Home Care and Invasive Species

Today, Doug Pike interviews Crystal Walter, MPA, MSW, LCSW about home care for the elderly.  Pike also speaks with Matt Petty about invasive species.  

Episode Transcript

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Friday edition starts right now under checkit out. Well do you see
anything other than sky? I thinkI said? Is that three days in
a row we've had zero clouds.Do you see a cloud anywhere? I
see tiny wisps. I see wispsup at the top, way down.
Yeah, over Galveston somewhere. Boy, I'd pushed my microphone off for a

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second. Yeah, they may beclose to Galveston, at least down there
around I don't know, League city, somewhere in there. And I only
see one. Do you see morethan one? I see a couple?
You? Oh? I can't seethat one. Oh yeah, right over
the building here, that one wouldbe probably over maybe over NRG something like

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that. It's really irrelevant, itdoesn't matter. Let's let's not let's not
dwell, shall we? Uh?Just another gorgeous today and probably most of
tomorrow, although we are going tosee legitimate clouds start rolling in the head
of an alleged thirty to fifty chanceof rain going into the next work week.

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I need to come up with anew term for forecasters, maybe fortune
tellers, futurists or something like that. They they do, They predict the
future for a living, which can'tbe easy, I would think, and
out past about four days, they'reprobably not any better than somebody just pulling
random cards out of a deck,or rolling dice, or just throwing throwing

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something up in the air and tryingto figure out which way, like a
golf tea, when you're trying tofigure out who's in yours on your team
and a fores them, you justthrow the tea up in the air and
whichever way it lands, that's whatit is. And that's kind of how
it is with forecasting. More thanabout four days out. They honestly they
I don't think any forecaster would lookyou square in the face and say,
yes, I can tell you exactlywhether it's gonna rain or not six days

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from now. They just can't.Things change, and that's it. It's
all based on the past. Andthe longer we live, the more dependable
the models in forecasts become in theory, at least until the next anomaly comes
along and just races, race,race, race, all all that stuff
we just learned in the last onehundred years. Maybe little rain, maybe

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it won't, maybe cold, maybehot until about July, and then it's
just hot until November here and thenwe get our three weeks total of winter
split up into pieces, two threeday pieces of winter spread across about four
months. What's not to love aboutHouston weather? Right? So anyway,
the market's green across the board.As you heard just a minute ago on

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Fox News, the Dow up fourhundred plus right now. And on the
downside, the down side, oilis also quite up. And the last
time I looked and have been scaredtwo since it was creeping up pretty hard
on ninety dollars a barrel under whatthey're calling rising tension in the Middle East,

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and gold Holy cow Hard, chargingup almost thirty five bucks north of
its closed yesterday this morning, andstill going up last time. I looked
at that one two thousand and three, one hundred and forty five dollars an
ounce for gold. I saw somethingthe other day about how you could get
your little free hundred dollars gold bar. And when one ounce of that stuff

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is worth twenty three hundred dollars,that gold bar wouldn't be half the size
of an x lax tablets. Itwould be like a postage stamp. Perhaps
of gold might be worth one hundreddollars and that'd be about it anyway,
All of that gold stuff courtesy ofHouston Gold Exchange. Go there and see

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what they think about buying or sellingyour gold right now. So, leading
off with the nations get out thevote strategies story I saw this morning about
how Democrats are hard rethinking their paststrategy of just registering anyone and everyone to
vote under sometimes true, sometimes notpresumption that either those people were or would

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become eligible to vote by election day. Well, let's not get in the
desired results this time. Instead,according to an internal memo that came from
the Democrat side, it's actually havingthe opposite effect and raising the polling numbers
for President Trump. The fix,they say, is to only focus their
voter registration efforts henceforth throughout the landin heavily pro biden areas, which it

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almost sounds like a form of electiontampering. You're either there to get everyone
out to cast everyone's vote who iseligible, by the way, and eligibility
requires citizenship, by the way,And there are still people who in this
country who believe that it's more importantto show ID to write a check,

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to get a phishing license, todo just about anything it's more important to
do any more important for me toget a fishing line, since then it
is for me to vote, whichI find embarrassingly telling about how far off
course this ship is. They're gonnait does sound like tampering in some way,

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shape or form, to ignore potentialRepublican voters based only they're a presumption
that they may vote against the othersides candidate Well, that's the man.
That seems exactly like something they mightdo to keep voter certain voter blocks anyway,
convinced somebody else is going to bebetter at taking care of them than
they could be to take care ofthemselves. It's the handout party. It

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wasn't always that, but it isnow. It's the handout party. And
if you give a lot of peoplein this country enough stuff for free,
they'll vote for anybody or anything.They'd vote for a rock if they could
get free money out of it.Fortunately can They just don't. Really,
they need to open their eyes,they really do. They need to open
their eyes, and they if theydid, they would realize that they are

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just flat out being played, beingplayed by people who think that they're way
better than hard working Americans in someinstances and not working Americans and others.
But those people aren'tny better than us. We just allow them to be.
All right, we got to getout of here. On the way out,
let me start with ut Health ScienceCenters Consortium, excuse me, Institute

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on Aging. It started the otherway and it's become that, and every
now and then I slept, Butit's still the same collaborative. It's still
the same higher level of expertise inmedical fields. And by medical fields,
I mean all of them. Everybodyfrom cardiology to pull monology, everybody from

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trainer to therapists to nurse to nursepractitioner all of these disciplines. Everybody who's
involved in the Institute on Aging isspecially trained as regard seniors in their specific
discipline. It's a really good feelingto know that the person you're talking to

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is somebody who's older than most peoplein a room. The person you're talking
to in the medical field is speciallytrained to help you. That's a big
deal. Go to the website,learn about what they do. Learn about
services that are available to you allover this giant city of ours. Learn
about how you can get in frontof some of those providers, even in
outlying areas, at hospitals and clinicsand facilities where you don't have to necessarily

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drive into the medical center to beseen by a member of the Institute on
Aging utch dot edu slash aging uthdot edu slash aging. Yeah, they
sure don't make them like they usedto. That's why every few months we
wash them, check his fluids,and spring on a fresh cod o wax.

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This is fifty plus with Doug Pike, a right, welcome backs,
plus thank for listening on this absolutelydrop dead gorgeous, tiny little clouds in
the sky. We'll call it thatFriday. We are going to talk in

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this segment about one of my favoritesubjects. And I've covered it often here
and probably not often enough, though, And that's the tremendous role undertaking a
lot of times without nearly the creditit deserves, and that is they are
caretakers. To help, I willbring in licensed clinical social worker Crystal Walter
from UT Physicians. She's got sixteenyears of experience in this field. Welcome

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aboard, Crystal, Hi, thankyou so much for having me, Doug,
you are welcome. So the wordcaregiver, I would guess, at
least for me and probable for you, has at least one hundred definitions if
you really start digging, doesn't itIt does? It really does. And
for me, I like to say, you know, it's deeply personal.

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You know what a caregiver is,and it's often all encompassing. You know,
it's a role that impacts everyone's life, and it's maintenance, it's upkeep,
it's daily task, and it's done. It's a labor of love,
is that indeed? And what Ifind kind of interesting about it too is
if if you were to ever ifsomebody says, yeah, okay, I'll

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be Mom's caregiver, or I'll beDad's caregiver, or even I'll take the
job as caregiver. If you wereto give them a list of everything they're
going to do in the next twoyears, they would turn and run,
wouldn't they. Not only would theyrun. Let's just talk about if you
wanted to get paid, what doesthat look like? And I can tell
you exactly in Houston, Texas.First, let's start with Texas, Texas.

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On average, it's about fourteen dollarsan hour to be a full time
caregiver, and in Houston is twelvedollars and twenty cent average base salary to
be that all encompassing ride or dieperson for your person that there's no number

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on it. You cannot you cannotput a number on it if there were,
if it were possible at all.I think I think caregivers should make
more than professional athletes. I'm justsaying I definitely agree. And let's talk
about professional athletes. Kareem Abdul Jabbarrecently did an interview in March. I

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don't know if you saw it.It was with the Daily Item, and
he said, age is the greatequalizer that humbles us all. Oh goodness,
and that is coming from a verywell known legendary athlete. And I
think that statement, I remember hearingthat a lot from a dear league,

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doctor Dyer. May she rest peacefully. Yeah, my favorite page is Yes,
the Great Equalizer because everything you thoughtyou were immune to, you are
experiencing. And it costs to agein America. We don't talk about that
enough, but it costs. It'snot you know, I'm telling you,
it's well I know, believe me, I do so. And on the

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professional side, speaking of costs,you've got part time helpers, you've got
full time helpers, and just likeyou were talking about, they don't get
a whole lot of money. Theperson right in the check might think it's
a whole lot, but in realityit's probably on the low side for folks
who take that job because and theyonly do it. I think. I
don't think anybody would do it ifthey didn't care at all. You have

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to have some level of compassion andcaring, do you not to be a
good caregiver. You do. Butthe sad part is is that a lot
of people need a paycheck, andso how we end up becoming family caregivers
is that we have these horrible experiences. Not all the time, but it's

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more than enough to say, youknow what, I'm going to take care
of mom and dad. And withthat comes a lot of sacrifices because that
is your person and you know whatthey need. And it's not just a
job. But again, like Isaid earlier, it's very personal, and
so a lot of times our caregiversend up sacrificing their own medical needs.

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Right they make financial sacrifices for theirfamilies or themselves to care for their loved
ones. It bit's because they care. Crystal Walter here on on fifty plus
talk about that there are obvious challengeshow am I going to give Mom a
bath? How am I going toget all the meals made? But there
are other challenges that go along withthat job that don't really come up in

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those first few conversations. Talk aboutsome of that. The first one I'd
like to talk about is compassion fatigue. Okay, and this is something where
caregivers experienced feelings of burnout because they'reregularly exposed to the suffering and trauma.

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When we think about caregiving, wedon't think about the grief that comes with
that, the loss in watching yourloved ones suffer, okay, and with
that can also impact our mental health, you know. And so there's a
lot we're not thinking about when wesay we want to take this on.
And at first, I just wantto say family caregivers. Caregivers are the

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backbone of our long term services andsupport system in this country. I I,
you know, there's not enough supportfor our caregivers. And so I
absolutely say and stand on you know, compassion fatigue. You know, we're

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not thinking about that. We're notthinking about the law long term. And
so when I say long term,the endgame is that when we used to
speak about the Sandwich generation, itwas the middle age mom or middle age
single daughter taking care of their lovedones. What we're seeing now is it's

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changing. It's the early baby boomers, you know, the sixty year olds
that are now taking care of theeighty and ninety year olds. And we're
living longer, Doug, We're livinglonger sanitariums. You know, there are
growing population. Life insurance plans arenot there. You need to read the

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fine print because some of us areoutliving the life insurance. And so yes,
there's a lot that we have tothink about in advanced planning. Very
quick, very quickly, Crystal,because we're almost out of time. I
want you to give every person inthis audience who is a caregiver per mission

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to raise their hand and tell somebodyin their family or somebody somewhere I need
some help. You do. Youneed to do that because to avoid the
burnout, you need self care andyou need community. And the sad part
is so the community may not comefrom your family. That's why you need
to join a support group. It'sokay to get a therapist that can introduce

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you to a support group, butyou have to build community. You can't
do this on your own. Andthere's a lot of resources here in Houston
and nationally, and I'd like tosay Eldercare Locator. Google it. It's
a national site. They help youwith support, a services, transportation,
elder rights, the Institution Institute onAging. We have resources locally that can

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help you. Google it, clickon patient care tab and you will see
resources for caregivers and geriatric care.Every elder need a geriatrician. The care
is not the same. You needthose one hour visits, need the social
worker, you need the emotional support. That's fantastic Crystal Walter sounds to me
like you and I need to dothis again pretty soon because I got about

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a half a page of questions lefthere. All right, thank you so
very much, most definitely I'm bringme back anytime. You got it.
Thanks Crystal, all right, allright, by bye huh. All right,
we got to take a little breakhere. Unfortunately, I would love
to go on more with her,But I do want to tell you about
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look at your front door and tellme it looks fine. If you can
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a lot of people, and it'sinteresting. Jason Fortenberry actually told me that
in most neighborhoods he can. Hecould just be dropped off anywhere and tell
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neighborhood. The other side, evenafter just a few years of builder gray
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Then you sit there a few moreminutes, like my wife and I
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doors. Premodoors dot Com is thewebsite premodors dot com. What's life without
a net? I suggest you goto bed, sleep it off, just
wait until the show's over. Sleepy. Back to Dougpike has fifty plus continues.

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All right, welcome back to fiftyplus. Still very few. It's
not as cloudless day like it wasyesterday, but it's pretty dog one nice
outside right now. And this we'rein the studio with the windows, so
this is firsthand information. I'm nothaving to look at anybody's pictures or whatever.
I do. Hope you've got outdoorsplans for tomorrow and even for today

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especially. It ought to be okaythrough then maybe some run rain Sunday,
and I'm not gonna believe it tillI see it. Though. We'll talk
in this segment about something that lotsof people don't even know is a thing,
and that is the threat that invasivespecies of plants and trees pose to
native plants and trees around this region. And to help, I'm going to
bring in a guy who kind ofknows a little bit of something about trees

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and plants, and that is MattPetty. He's assistant district manager at Davy
Trees down here in the South Houstonoffice. Welcome aboard, Matt, Welcome
aboard again, Matt. Yeah,thanks Doug. And you know what,
I'm starting a new business. Seeif I can bottle some of this weather
and save it for the time.Oh my god, yeah, just roll
it back out in January, willyou take out? And in July and

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in August and about the other elevenand a half months of the year.
Just just an endless supplies what weneed. My gosh. So when you're
driving around, Is it possible foryou to not look at plants and trees
along the side of the roads.Yeah, I might. Head tends to
gravitate to up in the the trees. Absolutely. You know. It's the
same way like Typo's on menus.For me, I just can't help it.

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How often do you actually see atree that shouldn't be there? Oh?
I see it all the time,you know. Uh, you know,
when we talk about natives versus nonnatives, most of the non natives,
we're talking about the trees introducing thelast hundred years or so, trees
that have come in and they're youknow, pushing out or considered natives native
trees. And you know, somethingthat a lot of people don't think about

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is when you start introducing invasive speciesand they're putting pushing out our native specie
plants, they're also pushing out thefood source for a lot of our you
know, wildlife that have grown acustom over the last you know, many
years too. And it's been thishas been going on for a long time.
Southeast Texas had a most wanted listof invasive species. What would be

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the top three or four on thepost office wall? Well, here,
we're probably looking at the Chinese privet, black privet, China berry. Uh,
something I see most people love toplant, or those Chinese tallows you
want to few trees to good alittle color in the fall. Uh,

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you know Chinese homes. Something thatI really like to kind of nitpick on
is the mandinas. Uh. Youknow you'll see them in yards. They
tend to take over in a woodyareas And what does that look like?
Uh, they kind of look itlooks like a little bit it's like many
bamboo. People playing them in theirfront yards as the little bushes. But

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the problem with Dandina is is itcome winter when everything else is dropping.
They're one of the last plants tohave bright red berries, and the native
birds they eat them up. Theproblem is they're poisonous. So there are
so many reports of these invasive speciesthat you know, the native animals,
you know, try to take advantageof of the food source and ends up

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killing them. Yeah, it's areally good example of something that shouldn't be
here. When when did most ofthese plants get here? I kind of
I have an idea how animal speciesget in and how they spread out across
the country. But how do mostof these plant species get in here?
They're not in the pet industry oris there some underground market for fake or

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bad plants. Well, what happensis, you know, you get your
native species that may not be asvibrant or as say, beautiful at certain
times, and here is your neighbors, and so apply and demand of trying
to keep up with the joneses.And then you go to the nurseries and
you know, you pass over thesenative species to try to go after these

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flashy, colorful species that are theinvasives, just because hey, these look
great, and you know, theterms of education, like what we're doing
here now is for the large largepart been non existent except for maybe the
last twenty thirty years. What arethe laws against introducing non native invasive species

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of plants and trees? Well,that's going to go back to kind of
more your city ordinance or your HOAregulations. Wow, generally speaking, there
is some restrictions in you know,the national borders on bringing in invasive species,
but a lot of the ones thathave already come in and them being

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propagated at their nurseries and then beingresold here locally. I mean, we're
kind of kind of stuck with wherewe are at the moment. It's kind
of like the horse is already outof the barn, so why bother?
Yeah, Oh my gosh. Yeah, the ones we already have here that
are invasive. We're just trying,through you know, media and through marketing,
telling people please go back to nativespecies in your yard all means possible.

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I did some research on Davy Bythe way, that company was founded
in eighteen eighty. Really, that'skind of cool. Yeah, and we've
been here in Houston's area since nineteentwenty seven. Holy cow. What about
vines? I know about. Ispent a lot of time in South Florida
in my life, and about atone point, it seems like about half
of Florida was dealing with some Australianvine. Are you familiar with that?

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Yeah? Oh my lord. Igot an uncle who does environmental science work
out there, and he's he's goingaround on those flatboats and the instead of
using herbicide, they're using flamethrows tryingto take you know, there's all sorts
of massive national programs going in totry to handle those basive lines because like
you know, here kudzu or youknow that hydrilla that's taking over all our

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water areas. I mean, there'snothing in a lot of those invasive vines.
There's there's no natural predators, sothey just take over and you know,
shade out and kill our good stuff. Well, and you get to
talking about aquatic plants like that giantSalvinia talk about, so everybody understands really

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how fast that stuff can spread underideal conditions and totally choke a waterway.
Oh my lord, I be honest, I'm not one hundred percent on my
information on that, but I'm gonnasay it could take over. I think
about an acre of it can growabout an acre within two months. Oh,
I think it's I remember doing storieson it when I was at the

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newspaper here because of bass fishing andwhatnot. And I think that I think
it's an even faster rate than thatthat that stuff unchecked can go through.
It's through it. Good luck.Really, So what can we do?
We we really we got about aminute left, Matt, So I guess
we just need to be buying andplanning native species. And if it's not

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colorful, when your neighbor's yards colorful, tell your neighbor they're ruining the environment.
Right. That sounds like what Iwould say to my neighbor. You
know, it's it's it's really interestingto uh to what. You know,
people come in, they have theseideas of how things should be. What,
you know, everybody tries to cultivateand then and then, I don't

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know how to say this any nicer. You just kind of have to stick
with stick your guns, stay withyour native plants. Yeah, and uh,
you know, I'm sorry, it'sjust you know, you're right though,
you really are. There's to lookat your native plants and to acknowledge
the fact that these are the thingsthat have been here historically and they're going

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to maintain our native animal and isgoing to be able to withhold long term
negative effects like the freeze we've hadthe last couple of years. Right,
the non native speeches are the onesthey were hit because they're not activated to
these that's a good point. Well, too bad for them, huh more
more Lantana, By god, herewe go. They can go back to

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California. You said it, I'llsay it, dude. Matt Patty from
Davy Tree Service is d A vE Y dot com. Hey, thanks
Matt, I really appreciate your time, buddy. All right, audios,
Yeah, yeah, don't be plantingthat stuff around here. Plants some native
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to fifty plus. Fourth and finalsegment starts now. Will were you aware
that of what I just told youor no it was not. It's an
interesting nerd fact, and I'll leadthis segment, this final segment with it.
I read this morning in a storythat was way longer than I had
time to read all of But theseamazing image is being returned from deep deep

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deep space by the web telescope,by Hubble when it was when it was
the telescope DuJour. All of theseimages coming back actually are received here in
black and white and black and white. And then the scientists at NASA are
so smart that they can go inand dissect those photos and distinguish between different

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light and shade patterns and colorize them, kind of like they've done with episodes
of gun Smoke and Gilligan's Island andBonanza, all before color television, I
guess. But it's a little bitmore high tech than that, I suppose.
But anyway that I found that justextremely fascinating that those images actually are

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in black and white. All right, we'll step up here we go one,
two, three. That's a lotof pasta. Useless news and boy
is it and buckle up, that'sa lot of pasta. It was an
easy one that just led you rightdown the path. And it's a good
one too. Pop quiz. Thisone comes with a quiz question pop quiz

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around the world. How many packagesof Ramen noodles were eaten in twenty twenty
two in twenty twenty two, twoyears covering up the answer, I'm gonna
say one hundred and seventy million packagesof ramen noodle. You had an opportunity

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to be close, but you usedthe wrong first letter in the number billions.
Yeah, one hundred and twenty onebillion packages. So when you look
in the grocery store and you seethat stuff there for what eighty nine cents
or whatever? Oh yeah? Ifyou're like, how could they possibly be
making any money off of this?Well, first of all, every college

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campus in America, except for maybethe Ivy League schools where their kids eat
caviar and stuff for lunch, butthe rest of them, the working man's
colleges and the trade schools, they'reramen noodles in the dorms, which I
used to eat when I used togo buy groceries in college and get their
case. At HGB, they hadfive for five packages. Yeah for one

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dollar a buck. Yeah yeah,So you just go and load up on
twenty of the grocery cart with it. Do you have any bigger boxes in
the back? I wonder it cost? Go how many you could buy it
one time? Oh? Go onehundred. I'm sure, that's where most
of that billion billions of packages comefrom. You ring up, you,
ring up Ramen noodles, and somebodyat your house calls you and says,

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why am I hearing beep beep beepbecause you're getting a package of a billion
Ramen nudles, backing them in,backing them in mine? All right,
that's enough for you now? Movingon? Uh first, by the way,
and in these little bits and piecesof mine. Unless you want to
pay or pirate or whatever, you'renot going to be able to watch the

(34:05):
game, the Astros game, notagainst the Ranger. Ets say that out
loud, of the Rangers. Idon't like them. That's part of MLB's
deal with the network somehow, theserandom games that you and I have to
pay more to watch, which makesit makes no sense to me, But
I'm sure it's all about the money, and I'm sure MLB is very happy
to take that money. So thegood news is you can listen to the

(34:30):
entire game, including pregame and postgameanalyses by our fantastic crew of sports announcers
and talents over here. You canlisten to all of that on Sports Talk
seven to ninety where I'll be tomorrowmorning, by the way, at seven
o'clock a m. Talk about theI'll talk about the game a little,

(34:52):
probably because I can't help myself.It's a baseball game. And then we'll
talk about fishing and golf and thegreat outdoors and all those fun things.
There's a Japanese These are little quickhits from the headlines that I'm gonna start
doing. Rather than get too deepin some of these stories, I'm gonna
try and keep them very brief andkeep moving. The Japanese corporation trying to

(35:14):
buy US steel is linked to Chinaalready one minute, will yes, Oh
my god? How can anybody besurprised that the company that wants to buy
US steel is linked to China?Why wouldn't they want that? Why wouldn't
they want our steel industry under theircontrol? And why isn't the major media

(35:37):
interested in exposing this potential threat,which it most definitely is. I don't
have time to do. Oh man, I did so much prep work too.
I had something on the vice presidenttoo. It was speaking of it
was mentioned on KBM this morning somethingshe said about women's college basketball that was
totally fabricated and just out of nowhereand not even close to the truth.

(36:00):
It was ridiculous. Uh real,quickly, will no, I got ten
seconds, don't I nothing? QuickWe'll be back next Tuesday. Thanks for
listening. I hope you bring somebodywith you next time, and thanks for
sharing your afternoon audios.