Heart Healthy Diets

Today, Doug Pike interviews Dolores Woods about heart healthy diets.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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And now fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, here
we go.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
Welcome to another data feel good about being alive honestly,
which they all are. I guess when push comes to
shove as compared to that dreadful day ahead, when push
comes to shovel, I just.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Made that up. Well, is that kind of a thumbs
up or a thumbs down? Marginal?

Speaker 3 (01:05):
Okay, fair enough, it's a little macab I guess, a
weird way to think about it. But every one of
us is headed there, and we really don't know when
it's going to happen, and so I'm really retrying to
gain some.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
Not control.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
I don't feel like I'm out of control, so I'm
not trying to get back. I feel like I've got
my ducks kind of in a row. I know what
I have to do, as chaotic as my schedule is.
But what I'm going to try to do over the
next whenever, how long I've got, just sprinkle in a
little bit more, a little bit more time to boy,

(01:42):
let's go cliche, smell the roses. Just to be outdoors,
to be doing things that I really like to do,
doing things I want to do. I've got some business
related stuff I want to take care of, and it
has nothing to do with what I do here. It
won't interfere with anything I do here. It's just something
I've got to set time aside to accomplish while I

(02:05):
still can. And I think I've got plenty of time
to do it, which is what we all think until
we don't. Right, So moving on, There's an orange blob
that is bigger than the entire Gulf of Mexico on
the National Hurricane Center map, dun Dun Dune low pressure

(02:25):
system that's headed generally in our direction. Still, I mentioned
it first yesterday, I believe, or maybe Tuesday.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
Or Wednesday.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
In any event, it's not going to be a factor
for quite a while. But in the short term, I
just really hope people don't start hoarding water and toilet
paper like they always do, especially the people who are
fairly new to Texas and maybe are more familiar with
earthquakes than hurricanes. Beyond the ongoing exodus from California and

(02:57):
the impending stampede out of New York City, if Mom
Donnie gets elected mayor there, there's going to be a
lot of new residents in Texas, in Florida, in Arizona,
where else the common sense and Americans come first.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
There's a few places left in this country, but not
a lot of them. I just heard a story a
little while ago that.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
Confirmed that the northwest region of our country has just
gone to pot no pun intended. I found property in
New York City right now, by the way. I just
sold it after the first polls came back and showed
that guy in the lead. I found something interesting when
I was doing a little bit of research for something

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else and tripped over a chart that shows where people
are leaving to live in New York City and how
many of them. And believe it or not, two Texas
towns are on that list. You'd never guess Rado and Amarillo.

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People who are leaving the city, people who are leaving
New York City are ditching it for Miami, Boston, and Philly,
but not Texas in any of the top ten cities.

Speaker 4 (04:17):
That the.

Speaker 3 (04:20):
Push is being made already now that the Boston and
Philly things, that's just.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
Like New York light the Miami thing.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
It's different, it's different, but there's so much there's so
much traffic between New York City and Miami every winter. Anyway,
I guess a lot of those people are are taking
a closer look than they had is snowbirds and are
realizing that, hey, if we go to Florida, we have

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no we have no state income tax, we have no
mom Donnie, so we're not going to have socialism to
worry about. There's a lot of place buses to moving
to Florida. It's a little bit warmer climb and to
wrap little bit in quotes, a lot warmer climate. If

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you can deal with an occasional hurricane more so than
New York ever, will, you're going to be in good shape.
And the construction down there is such that all throughout Florida,
along the entire East coast, along the entire Gulf coast.
Those houses are built to take that stuff, and they
usually come out pretty pretty well. Trees fall over, and

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some of the most poorly built buildings from long ago
wind up tipping over, but other than that, it's really
it's a pretty good a pretty good piece of construction.
My grandparents had a house down there and it withstood I.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
Don't know how many hurricanes.

Speaker 3 (05:48):
And I've actually looked it up online at some real
estate sites just to kind of be just out of curiosity,
and it's still there, and so are the ones up
and down the block or around it.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
Not a big home, of a fairly modest home.

Speaker 3 (06:02):
This was their retirement home, and they bought it in
the nineteen sixties and probably paid thirty dollars for it,
and that thing is worth a fortune right now. I
don't begrudge not getting it. It wasn't mine to get.
I'm not even sure. I think my guess is that
it was sold and the proceeds split among my mother
and her sister, and that's fine.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
That's how that goes.

Speaker 3 (06:26):
Sometimes back to where I was with this Boston, Philly,
Laredo Amarillo thing, the most interesting deal on that page
was that in the I think it was June twenty
fifth to August twenty fifth, two months, sixty days or so.
It was about two hundred people total who moved from

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somewhere else to New York. Twenty five thousand left New
York to go someplace else. That's not a great ROI
for New York City, and it's it's tax burden already,
and that's gonna keep up too if he gets elected mayor.
A lot of huge companies already have bailout plans in place,

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and we'll be announcing they're gonna tumble like dominoes. There's
not gonna be anybody left to keep the lights in,
keep the lights on down there up there.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
Excuse me, by.

Speaker 3 (07:25):
The way, if you're kind of curious, but buying a
house up there, the average cost per square foot now
almost eight hundred and fifty dollars average house, well, little
teeny tiny things that they are, eight hundred and fifty
bucks a square foot. So if you're looking for two
thousand feet, nice, comfy, little little second home or something

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like that, I don't know why you'd want a second
home and have it New York City, but for whatever reason,
maybe that's just all you can ford. Because after all
two thousand square feet is gonna cost you nine million
seven Holy mackerel. We have got to take a little break,
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Speaker 2 (09:30):
What's life without a nap? I suggest you go to bed,
sleep it off.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
Just wait until the show's over, sleepy. Back to Doug Pike,
as fifty plus continues.

Speaker 2 (09:40):
He welcome back, Thanks for listening to fifty plus. It
certainly do appreciate it. I just lost that world well if.

Speaker 3 (09:49):
We'll gets it at all, and I had three greens
on my second try, but who cares. Welcome back, and
thanks as always for sharing your afternoon. We'll talk in
this segment about what we eat, which likely will happen
a couple more times before Thanksgiving and Christmas, because well
you know what's coming.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
Steers toward a.

Speaker 3 (10:09):
More heart healthy diet through fall and winter and right
back into spring and summer again. I'm going to enlist
a longtime guest of fifty plus, director of culinary nutrition
for the Neury the Nourished program at ut Health, the
Lorus Woods.

Speaker 2 (10:22):
Welcome back to Lorus.

Speaker 4 (10:25):
Hi, how are you you know?

Speaker 3 (10:26):
I'm doing pretty dog on well, I must say, and
most partly because I eat a lot. Most of us
kind of eat what we want well into adulthood too,
without a care in the world about what that grab
bag of spices and oils and fats and sugars is
doing to our bodies. About what age, though, do these
bad habits in our youth start knocking on the door,

(10:48):
start catching up with us with symptoms we never saw coming.

Speaker 4 (10:53):
Oh, I would say about forty five fifty is when
we really start to see changes in our body, especially
after fifty and four postmen apostle women.

Speaker 3 (11:06):
And for specific kind of specifically for this discussion, because
I'm gonna probably have you back a couple of times
between now and Thanksgiving to hit different parts of our
body and what food does to them. Let's stay in
the cardiovascular lane this time, and so tell me what
impact then does age make on trying to eat right
to maintain good cardio health?

Speaker 4 (11:29):
Right, So as we ate our heart and our blood vessels,
they actually become siffer, and our blood pressure tends to
arise as well. Metabolism slows down. So a lot of
these things are going to affect our heart. Yeah, and
you know, things like heart disease, high blood pressure, high cholesterol.
They all really have an impact on our heart.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
Everything leads back to their really, doesn't it.

Speaker 4 (11:55):
Yes, Yeah, so it's you know, the food we eat,
It helps everything, but especially our heart health.

Speaker 3 (12:02):
I love the way my prompts for these interviews so
often include the term simple and use it to trigger
discussion of all these ways we could just magically change
years of bad habits. But the truth is that we
kind of need to commit to those changes in increments.
Really a little bit of baby steps, right.

Speaker 4 (12:23):
Yeah, I would say, pick one something that you feel
is going to be more realistic. We oftentimes have a
lot of suggestions, but changing everything at the same time
doesn't work, So pick one thing and stick to it.

Speaker 3 (12:38):
I saw a list of three or four things. I'm
looking down to see where I put them. I believe
one was you know there's exercise here. I'll give you four.
Exercise do that a lot, Have a good diet, Quit alcohol,
quit smoking. Which of those four is most important to
shed for our hearts?

Speaker 4 (12:57):
Quick smoking definitely get you smoke and yeah, you haven't
quit yet, that would be the number one thing that
is going to help you, you know, obviously with your
heart health, but with lungs and just making sure that
you're stay active.

Speaker 3 (13:12):
Also, the Lords Woods here, director of culinary Nutrition for
the Nurse Program at the Michael and Susan Dell Center
for Healthy Living at ut Health Houston School of Public Health,
on fifty plus talk about the damage just overall that
lethargy and extra pounds due to our hearts.

Speaker 4 (13:32):
Right, so you know, our cart can't beat at a
stass as we get older, and so you know, just
being stressed out as well. All of these have an
impact on helping us stay active. So you know, stain
active is so it sounds like a catch twenty two, right.
If we're tired and stressed out of all the time,

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we can't go out and we feel like, you know,
we can't keep up with kids or the grand kids,
and so managing stress and sleep is also going to
go into that pile of trying to change your habits
because poor sleep and chronic stress can harm your health
as well.

Speaker 3 (14:12):
It's a heart Let's go back to this plan of eating.
And I saw something about a DASH plan. I'm sure
all four letters have something pretty important about them.

Speaker 2 (14:21):
What is that really?

Speaker 4 (14:23):
Yeah, so the dash diet sends for the dietarya approaches
to stop hier tension. It's really flexible. Yeah, there's no
portion control, no, you know, no measuring things out. It's
really just recommendations on eating more vegetables, more fruits, and
then thinking about you know, some of those whole grains
that you can incorporate in your diet. So, you know,

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we just want to think about those whole fresh foods
instead of processed foods, things that come in a box,
a lot of those sweets, sugary beverages. And then the
red meat is also trying to let that those red
meats that are high and saturated fat, which is unhealthy
for our heart.

Speaker 3 (15:06):
This dash plan sounds like if there's no rules, how
am I going to find the willpower to do this? Right?

Speaker 4 (15:15):
So? What and I guess there are a few rules. No,
you're thinking about three to five portions of the fruits
and vegetables and the lean protein. So there's a lot
of information on websites, you know, for different universities and
the government that can help you with this. But again
it's being looking at what you're doing right now. Look

(15:37):
at your plate. Are you missing vegetables on your plate?
If you are, I would say, start by incorporating your
favorite vegetable first, right, and it doesn't have to be
on its own attitude pasta attitude rice added two other
dishes you already enjoy.

Speaker 2 (15:53):
Just make sure you get it.

Speaker 3 (15:55):
It goes back to not just baby steps, but it
goes back to taking that first step for hard health, right.

Speaker 4 (16:02):
Taking that first step, and you know it starts at
the grocery store. If you're not buying those vegetables out
when you're buying your groceries, you're never going to start.
So making a plan, you know, getting some frozen vegetables,
even some canned ones that are low sodium can be
a good option. But again it's just incorporating them if

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you do see that they're missing, or even fruits, how
many fruits.

Speaker 2 (16:27):
Do you eat?

Speaker 4 (16:28):
You know, try to look at those gaps in your diet.
And fill them with these healthier foods.

Speaker 3 (16:33):
I looked about six weeks ago, now, maybe two months ago.
I saw something and read it about how half the
stuff on the chip aisle is just poison basically. And
I haven't stopped on the chip aisle in a long time,
I'll tell you, since I read that, I really haven't.
I've totally given them up. And I feel pretty good
about that. Is that a good thing?

Speaker 4 (16:54):
Yeah, that's great. Chips.

Speaker 2 (16:57):
Also look for a pat on the back. That's all.

Speaker 4 (17:01):
No, it's and it's hard because you know, these foods,
they're made to taste really good and they're hard to
stop eating. Yeah, so good job.

Speaker 3 (17:10):
But after a point anything you give up, it becomes
a habit. It works kind of like stop. And I'm
afraid we're out of time. Will E's giving me that sign,
Dolores Woods, thank you so very much.

Speaker 4 (17:22):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (17:22):
You bet we'll be talking again soon. Alrighty, Sadly, I
gotta go and let her go. I could talk to
her and listen to her and follow her advice for
a long long time, and I intend to do that
a couple of more times before we get to the holidays.
So we don't make mistakes that make us unhealthy. Speaking
of health, ut Health Institute on Aging is this collaborative

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I've talked about now for ten years of providers from
every medical discipline, mostly in the medcenter like I've talked about,
but they're also going, most of them to outlying communities
and hospitals and clinics and offices, so that if you
don't want to go to the med center, and a
lot of us really don't, it's pretty hectic down there.
You don't have to to see a provider who has

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taken it upon himself or herself to get additional training
to what got them their credentials and learn how to
apply their knowledge specifically to us. I don't know of
more than maybe a handful. I probably count them on
one hand of any similar thing around the entire country

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where so many providers healthcare providers have done stuff like
this to make sure that they can take care of seniors,
and they're all in favor of it, because there are
more and more seniors, more and more of us living
longer lives, and we all want to make sure that
we enjoy that extra time to the best benefit we can.

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UT dot Edu slash aging go to the website, look
at all the different assets and resources they have there
for you no cost at all, and then work your
way into finding a provider who is part of that group,
who can see you close to home and make sure
that you're on your way to feeling better from whatever's

(19:13):
ailing you. Uth dot edu slash aging, ut H dot
edu slash aging.

Speaker 1 (19:20):
Aged to Perfection. This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Welcome back to fifty plus. Thank you for listening. I
certainly do appreciate it, as all.

Speaker 3 (19:30):
Of you, I hope know by now we've been doing
this long enough that it should be clearly apparent, and
I really do. And I enjoy the input I get.
I enjoy the input at Facebook. I enjoy the input
by email, which is Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. It's
very simple, and as promised, I'm I'm making a concerted
effort to start documenting some of the things I do

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in some of the places I go, many of which
you'll find very boring, probably, but there are special little
places to me where I can go catch fish, or
go hit a couple of golf balls, or soon I hope,
do a little hunting that I haven't done in a while.
It's I kind of missed the hunting seasons, and now

(20:12):
that my son's got his own wheels makes it a
whole lot easier for me to just say, Okay, see
you later, alligator. I make sure the house is all
buttoned up for my wife, got everything she needs, and
then off I go.

Speaker 2 (20:25):
So you'll see some more of that.

Speaker 3 (20:26):
It may take a little time to get up to
speed because this is a fairly new addition to my schedule,
but I'm determined to get it done. Recently, former VP
Kamala Harris's book was touted by a guy named CJ.
Pearson in an op ed. Not touted, he's kind of

(20:47):
taunting it almost The book, by the way, titled one
hundred and seven Days in reference to her campaign to
become president of the United States. He pretty much went
after at Fox News as the book being no more
than a three hundred and twenty page therapy session masterclass.
He said in finger pointing, she blames President Trump for

(21:09):
her loss, which, well, he did get more votes than
she did, so that one may be technically correct. She
blames the media, which showered her with praise and never
said an unkind word about her despite obvious flaws in
her leadership ability, and she even blamed people on her
team whom she didn't name, by the way, who just

(21:30):
never realized how amazingly smart and qualified she was to
leave the United States of America. They just couldn't get it.
They just didn't realize how amazingly genius she was. And
there you go. Ironically, she doesn't mention at all losing
the Black vote, which until this past November and dating
back for quite some time, always had voted Democrat. This

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section of our country, this very important section of people,
kind of saw through her empty promises and they came
out stronger for Republicans than they have in more than
fifty years, and has further proof that she's kind of
lost touch with reality. She's offered her support now to
Zora and Mom. Donnie, the man who is virtually a

(22:17):
shoe in for mayor of New York City, straight up communist, fascists,
whatever you want to call him, who will, to his credit,
like I mentioned yesterday, come right out and tell you
how he's going to destroy New York City if he's elected,
going to turn it into a socialist mud hole where
calls to nine to one one or are going to
dispatch what a social worker on an electric bike to

(22:39):
talk a crackhead out of shooting up people in the
soup kitchen. Back to the good news. The powerful group
that Democrats thought they'd never lose, they lost because those
people recognize that Harris wasn't right for the America that
they know and love, not right for Americans. The way

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they things are going now forward and favorable, they'll have
a hard time. The Democrats will getting back in favor
of that once very predictable voting block.

Speaker 2 (23:13):
I'm I'm happy for this country.

Speaker 3 (23:15):
I really am happy for everybody who's showing up and
speaking up and just saying, no, we got this, we
got this, and we're going to fix it.

Speaker 2 (23:23):
Speaking of fixing.

Speaker 3 (23:26):
In a there was a well, they all say, a
new study, as if we'd care about old studies.

Speaker 2 (23:32):
The over I found this very interesting. The overall functioning
of the human.

Speaker 3 (23:37):
Brain peaks, and this explains a lot peaks between fifty
five and sixty that's when your hard drive kind of
fills up. What I didn't know is that some forms
of intelligence begin fading as early as your twenties. That's

(23:57):
kind of a cruel thing to tell us Oh yeah,
we're we're learning. We're learning every day. Well, some of
what we learned in our twenties is probably already gone
because it started falling out, and in several forms of
intelligence it found. I don't know how they study brains
this closely, but we'll still build all the way into
your sixties. I guess that's why you see all the

(24:18):
pop up ads. If you play any games online, you
see pop up ads for what are the names of
those games? I can't even remember the names of some
of them. There's tiles, and there's blocks, and there's bricks,
and there's words and all these little things that are supposed.

Speaker 2 (24:32):
To keep you sharp as attack.

Speaker 3 (24:36):
I do crossword puzzles, I do the crypto quizzes. I
do jumbles, and proudly the weekday jumbles. I can usually
just from the time I pick up the paper and
look at the page, I can usually finish them in
less than a minute. And I feel like that makes

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me at least pretty decently Okay.

Speaker 2 (25:02):
Something, let's see. I want to find ow this one.

Speaker 3 (25:04):
I titled this one no surprise, and it comes to
no surprise anybody because Walt Disney Corporation has been in
the news for about a month now, and some bad
decisions just made. September is always the slowest month for
Walt Disney. That's back to school month. The kids are
not the parents aren't interested in taking another vacation, the

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kids are back in school. And actually this past September
just ended up what three days ago now was supposedly
the slowest since twenty twenty one. And I'm trying to
think of what twenty twenty one, What made it so
different that it would have been slow for Disney. But
I think it's just kind of a trend. I really do.

(25:46):
That corporation has kind of gone in a different direction
than I think Walt might have wanted it taken. So
we'll see this. I found kind of funny, and it
could have happened to a man or a woman, but
it happened to a So I'm not going to change
the story, but it's still interesting. New York City woman
that doesn't explain anything. I guess took her car in

(26:09):
to get it fixed because she kept hearing a crackling sound.
Driving a car that's got a crackling sound. I can't
shake it. I don't know what's going on. Take it
in there, and fix it up. And these mechanics also
couldn't figure out what the noise was, but they did
end up getting her a sixty thousand mile tune up

(26:30):
to the tune of seven hundred dollars. When she brought
her car home, she realized that the sound she had
heard was a fireplace sound escape that was playing through
her speakers. My car didn't have those. That's probably a
good thing. My wife's car.

Speaker 2 (26:50):
Didn't have it.

Speaker 3 (26:51):
It's probably also a good thing there. Well, do you
get fireplace.

Speaker 2 (26:55):
Sounds in your car? I don't either.

Speaker 4 (26:58):
We'll take a.

Speaker 3 (26:58):
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Speaker 2 (27:02):
I'll tell you about them again.

Speaker 3 (27:03):
This is such a We are fast moving into a really,
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on the bay, all the amenities. You'd want to hang
out there and just enjoy the breeze, rustling in the

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Speaker 2 (28:36):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.

Speaker 1 (28:38):
That's why every few months we wash them, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh code of wax.

Speaker 2 (28:44):
This is fifty plus with Doug Pike. Welcome back to
fifty plus and thanks for listening on this.

Speaker 3 (28:51):
Yet another day that we get to enjoy as best
we can enjoy it with the tools we've got, and
that's really all we can ask for mentioned earlier, Just
be glad you woke up this morning. And most of
us have some aches and pains, some of us more
so than others. And for those of you who are
in pain.

Speaker 2 (29:10):
I feel for you. I truly do. I truly do.

Speaker 3 (29:13):
I've got a few things on me that are beginning
to show wear and tear, and you know, I'm just
I choose to try to get along the best to can.

Speaker 2 (29:25):
For what a god.

Speaker 3 (29:27):
I saw a video recently that kind of disturbed me
from over in Great Britain somewhere. This woman was being arrested,
and I'm pretty sure I've got this right. She was
being arrested for thinking something that someone else reported as
being offensive to her. I think it was another woman.

Speaker 2 (29:49):
A thought.

Speaker 3 (29:51):
She didn't just start yelling and screaming. She didn't call
this other person a name, of any sort. But somebody
filed a complaint that she was thinking something offensive.

Speaker 2 (30:06):
And she got hauled off.

Speaker 3 (30:07):
And the person who posted the video warned Americans and
know un certain terms, not to let this happen over here.
I think she's probably planning to move over here. And
I really hope we're smart enough to prevent the criminality
of thought. And I know that if you say stuff
over there, if you say things that somebody finds offensive,

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they will haul you off, they will write you up.
And we're right on the edge in some parts of
this country, right on the edge of that. But I
do think we're leaning in the right direction to regain
the safety of being able to speak our minds.

Speaker 2 (30:47):
I don't as long as you're.

Speaker 3 (30:49):
Not saying something that could get somebody hurt, I'll listen
to your opinion, and I'll take it for just that,
and I will make my own decision on whether I
want to change over to your side or stay on
my side. But I'm not going to get mad at
you about it, and I'm not gonna I'm not going
to have you arrested or saying something I disagreed with.

(31:13):
This The whole I'm offended thing has just gone on
for way too long. I think it's just way too long,
and people are using it. There was a fast food
restaurant over in North Carolina where a policeman got denied service,
shows up in uniform late at night, get himself a

(31:34):
late shift meal at some fast food joint, and the
cashier decided she didn't want to take his order because
she hadn't liked the police, and walked away from him.
Another employee came out and took the order, and everything
kind of went okay, And when the manager came out
to see what was going on, she actually defended that
first employee's decision to just abandon her post. Officer didn't

(31:57):
say anything about it to anybody, but but somebody apparently did,
somebody who was maybe in the store and watched it
all unfold, and it drew big attention from corporate headquarters
that chain, which promptly fired the cashier for discriminating against
a customer based on his choice of profession. And when
the manager bowed up and defended that employee, she also

(32:18):
got asked and then very promptly, as is the case
a lot of times in society today, blamed the district
manager for something because it couldn't be her fault, she
couldn't have been wrong. She passed the blame on to
somebody else, and somebody else.

Speaker 2 (32:34):
It's not my fault.

Speaker 3 (32:36):
How many times people have to say that before they're
going to eventually realize that it probably is their fault
if it keeps happening. Responsibility in this country is just
eroded to nearly nothing. Common decency eroded, Responsibility eroded, been
replaced with I can do anything I want, so get

(32:56):
out of my face. That's the attitude that's It's quite
an opposition to the way good people from all walks
of life and all ages behave, I think, and again
I hope we're kind of moving in that direction. Interesting
little story from Ethan Buchanan down in k t rh
an independent reporter working a protest against immigration and customs enforcement.

(33:21):
This guy's up there trying to just get the story
and then go report it somewhere. Well, this protest also
included members of Antifa, and that reporter wound up getting
jumped by these Antifa people. They're masked up and trying
to hide behind whatever they were wearing, and in true

(33:45):
to form Portland style, when the guy who got jumped
by multiple people, threw a few punches to defend himself,
he got taken to jail.

Speaker 2 (33:58):
He got taken to jail.

Speaker 3 (33:59):
The good news, the DOJ wound up getting involved and
ordered this guy released into their custody. And according to Ethan,
he's been He's been retrieved from the general population of
that jail or wherever he was and taken into the

(34:21):
more rational hands of the DJ. And dej's taking a
look at law enforcement in Portland just how this situation
was handled, because clearly it was handled poorly.

Speaker 2 (34:32):
The newest health hack, how much time do I have?
Will one? Half? Ten seconds?

Speaker 4 (34:37):
Five?

Speaker 2 (34:38):
Okay, good, I've got a lot of time. New survey. No,
I want to go back to this one. That the
health hack.

Speaker 3 (34:43):
It's a TikTok thing, So get ready for something that
you'll hear.

Speaker 2 (34:47):
You'll roll your eyes and then just move on.

Speaker 3 (34:50):
So what they're saying this guy on TikTok, girl on TikTok,
I'm not sure what it is, but what they tell
you to do, it's called the fifty jump trend. Minute
you get out of bed, as soon as your feet
hit the floor, jump in place fifty times.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
You want to do that will not me. No, you too.
That's it. That's all you gotta do.

Speaker 3 (35:11):
It's supposed to be a really quick way to get
the blood flowing first, right after you wake up. I'm
I'm gonna go with coffee a little later in the morning,
like maybe five minutes, ten minutes, thirty minutes later. I
don't want to get out of bed and have to
jump up and down fifty times, not really sure whether
I can maintain a balance.

Speaker 2 (35:33):
Just got out of bed. That's some I think. That's
just something else that TikTok is known for.

Speaker 3 (35:42):
It's known for ridiculous, ridiculous ideas that nobody should really follow. Uh,
this is something I found out too, learning an instrument.
Learning an instrument can increase your pain tolerance. However, family
members are gonna suffer while you're learning that instrument, you

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know they are.

Speaker 2 (36:04):
Hey Dad, I'm taking up the.

Speaker 3 (36:05):
Trombone because I want to increase my pain tolerance.

Speaker 2 (36:12):
Hey mom, what do you say to you?

Speaker 3 (36:15):
Know how it always kind of hurts me because I've
got this early onset arthritis or whatever. Maybe it's a
husband talking to his wife. So I think I'm gonna
learn to play the drums to feel better. No, no,
you're not. We'll just get you some advil and get
you on down the road. According to a new study,
overall functioning of the human brain is like I said,

(36:38):
look at that. I'm already messing it up between fifty
five and sixty and it. See, that's what happens to
brains when they get old. It just happened to mine.

Speaker 2 (36:46):
We'll see again next time. Thank you also very much
for listening audios.