactly talk
about fad diets and the trouble they can brew.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Yeah, so there are so many fad diets out there,
and especially for older adults, one of the things that
happens is that they do cut out entire food groups.
And like I said, as we get older, we we
are going to need more protein. But that doesn't mean
that's the only thing you should be eating. It should
be balanced, especially getting a lot of fiber in there
from vegetables and go hoole greens, and sometimes it could
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be extremely low calorie, and so you still need to
make sure that they're you're you know, you're following sustainable
balanced eating. It could lead to nutrition deficiencies and dizziness.
And then older adults, if you get dizzy, you know
because you're hung you could fall and so that could
be a problem, you know, breaking a bone. That's something
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that sometimes you don't think about. So having that just
balanced eating, not thinking about cutting out entire food groups,
because that again is not going to be healthy.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
We're down inside a minute, Delores. What's the best place
to go to find a little bit more information about
all of this? A good website.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
So the right dot Org does have a lot of
information and a lot of handouts for men, women, seniors,
and kids.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Let's pretty pretty much sums it up. You got me,
You got me with the perfect answer to the question
I asked, as always the Laurus Woods. Thank you so
very much. I hope we can do it again soon.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Thank you. Have a good day.
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Speaker 2 (20:24):
Thanks for listening. I certainly do appreciate it. Oh man.
We got some rain coming over the weekend, but we're
not going to talk about that anymore. In this segment,
we're going to talk about Metro's Downtown Direct five hundred
airport route and thanks to demand, some expansion of the program,
and to explain, I'm going to bring in Meredith Johnson,
Executive VP of Communications for Metro. Welcome aboard, Meredith, Hi there,
(20:48):
how are you doing. I'm very well. So when did
Downtown Direct five hundred kick off?
Speaker 3 (20:54):
You know, we launched the iah route at the end
of last year and we've just brought the hobby route
online as well, right in time for all the exciting
things going on in Houston leading up to the World
Cup when Houston will be on the world stage.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Pretty good timing. I would say, how many places can
people hop on a bus right now to get a
ride to the airport?
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Yeah, so this route goes directly from downtown with several
stops here, straight to either airport and back. This is
a non stop direct Once you leave downtown, you are
headed straight to the airport and people are going to
get there cheaper, faster, and easier. You know, I always
overpack and I'm always running late, so this has made
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a huge difference for me. For four dollars and fifty cents,
I can hop on the metro bus downtown and I'm
going to have a comfortable ride in one of our
nice parking ride buses. The operator is going to help
me load my luggage on board, all four or five
of my bags that I have, probably an extra one
for my shoes. And when I get there, I don't
have to walk and fight across the parking lot or
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pay for parking. They pull us right up to the
front doors, hand me my bags, I get off. I'm
calm and ready to get on a flight.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Now, I'm presuming all these stops aren't just on street corners.
Are that? Are you going to hotels or you go?
Where are the buses stopping to pick up passengers?
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Yes, we are. Our main stop is at the Georgia R.
Brown Convention Center, and there's parking there where people can
leave their cars. And then we've added a couple of
other stops throughout downtown just to make it a little
easier for people to get there, who getting across downtown
to George or Brown is a little more difficult. So
we encourage people to go online to ride Metro and
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see how their route will best work.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
That's got to relieve so much parking congestion at the
airport and traffic and whatnot. It's just going to benefit
all of us, right.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Yeah, I mean by the time you get there and
you've got to figure out, oh no, I've got to
go park on level you know, eighty five or something,
and how am I going to get all these bags?
You know, everybody needs to think, hey, let me give
this new route on Metro a try. We are really
really grateful to Mayor John Whitmyer's administration and the airports
for working with us on this, because it's just going
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to make it a lot easier for Houstonians who want
to travel, but also for visitors who want to come
and experience this great Houston region that we have.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Yeah, and going back to something you just kind of
brushed over very quickly, I'm going to hang on it
for a minute. With the convenience, reliability and affordability that
four dollars and fifty cents each way, I you could
have called probably charged twice as much and still gotten
as many riders, But thank you for staying at four fifty. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
You know, the other day I was going to take
an uber to Hobby because we didn't have this route
up and running yet, and it was eighty five dollars.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Oh my word.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
And I'm thinking, if I'm going on a vacation, I
want to spend that eighty five dollars having a really
good time, not fighting traffic through Houston. And that's another
point is that a lot of people don't realize we're
able to use our designated HOV lanes and ramps to
get into the airports, So it actually will cut your
travel time in traffic in about half.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Yeah, I saw in the prep work. I got that
it's the average ride's going to be about forty minutes
or so from downtown to the airport.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
That is not bad, not bad at all.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
How often do these buses run. It's I presume there's
a start time and a stop time, not overnight.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Right, Yeah, no, they're not running overnight, but they're running
all day, from early in the morning to the evening,
so there will be a time for everyone. Will not
leave anybody stranded at the airport. We will get people
there and we will get them home. And they run
about every thirty minutes.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
That's what I was going to ask too. If I
miss a bus, when's the next one coming in about
half an hour? That's not bad at all.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
I got a half an hour, enough time to grab
a cup of coffee, take a deep breath, and get
back on the next one.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Met Meredith Johnson here from Metro talking about Downtown Direct
five hundred these rides to the off into the airports
for four dollars and fifty cents and back to demand.
I'm presuming it's been really good, or you wouldn't have expanded.
But I'm also guessing that Metro's got kind of a
next level plan already on the books for when current
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programs fill out, or probably for the soccer tournaments coming up.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Oh yeah. You know, for any major event, we expand
service and hours meeting with whether it's our local routes,
our parking rides, our trains, we run specialty service. Like
right now for the Rodeo, we're making sure that our
trains are arriving every six minutes to keep people moving.
You know, we moved a million people into Rodeo last
year and our numbers are already way higher. Right now
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at Metro under the new board chair Elizabeth Gonzales Brock,
we are really focused on meeting our customers where they
are today. We're building on the basics. You know, I
grew up in Houston, and there was a time where
I would have said, I'm not getting on Metro. I
don't think it's safe, I don't think it's clean. We
are addressing the needs and our customers and new writers
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are finding that Metro is a system that they want
to choose, even for people who do have cars and
don't have to write it every day. I'm writing it
to Rodeo because I choose to. I feel safe, We
have officers on board, we have new cleaning schedules. I
encourage everybody to give Metro a fresh look and a
new try.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
I don't blame you. Think maybe someday you can get
a direct five hundred bus stop in front of my
house because I almost start tracking. Wouldn't that be nice? Yeah? Yeah,
So we're.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Constantly listening and adding to the routes the best we can.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Well, I appreciate that, Meredith Johnson. What's the website again
for this?
Speaker 3 (26:37):
It is www dot ridemetro dot org.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Ridemetro dot org. Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Thank you for your time.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
You bet Boby. All right, we got to take a
little break here. On the way out, I'll tell you
about the UT Health Institute on Aging again, because I've
had the pleasure and privilege of speaking for this group
for right at ten years, maybe eleven now, I'm really
not sure. It's an amazing collaborative of healthcare providers from
every medical discipline, mostly in the med center as you
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might expect, but also traveling to outlying areas so that
people like us who need to be seen by someone
who knows seniors best can get there without having to
go into the med center if we don't want to
do that, And the way they get their credentials, the
way they become part of this Institute on Aging is
by going back and receiving additional education in their field.
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But as it applies specifically to seniors, that's kind of
a big deal and it's a tremendous asset for us,
those of us who live in Southeast Texas and especially
here in Houston. Not many places in the entire country,
you can count them on one hand, have something anywhere
remotely similar to this. We have the best, and we
have the biggest as far as I'm concerned. It's the
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fantastic opportunity. First, go to the website. You'll see what
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all of this stuff for that doesn't cost you a
dime to learn about. And then if you need it,
start your search for one of the providers who are
part of the Institute on Aging and go see them
about something that's bothering you and you want to get
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it fixed, as only these providers can fix it. Uth
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you at all. If I tell you the salary, you
think that might change your mind? Out there go the
eyebrows up up in a way. What do you think
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it pays forty to sixty or sixty to eighty thousand
a year. Forty six thousand a year. You only missed
it by a little will if you can get the job,
it pays one hundred gees a year to eat Wendy's
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food and maybe even eat other fast foods for comparison.
I don't know what the details are, and I'm not
going to look. My health can't take a year of that. Yeah,
cardiac arrest keeps popping up into my mind. A good
friend of mine, by the way, recently had a heart
attack and he's fine. He called me the other day
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to let me know, Hey, in this case, you were
wondering where I've been oh, I had a heart attack.
That's what happens when we get to this age, people
start having things like that. And I hope that all
of you were paying attention to Dolores Woods earlier in
the show when we talked about nutrition and the importance
which goes along with it. Would it would at some
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day someday doing this show. I want to have Dolores
Woods and who else. Let's see who we could get
John Higgins, Doctor Higgins, a cardiologist. Get a nutritionist and
a cardiologist both on the phone at the same time.
Could we do that? Will? And we'll just we'll just
hammer it down. We'll do two second segments, maybe even
(30:21):
a full show on nutrition and exercise, because without those
two things, whoever you are, whatever your condition right now,
if you don't exercise and you don't eat right, you're
not going to live as long as you want to.
You're not. So let's work on that. By the way,
Tomorrow evening is when we spring forward. And I had
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a young person in this office, one of the guys
over on close to my desk. Ask me again, do
I move my clocks forward or back? This guy's almost thirty,
he might be thirty, and he doesn't know. So that
kind of tells you how impressed people are with daylight
saving some and here's an idea that has absolutely no
(31:05):
chance of working out. Some congressman in Florida thinks we
should switch to half daylight saving time. I can't even
say it without laughing, instead of permanent standard or daylight time.
He wants to just split it in the middle and
have everybody shift their clocks up thirty minutes and then
leave them there forever, which would be a really, really
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big problem for trying to do things based on the
other ninety nine percent of this country clocks time zones.
You got half a time zone. Now, it's just dumb,
it truly is. And by the way, there was a
little sidebar to the story said, how to spend that
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extra hour you're gonna make up after we shift the clocks.
You can take down your Christmas lights, or you can
spend time in this one. I can appreciate not so
much in the digital ad and the electronics age technology age,
but a while back, you'd probably spend a half an
hour at least in maybe that whole hour trying to
(32:09):
reset the clock in your car. Does yours changeover automatically
will probably Yeah, mine does. In my phone. The very
first year I had an actual cell phone, I worried
about figuring out how to change it. I have to go,
I'm thinking to myself. I got to go into settings,
I got to find the clock. I got to try
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to move it forward somehow. And I woke up the
next morning and I was kind of foggy headed and whatnot. Oh,
I better change that clock. And I did, and for
almost that whole day I thought it was an hour later.
That really was because it had actually automatically changed itself,
and I didn't know that. There you have it. How
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much time do I have? I can get into a
little bit of juicy stuff. Oh, by the way, from
Ethan Buchanan and the kh newsroom came over yesterday afternoon
and talked to me about this. He found the story
of Planned Parenthood and because they're subject to different rules
now that are eaten into their profit margin, they are
(33:13):
selling botox and lip filler at Planned Parenthood. Seems our
president's new policy on abortion has cost them billions and
billions of dollars. So rather than scale back or shut
down in areas where they can't do their work, they
just change their business model, which makes me wonder whether
they were really as dedicated to helping folks make decisions
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on parenthood as they were about running a profitable business.
All about the money. It almost always is. It's all
about the money. And back to the previews of the
movie about socialists and communists slowly taking the reins of
our nation. Story in the Western Journal on how New
York City Mayor Moron Zamdani and New York Governor Kathy
(33:59):
Hochele have teamed up up to provide free childcare. Awesome
free childcare for whom you ask. That would be for
illegal immigrants, not the hard working people in New York
who are going to have to pay for it with
their tax dollars and still pay for their child care.
Oh no, no, this goes to the illegal immigrants and
(34:20):
their kids. They call it free, but in fact it's
going to be covered by part of Governor Hocals one
point two billion dollar pledge to support early childcare and education.
But not for Americans, just for illegal immigrants. Meanwhile, well,
it's just nuts, it really is. It's sad and it's
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nuts that we've put these people in power. And I
hope that some of the Democrats who put them there
are realizing now that the only thing they want to
do is turn us socialist and take away money, take
away services from people who are truly, truly struggling in
some cases to get by. But you got to pay
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your taxes, no matter what happens, you got to pay
your taxes. And if you don't, you're just gonna get
in more trouble. It's sad, it really is. It's sad
the predicament we've been put in by people on the left,
very far leaning left. I might add I've got something
that I may want to talk about next week on
James Tallerico, the guy who won over Jasmine Crockett for
(35:26):
the Democratic nomination. There was a story this morning about
all of the things he said, and he is no moderate.
He is a wolf in sheep's clothing. We'll talk about
him next week. We'll talk about everything else than anything
else that happens over the weekend. Thank you all for listening.
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Welcome to fifty plus. Thanks all, thanks to all of
you for joining us on this Friday, a day that
in the future I may dedicate all I'll dedicate Fridays.
I'm thinking about it. I talked to about it a
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week that wound up on the cutting room floor because
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a little Facebook post about them, and some timely world
news and some other stuff that seems worthy at least
for now. We'll see how that turns out. As we
plod through the hour, weather calls for rain all weekend
and into Monday, and my son, my only child, had plans. Actually,
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at this point, he still has plans to drive himself
all the way up to the middle of Arkansas and
watch some baseball up there. Friend of his plays up
there over the weekend. I may have to pull the
plug on a solo six hundred mile drive in thunderstorms.
He's not gonna like that, but safety Trump's stupidity every time,
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and I don't want him driving off into something that
That would be the first time he's driven that far.
He's done a couple of hundred miles before, but six
hundred solo in heavy weather. I don't know that he's
quite ready for that. I may have to pull the plug.
We'll see. Markets tumbled again this morning on day seven
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of our war with a run which also pushed up
oil prices close to ninety dollars a barrel. They may
be there now. There's a guy who works in this
building on the opposite corner from our office, whose company
handles a lot of worldwide shipping of goods. I asked
him a little while ago. I saw him in the
hall and asked if he had any tankers held up
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over in the strait of horror moves, and he said,
thank goodness, no. His opinion is that if things that'll
settle out pretty quick, oil could be at one hundred
bucks by early next week. Gold gained almost seventy five
dollars an hour else this morning. Last time I looked,
it was at fifty one fifty three, And as I said,
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that was the last time I looked. While more than
half the world, well half the nation anyway, warned about
the dangers of President Biden's wide open border. During his
time in office, young men from more than one hundred
countries showed up suddenly in our country and gladly accepted
his handouts for food and housing, transportation, cell phones, all
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on our dime. And among them hundreds of young fighting
age men from Iran. Among the thousands from other countries,
hundreds at least from Iran. Mostly they got lost in
the shuffle of young men too, traveling alone from enemy
countries from friendly countries. Didn't matter. They all got in,
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and they all got treated way better than that administration
ever treated Americans. Because Biden's cruiting care, that's why, And
neither did the liberals who put them in office, and
now well in Austin. Just recently one of them went
berserk or just deliberately and sanely, because that's the way
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they think, killed a bunch of innocent people on Sixth Street.
How many more of them are there, I wonder? And
when are they going to make their displeasure for what
we've done to their country? Known Democrats who are turning
their backs on this won't learn until it's way too
late that if they let this whole far left trend
continue and try to reopen the borders and just let
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more and more and more people unvetted entirely into our
country and pay them, pay them better than they then
any Americans get paid for doing what they do, which
is nothing. Yeah, that's a real problem. They're going to
learn that they're going to be among the first yanked
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out of power if eventually this country of ours ever
was to fall thanks to their bad policies, as soon
as soon as enough other people got in, as soon
as enough people who wanted to take over this country
are in, and they may be now already. You stop
and look at New York City, look at Chicago, look
(05:17):
at things that are going on in those cities, and
you'll see what I'm talking about. There is this push
and it's I think it's stage three of the takeover
plan that's been talked about, uh in openly and all
over the media. If you go looking for it. Stage
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three is kind of spreading your wings and flexing your
muscles and telling everybody to get out of your way.
And that's kind of what happens when you have tens
of thousands of people in the streets, blocking the streets
and exercising their American right to freedom religion, totally blocking
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the streets, and there's more of it. It's quite frightening.
You've got to look at it, you've got to learn
about it, and hopefully we can do well what we
can do as mere mortals and not in any power
set up, power position at all. We can vote. That's
all we have is that one vote, and I just
(06:24):
pray that we get this id requirement in that Save
Act has got to pass or this nation's going a
hard time, gonna have a hard time getting to birthday
two fifty one. Even I think it's very frustrating. How
are we doing? Will one minute and a half? Okay,
I can do that. Let me just kind of shift
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off of that. Got that. Yeah, that is I'll say this.
I had one more little note about this. When those
left leaners get ousted by in this hypothetical overthrow, they'll
wipe out our entire government and replace it with others.
And if it were Iran, for example, which I don't
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think it would be, but who knows, but Iranian leaders
have had they've already shown this. They have no trouble
killing their own people to keep them in line. How
much you think they really care about us. They're sworn
enemy the people they've been. This is the country that
Iran's gone after for fifty something years. And finally we
have a president that's just said, no, we're not going
to give you money and make you pinky swear not
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stuff up. That's the only thing they understand, and hopefully
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Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues. Back to
fifty plus, thanks for listening. Certainly do appreciate it since
since nearly every interview I do on this show somehow
winds up including emphasis on the importance of a healthy diet.
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That's what we'll discuss specifically in this segment, and we'll
do it with registered dietrician who's been with me here
several times over the years, and that would be Dolores Woods,
nutrition supervisor for the Newish program at ut Heuse Houston
School of Public Health. Welcome back, Delrius, Good afternoon, Good
afternoon to you as well. So I know that you know.
(09:43):
But we'll tell the audience now that March is National
Nutrition Month and the theme this year is discover the
power of Nutrition. And I'm going to tag that line
with for seniors, if I may so, tell us first
just how nutritional needs change going into senior and then
we'll get to the rest.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Yeah, so as we get older, we lose more muscle mass,
and this is a natural process which means we're going
to need more protein to maintain that strength, to maintain
the less that muscle mass. We also really need to
make sure we're seeing hydrated. Our thirst queues weekend over time,
so we may not think that we're thirsty or we
(10:24):
need water and completely forget. But that's why it's just
important making that habit to you know, drink waters about
the day, even if you're not feeling thirsty.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
That's a good way to look at it. You've got
to keep it up regardless. And the protein thing, I'm
glad you pointed that out because I've been drinking like
a little protein supplement every day.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Is that okay, Yeah, the proteins are supplements are fine,
just make sure they don't have too much of that
added sugar so somewhere better than others. But also getting
it from food first is really important. So you know,
lean protein, it could be chicken, lean beef is fine.
Fish is a great source of protein. I think so
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many foods that have added protein, including you know, cereals
and soda, so we don't need to be you know,
eating it in that way where it's added to foods
that aren't necessarily going to contain protein. Food first is
always going to be better.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
I saw something kind of a sidebar here about sugar
and there was somebody who came on and said, eliminating
sugar entirely from your diet is actually very unhealthy. Is
that Is that true.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Those added sugars? I would say it's not necessarily true.
You know, we have there are foods that are going
to have natural sugars, the fruits, right, and then even
milk has that milk sugar. But it's thinking about those sweets,
the can eat chocolate cakes, all of that is not
going to be healthy for so eliminating that it's going
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to be better, but it's not going to be possible
to completely eliminated since some foods aren't going to have
natural sources of sugar.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Yeah, the natural sugar, that's okay, But if you're eating
chocolate cake for breakfast, that's not good. Let's talk about
that or a chocolate buff then okay. What lifestyle or
genetic factors might might bring on an earlier or later
change in our nutritional needs as seniors.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
Well, if we haven't had a healthier, you know, lifestyle
just for a long time, it really does catch up.
So I'm also having family members who have had maybe
type two diabetes or even things like Alzheimer's Parkinson's. This
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is going to increase the risk for us if we
do have first degree family members with some of these conditions.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Fair enough, when you're talking to somebody about nutrition, what
questions do you ask them before you make recommendations. I'm
kind of curious.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
I usually try to assess what they're eating. So a
lot of times, you know, I want to fill in
the gap. I don't like to take food away. I
think that a lot of times people think dieticians are
the food police, and we're going to tell you not
to eat any of that good food you like. So
I just like to see what's missing. Are you missing vegetables?
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Are you missing fruits or whole creams? How can we
add that to what you're already eating so that it's
not such a dramatic change and you're not, you know,
feeling upset because you're not eating some of your favorite foods.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Let's talk about I saw this brand new the nutrition chart.
What is it called the pyramid? The food pyramid, and
it's basically been turned upside down. Do you agree with
what's what it's configuration is now?
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Yeah, you know, I did see It's it's different. It's
going to take a while to get used to it,
But overall I agree with it because it is promoting
you know, real whole food. So I feel like, you know,
good nutritional advice. It's not going to change. I know
there is a lot of things in the media, and
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there may be a lot of controversy, but when it
comes down to it, we know that a diet that
is you know, full of vegetables, whole grains, healthy fats,
and good sources of protein fruits, these are all things
that we should be continuing to eat. Having those key
healthy staples like beans, FROs and vegetables on hand. These
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are you know, healthy things. So there may be some
things on that pyramid, like maybe too much be for
too much of this saturated fat through the whole milk,
But overall, I think sticking to eating whole food that
is not as processed is a good tip.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
That's a very good way to put it. I'm looking
at that chart right now, and I tell you straight up,
I couldn't eat that steak that's on that chart, so
or the whole chicken that's there. I'm gonna have to
get some smaller portions. Are there any Are there any
specific rules about three meals a day or two meals
a day and some snacks or anything like that these days,
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you know.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
I actually I tell people, if you're eating three balanced
meals and you're not hungry in between, that's a good
way to go. I feel like we've gotten used to
the idea of eating throughout the day the day, grazing, snacking,
and if you're not hungry, don't eat. You don't you know.
One of the things that happens is our blood sugar
spikes every time we eat, and that's not necessarily good
(15:38):
for us. So three meals a day, I think is
a good recommendation and a good goal. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
I tend down here at the office. I keep some
snacks at my desk, and I don't go to them
unless I really truly feel hungry. I don't just grab
them and start eating. And I hope that's that okay
with you. I'm just checking.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
I think that's a great. Yeah, if you're hungry, definitely
reach for them and eat them. And you know, if
you're prepared, that's also what helps. If you do have
that snack by your side, so you're not you're not
getting cranky, right.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
I don't want to get angry around here. Exactly talk
about fad diets and the trouble they can brew.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Yeah, so there are so many fad diets out there,
and especially for older adults, one of the things that
happens is that they do cut out entire food groups.
And like I said, as we get older, we we
are going to need more protein. But that doesn't mean
that's the only thing you should be eating. It should
be balanced, especially getting a lot of fiber in there
from vegetables and go hoole greens, and sometimes it could
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be extremely low calorie, and so you still need to
make sure that they're you're you know, you're following sustainable
balanced eating. It could lead to nutrition deficiencies and dizziness.
And then older adults, if you get dizzy, you know
because you're hung you could fall and so that could
be a problem, you know, breaking a bone. That's something
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that sometimes you don't think about. So having that just
balanced eating, not thinking about cutting out entire food groups,
because that again is not going to be healthy.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
We're down inside a minute, Delores. What's the best place
to go to find a little bit more information about
all of this? A good website.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
So the right dot Org does have a lot of
information and a lot of handouts for men, women, seniors,
and kids.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Let's pretty pretty much sums it up. You got me,
You got me with the perfect answer to the question
I asked, as always the Laurus Woods. Thank you so
very much. I hope we can do it again soon.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Thank you. Have a good day.
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Thanks for listening. I certainly do appreciate it. Oh man.
We got some rain coming over the weekend, but we're
not going to talk about that anymore. In this segment,
we're going to talk about Metro's Downtown Direct five hundred
airport route and thanks to demand, some expansion of the program,
and to explain, I'm going to bring in Meredith Johnson,
Executive VP of Communications for Metro. Welcome aboard, Meredith, Hi there,
(20:48):
how are you doing. I'm very well. So when did
Downtown Direct five hundred kick off?
Speaker 3 (20:54):
You know, we launched the iah route at the end
of last year and we've just brought the hobby route
online as well, right in time for all the exciting
things going on in Houston leading up to the World
Cup when Houston will be on the world stage.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Pretty good timing. I would say, how many places can
people hop on a bus right now to get a
ride to the airport?
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Yeah, so this route goes directly from downtown with several
stops here, straight to either airport and back. This is
a non stop direct Once you leave downtown, you are
headed straight to the airport and people are going to
get there cheaper, faster, and easier. You know, I always
overpack and I'm always running late, so this has made
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a huge difference for me. For four dollars and fifty cents,
I can hop on the metro bus downtown and I'm
going to have a comfortable ride in one of our
nice parking ride buses. The operator is going to help
me load my luggage on board, all four or five
of my bags that I have, probably an extra one
for my shoes. And when I get there, I don't
have to walk and fight across the parking lot or
(22:03):
pay for parking. They pull us right up to the
front doors, hand me my bags, I get off. I'm
calm and ready to get on a flight.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Now, I'm presuming all these stops aren't just on street corners.
Are that? Are you going to hotels or you go?
Where are the buses stopping to pick up passengers?
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Yes, we are. Our main stop is at the Georgia R.
Brown Convention Center, and there's parking there where people can
leave their cars. And then we've added a couple of
other stops throughout downtown just to make it a little
easier for people to get there, who getting across downtown
to George or Brown is a little more difficult. So
we encourage people to go online to ride Metro and
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see how their route will best work.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
That's got to relieve so much parking congestion at the
airport and traffic and whatnot. It's just going to benefit
all of us, right.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Yeah, I mean by the time you get there and
you've got to figure out, oh no, I've got to
go park on level you know, eighty five or something,
and how am I going to get all these bags?
You know, everybody needs to think, hey, let me give
this new route on Metro a try. We are really
really grateful to Mayor John Whitmyer's administration and the airports
for working with us on this, because it's just going
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to make it a lot easier for Houstonians who want
to travel, but also for visitors who want to come
and experience this great Houston region that we have.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Yeah, and going back to something you just kind of
brushed over very quickly, I'm going to hang on it
for a minute. With the convenience, reliability and affordability that
four dollars and fifty cents each way, I you could
have called probably charged twice as much and still gotten
as many riders, But thank you for staying at four fifty. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
You know, the other day I was going to take
an uber to Hobby because we didn't have this route
up and running yet, and it was eighty five dollars.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Oh my word.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
And I'm thinking, if I'm going on a vacation, I
want to spend that eighty five dollars having a really
good time, not fighting traffic through Houston. And that's another
point is that a lot of people don't realize we're
able to use our designated HOV lanes and ramps to
get into the airports, So it actually will cut your
travel time in traffic in about half.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Yeah, I saw in the prep work. I got that
it's the average ride's going to be about forty minutes
or so from downtown to the airport.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
That is not bad, not bad at all.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
How often do these buses run. It's I presume there's
a start time and a stop time, not overnight.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Right, Yeah, no, they're not running overnight, but they're running
all day, from early in the morning to the evening,
so there will be a time for everyone. Will not
leave anybody stranded at the airport. We will get people
there and we will get them home. And they run
about every thirty minutes.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
That's what I was going to ask too. If I
miss a bus, when's the next one coming in about
half an hour? That's not bad at all.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
I got a half an hour, enough time to grab
a cup of coffee, take a deep breath, and get
back on the next one.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Met Meredith Johnson here from Metro talking about Downtown Direct
five hundred these rides to the off into the airports
for four dollars and fifty cents and back to demand.
I'm presuming it's been really good, or you wouldn't have expanded.
But I'm also guessing that Metro's got kind of a
next level plan already on the books for when current
(25:13):
programs fill out, or probably for the soccer tournaments coming up.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Oh yeah. You know, for any major event, we expand
service and hours meeting with whether it's our local routes,
our parking rides, our trains, we run specialty service. Like
right now for the Rodeo, we're making sure that our
trains are arriving every six minutes to keep people moving.
You know, we moved a million people into Rodeo last
year and our numbers are already way higher. Right now
(25:42):
at Metro under the new board chair Elizabeth Gonzales Brock,
we are really focused on meeting our customers where they
are today. We're building on the basics. You know, I
grew up in Houston, and there was a time where
I would have said, I'm not getting on Metro. I
don't think it's safe, I don't think it's clean. We
are addressing the needs and our customers and new writers
(26:02):
are finding that Metro is a system that they want
to choose, even for people who do have cars and
don't have to write it every day. I'm writing it
to Rodeo because I choose to. I feel safe, We
have officers on board, we have new cleaning schedules. I
encourage everybody to give Metro a fresh look and a
new try.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
I don't blame you. Think maybe someday you can get
a direct five hundred bus stop in front of my
house because I almost start tracking. Wouldn't that be nice? Yeah? Yeah,
So we're.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Constantly listening and adding to the routes the best we can.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Well, I appreciate that, Meredith Johnson. What's the website again
for this?
Speaker 3 (26:37):
It is www dot ridemetro dot org.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Ridemetro dot org. Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Thank you for your time.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
You bet Boby. All right, we got to take a
little break here. On the way out, I'll tell you
about the UT Health Institute on Aging again, because I've
had the pleasure and privilege of speaking for this group
for right at ten years, maybe eleven now, I'm really
not sure. It's an amazing collaborative of healthcare providers from
every medical discipline, mostly in the med center as you
(27:06):
might expect, but also traveling to outlying areas so that
people like us who need to be seen by someone
who knows seniors best can get there without having to
go into the med center if we don't want to
do that, And the way they get their credentials, the
way they become part of this Institute on Aging is
by going back and receiving additional education in their field.
(27:30):
But as it applies specifically to seniors, that's kind of
a big deal and it's a tremendous asset for us,
those of us who live in Southeast Texas and especially
here in Houston. Not many places in the entire country,
you can count them on one hand, have something anywhere
remotely similar to this. We have the best, and we
have the biggest as far as I'm concerned. It's the
(27:51):
fantastic opportunity. First, go to the website. You'll see what
I'm talking about, all these different resources, no charge at all,
all of this stuff for that doesn't cost you a
dime to learn about. And then if you need it,
start your search for one of the providers who are
part of the Institute on Aging and go see them
about something that's bothering you and you want to get
(28:13):
it fixed, as only these providers can fix it. Uth
dot edu slash Aging, uth dot edu slash Aging Aged
to Perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike welcome back
to fifty plus. Final segment of the programs starts all
right now, if you're interested in a little site, well,
(28:36):
it wouldn't be a side hustle. It might be a
full time job, and I'm not really sure we'll pay attention.
Wendy's is hiring a chief tasting officer that appealed to
you at all. If I tell you the salary, you
think that might change your mind? Out there go the
eyebrows up up in a way. What do you think
(28:58):
it pays forty to sixty or sixty to eighty thousand
a year. Forty six thousand a year. You only missed
it by a little will if you can get the job,
it pays one hundred gees a year to eat Wendy's
(29:18):
food and maybe even eat other fast foods for comparison.
I don't know what the details are, and I'm not
going to look. My health can't take a year of that. Yeah,
cardiac arrest keeps popping up into my mind. A good
friend of mine, by the way, recently had a heart
attack and he's fine. He called me the other day
(29:38):
to let me know, Hey, in this case, you were
wondering where I've been oh, I had a heart attack.
That's what happens when we get to this age, people
start having things like that. And I hope that all
of you were paying attention to Dolores Woods earlier in
the show when we talked about nutrition and the importance
which goes along with it. Would it would at some
(30:00):
day someday doing this show. I want to have Dolores
Woods and who else. Let's see who we could get
John Higgins, Doctor Higgins, a cardiologist. Get a nutritionist and
a cardiologist both on the phone at the same time.
Could we do that? Will? And we'll just we'll just
hammer it down. We'll do two second segments, maybe even
(30:21):
a full show on nutrition and exercise, because without those
two things, whoever you are, whatever your condition right now,
if you don't exercise and you don't eat right, you're
not going to live as long as you want to.
You're not. So let's work on that. By the way,
Tomorrow evening is when we spring forward. And I had
(30:42):
a young person in this office, one of the guys
over on close to my desk. Ask me again, do
I move my clocks forward or back? This guy's almost thirty,
he might be thirty, and he doesn't know. So that
kind of tells you how impressed people are with daylight
saving some and here's an idea that has absolutely no
(31:05):
chance of working out. Some congressman in Florida thinks we
should switch to half daylight saving time. I can't even
say it without laughing, instead of permanent standard or daylight time.
He wants to just split it in the middle and
have everybody shift their clocks up thirty minutes and then
leave them there forever, which would be a really, really
(31:28):
big problem for trying to do things based on the
other ninety nine percent of this country clocks time zones.
You got half a time zone. Now, it's just dumb,
it truly is. And by the way, there was a
little sidebar to the story said, how to spend that
(31:48):
extra hour you're gonna make up after we shift the clocks.
You can take down your Christmas lights, or you can
spend time in this one. I can appreciate not so
much in the digital ad and the electronics age technology age,
but a while back, you'd probably spend a half an
hour at least in maybe that whole hour trying to
(32:09):
reset the clock in your car. Does yours changeover automatically
will probably Yeah, mine does. In my phone. The very
first year I had an actual cell phone, I worried
about figuring out how to change it. I have to go,
I'm thinking to myself. I got to go into settings,
I got to find the clock. I got to try
(32:30):
to move it forward somehow. And I woke up the
next morning and I was kind of foggy headed and whatnot. Oh,
I better change that clock. And I did, and for
almost that whole day I thought it was an hour later.
That really was because it had actually automatically changed itself,
and I didn't know that. There you have it. How
(32:50):
much time do I have? I can get into a
little bit of juicy stuff. Oh, by the way, from
Ethan Buchanan and the kh newsroom came over yesterday afternoon
and talked to me about this. He found the story
of Planned Parenthood and because they're subject to different rules
now that are eaten into their profit margin, they are
(33:13):
selling botox and lip filler at Planned Parenthood. Seems our
president's new policy on abortion has cost them billions and
billions of dollars. So rather than scale back or shut
down in areas where they can't do their work, they
just change their business model, which makes me wonder whether
they were really as dedicated to helping folks make decisions
(33:35):
on parenthood as they were about running a profitable business.
All about the money. It almost always is. It's all
about the money. And back to the previews of the
movie about socialists and communists slowly taking the reins of
our nation. Story in the Western Journal on how New
York City Mayor Moron Zamdani and New York Governor Kathy
(33:59):
Hochele have teamed up up to provide free childcare. Awesome
free childcare for whom you ask. That would be for
illegal immigrants, not the hard working people in New York
who are going to have to pay for it with
their tax dollars and still pay for their child care.
Oh no, no, this goes to the illegal immigrants and
(34:20):
their kids. They call it free, but in fact it's
going to be covered by part of Governor Hocals one
point two billion dollar pledge to support early childcare and education.
But not for Americans, just for illegal immigrants. Meanwhile, well,
it's just nuts, it really is. It's sad and it's
(34:41):
nuts that we've put these people in power. And I
hope that some of the Democrats who put them there
are realizing now that the only thing they want to
do is turn us socialist and take away money, take
away services from people who are truly, truly struggling in
some cases to get by. But you got to pay
(35:03):
your taxes, no matter what happens, you got to pay
your taxes. And if you don't, you're just gonna get
in more trouble. It's sad, it really is. It's sad
the predicament we've been put in by people on the left,
very far leaning left. I might add I've got something
that I may want to talk about next week on
James Tallerico, the guy who won over Jasmine Crockett for
(35:26):
the Democratic nomination. There was a story this morning about
all of the things he said, and he is no moderate.
He is a wolf in sheep's clothing. We'll talk about
him next week. We'll talk about everything else than anything
else that happens over the weekend. Thank you all for listening.
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